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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 25th of July 0285 | EVENT | Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. |
| 25th of July 0306 | EVENT | Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. |
| 25th of July 0315 | EVENT | The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. |
| 25th of July 0864 | EVENT | The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings. |
| 25th of July 1139 | EVENT | Battle of Ourique: The independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of Leon declared after the Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques. |
| 25th of July 1261 | EVENT | The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. |
| 25th of July 1536 | EVENT | Sebastian de Belalcazar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali. |
| 25th of July 1538 | EVENT | The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil. |
| 25th of July 1547 | EVENT | Henry II of France is crowned. |
| 25th of July 1567 | EVENT | Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. |
| 25th of July 1593 | EVENT | Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. |
| 25th of July 1603 | EVENT | James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707. |
| 25th of July 1693 | EVENT | Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. |
| 25th of July 1722 | EVENT | Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border. |
| 25th of July 1755 | EVENT | British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick. |
| 25th of July 1758 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. |
| 25th of July 1759 | EVENT | French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouille. |
| 25th of July 1788 | EVENT | Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550). |
| 25th of July 1792 | EVENT | The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed. |
| 25th of July 1795 | EVENT | The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid. |
| 25th of July 1797 | EVENT | Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain). |
| 25th of July 1799 | EVENT | At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. |
| 25th of July 1814 | EVENT | War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane : reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie. |
| 25th of July 1824 | EVENT | Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua. |
| 25th of July 1837 | EVENT | The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. |
| 25th of July 1853 | EVENT | Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed. |
| 25th of July 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery. |
| 25th of July 1866 | EVENT | The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank. |
| 25th of July 1868 | EVENT | Wyoming becomes a United States territory. |
| 25th of July 1869 | EVENT | The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869). |
| 25th of July 1894 | EVENT | The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship. |
| 25th of July 1898 | EVENT | The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guanica, Puerto Rico (The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been occurring since May 1898). |
| 25th of July 1907 | EVENT | Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan. |
| 25th of July 1908 | EVENT | Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. |
| 25th of July 1909 | EVENT | Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes. |
| 25th of July 1915 | EVENT | RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front. |
| 25th of July 1917 | EVENT | Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). |
| 25th of July 1920 | EVENT | Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place. |
| 25th of July 1920 | EVENT | France captures Damascus. |
| 25th of July 1925 | EVENT | Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. |
| 25th of July 1934 | EVENT | The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. |
| 25th of July 1940 | EVENT | General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal. |
| 25th of July 1942 | EVENT | Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis. |
| 25th of July 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. |
| 25th of July 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Spring : one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed. |
| 25th of July 1946 | EVENT | Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll. |
| 25th of July 1946 | EVENT | At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. |
| 25th of July 1952 | EVENT | The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a "constitution" of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current international law. |
| 25th of July 1956 | EVENT | 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51. |
| 25th of July 1957 | EVENT | The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed. |
| 25th of July 1958 | EVENT | The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou. |
| 25th of July 1959 | EVENT | SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours. |
| 25th of July 1961 | EVENT | In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. |
| 25th of July 1965 | EVENT | Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. |
| 25th of July 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. |
| 25th of July 1973 | EVENT | Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched. |
| 25th of July 1978 | EVENT | Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born. |
| 25th of July 1978 | EVENT | The Cerro Maravilla incident occurs. |
| 25th of July 1979 | EVENT | Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt. |
| 25th of July 1983 | EVENT | Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners. |
| 25th of July 1984 | EVENT | Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. |
| 25th of July 1993 | EVENT | The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. |
| 25th of July 1993 | EVENT | Israel launches a massive attack against terrorist forces in Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War. |
| 25th of July 1994 | EVENT | Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948. |
| 25th of July 1995 | EVENT | A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. |
| 25th of July 1996 | EVENT | In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. |
| 25th of July 2000 | EVENT | Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground. |
| 25th of July 2007 | EVENT | Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president. |
| 25th of July 1016 | BIRTHDAY | Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058) |
| 25th of July 1109 | BIRTHDAY | Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185) |
| 25th of July 1336 | BIRTHDAY | Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404) |
| 25th of July 1404 | BIRTHDAY | Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430) |
| 25th of July 1421 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461) |
| 25th of July 1562 | BIRTHDAY | Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611) |
| 25th of July 1653 | BIRTHDAY | Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat (d. 1728) |
| 25th of July 1658 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703) |
| 25th of July 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (d. 1756) |
| 25th of July 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806) |
| 25th of July 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Santiago de Liniers, viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata (d. 1810) |
| 25th of July 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889) |
| 25th of July 1799 | BIRTHDAY | David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834) |
| 25th of July 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873) |
| 25th of July 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916) |
| 25th of July 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930) |
| 25th of July 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917) |
| 25th of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918) |
| 25th of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959) |
| 25th of July 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966) |
| 25th of July 1882 | BIRTHDAY | George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942) |
| 25th of July 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947) |
| 25th of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946) |
| 25th of July 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918) |
| 25th of July 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974) |
| 25th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977) |
| 25th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967) |
| 25th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973) |
| 25th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983) |
| 25th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994) |
| 25th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990) |
| 25th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970) |
| 25th of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987) |
| 25th of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003) |
| 25th of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 25th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (d. 1994) |
| 25th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989) |
| 25th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990) |
| 25th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986) |
| 25th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994) |
| 25th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958) |
| 25th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965) |
| 25th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008) |
| 25th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007) |
| 25th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984) |
| 25th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Scotch Taylor, Former South African cricketer (d. 2004) |
| 25th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 25th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Whitey Lockman, American baseball player |
| 25th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003) |
| 25th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000) |
| 25th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Midge Decter, American journalist and author |
| 25th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005) |
| 25th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dolphy, Filipino comedian and actor |
| 25th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988) |
| 25th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995) |
| 25th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader |
| 25th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Chapple, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985) |
| 25th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto |
| 25th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Ross, British jazz singer |
| 25th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990) |
| 25th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1978) |
| 25th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter |
| 25th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Harris, American actress |
| 25th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | John Robinson, American football coach |
| 25th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006) |
| 25th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader |
| 25th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant |
| 25th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver |
| 25th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect |
| 25th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Renfrew, English archeologist |
| 25th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Thurmond, American basketball player |
| 25th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer |
| 25th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955) |
| 25th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Woodley, Australian musician (The Seekers) |
| 25th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jim McCarty, English musician (The Yardbirds) |
| 25th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Steinbach, German politician |
| 25th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Gibson, American media host |
| 25th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer (I Threes) |
| 25th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Verdine White, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire) |
| 25th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Thompson, American activist and former lawyer |
| 25th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect. |
| 25th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank |
| 25th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999) |
| 25th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Lynne Frederick, British Actress (d. 1994) |
| 25th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jochem Ziegert, German footballer |
| 25th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model |
| 25th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Bewley, American guitarist |
| 25th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder |
| 25th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Podborski, Canadian downhill ski racer |
| 25th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth) |
| 25th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial Killer |
| 25th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player |
| 25th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bobbie Eakes, American actress |
| 25th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress |
| 25th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Teufel III, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security |
| 25th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Drabek, American baseball player |
| 25th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician |
| 25th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Hodgson, English chess player |
| 25th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Breuk Iversen, American designer and writer |
| 25th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Illeana Douglas, American actress |
| 25th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen Herman, American bassist |
| 25th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer |
| 25th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Christine C. Quinn, American politician |
| 25th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Matt LeBlanc, American actor |
| 25th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress |
| 25th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee |
| 25th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rudi Bryson, Former South African cricketer |
| 25th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Barry, American basketball player |
| 25th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chloe Annett, British actress |
| 25th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter |
| 25th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Murray, American basketball player |
| 25th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Wagner, American baseball player |
| 25th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | David Denman, American actor |
| 25th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth) |
| 25th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Phillips, English footballer |
| 25th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Michael C. Williams, American actor |
| 25th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer |
| 25th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jay R. Ferguson, American actor |
| 25th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestle |
| 25th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jody Craddock, English footballer |
| 25th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer |
| 25th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Vazquez, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 25th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress |
| 25th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet |
| 25th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Thomas, American basketball player |
| 25th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Warren, American football player |
| 25th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Brown, World's first test tube baby |
| 25th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Adams, American singer |
| 25th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Allister Carter, English professional snooker player |
| 25th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Diam's, French rapper |
| 25th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver |
| 25th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Riggans, American baseball player |
| 25th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Waldrom, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 25th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Conor Casey, American soccer player |
| 25th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 25th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Norbert Lemcke, German footballer |
| 25th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008) |
| 25th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer |
| 25th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Nenad Krstic, Serbian basketball player |
| 25th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player |
| 25th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jasmine Lennard, English model |
| 25th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | James Lafferty, American actor |
| 25th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian race car driver |
| 25th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ahtyba Rubin, American football player |
| 25th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Meier, German model |
| 25th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Givanildo Vieira de Souza, Brazilian footballer |
| 25th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Welch, American actor |
| 25th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Geronimo, Filipina actress and singer |
| 25th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Marks, Canadian model |
| 25th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer |
| 25th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Callahan, Canadian actor |
| 25th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Ferreira, Portuguese journalist |
| 25th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Andi Eigenmann, Filipina actress |
| 25th of July 0306 | DEATH | Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (Born 250) |
| 25th of July 1409 | DEATH | King Martin I of Sicily |
| 25th of July 1471 | DEATH | Thomas a Kempis, German priest and mystic (Born 1380) |
| 25th of July 1472 | DEATH | Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (Born 1394) |
| 25th of July 1492 | DEATH | Pope Innocent VIII (Born 1432) |
| 25th of July 1572 | DEATH | Isaac Luria, Jewish mystic (Born 1534) |
| 25th of July 1616 | DEATH | Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (Born 1550) |
| 25th of July 1643 | DEATH | Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (Born 1584) |
| 25th of July 1676 | DEATH | Francois Hedelin, abbe d'Aubignac, French writer (Born 1604) |
| 25th of July 1681 | DEATH | Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (Born 1631) |
| 25th of July 1790 | DEATH | Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (Born 1723) |
| 25th of July 1790 | DEATH | William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (Born 1723) |
| 25th of July 1791 | DEATH | Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (Born 1735) |
| 25th of July 1794 | DEATH | Andre Chenier, French writer (Born 1762) |
| 25th of July 1826 | DEATH | Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (Born 1795) |
| 25th of July 1834 | DEATH | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (Born 1772) |
| 25th of July 1842 | DEATH | Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (Born 1766) |
| 25th of July 1843 | DEATH | Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (Born 1766) |
| 25th of July 1853 | DEATH | Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw |
| 25th of July 1861 | DEATH | Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (Born 1805) |
| 25th of July 1865 | DEATH | "James Barry", military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor |
| 25th of July 1866 | DEATH | Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (Born 1792) |
| 25th of July 1887 | DEATH | John Taylor, American religious leader (Born 1808) |
| 25th of July 1934 | DEATH | Francois Coty, French perfume manufacturer (Born 1874) |
| 25th of July 1934 | DEATH | Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (Born 1892) |
| 25th of July 1934 | DEATH | Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (Born 1889) |
| 25th of July 1952 | DEATH | Herbert Murrill, English composer (Born 1909) |
| 25th of July 1959 | DEATH | Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (Born 1888) |
| 25th of July 1962 | DEATH | Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (Born 1879) |
| 25th of July 1963 | DEATH | Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (Born 1877) |
| 25th of July 1967 | DEATH | Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (Born 1878) |
| 25th of July 1971 | DEATH | Leroy Robertson, American composer (Born 1896) |
| 25th of July 1973 | DEATH | Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1882) |
| 25th of July 1980 | DEATH | Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (Born 1938) |
| 25th of July 1982 | DEATH | Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (Born 1892) |
| 25th of July 1984 | DEATH | Big Mama Thornton, American singer (Born 1926) |
| 25th of July 1984 | DEATH | Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1913) |
| 25th of July 1986 | DEATH | Vincente Minnelli, American film director (Born 1903) |
| 25th of July 1988 | DEATH | Judith Barsi, American actress (Born 1978) |
| 25th of July 1989 | DEATH | Steve Rubell, American night club owner (Born 1943) |
| 25th of July 1992 | DEATH | Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (Born 1914) |
| 25th of July 1995 | DEATH | Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (Born 1932) |
| 25th of July 1997 | DEATH | Ben Hogan, American golfer (Born 1912) |
| 25th of July 1998 | DEATH | Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (Born 1921) |
| 25th of July 1998 | DEATH | Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman (Born 1910) |
| 25th of July 2000 | DEATH | Rudi Fassnacht, German football manager (Born 1934) |
| 25th of July 2002 | DEATH | Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (Born 1917) |
| 25th of July 2003 | DEATH | Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (Born 1950) |
| 25th of July 2003 | DEATH | Ludwig Bolkow, German aeronautical engineer (Born 1912) |
| 25th of July 2003 | DEATH | John Schlesinger, British film director (Born 1926) |
| 25th of July 2005 | DEATH | Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (Born 1928) |
| 25th of July 2006 | DEATH | Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (Born 1931) |
| 25th of July 2006 | DEATH | Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (Born 1928) |
| 25th of July 2007 | DEATH | Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (Born 1952) |
| 25th of July 2007 | DEATH | Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (Born 1979) |
| 25th of July 2008 | DEATH | Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his "Last Lecture" (Born 1960) |
| 25th of July 2008 | DEATH | Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (Born 1955) |
| 25th of July 2008 | DEATH | Tracy Hall, American inventor (Born 1919) |
| 25th of July 2009 | DEATH | Harry Patch, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (Born 1898) |
| 25th of July 2009 | DEATH | Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (Born 1971) |
| 25th of July 2009 | DEATH | Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (Born 1984) |
| 25th of July 2009 | DEATH | Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (Born 1958) |
| 25th of July 2010 | DEATH | Redford White, Filipino comedian (Born 1955) |