Birthdates Which Occur on March 25:
1133 Henry II King of England (1154-89)
1252 Konrad˜n Hohenstaufen [Koenrad van Zwaben], son of Konrad IV
1495 Leonhard Paminger composer
1528 Jacob Andreae German theologist (Schw„bische Konkordie)
1532 Pietro Pontio composer
1594 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher Dutch writer
1653 Joseph Sauveur French physicist/mathematician
1688 Johann Gotthilf Ziegler composer
1699 Johann Adolf Hasse composer
1702 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler composer
and Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum)
1713 Jean-Baptiste Canavas composer
1723 Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater
1745 Nicolas Etienne Framery composer
1762 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini composer
1767 Joachim Murat marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15)
1769 Salvatore Vigano composer
1770 Carl Friedrich Ebers composer
1782 Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), sister of Napoleon)
1784 Fran‡ois-Joseph F‚tis Belgian musicology/composer
1786 Giovanni B Amia Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist
1797 John Winebrenner US, clergyman, founded Church of God
1800 Paulin Paris French historian
1808 Jos‚ de Espronceda y Delgado Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes)
1818 Isaac Ingalls Stevens Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1820 Xavier F M G Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome)
1823 William Thompson Martin Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1839 William Bell Wait US, educated the blind
1867 Arturo Toscanini Parma Italy, temperamental conductor (NBC)
and Gutzon Borglum sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
1869 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout Flemish physician/writer
1872 Vito Pardo Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
1873 Rudolf Rocker German/US anarchist
1875 Spencer Charters Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West)
1877 Alphonse de Chƒteaubriant French writer (Instantan‚s aux Pays-Bas)
1878 Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour Belgian pres of IOC (1925-42)
and Theodore Samuel Holland composer
1879 Otakar Zich composer
1881 B‚la Bart¢k Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)
and Louis Dosfel Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!)
1882 Haydn Wood composer
1885 Veit Valentin German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution)
1887 Josef Capek Czech painter/author/critic (Kulhavy Poutn¡k)
1890 Marten Baersma [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen)
1892 Andy Clyde Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie)
1893 Edward Hart (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities
1894 Erik William Gustav Leidzen composer
1897 John Laurie Dumfries Scotland, actor (Jericho, Island of Desire)
1899 Bella Spewack Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
and Jacques Audiberti French poet (Race of Men)
19-- Persia XXX actress (Tales from the Backside, Knockin' da Booty)
1901 Ed Begley Hartford Ct, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry)
1902 Sten Broman composer
1903 Frankie Carle Providence RI, orch leader (Golden Touch)
1905 Binnie Barnes London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers)
1906 Alan J P Taylor British historian (English history 1914-1915)
and Howard Pyle (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)
1908 Bridget D'Oyly Carte British theater & hotel director
and David Lean Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
and Helmut K„utner German director (Der Hauptmann von K”penick)
1909 Jay Blackton NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls)
1910 Mario Peragallo Italian composer
1911 Willy Anthoons Flemish sculptor (Mystic verheffing)
1914 Norman E Borlaug US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)
1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko composer
1920 Patrick Troughton actor (Doctor Who)
1921 Nancy Kelly Lowell Mass, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
and Simone Signoret Weisbaden Germany, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top)
1922 Bruno Ve Sota IL, actor (Daddy-O)
and Eileen Ford Modeling agency head
1923 Lee Hale Tacoma Wash, choral director (The Entertainers)
and Wim Van Est [Locomotief/Pletmolen], Dutch cyclist
1924 Julia A Perry US composer (Cask of Amontillado)
and Julia Perry Lexington Kentucky, composer (Selfish Giant)
and Machiko Kyo Osaka Japan, actor (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu)
1925 Flannery O'Connor GA, novelist (A Good Man is Hard to Find)
1926 Hans Rausing Swedish/British industrial/billionaire (Tetra Pak)
and Laszlo Papp Hungary, Olympic Boxer (Gold-1948, 1952, 1956)
1927 Leslie Claudius India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1928 James A Lovell Jr Cleveland Oh, USN/astr (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13)
1929 Harris W Fawell (Rep-R-IL, 1985- )
and Kenneth Haigh Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1930 David Russell Burge composer
1931 Bohumil Goli n Czech, volleyball player (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1934 Gloria Steinem Toledo Ohio, feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine)
and Johnny Burnette Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16)
1935 Susan Engel Vienna Austria, actress (Ascendancy)
1938 Hoyt Axton Duncan Okla, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters)
1940 Anita Bryant Barnsdall Okla, Miss America candidate/singer/homophobe
1942 Aretha Franklin Memphis Tenn, Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect)
and Jacqueline Lichtenberg US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy)
and Paul Michael Glaser Cambridge Mass, actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch)
1943 Pavel Lednev USSR, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1980)
and Ronald Jeffers composer
1944 Frank Oz muppetteer (Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show)
and Terry L Bruce (Rep-D-IL, 1985- )
1946 Bonnie Bedelia [Culkin], NYC, actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel)
1947 Claudine Schneider (Rep-R-RI, 1981- )
and Elton John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer (Rocketman)
1948 Michael Stanley Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band)
and Richard Lundy horse trainer
1949 Nick Lowe England, rock vocalist (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind)
1951 Bob Pelander rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band)
and Maisie Williams Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1953 Mary Gross Chicago Ill, actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds)
1956 Sonia M Lannaman England, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1958 Mar¡a Caridad Col¢n Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 Vince Guerra jockey
1960 Haywood Nelson NYC, actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What's Happening)
and Steve Norman London, rock sax (Spandau Ballet-True)
1961 John Stockwell Galveston TX, actor (Born to Ride, City Limits)
1964 Alex Solls jockey
1965 Sarah Jessica Parker Nelsonville Oh, actress (Square Pegs, LA Story)
and Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton DJ (Hangin' With Hollywood, Z-100)
1966 Jeff Healey Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light)
1967 Debi Thomas US, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1988)
197- Lark Voorhies actress (Wendy-Days of Our Lives)
1970 Magnus Larsson Sweden, tennis star
1973 Alexandra Quinn [Dianne Stewart], XXX actress (Man Bait, Taboo 9)
1989 Chicken Kentucky 1st partial birth in space (chicken)
2184 Pavel Andreivich Chekov Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek-character)
Deaths Which Occured March 25:
752 Stephen II Pope (752), dies, only 2 days after his election
1223 Afonso II King of Portugal (1211-23), dies
1458 Inigo L¢pez de Mendoza Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies
1510 Georges d'amboise French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49
1609 Johan Willem duke of Jlich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies
1692 Gerardus L Blasius Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1697 Hendrik Casimir II King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies
1751 Frederik van Hessen Kassel King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74
1766 Johannes Ritschel composer, dies at 26
1799 Constantin Reindl composer, dies at 61
1801 Anthony Ziesenis architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69
1823 Coelestin Jungbauer composer, dies at 75
1825 Rutger John Schimmelpenninck patriot/earl, dies at 63
1852 Alexis Garaude composer, dies at 73
1880 Joseph Rummel composer, dies at 61
1909 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente composer, dies at 57
1910 K lm n Miksz th Hungarian author (Szent P‚ter Eserny”je), dies at 63
1914 Fr‚d‚ric Mistral French poet (Nobel-1904), dies
1918 Claude A Debussy French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies at 55 in Paris
1937 John Drinkwater English poet/playwright (Bird in hand), dies
1940 Ion Nonna Otescu composer, dies at 51
1948 Warren Hymer actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42
1949 Hanns A Rauter German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed
1951 Edward Collins Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies
1956 George Luther Foote composer, dies at 70
Robert Newton actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50
1957 Fud Livingston composer, dies at 50
1958 Emerson Whithorne composer, dies at 73
1959 Billy Mayerl composer, dies at 56
1962 Auguste Piccard Swiss explorer/balloonist dies at 78
1963 David Moore US feather weight boxer, dies at 29
1965 Giorgio Federico Ghedini composer, dies at 72
Viola Gregg Liuzzo US civil rights activist: murder
1966 Colin Campbell actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83
1968 Douglas Evans actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood
1969 Alan Mowbray actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
Max F Eastman US critic/essayist (Love & Revolution), dies
1973 Edward Steichen pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
1974 Otto Waldis actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72
1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew
1978 Jack Hulbert actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
1979 ... Sykes British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
Anton Heiller composer, dies at 55
1983 Martha Sleeper actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
1987 Henry R LaBouisse headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
1991 Eileen Joyce pianist, dies at 78
Lee Donn pianist, dies of stroke at 96
1992 Nancy Walker actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69
No‚mie Perugia French mezzo soprano, dies
1994 Michel R Vassallucci French/Neth publisher (Arena), dies at 32
Holidays Which Occur March 25:
England New Year's Day 1155-1752 (OS)
Greece Independence Day (Proclamation of war of independence) (1821)
Maryland Maryland Day (1634)
US Pecan Day
Religious Observances on March 25:
RC Humbert, abbot of Maroiles/bishop?
RC Ireneus, bishop of Sirmium/martyr
RC Mariaboodschap
RC Pelagius, bishop of Laodicea, Syria
1586 Christian Commemoration of St Margaret Clitherow, English martyr
1732 RC Commemoration of St Lucy Filippini, Italian educator
2187 Jewish 1st day of Passover
2198 Jewish 1st day of Passover
Things to Remember for March 25:
American Woman's History month
Flowers-jonquil, violet & daffodil Gems-bloodstone & aquamarine
International Hamburger & Pickle Month-Red Cross Month
Music in our Schools Month
Global Understanding Day
[England, Ireland] ¬ Day/Lady Day
[England] New Year's day (12th century-1752)
[Medieval England] Annunciation Day (Lady Day), ¬ day
Highlights in History Which Occur March 25:
1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
421 Friday 12 hour (Venice asylum) (legend)
708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
752 Stephen ends his reign as Catholic Pope (or 26th)
1306 Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland
1409 Council of Pisa opens
1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland
1581 Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal
1598 Cornelis de Houtmans fleet departs East-Indies
1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland
1647 Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
1668 1st horse race in America takes place
1669 Mount Etna, Sicily destroys Nicolosi & takes 20,000 lives
1700 England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty
1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
1776 Continental Congress authorizes a medal for Gen Washington
1802 France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens
1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade
and George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
1814 Netherlands Bank established
1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1847 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
1852 Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich
1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1863 Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee
1864 Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid)
1865 Battle of Bluff Spring, FL
and Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg
and Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
and SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon, O for Wash
1895 Italian troops move into Abyssinia
1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens (4/6 New Style)
1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
1900 US Socialist Party formed at Indianapolis
1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa
1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
1907 Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but win Stanley Cup by
scoring most total points in the 2 game series
1911 L.D. Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
and Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
1913 Great Dayton Flood
and Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC)
1915 1st submarine disaster; US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, 21 lives lost
and German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea
1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #824 Anastasia
and Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in NYC
and Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1920 Greek Independence Day
1923 British govt grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
1924 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouri¢tis as premier
and Mont Canadiens sweep Calgary Tigers in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1924)
1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1587 Kahrstedt
1934 Horton Smith win 1st Master's golf championship
1935 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
and M Laugier discovers asteroid #2677
1936 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
and Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)
1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
and Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
and Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
and Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1938 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
1941 Carolina Paprika Mills, Dillon, SC, incorporated
1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
1943 Artisans strike against obligatory report to Artisans chamber
1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
and US 4th Panzer div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
and US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs to Okinawa
1946 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"
1947 Agreement of Linggadjati signed in Batavia
and Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111 lives
and Holy Cross wins NCAA basketball championship
1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
1951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1954 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On consecrated virginity"
and Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sacra virginitas
and RCA manufactures 1st color TV set
1955 E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
and Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Mkt)
1958 West German Bondsdag desires German atomic weapons
1959 French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
and DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
and Italian govt Tambroni forms
1961 Cincinnati wins NCAA basketball championship
and Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
and Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
and Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1962 French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested
1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 Britain sets memorial for the late Pres John F Kennedy
and Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
1965 Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al
and West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover
and of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled
1967 The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
and UCLA wins its 3rd national basketball championship in 4 years
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
and Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru
and John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
and Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
and C J Van Houten discovers asteroid #1873 Agenor
and European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
1972 Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals
and UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
1973 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win
1974 Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
1976 Argentine milt junta bans leftmost political parties
1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season
1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec)
and Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)
1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
1986 Brian Boitano (US) wins his 2nd world figure skating title
Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206
and Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money
1991 63rd Academy Awards: Kathy Bates, Jeremy Irons & Dance with Wolves
1992 British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
and Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
1994 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
and Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37)
1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
1996 68th Academy Awards: Braveheart, Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win
1669 Mount Etna, Sicily destroys Nicolosi & takes 20,000 lives.
1901 55 died when Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown, Iowa.
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire on the 8th, 9th, 10th
floors. 145 die, all but 13 teenage girls.
Your Special Reminders for March 25:
1878 13øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1963 79øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 84th day of the year with 281 days left (Numerology = 1)
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