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| April 25th, 2068 (April 25 2068) | Death | Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa | |
| April 25th, 2032 (April 25 2032) | Birth | Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (died in 69) | |
| April 25th, 2008 (April 25 2008) | Death | Humphrey Lyttelton, Jazz musician and broadcaster, (born in 1921) | |
| April 25th, 2007 (April 25 2007) | Event | Boris Yeltsin s funeralthe first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894. | Boris Yeltsin Quotes |
| April 25th, 2007 (April 25 2007) | Death | Alan Ball, English footballer (born in 1945) | |
| April 25th, 2007 (April 25 2007) | Death | Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (born in 1938) | |
| April 25th, 2007 (April 25 2007) | Death | Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (born in 1928) | |
| April 25th, 2006 (April 25 2006) | Death | Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (born in 1916) | |
| April 25th, 2005 (April 25 2005) | Event | The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937. | |
| April 25th, 2005 (April 25 2005) | Event | Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union. | |
| April 25th, 2005 (April 25 2005) | Event | 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan. | Saki Quotes |
| April 25th, 2005 (April 25 2005) | Death | Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (born in 1908) | |
| April 25th, 2004 (April 25 2004) | Death | Thom Gunn, British poet (born in 1929) | Thom Gunn Quotes |
| April 25th, 2003 (April 25 2003) | Death | Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (born in 1966) | |
| April 25th, 2002 (April 25 2002) | Death | Indra Devi, yoga teacher (born in 1899) | |
| April 25th, 2002 (April 25 2002) | Death | Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (born in 1971) | |
| April 25th, 2001 (April 25 2001) | Death | Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (born in 1956) | |
| April 25th, 2000 (April 25 2000) | Death | David Merrick, American theatrical producer (born in 1911) | |
| April 25th, 2000 (April 25 2000) | Death | Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (born in 1924) | |
| April 25th, 1999 (April 25 1999) | Death | Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (born in 1914) | |
| April 25th, 1998 (April 25 1998) | Death | Wright Morris, American writer (born in 1910) | |
| April 25th, 1996 (April 25 1996) | Birth | Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress | |
| April 25th, 1996 (April 25 1996) | Death | Saul Bass, American graphics designer (born in 1920) | |
| April 25th, 1995 (April 25 1995) | Death | Art Fleming, American game show host (born in 1925) | |
| April 25th, 1995 (April 25 1995) | Death | Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (born in 1911) | |
| April 25th, 1992 (April 25 1992) | Death | Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (born in 1965) | |
| April 25th, 1990 (April 25 1990) | Event | The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery. | |
| April 25th, 1990 (April 25 1990) | Death | Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (born in 1923) | |
| April 25th, 1989 (April 25 1989) | Birth | Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama | |
| April 25th, 1989 (April 25 1989) | Birth | Robbie Tarrant, Australian football player | |
| April 25th, 1988 (April 25 1988) | Event | In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. | |
| April 25th, 1988 (April 25 1988) | Birth | Sara Paxton, American actress | |
| April 25th, 1988 (April 25 1988) | Birth | James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| April 25th, 1987 (April 25 1987) | Birth | Johann Smith, American soccer player | |
| April 25th, 1986 (April 25 1986) | Event | Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II. | |
| April 25th, 1985 (April 25 1985) | Birth | Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver | |
| April 25th, 1984 (April 25 1984) | Birth | Andre Woodson, American football quarterback | |
| April 25th, 1984 (April 25 1984) | Birth | Robert Andino, Baseball player | |
| April 25th, 1983 (April 25 1983) | Event | American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war. | |
| April 25th, 1983 (April 25 1983) | Event | Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto s orbit. | |
| April 25th, 1983 (April 25 1983) | Birth | DeAngelo Williams, National Football League runningback | |
| April 25th, 1983 (April 25 1983) | Birth | J.P. Howell, American baseball player | |
| April 25th, 1982 (April 25 1982) | Event | Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords. | |
| April 25th, 1982 (April 25 1982) | Birth | Monty Panesar, English cricketer | |
| April 25th, 1982 (April 25 1982) | Birth | Brian Barton, American baseball player | |
| April 25th, 1982 (April 25 1982) | Death | John Cardinal Cody, American cardinal (born in 1907) | |
| April 25th, 1981 (April 25 1981) | Event | More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan. | |
| April 25th, 1981 (April 25 1981) | Birth | Dwone Hicks, National Football League runningback | |
| April 25th, 1981 (April 25 1981) | Birth | Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver | |
| April 25th, 1981 (April 25 1981) | Birth | John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter | |
| April 25th, 1981 (April 25 1981) | Birth | Anja Parson, Swedish skier | |
| April 25th, 1980 (April 25 1980) | Birth | Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist | |
| April 25th, 1980 (April 25 1980) | Birth | Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer | |
| April 25th, 1980 (April 25 1980) | Death | Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (born in 1883) | Thomas Mann Quotes |
| April 25th, 1978 (April 25 1978) | Birth | Leticia Birkheuer, Brazilian model | |
| April 25th, 1978 (April 25 1978) | Death | Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (born in 1960) | |
| April 25th, 1977 (April 25 1977) | Birth | Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer | |
| April 25th, 1977 (April 25 1977) | Birth | Marguerite Moreau, American actress | |
| April 25th, 1977 (April 25 1977) | Birth | Matthew West, American Christian singer | |
| April 25th, 1977 (April 25 1977) | Birth | Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer | |
| April 25th, 1977 (April 25 1977) | Birth | Paavo Siljamaki, Finnish musician | |
| April 25th, 1976 (April 25 1976) | Birth | Tim Duncan, American basketball player | |
| April 25th, 1976 (April 25 1976) | Birth | Rainer Schuttler, German tennis player | |
| April 25th, 1976 (April 25 1976) | Birth | Gilberto, Brazilian footballer | |
| April 25th, 1976 (April 25 1976) | Death | Carol Reed, British film producer and director (born in 1906) | |
| April 25th, 1975 (April 25 1975) | Event | As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam. | |
| April 25th, 1975 (April 25 1975) | Birth | Emily Bergl, English-American actress | |
| April 25th, 1975 (April 25 1975) | Birth | Jacque Jones, American baseball player | |
| April 25th, 1975 (April 25 1975) | Birth | Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer | |
| April 25th, 1975 (April 25 1975) | Death | Mike Brant, Israeli singer (born in 1947) | |
| April 25th, 1974 (April 25 1974) | Event | Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal restores democracy after more than forty years as a corporate fascist state. | |
| April 25th, 1973 (April 25 1973) | Birth | Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin) | |
| April 25th, 1972 (April 25 1972) | Event | Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive - The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum. | |
| April 25th, 1972 (April 25 1972) | Birth | Sara Baras, Spanish ballerina | |
| April 25th, 1972 (April 25 1972) | Death | George Sanders, British actor (born in 1906) | |
| April 25th, 1971 (April 25 1971) | Birth | Tomoko Kawakami, (Voice Actress), Japanese Seiyuu | |
| April 25th, 1970 (April 25 1970) | Birth | Jason Lee, American actor | |
| April 25th, 1969 (April 25 1969) | Birth | Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster | |
| April 25th, 1969 (April 25 1969) | Birth | Gina Torres, American actress | |
| April 25th, 1969 (April 25 1969) | Birth | Darren Woodson, American football player | |
| April 25th, 1969 (April 25 1969) | Birth | Renee Zellweger, American actress | |
| April 25th, 1968 (April 25 1968) | Death | John Tewksbury, American athlete (born in 1876) | |
| April 25th, 1966 (April 25 1966) | Event | The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake. | |
| April 25th, 1966 (April 25 1966) | Birth | James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer | |
| April 25th, 1965 (April 25 1965) | Birth | Eric Avery, American musician (Jane s Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear) | |
| April 25th, 1965 (April 25 1965) | Birth | Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene) | |
| April 25th, 1964 (April 25 1964) | Birth | Hank Azaria, American actor | |
| April 25th, 1964 (April 25 1964) | Birth | Andy Bell, British singer and songwriter (band Erasure) | |
| April 25th, 1964 (April 25 1964) | Birth | Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director | |
| April 25th, 1961 (April 25 1961) | Event | Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit. | |
| April 25th, 1961 (April 25 1961) | Birth | Dinesh D Souza, American author | |
| April 25th, 1960 (April 25 1960) | Birth | Bruce Redman, Australian film producer | |
| April 25th, 1959 (April 25 1959) | Event | The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping. | |
| April 25th, 1959 (April 25 1959) | Birth | Dominique Blanc, French actress | |
| April 25th, 1958 (April 25 1958) | Birth | Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion) | |
| April 25th, 1956 (April 25 1956) | Birth | Jaroslava Schallerova, Hungarian actress | |
| April 25th, 1955 (April 25 1955) | Birth | Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor | |
| April 25th, 1955 (April 25 1955) | Birth | Americo Gallego, Argentine footballer | |
| April 25th, 1953 (April 25 1953) | Event | Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA. | James D. Watson Quotes |
| April 25th, 1952 (April 25 1952) | Birth | Ketil Bjornstad, Norwegian pianist | |
| April 25th, 1952 (April 25 1952) | Birth | Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player | |
| April 25th, 1951 (April 25 1951) | Birth | Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament | |
| April 25th, 1950 (April 25 1950) | Birth | Steve Ferrone, British drummer | |
| April 25th, 1949 (April 25 1949) | Birth | Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician | |
| April 25th, 1949 (April 25 1949) | Birth | Vicente Pernia, Argentine footballer | |
| April 25th, 1949 (April 25 1949) | Birth | James Fenton, British poet | James Fenton Quotes |
| April 25th, 1948 (April 25 1948) | Birth | Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan | |
| April 25th, 1947 (April 25 1947) | Birth | Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer | |
| April 25th, 1947 (April 25 1947) | Birth | Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor | |
| April 25th, 1946 (April 25 1946) | Birth | Talia Shire, American actress | |
| April 25th, 1946 (April 25 1946) | Birth | Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician | |
| April 25th, 1945 (April 25 1945) | Event | Elbe Day: United States and Russian troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe. | |
| April 25th, 1945 (April 25 1945) | Event | The Nazi occupation army leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy. | |
| April 25th, 1945 (April 25 1945) | Event | Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations. | |
| April 25th, 1945 (April 25 1945) | Birth | Bjorn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA) | |
| April 25th, 1945 (April 25 1945) | Birth | Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) | |
| April 25th, 1944 (April 25 1944) | Event | The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. | |
| April 25th, 1944 (April 25 1944) | Death | Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (born in 1859) | |
| April 25th, 1943 (April 25 1943) | Event | The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted. | |
| April 25th, 1943 (April 25 1943) | Death | Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (born in 1858) | |
| April 25th, 1942 (April 25 1942) | Birth | Jon Kyl, American politician | |
| April 25th, 1941 (April 25 1941) | Birth | Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor | |
| April 25th, 1941 (April 25 1941) | Birth | Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan | |
| April 25th, 1940 (April 25 1940) | Birth | Al Pacino, American actor | |
| April 25th, 1939 (April 25 1939) | Birth | Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate | |
| April 25th, 1938 (April 25 1938) | Event | U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law. | |
| April 25th, 1938 (April 25 1938) | Birth | Ton Schulten, Dutch artist | |
| April 25th, 1937 (April 25 1937) | Death | Michal Drzymala, Polish rebel (born in 1857) | |
| April 25th, 1935 (April 25 1935) | Birth | April Ashley, English model | |
| April 25th, 1934 (April 25 1934) | Birth | Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer | |
| April 25th, 1933 (April 25 1933) | Birth | Jerry Leiber, American composer | |
| April 25th, 1932 (April 25 1932) | Birth | William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street) | |
| April 25th, 1932 (April 25 1932) | Birth | Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player | |
| April 25th, 1931 (April 25 1931) | Birth | Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (died in 1980) | |
| April 25th, 1930 (April 25 1930) | Birth | Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer | |
| April 25th, 1929 (April 25 1929) | Birth | Yvette Williams First New Zealander to go to olympics | |
| April 25th, 1928 (April 25 1928) | Death | Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (born in 1878) | |
| April 25th, 1927 (April 25 1927) | Birth | Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist | |
| April 25th, 1926 (April 25 1926) | Birth | Gertrude Frohlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (died in 2008) | |
| April 25th, 1925 (April 25 1925) | Birth | Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (died in 1986) | |
| April 25th, 1925 (April 25 1925) | Birth | Kay E. Kuter, American actor (died in 2003) | |
| April 25th, 1923 (April 25 1923) | Birth | Albert King, American musician (died in 1992) | |
| April 25th, 1923 (April 25 1923) | Death | Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (born in 1840) | |
| April 25th, 1921 (April 25 1921) | Birth | Karel Appel, Dutch painter (died in 2006) | |
| April 25th, 1918 (April 25 1918) | Birth | Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (died in 1995) | |
| April 25th, 1918 (April 25 1918) | Birth | Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (died in 2006) | |
| April 25th, 1917 (April 25 1917) | Birth | Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (died in 1996) | |
| April 25th, 1916 (April 25 1916) | Event | Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland. | Martial Quotes |
| April 25th, 1916 (April 25 1916) | Event | Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove. | |
| April 25th, 1915 (April 25 1915) | Event | World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins -- The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles. | |
| April 25th, 1915 (April 25 1915) | Death | Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (born in 1830) | |
| April 25th, 1914 (April 25 1914) | Birth | Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (died in 1948) | |
| April 25th, 1911 (April 25 1911) | Death | Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (born in 1862) | |
| April 25th, 1909 (April 25 1909) | Birth | William Pereira, American architect (died in 1985) | |
| April 25th, 1908 (April 25 1908) | Birth | Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (died in 1965) | Edward R. Murrow Quotes |
| April 25th, 1906 (April 25 1906) | Birth | William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died in 1997) | |
| April 25th, 1905 (April 25 1905) | Birth | George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (died in 1986) | |
| April 25th, 1903 (April 25 1903) | Birth | Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (died in 1987) | |
| April 25th, 1902 (April 25 1902) | Birth | Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (died in 1964) | |
| April 25th, 1901 (April 25 1901) | Event | New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. | |
| April 25th, 1900 (April 25 1900) | Birth | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1958) | Wolfgang Pauli Quotes |
| April 25th, 1898 (April 25 1898) | Event | Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain. | |
| April 25th, 1898 (April 25 1898) | Birth | Fred Haney, baseball player (died in 1977) | |
| April 25th, 1897 (April 25 1897) | Birth | Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (died in 1965) | |
| April 25th, 1892 (April 25 1892) | Death | Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (born in 1840) | |
| April 25th, 1891 (April 25 1891) | Death | Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (born in 1811) | |
| April 25th, 1878 (April 25 1878) | Death | Anna Sewell, English author (born in 1820) | |
| April 25th, 1874 (April 25 1874) | Birth | Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died in 1937) | Guglielmo Marconi Quotes |
| April 25th, 1868 (April 25 1868) | Birth | John Bevins Moisant, pioneer aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat, killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him. (D. 1910) | |
| April 25th, 1864 (April 25 1864) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Marks Mills. | |
| April 25th, 1862 (April 25 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| April 25th, 1861 (April 25 1861) | Event | American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C. | |
| April 25th, 1859 (April 25 1859) | Event | British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal. | |
| April 25th, 1851 (April 25 1851) | Birth | Leopoldo Alas y Urena, a.k.a. "Clarin", Spanish novelist (died in 1901) | |
| April 25th, 1849 (April 25 1849) | Event | The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots. | |
| April 25th, 1849 (April 25 1849) | Birth | Felix Klein, German mathematician (died in 1925) | |
| April 25th, 1847 (April 25 1847) | Event | The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness. | |
| April 25th, 1846 (April 25 1846) | Event | Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War. | |
| April 25th, 1843 (April 25 1843) | Birth | Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (died in 1878) | |
| April 25th, 1840 (April 25 1840) | Death | Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (born in 1781) | |
| April 25th, 1829 (April 25 1829) | Event | Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom. | |
| April 25th, 1822 (April 25 1822) | Birth | Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape designer (died in 1903) | |
| April 25th, 1800 (April 25 1800) | Death | William Cowper, English poet (born in 1731) | William Cowper Quotes |
| April 25th, 1792 (April 25 1792) | Event | Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine. | |
| April 25th, 1792 (April 25 1792) | Event | La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. | |
| April 25th, 1776 (April 25 1776) | Birth | Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (died in 1857) | |
| April 25th, 1775 (April 25 1775) | Birth | Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (died in 1830) | |
| April 25th, 1770 (April 25 1770) | Birth | Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (died in 1850) | Philo Quotes |
| April 25th, 1770 (April 25 1770) | Death | Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (born in 1700) | |
| April 25th, 1767 (April 25 1767) | Birth | Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (died in 1847) | |
| April 25th, 1744 (April 25 1744) | Death | Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (born in 1701) | |
| April 25th, 1740 (April 25 1740) | Death | Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (born in 1699) | |
| April 25th, 1725 (April 25 1725) | Birth | Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (died in 1786) | |
| April 25th, 1710 (April 25 1710) | Birth | James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (died in 1776) | |
| April 25th, 1707 (April 25 1707) | Event | The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession. | |
| April 25th, 1694 (April 25 1694) | Birth | Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (died in 1753) | |
| April 25th, 1690 (April 25 1690) | Death | David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (born in 1610) | |
| April 25th, 1660 (April 25 1660) | Death | Henry Hammond, English churchman (born in 1605) | |
| April 25th, 1644 (April 25 1644) | Death | Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (born in 1611) | |
| April 25th, 1621 (April 25 1621) | Birth | Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (died in 1679) | |
| April 25th, 1608 (April 25 1608) | Birth | Gaston, Duke of Orleans, French politician (died in 1660) | |
| April 25th, 1607 (April 25 1607) | Event | Eighty Years War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. | |
| April 25th, 1605 (April 25 1605) | Death | Naresuan, King of Siam (born in 1555) | |
| April 25th, 1599 (April 25 1599) | Birth | Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (died in 1658) | Oliver Cromwell Quotes |
| April 25th, 1595 (April 25 1595) | Death | Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born in 1544) | Torquato Tasso Quotes |
| April 25th, 1566 (April 25 1566) | Death | Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (born in 1499) | |
| April 25th, 1566 (April 25 1566) | Death | Louise Labe, French poet | |
| April 25th, 1516 (April 25 1516) | Death | John Yonge, English diplomat (born in 1467) | |
| April 25th, 1502 (April 25 1502) | Birth | Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (died in 1574) | |
| April 25th, 1472 (April 25 1472) | Death | Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (born in 1404) | Philo Quotes |
| April 25th, 1295 (April 25 1295) | Death | King Sancho IV of Castile | |
| April 25th, 1287 (April 25 1287) | Birth | Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (died in 1330) | |
| April 25th, 1284 (April 25 1284) | Birth | King Edward II of England (died in 1327) | |
| April 25th, 1265 (April 25 1265) | Death | Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader | |
| April 25th, 1228 (April 25 1228) | Birth | Conrad IV of Germany (died in 1254) | |
| April 25th, 1214 (April 25 1214) | Birth | King Louis IX of France (died in 1270) | Louis IX of France Quotes |
| April 25th, 1185 (April 25 1185) | Death | Emperor Antoku of Japan (born in 1178) | |
