Cool people born on my birthday. Mostly.

April 25, 1214 Louis IX, king of France
April 25, 1284 Edward II, king of England
April 25, 1599 Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England
April 25, 1825 Charles Ferdinand Dowd, U.S., standardized time zones
April 25, 1840 Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture)
April 25, 1872 Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/world record long jumper
April 25, 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909)
April 25, 1906 William J Brennan Jr, NJ, 92nd Supreme Court judge (1956-90)
April 25, 1908 Edward R Murrow, Pole Creek NC, newscaster (Person to Person)
April 25, 1918 Ella Fitzgerald, Newport News VA, jazz singer
April 25, 1923 B. B. King, Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist
April 25, 1932 Meadowlark Lemmon, basketball star (Harlem Globetrotters)
April 25, 1933 Jerry Leiber, songwriter (Leiber & Stoller)
April 25, 1940 Al Pacino, New York City, actor
April 25, 1945 Stu Cook, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
April 25, 1947 Jeffrey DeMunn, Buffalo NY, actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City)
April 25, 1947 Bill Fontana, composer
April 25, 1952 Vladislav Tretiak, U.S.S.R. hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
April 25, 1964 Andy Bell, rocker (Erasure)
April 25, 1964 Hank Azaria, actor (The Simpsons)
April 25, 1969 Renee Zellweger, actress (Cold Mountain)
April 25, 1970 Jason Lee, actor (Mallrats)
April 25, 1976 Tim Duncan, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
April 25, 1977 Marguerite Moreau, actress (Connie-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
April 25, 1977 Jonathan Angel, San Francisco California, actor (Tommy Delucca-Saved By The Bell)
April 25, 1989 The Panchen Lama of Tibet