What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every August birthday · battle August 25 against another date · all rankings
Who shares August 25
Share of the 54 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Athlete
1930–2020 · United Kingdom
Sir Thomas Sean Connery was a Scottish actor and film producer. Connery was the first actor to portray the fictional British secret agent James Bond in motion pictures, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. He originated the role in Dr.
Top tier
Actor
1976 · Sweden
Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård is a Swedish actor. A son of actor Stellan Skarsgård, he began acting at the age of seven but quit at thirteen.
FiesolanaNYC, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1987 · United States
Blake Ellender Brown, known professionally as Blake Lively, is an American actress and entrepreneur.
SWinxy, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1958 · United States
Timothy Walter Burton is an American filmmaker, and former animator. He is known for pioneering goth subculture in Hollywood, with his films employing a distinctive style that blends gothic horror and dark fantasy aesthetics with whimsical and surreal elements.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1961 · United States
William Ray Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter and actor. Having released 16 studio albums and 53 singles since 1992, he is known for his hit single "Achy Breaky Heart", which topped the U.S.
The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1530–1584 · Grand Principality of Moscow
Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · Islamic Azad University
1934–2017 · Iran
Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who was the fourth president of Iran from 1989 to 1997.
Fars News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Pinkerton Government Services
1819–1884 · United States
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed the Baltimore Plot in 1861, preventing the assassination of then president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
Brady's National photographic Galleries, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1966 · United States
Michael Dean Cohen is an American former lawyer who served as an attorney for Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, from 2006 to 2018.
Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1968 · United States
Rachael Domenica Ray is an American cook, television personality, businesswoman, and author. She hosted the syndicated daily talk and lifestyle program Rachael Ray.
John Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Iliad
1967 · France
Xavier Niel is a French billionaire entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and majority shareholder of the telecommunications group Iliad and the largest shareholder of Vodafone Group and Westfield Group and a co-owner of the newspaper Le Monde.
cmichel67, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · AT&T Corporation · telecommunications
1822–1897 · United States
Gardiner Greene Hubbard was an American lawyer, financier, and community leader.
Otto Renard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
August 25 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1967 · United Kingdom
Thomas Anthony Hollander is an English actor. He trained with National Youth Theatre and won the Ian Charleson Award in 1992 for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World. He made his Broadway debut in the David Hare play The Judas Kiss in 1998.
Bex Walton from London, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1981 · United States
Rachel Sarah Bilson is an American actress. Born to a California show-business family, Bilson made her television debut in 2003, and then landed the role of Summer Roberts on the prime-time drama series The O.C.
Anjaagnieszka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1954 · United Kingdom
Declan Patrick MacManus, known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author, and television host.
Robman94, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1970 · Germany
Claudia Maria Schiffer, Lady Drummond, is a German model and actress. She rose to fame in the 1990s as a supermodel.
nicolas genin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1933 · United States
Thomas Roy Skerritt is an American actor and director, who has appeared in over 170 film and television productions since 1962. The beginning of his film career coincided with the New Hollywood movement, with a breakthrough role as Duke Forrest in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H (1970).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1918–1990 · United States
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim.
Jack Mitchell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1951 · United Kingdom
Robert John Arthur Halford is an English heavy metal singer. He is the lead vocalist of Judas Priest, which he joined in 1973, and has received accolades such as the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.
Birgit Fostervold, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1987 · United States
Liu Yifei is a Chinese American actress. She has appeared multiple times on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list and was named one of the New Four Dan actresses of China by Tencent Entertainment in 2009.
Actor
1917–2008 · United States
Melchor Gastón Ferrer was an American actor, director, and producer, active in film, theatre, and television. He achieved prominence on Broadway before scoring notable film hits with Scaramouche (1952), Lili (1953), and Knights of the Round Table.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · Switzerland
Ricardo Ivan Rodriguez Araya is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Serie A club Torino and the Switzerland national team.
Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1964 · United States
Blair Erwin Underwood is an American actor. He made his debut in the 1985 musical film Krush Groove and from 1987 to 1994 starred as attorney Jonathan Rollins in the NBC legal drama series L.A. Law.
Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1998 · United States
China Anne McClain is an American actress and singer. McClain's career began when she was seven years old, portraying Alexis in the film The Gospel (2005), and then China James in Daddy's Little Girls (2007).
vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1960 · Norway
Jonas Gahr Støre is a Norwegian politician who has served as the prime minister of Norway since 2021. He has been leader of the Labour Party since 2014.
Torbjørn Kjosvold/SMK, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1925–2003 · United States
Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor was an American dancer, singer and actor. He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred, in succession, with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule.
ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1987 · United Kingdom
Amy Elizabeth Macdonald is a Scottish singer-songwriter. In 2007, she released her debut studio album, This Is the Life, which produced the singles "Mr.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1938–2025 · United Kingdom
Frederick McCarthy Forsyth was an English novelist and journalist.
Hannu Lindroos / Helsingin Sanomat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1911–2013 · Vietnam
Võ Nguyên Giáp was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Highly regarded as a military strategist, Giáp led Vietnamese communist military forces to victory in the decades-long Indochina wars.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1949–2023 · United Kingdom
Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize.
Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1962 · Pakistan
Taslima Nasrin is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writings on feminism and her criticism of Islam; some of her books are banned in Bangladesh.
Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1933–2023 · United States
Wayne Shorter was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures in the history of jazz.
Jean-Luc, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1786–1868
Ludwig I or Louis I was King of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. When he was crown prince, he was involved in the Napoleonic Wars.
photo taken by User:Cybershot800i, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1767–1794 · France
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution.
After Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1927–2003 · United States
Althea Neale Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first Black player to win a Grand Slam event.
Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1744–1803 · Kingdom of Prussia
Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, pastor, poet, and literary critic. Herder is associated with the Age of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.
Anton Graff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1973 · Germany
Fatih Akin is a German and Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1949 · Mali
Salif Keïta is a Malian singer-songwriter, referred to as the "Golden Voice of Africa". He is a member of the Keita royal family of Mali.
The Department of State, Washington, DC., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1903–1992 · Hungary
Arpad Emmerich Elo was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess.
Author
1836–1902 · United States
Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.
Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
German-British biochemist
1900–1981 · United Kingdom
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1930–2019 · Russia
Georgiy Nikolozis dze Daneliya was a Soviet, Russian and Georgian film director and screenwriter. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1989 and a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1997.
Alexey Yushenkov/Алексей Юшенков, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 54 people born on August 25, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on August 25. Read the full methodology.
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