October 25
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Art and culture
- 1911 - The Birth of the Sixth Art by Ricciotto Canudo
- 1917 - The First Marxist revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
- 1933 - Eduard Fuchs extensive art collection is confiscated by the Gestapo and partially destroyed.
- 1944 - Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
- 1995 - Serbian director Emir Kusturica's epic film Underground is released in France after winning the Palme d'Or earlier in the year at Cannes.
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Births
- 1806 - Max Stirner, German philosopher (d. 1856)
- 1825 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
- 1838 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
- 1870 - Frank Norris, United States novelist (d. 1902)
- 1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
- 1889 - Abel Gance, French screenwriter (d. 1981)
- 1894 - Claude Cahun, French surrealist photographer and writer.(d. 1954)
- 1913 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
- 1931 - Annie Girardot, French actress (d. 2011)
- 1938 - Bernadette Lafont, French actress (d. 2013)
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Deaths
- 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
- 1826 - Philippe Pinel, French psychiatrist (b. 1745)
- 1957 - Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (b. 1878)
- 1941 - Robert Delaunay, French painter (b. 1885)
- 1957 - Henry Van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and interior designer. (b. 1863)
- 1973 - Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
- 1976 - Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (b. 1903)
- 1991 - Bill Graham, American rock promoter (b. 1931)
- 1993 - Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
- 2004 - John Peel, British disc jockey (b. 1939)
- 2013 - Arthur Danto, American art critic (b. 1924)
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