Famous people born on 25 October

• Pablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor · 1881–1973
  91 yrs
• AkbarThe third and greatest Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605 · 1542–1605
  62 yrs
• Zhu XiChinese historian, neo-Confucian philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty · 1130–1200
  69 yrs
• Georges BizetFrench composer · 1838–1875
  36 yrs
• Évariste GaloisFrench mathematician · 1811–1832
  20 yrs
• Max StirnerGerman philosopher · 1806–1856
  49 yrs
• Johann Strauss IIAustrian composer · 1825–1899
  73 yrs
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron MacaulayBritish historian and politician · 1800–1859
  59 yrs
• Benjamin ConstantFrench-Swiss politician, writer on politics and religion · 1767–1830
  63 yrs
• Michael I of Romania ↗Last king of Romania · 1921–2017
  96 yrs
• Levi Eshkol ↗Israeli politician, a founder of the Israeli Labor Party and Prime Minister · 1895–1969
  73 yrs
• Annie Girardot ↗French actress · 1931–2011
  79 yrs
• James II of Scotland ↗King of Scotland from 1437 to 1460 · 1430–1460
  29 yrs
• Richard E. Byrd ↗American naval officer, explorer · 1888–1957
  68 yrs
• Marcellin Berthelot ↗French chemist and politician · 1827–1907
  79 yrs
• Klaus Barbie ↗German SS officer, head of the Gestapo in Lyon and convicted war criminal · 1913–1991
  77 yrs
• Henry Norris Russell ↗American astronomer · 1877–1957
  79 yrs
• Galina Vishnevskaya ↗Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist · 1926–2012
  86 yrs
• Abel Gance ↗French film director and producer, writer and actor · 1889–1981
  92 yrs
• Karl Polanyi ↗Hungarian economist, philosopher and historian · 1886–1964
  77 yrs
• Peter Naur ↗Danish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference report · 1928–2016
  87 yrs
• William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ↗British Prime Minister, politician · 1759–1834
  74 yrs
• Anthony Franciosa ↗American actor · 1928–2006
  77 yrs
• Lawrence Kohlberg ↗American psychologist · 1927–1987
  59 yrs
• Alexander Ilyich Yegorov ↗Marshal of the Soviet Union · 1883–1939
  55 yrs
• Elisabeth Farnese ↗Queen consort of Spain · 1692–1766
  73 yrs
• Jorge Batlle Ibáñez ↗President of Uruguay · 1927–2016
  88 yrs
• Sophie Dorothee of Württemberg ↗Russian dowager empress, wife of Paul I · 1759–1828
  69 yrs
• Stephen V of Hungary ↗King of Hungary · 1239–1272
  32 yrs
• Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti ↗Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women's rights activist · 1900–1978
  77 yrs
• Helen Reddy ↗Australian and American singer and actress · 1941–2020
  78 yrs
• Aliya Moldagulova ↗Soviet Kazakh sniper and Heroine of the Soviet Union · 1925–1944
  18 yrs
• Paulo Mendes da Rocha ↗Brazilian architect · 1928–2021
  92 yrs
• Emperor Go-Shirakawa ↗77th emperor of Japan · 1127–1192
  64 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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