Famous people born in 1925

The best-known people born in 1925, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
October 13 · d. 2013
Photo: Rob Bogaerts, CC0
Mahathir Mohamad
Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981–2003, 2018–2020)
July 10
Photo: kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0
Malcolm X
American Black rights activist (1925–1965)
May 19 · d. 1965
Photo: Marion S. Trikosko, Public domain
Patrice Lumumba
Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)
July 2 · d. 1961
Photo: Harry Pot for Anefo ), CC BY 4.0
Giorgio Napolitano
President of Italy from 2006 to 2015
June 29 · d. 2023
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Attribution
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
January 14 · d. 1970
Photo: Ken Domon, Public domain
Paul Newman
American actor (1925–2008)
January 26 · d. 2008
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author , dedicated to Bettmann Archive, Public domain
B. B. King
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015)
September 16 · d. 2015
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, PDM-owner
Robert F. Kennedy
American politician and lawyer (1925–1968)
November 20 · d. 1968
Photo: Harry Warnecke, Public domain
Peter Sellers
British actor and comedian (1925–1980)
September 8 · d. 1980
Photo: Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hal Holbrook
American actor (1925–2021)
February 17 · d. 2021
Photo: NBC Television, Public domain
Richard Burton
Welsh actor (1925–1984)
November 10 · d. 1984
Photo: 20th Century Fox, Public domain
Gilles Deleuze
French philosopher (1925–1995)
January 18 · d. 1995
Photo: Tintinades, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tony Curtis
American actor (1925–2010)
June 3 · d. 2010
Photo: United Pictures Corporation, Public domain
Gore Vidal
American writer (1925–2012)
October 3 · d. 2012
Photo: Sporcomutanda, CC BY-SA 3.0
Jack Lemmon
American actor (1925–2001)
February 8 · d. 2001
Photo: Wire photo, Public domain
Barbara Bush
First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 (1925–2018)
June 8 · d. 2018
Photo: David Valdez, Public domain
Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist (1925–2011)
November 24 · d. 2011
Photo: CERN, CC BY 4.0
Alija Izetbegović
Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author (1925–2003)
August 8 · d. 2003
Photo: Helene C. Stikkel, Public domain
Angela Lansbury
British actress (1925–2022)
October 16 · d. 2022
Photo: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0
Robert Edwards
English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation
September 27 · d. 2013
Photo: Susannny, CC BY-SA 4.0
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
March 12
Photo: 日本学士院, CC BY 4.0
Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
July 20 · d. 1961
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Jonathan Winters
American comedian, actor, artist (1925–2013)
November 11 · d. 2013
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Douglas Engelbart
American engineer and inventor (1925–2013)
January 30 · d. 2013
Photo: SRI International, CC BY-SA 3.0
Roy J. Glauber
American theoretical physicist (1925–2018)
September 1 · d. 2018
Photo: Markus Pössel (User name: Mapos), CC BY-SA 3.0
Bülent Ecevit
16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1925–2006)
May 28 · d. 2006
Photo: Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) / swiss-image.ch, CC BY-SA 2.0
Robert Altman
American filmmaker (1925–2006)
February 20 · d. 2006
Photo: Associate Press Newsfeatures (see first upload of this image), Public domain
Rock Hudson
American actor (1925–1985)
November 17 · d. 1985
Photo: Universal Pictures/ Photographer not credited [1], Public domain
Zygmunt Bauman
Polish philosopher and sociologist (1925-2017)
November 19 · d. 2017
Photo: Forumlitfest, CC BY 3.0

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Month by month

January

January 6 · John DeLorean, American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry (1925–2005)
January 7 · Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and writer (1925–1995)
January 9 · Lee Van Cleef, American actor (1925–1989)
January 20 · Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest and politician (1925–2020)
January 24 · Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (1925–2013)
January 26 · Joan Leslie, American actress (1925-2015)

February

February 6 · Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian writer (1925–2006)
February 18 · George Kennedy, American actor (1925–2016)
February 20 · Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (1924 - 2010)
February 21 · Sam Peckinpah, American film director (1925–1984)
February 21 · Tom Gehrels, Dutch astronomer (1925–2011)
February 25 · Shehu Shagari, president of Nigeria (1925-2018)

March

March 4 · Paul Mauriat, French orchestra leader (1925–2006)
March 12 · Harry Harrison, American science fiction author (1925–2012)
March 21 · Peter Brook, English theatre and film director (1925–2022)
March 25 · Flannery O'Connor, American writer (1925–1964)
March 26 · Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor and writer (1925–2016)
March 28 · Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Soviet and Russian actor (1925-1994)

April

April 1 · Wojciech Jerzy Has, Polish film director (1925-2000)
April 3 · Tony Benn, British politician (1925–2014)
April 4 · Serge Dassault, French businessman and politician (1925–2018)
April 14 · Rod Steiger, American actor (1925–2002)
April 21 · Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, politician, former President of Afghanistan (1992)
April 26 · Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician (1925–2015)

May

May 1 · Scott Carpenter, American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)
May 12 · Yogi Berra, American baseball player, manager, and coach (1925–2015)
May 16 · Nílton Santos, Brazilian association football player (1925-2013)
May 23 · Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist (1925–2008)
May 25 · Rosario Castellanos, Mexican writer (1925-1974)
May 31 · Frei Otto, German architect (1925-2015)

June

June 11 · William Styron, American novelist and essayist (1925–2006)
June 21 · Maureen Stapleton, American actress (1925-2006)
June 21 · Giovanni Spadolini, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (1925-1994)
June 23 · Oliver Smithies, Biochemistry, genetics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007
June 24 · Masanori Tokita, Japanese association football player (1925–2004)
June 25 · Robert Venturi, American architect (1925-2018)

July

July 6 · Bill Haley, American rock and roll music pioneer (1925–1981)
July 20 · Jacques Delors, French economist and politician (1925–2023)
July 23 · Quett Masire, President of Botswana (1925-2017)
July 28 · Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
July 28 · Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Uruguayan association football player (1925-2002)
July 29 · Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer (1925–2021)

August

August 3 · Alain Touraine, French sociologist (1925–2023)
August 15 · Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (1925–2007)
August 15 · Mike Connors, American actor (1925–2017)
August 18 · Brian Aldiss, British science fiction writer (1925–2017)
August 22 · Honor Blackman, British actress
August 28 · Donald O'Connor, American dancer, singer, and actor (1925-2003)

September

September 6 · Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (1925–2019)
September 15 · Kirill Lavrov, Soviet and Russian actor (1925-2007)
September 16 · Charles Haughey, 7th Taoiseach from 1979 to 1981; 1982; 1987 to 1992
September 20 · Ananda Mahidol, eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII
September 25 · Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress and director (1925-2016)
September 28 · Seymour Cray, Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical engineer (1925–1996)

October

October 18 · Ramiz Alia, former First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, 1st President of the Republic of Albania (1925-2011)
October 21 · Celia Cruz, Cuban singer (1925–2003)
October 23 · Johnny Carson, American talk show host and comedian (1925–2005)
October 24 · Luciano Berio, Italian composer (1925–2003)
October 31 · John Pople, Nobel prize winning British chemist (1925-2004)
October 31 · Lee Grant, American actress

November

November 4 · Doris Roberts, American actress (1925–2016)
November 20 · Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer (1925-2015)
November 24 · William F. Buckley Jr., American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator (1925–2008)
November 27 · Claude Lanzmann, French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018)
November 28 · József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (1925-1978)
November 29 · Ernst Happel, Austrian footballer and manager (1925–1992)

December

December 4 · Albert Bandura, Canadian psychologist (1925–2021)
December 5 · Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan National Guard commander and president of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and from 1974 to 1979, the last ruler of the Somoza dynasty (1925–1980)
December 11 · Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist (1925-2019)
December 25 · Carlos Castañeda, Peruvian-American author (1925-1998)
December 27 · Michel Piccoli, French actor (1925–2020)
December 28 · Milton Obote, President of Uganda (1966–1971; 1980–1985)

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