Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 25
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[edit] Births
- 1852 - Antoni Gaudí, (pictured) Catalan architect (d. 1926)
- 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
- 1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
- 1945 - Carly Simon, American singer
- 1946 - Roméo Dallaire, Canadian General
- 1963 - George Michael, English singer
- 1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, Congan basketball player
- 1970 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
- 1972 - Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
- 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
[edit] Deaths
- 1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)*1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
- 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (killed in battle) (b. 1839)
- 1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, and inventor (b. 1910)