About the day » Thursday August 25, 1955Calender converter

• NN Sullot, Kerkrade († 1955)
• James Systma, Tokyo, Japan
• Marc SANDERS († 1960)
• Geert Jan Stolk, Tinte, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Colette S. Estourgie, Prabumulih († 1958)
• Gertje Stolk, Tinte Z.H († 1955)
• Deborah D Engle († 1989)
• Wilhelmus J.H.M. Ivits, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Douglas Kathmann, USA († 1976)
• Catharina Johannes Maria Godrie, Zundert († 2010)

• Berend Beekman (87), Ede
• Cornelia Koedood (40), Rotterdam
• Coenraad Cornelis Petrus Huijg (84), Utrecht
• Christina Cornelia Olthuis (38), Zutphen
• Andries (Andre) Dirk Roeland Karel WAALBERG (91), Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Luthart (67), Rotterdam
• Berend Beekman (87), Ede
• André Jules Alfred DEBLAYE (56), Fomerey
• Catherine O'Levia Shoemaker (79), Slayton, Lobbock Co., Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Antonie Pols, Maastricht, Nederland

• 1954 » Elvis Costello, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1954 » Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland
• 1955 » Gerd Müller, German businessman and politician
• 1955 » John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist († 2004)
• 1956 » Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver († 1986)
• 1956 » Matt Aitken, English songwriter and record producer (Stock Aitken Waterman)
• 1956 » Takeshi Okada, Japanese footballer, coach, and manager
• 1957 » Frank Serratore, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1957 » Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster
• 1957 » Simon McBurney, English actor and director

• 1942 » Prince George, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
• 1945 » John Birch, American soldier and missionary (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Moonlight Graham, American baseball player and physician (b. 1879)
• 1967 » George Lincoln Rockwell, American commander, politician, and activist, founded the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Oscar Cabalén, Argentine race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Stanley Bruce, Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1910)
• 1969 » Robert Cosgrove, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1884)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. John
10. Petrus
11. Gerrit
12. Dirk
13. David
14. Adrianus
15. Johan
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Yvonne
11. Petronella
12. Margaretha
13. Marianne
14. Gerda
15. Marie
16. Helena

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
• April 1 » The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
• July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
• July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
• November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.

The temperature on August 25, 1955 was between 13.0 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.