Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 25

Births

 * 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
 * 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
 * 1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
 * 1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
 * 1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)
 * 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
 * 1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
 * 1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
 * 1944 - Michael Douglas, (pictured) American actor and producer
 * 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)
 * 1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper
 * 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
 * 1969  - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
 * 1985 - Calvin Johnson, American football player

Deaths

 * 1066 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
 * Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
 * Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
 * 1984 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
 * 1991 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
 * 1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
 * 2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)