The 237th day of the year, the 238th in a leap year
Born on 25 August
Every 25 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 25 August in any year.
Which weekday 25 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 25 August falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 25 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,752 babies were born on 25 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 345th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 25 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Sean Connery | 1930–2020 | Scottish actor |
| Ivan the Terrible | 1530–1584 | Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584 |
| Johann Gottfried Herder | 1744–1803 | German philosopher, theologian, poet |
| Erich Honecker | 1912–1994 | Leader of East Germany from 1971 to 1989 |
| Tim Burton | 1958– | American filmmaker and artist |
| Võ Nguyên Giáp | 1911–2013 | Vietnamese general and communist politician |
| Leonard Bernstein | 1918–1990 | American conductor and composer |
| Claudia Schiffer | 1970– | German model |
| Blake Lively | 1987– | American actress |
| Ludwig II of Bavaria | 1845–1886 | King of Bavaria |
| Charles Richet | 1850–1935 | French physiologist and parapsychologist |
| Hans Krebs | 1900–1981 | German-British biochemist |
| Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | 1767–1794 | French revolutionary politician |
| Taslima Nasrin | 1962– | author, secular humanist, and feminist |
| Emil Theodor Kocher | 1841–1917 | surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| Herbert Kroemer | 1928–2024 | German-American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics |
| Faustina Kowalska | 1905–1938 | nun and saint from Poland |
| Amy Macdonald | 1987– | Scottish singer-songwriter |
Died on 25 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844–1900 | German philosopher |
| Neil Armstrong | 1930–2012 | American astronaut and lunar explorer |
| Michael Faraday | 1791–1867 | British scientist |
| James Watt | 1736–1819 | British engineer |
| David Hume | 1711–1776 | Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian |
| John McCain | 1936–2018 | American politician |
| Dolly Parton | 1946–2026 | American singer-songwriter |
| William Herschel | 1738–1822 | German-born British astronomer and composer |
| Henri Becquerel | 1852–1908 | French physicist |
| Truman Capote | 1924–1984 | American writer |
| Louis IX of France | 1214–1270 | King of France from 1226 to 1270 |
| Eyvind Johnson | 1900–1976 | Swedish writer |
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