American actor, activist, director, race car driver, and businessman, co-founded Newman's Own (died 2008)

Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, filmmaker, racecar driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He has been described as "one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars". He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, seven Golden Globe Awards, an Actor Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear for Best Actor, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and nominations for two Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. Along with his Best Actor Academy Award win, Newman also received the Academy Honorary Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Born

1925

January 26

Died

2008

Era

1920s

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661 The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
1531 The 6.4–7.1 Mw Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
1564 The Council of Trent establishes an official distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1564 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.

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The world in 1925

When Paul arrived

april 10 The Russian city of Tsaritsyn is renamed Stalingrad to honor the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, who had guided the defense of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War in 1920.
april 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
april 17 The Communist Party of Korea (CPK) was founded in Japanese-ruled Korea (Chōsen) in Keijō (now Seoul) by Kim Yong-bom and Pak Hon-yong.
april 19 Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David Arellano and some of his teammates who had also left the Deportes Magallanes club.

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Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 American general (born 1880) Jack Youngblood 1950– American football player Juan Pablo Duarte 1813– Dominican philosopher and poet, founding father of the Dominican Republic (died 1876) Jules Feiffer 1929–2025 American cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and educator (born 1929) Lucinda Williams 1953– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Mercedes Moné 1992– American wrestler Oscar Ruggeri 1962– Argentine footballer and manager Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza 1852–1905 Italian-French explorer (died 1905) Robert Halperin 1908–1985 American yachtsman (died 1985)

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Albert Bandura 1925– Canadian-American psychologist and academic (died 2021) Alexander Shulgin 1925–2014 American pharmacologist and chemist (died 2014) Allan Blakeney 1925–2011 Canadian scholar and politician, tenth Premier of Saskatchewan (born 1925) Arkady Ostashev 1925–1998 Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (born 1925) Art McNally 1925– American football referee (died 2023) Carlos Castaneda 1925–1998 Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (born 1925) Carmine Infantino 1925–2013 American illustrator (born 1925) Chuck Bednarik 1925–2015 American lieutenant and football player (born 1925) Dominick Dunne 1925–2009 American journalist and novelist (born 1925)

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