1925
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1922 1923 1924 – 1925 – 1926 1927 1928 |
Art, music, theatre, literature
- Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush is released.
Events
- January 21 – Albania becomes a republic.
- July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes his book Mein Kampf.
- October 30 – The Scottish engineer John Logie Baird creates the first television transmitter in London.
- November 9 – The NSDAP builts the SS (Schutzstaffel).
Births
January
- January 7 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
- January 15 - Ernst Benda, German politician (d. 2009)
- January 17 - Robert Cormier, American writer (d. 2000)
- January 26 – Paul Newman, American actor (d. 2008)
February
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- February 8 – Sir Anthony Berry, British politician
- February 8 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 2001)
- February 17 - Hal Holbrook, American actor (d. 2021)
- February 20 – Robert Altman, American director and movie maker (d. 2006)
- February 20 - Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (d. 2010)
- February 21 - Tom Gehrels, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 2011)
- February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, American movie director (d. 1984)
March
- March 20 - David Warren, Australian inventor (d. 2010)
- March 25 – Flannery O'Connor, Irish writer
April
- April 14 - Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
- April 14 - Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2010)
- April 29 - Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator (d. 2007)
May
- May 1 - Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (d. 2013)
- May 11 - Max Morlock, German footballer (d. 1994)
- May 16 - Robert Pierpoint, American journalist (d. 2011)
- May 19 - Malcolm X, American Civil rights leader (d. 1965)
- May 23 - Joshua Lederberg, American biologist (d. 2008)
- May 27 - Tony Hillerman, American writer (d. 2008)
- May 28 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German operatic baritone (d. 2012)
June
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- June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
- June 8 - Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
- June 21 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
- June 29 - Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy
July
- July 1 - Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
- July 2 - Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician (d. 1961)
- July 23 - Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
- July 23 - Quett Masire, former President of Botswana
- July 29 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek singer and politician
August
- August 1 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
- August 2 - Alan Whicker, British journalist and writer (d. 2013)
- August 2 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine military leader (d. 2013)
- August 8 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian politician (d. 2003)
- August 12 - Thor Vilhjalmsson, Icelandic writer (d. 2011)
- August 15 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
- August 27 - Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011)
September
- September 1 - Roy J. Glauber, American scientist
- September 12 - Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
- September 15 - Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)
- September 16 - B. B. King, American musician
- September 20 – Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
- September 27 - Robert Edwards, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (d. 2013)
- September 29 - Steve Forrest, American actor (d. 2013)
October
- October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer (d. 2012)
- October 11 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
- October 12 - Essie Mae Washington-Williams, American educator (d. 2013)
- October 13 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1967)
- October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2013)
- October 16 - Angela Lansbury, British-born actress
- October 17 - Harry Carpenter, German sports commentator (d. 2010)
- October 18 - Ramiz Alia, last Communist leader of Albania (d. 2011)
- October 21 - Celia Cruz, Cuban salsa singer (d. 2003)
- October 29 - Robert Hardy, English actor
November
- November 1 - Fritz Laband, German footballer (d. 1982)
- November 10 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
- November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian (d. 2013)
- November 20 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
- November 24 - Simon van der Meer, Dutch scientist (d. 2011)
- November 29 - Ernst Happel, Austrian footballer and coach (d. 1992)
December
- December 2 - Julie Harris, American actress (d. 2013)
- December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor
- December 23 - Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2010)
- December 28 – Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)
Deaths
- February 28 - Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany
- March 12 – Sun Yat Sen, Chinese revolutionary
- March 20 – George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman
- November 20 – Queen Alexandra of Denmark
- December 28 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet
Nobel Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics – James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
- Chemistry – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
- Literature – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
- Peace – Austin Chamberlain and Charles Gate Dawes
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