On This Day — October 25
4004 noted people were born and 1890 died on October 25 in our archive, including Henry Norris Russell, Marcellin Berthelot and Martin Gilbert.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 25
Henry Norris Russell
1877 – 1957
Marcellin Berthelot
1827 – 1907
Martin Gilbert
1936 – 2015
Peter Naur
1928 – 2016
Anatolii Hrytsenko
b. 1957
Auguste Chauvin
1810 – 1884
Bertha Phillpotts
1877 – 1932
Chris Buck
b. 1960
Dmitry Treshev
b. 1964
Dmytro Yavornytsky
1855 – 1940
Enomoto Takeaki
1836 – 1908
Esther Duflo
b. 1972
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
1900 – 1978
George B. Field
1929 – 2024
Gunay Uslu
b. 1972
Hanna Holborn Gray
b. 1930
Haruhiko Kuroda
b. 1944
Ilham Tohti
b. 1969
Joanna Pilecka
b. 1976
Julius von Mohl
1800 – 1876
Katy Perry
b. 1984
Kōtarō Tanaka
1890 – 1974
Martin L. Kersten
1953 – 2022
Michel Christol
b. 1942
Mikhail Kheraskov
1733 – 1807
Mikhail Yangel
1911 – 1971
Oskar Kallas
1868 – 1946
Pap Ndiaye
b. 1965
Philip A. Beachy
b. 1958
Ren Zhengfei
b. 1944
Romuald Szeremietiew
b. 1945
Shiv Pande
b. 1938
Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet
1893 – 1983
Stan Lai
b. 1954
Steve Horvath
b. 1967
Talbot Duckmanton
1921 – 1995
Viktor Makeyev
1924 – 1985
Wendy Hall
b. 1952
William Ernest Castle
1867 – 1962
William Stevenson
1900 – 1985
Évariste Galois
1811 – 1832
Abdoulaye Bio Tchané
b. 1952
Achille Silvestrini
1923 – 2019
Ajamu Baraka
b. 1954
Alfred Eastlack Driscoll
1902 – 1975
Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale
1916 – 1981
Amador Enseñat y Berea
b. 1960
Amadou Hott
b. 1972
Amir Dembo
b. 1958
Andreas Hofgaard Winsnes
1889 – 1972
Angela Saini
b. 1980
Apolo Nsibambi
1940 – 2019
Atsushi Onita
b. 1957
Attiya Waris
b. 1974
Barbara Skarga
1919 – 2009
Bas Belder
b. 1946
Benson Farb
b. 1967
Bernard Hogan-Howe
b. 1957
Bill Kovacs
1949 – 2006
Bill Purcell
b. 1953
Bob Gurr
b. 1931
Borys Kolesnikov
b. 1962
Bruce Eastick
1927 – 2025
Bruce Mau
b. 1959
C. F. W. Walther
1811 – 1887
Carlo Emery
1848 – 1925
Carmen Moriyón
b. 1966
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
1683 – 1757
Charles Roxburgh
b. 1959
Chester Dewey
1784 – 1867
Claudia Schmölders
b. 1944
Damian Zimon
b. 1934
Damir Boras
b. 1951
David S. Ward
b. 1945
Deep Saini
b. 1955
Deepak T. Nair
b. 1973
Dmitrii Nikolaevich Prianishnikov
1865 – 1948
Douglas Diamond
b. 1953
Eduardo Barrios
1884 – 1963
Edward Lister
b. 1949
Edwin Taylor Pollock
1870 – 1943
Eivind Berggrav
1884 – 1959
Elif Şafak
b. 1971
Elizabeth C. Crosby
1888 – 1983
Ellis Avery
1972 – 2019
Emmett Chappelle
1925 – 2019
Franc-Nohain
1872 – 1934
Frutos Saavedra Meneses
1823 – 1868
Gayle Wald
b. 1965
Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz
1920 – 2002
George Cawkwell
1919 – 2019
Hans von Tschammer und Osten
1887 – 1943
Harald Ofner
1932 – 2026
Harold Brodkey
1930 – 1996
Heinrich Schwabe
1789 – 1875
Henderson Haverfield Carson
1893 – 1971
Henry Steele Commager
1902 – 1998
Hermann Kastner
1886 – 1957
Hosei Norota
1929 – 2019
Hugh Herr
b. 1964
Ichita Kobashi
1870 – 1939
Ihor Klymenko
b. 1972
Inger Gautier Schmit
1877 – 1963
Ivan M. Niven
1915 – 1999
Jacques-Eugène Armengaud
1810 – 1891
James Eells
1926 – 2007
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
1612 – 1650
Jean Brunhes
1869 – 1930
Jeanne Cooper
1928 – 2013
Jerzy Pawłowski
1932 – 2005
Jess Row
b. 1974
Joan Beaumont
b. 1948
Joanna Muszkowska-Penson
1921 – 2023
Johan Wilhelm Rangell
1894 – 1982
Johann Georg Fischer
1816 – 1897
John I. Yellott
1908 – 1986
John Ramsbottom
1885 – 1974
John Warner
b. 1962
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez
1927 – 2016
Julian Downward
b. 1960
Kemal Bokhary
b. 1947
Kenkichi Sonogashira
b. 1931
Kiran Shankar Roy
1891 – 1949
Kiyekbayev Zhalil G.
1911 – 1968
Koulsy Lamko
b. 1959
Krzysztof Kukucki
b. 1980
Lawrence W. Sherman
b. 1949
Lev Kerbel
1917 – 2003
Levi Lincoln, Jr.
1782 – 1868
Liao Changyong
b. 1968
Liza Harvey
b. 1966
Lorenzo Ornaghi
b. 1948
Luis H. Álvarez
1919 – 2016
Lynda Benglis
b. 1941
Maciej Gołąb
b. 1952
Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah
b. 1929
Maria Lvova-Belova
b. 1984
Mariya Litovskaya
b. 1958
Marta Segarra
b. 1963
Martin Haase
b. 1962
Midori Gotō
b. 1971
Mikhail Solomentsev
1913 – 2008
Motonori Matuyama
1884 – 1958
Mridula Garg
b. 1938
Nevenka Fernández
b. 1974
Nikolai Samokysh
1860 – 1944
Oleg Savchenko
b. 1966
Oleksandr Linchevskyi
b. 1975
Oleksandra Bandura
1917 – 2010
Oriol Tarragó
b. 1976
Pablo Picasso
1881 – 1973
Pamela Shoemaker
b. 1950
Pascal Lalle
b. 1956
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
1928 – 2021
Pedro Martinez
b. 1971
Philippe Renouard
1862 – 1934
Philémon Cousineau
1874 – 1959
Pierre-Adrien Pâris
1745 – 1819
Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant
b. 2001
Princess Yōko of Mikasa
b. 1983
Radaslaŭ Astroŭski
1887 – 1976
Rafał Siemianowski
b. 1980
Robert van Genechten
1895 – 1945
Rohan Delacombe
1906 – 1991
Rusty Schweickart
b. 1935
Ryszard Przewłocki
b. 1943
Saken Zhasuzakov
b. 1957
Stella Henderson
1871 – 1962
Stepan Malkhasyants
1857 – 1947
Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton
1853 – 1934
Taisiya Vilkova
b. 1996
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
1800 – 1859
Traian Bratu
1875 – 1940
Tyge W. Böcher
1909 – 1983
Tyrus Wong
1910 – 2016
Vera Dua
b. 1952
Vitalii Khyzhniak
1934 – 2025
Vitold Fokin
1932 – 2025
Vlastimil Picek
b. 1956
Vsevolod Merkulov
1895 – 1953
Weston E. Vivian
1924 – 2020
Willem Wilmink
1936 – 2003
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
1759 – 1834
Willie Walsh
b. 1961
Yuriy Arabov
1954 – 2023
Zadie Smith
b. 1975
Zana Briski
b. 1966
Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz
1943 – 2024
Émile Buland
1857 – 1938
Abbès Mohsen
b. 1945
Abel Gance
1889 – 1981
Adam Pascal
b. 1970
Ahmad Jarba
b. 1969
Ahmad Matloub
1936 – 2018
Akshay Yadav
b. 1986
Alexander Fiedemann
1878 – 1940
Alexander Gelman
b. 1933
Alexandra Recchia
b. 1988
Alfred Henry Clarke
1860 – 1942
Alinur Aktaş
b. 1970
… and 3,804 more
Died on October 25
Albert Wangerin
1844 – 1933
Feodor Levinson-Lessing
1861 – 1939
Mina Rees
1902 – 1997
René Thom
1923 – 2002
Adelino da Palma Carlos
1905 – 1992
Alois Riedler
1850 – 1936
Anton Eiselsberg
1860 – 1939
Charles Chilton
1860 – 1929
Christoph Wilhelm von Koch
1737 – 1813
Edward Collingwood
1900 – 1970
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
1779 – 1861
Georges Goyau
1869 – 1939
Hamilton Smith
1931 – 2025
Hans Knappertsbusch
1888 – 1965
Howard Wolpe
1939 – 2011
Jean-Claude Guibal
1941 – 2021
Keizo Shibusawa
1896 – 1963
Lauri Ingman
1868 – 1934
Lisa Jardine
1944 – 2015
Liviu Ciulei
1923 – 2011
Mary McCarthy
1912 – 1989
Mikalay Barysyevich
1923 – 2015
Mikhail Yangel
1911 – 1971
Oscar Hertwig
1849 – 1922
Pietro Scoppola
1926 – 2007
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840 – 1893
Ruth Gates
1962 – 2018
Viktor Makeyev
1924 – 1985
Waldemar Haffkine
1856 – 1930
Alberto Barton
1870 – 1950
Alexander Piatigorsky
1929 – 2009
Andreas Birch
1758 – 1829
Andrzej Tomaszewski
1934 – 2010
Arthur Coleman Danto
1924 – 2013
Axel Möller
1830 – 1896
Benjamin Abbot
1762 – 1849
Bennie Oosterbaan
1906 – 1990
Blair Lee III
1916 – 1985
Brian Stacey
1946 – 1996
Carlos Morales Troncoso
1940 – 2014
Charles Wheeler
1926 – 2022
Chou Wen-chung
1923 – 2019
Christian Ludvig Scheel von Plessen
1741 – 1801
Doyle E. Carlton
1885 – 1972
Elizabeth Nesta Marks
1918 – 2002
Enid A. Haupt
1906 – 2005
Ennio De Giorgi
1928 – 1996
Ernest Lagarde
1836 – 1914
Evangelista Torricelli
1608 – 1647
Fofi Gennimata
1964 – 2021
Frank J. Sprague
1857 – 1934
Félix Gouin
1884 – 1977
Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth
1905 – 1998
Gerald Templer
1898 – 1979
Gerhard Weisser
1898 – 1989
Giorgos Grammatikakis
1939 – 2023
Hans Reidar Holtermann
1895 – 1966
Harold W. Dodds
1889 – 1980
Heinrich Cotta
1763 – 1844
Henri Bonnet
1888 – 1978
Henry Cantwell Wallace
1866 – 1924
Idzi Drzycimski
1933 – 2025
Jacques Barzun
1907 – 2012
Jan Boerman
1923 – 2020
Jan Hoffman
1906 – 1995
Jasper Adams
1793 – 1841
Jerzy Szacki
1929 – 2016
Johann Georg Estor
1699 – 1773
Johannes Käbin
1905 – 1999
John Hugh McNary
1867 – 1936
John Potter
1815 – 1858
José Gustavo Guerrero
1876 – 1958
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma
1885 – 1944
Judith M. Lumley
1941 – 2018
Karl von Terzaghi
1883 – 1963
Kasman Singodimedjo
1904 – 1982
Lee Kun-hee
1942 – 2020
Marcia Wallace Peams
1942 – 2013
Marvin Harris
1927 – 2001
Masatoshi Abe
1942 – 2020
Maurice Cole Tanquary
1881 – 1944
Mihkel Veiderma
1929 – 2018
Mike Davis
1946 – 2022
Modesto Lafuente
1806 – 1866
Nirmal Verma
1929 – 2005
Paul Wellstone
1944 – 2002
Perkins Bass
1912 – 2011
Peter Danckwerts
1916 – 1984
Peter Daniel Baade
1737 – 1823
Philippe Pinel
1745 – 1826
Richard Cleaver
1917 – 2006
Risto Ryti
1889 – 1956
Robert Ley
1890 – 1945
Rohini Godbole
1952 – 2024
Ronald Breslow
1931 – 2017
Rudolf G. Wagner
1941 – 2019
Salih Hulusi Kezrak
1864 – 1939
Silvia Bovenschen
1946 – 2017
Sir Herbert Mackworth, 1st Baronet
1737 – 1791
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet
1792 – 1861
Siro Lombardini
1924 – 2013
Terentii Shtykov
1907 – 1964
Thomas Byam Martin
1773 – 1854
Thomas Kanza
1933 – 2004
Thomas Oppermann
1954 – 2020
Tipu Aziz
1956 – 2024
Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton
1876 – 1947
Vilnis Edvīns Bresis
1938 – 2017
Vladimir Herzog
1937 – 1975
William Elphinstone
1431 – 1514
William Merritt Chase
1849 – 1916
Yūji Tsushima
1930 – 2023
Zdeněk Mácal
1936 – 2023
Ziya Gökalp
1876 – 1924
Zygmunt Vetulani
1894 – 1942
Émile Augier
1820 – 1889
Abdelmajid Chaker
1927 – 2021
Adolf Wild von Hohenborn
1860 – 1925
Alexander Baerwald
1877 – 1930
Alexander Konstantinovich Abramov
1836 – 1886
Alexander Maconochie
1787 – 1860
Alexander of Greece
1893 – 1920
Alexander von Sauerweid
1783 – 1844
Alexandre Tsutsunava
1881 – 1955
Amélie of Orléans
1865 – 1951
Andreas Maurer
1919 – 2010
Ann-Marie Ivars
1941 – 2025
Ariel Durant
1898 – 1981
Arkadii Nikolaevich Ermakov
1899 – 1957
Arved Deringer
1913 – 2011
B. F. Sisk
1910 – 1995
Balázs Győrffy
1938 – 2012
Barbara Cooper
1929 – 2022
Behram Kurşunoğlu
1922 – 2003
Benjamin L. Fairchild
1863 – 1946
Bill Graham
1931 – 1991
Bill Sharman
1926 – 2013
Bob Gantt
1922 – 1994
Bob Hoover
1922 – 2016
Bobby Riggs
1918 – 1995
Buzz Emick
1939 – 2014
Calvin T. Hulburd
1809 – 1897
Camillo Cibin
1926 – 2009
Carel Hendrik Ver Huell
1764 – 1845
Carl B. Roden
1871 – 1956
Carlo Alberto Castigliano
1847 – 1884
Carlo Strenger
1958 – 2019
Caroline Armington
1875 – 1939
Caroline Harrison
1832 – 1892
Charles A. Willoughby
1892 – 1972
Charles Douglas
1850 – 1914
Charles Hawker
1894 – 1938
Charles William Wilson
1836 – 1905
Clifford B. Drake
1918 – 1994
Clorinda Matto de Turner
1854 – 1909
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks
1852 – 1913
David Karnes
1948 – 2020
David Michael Metcalf
1933 – 2018
David Spence Thomson
1915 – 1999
Diane di Prima
1934 – 2020
Dick Taverne
1928 – 2025
Dimitrie Ralet
1816 – 1858
Dixon Hall Lewis
1802 – 1848
Don Valentine
1932 – 2019
Edgar Hull
1904 – 1984
Eduard Hildebrandt
1817 – 1868
Eduard Kohout
1889 – 1976
Edward Herbert Rees
1886 – 1969
Edward Mooney
1882 – 1958
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
1373 – 1415
Eligio Ayala
1879 – 1930
Emanuel Steward
1944 – 2012
Eric Larson
1905 – 1988
Ernest E. Evans
1908 – 1944
Eugène Ruffy
1854 – 1919
Fahrettin Altay
1880 – 1974
Flip Saunders
1955 – 2015
Forrest Tucker
1919 – 1986
Frances Noyes Hart
1890 – 1943
Frank W. Milburn
1892 – 1962
Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen
1864 – 1947
Fritz Konrad Ernst Zumpt
1908 – 1985
George Brunet
1935 – 1991
George D. O'Brien
1900 – 1957
George F. Good Jr.
1901 – 1991
George II of Great Britain
1683 – 1760
George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth
1647 – 1691
George M. Parker
1889 – 1968
Guillaume Capelle
1775 – 1843
Gustav Kross
1831 – 1885
Hanako Muraoka
1893 – 1968
Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim
1859 – 1915
Hans Olde
1855 – 1917
Harold E. Pierce
1922 – 2006
Harold F. Williamson
1901 – 1989
Heinrich Eduard Jacob
1889 – 1967
Henry Ivatt
1851 – 1923
Henry Knox
1750 – 1806
Henry of Segusio
1210 – 1271
Henry van de Velde
1863 – 1957
… and 1,690 more