| 96541 | August 25 | Birth | 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor and singer (d. 2008) |
| 96542 | August 25 | Birth | 1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) |
| 96543 | August 25 | Birth | 1916 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (d. 2000) |
| 96544 | August 25 | Birth | 1917 – Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008) |
| 96545 | August 25 | Birth | 1917 – Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress and director (d. 2011) |
| 96546 | August 25 | Birth | 1917 – Lou van Burg, Dutch-German singer and game show host (d. 1986) |
| 96547 | August 25 | Birth | 1918 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990) |
| 96548 | August 25 | Birth | 1918 – Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985) |
| 96549 | August 25 | Birth | 1919 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (d. 2010) |
| 96550 | August 25 | Birth | 1919 – George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (d. 1998) |
| 96551 | August 25 | Birth | 1921 – Monty Hall, Canadian-American actor, singer, and game show host |
| 96552 | August 25 | Birth | 1921 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, 20th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1999) |
| 96553 | August 25 | Birth | 1921 – Brian Moore, Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1999) |
| 96554 | August 25 | Birth | 1923 – Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (d. 2013) |
| 96555 | August 25 | Birth | 1924 – Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach (d. 2006) |
| 96556 | August 25 | Birth | 1923 – Allyre Sirois, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2012) |
| 96557 | August 25 | Birth | 1925 – Thea Astley, Australian journalist and author (d. 2004) |
| 96558 | August 25 | Birth | 1925 – Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2001) |
| 96559 | August 25 | Birth | 1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (d. 2003) |
| 96560 | August 25 | Birth | 1928 – John "Kayo" Dottley, American football player |
| 96561 | August 25 | Birth | 1928 – Darrell Johnson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2004) |
| 96562 | August 25 | Birth | 1928 – Karl Korte, American composer and academic |
| 96563 | August 25 | Birth | 1928 – Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 96564 | August 25 | Birth | 1930 – Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor |
| 96565 | August 25 | Birth | 1930 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer |
| 96566 | August 25 | Birth | 1930 – György Enyedi, Hungarian economist and geographer (d. 2012) |
| 96567 | August 25 | Birth | 1930 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian-American actor (d. 2003) |
| 96568 | August 25 | Birth | 1930 – Crispin Tickell, English academic and diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
| 96569 | August 25 | Birth | 1931 – Hal Fishman, American journalist and actor (d. 2007) |
| 96570 | August 25 | Birth | 1931 – Peter Gilmore, German-English actor (d. 2013) |