Today's Famous People's Birthday: October 25.

Do you know October 25 is World Pasta Day? As you enjoy your pasta with your family, friends and loved ones, just remember that October 25 is the birthday of some famous people who have made the world beautiful and enjoyable for you and me.

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Who Are The Famous People Celebrating Their Birthday Today?
Pablo Picasso will have been 143 years old today.
- Quick Fact About Pablo Picasso
Georges Bizet will have been 186 years old today.
- Quick Facts about Georges Bizet
Johann Strauss II will have been 199 years old today.
- Quick Facts about Johann Strauss II
Joe Mercer will have been 90 years old today.
- Quick Fact About Joseph Mercer
More Famous People’s Birthday Today
Katy Perry is 40 years old today.
Sir Martin Gilbert will have been 88 years old today.
Helen Reddy will have been 83 years old today.
Fred Housego is 80 years old today.
Robbie Macintosh is 67 years old today.
Nick Hancock is 62 years old today.
Ciara is 39 years old today.
Craig Robinson is 53 years old today.
Mia Goth is 31 years old today.
Marion Ross is 96 years old today.
Chad Smith is 63 years old today.

Some of the famous people celebrating their birthday today are Johann Strauss the Younger, Georges Bizet, Pablo Picasso, Joe Mercer, Sir Martin Gilbert, Helen Reddy, Fred Housego, Robbie Macintosh, Nick Hancock, Katy Perry, Ciara, Craig Robinson, Mia Goth, Marion Ross, Chad Smith, and more.

This exclusive article contains all the gist and information about famous people celebrating their birthdays today.

Who Are The Famous People Celebrating Their Birthday Today?

Please scroll down as you read about the famous people celebrating their birthdays today:

Pablo Picasso will have been 143 years old today.

Among the famous people celebrating his birthday today, October 25, is Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso, the famous painter, printmaker, sculptor, ceramicist, and theatre designer, was born in Málaga, Spain, as the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco, a painter and a professor of art and María Picasso y López on October 25, 1881.

He was taught how to paint by his father. By the age of 13, Pablo had developed his skills in painting and arts, and his extraordinary qualities shocked his father. Picasso later attended Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.

Pablo’s career in painting started in 1894. At the age of 14, he painted Portrait of Aunt Pepa. Some of his famous and notable works include La Vie (1903), The Old Guitarist (1903–1904), Family of Saltimbanques (1905), Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), Portrait of Daniel-Henry, Kahnweiler (1910), Three Musicians (1921), Girl before a Mirror (1932), Le Rêve (1932), Guernica (1937), The Weeping Woman (1937), Massacre in Korea (1951), and Three Women at the Spring.

Known for his innovation and talent, Pablo upgraded his style from the Blue Period to the Rose Period, the African-influenced Period, Cubism, and Realism and Surrealism. He was a key figure with a hand in every art movement of the 20th century.

Throughout his life, he was addicted to work, sex, and tobacco. He married twice to Jacqueline Roque and Olga Koklova. Still, he had four children with three different women: Paul Joseph Picasso with his first wife Olga Khokhlova, Maria de la Concepcion Picasso with Marie-Thérèse Walter, and Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso and Anne Paloma Picasso – with Françoise Gilot.

Pablo Picasso died at age 91 on April 8, 1973, from pulmonary edema and a heart attack.

Quick Fact About Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso’s full name is Pablo Ruiz Picasso.
Pablo was the World’s wealthiest artist at the time of his death in 1973, with an estate valued between $100 million and $260 million.
He was a Communis.
He died at age 91.

Georges Bizet will have been 186 years old today.

Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, also known as Georges Bizet, was born on October 25, 1838, in Paris, France. He was a French composer of the Romantic era, mainly known for his operas. Bizet tragically died at an extremely young age when his operatic career showed the most significant promise it would ever show. Despite this fact, his work Carmen, in particular, is one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the repertoire. Bizet had little success before Carmen, with mixed reviews of his early works. His output for orchestra alone was small, and though he devoted eight years to the Roma Symphony, that work was overshadowed by its predecessor, the Symphony in C.

On October 9, 1848, just weeks before his tenth birthday, Bizet was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire. He immediately began to make a name for himself there when, six months later, he won first prize in Solfège. The music critic Harold C. Schonberg thought that if Bizet had not died so young, he probably would have changed the whole face of French opera. As it was, the verismo movement was taken up mainly by the Italians, particularly Puccini, who carried on where Bizet had left off.

In June 1871, Bizet was engaged as chorus master at the Opéra to begin work in October.

By November, however, the post was taken by Hector Salomon. Bizet’s health had been undermined by a recurring throat affliction and by heavy smoking, combined with the strains of extended work, including long hours preparing publishers’ transcriptions. He died at 36 on June 3, 1875, in Bougival, France. Bizet was survived by Jacques Bizet, his son, and his wife, Geneviève Halévy, whom he married in 1869 and through whom his memory lived on to ensure the survival of his legacy in the opera world.

Quick Facts about Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet was born Alexandre César Léopold Bizet on October 25, 1838, in Paris, France.
He is best known for his opera Carmen, one of the world’s most performed operas.
Bizet was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at ten and quickly excelled in his studies.
He passed away on June 3, 1875, in Bougival, France, at 36.
Although his career was short, Bizet’s music has had a lasting impact on the opera world and continues to be celebrated today.

Johann Strauss II will have been 199 years old today.

Johann Baptist Strauss II, popularly known as Johann Strauss II, was born in Neubau, Vienna, Austria, on October 25, 1825. A highly acclaimed composer, he is remembered chiefly as a waltz composer but also for his polkas and operettas, for which he had most of his influence in the world of music. He initially competed hard with his father, Johann Strauss I, in the prime periods of the revolutions 1848 in the Austrian Empire, where competition was fiercer between them.

Strauss hit it big in the United States in 1872 when he participated in the World’s Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival in Boston, conducting a “Monster Concert” that featured over 1,000 performers playing his most famous waltz, The Blue Danube. However, he did have to face fierce competition from his fellow composers like Carl Michael Ziehrer and Émile Waldteufel, who were ruling the music world in Paris at the time.

Strauss was troubled with hypochondria and bronchial catarrh at different times of his life. In May 1899, he came down with a respiratory illness that developed into pleuropneumonia and caused his death on June 3, 1899, when he was 73, in Vienna. He is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. Strauss continues to live through his evergreen creations; he has been tagged as the “Waltz King”, whose music reverberates in every concert hall and celebration worldwide. Later, in 1862, he married the singer Henrietta Treffz, and upon her death in 1878, he married the actress Angelika Dittrich, intermeshing his life into the arts even more.

Quick Facts about Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II was born on October 25, 1825, in Neubau, Vienna, Austria.
He is best known for his waltzes, including the iconic The Blue Danube.
Strauss conducted a major concert in the United States in 1872, featuring over 1,000 performers.
He died in Vienna, Austria, at age 73 on June 3, 1899.
Strauss married singer Henrietta Treffz in 1862 and later married actress Angelika Dittrich after she died in 1878.

Joe Mercer will have been 90 years old today.

Famous British English thoroughbred racehorse jockey Joe Mercer is one of the famous people born today, October 25. Joe Mercer began his racing career in 1947 and retired in 1985.

Let’s take through how Joe Mercer’s career started; he was an apprentice to Frederick Sneyd. In September 1950, Joe won his first for Sneyd on Eldoret in a handicap race at Bath.

Joe won the British flat racing Champion Apprentice Jockey in 1952 when he rode 26 winners, and in 1953 when he rode 61. Mercer won the British Classic race on Ambiguity in the 1953 Epsom Oaks as an apprentice, and he was his first in that event.

He later worked for Jack Colling, Dick Hern, Henry Cecil and Peter Walwyn as a stable jockey. Joe won his only lat racing Champion Jockey title in 1979 while at Cecil’s yard. His most successful ride was Brigadier Gerard between 1970 and 1972, where he won 17 races out of 18 races.

Joe also won all British Classic except the Derby, despite becoming a second runner-up on two occasions. His major racing wins include:

1. British Classic Race wins:

Epsom Oaks (1953)
St. Leger Stakes (1965, 1974, 1980, 1981)
2,000 Guineas Stakes (1971)
1,000 Guineas Stakes (1974, 1979)

2. Irish Classic Race wins:

Irish 2,000 Guineas (1973)
Irish Derby (1959)
Irish St Leger (1965)

3. French Classic Race wins:

Prix de Diane (1974)

Joe also won two British flat racing championships, Apprentice (1952 and 1953) and British flat racing champion Jockey (1979). He was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Joseph Mercer was born on October 25, 1934, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, to Emmanuel Mercer, a coach painter, and his wife Jessie. He was one of the eight children of his parents. Joe died at the age of 86 on May 17, 2021, and was survived by her wife, Deanna Anne Carr.