February 25

• 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.{{cite book |title=The Journal of Roman Studies |year=1930 |publisher=Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies |location=London |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFs8AAAAMAAJ |access-date=2019-02-25 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801120519/https://books.google.com/books?id=YFs8AAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
• 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.{{cite book |last=Morony |first=Michael G. |title=Iraq After the Muslim Conquest |year=2005 |publisher=Gorgias Press |location=Piscataway, New Jersey |page=92 |isbn=978-15-93333-15-7}}
• 1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilenai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.

• 1705 – George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premiered in Hamburg.{{cite book

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• 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm.{{cite news |url=https://www.edn.com/samuel-colt-receives-patent-for-his-revolver-february-25-1836/ |title=Samuel Colt receives patent for his revolver, February 25, 1836 |publisher=Electrical Design News (EDN) |location=Englewood, Colorado |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=6 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706043402/https://www.edn.com/samuel-colt-receives-patent-for-his-revolver-february-25-1836/ |url-status=live }}
• 1843 – Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet affair.{{cite book |title=British and Foreign State Papers, Volume 31 |year=1858 |publisher=Foreign Office |location=London |chapter=Correspondence relating to the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to great Britain. February 1843 |pages=1023–1029 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1023 |access-date=2020-09-23 |archive-date=2020-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901140337/https://books.google.com/books?id=1qADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1023 |url-status=live }}
• 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.{{cite web |url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000166 |title=Revels, Hiram Rhodes (1827–1901) |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |publisher=Office of the House Historian, United States Congress |location=Washington, DC |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629155153/https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000166 |url-status=live }}
• 1875 – Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guangxu |title=Guangxu |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=10 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310180333/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guangxu |url-status=live }}

• 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.{{Cite web|title=S.A.R. la Grande-Duchesse Marie-Adélaïde {{!}} Cour grand-ducale|url=https://www.monarchie.lu/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.monarchie.lu|language=fr|archive-date=2007-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070523094915/http://www.monarchie.lu/|url-status=live}}
• 1916 – World War I: In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.{{cite news |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-battle-of-verdun |last=Wakefield |first=Alan |title=What was the Battle of Verdun? |publisher=Imperial War Museum |location=London |access-date=6 July 2020 |archive-date=6 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706160534/https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-battle-of-verdun |url-status=live }}
• 1918 – World War I: German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.{{cite web |url=https://www.baltdefcol.org/files/docs/bdreview/bdr-2002-8-11.pdf |last=Parrott |first=Andrew |title=The Baltic States from 1914 to 1923: The First World War and the Wars of Independence |page=139 |work=Baltic Defence Review |issue=8 |volume=2 |year=2002 |publisher=Baltic Defence College |location=Tartu, Estonia |access-date=2020-07-06 |archive-date=2020-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706144933/https://www.baltdefcol.org/files/docs/bdreview/bdr-2002-8-11.pdf |url-status=live }}
• 1921 – Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.{{cite book |last=Lang |first=David Marshall |author-link=David Marshall Lang |title=A Modern History of Soviet Georgia |year=1962 |publisher=Grove Press |location=New York City |pages=234–236 |asin=B000WAJSKG}}
• 1932 – Adolf Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.{{cite news |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/revoking-the-fuehrer-s-passport-hitler-may-be-stripped-of-german-citizenship-a-471168.html |last=Hinrichs |first=Per |title=Hitler May Be Stripped of German Citizenship |date=12 March 2007 |work=Spiegel International |publisher=Spiegel Gruppe |location=Hamburg |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042637/https://www.spiegel.de/international/revoking-the-fuehrer-s-passport-hitler-may-be-stripped-of-german-citizenship-a-471168.html |url-status=live }}
• 1933 – Launch of the {{USS|Ranger|CV-4|6}} at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy.{{cite book |last=Cressman |first=Robert J. |title=USS Ranger: The Navy's First Flattop from Keel to Mast, 1934–1946 |year=2003 |publisher=Potomac Books |location=Dulles, Virginia |pages=3–6 |isbn=978-15-74887-20-4}}
• 1939 – As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London.{{cite web |url=https://www.andersonshelters.org.uk/history.html |last=Stanley |first=Martin |title=History |work=Anderson Shelters |access-date=6 July 2020 |archive-date=25 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725011018/https://www.andersonshelters.org.uk/history.html |url-status=live }}
• 1941 – The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2016-02-25/ty-article/1941-dutch-strike-against-nazi-abuses-of-jews/0000017f-db74-d3ff-a7ff-fbf4f1520000 |last=Green |first=David B. |title=The Dutch Strike Against Nazi Abuses of Jews |date=25 February 2016 |publisher=Haaretz |location=Tel Aviv |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=25 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225095351/https://www.haaretz.com/amp/jewish/1941-dutch-strike-against-nazi-abuses-of-jews-1.5408917 |url-status=live }}
• 1947 – The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1947v02/d327 |title=The Acting Political Adviser for Germany (Muccio) to the Secretary of State |work=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, Council of Foreign Ministers; Germany and Austria, Volume II |publisher=Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State |location=Washington, DC |year=1947 |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=9 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709100915/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1947v02/d327 |url-status=live }}
• 1947 – Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of Hungary.{{cite web |url=http://www.rev.hu/history_of_56/szerviz/kislex/biograf/kovacs.htm |title=Béla Kovács |work=The History of the 1956 Revolution |publisher=The Institute for the History of the 1956 Revolution |location=Budapest |access-date=2021-02-25 |archive-date=2022-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102175441/http://www.rev.hu/history_of_56/szerviz/kislex/biograf/kovacs.htm |url-status=live }}
• 1948 – In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.{{cite web |url=https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/who-lost-czechoslovakia |last=Steil |first=Benn |title=Who Lost Czechoslovakia? |publisher=History Today Ltd |location=London |date=9 May 2018 |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707214733/https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/who-lost-czechoslovakia |url-status=live }}
• 1951 – The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.{{cite web |url=https://la84.org/the-spirit-of-friendship-through-sports-poster-images-from-the-pan-american-games-1951-1999/ |title=The Spirit of Friendship Through Sports: Poster Images from the Pan-American Games, 1951–1999 |publisher=LA84 Foundation |location=Los Angeles |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707183929/https://la84.org/the-spirit-of-friendship-through-sports-poster-images-from-the-pan-american-games-1951-1999/ |url-status=live }}
• 1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.{{cite book |last1=Medvedev |first1=Roy |last2=Medvedev |first2=Zhores |editor-last=Dahrendorf |editor-first=Ellen |title=The Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death and Legacy |year=2004 |publisher=Overlook Press |location=Woodstock, New York |page=102 |isbn=978-15-85676-44-6}}
• 1980 – The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.{{cite web |url=http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Suriname83eng/intro.htm |title=Human Rights in Suriname |publisher=Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |location=Washington, DC |date=5 October 1983 |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924213204/http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Suriname83eng/intro.htm |url-status=live }}
• 1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first female president.{{cite book |last=Crisostomo |first=Isabelo T. |title=Cory, Profile of a President: The Historic Rise to Power of Corazon |year=1987 |publisher=Branden Books |location=Wellesley, Massachusetts |page=257 |isbn=978-08-28319-13-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW_ddLowBYkC&q=Cory+Aquino+in+Club+Filipino&pg=PA257 |access-date=2020-11-11 |archive-date=2021-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204034104/https://books.google.com/books?id=iW_ddLowBYkC&q=Cory+Aquino+in+Club+Filipino&pg=PA257 |url-status=live }}
• 1991 – Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest.{{cite web |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0226/odate.html |title=Warsaw Pact and Comecon To Dissolve This Week |publisher=The Christian Science Monitor |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=26 February 1991 |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731122514/https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0226/odate.html |url-status=live }}
• 1994 – American-Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein commits a mass shooting at the Cave of the Patriarchs mausoleum, leaving 29 dead and over 100 injured before he was disarmed and beaten to death by survivors.{{cite news | url=https://www.haaretz.com/2010-02-28/ty-article/settlers-remember-gunman-goldstein-hebron-riots-continue/0000017f-e5dd-df5f-a17f-ffdf176c0000 | title=Settlers Remember Gunman Goldstein; Hebron Riots Continue | newspaper=Haaretz }}
• 1999 – Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, killing four.{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Dornier 328-110 D-CPRR Genoa-Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19990225-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309092453/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19990225-0 |archive-date=2012-03-09 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}
• 2009 – Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials.{{cite news |author=Ahmed |first=Saeed |date=26 February 2009 |title=Dozens feared dead in Bangladesh mutiny |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/25/bangladesh.gunbattle/index.html |work=CNN}}
• 2009 – Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.{{cite news |author=Fiorino |first=Frances |date=5 March 2009 |title=Boeing warns of possible 737 altimeter fault |url=http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=comm&id=news/ALT030509.xml&headline=Boeing%20Warns%20of%20Possible%20737%20Altimeter%20Fault |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322020140/http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=comm&id=news%2FALT030509.xml&headline=Boeing%20Warns%20of%20Possible%20737%20Altimeter%20Fault |archive-date=22 March 2012 |publisher=Aviation Week |df=dmy-all}}
• 2015 – At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.{{Cite web |date=27 February 2015 |title=Afghan avalanche death toll passes 220 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghanistan-avalanches-leave-more-than-220-dead/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=CBS News}}
• 2016 – Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston.{{cite web |date=February 25, 2016 |title=Four Dead, Including Gunman, 14 Injured in Kansas Shooting Rampage |url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Hesston-Kansas-Active-Shooter-Shelter-in-Place-370193601.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand |accessdate=February 25, 2016 |work=NBC New York}}

• 1259 – Infanta Branca of Portugal, daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and Urraca of Castile (died 1321){{cite book |last=Rodrigues Oliveira |first=Ana |title=Rainhas medievais de Portugal. Dezassete mulheres, duas dinastias, quatro séculos de História |year=2010 |publisher=A esfera dos livros |location=Lisbon |page=138 |language=PT |isbn=978-98-96262-61-7}}
• 1337 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (died 1383){{cite book |editor-first1=Barbara Drake |editor-last1=Boehm |editor-first2=Jiri |editor-last2=Fajt |title=Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437 |year=2005 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, Connecticut |page=xvi |isbn=978-03-00111-38-5}}
• 1475 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (died 1499){{cite web |url=http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_25.html |title=Edward, Earl of Warwick |publisher=English Monarchs |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=16 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516162546/http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_25.html |url-status=live }}
• 1540 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English aristocrat and courtier (died 1614){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Howard-earl-of-Northampton |title=Henry Howard, earl of Northampton |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617060511/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Howard-earl-of-Northampton |url-status=live }}
• 1543 – Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, Emir of Bitlis (died 1603){{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bedlisi-saraf-al-din-khan-b |last=Glassen |first=Erika |title=Bedlisi, Sharaf-al-Din Khan |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=4 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504201354/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bedlisi-saraf-al-din-khan-b |url-status=live }}
• 1591 – Friedrich Spee, German poet and author (died 1635){{cite web |url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Spee-Friedrich.htm |title=Friedrich Spee (Hymn-Writer) |publisher=Bach Cantatas Website |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617100515/http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Spee-Friedrich.htm |url-status=live }}

• 1643 – Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (died 1695){{cite encyclopedia |last=Naima |first=Mustafa |author-link=Mustafa Naima |title=Ahmad II |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition |volume=1 |year=1986 |page=268}}
• 1663 – Peter Anthony Motteux, French-English author, playwright and translator (died 1718){{cite ODNB |last=Hopkins |first=David |orig-year=23 September 2004 |date=25 May 2006 |title=Motteux, Peter Anthony [formerly Pierre-Antoine Le Motteux] |id=19423 }}
• 1670 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1720){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Kirch |title=Maria Kirch |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=28 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028202452/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Kirch |url-status=live }}
• 1682 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist and pathologist (died 1771){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Battista-Morgagni |title=Giovanni Battista Morgagni |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063115/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Battista-Morgagni |url-status=live }}
• 1707 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright and composer (died 1793){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlo-Goldoni |title=Carlo Goldoni |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617205134/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlo-Goldoni |url-status=live }}
• 1714 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, French lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (died 1792){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin-de-Maupeou |title=René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de Maupeou |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=8 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608082529/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin-de-Maupeou |url-status=live }}
• 1728 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect, designed the Royal Crescent (died 1782){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wood-the-Younger |title=John Wood the Younger |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731065500/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wood-the-Younger |url-status=live }}
• 1752 – John Graves Simcoe, English-Canadian general and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (died 1806){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Graves-Simcoe |title=John Graves Simcoe |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731081659/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Graves-Simcoe |url-status=live }}
• 1755 – François René Mallarmé, French lawyer and politician (died 1835){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-Rene-Auguste-Mallarme |title=François-René-Auguste Mallarmé |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=27 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727194219/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-Rene-Auguste-Mallarme |url-status=live }}
• 1778 – José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (died 1850){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-de-San-Martin |title=José de San Martín |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=22 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222043007/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-de-San-Martin |url-status=live }}
• 1806 – Emma Catherine Embury, American author and poet (died 1863){{cite book |last=Spooner |first=Walter Whipple |title=Historic Families of America: Comprehending the Genealogical Records and Representative Biography of Selected Families of Early American Ancestry, Recognized Social Standing, and Special Distinction |volume=2 |year=1907 |publisher=Historic Families Publishing Association |location=Madison, Wisconsin |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F1Pw_lHJMRgC |access-date=2018-09-15 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801130928/https://books.google.com/books?id=F1Pw_lHJMRgC |url-status=live }}
• 1809 – John Hart, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of South Australia (died 1873){{cite book |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hart-john-3729/text5861 |last=O'Neill |first=Sally |title=Hart, John (1809–1873) |chapter=John Hart (1809–1873) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617084911/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hart-john-3729/text5861 |url-status=live }}
• 1812 – Carl Christian Hall, Danish lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Denmark (died 1888){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Christian-Hall |title=Carl Christian Hall |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731064605/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Christian-Hall |url-status=live }}
• 1816 – Giovanni Morelli, Italian historian and critic (died 1891){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Morelli |title=Giovanni Morelli |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731054028/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Morelli |url-status=live }}
• 1833 – John St. John, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Kansas (died 1916){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Pierce-Saint-John |title=John Saint John |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050736/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Pierce-Saint-John |url-status=live }}
• 1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (died 1919){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Auguste-Renoir |title=Pierre-Auguste Renoir |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=27 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527124424/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Auguste-Renoir |url-status=live }}
• 1842 – Karl May, German author, poet, and playwright (died 1912){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-May |title=Karl May |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063202/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-May |url-status=live }}
• 1845 – George Reid, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1918){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Houston-Reid |title=Sir George Houston Reid |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063353/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Houston-Reid |url-status=live }}
• 1855 – Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet and author (died 1886){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cesario-Verde |title=Cesário Verde |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606201152/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cesario-Verde |url-status=live }}
• 1856 – Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian and academic (died 1915){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Gotthard-Lamprecht |title=Karl Gotthard Lamprecht |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731052402/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Gotthard-Lamprecht |url-status=live }}
• 1856 – Mathias Zdarsky, Czech-Austrian skier, painter, and sculptor (died 1940){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matthias-Zdarsky |title=Mathias Zdarsky |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606201150/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matthias-Zdarsky |url-status=live }}
• 1857 – Robert Bond, Canadian politician; first Prime Minister of Newfoundland (died 1927){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Bond |title=Sir Robert Bond |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606201154/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Bond |url-status=live }}
• 1860 – William Ashley, English historian and academic (died 1927){{cite web |url=https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/640305/sir-william-ashley-phd-a-george-v-black-leather-cloth-despatch-box/ |title=Sir William Ashley Ph.D. A |publisher=Sellingantiques Ltd |location=Gatwick |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606201149/https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/640305/sir-william-ashley-phd-a-george-v-black-leather-cloth-despatch-box/ |url-status=live }}
• 1865 – Andranik, Armenian general (died 1927){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7kpDwAAQBAJ&q=andranik+25+february&pg=PA1897 |title=Andranik. Armenian Hero |date=10 February 2018 |publisher=Aegitas |location=Moscow |isbn=9785040624676 |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=26 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226152455/https://books.google.com/books?id=C7kpDwAAQBAJ&q=andranik+25+february&pg=PA1897 |url-status=live }}
• 1866 – Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (died 1952){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benedetto-Croce |title=Benedetto Croce |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=27 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427175510/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benedetto-Croce |url-status=live }}
• 1869 – Phoebus Levene, Russian-American biochemist and physician (died 1940){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phoebus-Levene |title=Phoebus Levene |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731082145/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phoebus-Levene |url-status=live }}
• 1871 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet and playwright (died1913){{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/oop/d_qfullhit.htw?CiBold=true&CiHiliteColor=blue&CiWebHitsFile=%2Fpages%2Fu%2Fk%2Fukrainkalesia%2Ehtm&CiRestriction=%40contents+%22lesya+ukrainka%22&CiUserParam3=%2Fquery%2Easp&CiUserParam2=%22lesya+ukrainka%22&CiUserParam1=Ukrainka%2C+Lesia&CiLocale=NEUTRAL&CiHiliteType=Full|title= Ukrainka, Lesia – Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine }}
• 1873 – Enrico Caruso, Italian-American tenor; the most popular operatic tenor of the early 20th century and the first great recording star. (died 1921){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Enrico-Caruso |title=Enrico Caruso |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619133644/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Enrico-Caruso |url-status=live }}
• 1877 – Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist and scholar (died 1935){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Erich-Moritz-von-Hornbostel |title=Erich Moritz von Hornbostel |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=24 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724170116/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Erich-Moritz-von-Hornbostel |url-status=live }}
• 1881 – William Z. Foster, American union leader and politician (died 1961){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Z-Foster |title=William Z. Foster |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729140435/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Z-Foster |url-status=live }}
• 1881 – Alexei Rykov, Russian politician, Premier of Russia (died 1938){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksey-Ivanovich-Rykov |title=Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=28 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528000806/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksey-Ivanovich-Rykov |url-status=live }}
• 1883 – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (died 1981){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/04/obituaries/princess-alice-at-london-home-a-grandchild-of-queen-victoria.html |title=Princess Alice, at London Home; A Grandchild of Queen Victoria |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 January 1981 |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=12 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812195937/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/04/obituaries/princess-alice-at-london-home-a-grandchild-of-queen-victoria.html |url-status=live }}
• 1885 – Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (died 1969){{cite book |last=Vickers |first=Hugo |author-link=Hugo Vickers |title=Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece |year=2000 |publisher=Hamish Hamilton |location=London |page=2 |isbn=978-02-41136-86-7}}
• 1888 – John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (died 1959){{cite book |last=Immerman |first=Richard H. |title=John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War |year=1992 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |page=4 |isbn=978-06-91006-22-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bmHZN_JPxIC&pg=PA4 |access-date=2019-12-23 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801132424/https://books.google.com/books?id=8bmHZN_JPxIC&pg=PA4 |url-status=live }}
• 1890 – Myra Hess, English pianist and educator (died 1965){{cite book |last=Norris |first=Gerald |title=A Musical Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland |year=1981 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot, Devon |page=103 |isbn=978-07-15378-45-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ |access-date=2019-12-23 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801124834/https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
• 1894 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (died 1969){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meher-Baba |title=Meher Baba |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=14 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714122148/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meher-Baba |url-status=live }}
• 1896 – Ida Noddack, German chemist and physicist (died 1978){{cite journal |last1=Marshall |first1=James L. |title=Ida Noddack: Foreteller of Nuclear Fission |journal=ACS Symposium Series |date=January 2018 |volume=1311 |pages=105–149 |doi=10.1021/bk-2018-1311.ch005|isbn=978-0-8412-3391-1 }}
• 1898 – William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist (died 1961){{cite web |url=https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Astbury |title=Professor William Astbury |publisher=What is biotechnology? |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050636/https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Astbury |url-status=live }}

• 1901 – Vince Gair, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland (died 1980){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=gair-vincent-clare-vince-10267 |last=Costar |first=B. J. |title=Vincent Clare (Vince) Gair (1901–1980) |year=1996 |volume=14 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=14 February 2014 |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gair-vincent-clare-vince-10267 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214165132/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gair-vincent-clare-vince-10267 |url-status=dead }}
• 1901 – Zeppo Marx, American comedian and theatrical agent (died 1979){{cite book |last=Gehring |first=Wes D. |title=The Marx Brothers: A Bio-bibliography |year=1987 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=229 |isbn=978-03-13245-47-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWfp8LsM8_gC&pg=PA229 |access-date=2019-12-23 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801130908/https://books.google.com/books?id=xWfp8LsM8_gC&pg=PA229 |url-status=live }}
• 1903 – King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and coach (died 1986){{cite web |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/king-clancy-8445471 |title=King Clancy |publisher=National Hockey League |location=New York City |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606050850/https://www.nhl.com/player/king-clancy-8445471 |url-status=live }}
• 1905 – Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (died 1963){{cite web |url=https://www.poemhunter.com/perry-miller/biography/ |title=Biography of Perry Miller |publisher=Poem Hunter |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606050749/https://www.poemhunter.com/perry-miller/biography/ |url-status=dead }}
• 1906 – Mary Coyle Chase, American journalist and playwright (died 1981){{cite journal |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1601928 |title=Mary Coyle Chase |journal =American National Biography |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601928 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |last1=Makowsky |first1=Veronica |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731040044/https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1601928 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}
• 1907 – Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (died 1948){{cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/116623.Sabahattin_Ali |title=Sabahattin Ali |publisher=GoodReads, Inc. |location=San Francisco |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928071311/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/116623.Sabahattin_Ali |url-status=live }}
• 1908 – Mary Locke Petermann, American cellular biochemist (died 1975){{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of World Scientists |last=Oakes |first=Elizabeth H. |date=2007 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |location=New York City |page=585 |isbn=978-14-38118-82-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPRB-OED1bcC&q=mary+petermann+++chemist&pg=PA585 |access-date=2020-11-11 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226152456/https://books.google.com/books?id=uPRB-OED1bcC&q=mary+petermann+++chemist&pg=PA585 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L–Z |last1=Ogilvie |first1=Marilyn Bailey |last2=Harvey |first2=Joy Dorothy |author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie |author2-link=Joy Harvey |date=2000 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire |isbn=978-04-15920-40-7 |page=1010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1010 |access-date=2018-12-18 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801123559/https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1010 |url-status=live }}
• 1908 – Frank G. Slaughter, American physician and author (died 2001){{cite web |url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL17969A/Frank_G._Slaughter |title=Frank G. Slaughter |work=Open Library |publisher=Internet Archive |location=San Francisco |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606060207/https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL17969A/Frank_G._Slaughter |url-status=live }}
• 1910 – Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (died 1992){{cite web |url=https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/F/FENWICK,-Millicent-Hammond-(F000078)/ |title=Millicent Fenwick |work=History, Art & Archives |publisher=US House of Representatives |location=Washington, DC |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=27 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827190146/https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/F/FENWICK,-Millicent-Hammond-(F000078)/ |url-status=live }}
• 1913 – Jim Backus, American actor and screenwriter (died 1989){{cite web |url=https://walkoffame.com/jim-backus/ |title=Jim Backus |work=Hollywood Walk of Fame |date=25 October 2019 |publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce |location=Los Angeles |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605160148/https://walkoffame.com/jim-backus/ |url-status=live }}
• 1913 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (died 1988){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gert-Frobe |title=Gert Fröbe |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605161004/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gert-Frobe |url-status=live }}
• 1915 – S. Rajaratnam, Singaporean politician, 1st Senior Minister of Singapore (died 2006){{cite web |url=https://www.roots.sg/learn/stories/sinnathamby-rajaratnam/story |title=Sinnathamby Rajaratnam |work=Roots |publisher=National Heritage Board |location=Singapore |access-date=26 July 2020 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726101737/https://www.roots.sg/learn/stories/sinnathamby-rajaratnam/story |url-status=dead }}
• 1917 – Anthony Burgess, English author, playwright, and critic (died 1993){{cite ODNB |last=Ratcliffe |first=Michael |orig-year=23 September 2004 |date=23 September 2010 |title=Wilson, John Burgess [pseud. Anthony Burgess] (1917–1993) |id=51526}}
• 1918 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (died 1995){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Riggs |title=Bobby Riggs |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042432/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Riggs |url-status=live }}
• 1919 – Monte Irvin, American baseball player and executive (died 2016){{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/monte-irvin-hall-of-fame-baseball-star-who-began-in-negro-leagues-dies-at-96/2016/01/12/f7a16e44-b968-11e5-b682-4bb4dd403c7d_story.html |last=Schudel |first=Matt |title=Monte Irvin, Hall of Fame baseball star who began in Negro leagues, dies at 96 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |date=12 January 2016 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=5 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405213217/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/monte-irvin-hall-of-fame-baseball-star-who-began-in-negro-leagues-dies-at-96/2016/01/12/f7a16e44-b968-11e5-b682-4bb4dd403c7d_story.html |url-status=live }}
• 1920 – Philip Habib, American academic and diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (died 1992){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-Charles-Habib |title=Philip Charles Habib |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731124615/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-Charles-Habib |url-status=live }}
• 1921 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec (died 1970){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pierre-laporte |title=Pierre Laporte |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher=Historica Canada |location=Toronto |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=16 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516095501/https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pierre-laporte |url-status=live }}
• 1921 – Andy Pafko, American baseball player and manager (died 2013){{cite web |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/5016ac7c |title=Andy Pafko |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) |location=Phoenix, Arizona |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=2 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402003733/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/5016ac7c |url-status=live }}
• 1922 – Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (died 1980){{cite book |last=Welch |first=Rosanne |title=Encyclopedia of women in aviation and space |year=1998 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, California |chapter=Reilly, Molly Beall |pages=180–181 |oclc=39209984 |isbn=0-87436-958-4 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo00rosa/page/180}}{{cite web |url=https://www.cahf.ca/CUSTOMPAGES/907/MemberList.cfm?firstLetter=R#175 |title=Moretta Fenton Beall Reilly |publisher=Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame |location=Wetaskiwin, Alberta |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=26 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626085920/https://www.cahf.ca/CUSTOMPAGES/907/MemberList.cfm?firstLetter=R#175 |url-status=dead }}
• 1924 – Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (died 2013){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugh-Esmor-Huxley |title=Hugh Esmor Huxley |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731071415/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugh-Esmor-Huxley |url-status=live }}
• 1925 – Lisa Kirk, American actress and singer (died 1990){{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/69e00c80-1709-471e-92f1-baf774a9dc22 |title=Lisa Kirk |work=BBC Music |publisher=BBC |location=London |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606072406/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/69e00c80-1709-471e-92f1-baf774a9dc22 |url-status=dead }}
• 1925 – Shehu Shagari, Nigerian politician, 6th President of Nigeria (died 2018){{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/shehu-shagari-obituary |title=Shehu Shagari obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=9 January 2019 |location=London |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063325/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/shehu-shagari-obituary |url-status=live }}
• 1926 – Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic (died 2003){{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ikeda/ |title=Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews |location=St Andrews |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605135056/https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ikeda/ |url-status=live }}
• 1927 – Ralph Stanley, American singer and banjo player (died 2016){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Stanley |title=Ralph Stanley |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063118/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Stanley |url-status=live }}
• 1928 – Paul Elvstrøm, Danish yachtsman (died 2016){{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/paul-elvstrom |title=Paul Elvstrøm |publisher=International Olympic Committee |location=Lausanne |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607074500/https://www.olympic.org/paul-elvstrom |url-status=live }}
• 1928 – Larry Gelbart, American author and screenwriter (died 2009){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-Simon-Gelbart |title=Larry Gelbart |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731081702/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-Simon-Gelbart |url-status=live }}
• 1928 – A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights advocate, historian, and judge (died 1998){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aloysius-Leon-Higginbotham-Jr |title=A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605143722/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aloysius-Leon-Higginbotham-Jr |url-status=live }}
• 1928 – Richard G. Stern, American author and academic (died 2013){{cite news|last=Weber|first=Bruce|title=Richard G. Stern, Writers' Writer, Dies at 84|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/books/richard-g-stern-a-writers-writer-is-dead-at-84.html?pagewanted=all|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 24, 2013|accessdate=August 7, 2024}}
• 1930 – Wendy Beckett, British nun and art critic (died 2018){{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46687275|work=BBC News|title=Sister Wendy Beckett, TV art historian, dies at 88|date=26 December 2018|accessdate=August 7, 2024}}
• 1932 – Tony Brooks, English racing driver (died 2022){{cite web |url=https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/tony-brooks |title=Tony Brooks |date=28 February 2020 |publisher=Motor Sport Magazine |location=London |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=14 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614171903/https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/tony-brooks |url-status=live }}
• 1932 – Faron Young, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1996){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Faron-Young |title=Faron Young |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413065933/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Faron-Young |url-status=live }}
• 1934 – Tony Lema, American golfer (died 1966){{cite web |url=https://www.theopen.com/latest/2019/02/tony-lema-profile |title=Tony Lema – 85th birthday profile |work=The Open |publisher=R&A Championships Limited |location=St Andrews, Fife |date=25 February 2019 |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605154317/https://www.theopen.com/latest/2019/02/tony-lema-profile |url-status=live }}
• 1935 – Tony Campolo, American sociologist and pastor (died 2024){{Cite web |last=Gryboski |first=Michael |date=November 20, 2024 |title=Tony Campolo, bestselling author, teacher and evangelist, dies at 89 |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/tony-campolo-bestselling-author-and-evangelist-dies-at-89.html |access-date=November 23, 2024 |website=The Christian Post |language=en}}
• 1935 – Oktay Sinanoglu, Turkish physical chemist and molecular biophysicist (died 2015){{cite web |url=https://news.yale.edu/2015/04/20/memoriam-oktay-sinano-lu-renowned-theoretical-chemist |title=Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda |work=Yale News |date=20 April 2015 |publisher=Yale University |location=New Haven, Connecticut |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731052748/https://news.yale.edu/2015/04/20/memoriam-oktay-sinano-lu-renowned-theoretical-chemist |url-status=live }}
• 1937 – Tom Courtenay, English actor{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/facts/Tom-Courtenay |title=Tom Courtenay |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050738/https://www.britannica.com/facts/Tom-Courtenay |url-status=live }}
• 1937 – Bob Schieffer, American political author, journalist and TV interviewer{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-schieffer-08-07-1998/ |title=Bob Schieffer |work=CBS News |date=8 July 1998 |location=Los Angeles |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731075856/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-schieffer-08-07-1998/ |url-status=live }}
• 1938 – Diane Baker, American actress and producer
• 1938 – Herb Elliott, Australian athlete{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herb-Elliott |title=Herb Elliott |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=14 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514053644/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herb-Elliott |url-status=live }}
• 1938 – Farokh Engineer, Indian cricketer{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/28624.html |title=Farokh Engineer |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd |location=London |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=9 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509064414/https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/28624.html |url-status=live }}
• 1940 – Ron Santo, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2010){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ron-Santo |title=Ron Santo |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604162858/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ron-Santo |url-status=live }}
• 1941 – David Puttnam, English film producer and academic{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Terence-Puttnam |title=David Puttnam |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=14 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814072700/https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Terence-Puttnam |url-status=live }}
• 1942 – Karen Grassle, American actress
• 1943 – George Harrison, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and film producer (died 2001){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Harrison-British-musician |title=George Harrison |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413063800/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Harrison-British-musician |url-status=live }}
• 1944 – François Cevert, French racing driver (died 1973){{cite web |url=https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/francois-cevert |title=François Cevert |publisher=Motor Sport Magazine |location=London |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604165248/https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/francois-cevert |url-status=live }}
• 1946 – Jean Todt, French racing driver and team manager{{cite web |url=https://www.fia.com/profile/jean-todt |title=Jean Todt |date=28 March 2012 |publisher=Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) |location=Paris |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604080144/https://www.fia.com/profile/jean-todt |url-status=live }}
• 1947 – Lee Evans, American sprinter and athletics coach (died 2021){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Evans |title=Lee Evans |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=17 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717212137/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Evans |url-status=live }}
• 1949 – Ric Flair, American professional wrestler{{cite web |last1=Shifferaw |first1=Abel |title=Ric Flair Gets Emotional at Surprise Birthday Party Attended by Triple H, Charles Barkley, and Others |url=https://www.complex.com/sports/2019/02/ric-flair-gets-emotional-at-surprise-70th-birthday-party |publisher=Complex |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=22 February 2019}}
• 1949 – Amin Maalouf, Lebanese-French journalist and author{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2002/nov/16/classicalmusicandopera.fiction |title=A son of the road |newspaper=The Guardian |date=16 November 2002 |location=London |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604154735/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2002/nov/16/classicalmusicandopera.fiction |url-status=live }}
• 1950 – Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish skier (died 2006){{cite magazine |url=http://skiracing.com/stories/spanish-gold-medalist-fernandez-ochoa-dies-56/ |last=Lang |first=Patrick |title=Spanish gold medalist Fernandez Ochoa dies at 56 |magazine=Ski Racing |publisher=Ski Racing Media |issue=1170 |date=6 November 2006 |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=1 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901223622/https://www.skiracing.com/stories/spanish-gold-medalist-fernandez-ochoa-dies-56 |url-status=live }}
• 1950 – Neil Jordan, Irish film director, screenwriter and author{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Neil-Jordan |title=Neil Jordan |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731044008/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Neil-Jordan |url-status=live }}
• 1950 – Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician; 51st President of Argentina (died 2010){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nestor-Kirchner |title=Néstor Kirchner |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=17 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917040751/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nestor-Kirchner |url-status=live }}
• 1951 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter and coach{{cite web |url=http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=5421&Gender=M |title=Don Quarrie |publisher=Track and Field Statistics |access-date=2 June 2020 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224112430/http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=5421&Gender=M |url-status=live }}
• 1952 – Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcyclist (died 2000){{cite web |url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1823 |last=Froggatt |first=Richard |title=Joey Dunlop (1952–2000): Motorcycle racing champion; humanitarian aid worker |work=Dictionary of Ulster Biography |publisher=Ulster History Circle |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=14 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714115633/http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1823 |url-status=live }}
• 1953 – José María Aznar, Spanish politician; Prime Minister of Spain, 1996–2004{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Maria-Aznar |title=José María Aznar |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731065208/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Maria-Aznar |url-status=live }}
• 1953 – John Doe, American musician, singer-songwriter, actor, and poet
• 1957 – Raymond McCreesh, Irish Republican, hunger striker (died 1981){{cite web| url = https://www.bobbysandstrust.com/hungerstrikers/Raymond%20McCreesh/| title = Raymond McCreesh {{!}} Bobby Sands Trust| access-date = 2021-06-15| archive-date = 2022-02-26| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220226152509/https://www.bobbysandstrust.com/hungerstrikers/Raymond%20McCreesh/| url-status = live}}
• 1957 – Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singaporean economist and politician; 5th Senior Minister and 9th President of Singapore{{cite web |url=https://successstory.com/people/tharman-shanmugaratnam |title=A Glimpse Into One of Singapore's Highly Respected Politicians: Tharman Shanmugaratnam Story |publisher=SuccessStory |location=Hyderabad |access-date=26 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731121808/https://successstory.com/people/tharman-shanmugaratnam |url-status=live }}
• 1958 – Kurt Rambis, Greek-American basketball player, coach, and executive{{cite web |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rambiku01.html |title=Kurt Rambis |work=Basketball Reference |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |location=Philadelphia |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=1 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101170047/https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rambiku01.html |url-status=live }}
• 1962 – Birgit Fischer, German kayaker{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/birgit-fischer |title=Birgit Fischer |publisher=International Olympic Committee |location=Lausanne |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731075920/https://www.olympic.org/birgit-fischer |url-status=live }}
• 1963 – Paul O'Neill, American baseball player and sportscaster{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o'neipa01.shtml |title=Paul O'Neill |work=Baseball Reference |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |location=Philadelphia |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=2 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602190912/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o%27neipa01.shtml |url-status=live }}
• 1965 – Carrot Top, American comedian{{cite web |last1=Greeson |first1=Jay |title=5-at-10: Rose's injury, bubble games, Love in L.A. and Ric Flair's birthday |url=https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2015/feb/25/5--10-roses-injury-bubble-games-love-la-and-ric-fl/ |publisher=Chattanooga Times Free Press |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=25 February 2015}}
• 1965 – Veronica Webb, American model, actress, and writer
• 1966 – Alexis Denisof, American actor
• 1966 – Téa Leoni, American actress{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Frazier |title=Tea Leoni in a happy state as 'Madam Secretary' |url=https://apnews.com/article/4f8b92d3720144e29f1db130db22ee1d |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=26 February 2015}}
• 1967 – Ed Balls, English politician; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Balls |title=Ed Balls |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731082202/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Balls |url-status=live }}
• 1968 – Lesley Boone, American actress and producer
• 1968 – Oumou Sangaré, Malian musician{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oumou-Sangare |title=Oumou Sangaré |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604094046/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oumou-Sangare |url-status=live }}
• 1971 – Sean Astin, American actor, director and producer{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/facts/Sean-Astin |title=Sean Astin |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604090605/https://www.britannica.com/facts/Sean-Astin |url-status=live }}
• 1971 – Daniel Powter, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
• 1973 – Anson Mount, American actor{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for February 25, 2023 includes celebrities Ric Flair, Jameela Jamil |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/02/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-february-25-2023-includes-celebrities-ric-flair-jameela-jamil.html |website=The Plain Dealer |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=24 February 2024 |date=25 February 2023}}
• 1974 – Dominic Raab, English politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52064637 |title=Who is Dominic Raab? |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |location=London |date=24 April 2020 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=17 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917181210/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52064637 |url-status=live }}
• 1975 – Chelsea Handler, American comedian, actress, author, and television host{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Dory |title=Chelsea Handler Skis Topless While Celebrating Her 47th Birthday: 'Doing All the Things I Love' |url=https://people.com/tv/chelsea-handler-skis-topless-while-celebrating-her-47th-birthday/ |publisher=People |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=25 February 2022}}
• 1976 – Rashida Jones, American actress and writer{{cite web |title=Rashida Jones |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jones-rashida |publisher=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=14 February 2023}}
• 1976 – Samaki Walker, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Samaki Walker |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/955/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1979 – Napoleon Harris, American football player and politician{{cite web |title=Napoleon Harris |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/3551/napoleon-harris |publisher=ESPN |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1980 – Kash Patel, American lawyer, former federal prosecutor and official{{Cite web |date=2025-01-30 |title=Kash Patel {{!}} Family, Religion, Trump, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kash-Patel |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1981 – Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer{{Hugman|24881|Ji-Sung Park|access-date=3 June 2020}}
• 1982 – Maria Kanellis, American professional wrestler, actress, and model{{cite web |title=At age 40, female wrestler Maria Kanellis really knows how to make an 'Impact' |url=https://www.mid-day.com/sports/other-sports/photo/how-wwe-diva-maria-kanellis-helped-husband-mike-bennett-fight-drug-addiction-40843/1 |publisher=Mid-Day |access-date=16 February 2023 |date=25 February 2022}}
• 1982 – Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player{{cite web |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/160391/flavia-pennetta/bio |title=Flavia Pennetta |publisher=WTA Tour Inc. |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050636/https://www.wtatennis.com/players/160391/flavia-pennetta/bio |url-status=live }}
• 1982 – Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Anton Volchenkov |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/anton-volchenkov-8468501 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1985 – Joakim Noah, French-American basketball player{{cite web |title=Joakim Noah |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/201149/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1986 – Justin Berfield, American actor, writer, and producer
• 1986 – Jameela Jamil, English actress and presenter{{cite web |last1=Pocklington |first1=Rebecca |title=Magazine wishes Jameela Jamil happy birthday with photo of Jamelia - and Twitter reacts like this |url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/magazine-wishes-jameela-jamil-happy-7440701 |publisher=Irish Mirror |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=25 February 2016}}
• 1986 – James Phelps, English actor
• 1986 – Oliver Phelps, English actor
• 1987 – Justin Abdelkader, American ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Justin Abdelkader |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/justin-abdelkader-8471716 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1988 – Tom Marshall, English photo colouriser and artist{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/let-these-old-photographs-womens-suffrage-inspire-anew-full-color-180968127/ |title=Photographs Documenting the Struggle for Women's Suffrage Are Reimagined in Full Color |last=Fessenden |first=Marissa |work=Smithsonian Magazine |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |location=Washington DC |date=9 February 2018 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042240/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/let-these-old-photographs-womens-suffrage-inspire-anew-full-color-180968127/ |url-status=live }}
• 1988 – Gerald McCoy, American football player{{cite web |title=Gerald McCoy |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/13240/gerald-mccoy |publisher=ESPN |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1989 – Jimmer Fredette, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Jimmer Fredette |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/202690/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1989 – Kana Hanazawa, Japanese voice actress and singer{{cite web |last1=Doi |first1=Hitoshi |title=Hanazawa Kana (花澤香菜) |url=http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/hanazawa-kana/index.html |website=Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database |access-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005063443/http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/hanazawa-kana/index.html |archive-date=5 October 2018 |date=5 May 2016}}
• 1989 – E'Twaun Moore, American basketball player{{cite web |title=E'Twaun Moore |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/202734/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1990 – Félix Peña, Dominican baseball player{{cite web |title=Félix Peña |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/felix-pena-570240 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1992 – Joakim Nordström, Swedish ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Joakim Nordstrom |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/joakim-nordstrom-8475807 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1992 – Jorge Soler, Cuban baseball player{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/solerjo01.shtml |title=Jorge Soler |publisher=Baseball Reference |access-date=28 July 2020 |archive-date=30 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730174027/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/solerjo01.shtml |url-status=live }}
• 1993 – Erick Fedde, American baseball player{{cite web |title=Erick Fedde |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/erick-fedde-607200 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1993 – Lukáš Sedlák, Czech ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Lukas Sedlak |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/lukas-sedlak-8476310 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1994 – Fred VanVleet, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Fred VanVleet |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1627832/fred-vanvleet/bio |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=14 February 2023}}
• 1995 – Mario Hezonja, Croatian basketball player{{cite web |title=Mario Hezonja |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1626209/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1995 – Viktoriya Tomova, Bulgarian tennis player{{Cite web |title=Viktoriya Tomova {{!}} Player Stats & More – WTA Official |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/317584/viktoriya-tomova |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=Women's Tennis Association |language=en}}
• 1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
• 1997 – Thon Maker, South Sudanese-Australian basketball player{{cite web |title=Thon Maker |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1627748/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 1999 – Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian footballer{{cite web |url=https://www.acmilan.com/en/news/celebration/2020-02-25/happy-birthday-gigio |title=Happy Birthday, Gigio! |publisher=AC Milan |location=Milano |date=25 February 2020 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603150948/https://www.acmilan.com/en/news/celebration/2020-02-25/happy-birthday-gigio |url-status=live }}
• 1999 – Rocky, South Korean singer, dancer and songwriter{{cite web|url=http://www.fantagio.kr/musicians/라키/|title=라키|website=Fantagio|access-date=February 26, 2022|language=ko|archive-date=January 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102103132/http://www.fantagio.kr/musicians/%EB%9D%BC%ED%82%A4/|url-status=live}}
• 2000 – Bo Nix, American football player{{cite web |title=Bo Nix Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/N/NixxBo00.htm |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=February 24, 2025}}
• 2001 – Vernon Carey Jr., American basketball player{{cite web |title=Vernon Carey Jr. |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1630176/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 2003 – Brandin Podziemski, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Brandin Podziemski |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1641764/brandin-podziemski |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=24 February 2024}}
• 2005 – Noah Jupe, English actor{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Feb. 25: Anson Mount, Chelsea Handler |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/02/25/Famous-birthdays-for-Feb-25-Anson-Mount-Chelsea-Handler/9211677293948/ |publisher=UPI |access-date=24 February 2024 |date=25 February 2023}}

• 806 – Tarasios, patriarch of Constantinople{{cite web |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14451b.htm |title=St. Tarasius |publisher=New Advent |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619214541/https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14451b.htm |url-status=live }}
• 891 – Fujiwara no Mototsune, Japanese regent (born 836){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fujiwara-Mototsune |title=Fujiwara Mototsune |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=5 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705110237/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fujiwara-Mototsune |url-status=live }}
• 1099 – Anselm of Ribemont, Frankish nobleman and participant of the First Crusade{{cite book |last1=Riley-Smith |first1=Jonathan |title=The First Crusade and Idea of Crusading |date=1 April 2003 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-6726-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RNP6MBmn-2EC |access-date=17 May 2024 |language=en}}
• 1522 – William Lily, English scholar and educator (born 1468){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Lily |title=William Lily |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731054041/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Lily |url-status=live }}
• 1536 – Berchtold Haller, German-Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1492){{cite web |title=Bertold Haller {{!}} Swiss religious reformer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bertold-Haller |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=28 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731040044/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bertold-Haller |url-status=live }}{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Haller, Berthold |volume=12 |page=856}}
• 1547 – Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (born 1490){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vittoria-Colonna |title=Vittoria Colonna |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042511/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vittoria-Colonna |url-status=live }}

• 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1566){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Devereux-2nd-earl-of-Essex |title=Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731044405/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Devereux-2nd-earl-of-Essex |url-status=live }}
• 1634 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general and politician (born 1583){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-von-Wallenstein |title=Albrecht von Wallenstein |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621193617/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-von-Wallenstein |url-status=live }}
• 1636 – Santorio Santorio, Italian biologist (born 1561){{cite book |editor1-last=Barry |editor1-first=Jonathan |editor2-last=Bigotti |editor2-first=Fabrizio |title=Santorio Santori and the Emergence of Quantified Medicine, 1614-1790 |date=2021 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Cham, Switzerland |isbn=978-3-030-79587-0 |page=25}}
• 1655 – Daniël Heinsius, Flemish poet and scholar (born 1580){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Heinsius |title=Daniël Heinsius |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731054051/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Heinsius |url-status=live }}
• 1682 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (born 1639){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Stradella-Italian-composer |title=Alessandro Stradella |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042637/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Stradella-Italian-composer |url-status=live }}
• 1710 – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French soldier and explorer (born 1639){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Greysolon-Sieur-DuLhut |title=Daniel Greysolon, Sieur DuLhut |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=5 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705104020/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Greysolon-Sieur-DuLhut |url-status=live }}
• 1713 – Frederick I of Prussia (born 1657){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-I-king-of-Prussia |title=Frederick I |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042319/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-I-king-of-Prussia |url-status=live }}
• 1723 – Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (born 1632){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Wren |title=Christopher Wren |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629012815/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Wren |url-status=live }}
• 1756 – Eliza Haywood, English actress and poet (born 1693){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eliza-Haywood |title=Eliza Haywood |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=5 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705112311/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eliza-Haywood |url-status=live }}
• 1796 – Samuel Seabury, American bishop (born 1729){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Seabury |title=Samuel Seabury |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707124500/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Seabury |url-status=live }}
• 1805 – Thomas Pownall, English politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (born 1722){{cite news |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/pownall-thomas-1722-1805 |title=Pownall, Thomas (1722-1805), of Saltfleetby, Lincs |publisher=The History of Parliament Trust |location=London |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=3 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703143418/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/pownall-thomas-1722-1805 |url-status=live }}
• 1819 – Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, Portuguese-French poet and educator (born 1734){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Manuel-do-Nascimento |title=Francisco Manuel do Nascimento |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042217/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Manuel-do-Nascimento |url-status=live }}
• 1822 – William Pinkney, American politician and diplomat, 7th United States Attorney General (born 1764){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Pinkney |title=William Pinkney |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731124617/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Pinkney |url-status=live }}
• 1841 – Philip P. Barbour, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1783){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-P-Barbour |title=Philip P. Barbour |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=3 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703144003/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-P-Barbour |url-status=live }}
• 1850 – Daoguang Emperor of China (born 1782){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daoguang |title=Daoguang, Emperor of Qing dynasty |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731122514/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daoguang |url-status=live }}
• 1852 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet and lyricist (born 1779){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Moore |title=Thomas Moore |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=11 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611004231/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Moore |url-status=live }}
• 1865 – Otto Ludwig, German author, playwright, and critic (born 1813){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Ludwig |title=Otto Ludwig |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042341/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Ludwig |url-status=live }}
• 1870 – Henrik Hertz, Danish poet and playwright (born 1797){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henrik-Hertz |title=Henrik Hertz |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063456/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henrik-Hertz |url-status=live }}
• 1877 – Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepalese ruler (born 1816){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jung-Bahadur |title=Jung Bahadur |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731090001/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jung-Bahadur |url-status=live }}
• 1878 – Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (born 1804){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Townsend-Harris |title=Townsend Harris |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=13 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913155809/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Townsend-Harris |url-status=live }}
• 1899 – Paul Reuter, German-English journalist and businessman, founded Reuters (born 1816){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Julius-Freiherr-von-Reuter |title=Paul Julius, baron von Reuter |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=15 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915041812/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Julius-Freiherr-von-Reuter |url-status=live }}

• 1906 – Anton Arensky, Russian pianist and composer (born 1861){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anton-Arensky |title=Anton Arensky |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063325/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anton-Arensky |url-status=live }}
• 1910 – Worthington Whittredge, American painter and educator (born 1820){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Worthington-Whittredge |title=Worthington Whittredge |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731062908/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Worthington-Whittredge |url-status=live }}
• 1911 – Friedrich Spielhagen, German author, theorist, and translator (born 1829){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-von-Spielhagen |title=Friedrich von Spielhagen |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731131005/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-von-Spielhagen |url-status=live }}
• 1912 – William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1852){{cite news |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-IV-grand-duke-of-Luxembourg |title=William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg |newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063120/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-IV-grand-duke-of-Luxembourg |url-status=live }}
• 1914 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (born 1820){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Tenniel |title=Sir John Tenniel |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621011905/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Tenniel |url-status=live }}
• 1915 – Charles Edwin Bessey, American botanist, author, and academic (born 1845){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-E-Bessey |title=Charles E. Bessey |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=23 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723073430/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-E-Bessey |url-status=live }}
• 1920 – Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, French archaeologist and engineer (born 1844){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcel-Auguste-Dieulafoy |title=Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731081704/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcel-Auguste-Dieulafoy |url-status=live }}
• 1928 – William O'Brien, Irish journalist and politician (born 1852){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-OBrien |title=William O'Brien |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731065523/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-OBrien |url-status=live }}
• 1934 – Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, American botanist and academic (born 1857){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Gertrude-Knight-Britton |title=Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006113216/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/80448/Elizabeth-Gertrude-Knight-Britton |url-status=live }}
• 1934 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (born 1873){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McGraw |title=John McGraw |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731075017/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McGraw |url-status=live }}
• 1945 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (born 1893){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mario-de-Andrade |title=Mário de Andrade |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731064607/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mario-de-Andrade |url-status=live }}
• 1950 – George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Minot |title=George Richards Minot |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731054030/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Minot |url-status=live }}
• 1953 – Sergei Winogradsky, Ukrainian-Russian microbiologist and ecologist (born 1856){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Nikolayevich-Winogradsky |title=Sergey Nikolayevich Winogradsky |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050740/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Nikolayevich-Winogradsky |url-status=live }}
• 1954 – Joseph Beech, American Methodist missionary and educator (born 1867){{cite web |url=https://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/ChinaCollegesProject/wesleyan/bios/beech_joseph.html |title=Beech, Joseph, Class of 1899 |last=Russ |first=Johanna |date= |website=divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu |access-date=April 20, 2023}}
• 1957 – Mark Aldanov, Russian author and critic (born 1888){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Aldanov |title=Mark Aldanov |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617041856/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Aldanov |url-status=live }}
• 1957 – Bugs Moran, American mob boss (born 1893){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Moran |title=George Moran |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063211/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Moran |url-status=live }}
• 1963 – Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist and academic (born 1895){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Melville-J-Herskovits |title=Melville J. Herskovits |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063355/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Melville-J-Herskovits |url-status=live }}
• 1964 – Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (born 1887){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Archipenko |title=Alexander Archipenko |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604143401/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Archipenko |url-status=live }}
• 1964 – Grace Metalious, American author (born 1924){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/26/archives/grace-metalious-is-dead-at-39-author-of-peyton-place-novel-writer.html |title=Grace Metalious Is Dead at 39; Author of 'Peyton Place' Novel; Writer Shocked the Nation With Story of Lurid Life in New England Town |date=26 February 1964 |work=The New York Times |location=New York City |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=2 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702112555/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/26/archives/grace-metalious-is-dead-at-39-author-of-peyton-place-novel-writer.html |url-status=live }}
• 1970 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and academic (born 1903){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Rothko |title=Mark Rothko |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604133017/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Rothko |url-status=live }}
• 1971 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884){{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1926/svedberg/facts/ |title=The Svedberg – Facts |publisher=Nobel Media AB |location=Stockholm |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=2 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902204215/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1926/svedberg/facts/ |url-status=live }}
• 1972 – Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (born 1889){{cite web |url=http://juedische-sportstars.de/index.php?id=190&L=2 |title=Gottfried Fuchs |publisher=Zentrum deutsche Sportgeschichte e.V. |location=Berlin |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=4 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704020342/http://juedische-sportstars.de/index.php?id=190&L=2 |url-status=live }}
• 1975 – Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (born 1897){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elijah-Muhammad |title=Elijah Muhammad |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030071312/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elijah-Muhammad |url-status=live }}
• 1978 – Daniel James, Jr., American general and pilot (born 1920){{cite news |url=https://www.wuwf.org/post/his-100th-birthday-chappie-james-legacy-lives#stream/0 |last=Averhart |first=Sandra |title=On His 100th Birthday, 'Chappie' James' Legacy Lives On |date=11 February 2020 |publisher=University of West Florida |location=Pensacola |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=4 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704024716/https://www.wuwf.org/post/his-100th-birthday-chappie-james-legacy-lives#stream/0 |url-status=live }}
• 1980 – Robert Hayden, American poet and academic (born 1913){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Hayden |title=Robert Hayden |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731082148/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Hayden |url-status=live }}
• 1983 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet (born 1911){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tennessee-Williams |title=Tennessee Williams |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=10 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310005311/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tennessee-Williams |url-status=live }}
• 1996 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author (born 1940){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Haing-S-Ngor |title=Haing S. Ngor |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404003835/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Haing-S-Ngor |url-status=live }}
• 1997 – Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian journalist and publisher (born 1925){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrey-Donatovich-Sinyavsky |title=Andrey Donatovich Sinyavsky |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731082305/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrey-Donatovich-Sinyavsky |url-status=live }}
• 1998 – W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and playwright (born 1914){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-O-Mitchell |title=W. O. Mitchell |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=25 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625004538/https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-O-Mitchell |url-status=live }}
• 1999 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Glenn-T-Seaborg |title=Glenn T. Seaborg |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731121803/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Glenn-T-Seaborg |url-status=live }}
• 2001 – A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (born 1926){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-R-Ammons |title=A. R. Ammons |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=24 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624104800/https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-R-Ammons |url-status=live }}
• 2001 – Don Bradman, Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (born 1908){{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2001/death_of_don_bradman/1189778.stm |title=Bradman dies at 92 |work=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |date=26 February 2001 |access-date=2 June 2020 |archive-date=7 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207183735/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2001/death_of_don_bradman/1189778.stm |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4188.html |title=Sir Donald Bradman |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd |location=London |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=28 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228193013/http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4188.html |url-status=live }}
• 2005 – Peter Benenson, English lawyer, founded Amnesty International (born 1921){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Benenson |title=Peter James Henry Solomon Benenson |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731044804/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Benenson |url-status=live }}
• 2008 – Hans Raj Khanna, Indian judge and advocate; upholder of civil liberties (born 1912){{cite web |url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/43-years-since-emergency-a-look-back-at-hr-khanna-the-judge-who-stood-up-to-indira-gandhi-365539.html |last=Sudheesh |first=Raghul |title=43 years since Emergency: A look back at HR Khanna, the judge who stood up to Indira Gandhi |publisher=Firstpost |location=Mumbai |date=25 June 2018 |access-date=8 July 2020 |archive-date=8 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708174644/https://www.firstpost.com/india/43-years-since-emergency-a-look-back-at-hr-khanna-the-judge-who-stood-up-to-indira-gandhi-365539.html |url-status=live }}
• 2010 – Ihsan Dogramaci, Turkish pediatrician and academic (born 1915){{cite web |url=http://www.turkishjournalpediatrics.org/uploads/pdf_TJP_863.pdf |title=Remembering Ihsan Dogramaci |date=January 2011 |publisher=The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics |issue=53 |pages=1–4 |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=25 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625020107/http://www.turkishjournalpediatrics.org/uploads/pdf_TJP_863.pdf |url-status=live }}
• 2012 – Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1932){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louisiana-Red |title=Louisiana Red |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622141449/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louisiana-Red |url-status=live }}
• 2015 – Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (born 1930){{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harve-bennett-20150308-story.html |title=Harve Bennett dies at 84; TV producer rescued 'Star Trek' film franchise |work=Los Angeles Times |date=7 March 2015 |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=13 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613183442/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harve-bennett-20150308-story.html |url-status=live }}
• 2015 – Ariel Camacho, Mexican musician and singer-songwriter; (born 1992){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/music/ariel-camacho-dies-at-22-lead-singer-of-los-plebes-del-rancho.html |title=Ariel Camacho, Lead Singer of Los Plebes del Rancho, Dies at 22 |work=The New York Times |date=27 February 2015 |access-date=7 July 2023 |archive-date=6 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206094305/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/music/ariel-camacho-dies-at-22-lead-singer-of-los-plebes-del-rancho.html |url-status=live }}
• 2015 – Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic; noted ichthyologist (born 1922){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugenie-Clark |title=Eugenie Clark |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=14 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614075602/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugenie-Clark |url-status=live }}
• 2017 – Bill Paxton, American actor and filmmaker (born 1955){{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/actor-bill-paxton-dead-61-due-complications-surgery-n725776|title=Actor Bill Paxton Dead at 61 Due to Complications from Surgery|website=NBC News|access-date=February 26, 2017|archive-date=April 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430034250/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/actor-bill-paxton-dead-61-due-complications-surgery-n725776|url-status=live}}
• 2020 – Dmitry Yazov, last Marshal of the Soviet Union (born 1924){{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-military-yazov-idUSKCN20J1E2 |last=Osbourne |first=Andrew |title=Dmitry Yazov, anti-Gorbachev coup plotter, ex-Soviet defense minister, dies |date=25 February 2020 |publisher=Reuters |location=London |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731041915/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-military-yazov-idUSKCN20J1E2 |url-status=live }}
• 2022 – Farrah Forke, American actress (born 1968){{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/farrah-forke-wings-lois-clark-182736922.html|title = Farrah Forke, 'Wings' and 'Lois & Clark' Actor, Dies at 54| date=2 March 2022 }}
• 2022 – Shirley Hughes, English author and illustrator (born 1927){{cite news |last1=Eccleshare |first1=Julia |title=Shirley Hughes obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/02/shirley-hughes-obituary |access-date=3 March 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=2 March 2022 }}
• 2023 – Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter (born 1930){{cite news |author1=CBC News Staff |title=Gordon Pinsent, Canadian acting icon, dead at 92 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gorden-pinsent-1.6760868 |work=CBC News |location=Toronto |date = February 25, 2023 | access-date = February 26, 2023}}
• 2025 – Henry Kelly, Irish radio and television broadcaster, actor and journalist (born 1947){{cite news |author1=BBC |title=Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn04y7dg68ko |work=BBC |location=UK |date = February 25, 2025 | access-date = February 25, 2025}}
• 2025 – Roberto Orci, Mexican-American screenwriter and producer (born 1973){{Cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=February 25, 2025 |title=Roberto Orci Dies: 'Star Trek', 'Transformers' & 'Hawaii Five-0' Writer-Producer Was 51 |url=https://deadline.com/2025/02/roberto-orci-dead-star-trek-transformers-writer-producer-1236301807/ |access-date=March 1, 2025 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

• Christian feast days:
• Æthelberht of Kent{{cite web |url=http://www.rcsouthwark.co.uk/liturgy_rites_dioccal.pdf |title=Interim Diocesan Calendar Proper to the Archdiocese of Southwark |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Southwark |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202224/http://www.rcsouthwark.co.uk/liturgy_rites_dioccal.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/February/25-03.htm |title=St Ethelbert, king of Kent |publisher=Holy Trinity Orthodox |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308121955/https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/February/25-03.htm |url-status=live }}
• Blessed Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás{{cite web |url=http://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1894.htm |title=2. Sancha y Hervás, Ciriaco María |work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |publisher=Salvador Miranda |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605120808/http://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1894.htm |url-status=live }}
• Gerland of Agrigento{{cite web |url=https://catholicreadings.org/catholic-quotes/saint-gerland-the-bishop-saint-of-the-day-february-25/ |title=Saint Gerland the Bishop – Saint of the Day – February 25 |work=Saint of the Day |date=4 June 2019 |publisher=Catholic readings |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618184318/https://catholicreadings.org/catholic-quotes/saint-gerland-the-bishop-saint-of-the-day-february-25/ |url-status=live }}
• John Roberts, writer and missionary{{cite web |url=http://satucket.com/lectionary/Calendar.htm |title=Calendar of the Church Year, according to the Episcopal Church |website=Satucket.com |date=23 August 2015 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=28 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528163539/http://satucket.com/lectionary/Calendar.htm |url-status=live }} (Anglican Communion)
• Hamburg Matthiae-mahl, feast of Hanseatic League cities on the mediaeval first day of spring{{cite news |title=The Matthiae meal |url=https://www.euscreen.eu/item.html?id=EUS_0065DB52E4BF42279013651EE15AE220 |agency=EU Screen |publisher=Deutsche Welle |date=2003}}{{cite news |title=Lennart Meri Speech Hamburg, Germany February 25, 1994, Matthiae-Supper of Hansa Cities |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennart-meri-speech-hamburg-germany-february-25-1994/id1489492475?i=1000549578895 |access-date=12 February 2023 |agency=Apple Podcasts |publisher=History of Estonia Podcast |first=Lennart |last=Meri}}
• Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani{{cite web |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/blessed-maria-adeodata-pisani-158 |title=Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani |publisher=Catholic News Agency |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042510/https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/blessed-maria-adeodata-pisani-158 |url-status=live }}
• Blessed Robert of Arbrissel, founder of Fontevraud Abbey{{cite web |title=Blessed Robert of Arbrissel – Saint of the Day – February 25 |url=https://catholicreadings.org/blessed-robert-of-arbrissel-saint-of-the-day-february-25/ |website=Catholic readings |date=4 June 2019 |access-date=5 March 2023}}
• Saint Walpurga (she was canonised on 1 May c. 870 and Walpurgis Night is celebrated 30 April){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Walburga |title=Saint Walburga |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=1 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601042955/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Walburga |url-status=live }}
• February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Kitano Baika-sai or "Plum Blossom Festival" (Kitano Tenman-gu Shrine, Kyoto, Japan){{cite news |url=https://www.insidekyoto.com/kyoto-events-february |title=Kyoto Events February 2020 |newspaper=Inside Kyoto |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618003410/https://www.insidekyoto.com/kyoto-events-february |url-status=live }}
• Memorial Day for the Victims of the Communist Dictatorships (Hungary){{cite web |url=https://www.kormany.hu/en/government-spokesperson/news/on-25-february-we-remember-victims-of-communist-dictatorship |title=On 25 February we remember victims of communist dictatorship |publisher=Hungarian Government |location=Budapest |date=23 February 2019 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617230948/https://www.kormany.hu/en/government-spokesperson/news/on-25-february-we-remember-victims-of-communist-dictatorship |url-status=dead }}
• National Day (Kuwait){{cite web |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/kuwait/nationalday |title=National Day in Kuwait |publisher=Time and Date AS 1995–2020 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618180426/https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/kuwait/nationalday |url-status=live }}
• People Power Day (Philippines){{cite web |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/philippines/people-power-anniversary |title=People Power Anniversary in Philippines |publisher=Time and Date AS 1995–2020 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618043152/https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/philippines/people-power-anniversary |url-status=live }}
• Revolution Day in Suriname{{cite web |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/suriname/revolution-day |title=Revolution Day in Suriname |publisher=Time and Date AS 1995–2020 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618175109/https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/suriname/revolution-day |url-status=live }}
• Soviet Occupation Day (Georgia){{cite news |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-soviet-occupation-95-anniversary/27573048.html |title=Georgia Marks 95th Anniversary Of Soviet Occupation |publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |location=Prague |date=25 February 2016 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617224754/https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-soviet-occupation-95-anniversary/27573048.html |url-status=live }}

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• {{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25 |title=On This Day |publisher=BBC}}
• {{NYT On this day|month=02|day=25}}
• {{cite web |url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/february/25 |title=Historical Events on February 25 |publisher=OnThisDay.com}}

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