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From 2019 to 2026, VanSanten starred as Karen Baldwin in the Apple TV+ science fiction space drama series For All Mankind.
Famous Birthdays on July 25
1985 — Shantel VanSanten
American actress and model
July 25 has 255 recorded notable births across history, from 975 to 2002. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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975 – 2002
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Major events on July 25
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1861 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery, in the wake of the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Source
- 2010 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. Source
- 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha at the Battle of Abukir. Source
- 1783 American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement. Source
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Illeana Douglas's other credits include The Next Best Thing (2000), Ghost World (2001), Dummy (2002), Factory Girl (2006), She's Funny That Way (2014), and Return to Sender (2015).
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer.
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Washington appointed him the nation's first secretary of war, a position which he held from 1789 to 1794.
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The youngest of three sons, he was born in Dunfermline Abbey to King Robert III and his wife Annabella Drummond.
More major people born on July 25
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1961
Illeana Douglas
American actress
Illeana Hesselberg, known professionally as Illeana Douglas, is an American actress and filmmaker.
1920
Rosalind Franklin
English biophysicist, chemist, and academic. Contributor to basic research of DNA. (died 1958)
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.
1750
Henry Knox
American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (died 1806)
Henry Knox was an American military officer, politician, bookseller, and a Founding Father of the United States.
1394
James I
king of Scotland (died 1437)
James I was King of Scots from 1406 to 1437. The youngest of three sons, he was born in Dunfermline Abbey to King Robert III and his wife Annabella Drummond.
1995
Alvin Kamara
American football player
Alvin Mentian Kamara is an American professional football running back for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL).
1941
Nate Thurmond
American basketball player (died 2016)
Nathaniel Thurmond was an American professional basketball player who spent the majority of his 14-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Golden State Warriors franchise.
1975
El Zorro
Mexican wrestler
Jesús Cristóbal Martínez Rodriguez is a Mexican professional wrestler who is best known as El Zorro.
1958
Alexei Filippenko
American astrophysicist and academic
Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California.
1901
Mohammed Helmy
Egyptian physician and Righteous Among the Nations (died 1982)
Mohammed ″Mod″ Helmy was an Egyptian-German physician who was recognized by Israel as one of the Righteous Among the Nations in 2013, with his name being listed at Yad Vashem in the city of Jerusalem.
1960
Justice Howard
American photographer
Justice Howard is an American photographer whose work includes shooting erotica, pin-up and celebrities.
1957
Mark Hunter
English politician
Mark James Hunter is a British Liberal Democrat politician and former leader of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council who became Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheadle at a 2005 by-election.
1908
Bill Bowes
English cricketer (died 1987)
William Eric Bowes was an English professional cricketer active from 1929 to 1947 who played in 372 first-class matches as a right arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail end batsman.
1967
Matt LeBlanc
American actor and producer
Matthew Steven LeBlanc is an American actor. He gained global recognition with his portrayal of Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom Friends (1994–2004), and in its spin-off series Joey (2004–2006).
1902
Eric Hoffer
American philosopher and author (died 1983)
Eric Hoffer was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983.
1953
Robert Zoellick
American banker and politician, 14th United States Deputy Secretary of State
Robert Bruce Zoellick is an American lawyer and government official who was the 11th president of the World Bank Group from 2007 to 2012.
1857
Frank J. Sprague
American naval officer and inventor (died 1934)
Frank Julian Sprague was an American inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators.
1861
Andrew Lawson
Scottish-Canadian Geologist, first to identify and name the San Andreas Fault (died 1952)
Andrew Cowper Lawson was a Scots-born Canadian geologist who became professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley.
1969
Annastacia Palaszczuk
Australian politician, 39th Premier of Queensland
Annastacia Palaszczuk is an Australian politician who served as the 39th premier of Queensland from 2015 to 2023.
1896
Josephine Tey
Scottish author and playwright (died 1952)
Elizabeth MacKintosh, known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. She is known for her Inspector Alan Grant series, which started with The Man in the Queue (1929).