Deaths on 25 April
2000s
Marla Adams
2024
American actress (1938–2024)
Laurent Cantet
2024
French director, cinematographer and screenwriter (1961–2024)
Harry Belafonte
2023
American singer and actor (1927–2023)
John Havlicek
2019
American basketball player (1940–2019)
Madeeha Gauhar
2018
Pakistani actress, playwright, theater director and women's rights activist
Tom Lewis (Australian politician)
2016
New South Wales Premier
Jim Fanning
2015
American-Canadian baseball player, manager, and executive (1927–2015)
Matthias Kuhle
2015
German geographer (1948–2015)
Don Mankiewicz
2015
American screenwriter (1922–2015)
Mike Phillips (basketball, born 1956)
2015
American basketball player (1956–2015)
Dan Heap
2014
Canadian politician and Anglican priest (1925–2014)
William Judson Holloway Jr.
2014
American judge
Earl Morrall
2014
American football player (1934–2014)
Tito Vilanova
2014
Spanish football player and manager (1968–2014)
Stefanie Zweig
2014
20th and 21st-century German writer
Brian Adam
2013
Scottish politician (1948–2013)
Jacob Avshalomov
2013
Composer and conductor
György Berencsi
2013
Rick Camp
2013
American baseball player (1953-2013)
Gerry Bahen
2012
Australian rules footballer
Denny Jones
2012
American politician (1910–2012)
Moscelyne Larkin
2012
American ballet dancer
Louis le Brocquy
2012
Irish painter (1916–2012)
Poly Styrene
2011
Punk musician
Dorothy Provine
2010
American singer, dancer, actress (1935–2010)
Alan Sillitoe
2010
English writer (1928–2010)
Bea Arthur
2009
American actress and comedian (1922–2009)
Humphrey Lyttelton
2008
English trumpeter and broadcaster (1921–2008)
Alan Ball Jr.
2007
English footballer (1945–2007)
Arthur Milton
2007
English cricketer and footballer
Bobby Pickett
2007
American singer-songwriter and comedian (1938–2007)
Jane Jacobs
2006
American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist (1916–2006)
Peter Law
2006
Welsh politician
Jim Barker (politician)
2005
American politician (1935–2005)
Ranganathananda
2005
Hindu swami of the Ramakrishna Math order
Thom Gunn
2004
English poet (1929–2004)
Samson Kitur
2003
Kenyan sprinter
Lisa Lopes
2002
American rapper (1971–2002)
Michele Alboreto
2001
Italian racing driver (1956–2001)
Lucien Le Cam
2000
French mathematician and statistician
David Merrick
2000
American theatre producer (1911–2000)
1900s
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
1999
President of the IOC from 1972 to 1980
Roger Troutman
1999
American musician (1951–1999)
Wright Morris
1998
American photographer and novelist
Saul Bass
1996
American graphic designer (1920–1996)
Art Fleming
1995
American actor and television host (1924–1995)
Ginger Rogers
1995
American actress, singer, and dancer (1911–1995)
Lev Shankovsky
1995
Ukrainian rebel soldier and military historian
Mamoru Nakamura
1992
Chief justice of Palau (1981 to 1992)
Yutaka Ozaki
1992
Japanese musician (1965–1992)
Dexter Gordon
1990
American jazz saxophonist (1923–1990)
Carolyn Franklin
1988
American singer-songwriter (1944–1988)
Clifford D. Simak
1988
American science fiction writer (1904–1988)
William S. Bowdern
1983
American Catholic exorcist (1897–1983)
John Cody
1982
American bishop and cardinal
Carol Reed
1976
English film director (1906–1976)
Markus Reiner
1976
Israeli scientist and engineer
Mike Brant
1975
Israeli singer and songwriter (1947–1975)
Gustavo R. Vincenti
1974
Maltese architect and developer (1888–1974)
Olga Grey
1973
American actress
George Sanders
1972
British actor and singer (1906–1972)
Anita Louise
1970
American actress (1915–1970)
Robert Garrett
1961
United States athlete (1875–1961)
John Ernest Adamson
1950
English author and educator (1867–1950)
Huldreich Georg Früh
1945
Swiss composer (1903–1945)
George Herriman
1944
American cartoonist (1880–1944)
Tony Mullane
1944
Irish baseball player (1859–1944)
William Stephens (American politician)
1944
American politician (1859–1944)
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
1943
Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, playwright, and producer
Salih Bozok
1941
Turkish politician
Wajed Ali Khan Panni
1936
Bengali zamindar and politician (1871–1936)
Pyotr Wrangel
1928
Russian general (1878–1928)
Louis-Olivier Taillon
1923
Premier of Quebec in 1887 and from 1892 to 1896
Emmeline B. Wells
1921
American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist
Augustus D. Juilliard
1919
American philanthropist (1836–1919)
Frederick W. Seward
1915
American politician (1830–1915)
Joseph-Alfred Archambeault
1913
Canadian bishop (1859-1913)
Emilio Salgari
1911
Italian writer (1862–1911)
John Knowles Paine
1906
American composer (1839–1906)
1800s
Henri Duveyrier
1892
French explorer and geographer
Karl von Ditmar
1892
Baltic German geologist and explorer
Nathaniel Woodard
1891
Crowfoot
1890
First Nations chief in Canada (1830–1890)
Adolph Strauch
1883
Prussian American landscape architect
Anna Sewell
1878
English novelist (1820–1878)
12th Dalai Lama
1875
Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1860 to 1875
Fyodor Tolstoy (artist)
1873
Russian sculptor
Siméon Denis Poisson
1840
French mathematician and physicist (1781–1840)
William Cowper
1800
English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)
Before 1800
Jean-Antoine Nollet
1770
French physicist (1700–1770)
Anders Celsius
1744
Swedish astronomer and physicist (1701–1744)
David Teniers the Younger
1690
Flemish Baroque painter (1610–1690)
Henry Hammond
1660
English churchman
Chongzhen Emperor
1644
Emperor of China from 1627 to 1644
Naresuan
1605
King of Siam from 1590 to 1605
Torquato Tasso
1595
Italian poet (1544–1595)
Louise Labé
1566
French poet
Diane de Poitiers
1566
French noblewoman and courtier (1500–1566)
John Yonge
1516
English ecclesiastic and diplomat (c. 1465–1516)
Leon Battista Alberti
1472
Italian architect and author (1404-1472)
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
1397
English nobleman (1350–1397)
Pope Benedict XII
1342
Head of the Catholic Church from 1334 to 1342
Sancho IV of Castile
1295
King of Castile and León from 1284 to 1295
Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester
1264
Anglo-Norman-Scottish nobleman
Boniface of Valperga
1243
Isabella II of Jerusalem
1228
Queen of Jerusalem (r. 1212–1228)
Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia
1217
Landgrave of Thuringia and Count Palatine of Saxony (died 1217)
Emperor Antoku
1185
Emperor of Japan from 1180 to 1185
Géza I of Hungary
1077
King of Hungary from 1074 to 1077
Herman I of Baden
1074
Zhang Wenwei
908
Smbat VII Bagratuni
775
Armenian noble
Mushegh VI Mamikonian
775
Rusticus (archbishop of Lyon)
501
Catholic saint and Archbishop of Lyon (d. 494)