On this day: 25 February
Events, births and deaths on 25 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Roberto Orci
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 11
- 1921Georgian SSR — union republic of the Soviet Union
- 1941February strike — strikes organized on 25 and 26 February 1941 as an act of resistance against the expulsion of Jews from Dutch society by the German occupiers
- 19481948 Czechoslovak coup d'état — 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia
- 1951Pan American Games — multi-sport event of the Americas
- 19511951 Pan American Games — 1st edition of the Pan American Games
- 19801980 Surinamese coup d'état — violent overthrow of government in Suriname
- 1992Khojaly Massacre — mass murder of Azerbaijani civilians in the town of Khojaly
- 1994Cave of the Patriarchs massacre — mass shooting committed by American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein
- 1999Alitalia Flight 1553 — 1999 aviation accident
- 2009Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 — aviation accident
- 20262026 Cuban boat incident — skirmish between Cuban border patrol and US ship
Births · 60
- 1643Ahmed II — 21th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1691–1695)
- 1670Maria Margaretha Kirch — German astronomer (1670-1720)
- 1682Giovanni Battista Morgagni — Italian anatomist (1682–1771)
- 1707Carlo Goldoni — Italian playwright (1707-1793)
- 1778José de San Martín — Argentine general and independence leader (1778–1850)
- 1841Pierre-Auguste Renoir — French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
- 1842Karl May — German writer (1842–1912)
- 1845George Reid — Australian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia and 12th Premier of New South Wales (1845-1918)
- 1865Andranik Ozanian — Armenian politician and military personnel (1865-1927)
- 1866Benedetto Croce — Italian philosopher (1866-1952)
- 1871Lesya Ukrainka — Ukrainian poet, writer and feminist (1871–1913)
- 1873Enrico Caruso — Italian opera singer (1873–1921)
- 1881Alexei Rykov — Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union (1881-1938)
- 1883Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone — Member of the House of Windsor
- 1885Princess Alice of Battenberg — Member of the House of Battenberg (1885–1969)
- 1887Les Kurbas — Ukrainian and Soviet actor, theatre director, film director (1887—1937)
- 1888John Foster Dulles — United States Secretary of State (1888-1959)
- 1894Meher Baba — Indian spiritual master (1894–1969)
- 1896Ida Noddack — German chemist (1896–1978)
- 1901Zeppo Marx — American film star; member of the Marx Brothers (1901–1979)
- 1907Sabahattin Ali — Turkish novelist (1907–1948)
- 1913Gert Fröbe — German actor (1913–1988)
- 1917Anthony Burgess — English writer and composer (1917–1993)
- 1920Sun Myung Moon — Korean religious leader (1920–2012)
- 1925Shehu Shagari — president of Nigeria (1925-2018)
Deaths · 60
- 806(Julian date)Tarasios of Constantinople — Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1547(Julian date)Vittoria Colonna — Italian poet and noble (1492-1547)
- 1601Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex — English nobleman (1565–1601)
- 1634Albrecht von Wallenstein — Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634)
- 1655Daniel Heinsius — Dutch scholar and poet (1580-1655)
- 1682Alessandro Stradella — Italian composer
- 1713Frederick I of Prussia — 1657 – 1713, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia in personal union (Brandenburg-Prussia)
- 1715Pu Songling — Chinese writer (1640–1715)
- 1723(Julian date)Christopher Wren — English architect (1632–1723)
- 1756Eliza Haywood — British actor and writer (1693-1756), editor
- 1819Francisco Manoel de Nascimento — Portuguese poet (1734-1819)
- 1822William Pinkney — American politician (1764-1822)
- 1850Daoguang Emperor — Qing-dynasty Chinese emperor (1782–1850)
- 1852Thomas Moore — Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)
- 1864Anna Harrison — First Lady of the United States from 1841 to 1841
- 1865Otto Ludwig — German dramatist (1813-1865)
- 1870Henrik Hertz — Danish poet (1797–1870)
- 1877Jung Bahadur Rana — Nepalese prime minister and Maharaja of Lamjung and Kaski (1817–1877)
- 1878Townsend Harris — American diplomat (1804–1878)
- 1888(Julian date)Josif Pančić — botanist (1814-1888)
- 1899Paul Reuter — German-Jewish-born British entrepreneur and news agency founder (1816–1899)
- 1906(Julian date)Anton Arensky — Russian composer, pianist and professor of music
- 1910Worthington Whittredge — American painter (1820-1910)
- 1911Friedrich Spielhagen — German novelist (1829–1911)
- 1912William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg — Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1905 to 1912
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