On This Day
Thursday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
November 25 2004
Born on This Day
Andreas Korn🇩🇪
German television presenter and journalist · b. 1974
Days alive
10,958
Ángel Martín García
Andorran association football player · b. 1978
Days alive
9,497
Antonio Puerta🇪🇸
deceasedfootball player · 1984–2007
Days lived
8,311
Arthur Liebehenschel🇵🇱
deceasedmilitary person · 1901–1948
Days lived
16,861
Augusto Pinochet
deceasedNotable Trials · 1915–2006
Days lived
33,253
Ba Jin🇨🇳
deceasedwriter · 1904–2005
Days lived
36,851
Bart Sabel
Dutch baseball player · b. 1988
Days alive
5,844
Christina Applegate🇺🇸
Stage actor · b. 1971
Days alive
12,054
Craig Gardner🇬🇧
English association football player (born 1986) · b. 1986
Days alive
6,575
Danuta Lato🇵🇱
Polish actor, model and musician · b. 1963
Days alive
14,976
Easow Mar Timotheos Episcopa
deceasedIndian bishop (1932-1988) · 1932–1988
Days lived
20,226
Ernest Harden, Jr.🌍
Actor · b. 1952
Days alive
18,993
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Filippo Leutenegger🇨🇭
Swiss politician, economist, and journalist · b. 1952
Days alive
18,993
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Franz Lederer🇦🇹
Austrian football manager · b. 1963
Days alive
14,976
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Gagik Tsarukyan
Armenian wrestler and politician · b. 1956
Days alive
17,532
Georg Kaiser🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1878–1945
Days lived
24,297
George Goh
Entrepreneur · b. 1959
Days alive
16,437
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Göksel🇹🇷
Turkish singer (born 1971) · b. 1971
Days alive
12,054
Günther Möhring🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player (1936–2006) · 1936–2006
Days lived
25,252
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Ha Hyun-woo🇰🇷
South Korean singer-songwriter (born 1981) · b. 1981
Days alive
8,401
Hans Brenner🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian actor (1938-1998) · 1938–1998
Days lived
21,833
Hiroyuki Yoshida🇯🇵
Japanese association football player · b. 1969
Days alive
12,784
Holly Cole🇨🇦
Canadian jazz and pop singer · b. 1963
Days alive
14,976
Jeong Ju-yung🇰🇷
deceasedSouth Korean businessman (1915–2001) · 1915–2001
Days lived
31,163
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Joel Kinnaman🇺🇸
actor · b. 1979
Days alive
9,132
John F. Kennedy Jr.🇺🇸
deceasedLawyer · 1960–1999
Days lived
14,112
John Flynn🇦🇺
deceasedAustralian Presbyterian minister and founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (1880-1951) · 1880–1951
Days lived
25,727
Julius Scheiner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astronomer (1858-1913) · 1858–1913
Days lived
20,113
Lalonde Gordon
track and field sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago · b. 1988
Days alive
5,844
MacBeth Sibaya🇿🇦
South African footballer · b. 1977
Days alive
9,862
Mats Nordlander🇸🇪
athlete · b. 1963
Days alive
14,976
Matthias Freihof🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1961
Days alive
15,706
Nodar Kumaritashvili
deceasedathlete · 1988–2010
Days lived
7,749
Patrick Collard🇫🇷
French chief executive officer · b. 1953
Days alive
18,628
Paul Nitsche
deceasedGerman psychiatrist (1876-1948) · 1876–1948
Days lived
26,052
Pedro
association football player · b. 2002
Days alive
731
Ringo Sheena🇯🇵
Japanese singer-songwriter (1978-) · b. 1978
Days alive
9,497
Robert Trösch🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss actor (1911-1986) · 1911–1986
Days lived
27,079
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Rolf Gehring🇩🇪
West German tennis player · b. 1955
Days alive
17,898
Roman Rurua
Olympic wrestler · b. 1942
Days alive
22,646
Shingo Takatsu🇯🇵
film director · b. 1968
Days alive
13,149
Tim Pritlove🇬🇧
artist · b. 1967
Days alive
13,515
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Wolfgang Sachs🇩🇪
scientist · b. 1946
Days alive
21,185
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Xabi Alonso🇪🇸
football player · b. 1981
Days alive
8,401
Died on This Day
Claus Clausen🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1899–1989
Days lived
32,974
Diego Maradona
deceasedNotable Trials · 1960–2020
Days lived
21,941
Earl Carroll🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican vocalist (1937–2012) · 1937–2012
Days lived
27,417
Elke Neidhardt🇩🇪
deceasedactress, director (1941-2013) · 1941–2013
Days lived
26,441
Emilie Snethlage🇩🇪
deceasedGerman-Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist (1868-1929) · 1868–1929
Days lived
22,505
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Fidel Castro🇨🇺
deceasedpolitician · 1926–2016
Days lived
32,977
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George Best🇬🇧
deceasedNorthern Irish association football player (1946–2005) · 1946–2005
Days lived
21,737
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Gérard Collomb🇫🇷
deceasedFrench politician (1947–2023) · 1947–2023
Days lived
27,917
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Henrik Takkenberg🇨🇴
deceasedColombian singer (1967-2006) · 1967–2006
Days lived
14,339
Henry Morgenthau🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1856–1946
Days lived
33,084
Johannes V. Jensen
deceasedDanish author (1873-1950) · 1873–1950
Days lived
28,432
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Joseph Sweeney
deceasedActor · 1884–1963
Days lived
28,975
Karl Ernstberger🇦🇹
deceasedGerman architect (1887–1972) · 1887–1972
Days lived
31,107
Karl Felix Wolff🇮🇹
deceasedjournalist · 1879–1966
Days lived
31,964
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Keith R. Kernspecht🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1945–2024
Days lived
29,005
Nick Drake🇬🇧
deceasedsinger · 1948–1974
Days lived
9,655
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
deceasedSoviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956) · 1894–1956
Days lived
22,721
Patricio Escobal🇪🇸
deceasedfootball player · 1903–2002
Days lived
36,253
Paul Otto🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1878–1943
Days lived
24,030
Pedro Aguirre Cerda🇨🇱
deceasedpolitician · 1879–1941
Days lived
22,937
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Raymond Joseph Cannon🇺🇸
deceasedPolitician, lawyer, baseball pitcher (1894–1951) · 1894–1951
Days lived
20,909
Stefan Schörghuber🇩🇪
deceasedGerman businessman (1961–2008) · 1961–2008
Days lived
17,309
Sylvan Goldman🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican inventor (1898–1984) · 1898–1984
Days lived
31,421
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U Thant🇲🇾
deceasedwriter · 1909–1974
Days lived
24,048
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Vajiravudh
deceasedKing of Siam from 1910 to 1925 · 1881–1925
Days lived
16,398
Vasily Alekseyev🇷🇺
deceasedSoviet weightlifter (1942-2011) · 1942–2011
Days lived
25,524
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Yukio Mishima🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese author (1925–1970) · 1925–1970
Days lived
16,751
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
55,480
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
44,158
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
41,506
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
41,169
Silas Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006
Days lived
40,557
George Polley🇺🇸
American urban climber · b. 1898
Days alive
39,044
David Segal🇺🇸
newspaper columnist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Fee Plumley🇬🇧
artist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Giovanny Ramos🇻🇪
Venezuelan athlete · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Rebecca W. Keller🇺🇸
scientist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Eduardo Hernández Martínez🇸🇻
Salvadoran footballer · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Diane Pozefsky🇺🇸
American computer scientist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Miguel Pérez de los Mozos🇪🇸
Ceo, economist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Clifford Swann🇦🇺
Australian Paralympic lawn bowls player · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Keith Padgett🇬🇧
Falkland Islands politician · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Shaherose Charania🇨🇦
entrepreneur · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
Shrikrishna Raut
Marathi poet · b. 1901
Days alive
37,949
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Alice Herz-Sommer🇮🇱
deceasedmusician · 1903–2014
Days lived
40,267
Johannes Heesters🇦🇹
deceasedDutch actor, singer and entertainer (1903–2011) · 1903–2011
Days lived
39,466
Pete Briggs🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1904
Days alive
36,854
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
63,151
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Koko🇺🇸
deceasedWestern lowland gorilla · 1971–2018
Days lived
17,152
Alex🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican grey parrot · 1976–2007
Days lived
11,433
Kanzi🇺🇸
Bonobo · b. 1980
Days alive
8,794
Tilikum🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1981–2017
Days lived
12,796
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
61,324
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
61,021
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
60,594
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
51,036
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
50,002
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
49,636
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
47,080
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
45,732
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
666,531
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
146,045
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
70,063
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
50,732
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
29,084
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
26,627
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
24,537
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
22,514
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
23,974
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
17,396
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
11,934
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
10,751
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
10,046
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
9,359
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
9,316
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
9,095