November 25 Birthday

Famous Birthdays on November 25

• Andrew Carnegie (1835)

  Scottish-American industrialist who built a steel empire and later gave away most of his fortune to fund libraries and educational institutions.

• Joe DiMaggio (1914)

  American baseball Hall of Famer known for his 56-game hitting streak with the New York Yankees.

• John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960)

  American attorney and magazine publisher, son of President John F. Kennedy, who died in a 1999 plane crash.

• Christina Applegate (1971)

  American actress known for Married... with Children and Dead to Me.

This Day in History

• 1783 — British troops evacuated New York City, the last British-held position in the United States at the end of the American Revolutionary War, an event long commemorated locally as Evacuation Day.

• 1867 — Alfred Nobel patented dynamite, an invention whose profits later funded the Nobel Prizes he is now more widely remembered for.

• 1963 — President John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, on a day that happened to be his son John Jr.'s third birthday, an image of the toddler saluting his father's casket becoming one of the most enduring photographs of the era.

What November 25 Says About You

There's a genuinely difficult coincidence sitting at the center of November 25's history: John F. Kennedy Jr. was born on this date in 1960, and three years later, on his own third birthday in 1963, his father was buried at Arlington National Cemetery following the assassination in Dallas days earlier. The photograph of the young boy saluting his father's casket on his own birthday became one of the defining images of American grief in the twentieth century, and it's hard to think of a starker illustration of how a single calendar date can hold both celebration and mourning without ever fully separating them. Scorpio's neighboring sign Sagittarius, which governs this date, is often described in astrological writing as more forward-looking and less inclined to dwell, but this particular anniversary resists any easy optimism, and the honest reading of it holds both truths at once rather than smoothing the day into something simpler. Andrew Carnegie, born on this date in 1835, built one of history's great industrial fortunes and then spent his later years giving nearly all of it away, funding thousands of libraries on the theory that accumulated wealth carried an obligation to be redistributed for public good — itself a kind of late-life reckoning with legacy. Alfred Nobel, whose 1867 dynamite patent (also on this date) made him rich from an invention with obvious destructive potential, later used that same fortune to establish the prizes that today carry his name specifically toward peace, science, and literature, a legacy he apparently curated deliberately after reading a premature obituary that focused only on the explosives. The numerology of the 25th reduces to day number 7, tied to introspection and a search for deeper meaning beneath a surface story — fitting for both Carnegie's and Nobel's late-career reckonings with what their fortunes would ultimately be remembered for. Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941 remains one of baseball's most enduring records, a feat of sustained excellence that day number 7's patience and depth suit well. Christina Applegate has spoken candidly in recent years about living with multiple sclerosis, bringing an introspective honesty to a public career that once traded mostly on comedy. Andrew Carnegie's giving, meanwhile, was itself the product of years of introspection over what he called the 'Gospel of Wealth,' a public essay arguing that the rich were morally obligated to distribute their fortunes during their own lifetimes rather than leave the task to heirs. November's chrysanthemum, associated with remembrance in French tradition, feels unusually apt for a birthday whose real history holds celebration and loss in the very same frame.