Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 25

Births

• 1599 - Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658) (pictured)
• 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
• 1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
• 1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
• 1940 - Al Pacino, American actor
• 1969 - Renée Zellweger, American actress

Deaths

• 1744 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
• 1800 - William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
• 1878 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
• 1995 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)