On this day: 25 June
Events, births and deaths on 25 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Chua Lam
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Ingeborg Bachmann
- Births · Stig Sollander
- Births · Kep Enderby
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1031 · Deaths · Emperor Shengzong of Liao
Events · 25
- 524Battle of Vézeronce — battle
- 841(Julian date)Battle of Fontenoy — 841 middle ages battle
- 1258(Julian date)Battle of Acre — 1258 naval battle of the War of Saint Sabas
- 1658Battle of Rio Nuevo — 1658 battle of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1654-1660
- 1788Virginia — state of the United States of America
- 1876Battle of the Little Bighorn — June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
- 1938president of Ireland — head of state of the Republic of Ireland
- 1941Continuation War — 1941–1944 Finnish war against USSR
- 1944Battle of Tali-Ihantala — 1944 battle
- 1944Bombardment of Cherbourg — a Second World War naval gunnery operation during the Battle of Normandy
- 1950Korean War — war between North and South Korea, 1950–1953
- 19531953 North Kyushu Flood — 1953 flood in Japan
- 1967Our World — 1967 international television special
- 1975Mozambique — country in Southeastern Africa; the current form of Mozambique since 1975
- 1975Emergency — 21-month period in the history of India
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup Final — 1978 FIFA World Cup match
- 1991Croatia — country in Central Europe
- 1991breakup of Yugoslavia — process starting in the late 1980s leading to the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- 1996Khobar Towers bombing — terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers, US military housing, in Khobar, Saudi Arabia
- 1998
- 2007PMTair Flight 241 — aviation accident
- 2009death of Michael Jackson — 2009 death of American singer
- 20222022 Oslo shooting — 2022 mass shooting in Oslo, Norway
- 2022Padma Bridge — a multipurpose road-rail bridge across the Padma River
- 20242024 storming of the Kenyan Parliament — storming of the the Kenyan Parliament Building by protesters in response to the passing of the Kenya Finance Bill 2024
Births · 60
- 1755Natalia Alexeievna of Russia — Russian Grand duchess (1755-1776)
- 1852Antoni Gaudí — Catalan architect (1852–1926)
- 1858Georges Courteline — French dramatist and novelist (1858-1929)
- 1860Gustave Charpentier — French composer (1860-1956)
- 1864Walther Hermann Nernst — German physical chemist and physicist (1864–1941)
- 1886Henry H. Arnold — American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force (1886-1950)
- 1887Frigyes Karinthy — Hungarian writer (1887–1938)
- 1892Shirō Ishii — Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army)
- 1894Hermann Oberth — Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
- 1900Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma — British statesman and naval officer (1900-1979)
- 1903George Orwell — British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
- 1903Anne Revere — American actress (1903-1990)
- 1907Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen — German nuclear physicist (1907–1973)
- 1908Willard Van Orman Quine — American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
- 1911William Howard Stein — American biochemist (1911–1980)
- 1924Sidney Lumet — American director, producer and screenwriter (1924–2011)
- 1925Robert Venturi — American architect (1925-2018)
- 1925June Lockhart — American actress (1925–2025)
- 1926Ingeborg Bachmann — Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
- 1928Alexei Abrikosov — Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
- 1928Peyo — Belgian comics cartoonist and scriptwriter (1928–1992)
- 1929Eric Carle — American author and illustrator for children (1929–2021)
- 1931V. P. Singh — Prime Minister of India (1989-1990)
- 1933Álvaro Siza Vieira — Portuguese architect (1933-)
- 1936B. J. Habibie — 3rd President of Indonesia (1998—1999) and 7th Vice President of Indonesia (1998)
Deaths · 60
- 635Emperor Gaozu of Tang — Founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty (566-635) (r. 618–626)
- 1031(Julian date)Emperor Shengzong of Liao — sixth emperor of the Liao Dynasty (r. 982-1031)
- 1134(Julian date)Niels — King of Denmark
- 1218(Julian date)Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester — leader of the Albigensian Crusade
- 1291Eleanor of Provence — Queen of England (1223-1291)
- 1337(Julian date)Frederick III of Sicily — King of Sicily from 1295 to 1337
- 1394(Julian date)Dorothea of Montau — Hermitess and visionary
- 1483(Julian date)Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers — English nobleman, courtier, and writer (1442-1483); younger brother of Elizabeth Woodville
- 1522(Julian date)Franchinus Gaffurius — Italian music theorist and composer (1451–1522)
- 1533(Julian date)Mary Tudor — Queen of France from 1514 to 1515 (1496-1533)
- 1634John Marston — English writer 1575?-1634
- 1638Juan Perez de Montalban — Spanish Catholic priest, dramatist, poet and novelist
- 1665Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria — Archduke of Further Ausrtia (1630-1665)
- 1669François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort — French noble
- 1671Giovanni Battista Riccioli — 16th century Italian theologian and astronomer
- 1673Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan — French-Occitan captain (1611–1673)
- 1686Simon Ushakov — Russian artist (1626-1686)
- 1715Jean du Casse — French admiral and buccaneer
- 1767Georg Philipp Telemann — German composer
- 1822E. T. A. Hoffmann — German writer (1776-1822)
- 1861Abdülmecid I — 31th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1839–1861)
- 1866Alexander von Nordmann — Finnish zoologist, botanist and palaeontologist (1803-1866)
- 1868Carlo Matteucci — Italian politician and physicist (1811–1868)
- 1875Antoine-Louis Barye — French sculptor (1795–1875)
- 1876George Armstrong Custer — United States cavalry commander (1839–1876)
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