November 25
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[edit] Births
- 1562 - Félix Lope de Vega, playwright (d. 1635)
- 1577 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629)
- 1609 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (d. 1669)
- 1817 - John Bigelow, American statesman, author (d. 1911)
- 1830 - Lina Morgenstern, writer (d. 1909)
- 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1919)
- 1844 - Karl Benz, engineer (d. 1929)
- 1846 - Carry Nation, temperance advocate (d. 1911)
- 1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
- 1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
- 1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, F.R.C., Rosicrucian, founder of AMORC
- 1883 - Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher, aviation promoter (d. 1968)
- 1893 - Joseph Krutch, American naturalist, author (d. 1970)
- 1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, German conductor (d. 1991)
- 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda politician and Czechoslovakia President (d. 1979)
- 1896 - Virgil Thomson, composer, music critic (d. 1989)
- 1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete
- 1913 - Lewis Thomas, physician, essayist (d. 1993)
- 1914 - Léon Zitrone, animator
- 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean politician
- 1920 - Ricardo Montalban, actor
- 1925 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor (d. 1969)
- 1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, ballerina
- 1926 - Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (d. 2001)
- 1933 - Kathryn Grant, actress
- 1940 - Reinhard Furrer, physicist, astronaut (d. 1995)
- 1940 - Joe Gibbs, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach
- 1944 - Ben Stein, actor, game show host, political consultant
- 1947 - John Larroquette, actor
- 1952 - Imran Khan, cricket player
- 1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
- 1960 - Amy Grant, singer
- 1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1999)
- 1965 - Cris Carter, American football player
- 1965 - Bernie Kosar, American football quarterback
- 1971 - Christina Applegate, American actress
- 1971 - Magnus Arvedson, hockey player
- 1978 - Shina Ringo, Japanese musician, singer, and song writer.
- 1979 - Thea Gilmore, British singer and songwriter
- 1981 - Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of US President George W. Bush
- 1981 - Jenna Bush, daughter of US President George W. Bush
- 1986 - Amber Hagerman, kidnapping, murder victim (d. 1996)
[edit] Deaths
- 311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr
- 1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland (killed)
- 1185 - Pope Lucius III
- 1326 - Prince Koreyasu, 7th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1264)
- 1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Emperor of Constantinople
- 1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (b. 1643)
- 1748 - Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (b. 1674)
- 1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)
- 1865 - Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
- 1881 - Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute
- 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, chemist
- 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile pioneer
- 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball commissioner
- 1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet
- 1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- 1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor
- 1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer
- 1965 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)
- 1970 - Yukio Mishima, writer
- 1972 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer
- 1973 - Laurence Harvey, actor
- 1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General
- 1974 - Nick Drake, musician
- 1981 - Jack Albertson, actor
- 1998 - Flip Wilson, actor, comedian
- 2002 - Karel Reisz, theatre director