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What happened in history on this day: March 25?
On March 25 in ...
- 1968 - The 58th and final episode of TV show The Monkees airs in the US.
- 1972 - ABC airs the final episode of the TV show Bewitched.
- 1977 - NBC airs the final episode of Sanford and Son TV show.
- 1983 - The Disney TV show Gun Shy debuts.
- 1985 - The 57th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles, California. Amadeus wins Best Picture, F Murray Abraham wins Best Actor, and Sally Field wins Best Actress.
- 1986 - ABC airs the first episode of the sitcom Perfect Strangers.
Births on March 25
- 1875 - Birth of Spencer Charters in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Three Faces West).
- 1892 - Birth of Andy Clyde in Scotland; actor (Mack Sennett Comedies, California Carlson - Hopalong Cassidy radio show, Cully - Lassie, George - Real McCoys TV show, No Time for Sergeants, Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Fury, The Texan, Gunsmoke, The Tall Man, Circus Boy).
- 1897 - Birth of John Laurie in Dumfries, Scotland; actor (Jericho, Island of Desire).
- 1901 - Birth of Ed Begley in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; actor (Charlie Chan on radio, Alan Young Show, Myrt and Marge, The Fat Man, Richard Diamond Private Detective, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Justice, Kraft TV Theatre, Burke's Law, Gunsmoke, Mr Koppel - Leave it to Larry, Alcoa Hour, Sweet Bird of Youth (Oscar award)).
- 1905 - Birth of Binnie Barnes in London, England; actress (Last of the Mohicans, The Three Musketeers).
- 1908 - Birth of David Lean in Croydon, England; director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, Lawrence of Arabia).
- 1919 - Birth of Jeanne Cagney; actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand).
- 1920 - Birth of Patrick Troughton; actor (Doctor Who).
- 1921 - Birth of Nancy Kelly in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James).
- 1921 - Birth of Simone Signoret in Wiesbaden, Germany; actress (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top).
- 1922 - Birth of Bruno VeSota in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers).
- 1923 - Birth of Gene Shalit; movie critic (Today show).
- 1924 - Birth of Machiko Kyo in Osaka, Japan; actor (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu).
- 1929 - Birth of Kenneth Haigh in Yorkshire, England; actor (Search for the Nile).
- 1935 - Birth of Susan Engel in Vienna, Austria; actress (Ascendancy).
- 1938 - Birth of Hoyt Axton in Duncan, Oklahoma, USA; singer/songwriter ("Greenback Dollar", "Never Been to Spain", "Joy To The World"), actor (Bonanza TV show, I Dream of Jeannie, McCloud, Diff'rent Strokes, Murder She Wrote, WKRP, Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters).
- 1940 - Birth of Anita Bryant in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, USA; Miss Oklahoma, Miss America (1958)/singer (George Gobel Show).
- 1943 - Birth of Paul Michael Glaser in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Starsky - Starsky and Hutch).
- 1944 - Birth of R. Lee Ermey; actor (Action, Cracker, Promised Land).
- 1946 - Birth of Bonnie Bedelia [Culkin] in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel, New Land).
- 1948 - Birth of Kelly Garrett; actress/singer (Holdin, Your Hit Parade, Real Tom Kennedy Show).
- 1948 - Birth of Bonnie Bedelia; actress (The Division).
- 1953 - Birth of Mary Gross in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Club Paradise, Feds, Sabrina the Teenage Witch).
- 1958 - Birth of James McDaniel in Washington DC, USA; actor (Arthur Fancy - NYPD Blue).
- 1960 - Birth of Brenda Strong; actress (Desperate Housewives, Everwood).
- 1960 - Birth of Haywood Nelson in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Haywood - Grady, Dwayne - What's Happening).
- 1961 - Birth of John Stockwell in Galveston, Texas, USA; actor (Born to Ride, City Limits).
- 1962 - Birth of Marcia Cross; actress (Melrose Place, Desperate Housewives).
- 1964 - Birth of Lisa Gay Hamilton; actress (The Practice, One Life to Live).
- 1965 - Birth of Sarah Jessica Parker in Nelsonville, Ohio, USA; actress (Square Pegs, Los Angeles Story, Sex and the City, A Year in the Life).
- 1979 - Birth of Lee Pace; actor (Pushing Daisies).
Deaths on March 25
- 1948 - Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at age 42.
- 1956 - Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at age 50.
- 1966 - Colin Campbell, actor (Leather Boys), dies at age 83.
- 1968 - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood.
- 1969 - Death of Alan Mowbray at age 72 of a heart attack; British actor (Dante, Colonel Humphrey Flack TV show), co-founder of the (US) Screen Actors Guild.
- 1974 - Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at age 72.
- 1978 - Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at age 85.
- 1983 - Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at age 72.
- 1992 - Death of Nancy Walker at age 69 of cancer; actress (Ida Morgenstein - Rhoda, Mary Tyler Moore).
- 2006 - Death of Buck Owens AKA Alvis Edgar Owens Junior at age 76; country music star ("I've Got a Tiger by the Tail", "Act Naturally", "Waiting in Your Welfare Line"), host (Hee Haw TV show).
- 2022 - Death of Kathryn Hays at age 87 in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; actor (Kim Sullivan Hughes - As the World Turns TV show).
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