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Born in 1925

1401 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Margaret Thatcher

    chemist, autobiographer

    1925–2013 · aged 87

    October 13 · 1925

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  2. Dick Van Dyke

    film actor, television producer

    100 years old

    December 13 · 1925

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  3. Robert F. Kennedy

    politician, writer

    1925–1968 · aged 42

    November 20 · 1925

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  4. Malcolm X

    autobiographer, human rights defender

    1925–1965 · aged 39

    May 19 · 1925

    Source: GeneaStar

  5. Paul Newman

    writer, entrepreneur

    1925–2008 · aged 83

    January 26 · 1925

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  6. Pol Pot

    military officer, politician

    Date disputed

    May 19 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  7. Richard Burton

    actor, film actor

    1925–1984 · aged 58

    November 10 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  8. Idi Amin

    politician, military personnel

    Date disputed

    1925

    Source: NUKAT

  9. Patrice Lumumba

    revolutionary, politician

    1925–1961 · aged 35

    July 2 · 1925

    Source: filmportal.de

  10. Angela Lansbury

    screenwriter, character actor

    1925–2022 · aged 96

    October 16 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  11. Yukio Mishima

    playwright, model

    1925–1970 · aged 45

    January 14 · 1925

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  12. Tony Curtis

    actor, military personnel

    1925–2010 · aged 85

    June 3 · 1925

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  13. Peter Sellers

    actor, singer

    1925–1980 · aged 54

    September 8 · 1925

    Source: Discogs

  14. Rock Hudson

    actor, television actor

    1925–1985 · aged 59

    November 17 · 1925

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  15. Johnny Carson

    actor, television presenter

    1925–2005 · aged 79

    October 23 · 1925

    Source: Roglo

  16. Audie Murphy

    film producer, soldier

    1925–1971 · aged 45

    June 20 · 1925

    Source: audiemurphy.com

  17. Sammy Davis Jr.

    jazz musician, film actor

    1925–1990 · aged 64

    December 8 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  18. Jack Lemmon

    film director, producer

    1925–2001 · aged 76

    February 8 · 1925

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  19. Mahathir Mohamad

    physician, writer

    Date disputed

    July 10 · 1925

    Source: thestar.com.my

  20. June Lockhart

    stage actor, actor

    1925–2025 · aged 100

    June 25 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  21. Gore Vidal

    author, screenwriter

    1925–2012 · aged 86

    October 3 · 1925

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  22. Lee Van Cleef

    dancer, military personnel

    1925–1989 · aged 64

    January 9 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  23. Barbara Bush

    politician, president

    1925–2018 · aged 92

    June 8 · 1925

    Source: lemonde.fr

  24. Doris Roberts

    film actor, television actor

    1925–2016 · aged 90

    November 4 · 1925

    Source: nytimes.com

  25. Oona O'Neill

    actor

    Date disputed

    May 14 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  26. Hal Holbrook

    screenwriter, actor

    1925–2021 · aged 95

    February 17 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  27. B. B. King

    singer-songwriter, pianist

    1925–2015 · aged 89

    September 16 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  28. George Kennedy

    actor, stage actor

    1925–2016

    February 18 · 1925

    Source: Discogs

  29. Frantz Fanon

    psychiatrist, politician

    1925–1961 · aged 36

    July 20 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  30. Robert Altman

    actor, writer

    1925–2006 · aged 81

    February 20 · 1925

    Source: filmportal.de

  31. Lenny Bruce

    writer, actor

    1925–1966 · aged 40

    October 13 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  32. Rod Steiger

    film actor, stage actor

    1925–2002 · aged 77

    April 14 · 1925

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  33. Lee Grant

    film director, screenwriter

    Date disputed

    October 31 · 1925

    Source: IMDb

  34. Flannery O'Connor

    film screenwriter, essayist

    1925–1964 · aged 39

    March 25 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  35. Jonathan Winters

    film editor, television actor

    1925–2013 · aged 87

    November 11 · 1925

    Source: IMDb

  36. Medgar Evers

    human rights defender, politician

    1925–1963 · aged 37

    July 2 · 1925

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  37. Yogi Berra

    baseball player

    1925–2015 · aged 90

    May 12 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  38. William F. Buckley Jr.

    politician, television presenter

    1925–2008 · aged 82

    November 24 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  39. Honor Blackman

    singer, actor

    1925–2020 · aged 94

    August 22 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  40. Gilles Deleuze

    philosopher, writer

    1925–1995 · aged 70

    January 18 · 1925

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  41. Celia Cruz

    singer, actor

    1925–2003 · aged 77

    October 21 · 1925

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  42. Tony Benn

    writer, diarist

    1925–2014

    April 3 · 1925

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  43. John List

    mass murderer, criminal

    1925–2008 · aged 82

    September 17 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  44. Donald O'Connor

    stage actor, actor

    Date disputed

    August 28 · 1925

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  45. Jorge Rafael Videla

    military officer, politician

    1925–2013 · aged 87

    August 2 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  46. Marty Robbins

    guitarist, singer

    1925–1982 · aged 57

    September 26 · 1925

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  47. Milton Obote

    politician

    1925–2005 · aged 79

    December 28 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  48. Carlos Castañeda

    anthropologist, writer

    1925–1998 · aged 72

    December 25 · 1925

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  49. Sam Peckinpah

    military personnel, producer

    1925–1984 · aged 59

    February 21 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  50. Gerald Durrell

    screenwriter, presenter

    1925–1995 · aged 70

    January 7 · 1925

    Source: The Peerage

  51. Ananda Mahidol

    monarch, social worker

    1925–1946 · aged 20

    September 20 · 1925

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  52. John DeLorean

    entrepreneur, engineer

    1925–2005 · aged 80

    January 6 · 1925

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  53. Merv Griffin

    screenwriter, composer

    1925–2007 · aged 82

    July 6 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  54. Guru Dutt

    film editor, screenwriter

    1925–1964 · aged 39

    July 9 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  55. Elmore Leonard

    screenwriter, author

    1925–2013 · aged 87

    October 11 · 1925

    Source: Babelio

  56. Oscar Peterson

    bandleader, jazz musician

    1925–2007 · aged 82

    August 15 · 1925

    Source: Musicalics

  57. Elaine Stritch

    actor, stage actor

    1925–2014 · aged 89

    February 2 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  58. Farley Granger

    actor, film actor

    1925–2011 · aged 85

    July 1 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  59. Alija Izetbegović

    politician, lawyer

    1925–2003 · aged 78

    August 8 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  60. Maureen Stapleton

    stage actor, actor

    1925–2006 · aged 80

    June 21 · 1925

    Source: filmportal.de

  61. Giorgio Napolitano

    politician, journalist

    1925–2023 · aged 98

    June 29 · 1925

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  62. Robert Hardy

    film actor, television actor

    1925–2017 · aged 91

    October 29 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  63. Jeanne Crain

    actor, television actor

    1925–2003 · aged 78

    May 25 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  64. Charles Chaplin

    actor, director

    1925–1968 · aged 42

    May 5 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  65. Helmuth Hübener

    apprentice, resistance fighter

    1925–1942 · aged 17

    January 8 · 1925

    Source: Nazi Party Membership Database Lookup

  66. Leo Ryan

    politician, military officer

    1925–1978 · aged 53

    May 5 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  67. Mike Connors

    film actor, actor

    1925–2017 · aged 91

    August 15 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  68. Gwen Verdon

    actor, musical theatre actor

    1925–2000 · aged 75

    January 13 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  69. Mel Tormé

    television actor, singer

    1925–1999 · aged 73

    September 13 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  70. Steve Forrest

    actor, television actor

    1925–2013 · aged 87

    September 29 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  71. Julie Harris

    television actor, film actor

    1925–2013 · aged 87

    December 2 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  72. Anastasio Somoza Debayle

    politician

    1925–1980 · aged 54

    December 5 · 1925

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  73. Gabriele Amorth

    exorcist, Catholic priest

    1925–2016 · aged 91

    May 1 · 1925

    Source: Babelio

  74. Arlene Dahl

    stage actor, television actor

    1925–2021 · aged 96

    August 11 · 1925

    Source: GeneaStar

  75. Tony Hillerman

    novelist, writer

    1925–2008 · aged 83

    May 27 · 1925

    Source: NooSFere

  76. June Whitfield

    autobiographer, actor

    1925–2018 · aged 93

    November 11 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  77. Robert Rauschenberg

    artist, graphic artist

    1925–2008 · aged 82

    October 22 · 1925

    Source: Kunstindeks Danmark

  78. John Fiedler

    film actor, voice actor

    1925–2005 · aged 80

    February 3 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  79. Edward Gorey

    theatre designer, illustrator

    1925–2000 · aged 75

    February 22 · 1925

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  80. Bill Haley

    songwriter, actor

    1925–1981 · aged 55

    July 6 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  81. Bill Gates Sr.

    philanthropist, jurist

    1925–2020 · aged 94

    November 30 · 1925

    No external source identified

  82. Katherine MacGregor

    stage actor, film actor

    1925–2018 · aged 93

    January 12 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  83. Hugh O'Brian

    television actor, stage actor

    1925–2016 · aged 91

    April 19 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  84. M. S. Swaminathan

    botanist, agronomist

    1925–2023 · aged 98

    August 7 · 1925

    Source: Who's Who

  85. Albert Bandura

    educator, psychologist

    1925–2021 · aged 95

    December 4 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  86. Alexander Shulgin

    pharmacologist, pharmacist

    1925–2014 · aged 88

    June 17 · 1925

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  87. Anne Jackson

    film actor, television actor

    1925–2016 · aged 90

    September 3 · 1925

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  88. Nancy Roman

    astronomer

    1925–2018 · aged 93

    May 16 · 1925

    Source: science.nasa.gov

  89. Martha Vickers

    television actor, model

    1925–1971 · aged 46

    May 28 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  90. Surinder Kapoor

    film producer, film director

    1925–2011 · aged 85

    December 23 · 1925

    No external source identified

  91. George Cole

    film actor, autobiographer

    1925–2015 · aged 90

    April 22 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  92. Johnny Horton

    musician, songwriter

    1925–1960 · aged 35

    April 30 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  93. Maria Tallchief

    dancer, theatre manager

    1925–2013 · aged 88

    January 24 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  94. Pushpavalli

    actor

    1925–1991 · aged 66

    January 3 · 1925

    No external source identified

  95. Cathy O'Donnell

    stage actor, film actor

    Date disputed

    July 6 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  96. Scott Carpenter

    hydronaut, aircraft pilot

    1925–2013 · aged 88

    May 1 · 1925

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  97. Harry H. Corbett

    actor, stage actor

    1925–1982 · aged 57

    February 28 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  98. Julian Beck

    playwright, actor

    1925–1985 · aged 60

    May 31 · 1925

    Source: Le Delarge

  99. Zygmunt Bauman

    historian of the Holocaust, opinion journalist

    1925–2017 · aged 91

    November 19 · 1925

    Source: AlKindi

  100. Ramiz Alia

    head of state, politician

    1925–2011 · aged 85

    October 18 · 1925

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  101. Dick Cusack

    screenwriter, actor

    1925–2003 · aged 77

    August 29 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  102. Johnny Stompanato

    military personnel, gangster

    Date disputed

    October 9 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  103. Jean Raspail

    writer, traveler

    1925–2020 · aged 94

    July 5 · 1925

    Source: BD Gest'

  104. Douglas Engelbart

    computer scientist, presenter

    1925–2013 · aged 88

    January 30 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  105. Eric Fleming

    actor, television actor

    1925–1966 · aged 41

    July 4 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  106. Morgan Woodward

    film actor, television actor

    1925–2019 · aged 93

    September 16 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  107. Joan Leslie

    film actor, television actor

    1925–2015 · aged 90

    January 26 · 1925

    Source: filmportal.de

  108. Pierre Boulez

    musician, writer

    1925–2016 · aged 90

    March 26 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  109. Hilda Gadea

    writer, economist

    1925–1974 · aged 48

    March 21 · 1925

    No external source identified

  110. Bülent Ecevit

    poet, journalist

    1925–2006 · aged 81

    May 28 · 1925

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  111. Kim Stanley

    stage actor, television actor

    1925–2001 · aged 76

    February 11 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  112. Lucien Carr

    journalist

    1925–2005 · aged 79

    March 1 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  113. Lepa Radić

    partisan

    1925–1943 · aged 17

    December 19 · 1925

    No external source identified

  114. Bruce Kirby

    actor, stage actor

    1925–2021 · aged 95

    April 28 · 1925

    No external source identified

  115. John Neville

    television actor, voice actor

    1925–2011 · aged 86

    May 2 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  116. William Styron

    military personnel, writer

    1925–2006 · aged 81

    June 11 · 1925

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  117. Mikis Theodorakis

    politician, recording artist

    1925–2021 · aged 96

    July 29 · 1925

    Source: Who's Who in France

  118. Gloria DeHaven

    actor, film actor

    1925–2016 · aged 91

    July 23 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  119. Hiroji Satoh

    table tennis player

    1925–2000 · aged 75

    February 3 · 1925

    No external source identified

  120. Michael Conrad

    television actor, actor

    1925–1983 · aged 58

    October 16 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  121. Warren Christopher

    diplomat, jurist

    Date disputed

    October 17 · 1925

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  122. Charles Haughey

    politician

    1925–2006 · aged 80

    September 16 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  123. Michele Ferrero

    businessperson, entrepreneur

    1925–2015 · aged 89

    April 26 · 1925

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  124. Olof Thunberg

    film actor, dub actor

    1925–2020 · aged 94

    May 21 · 1925

    Source: Discogs

  125. Mai Zetterling

    screenwriter, film actor

    1925–1994 · aged 68

    May 24 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  126. Ritwik Ghatak

    writer, screenwriter

    1925–1976 · aged 50

    November 4 · 1925

    Source: filmportal.de

  127. Hildegard Knef

    television actor, chansonnier

    1925–2002 · aged 76

    December 28 · 1925

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  128. Howard Baker

    ambassador, lawyer

    1925–2014 · aged 88

    November 15 · 1925

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  129. Shelley Berman

    writer, screenwriter

    1925–2017 · aged 92

    February 3 · 1925

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  130. Jirō Ono

    domestic worker cook, cook

    100 years old

    October 27 · 1925

    No external source identified

  131. Viola Liuzzo

    human rights defender

    1925–1965 · aged 39

    April 11 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  132. Harry Guardino

    television actor, stage actor

    1925–1995 · aged 69

    December 23 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  133. Seymour Cray

    engineer, electrical engineer

    1925–1996 · aged 71

    September 28 · 1925

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  134. Ernie Wise

    singer, screenwriter

    1925–1999 · aged 73

    November 27 · 1925

    Source: BnF authorities

  135. Brian Aldiss

    writer, bookseller

    1925–2017 · aged 92

    August 18 · 1925

    Source: NooSFere

  136. Laura Ashley

    designer, fashion designer

    1925–1985 · aged 60

    September 7 · 1925

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  137. Michel Piccoli

    theatre manager, film producer

    1925–2020 · aged 94

    December 27 · 1925

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  138. Robert Edwards

    physiologist, physician

    1925–2013 · aged 87

    September 27 · 1925

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  139. Peter Brook

    autobiographer, cinephile

    1925–2022 · aged 97

    March 21 · 1925

    Source: Babelio

  140. Maya Plisetskaya

    ballet master, choreographer

    1925–2015 · aged 89

    November 20 · 1925

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  141. Robert Mulligan

    film producer, film director

    1925–2008 · aged 83

    August 23 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  142. Warren Frost

    actor, stage actor

    1925–2017 · aged 91

    June 5 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  143. Freddie Oversteegen

    resistance fighter

    1925–2018 · aged 92

    September 6 · 1925

    Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze

  144. Ernst Happel

    association football coach, association football player

    1925–1992 · aged 66

    November 29 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  145. Abel Muzorewa

    priest, autobiographer

    1925–2010 · aged 84

    April 14 · 1925

    Source: History of Missiology

  146. John Tower

    politician

    1925–1991 · aged 65

    September 29 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  147. Jimmy Smith

    jazz musician, recording artist

    Date disputed

    December 8 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  148. Dickie Moore

    stage actor, non-fiction writer

    1925–2015 · aged 89

    September 12 · 1925

    Source: Find a Grave

  149. John Stonehouse

    novelist, spy

    1925–1988 · aged 62

    July 28 · 1925

    Source: SNAC

  150. Shehu Shagari

    politician, minister

    1925–2018 · aged 93

    February 25 · 1925

    Source: Munzinger Personen

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