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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 25th of April 1607 | EVENT | Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. |
| 25th of April 1644 | EVENT | The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng. |
| 25th of April 1707 | EVENT | The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession. |
| 25th of April 1792 | EVENT | Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine. |
| 25th of April 1792 | EVENT | La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. |
| 25th of April 1804 | EVENT | The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire |
| 25th of April 1829 | EVENT | Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom. |
| 25th of April 1846 | EVENT | Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War. |
| 25th of April 1847 | EVENT | The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness. |
| 25th of April 1849 | EVENT | The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots. |
| 25th of April 1859 | EVENT | British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal. |
| 25th of April 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C. |
| 25th of April 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 25th of April 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills. |
| 25th of April 1898 | EVENT | Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain. |
| 25th of April 1901 | EVENT | New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. |
| 25th of April 1214 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis IX of France (d. 1270) |
| 25th of April 1228 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254) |
| 25th of April 1284 | BIRTHDAY | King Edward II of England (d. 1327) |
| 25th of April 1287 | BIRTHDAY | Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330) |
| 25th of April 1502 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574) |
| 25th of April 1599 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1658) |
| 25th of April 1608 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston, Duke of Orleans, French politician (d. 1660) |
| 25th of April 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679) |
| 25th of April 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753) |
| 25th of April 1710 | BIRTHDAY | James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776) |
| 25th of April 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1786) |
| 25th of April 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847) |
| 25th of April 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850) |
| 25th of April 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830) |
| 25th of April 1776 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857) |
| 25th of April 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878) |
| 25th of April 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925) |
| 25th of April 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927) |
| 25th of April 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Leopoldo Alas y Urena, a.k.a. "Clarin", Spanish novelist (d. 1901) |
| 25th of April 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British politician (d. 1933) |
| 25th of April 1868 | BIRTHDAY | John Bevins Moisant, American aviator (d. 1910) |
| 25th of April 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Walter de la Mare, English poet (d. 1956) |
| 25th of April 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937) |
| 25th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965) |
| 25th of April 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977) |
| 25th of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 25th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964) |
| 25th of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987) |
| 25th of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986) |
| 25th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997) |
| 25th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965) |
| 25th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985) |
| 25th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Roussen, Greek naval officer in World War II (d. 1944) |
| 25th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948) |
| 25th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996) |
| 25th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006) |
| 25th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995) |
| 25th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006) |
| 25th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (d. 2006) |
| 25th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Albert King, American musician (d. 1992) |
| 25th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Mannino, Italian composer (d. 2005) |
| 25th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986) |
| 25th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 25th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude Frohlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008) |
| 25th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Corin Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (d. 2009) |
| 25th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist |
| 25th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Yvette Williams, first woman New Zealander to go to Olympics |
| 25th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer |
| 25th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980) |
| 25th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player |
| 25th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street) |
| 25th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Leiber, American composer |
| 25th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (d. 1992) |
| 25th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer |
| 25th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | April Ashley, English model |
| 25th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ton Schulten, Dutch artist |
| 25th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate |
| 25th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Al Pacino, American actor |
| 25th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jochen Borchert, German politician |
| 25th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor |
| 25th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan |
| 25th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Kyl, American politician, junior senator of Arizona |
| 25th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 25th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Len Goodman, English dancer |
| 25th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) |
| 25th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA) |
| 25th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Richard C. Hoagland, American conspiracy theorist |
| 25th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician |
| 25th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Talia Shire, American actress |
| 25th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer |
| 25th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor |
| 25th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan |
| 25th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente Pernia, Argentine footballer |
| 25th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician |
| 25th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | James Fenton, English poet |
| 25th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Jurasik, American actor |
| 25th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Ferrone, English drummer |
| 25th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament |
| 25th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ketil Bj?rnstad, Norwegian pianist |
| 25th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player |
| 25th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Clements, American animation director |
| 25th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor |
| 25th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Tyng, American composer |
| 25th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Americo Gallego, Argentine footballer |
| 25th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jaroslava Schallerova, Czech actress |
| 25th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion) |
| 25th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Blanc, French actress |
| 25th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Redman, Australian film producer |
| 25th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dinesh D'Souza, American author |
| 25th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | David Moyes, Everton Football Club manager |
| 25th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Azaria, American actor and voice actor |
| 25th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Bell, English singer and songwriter (Erasure) |
| 25th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene) |
| 25th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear) |
| 25th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Bryant, American basketball player |
| 25th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer |
| 25th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Dominguez, Argentine-born Italian rugby player |
| 25th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Pappas, Greek-American baseball player |
| 25th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster |
| 25th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Woodson, American football player |
| 25th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Renee Zellweger, American actress |
| 25th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Torres, American actress |
| 25th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Lee, American actor |
| 25th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Wiles, American actor |
| 25th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Baras, Spanish flamenco dancer |
| 25th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tomoko Kawakami, voice actress, Japanese Seiyuu |
| 25th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin) |
| 25th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Phoenix American gay pornographic actor |
| 25th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Bergl, British-American actress |
| 25th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jacque Jones, American baseball player |
| 25th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rainer Schuttler, German tennis player |
| 25th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Duncan, American basketball player |
| 25th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Gilberto, Brazilian footballer |
| 25th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer |
| 25th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Jong Kook, South Korean singer |
| 25th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Moreau, American actress |
| 25th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Paavo Siljamaki, Finnish musician |
| 25th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer |
| 25th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew West, American Christian singer |
| 25th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Leticia Birkheuer, Brazilian model |
| 25th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Walker, British Paralympic swimmer |
| 25th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor |
| 25th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer |
| 25th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player |
| 25th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist |
| 25th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dwone Hicks, American football player |
| 25th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter |
| 25th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver |
| 25th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Anja Parson, Swedish skier |
| 25th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Barton, American baseball player |
| 25th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Monty Panesar, English cricketer for England |
| 25th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Russo, Italian footballer |
| 25th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | DeAngelo Williams, American football player |
| 25th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | J.P. Howell, American baseball player |
| 25th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress |
| 25th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Andino, American baseball player |
| 25th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Andre' Woodson, American football player |
| 25th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Melonie Diaz, American actress |
| 25th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter |
| 25th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver |
| 25th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Smith, American soccer player |
| 25th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Park, b-boy & musician, part of Art of Movement |
| 25th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 25th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama |
| 25th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Walker, Australian Rules football player |
| 25th of April 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress |
| 25th of April 0068 | DEATH | Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa |
| 25th of April 1077 | DEATH | Geza I of Hungary (Born 1040) |
| 25th of April 1265 | DEATH | Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader |
| 25th of April 1295 | DEATH | King Sancho IV of Castile |
| 25th of April 1472 | DEATH | Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (Born 1404) |
| 25th of April 1516 | DEATH | John Yonge, English diplomat (Born 1467) |
| 25th of April 1566 | DEATH | Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (Born 1499) |
| 25th of April 1566 | DEATH | Louise Labe, French poet |
| 25th of April 1595 | DEATH | Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (Born 1544) |
| 25th of April 1605 | DEATH | Naresuan, King of Siam (Born 1555) |
| 25th of April 1644 | DEATH | Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (Born 1611) |
| 25th of April 1660 | DEATH | Henry Hammond, English churchman (Born 1605) |
| 25th of April 1690 | DEATH | David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (Born 1610) |
| 25th of April 1740 | DEATH | Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (Born 1699) |
| 25th of April 1744 | DEATH | Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (Born 1701) |
| 25th of April 1770 | DEATH | Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (Born 1700) |
| 25th of April 1800 | DEATH | William Cowper, English poet (Born 1731) |
| 25th of April 1840 | DEATH | Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Born 1781) |
| 25th of April 1875 | DEATH | Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama (Born 1857) |
| 25th of April 1878 | DEATH | Anna Sewell, English author (Born 1820) |
| 25th of April 1891 | DEATH | Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (Born 1811) |
| 25th of April 1892 | DEATH | Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (Born 1840) |
| 25th of April 1906 | DEATH | John Knowles Paine, American composer (Born 1839) |
| 25th of April 1911 | DEATH | Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (Born 1862) |
| 25th of April 1915 | DEATH | Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (Born 1830) |
| 25th of April 1919 | DEATH | Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (Born 1836) |
| 25th of April 1923 | DEATH | Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian politician (Born 1840) |
| 25th of April 1928 | DEATH | Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (Born 1878) |
| 25th of April 1937 | DEATH | Micha? Drzyma?a, Polish rebel (Born 1857) |
| 25th of April 1943 | DEATH | Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (Born 1858) |
| 25th of April 1944 | DEATH | George Herriman, cartoonist (Born 1880) |
| 25th of April 1944 | DEATH | Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (Born 1859) |
| 25th of April 1968 | DEATH | John Tewksbury, American athlete (Born 1876) |
| 25th of April 1972 | DEATH | George Sanders, British actor (Born 1906) |
| 25th of April 1973 | DEATH | Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (Born 1896) |
| 25th of April 1975 | DEATH | Mike Brant, Israeli singer (Born 1947) |
| 25th of April 1976 | DEATH | Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (Born 1886) |
| 25th of April 1976 | DEATH | Carol Reed, English film producer and director (Born 1906) |
| 25th of April 1978 | DEATH | Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (Born 1960) |
| 25th of April 1980 | DEATH | Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (Born 1883) |
| 25th of April 1982 | DEATH | John Cody, American cardinal (Born 1907) |
| 25th of April 1983 | DEATH | William S. Bowdern, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest (Born 1897) |