Did you know
McClain's career began when she was seven years old, portraying Alexis in the film The Gospel (2005), and then China James in Daddy's Little Girls (2007).
Famous Birthdays on August 25
1998 — China Anne McClain
American actress and singer
August 25 has 240 recorded notable births across history, from 1467 to 2006. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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1467 – 2006
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Major events on August 25
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- 1912 The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking. Source
- 1835 The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon. Source
- 1985 Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith. Source
- 1945 Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War. Source
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Kel Mitchell was an original cast member of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That for its first five seasons (1994–1999), where he was often paired with Kenan Thompson.
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In 1956, she became the first Black player to win a Grand Slam event.
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Fingers was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1974 World Series after earning a win in the opener and saves in the last three games to secure the title.
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In 1835, the first German railway was constructed in his domain, between Fürth and Nuremberg, with his Bavaria joining the Zollverein economic union in 1834.
More major people born on August 25
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1978
Kel Mitchell
American actor, producer, and screenwriter
Kel Johari Rice Mitchell is an American actor, comedian, rapper, singer, and TV host.
1927
Althea Gibson
American tennis player and golfer (died 2003)
Althea Neale Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis.
1946
Rollie Fingers
American baseball player
Roland Glen Fingers is an American former right handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three teams between 1968 and 1985.
1786
Ludwig I of Bavaria
King of Bavaria (died 1868)
Ludwig I or Louis I was King of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. When he was crown prince, he was involved in the Napoleonic Wars.
1803
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva
Duke of Caxias (died 1880)
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, nicknamed "the Peacemaker" and "the Iron Duke", was an army officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil.
1964
Azmin Ali
Malaysian mathematician and politician
Mohamed Azmin bin Ali is a Malaysian politician who has served as the State Leader of the Opposition of Selangor and Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Hulu Kelang since August 2023.
1900
Hans Adolf Krebs
German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1981)
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist.
1944
Jacques Demers
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician
Jacques Demers is a former Canadian Senator, former broadcaster and former professional ice hockey head coach.
1902
Stefan Wolpe
German-American composer and educator (died 1972)
Stefan Wolpe was a German-born American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street…
1943
Pete Stemkowski
Canadian ice hockey player
Peter David Stemkowski is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
1919
William P. Foster
American bandleader and educator (died 2010)
William Patrick Foster, also known as The Law and The Maestro, was the director of the noted Florida A&M University Marching "100". He served as the band's director from 1946 to his retirement in 1998.
1921
Brian Moore
Northern Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (died 1999)
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States.
1981
Rachel Bilson
American actress
Rachel Sarah Bilson is an American actress. Born to a California show-business family, Bilson made her television debut in 2003, and then landed the role of Summer Roberts on the prime-time drama series The O.C.
1965
Sanjeev Sharma
Indian cricketer and coach
Sanjeev Sharma is a former Indian cricketer, entrepreneur and cricket coach who played in two Test matches and 23 One Day Internationals from 1988 to 1997.
1889
Alexander Mair
Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (died 1969)
Alexander Mair was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 5 August 1939 to 16 May 1941.
1850
Charles Richet
French physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis".
1954
Elvis Costello
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Declan Patrick MacManus, known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author, and television host.
1949
Gene Simmons
Israeli-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
Gene Simmons, also known by his stage persona "the Demon", is an Israeli and American musician and songwriter.
1912
Erich Honecker
German politician (died 1994)
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.