July 25 - Deaths

Deaths

• 306 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
• 1409 – King Martin I of Sicily
• 1471 – Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
• 1472 – Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
• 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
• 1866 – Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1792)
• 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)
• 1959 – Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (b. 1888)
• 1962 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
• 1967 – Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (b. 1878)
• 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)
• 1998 – Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
• 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)
• 2006 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (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)
• 2008 – Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
• 2009 – Harry Patch, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1898)
• 2009 – Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)
• 2009 – Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (b. 1984)
• 2009 – Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)
• 2010 – Redford White, Filipino comedian (b. 1955)