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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 25th of February 0138 | EVENT | The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. |
| 25th of February 1570 | EVENT | Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England. |
| 25th of February 1797 | EVENT | Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain. |
| 25th of February 1836 | EVENT | Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver. |
| 25th of February 1843 | EVENT | Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet. |
| 25th of February 1866 | EVENT | Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed. |
| 25th of February 1870 | EVENT | Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. |
| 25th of February 1901 | EVENT | J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation. |
| 25th of February 1912 | EVENT | Marie-Adelaide, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. |
| 25th of February 1919 | EVENT | Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. |
| 25th of February 1921 | EVENT | Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia. |
| 25th of February 1928 | EVENT | Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission. |
| 25th of February 1932 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprasident. |
| 25th of February 1933 | EVENT | The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier. |
| 25th of February 1941 | EVENT | February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis. |
| 25th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. |
| 25th of February 1947 | EVENT | The State of Prussia ceases to exist. |
| 25th of February 1948 | EVENT | The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends. |
| 25th of February 1951 | EVENT | The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
| 25th of February 1954 | EVENT | Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt. |
| 25th of February 1956 | EVENT | In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin. |
| 25th of February 1964 | EVENT | Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beats Sonny Liston in the Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston world heavyweight boxing title fight. This is Clay's 20th pro boxing fight and first heavyweight title. |
| 25th of February 1964 | EVENT | Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 crashes in Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain, killing all 51 passengers and 7 crew. |
| 25th of February 1964 | EVENT | North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones. |
| 25th of February 1964 | EVENT | U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida. |
| 25th of February 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam's Quang Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre. |
| 25th of February 1971 | EVENT | The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online. |
| 25th of February 1980 | EVENT | The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo |
| 25th of February 1986 | EVENT | People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president. |
| 25th of February 1991 | EVENT | Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania. |
| 25th of February 1992 | EVENT | Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan |
| 25th of February 1994 | EVENT | Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. |
| 25th of February 2009 | EVENT | BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 people are killed, including more than 50 army officials, by Bangladeshi Border Guards inside its headquarters. |
| 25th of February 2011 | EVENT | In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fail-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921. |
| 25th of February 1398 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Xuande of China (d. 1435) |
| 25th of February 1591 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635) |
| 25th of February 1643 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695) |
| 25th of February 1663 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718) |
| 25th of February 1682 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771) |
| 25th of February 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pollnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775) |
| 25th of February 1707 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793) |
| 25th of February 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792) |
| 25th of February 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1782) |
| 25th of February 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798) |
| 25th of February 1752 | BIRTHDAY | John Graves Simcoe, British territorial lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806) |
| 25th of February 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Jose de San Martin, Argentine military commander (d. 1850) |
| 25th of February 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919) |
| 25th of February 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Karl May, German writer (d. 1912) |
| 25th of February 1845 | BIRTHDAY | George Reid, Australian politician (d. 1918) |
| 25th of February 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Cesario Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886) |
| 25th of February 1855 | BIRTHDAY | George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (d. 1912) |
| 25th of February 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Sir William Ashley, British economic historian (d. 1927) |
| 25th of February 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and educator (d. 1925) |
| 25th of February 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Zoravar Andranik Armenian general, political and public activist and freedom fighter (d. 1927) |
| 25th of February 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (d. 1952) |
| 25th of February 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921) |
| 25th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935) |
| 25th of February 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981) |
| 25th of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Brett, British socialite and wife of Charles Vyner Brooke (d. 1971) |
| 25th of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alice of Battenberg (d. 1969) |
| 25th of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | John Foster Dulles, American politician, former United States Senator from New York, and 52nd United States Secretary of State (d. 1959) |
| 25th of February 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (d. 1982) |
| 25th of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965) |
| 25th of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986) |
| 25th of February 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Meher Baba, Indian spiritual figure (d. 1969) |
| 25th of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d. 1984) |
| 25th of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Llewelyn Davies, British namesake of Peter Pan (d. 1960) |
| 25th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979) |
| 25th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986) |
| 25th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist (d. 2001) |
| 25th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Millicent Fenwick, American fashion editor and politician (d. 1992) |
| 25th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Brenda Joyce, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 25th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 25th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Gert Frobe, German actor (d. 1988) |
| 25th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | John Arlott, English cricket journalist (d. 1991) |
| 25th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991) |
| 25th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993) |
| 25th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996) |
| 25th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994) |
| 25th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995) |
| 25th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist |
| 25th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Monte Irvin, American baseball player |
| 25th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005) |
| 25th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970) |
| 25th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Takeo Kajiwara, Japanese Go player (d. 2009) |
| 25th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Stanley, American musician |
| 25th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Dickie Jones, American actor |
| 25th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Gelbart, American comedy writer (d. 2009) |
| 25th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (d. 2007) |
| 25th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher George, American actor (d. 1983) |
| 25th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Faron Young, American singer (d. 1996) |
| 25th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Brooks, English race car driver |
| 25th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (d. 1993) |
| 25th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Lema, American golfer (d. 1966) |
| 25th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Jessy Raphael, American talk show host |
| 25th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jiri Cerny, Czech music critic |
| 25th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Courtenay, English actor |
| 25th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of John Seward Johnson I |
| 25th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist |
| 25th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Elliott, Australian runner |
| 25th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Baker, American actress |
| 25th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Cater, American baseball player |
| 25th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Santo, American baseball player and broadcaster (d. 2010) |
| 25th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Packer, American sports broadcaster |
| 25th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Grassle, American actress |
| 25th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer |
| 25th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001) |
| 25th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Guokas, American basketball player & head coach |
| 25th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Leonard, French singer |
| 25th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Elkie Brooks, English singer |
| 25th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist |
| 25th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Todt, French Formula One executive |
| 25th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Evans, American athlete |
| 25th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Yule, American bass guitarist (The Velvet Underground) |
| 25th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence |
| 25th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor |
| 25th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Aldo Busi, Italian writer |
| 25th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Amin Maalouf, Lebanese writer |
| 25th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ric Flair, American professional wrestler |
| 25th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Handey, American humorist |
| 25th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Jordan, Irish director |
| 25th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Nestor Kirchner, Argentine politician (d. 2010) |
| 25th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Fernandez Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006) |
| 25th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Emitt Rhodes, American singer/songwriter |
| 25th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | James Brown, American sportscaster |
| 25th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner |
| 25th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player |
| 25th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Chamberlain, American musician |
| 25th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Inger Segelstrom, Swedish politician |
| 25th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000) |
| 25th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria Aznar, Spanish politician |
| 25th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor |
| 25th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Gerardo Pelusso, Uruguayan football manager |
| 25th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Doe, American musician |
| 25th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Marques, Portuguese politician |
| 25th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Rambis, American basketball player and coach |
| 25th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Panagiotis Beglitis, Greek politician |
| 25th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Fisher, American football coach |
| 25th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Marotte, Canadian actor |
| 25th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Peters, Welsh musician (The Alarm) |
| 25th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Blocher, German field hockey player |
| 25th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Blackledge, American football player and television color commontator |
| 25th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993) |
| 25th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Pitman, American keyboardist (Guns N' Roses) |
| 25th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Faron Moller, Canadian-born British computer scientist |
| 25th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Birgit Fischer, German kayaker |
| 25th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph E. Duncan III, American convicted serial killer and sex offender |
| 25th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Paul O'Neill, American baseball player |
| 25th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Don Majkowski, American football player |
| 25th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Evans, English comedian |
| 25th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Troiani, Italian rugby player |
| 25th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Baker, American guitarist |
| 25th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Carrot Top, American comedian |
| 25th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress |
| 25th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Denisof, American actor |
| 25th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy O'Dell, American television personality |
| 25th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003) |
| 25th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tea Leoni, American actress |
| 25th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Phillips, American actress |
| 25th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer |
| 25th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress |
| 25th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Trimboli, Australian soccer player |
| 25th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Hesmondhalgh, English actress |
| 25th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Astin, American actor |
| 25th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Harris, American disc jockey |
| 25th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Powter, Canadian musician |
| 25th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees) |
| 25th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Iglesias, Jr., Spanish singer |
| 25th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Anson Mount, American actor |
| 25th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Normann Stadler, German triathlete |
| 25th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Divya Bharti, Indian Actress |
| 25th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chelsea Handler, American comedian and actress |
| 25th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rashida Jones, American actress and musician |
| 25th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Samaki Walker, American basketball player |
| 25th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Wolff, American footballer |
| 25th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer |
| 25th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Horace Mui, Chinese vocalist |
| 25th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Ferrin, American actress |
| 25th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Hoflin, Swedish-born Australian Actor |
| 25th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Burks, American basketball player |
| 25th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Christy Knowings, American actress |
| 25th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer |
| 25th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor |
| 25th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Baird, Irish footballer |
| 25th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Kanellis, American model and professional wrestler |
| 25th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Lynn, American pornographic actress |
| 25th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 25th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used) |
| 25th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tara Wilson, Canadian actress |
| 25th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly Caldwell, American reality television personality |
| 25th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Flavia Pennetta, Italian professional tennis player |
| 25th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer |
| 25th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lovefoxxx, Brazilian singer (CSS) |
| 25th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Dane Swan, Australian AFL Player |
| 25th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Logan Leistikow, American director and actor |
| 25th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Benji Marshall, New Zealand Rugby League player |
| 25th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Joakim Noah, American basketball player |
| 25th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer |
| 25th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | James and Oliver Phelps, English actors |
| 25th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Berfield, American actor |
| 25th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | James Starks, American football player |
| 25th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kwaku Afriyie, Ghanaian footballer |
| 25th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Avila, Canadian singer |
| 25th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Abdelkader, American ice hockey player |
| 25th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Poje, Canadian figure skater |
| 25th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Monaghan, Irish musician |
| 25th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmer Fredette, American basketball player |
| 25th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | E'Twaun Moore, American basketball player |
| 25th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandra Andreu, Spanish pageant contestant |
| 25th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jefferson Alves Oliveira, Brazilian footballer |
| 25th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Oller, American actor |
| 25th of February 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Kirkman, American actress |
| 25th of February 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress |
| 25th of February 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Brendon Baerg, American actor |
| 25th of February 1246 | DEATH | Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd |
| 25th of February 1522 | DEATH | William Lilye, English classical scholar |
| 25th of February 1536 | DEATH | Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (Born 1492) |
| 25th of February 1553 | DEATH | Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (Born 1492) |
| 25th of February 1558 | DEATH | Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (Born 1498) |
| 25th of February 1601 | DEATH | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (Born 1566) |
| 25th of February 1634 | DEATH | Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (Born 1583) |
| 25th of February 1643 | DEATH | Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (Born 1582) |
| 25th of February 1655 | DEATH | Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (Born 1580) |
| 25th of February 1682 | DEATH | Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (Born 1639) |
| 25th of February 1713 | DEATH | King Frederick I of Prussia (Born 1657) |
| 25th of February 1715 | DEATH | Pu Songling, Chinese writer (Born 1640) |
| 25th of February 1723 | DEATH | Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (Born 1632) |
| 25th of February 1756 | DEATH | Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (Born 1693) |
| 25th of February 1798 | DEATH | Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (Born 1716) |
| 25th of February 1805 | DEATH | Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (Born 1722) |
| 25th of February 1831 | DEATH | Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (Born 1752) |
| 25th of February 1850 | DEATH | Daoguang, Emperor of China (Born 1782) |
| 25th of February 1852 | DEATH | Thomas Moore, Irish poet (Born 1779) |
| 25th of February 1860 | DEATH | Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (Born 1790) |
| 25th of February 1899 | DEATH | Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (Born 1816) |
| 25th of February 1912 | DEATH | Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Born 1852) |
| 25th of February 1919 | DEATH | Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (Born 1879) |
| 25th of February 1922 | DEATH | Henri Desire Landru, French serial killer (Born 1869) |
| 25th of February 1928 | DEATH | William O'Brien, Irish author, journalist and politician (M.P.) (Born 1852) |
| 25th of February 1934 | DEATH | John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (Born 1873) |
| 25th of February 1945 | DEATH | Mario de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (Born 1893) |
| 25th of February 1950 | DEATH | George Minot, American physician, Nobel laureate (Born 1885) |
| 25th of February 1953 | DEATH | Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (Born 1856) |
| 25th of February 1957 | DEATH | George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (Born 1893) |
| 25th of February 1964 | DEATH | Grace Metalious, American writer (Born 1924) |
| 25th of February 1964 | DEATH | Alexander Archipenko, a Ukrainian avant-garde artist , sculptor , and graphic artist (Born 1887) |
| 25th of February 1964 | DEATH | David Logan (politician), a British Labour Party politician (Born 1871) |
| 25th of February 1964 | DEATH | Hinrich Lohse, a Nazi German politician (Born 1896) |
| 25th of February 1964 | DEATH | Johnny Burke (lyricist), (Born 1908) |
| 25th of February 1964 | DEATH | Kenneth Lee Spencer, American opera singer and actor (Born 1913) |
| 25th of February 1964 | DEATH | Mariano Jesus Cuenco, a Filipino Cebuano politician and writer (Born 1888) |
| 25th of February 1964 | DEATH | Maurice Farman, French Grand Prix motor racing champion (Born 1877) |
| 25th of February 1966 | DEATH | James D. Norris, American sports businessman (Born 1906) |
| 25th of February 1970 | DEATH | Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (Born 1903) |
| 25th of February 1971 | DEATH | Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1884) |
| 25th of February 1975 | DEATH | Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (Born 1897) |
| 25th of February 1978 | DEATH | Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general (Born 1920) |
| 25th of February 1983 | DEATH | Tennessee Williams, American playwright (Born 1911) |
| 25th of February 1987 | DEATH | James Coco, American actor (Born 1930) |
| 25th of February 1993 | DEATH | Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (Born 1917) |
| 25th of February 1993 | DEATH | Mary Walter, Filipino actress (Born 1912) |
| 25th of February 1994 | DEATH | Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass murderer (Born 1956) |
| 25th of February 1994 | DEATH | Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (Born 1914) |
| 25th of February 1996 | DEATH | Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-born actor (Born 1940) |
| 25th of February 1997 | DEATH | Cal Abrams, American major league baseball outfielder (Born 1924) |
| 25th of February 1998 | DEATH | Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer. (Born 1956) |
| 25th of February 1999 | DEATH | Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1912) |
| 25th of February 2001 | DEATH | Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (Born 1908) |
| 25th of February 2003 | DEATH | Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (Born 1920) |
| 25th of February 2003 | DEATH | Tom O'Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (Born 1916) |
| 25th of February 2004 | DEATH | Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (Born 1907) |
| 25th of February 2005 | DEATH | Peter Benenson, English founder of Amnesty International (Born 1921) |
| 25th of February 2005 | DEATH | Ben Bowen, Brain Cancer victim (Born 2002) |
| 25th of February 2006 | DEATH | Darren McGavin, American actor (Born 1922) |
| 25th of February 2006 | DEATH | Charlie Wayman, English footballer (Born 1922) |
| 25th of February 2006 | DEATH | Thomas Koppel, Danish musician (Born 1944) |
| 25th of February 2007 | DEATH | William R. Anderson, American Naval Officer and Congressman (Born 1921) |
| 25th of February 2007 | DEATH | Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (Born 1940) |
| 25th of February 2008 | DEATH | Ashley Cooper, Australian race car driver (Born 1980) |
| 25th of February 2008 | DEATH | Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (Born 1912) |
| 25th of February 2008 | DEATH | Charles Chan, father of Jackie Chan (Born 1914) |
| 25th of February 2008 | DEATH | Static Major, American singer (Born 1974) |
| 25th of February 2009 | DEATH | Philip Jose Farmer, American novelist (Born 1918) |
| 25th of February 2010 | DEATH | Ihsan Dogramac?, Turkish academic and the founder of YOK (Born 1915) |