Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 25

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[edit] Births

• 1530 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
• 1724 - George Stubbs, (pictured) British painter (d. 1806)
• 1900 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• 1912 - Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994)
• 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
• 1919 - George Wallace, American politician (d. 1998)
• 1930 - Sean Connery, Scottish actor
• 1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
• 1958 - Tim Burton, American film director
• 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model

[edit] Deaths

• 1688 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer
• 1776 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
• 1822 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
• 1867 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
• 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
• 1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
• 1984 - Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
• 2001 - Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)