List of Famous people born on April 25th
Antônio Bivar
Antônio Bivar Battistetti Lima, better known simply as Antônio Bivar, was a Brazilian writer of the Beat Generation and playwright.
Harry Azhar Azis
Harry Azhar Azis was the member of the Audit Board of Indonesia and a former legislator in the People's Representative Council. During his tenure as a Representative, Azis was the chairman of the House Budget Committee, and in 2010 was also one of the first Indonesian legislators to suggest a bridge between Batam and Singapore as part of the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle.
Erzsébet Szőnyi
Erzsébet Szőnyi, also Erzsébet Szilágyi, was a Hungarian composer and music teacher. Her works encompass symphonic compositions, chamber music works, art songs, and oratorios. She also wrote numerous stage works including eight operas.
Boris Sheremetev
Count Boris Petrovich Sheremetev was a Russian diplomat and general field marshal during the Great Northern War. He became the first Russian count in 1706. His children included Pyotr Sheremetev and Natalia Sheremeteva.
Henry Kotani
Henry Kotani was a pioneering Japanese film director and cinematographer.
René Cogny
René Cogny was a French Général de corps d'armée, World War II and French Resistance veteran and survivor of Buchenwald and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps. He was a commander of the French forces in Tonkin during the First Indochina War, and notably during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. His post-war private and legal conflict with superior General Henri Navarre became a public controversy. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse, and reputable for his military pomp, physical presence and skill with the press, Cogny was killed in 1968 Ajaccio-Nice Caravelle crash in the Mediterranean near Nice.
Manal al-Sharif
Manal al-Sharif (Arabic: منال الشريف; born 25 April 1979 is a Saudi women's rights activist who helped start a right to drive campaign in 2011. Wajeha al-Huwaider filmed al-Sharif driving a car as part of the campaign. The video was posted on YouTube and Facebook. Al-Sharif was detained on 21 May 2011, released, and then rearrested the following day. On 30 May, al-Sharif was released on bail, on the conditions of returning for questioning if requested, not driving, and not talking to the media. The New York Times and Associated Press associated the women's driving campaign as part of the Arab Spring and the long duration of al-Sharif's detention due to Saudi authorities' fear of protests.
Martin Schenkel
Martin Schenkel was a Swiss television actor and musician starring usually in Swiss German television productions.
Agostinho dos Santos
Agostinho dos Santos was a Brazilian singer and composer of bossa nova, MPB and rock and roll, active from the early 1950s until his premature death in an airplane accident in 1973. Dos Santos is best known today for lending his voice to the soundtrack of the classic 1959 film Orfeu Negro. He is also credited with playing a role in the development of the careers of other important Bossa Nova artists, such as João Gilberto and Milton Nascimento. Dos Santos' voice was a baritone with bright coloring and a light vibrato, singing in a style called "crooner da orchestra".
Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas
Rafael Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas is a Mexican politician who was the Governor of Campeche from September 2015 to July 2019, he is affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). As of 2013 he served as Deputy of both the LIX and LXII Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing Campeche. He also served as Senator during the LX and LXI.