Born in 1925

What things cost in 1925

1925 figures are annual averages of the published monthly (or quarterly) values. “Today’s dollars” uses the Consumer Price Index for September 2026; “latest” is the most recent published price. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, via FRED. Average retail prices are only published from 1976 on; 1925 has the CPI alone.

Who was in charge in 1925

United States

Calvin Coolidge (President)

United Kingdom

George V (King); Stanley Baldwin (Prime minister)

Soviet Union

Joseph Stalin (General Secretary); Mikhail Kalinin (Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets); Alexei Rykov (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars)

French Third Republic

Gaston Doumergue (President); Édouard Herriot, then Paul Painlevé, then Aristide Briand (President of the Council of ministers)

Weimar Republic of Germany

Friedrich Ebert, then Paul von Hindenburg (President); Hans Luther (Chancellor)

Empire of Japan

Taishō (Emperor); Katō Takaaki (Prime minister)

From Wikipedia’s List of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) (revision 1377869146), each name checked against Wikidata. Every country in 1925 →

Famous people born in 1925

• October 13 – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 (died 2013) source
• November 20 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, Attorney General of the United States and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate (died 1968) source
• January 1 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (died 2005) source
• January 14 – Yukio Mishima, author, poet, and playwright (died 1970) source
• February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (died 2001) source
• May 19 – Malcolm X, African-American civil rights activist (died 1965) source
• 10 November – Richard Burton, actor (died 1984) source
• 3 April – Tony Benn, politician (died 2014) source
• March 12 – G. William Whitehurst, American politician source
• December 29 – Pete Dye, American golf course architect (died 2020) source
• July 2 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese independence leader (died 1961) source
• May 19 – Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge (died 1998) source
• November 24 – William F. Buckley Jr., American journalist, author and commentator (died 2008) source
• September 29 – John Tower, American politician (died 1991) source
• 24 March – Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (died 1994) source

What happened in 1925

• 1 January –Turkey gained the right of duty tax (according to the treaty of Lausanne) source
• January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. source
• 1 January – National scheme for vehicle registration plates comes into force source
• January 25 – The tomb of Tutankhamun is reopened to allow Howard Carter to resume his archaeological investigation. Some artefacts are found to be damaged as a result of careless storage by the antiquities department. source
• 14 January – Captain Roig and his group of three biplanes Bréguet XIV Renault, land in Buenos Aires on a reconnaissance flight from Rio de Janeiro, to demonstrate the viability of a regular air mail service along the Buenos Aires – Bahía Blanca – Comodoro Rivadavia route. source
• March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius. source
• March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union. source
• January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. source