What happened on September 25 ?

1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)

1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)

1599 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor (d. 1667)

1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)

1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)

1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1754)

1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)

1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (d. 1804)

1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)

1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)

1766 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)

1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)

1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)

1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)

1798 - Jean-Baptiste ÿlie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)

1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)

1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)

1866 - Thomas Morgan, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1945)

1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)

1896 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)

1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)

1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)

1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)

1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)

1917 - Johnny Sain, baseball player

1918 - Phil Rizzuto, baseball player and announcer

1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)

1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)

1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)

1926 - Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)

1927 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor

1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)

1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster

1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)

1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)

1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain

1933 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster

1936 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (d. 1996)

1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland

1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency

1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer

1944 - Doris Matsui, U.S. Congresswoman from California

1945 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player

1946 - Felicity Kendal, British actress

1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model

1947 - Russ Abbott, British actor and singer

1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor

1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)

1952 - Anson Williams, American actor and director

1958 - Michael Madsen, American actor

1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer

1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model

1962 - Aida Turturro, American actress

1964 - Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actresses (seiy?)

1965 - Gregory Cowan, Australian architectural educator

1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player

1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper

1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer

1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress

1969 - Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel

1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)

1971 - John Lynch, American football player

1971 - Hal Sparks, American actor

1973 - Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer

1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter

1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player

1976 - Chauncey Billups, American basketball player

1978 - Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer

1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model

1980 - T.I., rapper