25 August

Notable Births

Rebeka Jančová

b. 2003

Slovak alpine skier (born 2003)

Nicki Nicole

b. 2000

Argentine rapper and singer-songwriter (born 2000)

China Anne McClain

b. 1998

American actress and singer (born 1998)

Ong Seong-wu

b. 1995

South Korean singer and actor (born 1995)

Dowoon

b. 1995

South Korean musician (born 1995)

Caris LeVert

b. 1994

American basketball player (born 1994)

Miyabi Natsuyaki

b. 1992

Japanese singer (born 1992)

Ricardo Rodriguez (footballer)

b. 1992

Swiss footballer (born 1992)

Max Muncy

b. 1990

American baseball player (born 1990)

Hiram Mier

b. 1989

Mexican footballer (born 1989)

Angela Park

b. 1988

Brazilian-American professional golfer (born 1988)

Giga Chikadze

b. 1988

Georgian mixed martial artist (born 1988)

Stacey Farber

b. 1987

Canadian actress (born 1987)

Blake Lively

b. 1987

American actress (born 1987)

Amy Macdonald

b. 1987

Scottish singer-songwriter

Justin Upton

b. 1987

American baseball player (born 1987)

Adam Warren (baseball)

b. 1987

American baseball pitcher (born 1987)

James Wesolowski

b. 1987

Australian soccer player

Florian Mohr

b. 1984

German footballer

Anya Monzikova

b. 1984

Russian-American model, actress (b. 1984)

Notable Deaths

Salim Al-Huss

d. 2024

Lebanese statesman (1929–2024)

Ferdinand Piëch

d. 2019

Austrian industrialist (1937–2019), head of Volkswagen

John McCain

d. 2018

American politician and naval officer (1936–2018)

Rich Piana

d. 2017

American bodybuilder and internet personality (1970–2017)

Marvin Kaplan

d. 2016

American actor (1927–2016)

José María Benegas

d. 2015

Spanish politician (1948–2015)

Francis Sejersted

d. 2015

Norwegian history professor

William Greaves

d. 2014

American documentary filmmaker

Marcel Masse

d. 2014

Canadian politician (1936–2014)

Nico M. M. Nibbering

d. 2014

Dutch chemist and mass spectrometrist (1938–2014)

Enrique Zileri

d. 2014

Liu Fuzhi

d. 2013

Chinese politician (1917–2013)

Raghunath Panigrahi

d. 2013

Musical artist

Gilmar

d. 2013

Brazilian footballer (1930–2013)

Neil Armstrong

d. 2012

American astronaut (1930–2012)

Donald Gorrie

d. 2012

Lazar Mojsov

d. 2011

Yugoslav Macedonian politician (1920– 2011)

Ted Kennedy

d. 2009

American lawyer and politician (1932–2009)

Ahmad Faraz

d. 2008

Pakistani poet (1931–2008)

Ray Jones (footballer, born 1988)

d. 2007

English footballer

On This Day in History

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2017

Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004.

Hurricane Harvey

2017

Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present): One hundred seventy people are killed in at least 26 separate attacks carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, leading to the governments of Myanmar and Malaysia designating the group as a terrorist organisation.

Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present)

2012

Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.

Voyager 1

2011

Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas.

2011 Monterrey casino attack

2010

A Filair Let L-410 Turbolet crashes on approach to Bandundu Airport, killing 20.

Filair

2006

Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.

Pavlo Lazarenko

2005

Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.

Hurricane Katrina

2003

NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.

NASA

2001

American singer Aaliyah and several members of her entourage are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.

Aaliyah

1997

Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

Egon Krenz

1991

Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.

Belarus

1991

The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence).

Battle of Vukovar

1991

Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

Linus Torvalds

1989

Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999.

Voyager 2

1989

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404, carrying 54 people, disappears over the Himalayas after takeoff from Gilgit Airport in Pakistan. The aircraft was never found.

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404

1985

Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith.

Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808

1981

Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.

Voyager 2