July 20, 1925

1925Jacques Delors, French economist and politician, 8th President of the European Commission (died 2023)^[†]

Jacques Lucien Jean Delors was a French politician who served as president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. Delors played a key role in the creation of the single market, the euro and the modern European Union.

1925Frantz Fanon, French–Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1961)^[†]

Frantz Omar Fanon was a French West Indian psychiatrist, and political philosopher, from the French colony of Martinique. His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, and critical theory. As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and Pan-Africanist, concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.