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Helen Reddy sang on radio and television and won a talent contest on the television program Bandstand in 1966; her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which was unsuccessful.
Famous Birthdays on October 25
1941 — Helen Reddy
Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2020)
October 25 has 444 recorded notable births across history, from 840 to 2001. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 1983 The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état. Source
- 1997 After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo. Source
- 1822 Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins. Source
- 1868 The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. Source
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Marion Ross was also nominated and won a Lone Star Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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As of 2015, they were one of only 50 artists to have achieved more than 500 total weeks on the UK Albums Chart.
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Dave Cowens was the 1971 NBA Rookie of the Year and the 1973 NBA Most Valuable Player.
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Gordon Tootoosis was a First Nations actor of Cree and Stoney descent.
More major people born on October 25
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1928
Marion Ross
American actress
Marion Ross is an American actress. Her best-known role is that of Marion Cunningham on the ABC television sitcom Happy Days, on which she starred from 1974 to 1984 and for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award…
1943
Roy Lynes
English keyboardist and singer
Status Quo are a British rock band formed in London in 1962. Beginning with "Pictures of Matchstick Men" in 1968, they have had over 60 chart hits in the UK – more than any other band – with further hits including…
1948
Dave Cowens
American basketball player and coach
David William Cowens is an American former professional basketball player and NBA head coach. At 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he played the center position and occasionally played power forward.
1941
Gordon Tootoosis
Aboriginal Canadian actor (died 2011)
Gordon Tootoosis was a First Nations actor of Cree and Stoney descent. Tootoosis was a descendant of Yellow Mud Blanket, brother of the famous Cree leader Poundmaker.
1939
Zelmo Beaty
American basketball player and coach (died 2013)
Zelmo "Big Z" Beaty was an American basketball player. He played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and four in the rival American Basketball Association (ABA).
1910
Tyrus Wong
Chinese-American artist (died 2016)
Tyrus Wong was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard artist.
1945
Phil Volk
American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer
Phillip Edward Volk is an American musician. As the bassist of Paul Revere & the Raiders from 1965 to 1967, Volk appeared in over 750 television shows, 520 of which were episodes of the Dick Clark production, Where the…
1897
Karl Olivecrona
Swedish lawyer and philosopher (died 1980)
Karl Olivecrona was a Swedish lawyer and legal philosopher. He studied law at Uppsala from 1915 to 1920 and was a pupil of Axel Hägerström, the spiritual father of Scandinavian legal realism.
1910
Johnny Mauro
American race car driver (died 2003)
Johnny Mauro was an American racecar driver. He was born in Denver Colorado on October 25, 1910.
1858
Take Ionescu
Romanian politician, diplomat, journalist and lawyer (died 1922)
Take or Tache Ionescu was a Romanian centrist politician, journalist, lawyer and diplomat, who also enjoyed reputation as a short story author.
1987
Fabian Hambüchen
German gymnast
Fabian Hambüchen is a retired German gymnast who was an Olympic champion on horizontal bar in Rio 2016, World champion in Stuttgart 2007 on the same apparatus, as well as six times European champion on various other…
1985
Ciara
American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Ciara Princess Wilson is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. She was discovered by record producer Jazze Pha in the early 2000s, and rose to prominence with her debut studio album, Goodies (2004).
1886
Karl Polanyi
Austro-Hungarian economist and historian (died 1964)
Karl Paul Polanyi was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic sociologist, and politician, best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets.In…
1881
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1973)
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France.
1936
Masako Nozawa
Japanese actress and singer
Masako Nozawa is a Japanese actress. Beginning work as a child actress at the age of three, by the time she became an adult, voice acting had inadvertently become her main occupation.
1977
Birgit Prinz
German footballer and psychologist
Birgit Prinz is a German former footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. In addition to the German national team, Prinz played for 1.
1102
William Clito
French son of Sybilla of Conversano (died 1128)
William Clito was a member of the House of Normandy who ruled the County of Flanders from 1127 until his death and unsuccessfully claimed the Duchy of Normandy.
1923
Bobby Thomson
Scottish-American baseball player (died 2010)
Robert Brown Thomson was an American professional baseball player, nicknamed "the Staten Island Scot".
1802
Richard Parkes Bonington
English painter (died 1828)
Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter. He moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English style to France.