Famous people born on 25 August

21 of the people we track were born on 25 August, best known first, with each one’s age at death, or today. Dates from Wikidata, linked from each person’s page.

1. Sean Connery 1930British actordied aged 90
2. Ivan the Terrible 1530Politiciandied aged 53
3. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744Prussian philosopher and theologiandied aged 59
4. Erich Honecker 1912Autobiographerdied aged 81
5. Tim Burton 1958American film directorliving, 68
6. Võ Nguyên Giáp 1911Vietnamese military officerdied aged 102
7. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 1934Iranian politician who served as President of Irandied aged 82
8. Leonard Bernstein 1918American conductor and composerdied aged 72
9. Claudia Schiffer 1970German modelliving, 56
10. Blake Lively 1987American actorliving, 39
11. Ludwig II of Bavaria 1845King of Bavariadied aged 40
12. Liu Yifei 1987Chinese actor and singerliving, 39
13. Maurizio Malvestiti 1953Italian Catholic bishopliving, 73
14. Hans Krebs 1900German biochemistdied aged 81
15. Louis Antoine de Saint-Just 1767French politician who served as President of the National Conventiondied aged 26
16. Taslima Nasrin 1962Novelist and feministliving, 64
17. Emil Theodor Kocher 1841Swiss surgeondied aged 75
18. Herbert Kroemer 1928German physicistdied aged 95
19. Faustina Kowalska 1905Polish nundied aged 33
20. Louis I of Spain 1707Monarch of Spaindied aged 17
21. Amy Macdonald 1987British singer-songwriterliving, 39