Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 25

Births

• 1707 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)
• 1714 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
• 1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1919) (pictured)
• 1873 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
• 1901 - Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)

Deaths

• 1723 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)
• 1756 - Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
• 1852 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)
• 1957 - George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
• 1983 - Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)