On This Day
Tuesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
June 25 1968
Born on This Day
Alessandro Tonolli🇮🇹
Italian basketball player · b. 1974
Alfred Wilm
deceasedchemist · 1869–1937
Days lived
24,878
Antal Róka🇭🇺
deceasedathlete · 1927–1970
Days lived
15,789
Anthony Bourdain🇺🇸
deceasedCook · 1956–2018
Days lived
22,628
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Antoni Gaudí🇪🇸
deceasedCatalan architect (1852–1926) · 1852–1926
Days lived
27,012
Arthur Robison🇩🇪
deceasedcinema director (1883–1935) · 1883–1935
Days lived
19,109
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Aya Matsuura🇯🇵
Japanese actress and pop singer · b. 1986
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Benson Boone🇺🇸
Singer · b. 2002
Busenaz Sürmeneli🇹🇷
Olympic Gold Medalists · b. 1998
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Carly Simon🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1943
Days alive
9,132
Daniel Kinahan🌍
Notable Person · b. 1977
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler🇫🇷
deceasedwriter · 1884–1979
Days lived
34,532
Dikembe Mutombo🇺🇸
deceasedCongolese-American basketball player (1966–2024) · 1966–2024
Days lived
21,282
Doug Maitland🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian football player (1922–2006) · 1922–2006
Days lived
30,745
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Eileen Hoffmann🇩🇪
Olympic field hockey player · b. 1984
George Michael
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1963–2016
Days lived
19,542
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George Orwell🇫🇷
deceasedwriter · 1903–1950
Days lived
17,012
Georges Courteline🇫🇷
deceasedFrench dramatist and novelist (1858–1929) · 1858–1929
Days lived
25,932
Glenmor🇫🇷
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1931–1996
Days lived
23,735
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Haluk Yıldırım🇹🇷
basketball player · b. 1972
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Harry Seidler🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian-born Australian architect · 1923–2006
Days lived
30,208
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Heinrich Windelen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1921-2015) · 1921–2015
Days lived
34,204
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Hellmuth von Mücke🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary officer of the Imperial German Navy, recipient of the Iron Cross (1st class) · 1885–1957
Days lived
26,332
Hermann Oberth🇩🇪
deceasedYouTube personality · 1894–1989
Days lived
34,884
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Ingeborg Bachmann🇦🇹
deceasedYouTube personality · 1926–1973
Days lived
17,281
James Meredith🇺🇸
American political activist & writer (1933-) · b. 1933
Days alive
12,784
Jan Gustafsson🇩🇪
entrepreneur · b. 1979
Jan Jagla🇩🇪
German basketball player · b. 1981
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Jason Lewis🇺🇸
actor · b. 1971
Julian Robertson🇺🇸
deceasedHedge Fund Manager & Investor · 1932–2022
Days lived
32,931
Kep Enderby🇦🇺
deceasedpolitician · 1926–2015
Days lived
32,338
Lauren Bush🇺🇸
American model and fashion designer · b. 1984
Li Shufu🇨🇳
Chinese billionaire entrepreneur (born 1963) · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
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Linda Cardellini🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1975
Major Holley🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz upright bassist (1924–1990) · 1924–1990
Days lived
24,228
Mandy Haase🇩🇪
field hockey player · b. 1982
Maxime de la Falaise🇫🇷
deceasedBritish model and actor (1922-2009) · 1922–2009
Days lived
31,720
Mckenna Grace
actor · b. 2006
Michael Tucker🇺🇸
film director · b. 1971
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Nadia Styles🇺🇸
American pornographic actress · b. 1982
Oscar Baumann🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian cartographer (1864-1899) · 1864–1899
Days lived
12,892
Peer Augustinski🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1940–2014) · 1940–2014
Days lived
27,128
Pegah Ferydoni🇩🇪
German-Iranian actress · b. 1983
Peter Paul Wiplinger🇦🇹
Austrian writer and photographer (born 1939) · b. 1939
Days alive
10,593
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Reinhold von Lilienthal🇩🇪
deceasedscientist · 1857–1935
Days lived
28,648
Ricky Gervais🇬🇧
actor · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
Rodrigo Bentancur
association football player · b. 1997
Rupert Wildt🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American astronomer · 1905–1976
Days lived
25,765
Savina Chai🇸🇬
Creative Director & Fashion Stylist · b. 1992
Serik Akhmetov
politician, former Prime-Minister of Kazakhstan · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Sidney Lumet🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican director, producer and screenwriter (1924–2011) · 1924–2011
Days lived
31,699
Sonia Sotomayor🇺🇸
politician · b. 1954
Days alive
5,114
Steve de Shazer🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychotherapist · 1940–2005
Days lived
23,819
Thomas Scharff🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1970
Tim Finn🇦🇺
Singer · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Wilhelm Spiegelberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Egyptologist (1870–1930) · 1870–1930
Days lived
22,095
William Arce🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball coach (1925–2016) · 1925–2016
Days lived
33,128
Yann Martel🇨🇦
writer · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
Died on This Day
Ado Kraemer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player (1898–1972) · 1898–1972
Days lived
27,122
Annie Easley🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican mathematician and rocket scientist · 1932–2011
Days lived
28,917
Dusé Mohamed Ali🇪🇬
deceasedAfrican nationalist (1866–1945) · 1866–1945
Days lived
28,705
Edwin Le Grice
deceasedEnglish priest · 1911–1992
Days lived
29,414
Farrah Fawcett🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1947–2009
Days lived
22,789
Ferenc Kucsera
deceasedmodel · 1892–1919
Days lived
9,770
Fredl Fesl🇩🇪
deceasedsinger · 1947–2024
Days lived
28,113
Georges Courteline🇫🇷
deceasedFrench dramatist and novelist (1858–1929) · 1858–1929
Days lived
25,932
Hans Hopf🇩🇪
deceasedGerman operatic tenor (1916-1993) · 1916–1993
Days lived
28,086
Ivan Youlianovitch Romanovsky🇧🇾
deceasedBelarusian painter (1928-1974) · 1928–1974
Days lived
16,741
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Jacques Cousteau🇫🇷
deceasedFrench naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997) · 1910–1997
Days lived
31,791
Jake Beckley🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1867–1918) · 1867–1918
Days lived
18,587
Jiří Kodet🇨🇿
deceasedCzech actor (1937-2005) · 1937–2005
Days lived
24,673
John Fiedler
deceasedActor · 1925–2005
Days lived
29,362
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Michael Jackson🇺🇸
deceasedSinger-songwriter · 1958–2009
Days lived
18,563
Michel Foucault🇫🇷
deceasedphilosopher · 1926–1984
Days lived
21,073
Walter Baade🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astronomer (1893–1960) · 1893–1960
Days lived
24,564
Wilhelm Koep🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect (1905–1999) · 1905–1999
Days lived
34,363
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,178
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,849
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,022
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,719
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,292
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,734
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,700
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,334
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,778
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,430
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,229
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,743
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,761
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,430
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,782
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,325
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,235
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,212
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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