August 25

August 25th is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 124 days remaining.

Births

• 1841: [Emil Kocher]? (Nobel Prize recipient for work on the thyroid)
• 1850: [Charles Richet]? (Nobel Prize recipient for his work on anaphylaxis)
• 1900: Sir [Hans Adolf Krebs]? (Nobel Prize recipient for his description of the importance of co-enzyme A)
• 1913: [Walt Kelly]? (cartoonist)
• 1918: [Leonard Bernstein]? (conductor, composer)
• 1918: [Richard Greene]? (actor)
• 1919: [George Wallace]? (Governor of Alabama)
• 1923: [Monty Hall]? (TV host)
• 1930: Sir Sean Connery (actor)
• 1933: [Regis Philbin]? (TV host)
• 1933: [Tom Skerritt]? (actor)
• 1944: [Anthony Heald]? (actor)
• 1949: [Gene Simmons]? (bassist)
• 1955: [Elvis Costello]? (songwriter)
• 1961: [Billy Ray Cyrus]? (singer)
• 1964: [Blair Underwood]? (actor)

Deaths

• 1867: Michael Faraday (English scientist)
• 2000: Carl Barks (illustrator)

Events

• 1989: [Voyager 2]? spacecraft flies by Neptune.

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