Some famous birthdays today:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (writer, poet, essayist, philosopher, biographer, diarist, born May 25, 1803)
• Minh Mạng (monarch, born May 25, 1791)
• Raymond Carver (screenwriter, writer, poet, author, born May 25, 1938)
• Mike Myers (screenwriter, singer, film director, actor, songwriter, film actor, television actor, voice actor, film producer, born May 25, 1963)
• Yahya Jammeh (politician, born May 25, 1965)
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton (politician, playwright, novelist, science fiction writer, writer, poet, literary critic, born May 25, 1803)
• John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (politician, botanist, born May 25, 1713)
• Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (monarch, born May 25, 1865)
• Dorothea Lange (journalist, photographer, photojournalist, born May 25, 1895)
• Cillian Murphy (screenwriter, musician, actor, film actor, stage actor, voice actor, composer, born May 25, 1976)
• Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (politician, writer, historian, publisher, born May 25, 1879)
• Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro (priest, born May 25, 1826)
• Sukō (sovereign, born May 17, 1334)
• Anne Heche (screenwriter, writer, film director, actor, film actor, television actor, born May 25, 1969)
• Alexander Korneychuk (politician, screenwriter, writer, diplomat, literary critic, born May 25, 1905)
• Gene Tunney (boxer, born May 25, 1897)
• Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (nurse, born May 25, 1846)
• Dixie Carter (singer, actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born May 25, 1939)
• Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands (journalist, born May 25, 1966)
• Bill Robinson (film actor, stage actor, born May 25, 1877)
• Amy Klobuchar (politician, lawyer, born May 25, 1960)
• Armand Hammer (art collector, born May 25, 1898)
• Rosario Castellanos (screenwriter, writer, poet, diplomat, university teacher, born May 25, 1925)
• Konstantin of Rostov (politician, born May 18, 1185)
• Kinya Aikawa (singer, actor, seiyū, born May 25, 1934)