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Today's Anniversary – Saturday, October 25


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Births

* 1984 Katy Perry Better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
* 1959 Bruce Mau Canadian designer.
* 1957 Nancy Cartwright American film and television actress, comedienne and voice artist.
* 1952 Samir Geagea Lebanese politician and former warlord.
* 1944 James Carville Liberal American political consultant, commentator, media personality, and pundit.
* 1944 Jon Anderson English musician, most famous as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes.
* 1940 Bob Knight Also known as "The General", is an American former college basketball head coach.
* 1913 Klaus Barbie SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier and Gestapo member.
* 1912 Minnie Pearl Country comedian.
* 1902 Henry Steele Commager American historian and teacher.
* 1888 Richard E. Byrd U S Naval officer, aviator, and pioneering polar explorer.
* 1881 Pablo Picasso Spanish artist who lived and worked in Paris for many years.
* 1838 Georges Bizet French composer of the romantic era most famous for his opera Carmen.
* 1811 Evariste Galois French mathematician, who, while still in his teens, developed the well-known Galois theory.
* 1806 Max Stirner Born Johann Kaspar Schmidt, was a German philosopher who was a major influence on the nineteenth century development of ideas of nihilism, existentialism and individualist anarchism.
* 1800 Thomas Babington Macaulay Nineteenth century British poet, historian and Whig politician.
* 1767 Benjamin Constant Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician.
* 1735 James Beattie Scottish scholar and writer.

Deaths

† 2012 Jacques Barzun French-born American scholar, historian, critic, teacher and editor.
† 2003 Pandurang Shastri Athavale Known as dada, meaning elder brother in Marathi) was an Indian philosopher and social reformer who gave discourses upon the Hindu religious texts, Srimad Bhagawad Gita and Upnishads.
† 2001 Elizabeth Jennings English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach.
† 1995 Gavin Ewart Prolific British poet known for his witty and sometimes unsettling treatments of unlikely subjects.
† 1989 Mary McCarthy American author and critic.
† 1980 Virgil Fox American organist.
† 1974 Antonio Llido Spanish Catholic priest and pedagogue who adopted socialist political ideals whilst a missionary in Chile.
† 1971 Philip Wylie U S author of social criticism, short stories, screenplays, and several science-fiction novels.
† 1957 Edward Plunkett Dunsany Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, best known for his works of fantasy.
† 1945 Robert Ley Nazi German politician and head of the German Labor Front from 1933 to 1945.
† 1889 Emile Augier French dramatist.
† 1852 Daniel Webster United States Senator and Secretary of State.
† 1806 Henry Knox American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nation's first Secretary of War.
† 1760 George II of Great Britainā€ˇ King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover from 1727.
† 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, and diplomat.
† 1180 John of Salisbury English philosopher who wrote on ethics, logic and political theory.
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