June 25

Events

Pre-1600

* 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
* 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
* 1258 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Acre, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet sailing to relieve Acre.
* 1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.

1601–1900

* 1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
*1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
*1741 – Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
*1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
*1788 – Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
* 1848 – A photograph of the June Days uprising becomes the first known instance of photojournalism.
*1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
*1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.

1901–present

* 1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
* 1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for "immoral purposes"; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
* 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet ''The Firebird'' is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
*1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
* 1935 – Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
*1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
* 1940 – World War II: The French armistice with Nazi Germany comes into effect.
*1941 – World War II: The Continuation War between the Soviet Union and Finland, supported by Nazi Germany, began.
*1943 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
* 1943 – The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
*1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
* 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
* 1944 – The final page of the comic '' Krazy Kat'' is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
*1947 – ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' (better known as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'') is published.
* 1948 – The United States Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act to allow World War II refugees to immigrate to the United States above quota restrictions.
* 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
* 1960 – Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
*1975 – Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal.
* 1975 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India.
*1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
*1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
*1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
*1991 – The breakup of Yugoslavia begins when Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
* 1993 – Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
* 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
*1997 – An uncrewed Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station ''Mir''.
* 1997 – The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville (1998), Atlanta (1999), Columbus (2000), and Minneapolis-Saint Paul (2000).
* 1998 – In '' Clinton v. City of New York'', the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
*2022 – The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the longest bridge of Bangladesh, Padma Bridge.
* 2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War: The Battle of Sievierodonetsk ends after weeks of heavy fighting with the Russian capture of the city, leading to the Battle of Lysychansk.
* 2022 – Two people are killed and 21 more injured after a gunman opens fire at three sites in Oslo in a suspected Islamist anti-LGBTQ+ attack.

Births

Pre-1600

* 1242 – Beatrice of England (d. 1275)
* 1328 – William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (d. 1397)
*1371 – Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)
* 1484 – Bartholomeus V. Welser, German banker (d. 1561)
* 1526 – Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton (d. 1565)
* 1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
*1568 – Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (d. 1597)

1601–1900

* 1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish cardinal (d. 1634)
* 1709 – Francesco Araja, Italian composer (d. 1762)
* 1715 – Joseph Foullon de Doué, French soldier and politician, Controller-General of Finances (d. 1789)
* 1755 – Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
*1799 – David Douglas, Scottish-English botanist and explorer (d. 1834)
* 1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and engineer (d. 1896)
* 1825 – James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1888)
*1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (d. 1926)
* 1858 – Georges Courteline, French author and playwright (d. 1929)
* 1860 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer and conductor (d. 1956)
* 1863 – Émile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
*1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
*1866 – Eloísa Díaz, Chilean doctor and Chile's first female physician (d. 1950)
* 1874 – Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (d. 1944)
* 1884 – Géza Gyóni, Hungarian soldier and poet (d. 1917)
* 1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-French art collector and historian (d. 1979)
* 1886 – Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950)
* 1887 – George Abbott, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
* 1887 – Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian author, poet, and journalist (d. 1938)
*1892 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist and general (d. 1959)
* 1894 – Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (d. 1989)
* 1898 – Kay Sage, American painter and poet (d. 1963)
*1900 – Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988)
* 1900 – Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer (d. 1969)
* 1900 – Georgia Hale, American silent film actress and real estate investor (d. 1985)
* 1900 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (d. 1979)

1901–present

* 1901 – Harold Roe Bartle, American businessman and politician, 47th Mayor of Kansas City (d. 1974)
* 1902 – Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953)
* 1903 – George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 1950)
* 1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
* 1905 – Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer and academic (d. 1976)
* 1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
* 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (d. 2000)
* 1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
* 1912 – William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
*1913 – Cyril Fletcher, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
*1915 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (d. 1990)
* 1917 – Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier (d. 2012)
* 1917 – Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018)
* 1918 – P. H. Newby, English soldier and author (d. 1997)
* 1920 – Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (d. 2018)
* 1921 – Celia Franca, English-Canadian ballerina and choreographer, founded the National Ballet of Canada (d. 2007)
*1922 – Johnny Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2013)
* 1923 – Sam Francis, American soldier and painter (d. 1994)
* 1923 – Dorothy Gilman, American author (d. 2012)
* 1923 – Jamshid Amouzegar, 43rd Prime Minister of Iran (d. 2016)
* 1924 – Sidney Lumet, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
* 1924 – Dimitar Isakov, Bulgarian football player
* 1924 – Madan Mohan, Iraqi-Indian composer and director (d. 1975)
* 1924 – William J. Castagna, American lawyer and judge (d. 2020)
*1925 – June Lockhart, American actress
* 1925 – Robert Venturi, American architect and academic (d. 2018)
* 1925 – Virginia Patton, American actress and businesswoman (d. 2022)
* 1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (d. 1973)
* 1926 – Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (d. 2015)
* 1926 – Stig Sollander, Swedish Alpine skier (d. 2019)
* 1927 – Antal Róka, Hungarian runner (d. 1970)
* 1927 – Arnold Wolfendale, English astronomer and academic (d. 2020)
* 1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
* 1928 – Michel Brault, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
* 1928 – Peyo, Belgian author and illustrator, created ''The Smurfs'' (d. 1992)
*1929 – Eric Carle, American author and illustrator (d. 2021)
* 1929 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
*1931 – V. P. Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
* 1932 – Peter Blake, English painter and illustrator
* 1932 – George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
* 1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect, designed the Porto School of Architecture
*1934 – Jean Geissinger, American baseball player (d. 2014)
* 1934 – Jack W. Hayford, American minister and author
* 1934 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (d. 2006)
* 1935 – Ray Butt, English television producer and director (d. 2013)
* 1935 – Salihu Ibrahim, Nigerian Army Officer (d. 2018)
* 1935 – Taufiq Ismail, Indonesian poet and activist
* 1935 – Larry Kramer, American author, playwright, and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (d. 2020)
* 1935 – Don Demeter, American professional baseball player (d. 2021)
* 1935 – Tony Lanfranchi, English racing driver (d. 2004)
* 1935 – Judy Howe, American artistic gymnast
* 1935 – Charles Sheffield, English-American mathematician, physicist, and author (d. 2002)
*1936 – B. J. Habibie, Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (d. 2019)
* 1936 – Bert Hölldobler, German biologist and entomologist
* 1937 – Eddie Floyd, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter
* 1937 – Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, English politician (d. 2019)
* 1937 – Doreen Wells, English ballerina and actress
*1939 – Allen Fox, American tennis player and coach
* 1940 – Judy Amoore, Australian runner
* 1940 – Mary Beth Peil, American actress and singer
* 1940 – A. J. Quinnell, English bass player (d. 2004)
*1941 – Denys Arcand, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1941 – John Albert Raven, Scottish academic and ecologist
*1942 – Patricia Brake, English actress (d. 2022)
* 1942 – Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greek academic and politician
* 1942 – Willis Reed, American basketball player, coach, and manager
* 1942 – Michel Tremblay, Canadian author and playwright
*1943 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
*1944 – Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
* 1944 – Gary David Goldberg, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
* 1945 – Baba Gana Kingibe, Nigerian politician
* 1945 – Harry Womack, American singer (d. 1974)
*1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Dutch-Canadian general and politician
* 1946 – Allen Lanier, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2013)
* 1946 – Ian McDonald, English guitarist and saxophonist (d. 2022)
*1947 – John Powell, American discus thrower
* 1949 – Richard Clarke, Irish archbishop
* 1949 – Patrick Tambay, French racing driver (d. 2022)
* 1949 – Yoon Joo-sang, South Korean actor
* 1950 – Marcello Toninelli, Italian author and screenwriter
*1951 – Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, Swiss mathematician and academic
* 1952 – Péter Erdő, Hungarian cardinal
* 1952 – Tim Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter
* 1952 – Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter and keyboard player
* 1952 – Kristina Abelli Elander, Swedish artist
* 1953 – Olivier Ameisen, French-American cardiologist and educator (d. 2013)
* 1953 – Ian Davis, Australian cricketer
*1954 – Mario Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1954 – David Paich, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
* 1954 – Lina Romay, Spanish actress (d. 2012)
* 1954 – Daryush Shokof, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
*1955 – Vic Marks, English cricketer and sportscaster
* 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author (d. 2018)
* 1956 – Frank Paschek, German long jumper
* 1956 – Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
* 1956 – Craig Young, Australian rugby player and coach
*1957 – Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
* 1958 – George Becali, Romanian businessman, politician
*1959 – Lutz Dombrowski, German long jumper and educator
* 1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
* 1959 – Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1996)
* 1960 – Alastair Bruce of Crionaich, English-Scottish journalist and author
* 1960 – Brian Hayward, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
* 1960 – Craig Johnston, South African-Australian footballer and photographer
* 1960 – Laurent Rodriguez, French rugby player
*1961 – Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1961 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, director, producer and singer
*1963 – John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
* 1963 – Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian author
* 1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
* 1963 – George Michael, English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2016)
* 1963 – Mike Stanley, American baseball player
* 1964 – Dell Curry, American basketball player and coach
* 1964 – Phil Emery, Australian cricketer
* 1964 – Johnny Herbert, English racing driver and sportscaster
* 1964 – John McCrea, American singer-songwriter and musician
* 1964 – Greg Raymer, American poker player and lawyer
*1965 – Napole Polutele

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