August 25th, 1206

Born on August 25th, 1206

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 298,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 291 days, exactly on April 13th, 2025, people who were born on August 25th, 1206 will be 299,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 25th?

August 25th, 1227

Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, died after a lengthy illness during the Mongol conquest of Western Xia.

August 25th, 2012

The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.

August 25th, 2011

Mexican drug war: Fifty-two people are killed in an arson at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico.

August 25th, 2001

American singer Aaliyah (pictured) and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Marsh Harbour Airport in the Bahamas.

August 25th, 1989

The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings (pictured).

August 25th, 1975

Bruce Springsteen released his commercial breakthrough album, Born to Run.

August 25th, 1942

World War II: Japanese forces attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea.

August 25th, 1875

Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.

August 25th, 1758

Seven Years' War: Prussian forces engaged the Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf in present-day Sarbinowo, Poland.

August 25th, 1537

The Honourable Artillery Company, now the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was granted a royal charter by Henry VIII.

August 25th, 1270

Philip III became King of France following the death of his father Louis IX during the Eighth Crusade.

August 25th, 2012

Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.

August 25th, 2011

Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas.

August 25th, 2006

Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.

August 25th, 2005

Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 25th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 25th?

23

Nicki Nicole

Argentine singer (born 2000)

*August 25th, 2000, Rosario

44

Hussain Al Jassmi

Emirati singer

*August 25th, 1979, Khor Fakkan

81

Erich Honecker

Former leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (1976-1989)

*August 25th, 1912, Neunkirchen †May 29th, 1994, La Reina

90

Sean Connery

Scottish actor (1930–2020)

*August 25th, 1930, Edinburgh †October 31st, 2020, Lyford Cay

50

Roar Uthaug

Norwegian film director

*August 25th, 1973, Lørenskog

50

Ben Falcone

American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer

*August 25th, 1973, Carbondale

72

Leonard Bernstein

American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

*August 25th, 1918, Lawrence †October 14th, 1990, New York City

53

Ioan Negulescu

Tsar of Cornești

*August 25th, 1530, Kolomenskoye †March 18th, 1584, Moscow

69

Elvis Costello

English singer-songwriter

*August 25th, 1954, London

35

Jung Jae-sung

South Korean badminton player

*August 25th, 1982, Jeonju †March 9th, 2018, Hwaseong

65

Tim Burton

American filmmaker and artist

*August 25th, 1958, Burbank

74

John Savage

American actor

*August 25th, 1949, Old Bethpage

31

Ricardo Rodriguez

Swiss association football player

*August 25th, 1992, Zürich

65

Bret Harte

American writer and poet

*August 25th, 1836, Albany †May 5th, 1902, London

79

Klaus Wildbolz

Swiss actor (1937–2017)

*August 25th, 1937, Vienna †January 5th, 2017, Vienna

60

Hugo von Pohl

German admiral (1855–1916)

*August 25th, 1855, Wrocław †February 23rd, 1916, Berlin

102

Võ Nguyên Giáp

Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013)

*August 25th, 1911, Lộc Thủy †October 4th, 2013, Hanoi

36

Liu Yifei

Chinese-American actress and singer (born 1987)

*August 25th, 1987, Wuhan

53

Charlotte Fränkel

German classical archaeologist

*August 25th, 1880, Berlin †December 7th, 1933, Berlin

53

Claudia Schiffer

German model

*August 25th, 1970, Rheinberg

67

Willi Worpitzky

German footballer-manager (1886-1953)

*August 25th, 1886, Pankow †October 10th, 1953, Berlin

59

Johann Gottfried Herder

German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic

*August 25th, 1744, Morąg †December 18th, 1803, Weimar

56

Tom Hollander

British actor

*August 25th, 1967, Bristol

68

Gerd Müller

German politician (CSU)

*August 25th, 1955, Krumbach

57

Sandra Maischberger

German journalist

*August 25th, 1966, Munich

26

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Military and political leader (1767-1794)

*August 25th, 1767, Decize †July 28th, 1794, Paris

36

Blake Lively

American actress (born 1987)

*August 25th, 1987, Tarzana

66

Simon McBurney

British actor, voice actor and director

*August 25th, 1957, Cambridge

36

Amy Macdonald

Scottish singer-songwriter

*August 25th, 1987, Bishopbriggs

75

Emil Theodor Kocher

Surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine (1841-1917)

*August 25th, 1841, Bern †July 27th, 1917, Bern

87

Roswitha Doerig

Swiss painter

*August 25th, 1929, Appenzell †February 27th, 2017, 15th arrondissement of Paris

81

Hans-Jürgen Otto

German forester and forestry scientist (1935-2017)

*August 25th, 1935, Świdnica †March 16th, 2017, Berkhof

35

Philipp Mißfelder

German politician (1979-2015)

*August 25th, 1979, Gelsenkirchen †July 13th, 2015, Coesfeld

56

Carola Reimann

German politician

*August 25th, 1967, Goch

67

Takeshi Okada

Japanese association football player and manager

*August 25th, 1956, Osaka

81

Hans Krebs

German-British biochemist (1900-1981)

*August 25th, 1900, Hildesheim †November 22nd, 1981, Oxford

40

Ludwig II of Bavaria

King of Bavaria

*August 25th, 1845, Nymphenburg Palace †June 13th, 1886, Lake Starnberg

82

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Iranian politician

*August 25th, 1934, Nuq District †January 8th, 2017, Tehran

62

Billy Ray Cyrus

American country singer and actor

*August 25th, 1961, Flatwoods

59

Joanne Whalley

British actress

*August 25th, 1964, Salford

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Public holidays on August 25th

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1206 is a normal year and no leap year.

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