August 25
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Art and culture
- 325 - Council of Nicea convened by Emperor Constantine.
- 1790 - Sade meets Marie-Constance Quesnet. Their relationship will last the rest of Sade's life.
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Births
- 1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
- 1885 - Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film director (d. 1967)
- 1891 - Alberto Savinio, Italian writer and painter (d. 1952)
- 1903 - Simone Mareuil, French actress (An Andalusian Dog) (d. 1954)
- 1924 - Yasuzo Masumura, Japanese film director. (b. 1986)
- 1928 - Piero Simondo, Italian artist
- 1930 - Sean Connery, Scottish actor
- 1932 - Gérard Lebovici, French patron to Guy Debord. (d. 1984)
- 1933 – Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2023)
- 1949 - Martin Amis, English novelist (d. 2023)
- 1958 - Tim Burton, American film director
- 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
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Deaths
- 1776 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
- 1797 - Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French writer (Adventures of the Chevalier de Faublas) (b. 1760)
- 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)
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