Births on 25 May
2000s
Cam Ward (American football)
2002
American football player (born 2002)
Chloé Lukasiak
2001
American actress and dancer (born 2001)
Claire Liu
2000
American tennis player (born 2000)
1900s
Brec Bassinger
1999
American actress (born 1999)
Ibrahima Konaté
1999
French footballer (born 1999)
David Pastrňák
1996
Czech ice hockey player (born 1996)
Kagiso Rabada
1995
South African cricketer (born 1995)
Matt Murray (ice hockey, born 1994)
1994
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Aly Raisman
1994
American Olympic gymnast and gold medalist (born 1994)
Jamie Porter
1993
English cricketer
Norman Powell
1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Bo Dallas
1990
American professional wrestler (born 1990)
Nikita Filatov
1990
Russian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Dávid Škutka
1988
Slovak footballer
Cameron van der Burgh
1988
South African swimmer (born 1988)
Timothy Derijck
1987
Belgian footballer (born 1987)
Yves De Winter
1987
Belgian footballer
Moritz Stehling
1987
German professional footballer (born 1987)
Kamil Stoch
1987
Polish ski jumper (born 1987)
Edewin Fanini
1986
Brazilian footballer (born 1986)
Yoan Gouffran
1986
French footballer (born 1986)
Takahiro Hōjō
1986
Japanese actor
Geraint Thomas
1986
Welsh racing cyclist (born 1986)
Luciana Abreu
1985
Portuguese singer, actress and television host (born 1985)
Demba Ba
1985
Senegalese-French footballer (born 1985)
Gert Kams
1985
Estonian footballer
Roman Reigns
1985
American professional wrestler (born 1985)
Luke Ball
1984
Australian rules footballer, born 1984
Kyle Brodziak
1984
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1984)
A. J. Foyt IV
1984
American football scout and former racing driver (born 1984)
Shawne Merriman
1984
American football player (born 1984)
Adam Boyd
1982
English footballer (born 1982)
Daniel Braaten
1982
Norwegian footballer (born 1982)
Ryan Gallant
1982
American skateboarder
Roger Guerreiro
1982
Brazilian-born footballer
Justin Hodges
1982
Australia international rugby league footballer (born 1982)
Ezekiel Kemboi
1982
Kenyan steeplechase runner (born 1982)
Jason Kubel
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Stacey Pensgen
1982
American figure skater and meteorologist
Luke Webster
1982
Australian rules footballer and coach
Michalis Pelekanos
1981
Greek basketball player
Matt Utai
1981
NZ & Samoa international rugby league footballer (born 1981)
David Navarro (footballer)
1980
Spanish retired footballer (born 1980)
Carlos Bocanegra
1979
American soccer player (born 1979)
Sayed Moawad
1979
Egyptian footballer (born 1979)
Caroline Ouellette
1979
Canadian ice hockey player
Sam Sodje
1979
English-Nigerian footballer
Jonny Wilkinson
1979
British Lions & England international rugby union player
Chris Young (pitcher)
1979
American baseball player (born 1979)
Adam Gontier
1978
Canadian singer and guitarist (born 1978)
Brian Urlacher
1978
American football player (born 1978)
Andre Anis
1977
Estonian footballer
Alberto Del Rio
1977
Mexican professional wrestler (born 1977)
Stefan Holm
1976
Swedish high jumper (born 1976)
Erki Pütsep
1976
Estonian cyclist
Ethan Suplee
1976
American actor (born 1976)
Cillian Murphy
1976
Irish actor (born 1976)
Miguel Zepeda
1976
Mexican footballer (born 1976)
Blaise Nkufo
1975
Swiss footballer (born 1975)
Dougie Freedman
1974
Scottish footballer (born 1974)
Frank Klepacki
1974
American musician and video game music composer
Miguel Tejada
1974
Dominican baseball player (born 1974)
Daz Dillinger
1973
American rapper and producer (born 1973)
Molly Sims
1973
American actress (born 1973)
Karan Johar
1972
Indian filmmaker, producer, and TV personality (born 1972)
Stefano Baldini
1971
Italian marathon runner (born 1971)
Marco Cappato
1971
Italian activist and politician (born 1971)
Juraj Droba
1971
Slovak politician and businessman
Robert Croft
1970
British cricketer
Jamie Kennedy
1970
American actor and comedian (born 1970)
Octavia Spencer
1970
American actress (born 1970)
Glen Drover
1969
Canadian guitarist
Anne Heche
1969
American actress (1969–2022)
Karen Bernstein
1969
Canadian voice actress
Stacy London
1969
Television host and author from the United States
Kendall Gill
1968
American basketball player (born 1968)
Luc Nilis
1967
Belgian footballer (born 1967)
Mark Rosewater
1967
American Game Designer
Andrew Sznajder
1967
Canadian tennis player (born 1967)
Yahya Jammeh
1965
President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017
David Shaw (ice hockey)
1964
Canadian ice hockey player
George Hickenlooper
1963
American film director (1963–2010)
Mike Myers
1963
Canadian-American actor, comedian, filmmaker, musician, and singer (born 1963)
Ludovic Orban
1963
Prime Minister of Romania from 2019 to 2020
Ric Nattress
1962
Canadian ice hockey player
Amy Klobuchar
1960
American politician and lawyer (born 1960)
Anthea Turner
1960
English television presenter
Julian Clary
1959
English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter (born 1959)
Manolis Kefalogiannis
1959
Greek politician (born 1959)
Rick Wamsley
1959
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1959)
Dorothy Straight
1958
American author (born 1958)
Paul Weller
1958
English singer-songwriter and musician (born 1958)
Alastair Campbell
1957
British journalist and political adviser (born 1957)
Edward Lee (writer)
1957
American novelist
Robert Picard
1957
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1957)
Stavros Arnaoutakis
1956
Greek politician
Larry Hogan
1956
Governor of Maryland from 2015 to 2023
Kevin Lynch (hunger striker)
1956
Irish Republican (1956–1981)
David P. Sartor
1956
American classical composer
Alistair Burt
1955
British politician (born 1955)
John Beck (footballer)
1954
English footballer and manager
Murali (Malayalam actor)
1954
Indian politician
Eve Ensler
1953
American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist
Daniel Passarella
1953
Argentine footballer (born 1953)
Stan Sakai
1953
Japanese-American cartoonist and comic book creator
Gaetano Scirea
1953
Italian footballer (1953–1989)
Jeff Bewkes
1952
American media executive
Nick Fotiu
1952
American ice hockey player (born 1952)
David Jenkins (sprinter)
1952
Scottish athlete (born 1952)
Al Sarrantonio
1952
American novelist (1952–2025)
Gordon H. Smith
1952
American politician (born 1952)
Bob Gale
1951
American writer and filmmaker (born 1951)
Robby Steinhardt
1950
American rock violinist (1950–2021)
Jamaica Kincaid
1949
Antiguan-American writer (born 1949)
Barry Windsor-Smith
1949
British graphic novelist (born 1949)
Bülent Arınç
1948
22nd Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey
Marianne Elliott (historian)
1948
Irish historian
Klaus Meine
1948
German singer
Karen Valentine
1947
American actress (born 1947)
Catherine G. Wolf
1947
American psychologist and computer scientist
Bill Adam
1946
Canadian racing driver (born 1946)
David A. Hargrave
1946
American role-playing game designer (1946–1988)
Digby Anderson
1944
English journalist
Pierre Bachelet
1944
French singer-songwriter
Charlie Harper (singer)
1944
British singer (born 1944)
Robert MacPherson (mathematician)
1944
American mathematician (born 1944)
Frank Oz
1944
English and American actor and puppeteer (born 1944)
Chris Ralston
1944
British Lions & England international rugby union player
Jessi Colter
1943
American country singer (born 1943)
John Palmer (musician)
1943
British rock musician (1943–2025)
Leslie Uggams
1943
American actress and singer (born 1943)
Rudolf Adler
1941
Czech film director and academic (1941–2025)
Uta Frith
1941
German developmental psychologist (born 1941)
Vladimir Voronin
1941
Moldovan politician (born 1941)
Nobuyoshi Araki
1940
Japanese photographer and artist (born 1940)
Dixie Carter
1939
American actress (1939–2010)
Ian McKellen
1939
English actor (born 1939)
Raymond Carver
1938
American story writer and poet (1938–1988)
Margaret Forster
1938
English novelist and biographer (1938–2016)
Geoffrey Robinson (politician)
1938
British politician (born 1938)
Yury Semyonov
1938
Russian economist and politician (1938–2024)
Tom Phillips (artist)
1937
English artist (1937–2022)
Tom T. Hall
1936
American country musician (1936–2021)
Rusi Surti
1936
Indian cricketer
John Ffowcs Williams
1935
British engineer-scientist (1935–2020)
Cookie Gilchrist
1935
American gridiron football player (1935–2011)
W. P. Kinsella
1935
Canadian author (1935–2016)
Victoria Shaw (actress)
1935
Australian actress (1935–1988)
Sarah Marshall (British actress)
1933
British actress (1933–2014)
Basdeo Panday
1933
Trinidadian politician (1933–2024)
Ray Spencer
1933
English footballer (1933–2016)
Jógvan Sundstein
1933
Faroese politician (1933–2024)
John Gregory Dunne
1932
American writer (1932–2003)
K.C. Jones
1932
American basketball player and coach (1932–2020)
Herb Gray
1931
7th deputy prime minister of Canada
Georgy Grechko
1931
Soviet cosmonaut (1931–2017)
Irwin Winkler
1931
American film producer and director (born 1931)
Makrand Mehta
1931
Indian historian (1931–2024)
Sonia Rykiel
1930
French fashion designer and writer (1930 - 2016)
Beverly Sills
1929
American operatic soprano (1929–2007)
Robert Ludlum
1927
American novelist (1927–2001)
Norman Petty
1927
American musician and record producer (1927–1984)
Claude Akins
1926
American actor (1926–1994)
William Bowyer (artist)
1926
Phyllis Gotlieb
1926
Canadian novelist and poet
Bill Sharman
1926
American basketball player and coach (1926–2013)
David Wynne (sculptor)
1926
Rosario Castellanos
1925
Mexican poet and author (1925–1974)
Jeanne Crain
1925
American actress (1925–2003)
Eldon Griffiths
1925
British politician and journalist (1925-2014)
Don Liddle
1925
American baseball player (1925–2000)
Claude Pinoteau
1925
French film director and scriptwriter
István Nyers
1924
Hungarian footballer (1924–2005)
Enrico Berlinguer
1922
Italian politician (1922–1984)
Hal David
1921
American lyricist (1921–2012)
Kitty Kallen
1921
American singer (1921–2016)
Jack Steinberger
1921
German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921–2020)
Arthur Wint
1920
Jamaican sprinter (1920–1992)
Steve Cochran
1917
American actor (1917–1965)
Theodore Hesburgh
1917
American Catholic priest and 15th president of Notre Dame
Brian Dickson
1916
Chief Justice of Canada from 1984 to 1990
Giuseppe Tosi
1916
Italian discus thrower
Heinrich Bär
1913
German Luftwaffe flying ace
Richard Dimbleby
1913
English journalist and broadcaster (1913–1965)
Dean Rockwell
1912
American wrestler and coach
Alfred Kubel
1909
German politician (1909–1999)
Theodore Roethke
1908
Pulitzer Prize winning American poet (1908–1963)
U Nu
1907
1st Prime Minister of Burma
Alain Grandbois
1900
Canadian Quebecer poet
George Lennon
1900
Irish Republican Army leader
1800s
Kazi Nazrul Islam
1899
Bengali poet, writer and musician (1899–1976)
Panka Pelishek
1899
Bulgarian pianist (1899–1990)
Bennett Cerf
1898
American publisher, author (1898–1971)
Alan Kippax
1897
Australian cricketer
Gene Tunney
1897
American professional boxer
Ernest Stoneman
1893
American singer-songwriter (1893–1968)
Günther Lütjens
1889
20th-century German admiral
Igor Sikorsky
1889
Russian-American aviation pioneer (1889–1972)
Miles Malleson
1888
English actor (1888–1969)
Padre Pio
1887
20th-century Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic (1887–1968)
Rash Behari Bose
1886
Indian independence leader (1886–1945)
Philip Murray
1886
Scottish-born American labor leader (1886–1952)
Carl Johan Lind
1883
Swedish hammer thrower
Marie Doro
1882
American actress (1882–1956)
Jean Alexandre Barré
1880
French neurologist (1880–1967)
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
1879
Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer (1879–1964)
C. C. Martindale
1879
English Jesuit priest and author (1879-1963)
William Stickney (golfer)
1879
American golfer
Bill Robinson
1878
American dancer and actor (1878–1949)
Robbie Ross
1869
British journalist and art critic; lover of Oscar Wilde (1869–1918)
Anders Peter Nielsen
1867
Danish sport shooter (1867–1950)
John Mott
1865
American ecumenical Christian awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1865–1955)
Pieter Zeeman
1865
Dutch experimental physicist (1865–1943)
Mathilde Verne
1865
English pianist (1865–1936)
James McKeen Cattell
1860
American psychologist and educator (1860–1944)
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey
1856
French general during World War I (1856–1942)
William Muldoon
1852
American wrestler (1852–1933)
Johann Baptist Singenberger
1848
Naim Frashëri
1846
Albanian poet, writer and activist (1846–1900)
Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)
1830
Welsh poet (1830–1877)
Jacob Burckhardt
1818
Swiss historian (1818–1897)
Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville
1818
French writer (1818-1882)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803
British statesman and writer (1803–1873)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803
American philosopher (1803–1882)
Before 1800
Minh Mạng
1791
Second emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty in the 19th century
Philip P. Barbour
1783
US Supreme Court justice from 1836 to 1841
Samuel Ward (Rhode Island politician)
1725
American farmer, politician, and jurist
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
1713
British statesman (1713–1792)
Claude Buffier
1661
French philosopher, historian and teacher
Charles Garnier (missionary)
1606
French Jesuit missionary and martyr (1606–1649)
Camillus de Lellis
1550
Italian Catholic saint (1550–1614)
Catherine of Cleves (1417–1479)
1417
Duchess of Guelders (lived 1417 to 1479)
Jakobus ("James"), Count of Lichtenberg
1416
Emperor Sukō
1334
Japanese Northern Emperor from 1348 to 1351
Toghon Temür
1320
Emperor of Yuan dynasty from 1333 to 1368
Emperor Shenzong of Song
1048
Emperor of China from 1067 to 1085