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Green formed the group in 1967 after a stint in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and quickly established the new band as a popular live act in addition to a successful recording act, before departing in 1970.
Notable Deaths on July 25
2020 — Peter Green
English blues rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and founder of Fleetwood Mac (born 1946)
July 25 has 99 recorded notable deaths across history, from 306 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
99 source records
306 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on July 25
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1861 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery, in the wake of the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Source
- 2010 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. Source
- 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha at the Battle of Abukir. Source
- 1783 American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement. Source
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Originally from the city of Cork in Ireland, Barry obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, then served first in Cape Town, South Africa, and subsequently in many parts of the British Empire.
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Suppressing the Socialist movement in the Austrian Civil War and later banning the Austrian Nazi Party, he cemented his rule through the First of May Constitution in 1934.
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Nestor Makhno established the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement by the Ukrainian peasantry to establish anarchist communism in the country between 1918 and 1921.
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At the time of his death, aged 111 years and 38 days, Patch was the fourth-oldest man in the world, behind Walter Breuning, Horacio Celi Mendoza, and Jiroemon Kimura.
More major people who died on July 25
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1865
James Barry
English soldier and surgeon (born 1799)
James Barry was a military surgeon in the British Army. Originally from the city of Cork in Ireland, Barry obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, then served first in Cape Town, South…
1934
Engelbert Dollfuss
Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (born 1892)
Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian politician and dictator who served as chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934.
1934
Nestor Makhno
Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (born 1888)
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.
2009
Harry Patch
English soldier (born 1898)
Henry John Patch, dubbed in his later years "the Last Fighting Tommy", was an English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the world's last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War.
1492
Innocent VIII
pope of the Catholic Church (born 1432)
Pope Innocent VIII, born Giovanni Battista Cybo, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 29 August 1484 to his death, in July 1492.
1947
Kathleen Scott
English sculptor (born 1878)
Edith Agnes Kathleen Young, Baroness Kennet, FRBS was a British sculptor. Trained in London and Paris, Scott was a prolific sculptor, notably of portrait heads and busts and also of several larger public monuments.
2015
R. S. Gavai
Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (born 1929)
Ramkrishna Suryabhan Gavai, popularly known as Dadasaheb Gavai, was an Indian politician, social activist, senior leader of the Ambedkarite movement, and founder of the Republican Party of India (Gavai).
2009
Yasmin Ahmad
Malaysian film director (born 1958)
Yasmin binti Ahmad was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter. She was the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur.
1831
Maria Szymanowska
Polish composer and pianist (born 1789)
Maria Szymanowska was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.
1472
Charles of Artois
French nobleman (born 1394)
Charles of Artois, was Count of Eu from 23 December 1397 until his death 75 years later. He was son of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, and Marie of Berry.
1981
Rosa A. González
Puerto Rican nurse, author, feminist, and activist (born 1889)
Rosa A. González, RN, was a nurse, author, feminist and activist. She established various health clinics throughout Puerto Rico and was the founder of The Association of Registered Nurses of Puerto Rico.
1564
Ferdinand I
Holy Roman Emperor (born 1503)
Ferdinand I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564.
1980
Vladimir Vysotsky
Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1938)
Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet and actor who had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet culture.
1988
Judith Barsi
American child actress (born 1978)
Judith Eva Barsi was an American child actress. She began her career in television, making appearances in commercials and television series, as well as the 1987 film Jaws: The Revenge.
2017
Michael Johnson
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)
Michael Jay Johnson was an American pop, country, and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best remembered for his 1978 hit song "Bluer Than Blue".
306
Constantius Chlorus
Roman emperor (born 250)
Marcus Flavius Valerius Constantius, also called Constantius I, was a Roman emperor from 305 to 306—and was father of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome.
1794
André Chénier
Greek-French poet and author (born 1762)
André Marie Chénier was a French poet associated with the events of the French Revolution, during which he was sentenced to death. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement.
1842
Dominique Jean Larrey
French physician and surgeon (born 1766)
Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey was a French surgeon and soldier best known for his service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
1963
Ugo Cerletti
Italian neurologist and academic (born 1877)
Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry.