Timeline August 2025

Events in August 2025 12

• 1928 – 2025 Jim Lovell (1928-2025) Died 7 August 2025, aged 97 American astronaut of the Gemini and Apollo programmes who commanded Apollo 13, bringing a crippled spacecraft home from the Moon in 1970.
• 1930 – 2025 Ion Iliescu (1930-2025) Died 5 August 2025, aged 95 Romanian politician who twice served as president of Romania, from 1990 to 1996 and from 2000 to 2004.
• 1932 – 2025 Rainer Weiss (1932-2025) Died 25 August 2025, aged 92 German-born American physicist awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on LIGO and the first direct detection of gravitational waves.
• 1936 – 2025 Eddie Palmieri (1936-2025) Died 6 August 2025, aged 88 American pianist and bandleader who blended jazz piano with Latin American forms and helped shape the development of salsa.
• 1937 – 2025 Sun Allah Ibrahim (1937-2025) Died 13 August 2025, aged 88 Egyptian novelist and social critic known for satires that mix realism with dark humour.
• 1944 – 2025 Shibu Soren (1944-2025) Died 4 August 2025, aged 81 Indian politician who co-founded the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and served three terms as chief minister of Jharkhand.
• 2025 Surgery for pulmonary nodule -- August 2025 In August 2025 AC Milan announces that Baresi has undergone surgery to remove a pulmonary nodule discovered during routine medical checks, and that he has subsequently begun immunotherapy. The announcement triggers an outpouring of support from across Italian and world football. It is the first public confirmation of a serious health issue. His last public appearance follows in February 2026.
• 2025 US Open 2025 Men: Carlos Alcaraz · Women: Aryna Sabalenka Alcaraz's second US Open. Sabalenka defended her women's title.
• 2025 OpenAI releases ChatGPT-5 A step change in reasoning and autonomy OpenAI released ChatGPT-5 on 7 August 2025, described as a major advance in reasoning and autonomy, amid a year of rapid progress in artificial intelligence.
• 2025 National Guard deployed to Washington DC A contested federal intervention in the capital President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC, on 11 August 2025. Mayor Muriel Bowser opposed the move, noting that crime was down on previous years.
• 2025 Sholay turns fifty Bollywood's most iconic film at half a century Sholay, widely regarded as the most iconic film in Bollywood history, marked the 50th anniversary of its release on 15 August 2025.
• 2025 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce their engagement Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on 26 August 2025.