Famous Deaths on 25 Jul

Famous Deaths on 25 Jul

1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
1471 - Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
1492 - Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
1616 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 - André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)
1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1853 - Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw
1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1865 - "James Barry", military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)
1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1952 - Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)
1962 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1971 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1982 - Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
1984 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1986 - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
1988 - Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
1989 - Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1992 - Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1995 - Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (b. 1932)
1996 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)
1997 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
1998 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2002 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 - Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 - Carl Brashear, First African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
2007 - Bernd Jakubowski, German goal keeper (b. 1952)
2007 - Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)
2008 - Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his "Last Lecture" (b. 1960)
2008 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
306 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)