Oh, OK, Wayne Shorter was born, and Martin Amis. And Leonard Bernstein and Sean Connery and Elvis Costello. And there was the one year - 1944 - when Paris was liberated from the Germans.
But for a lot of the time 25 August has a nothing-much-happening feel to it. It's summed up by the fact that this day in 1890 would have been the start of an England-Australia Test at Old Trafford, but the game was washed out. Nothing to be done in these circumstances but to fall back on one's own resources.