25 October: today's birthdays

• Joop Alberda - Former Dutch volleyball player
• Mathieu Amalric - French actor and film director. He is the new villain in James Bond films with Daniel Craig
• Klaus Barbie - German officer and criminal
• Georges Bizet - French composer and pianist, born Alexandre César Léopold Bizet. Carmen is his major work
• Benjamin Constant - French writer and politician born in Switzerland. He had a long relationship with writer Madame de Staël
• Annie Girardot - French actress. She starred in Three Rooms in Manhattan, based on the homonymous novel written by Belgian writer Georges Simenon
• Brian Kerwin - American stage, film, and television actor
• Pablo Picasso - Spanish painter, sculptor, poet and stage designer, born Pablo Ruiz y Picasso. He is one the most famous artists in the world and Guernica is his most famous painting
• Krzysztof Piesiewicz - Polish politician, lawyer and screenwriter
• Károly Polányi - Hungarian philosopher, economist and anthropologist born in Vienna, best known as Karl Polanyi
• Elif Şafak - Turkish writer born in France. Her surname was Bilgin, but she took her mother's surname which means sunrise in Turkish 
• Chad Smith - American drummer of American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Zadie Smith - English writer of Jamaican descent, born Sadie Smith. She wrote the novel White Teeth
• Max Stirner - German philosopher