1925

## Art, music, theatre, literature 
* Charlie Chaplin's *The Gold Rush* is released.

## Events 
*January 21 – Albania becomes a republic.
*July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes his book *Mein Kampf*.
*October 30 – The Scottish engineer John Logie Baird creates the first television transmitter in London.
*November 9 – The NSDAP builts the SS (Schutzstaffel).

## Births 
### January 
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* January 7 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
* January 15 - Ernst Benda, German politician (d. 2009)
* January 17 - Robert Cormier, American writer (d. 2000)
* January 26 – Paul Newman, American actor (d. 2008)

### February 
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* February 8 – Sir Anthony Berry, British politician
* February 8 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 2001)
* February 17 - Hal Holbrook, American actor (d. 2021)
* February 20 – Robert Altman, American director and movie maker (d. 2006)
* February 20 - Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (d. 2010)
* February 21 - Tom Gehrels, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 2011)
* February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, American movie director (d. 1984)

### March 
* March 20 - David Warren, Australian inventor (d. 2010)
* March 25 – Flannery O'Connor, Irish writer

### April 
* April 14 - Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
* April 14 - Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2010)
* April 29 - Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator (d. 2007)

### May 
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* May 1 - Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (d. 2013)
* May 11 - Max Morlock, German footballer (d. 1994)
* May 16 - Robert Pierpoint, American journalist (d. 2011)
* May 17 - Idi Amin, 3rd President of Uganda (d. 2003)
* May 19 - Malcolm X, American Civil rights leader (d. 1965)
* May 23 - Joshua Lederberg, American biologist (d. 2008)
* May 27 - Tony Hillerman, American writer (d. 2008)
* May 28 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German operatic baritone (d. 2012)

### June 
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* June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
* June 8 - Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
* June 21 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
* June 29 - Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy

### July 
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* July 1 - Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
* July 2 - Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician (d. 1961)
* July 10 - Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia
* July 23 - Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
* July 23 - Quett Masire, former President of Botswana
* July 29 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek singer and politician

### August 
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* August 1 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
* August 2 - Alan Whicker, British journalist and writer (d. 2013)
* August 2 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine military leader (d. 2013)
* August 8 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian politician (d. 2003)
* August 12 - Thor Vilhjalmsson, Icelandic writer (d. 2011)
* August 15 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
* August 27 - Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011)

### September 
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* September 1 - Roy J. Glauber, American scientist
* September 12 - Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
* September 15 - Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)
* September 16 - B. B. King, American musician
* September 20 – Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
* September 27 - Robert Edwards, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (d. 2013)
* September 29 - Steve Forrest, American actor (d. 2013)

### October 
* October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer (d. 2012)
* October 11 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
* October 12 - Essie Mae Washington-Williams, American educator (d. 2013)
* October 13 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1967)
* October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2013)
* October 16 - Angela Lansbury, British-born actress
* October 17 - Harry Carpenter, German sports commentator (d. 2010)
* October 18 - Ramiz Alia, last Communist leader of Albania (d. 2011)
* October 21 - Celia Cruz, Cuban salsa singer (d. 2003)
* October 29 - Robert Hardy, English actor

### November 
* November 1 - Fritz Laband, German footballer (d. 1982)
* November 10 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
* November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian (d. 2013)
* November 20 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
* November 24 - Simon van der Meer, Dutch scientist (d. 2011)
* November 29 - Ernst Happel, Austrian footballer and coach (d. 1992)

### December 
* December 2 - Julie Harris, American actress (d. 2013)
* December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor
* December 23 - Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2010)
* December 28 – Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)

## Deaths 
*February 28 - Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany
*March 12 – Sun Yat Sen, Chinese revolutionary
*March 20 – George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman
*November 20 – Queen Alexandra of Denmark
*December 28 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet

## Nobel Prize 
*Nobel Prize in Physics – James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
*Chemistry – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
*Literature – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
*Peace – Austin Chamberlain and Charles Gate Dawes