25 November: today's birthdays

  • Xabi Alonso - Nickname of Xabier Alonso Olano, Spanish (Basque) footballer
  • Christina Applegate - American actress and dancer. She played the role of Kelly Bundy in the sitcom Married... with Children 
  • Katie Cassidy - American TV and film actress and singer
  • Joe DiMaggio - American baseball player of Italian descent, born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio. He was married to Marilyn Monroe
  • Esther Duflo - French economist. She was awarded the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with her husband Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer
  • Jan Jongbloed - Former Dutch football goalkeeper
  • Henry Mayhew - English journalist and reformer. Co-founder of the satirical magazine Punch, with Mark Lemon
  • William Mcllvanney - Scottish writer and poet. He wrote Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch, and Walking Wounded 
  • Augusto Pinochet - Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, the dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990
  • Johnny Rep - Dutch soccer player
  • Gaspard Ulliel - French actor and model. He starred Hannibal Lecter in the film Hannibal Rising.
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