1925

1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1925th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 925th year of the 2nd millennium, the 25th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1920s decade.

• Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush is released.

• January 21 – Albania becomes a republic.
• July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes his book Mein Kampf.
• October 30 – The Scottish engineer John Logie Baird creates the first television transmitter in London.
• November 9 – The NSDAP builts the SS (Schutzstaffel).

• January 7 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
• January 15 - Ernst Benda, German politician (d. 2009)
• January 17 - Robert Cormier, American writer (d. 2000)
• January 26 – Paul Newman, American actor (d. 2008)

• February 8 – Sir Anthony Berry, British politician
• February 8 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 2001)
• February 17 - Hal Holbrook, American actor (d. 2021)
• February 20 – Robert Altman, American director and movie maker (d. 2006)
• February 20 - Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (d. 2010)
• February 21 - Tom Gehrels, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 2011)
• February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, American movie director (d. 1984)

• March 20 - David Warren, Australian inventor (d. 2010)
• March 25 – Flannery O'Connor, Irish writer

• April 14 - Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
• April 14 - Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2010)
• April 29 - Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator (d. 2007)

• May 1 - Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (d. 2013)
• May 11 - Max Morlock, German footballer (d. 1994)
• May 16 - Robert Pierpoint, American journalist (d. 2011)
• May 17 - Idi Amin, 3rd President of Uganda (d. 2003)
• May 19 - Malcolm X, American Civil rights leader (d. 1965)
• May 23 - Joshua Lederberg, American biologist (d. 2008)
• May 27 - Tony Hillerman, American writer (d. 2008)
• May 28 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German operatic baritone (d. 2012)

• June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
• June 8 - Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
• June 21 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
• June 29 - Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy

• July 1 - Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
• July 2 - Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician (d. 1961)
• July 10 - Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia
• July 23 - Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
• July 23 - Quett Masire, former President of Botswana
• July 29 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek singer and politician

• August 1 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
• August 2 - Alan Whicker, British journalist and writer (d. 2013)
• August 2 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine military leader (d. 2013)
• August 8 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian politician (d. 2003)
• August 12 - Thor Vilhjalmsson, Icelandic writer (d. 2011)
• August 15 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
• August 27 - Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011)

• September 1 - Roy J. Glauber, American scientist
• September 12 - Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1975)
• September 15 - Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)
• September 16 - B. B. King, American musician
• September 20 – Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
• September 27 - Robert Edwards, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (d. 2013)
• September 29 - Steve Forrest, American actor (d. 2013)

• October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer (d. 2012)
• October 11 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
• October 12 - Essie Mae Washington-Williams, American educator (d. 2013)
• October 13 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1967)
• October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2013)
• October 16 - Angela Lansbury, British-born actress
• October 17 - Harry Carpenter, German sports commentator (d. 2010)
• October 18 - Ramiz Alia, last Communist leader of Albania (d. 2011)
• October 21 - Celia Cruz, Cuban salsa singer (d. 2003)
• October 29 - Robert Hardy, English actor

• November 1 - Fritz Laband, German footballer (d. 1982)
• November 10 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
• November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian (d. 2013)
• November 20 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
• November 24 - Simon van der Meer, Dutch scientist (d. 2011)
• November 29 - Ernst Happel, Austrian footballer and coach (d. 1992)

• December 2 - Julie Harris, American actress (d. 2013)
• December 13 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor
• December 23 - Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2010)
• December 28 – Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)

• February 28 - Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany
• March 12 – Sun Yat Sen, Chinese revolutionary
• March 20 – George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman
• November 20 – Queen Alexandra of Denmark
• December 28 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet

• Nobel Prize in Physics – James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
• Chemistry – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
• Literature – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
• Peace – Austin Chamberlain and Charles Gate Dawes