August 25
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Art and culture
- 325 - Council of Nicea convened by Emperor Constantine.
Births
- 1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
- 1930 - Sean Connery, Scottish actor
- 1949 - Martin Amis, English novelist
- 1958 - Tim Burton, American film director
- 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
Deaths
- 1776 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
- 1792 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
- 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
- 1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
- 1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
- 1984 - Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
- 2000 - Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)
Notes
- Alberto Savinio
- Piero Simondo
- Gérard Lebovici
- Yasuzo Masumura
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- The Ninth Gate
* Robert Wyatt * Simone Mareuil * Louis de Saint-Just * Richard Cook
- Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai
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