1925 (MCMXXV ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1925th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 925th year of the 2nd millennium , the 25th year of the 20th century , and the 6th year of the 1920s decade.
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March
March 1 – New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn .
March 4
March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda , one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union .
March 9 –May 1 – Pink's War : The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan .
March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (the modern-day University of Central Arkansas ).
March 16 – At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people.
March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado , the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri , Illinois and Indiana , killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois ; West Frankfort, Illinois ; Gorham, Illinois ; Ellington, Missouri ; and Griffin, Indiana .
March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius .
April
St Nedelya Church after assault
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January
Veikko Hakulinen
Maria Tallchief
Ignacio López Tarso
Shafik Wazzan
Paul Newman
Douglas Engelbart
January 1 – Paul Bomani , Tanzanian politician and ambassador (d. 2005 )[24]
January 4 – Veikko Hakulinen , Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2003 )[25]
January 6 – John DeLorean , American car maker (d. 2005 )[26]
January 7
January 8 – Bernardo Ruiz , Spanish road cycling racer
January 9 – Lee Van Cleef , American actor (d. 1989 )[29]
January 10 – Peter Colotka , Slovak academic, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister 1969–1988 (d. 2019 )[30]
January 12 – Katherine MacGregor , American actress (d. 2018 )[31]
January 13
January 14 – Yukio Mishima , Japanese writer (d. 1970 )[33]
January 15
January 16 – Shafik Wazzan , 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1999 )
January 17 – Duane Hanson , American sculptor (d. 1996 )
January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal , Nicaraguan priest, poet and politician (d. 2020 )
January 24 – Maria Tallchief , American ballerina (d. 2013 )[34]
January 25 – Barbara Carroll , American jazz pianist (d. 2017 )
January 26
January 27 – Sufi Abu Taleb , President of Egypt (d. 2008 )
January 29 – Robert W. McCollum , American epidemiologist (d. 2010 )
January 30 – Douglas Engelbart , American inventor (d. 2013 )
January 31
March
Leo Esaki
Pierre Boulez
March 1
March 4
March 7 – Josef Ertl , German politician (d. 2000 )
March 8
March 12
March 13 – John Tate , American mathematician (d. 2019 )
March 15
March 16
March 17 – Gabriele Ferzetti , Italian actor (d. 2015 )
March 18 – Alessandro Alessandroni , Italian musician and composer (d. 2017 )
March 19 – Brent Scowcroft , American general and diplomat (d. 2020 )
March 21 – Peter Brook , English theatre director (d. 2022 )
March 22 – Gerard Hoffnung , German-born English humorist (d. 1959 )
March 23
March 25
March 26 – Pierre Boulez , French composer (d. 2016 )
March 27 – Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb , English farmer and politician (d. 2022 )
March 28 – Raja Perempuan Budriah , Malaysian royal consort (d. 2008 )
March 29 – David Tsimakuridze , Georgian freestyle wrestler (d. 2006 )
May
Yogi Berra
Pol Pot
Malcolm X
Bülent Ecevit
May 1
May 2
May 3 – Ngiratkel Etpison , 5th president of Palau (d. 1997 )
May 4
May 8 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi , 2nd President of Tanzania (d. 2024 )
May 9 – Vladimir Tadej , Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director (d. 2017 )
May 10 – Ilie Verdeț , 51st prime minister of Romania (d. 2001 )
May 12 – Yogi Berra , American baseball player (d. 2015 )
May 14 – Oona O'Neill , American actress (d. 1991 )
May 15 – Andrei Eshpai , Russian pianist (d. 2015 )
May 16
May 18 – Gérard Corboud , Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist (d. 2017 )
May 19
May 20 – Gregory Yong , Archbishop of Singapore (d. 2008 )
May 22
May 23 – Joshua Lederberg , American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008 )
May 24 – Mai Zetterling , Swedish actress and film director (d. 1994 )[39]
May 25
May 26
May 28
May 30 – John Marks , English doctor and author (d. 2022 )
May 31
June
Tony Curtis
Barbara Bush
Audie Murphy
June Lockhart
Giorgio Napolitano
June 2
June 3 – Tony Curtis , American actor (d. 2010 )
June 4 – Antonio Puchades , Spanish footballer (d. 2013 )
June 5
June 6 – Hideji Ōtaki , Japanese actor (d. 2012 )
June 7 – Ernestina Herrera de Noble , Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017 )
June 8 – Barbara Bush , First Lady of the United States (d. 2018 )
June 10
Fortunato Abat , Filipino army general and politician (d. 2018 )
Nat Hentoff , American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic and syndicated columnist (d. 2017 )
June 11 – William Styron , American writer (d. 2006 )[41]
June 12 – Raphaël Géminiani , French road cycling racer (d. 2024 )
June 13 – Dušan Trbojević , Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor (d. 2011 )
June 14
June 15
June 16 – Jean d'Ormesson , French novelist (d. 2017 )
June 17 – Mervyn Finlay , Australian member of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Queen's Counsel (d. 2014 )
June 20
June 21
June 23 – Oliver Smithies , British-American geneticist (d. 2017 )[43]
June 25
June 26 – Jean Frydman , French resistant and businessman (d. 2021 )
June 29
June 30
August
Jorge Rafael Videla
Alija Izetbegović
Oscar Peterson
Honor Blackman
Juanita Reina
Katyna Ranieri
August 2
August 3 – Dom Um Romão , Brazilian jazz drummer (d. 2005 )
August 6
August 7 – M. S. Swaminathan , Indian scientist (d. 2023 )
August 8
August 9
August 10 – Stanislav Brebera , Czech chemist (d. 2012 )
August 11 – Arlene Dahl , American actress (d. 2021 )
August 12
August 13
August 15
August 18 – Pegeen Vail Guggenheim , Swiss-American painter (d. 1967 )
August 19 – Madhav Dalvi , Indian cricketer (d. 2012 )
August 20 – Henning Larsen , Danish architect (d. 2013 )
August 21 – Toma Caragiu , Romanian theatre, television and film actor (d. 1977 )
August 22 – Honor Blackman , English actress (d. 2020 )[49]
August 25 – Hasan Tiro , Indonesian politician (d. 2010 )[50]
August 26 – Etelka Keserű , Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018 )
August 27
August 28
August 29 – Demetrio B. Lakas , President of Panama (d. 1999 )
August 31 – Maurice Pialat , French actor and director (d. 2003 )
September
Andrea Camilleri
Peter Sellers
B.B. King
September 1
September 3 – Shoista Mullojonova , Tajik -born Shashmakom singer (d. 2010 )
September 6 – Andrea Camilleri , Italian writer and director (d. 2019 )[52]
September 7 – Laura Ashley , Welsh designer (d. 1985 )
September 8
September 10 – Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky , Russian composer (d. 1996 )
September 11 – Armando Monteiro Filho , Brazilian businessman, engineer and politician (d. 2018 )
September 13 – Mel Tormé , American musician (d. 1999 )
September 14 – Winston Cenac , 3rd prime minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2004 )
September 15 – Helle Virkner , Danish actress (d. 2009 )
September 16
September 20 – Ananda Mahidol , King Rama VIII of Siam (d. 1946 )
September 24 – Autar Singh Paintal , Indian medical scientist (d. 2004 )
September 25
September 26 – Marty Robbins , American singer-songwriter and racing driver (d. 1982 )
September 27 – Robert G. Edwards , British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (d. 2013 )
September 28 – Cromwell Everson , South African composer (d. 1991 )
September 30
October
Simone Segouin
Marlen Khutsiev
Antoine Gizenga
Margaret Thatcher
Dame Angela Lansbury
Johnny Carson
Warren Christopher
October 1 – Yang Hyong-sop , North Korean politician (d. 2022 )
October 2 – José A. Martínez Suárez , Argentine film director and screenwriter (d. 2019 )
October 3
October 4 – Fyodor Terentyev , Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1963 )
October 5
October 7 – Mildred Earp , American female professional baseball player (d. 2017 )
October 8 – Álvaro Magaña , 38th president of El Salvador (d. 2001 )
October 9 – Isyaku Rabiu , Nigerian businessman (d. 2018 )
October 11 – Elmore Leonard , American novelist (d. 2013 )
October 13
October 14 – Phillip V. Tobias , South African palaeoanthropologist (d. 2012 )
October 15 – Bob Rowland Smith , Australian politician (d. 2012 )
October 16
October 18 – Ramiz Alia , 13th president of Albania (d. 2011 )
October 19
October 20
October 21
October 22
October 23
October 24
October 25 – Aliya Moldagulova , Soviet soldier and sniper (d. 1944 )
October 27
October 29
October 31
November
Richard Burton
Rock Hudson
Robert F. Kennedy
José Napoleón Duarte
Maryon Pittman Allen
November 2 – Leif Hermansen , Danish rower (d. 2005 )
November 4
November 6 – Michel Bouquet , French actor (d. 2022 )
November 8 – Asunción Balaguer , Spanish actress (d. 2019 )
November 9 – Giovanni Coppa , Italian cardinal (d. 2016 )
November 10 – Richard Burton , Welsh actor, better known for his role in Cleopatra (d. 1984 )
November 11
November 12 – Heinz Schubert , German actor (d. 1999 )
November 17 – Rock Hudson , American actor (d. 1985 )
November 19 – Zygmunt Bauman , Polish military officer, sociologist and philosopher (d. 2017 )
November 20
November 22
November 23
November 24
November 26
November 27
November 30
December
Julie Harris
Henri Oreiller
Shigeko Higashikuni
Sammy Davis Jr.
Dick Van Dyke
Milton Obote
December 1 – Martin Rodbell , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998 )[59]
December 2 – Julie Harris , American actress (d. 2013 )
December 3 – Erik Mørk , Danish actor (d. 1993 )
December 4
December 5
December 6 – Shigeko Higashikuni , Japanese princess (d. 1961 )
December 7 – Hermano da Silva Ramos , French-Brazilian racing driver
December 8
December 11 – Paul Greengard , American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2019 )[60]
December 12
December 13 – Dick Van Dyke , American actor, singer and dancer[61]
December 15
December 19
December 20 – Béla Goldoványi , Hungarian athlete (d. 1972 )
December 22 – Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina , military doctor and war heroine (d. 2019 )
December 23 – Pierre Bérégovoy , French politician, 111th Prime Minister of France (d. 1993 )
December 24 – Prosper Grech , Maltese cardinal (d. 2019 )
December 27
December 28
December 29
February
Hjalmar Branting
Friedrich Ebert
February 2 – Jaap Eden , Dutch speed skater (b. 1873 )
February 3 – Oliver Heaviside , British mathematician (b. 1850 )
February 4 – Robert Koldewey , German architect and archaeologist (b. 1855 )
February 11 – Aristide Bruant , French singer and nightclub owner (b. 1851 )
February 13 – Floyd Collins , American cave explorer (b. 1887 )
February 17 – Ignacio Andrade , Venezuela military and politician, 23rd President of Venezuela (b. 1839 )
February 18 – James Lane Allen , American writer (b. 1849 )
February 21 – Fernando De Lucia , Italian tenor (b. 1860 )
February 23
February 24 – Hjalmar Branting , 19th Prime Minister of Sweden , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860 )
February 25 – Louis Feuillade , French silent film director (b. 1873 )
February 28 – Friedrich Ebert , 1st President of Germany (1919–1945) (b. 1871 )
March
Sun Yat-sen
Lucille Ricksen
March 1 – Homer Plessy , American political activist (b. 1862 or 1863 )
March 2
March 4
March 7 – Georgy Lvov , Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1861 )
March 8
March 10 – Myer Prinstein , Polish-American track athlete (b. 1878 )
March 12 – Sun Yat-sen , Chinese physician, politician and revolutionary (b. 1866 )
March 13 – Lucille Ricksen , American silent film actress (b. 1910 )
March 14 – Walter Camp , American football coach (b. 1859 )[68]
March 19 – Nariman Narimanov , Azerbaijani politician (b. 1870 )
March 20 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston , Viceroy of India (b. 1859 )
March 28 – Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson , British general (b. 1864 )
March 30 – Rudolf Steiner , Austrian philosopher (b. 1861 )
April
Fritz Haarmann
April 7 – Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow , Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1865 )
April 13 – Elwood Haynes , American inventor (b. 1857 )
April 14 – John Singer Sargent , American artist (b. 1856 )
April 15
April 16 – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg , German prince (b. 1852 )
April 17 – Wong Fei-hung , Chinese healer and revolutionary (b. 1847 )
April 19 – John Walter Smith , American politician (b. 1845 )
April 20 – Herbert Lawford , British tennis player (b. 1851 )
April 22 – André Caplet , French composer and conductor (b. 1878 )
Unknown date – Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni , Moroccan sharif and tribal leader (b. 1871 )
May
William Massey
Lucien Guitry
May 2
May 3 – Clément Ader , French Army captain and aviation pioneer (b. 1841 )
May 4 – Giovanni Battista Grassi , Italian physician and zoologist (b. 1854 )
May 5 – Catharine van Tussenbroek , Dutch physician (b. 1852 )
May 7
May 10
May 12
May 13 – Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner , British politician and colonial administrator (b. 1854 )[71]
May 14 – H. Rider Haggard , British writer (b. 1856 )[72]
May 15 – Nelson A. Miles , American general (b. 1839 )
May 20
May 21 – Hidesaburō Ueno , Japanese agricultural scientist and guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871 )
May 22 – John French, 1st Earl of Ypres , British World War I field marshal (b. 1852 )
May 25 – Karl Abraham , German psychoanalyst (b. 1877 )
May 28 – João Pinheiro Chagas , Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1863 )
May 29 – Percy Fawcett , British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist (disappeared) (b. 1867 )
May 31 – John Palm , Curaçao -born composer (b. 1885 )
June
Thomas R. Marshall
June 1
June 2 – James Ellsworth , American mine owner and banker (b. 1849 )
June 3 – Camille Flammarion , French astronomer (b. 1842 )
June 9 – Antony MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell , Irish civil servant (b. 1844 )
June 12 – Mary Cole Walling , American patriot, lecturer (b. 1838 )
June 16 – Emmett Hardy , American jazz cornetist (b. 1903 )
June 17 – Adolf Pilar von Pilchau , Baltic German politician, regent of the United Baltic Duchy and baron (b. 1851 )Christian Michelsen
June 18 – Robert M. La Follette , American politician (b. 1855 )
June 20 – Josef Breuer , Austrian neurologist (b. 1842 )
June 22 – Felix Klein , German mathematician (b. 1849 )
June 28 – Georgina Febres-Cordero , Venezuelan nun (b. 1861 )
June 29 – Christian Michelsen , Norwegian politician and 1st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857 )
September
September 6 or September 8 – Louisa Briggs , Aboriginal Australian rights activist, dormitory matron, midwife and nurse recognized as five apical ancestors from whom Boonwurrung descent is established (b. 1818 or 1836 )
September 7 – René Viviani , 81st Prime Minister of France (b. 1863 )
September 16 – Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman , Russian mathematician (b. 1888 )
September 17 – Carl Eytel , German-American artist working in Palm Springs, California (b. 1862 )
September 18 – Yui Mitsue , Japanese general (b. 1860 )
September 29 – Léon Bourgeois , French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851 )
December
Antonio Maura
Jules Méline
December 5
December 8 – Marguerite Marsh , American actress (b. 1888 )
December 9 – Pablo Iglesias Posse , co-founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (b. 1850 )
December 13 – Antonio Maura , Spanish conservative politician, 5-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1853 )
December 15 – Battling Siki , Senegalese boxer (b. 1897 )
December 18 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft , British sculptor (b. 1850 )
December 19 – José Ignacio Quintón , Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b. 1881 )~
December 20 – Prior João Ferreira Sardo , the founder of the Gafanha da Nazaré died of a long-term lung disease.
December 21
December 22
December 25
December 27 – Marie-Louise Jaÿ , French businesswoman (b. 1838 )
December 28
December 29 – Félix Vallotton , Swiss painter (b. 1865 )
December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards , Canadian film director (b. 1867 )
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