25 July: today's birthdays

• Rita Anderson - Cuban-born Jamaican singer
• Elias Canetti - Bulgarian-born British author of German language, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981
• Rosalind Franklin - English chemist and physicist. She made a significant contribution to the DNA research
• John Goodenough - American physicist and scientist, born John Bannister Goodenough in Germany. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino
• Johnny Hodges - American saxophonist. He played solo with Duke Ellington's orchestra
• Carl Miele - German businessman. Along with Reinhard Zinkann, he was the founder of appliances company Miele
• Brad Renfro - American actor. In his short career, he worked in 21 films, such as The Client, Tom and Huck, and Sleepers
• Daniel Paul Schreber - German judge. He wrote Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, important work for the understanding of paranoia
• Eduardo Souto de Moura - Portuguese architect, born Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011 
• Paul Watzlawick - Austrian-born American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious (The Pursuit of Unhappiness) and The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication 
• Robert Zoellick - American banker and politician