25 May: today's birthdays

  • François Bayrou - French politician
  • Raymond Carver - American short story writer and poet
  • Filipe Gomes Ribeiro - Brazilian soccer player
  • Philippe Jaenada - French writer. He wrote the novel Le Chameau sauvage 
  • Mato Jajalo - Bosnian football player
  • Jamaica Kincaid - Antiguan-American novelist, born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson. She wrote the novel A Small Place.
  • Amy Klobuchar - American lawyer and politician, from the Democratic Party who ran in the 2020 Democratic Primaries before pulling out of the race at the beginning of March 2020. Her full name is Amy Jean Klobuchar.
  • Heinrich Klüver - German psychologist best-known for having described the Klüver-Bucy syndrome with American neuropathologist Paul Bucy
  • Robert Ludlum - American writer of thriller novels. He also has two pseudonyms: Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd
  • Mike Myers - Canadian actor and comedian. He wrote and starred in the Austin Powers series 
  • Gwilym Pugh - English model, musician, and Influencer
  • Theodore Roethke - American poet and writer. He wrote The Waking
  • Octavia Spencer - American actress. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2012
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