The Birthday Gazette

Born on July 25

July 25 birthdays & history

If you were born on July 25, you share a birthday with Rosalind Franklin, Elias Canetti and Arthur Balfour. July 25 babies are Leo, with ruby as their birthstone and the larkspur as their birth flower. July 25 is the 207th day of the year in leap years (206th in other years).

Famous people born on July 25

  • 1920Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist, chemist, and academic. Contributor to basic research of DNA.
  • 1905Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1848Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • 1956Frances Arnold, American scientist and engineer (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018)
  • 1967Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer
  • 1986Hulk, Brazilian footballer
  • 1922John B. Goodenough, American materials scientist, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1981Yūichi Komano, Japanese footballer
  • 1988Paulinho, Brazilian footballer
  • 1894Walter Brennan, American actor

What happened on July 25

  • 1547Henry II was crowned King of France at Reims Cathedral.
  • 1788Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40, one of his two extant symphonies in a minor key.
  • 1835James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland.
  • 1837The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
  • 1868The Wyoming Territory is established.
  • 1869The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
  • 1893The Corinth Canal was formally opened, bisecting the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece to connect the Ionian Sea's Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf.
  • 1897American author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take part in the Klondike's gold rush, from which he wrote his first successful stories.
  • 1908Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
  • 1917Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
  • 1976The orbiting spacecraft Viking 1 took a photograph of an apparent face on Mars in a classic example of pareidolia.
  • 2007Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female president of India.

Also observed on July 25

  • Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
  • National Baha'i Day (Jamaica)
  • National Day of Galicia (Galicia, Spain)
  • Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
  • International Afro-descendant Women's Day
  • Tenjin Matsuri (Osaka, Japan)

Questions, answered

What star sign is July 25?

People born on July 25 are Leo. Their birthstone is ruby and their birth flower is the larkspur.

Which famous people were born on July 25?

Rosalind Franklin (1920), Elias Canetti (1905), Arthur Balfour (1848), Frances Arnold (1956), Matt LeBlanc (1967), Hulk (1986) were all born on July 25.

What happened on July 25 in history?

Among other things: in 1917, Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%); in 1976, The orbiting spacecraft Viking 1 took a photograph of an apparent face on Mars in a classic example of pareidolia; in 2007, Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female president of India.

Can I get a newspaper front page from July 25?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any July 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, “July 25”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.