The 268th day of the year, the 269th in a leap year

Born on 25 September

Every 25 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.

Star sign
LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
Birthstone
SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
Most common weekdays
Sunday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 25 September. The marked arc is every position it has held on 25 September, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 25 September in any year.

Which weekday 25 September falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 25 September falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.

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How common a birthday 25 September is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,965 babies were born on 25 September in each year of the twenty, making it the 2nd 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 September

18 people born on 25 September, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
William Faulkner1897–1962American writer
Will Smith1968–American actor, film producer and rapper
Lu Xun1881–1936Chinese novelist and essayist
Dmitri Shostakovich1906–1975Soviet composer and pianist
Catherine Zeta-Jones1969–British actress
Michael Douglas1944–American actor, producer and activist
Pedro Almodóvar1949–Spanish filmmaker
Ole Rømer1644–1710Danish astronomer
Thomas Hunt Morgan1866–1945American biologist and professor from Kentucky
Christopher Reeve1952–2004American actor
Adolfo Suárez1932–2014Prime Minister of Spain (1976–1981)
Mark Hamill1951–American actor
Mark Rothko1903–1970American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent
Jean-Philippe Rameau1683–1764French composer and music theorist
Sandro Pertini1896–1990Italian journalist, resistance leader and politician, President of Italy from 1978 to 1985
Francesco Borromini1599–1667Italian architect from Ticino and leading figure in Roman Baroque architecture, sculptor, engineer, stonemason and draughtsman
Qianlong Emperor1711–1799emperor of the Qing Dynasty
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge1955–German football executive and former football player

Died on 25 September

12 people who died on 25 September, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Wangarĩ Maathai1940–2011Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970German-born novelist
Pope Clement VII1478–1534pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534
Leopold III of Belgium1901–1983king of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951
Nikolay Semyonov1896–1986Soviet physical chemist
John B. Watson1878–1958American psychologist who popularised behaviourism
Mary Astor1906–1987American actress and author
Harald Hardrada1015–1066King of Norway from 1046 to 1066
Franco Modigliani1918–2003Italian-American economist
Johann Heinrich Lambert1728–1777Alsatian mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Philip the Handsome1478–1506Ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482 and King of Castile in 1506
John Bonham1948–1980English drummer

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