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The 25t o September is the 268t day o the year (269t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 97 days bidin.
Events
1066: Battle o Stamford Brig, depictit in a pentin frae 1870
1890: Sequoia Naitional Pairk
Births
Michael Douglas
Catherine Zeta-Jones
- 1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian airchitect (d. 1667)
- 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French componer (d. 1764)
- 1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Meenister o Great Breetain (d. 1754)
- 1711 - Qianlong Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1799)
- 1744 - Frederick William II o Proushie (d. 1797)
- 1764 - Fletcher Christian, Inglis mutineer (d. 1793)
- 1766 - Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke o Richelieu (d. 1822)
- 1860 - John Hope, 7t Yerl o Hopetoun, Scots aristocrat an statesman, 1st Govrenor-General o Australie (d. 1908)
- 1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American scientist (d. 1945)
- 1881 - Lu Xun, Cheenese writer (d. 1936)
- 1896 - Sandro Pertini, Preses o Italy (d. 1990)
- 1897 - William Faulkner, American writer (d. 1962)
- 1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvie-American penter (d. 1970)
- 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Roushie componer (d. 1975)
- 1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Spaingie politeecian (d. 2014)
- 1934 - Struther Arnott, Scots molecular biologist an chemist (d. 2013)
- 1935 - Maj Sjöwall, Swadish writer (d. 2020)
- 1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor
- 1949 - Pedro Almodóvar, Spaingie film director
- 1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor
- 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German fitbawer
- 1968 - Will Smith, American actor, rapper an producer
- 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- 1975 - Declan Donnelly, Inglis telly presenter an actor
- 1986 - John Barclay, Scots rugby union player
- 1990 - Mao Asada, Japanese feegur skeitcher
- 1996 - John Souttar, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 1066 - Harald III o Norawa
- 1506 - Philip I o Castile (b. 1478)
- 1534 - Pape Clement VIII (b. 1478)
- 1703 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke o Argyll, Scots peer (b. 1658)
- 1849 - Johann Strauss I, Austrick componer (b. 1804)
- 1913 - James Campbell Noble, Scots penter (b. 1845)
- 1918 - Henry Dyer, Scots ingineer (b. 1848)
- 1958 - John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878)
- 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (b. 1898)
- 1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan-born American motion pictur director (b. 1895)
- 1983 - Leopold III o Belgium (b. 1901)
- 2003 - Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (b. 1918)
- 2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-American writer an intellectual (b. 1935)
- 2011 - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmental an poleetical activist (b. 1940)
- 2016 - Arnold Palmer, American gowfer (b. 1929)
Halidays