Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 25

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[edit] Births

• 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
• 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
• 1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
• 1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
• 1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)
• 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
• 1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
• 1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1944 - Michael Douglas, (pictured) American actor and producer
• 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)
• 1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper
• 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
• 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
• 1985 - Calvin Johnson, American football player

[edit] Deaths

• 1066 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
  • Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
  • Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
• 1984 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
• 1991 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
• 1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
• 2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)