Born on April 25
April 25 birthdays & history
If you were born on April 25, you share a birthday with Al Pacino, Guglielmo Marconi and Johan Cruyff. April 25 babies are Taurus, with diamond as their birthstone and the daisy as their birth flower. April 25 is the 116th day of the year in leap years (115th in other years).
Famous people born on April 25
- 1940Al Pacino, American actor and director
- 1874Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1599Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain
- 1900Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1917Ella Fitzgerald, American singer
- 1969Renée Zellweger, American actress and producer
- 1993Raphaël Varane, French footballer
- 1903Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic
- 1849Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic
What happened on April 25
- 1792French composer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote "La Marseillaise", now the national anthem of France.
- 1859British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
- 1938U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
- 1944The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- 1945United Nations Conference on International Organization: Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in San Francisco.
- 1953Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
- 1954The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
- 1955Following restoration at the British Museum, the Emesa Helmet was placed on display there before its return to Syria.
- 1983The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
- 1986Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 1990Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
- 2012Daniel Chong is discovered in a holding room in San Diego, having been incarcerated for five days without food or water.
Also observed on April 25
- Anzac Day (Australia, New Zealand, Tonga)
- Freedom Day (Portugal)
- Liberation Day (Italy)
- World Malaria Day
Questions, answered
What star sign is April 25?
People born on April 25 are Taurus. Their birthstone is diamond and their birth flower is the daisy.
Which famous people were born on April 25?
Al Pacino (1940), Guglielmo Marconi (1874), Johan Cruyff (1947), Oliver Cromwell (1599), Wolfgang Pauli (1900), Ella Fitzgerald (1917) were all born on April 25.
What happened on April 25 in history?
Among other things: in 1986, Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II; in 1990, Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right; in 2012, Daniel Chong is discovered in a holding room in San Diego, having been incarcerated for five days without food or water.
Can I get a newspaper front page from April 25?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any April 25 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “April 25”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.