Today in History
25 July
242 births · 97 deaths · 79 events recorded
Notable Births
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Alperen Şengün
b. 2002
Turkish basketball player (born 2002)
Adam Hložek
b. 2002
Czech footballer (born 2002)
Bryce Young
b. 2001
American football player (born 2001)
Meg Donnelly
b. 2000
American actress (born 2000)
Richard Bachman (ice hockey)
b. 1987
American ice hockey player (born 1987)
Theodore Haak
b. 1605
German scholar
James I of Scotland
b. 1394
15th-century King of Scots
Albert I, Duke of Bavaria
b. 1336
German nobleman (1336–1404)
Notable Deaths
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Shafin Ahmed
d. 2024
Bangladeshi bassist and singer-songwriter (1961–2024)
Martin Indyk
d. 2024
American diplomat (1951–2024)
Paul Sorvino
d. 2022
American actor (1939–2022)
Peter Green (musician)
d. 2020
English musician (1946–2020)
Beji Caid Essebsi
d. 2019
President of Tunisia from 2014 to 2019
Sergio Marchionne
d. 2018
Italian-Canadian businessman (1952–2018)
Leroy Robertson
d. 1971
American composer and music educator
Martin I of Sicily
d. 1409
King of Sicily from 1390 to 1409
On This Day in History
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2019
National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
2019 European heatwaves
2018
As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
2018 Suwayda attacks
2010
WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
WikiLeaks
2007
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
Pratibha Patil
2001
Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, was assassinated by shooting in New Delhi, India.
Phoolan Devi
2000
Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.
Concorde
1996
In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
1996 Burundian coup d'état
1995
A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1995 France bombings