August 25 birthdays & history

Famous people born on August 25

• 1930Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer
• 1530Ivan the Terrible, Russian ruler
• 1744Johann Gottfried Herder, German poet, philosopher, and critic
• 1912Erich Honecker, German politician
• 1958Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1918Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1970Claudia Schiffer, German model and fashion designer
• 1987Blake Lively, American model and actress
• 1850Charles Richet, French physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1962Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi author

What happened on August 25

• 1609Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
• 1823American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota.
• 1825The Thirty-Three Orientals declare the independence of Uruguay from Brazil.
• 1830The Belgian Revolution begins.
• 1835The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax, publishing articles about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon.
• 1875Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
• 1883France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
• 1912The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking.
• 1916The United States National Park Service is created.
• 1975Bruce Springsteen released his commercial breakthrough album, Born to Run.
• 1989The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings.
• 2012The skeleton of King Richard III of England was discovered under a car park in Leicester.

Also observed on August 25

• Day of Songun (North Korea)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uruguay from Brazil in 1825.