Notable people who died on July 25 include: Constantius Chlorus, Ragenold, Ichijō, Sibylla, Herrad of Landsberg.

Notable Deaths on July 25

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Maria Szymanowska, Polish composer and pianist (born 1789)

97 people 306 – 2024

July 25 has seen 97 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 306 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1831 — Maria Szymanowska

Polish composer and pianist (born 1789)

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Maria Szymanowska was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century

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She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St

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The salons in 18th-century France were intellectual gatherings held at home by educated women

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In 1837, the composer and music critic Robert Schumann defined salon music as elegant light music and stated that this type of social music should sound beautiful, delicate, and fashionable

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In the Russian imperial capital, she composed for the court, gave concerts, taught music, and ran an influential salon

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. He was one of the four original members…

306

Ragenold

margrave of Neustria

Ragenold was the Count of Herbauges from 852 and Count of Maine and Margrave of Neustria from 878. His family is unidentified, but he may have been a son of Reginald of Herbauges.

885

Ichijō

emperor of Japan (born 980)

Emperor Ichijō was the 66th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

1011

Sibylla

queen of Jerusalem

Sibylla was the queen of Jerusalem from 1186 until her death in 1190. She reigned alongside her husband Guy of Lusignan, whom she continued to support despite his unpopularity among the barons of the Kingdom of…

1190

Herrad of Landsberg

abbess, author, and illustrator (born c. 1130)

Herrad of Landsberg was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She was known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum.

1195

Martin I

king of Sicily (born 1376)

Martin I of Sicily, called the Younger, was King of Sicily from his marriage to Queen Maria in 1390 until his death in 1409.

1409

Thomas à Kempis

German priest and mystic

Thomas à Kempis was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the Augustinians and the author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian devotional books. His name means "Thomas of Kempen", Kempen,…

1471

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. Charles was taken prisoner by the English at the Battle of…

1472

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. Son of the viceroy of Naples, Cybo spent his early years at…

1492

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. Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary…

1564

Isaac Luria

Ottoman rabbi and mystic (born 1534)

Isaac ben Solomon Ashkenazi Luria, commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari, Ha'ari Hakadosh or Arizal, was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman…

1572

Pomponio Nenna

Italian composer (born 1556)

Pomponio Nenna was a Neapolitan Italian composer of the Renaissance. He is mainly remembered for his madrigals, which were influenced by Gesualdo, and for his polychoral sacred motets, posthumously published as Sacrae…

1608

Andreas Libavius

German physician and chemist (born 1550)

Andreas Libavius was a German writer.

1616

Robert Pierrepont

1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English general and politician (born 1584)

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull was an English nobleman who joined the Royalist side in the English Civil War after some delay and became lieutenant-general of the counties of Lincoln, Rutland,…

1643

Urian Oakes

English-American minister and educator (born 1631)

Urian Oakes was an English-born American Congregational minister and educator who served as the fourth president of Harvard College from 1675 to 1681.

1681

Johann Bernhard Basedow

German educator and reformer (born 1723)

Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer, teacher and writer. He founded the Philanthropinum, a short-lived but influential progressive school in Dessau, and was the author of "Elementarwerk", a popular…

1790

William Livingston

American soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (born 1723)

William Livingston was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) during the American Revolutionary War. As a New Jersey representative in the Continental Congress, he…

1790

Isaac Low

American merchant and politician (born 1735)

Isaac Low was an American merchant in New York City who served as a member of the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association. He later served as a delegate to the New York Provincial Congress.…

1791

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.…

1794

Jean-Antoine Roucher

French poet and author (born 1745)

Jean-Antoine Roucher, was a French poet.

1794

Friedrich von der Trenck

Prussian adventurer and author (born 1726)

Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck was a Prussian officer, adventurer, and author.

1794

Kondraty Ryleyev

Russian poet and publisher (born 1795)

Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev was a Russian poet, publisher, and a leader of the Decembrist revolt, which attempted to overthrow the Russian monarchy in 1825.

1826

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English philosopher, poet, and critic (born 1772)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also…

1834

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. An important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, Larrey invented the…

1842

Charles Macintosh

Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabric (born 1766)

Charles Macintosh FRS was a Scottish chemist and the inventor of the modern waterproof raincoat. The Mackintosh raincoat is named after him.

1843

Jonas Furrer

Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1805)

Jonas Furrer was a Swiss lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Federal Council, from 1848 to 1861, and as the first president of the Swiss Confederation from 1848 to 1849, and again in 1852, 1855 and 1858.…

1861

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…

1865

John Taylor

American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1808)

John Taylor was an English-born American religious leader who served as the third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. He is the first and so far only president of the LDS…

1887

François Coty

French businessman, founded Coty (born 1874)

François Coty was a French perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts. He was the founder of the Coty perfume company, today a multinational. He is considered the founding father of…

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. Having served as Minister for Forests and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in…

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. He established the…

1934

Fred Englehardt

American triple jumper (born 1879)

Frederick William Englehardt was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump and triple jump. He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the triple jump…

1942

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.…

1947

Herbert Murrill

English organist and composer (born 1909)

Herbert Henry John Murrill was an English musician, composer, and organist.

1952

Otto Lasanen

Finnish wrestler (born 1891)

Otto Abraham Lasanen was a featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He won a bronze medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics and placed fourth at the 1914 unofficial European Championships. In 1917 he won a Russian…

1958

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

Polish-born Irish rabbi and author (born 1888)

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog or Hertzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his death in 1959, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British…

1959

Thibaudeau Rinfret

Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1879)

Thibaudeau Rinfret was a Canadian jurist who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Canada from 1944 to 1954 and briefly as Administrator of Canada from January to February 1952. He also served as a puisne justice of the…

1962

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. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric current is used to provoke a seizure for…

1963

Frank O'Hara

American poet and critic (born 1926)

Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure in the New…

1966

Konstantinos Parthenis

Egyptian-Greek painter (born 1878)

Konstantinos Parthenis was a Greek painter. Born in Alexandria, part of the Greek community in Egypt, Parthenis broke with the Greek academic tradition of the 19th century and introduced modern elements together with…

1967

John Meyers

American swimmer and water polo player (born 1880)

Edward John Meyers was an American freestyle swimmer and water polo player for the Missouri Athletic Club who won a bronze medal for the U.S. in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri.

1971

Leroy Robertson

American composer and educator (born 1896)

Leroy Robertson was an American composer and music educator.

1971

Amy Jacques Garvey

Jamaican-American journalist and activist (born 1895)

Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey was a Jamaican-born journalist and activist. She was the second wife of Marcus Garvey. She was one of the pioneering female Black journalists and publishers of the 20th century.

1973

Louis St. Laurent

Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1882)

Louis Stephen St. Laurent was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957.

1973

Shivrampant Damle

Indian educationist (born 1900)

Captain Shivrampant Damle was an Indian educationist. He is best remembered for founding the Maharashtriya Mandal in 1924.

1977

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. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which…

1980

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. In 1929,…

1981

Hal Foster

Canadian-American author and illustrator (born 1892)

Harold Rudolf Foster was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. His drawing style is noted for its high level of draftsmanship and attention to…

1982

Bryan Hextall

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1913)

Bryan Aldwyn Hextall was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL). Considered one of the top wingers of the 1940s, he led the NHL in goal scoring…

1984

Big Mama Thornton

American singer-songwriter (born 1926)

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, was an American singer and songwriter of blues and R&B.

1984

Vincente Minnelli

American director and screenwriter (born 1903)

Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director. From a career spanning over half a century, he is best known for his sophisticated innovation and artistry in musical films. As of 2026, six of his…

1986

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. She also provided the voices of…

1988

Steve Rubell

American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (born 1943)

Steve Rubell was an American entrepreneur and co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54.

1989

Lazar Kaganovich

Soviet politician (born 1893)

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates.

1991

Alfred Drake

American actor and singer (born 1914)

Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.

1992

Charlie Rich

American singer-songwriter (born 1932)

Charles Allan Rich was an American country singer. His eclectic style of music also blended influences from rockabilly, jazz, blues, soul, and gospel.

1995

Ben Hogan

American golfer (born 1912)

William Ben Hogan was an American professional golfer who is considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game. He profoundly influenced golf swing theory, and was noted for his ballstriking skill…

1997

Evangelos Papastratos

Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (born 1910)

Evangelos Papastratos was a Greek businessman born in the city of Agrinio in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece.

1998

Rudi Faßnacht

German footballer, coach, and manager (born 1934)

Rudolf "Rudi" Faßnacht was a German football manager.

2000

Abdel Rahman Badawi

Egyptian philosopher and poet (born 1917)

Abdel Rahman Badawi was an Egyptian existentialist philosopher, professor of philosophy and poet. He has been called the "foremost master of Arab existentialism." He published more than 150 works, mostly rendering of…

2002

Ludwig Bölkow

German engineer (born 1912)

Ludwig Bölkow was a German aeronautical engineer.

2003

John Schlesinger

English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1926)

John Richard Schlesinger was an English film, television and theatre director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood,…

2003

John Passmore

Australian philosopher and academic (born 1914)

John Arthur Passmore was an Australian philosopher.

2004

Albert Mangelsdorff

German trombonist (born 1928)

Albert Mangelsdorff was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics.

2005

Ezra Fleischer

Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (born 1928)

Ezra Fleischer was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist known for his pioneering research on early Hebrew piyyut and medieval Jewish liturgy. Fleischer received the Israel Prize for Literature Studies…

2006

Bernd Jakubowski

German footballer and manager (born 1952)

Bernd Jakubowski was an East German footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

2007

Jeff Fehring

Australian footballer (born 1955)

Jeff Fehring was an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League from 1977 to 1981.

2008

Tracy Hall

American chemist and academic (born 1919)

Howard Tracy Hall was an American physical chemist and one of the early pioneers in the research of synthetic diamonds, using a press of his own design.

2008

Randy Pausch

American computer scientist and educator (born 1960)

Randolph Frederick Pausch was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2008

Vernon Forrest

American boxer (born 1971)

Vernon Forrest was an American professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBC, IBF, Ring magazine and lineal welterweight between 2002…

2009

Stanley Middleton

English author (born 1919)

Stanley Middleton FRSL was a British novelist.

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.…

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. Her television commercials and films are well known in Malaysia for being…

2009

Michael Cacoyannis

Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Michalis Kakogiannis, usually credited as Michael Cacoyannis or Michael Yannis, was a Greek Cypriot filmmaker, theatre director, and playwright. He is best known for writing, directing, producing, and editing Zorba the…

2011

B. R. Ishara

Indian director and screenwriter (born 1934)

Babu Ram Ishara was an Indian film director and screenwriter best known for his films of the 1970s. He filmed 35 Bollywood films between 1964 and 1996. He was much popular for his film Chetana, Log Kya Kahenge, Milap,…

2012

Barry Langford

English director and producer (born 1926)

Barry Langford was a British television and music director, producer, and businessman. He directed many television programmes for the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s, and also worked as manager for musical artists including…

2012

Greg Mohns

American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1950)

Gregory R. Mohns was an American football coach and executive. He was the head coach of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1998 to 2000.

2012

Franz West

Austrian painter and sculptor (born 1947)

Franz West was an Austrian artist.

2012

Walter De Maria

American sculptor, illustrator, and composer (born 1935)

Walter Joseph De Maria was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with minimal art, conceptual art, and land art…

2013

William J. Guste

American lawyer and politician (born 1922)

William Joseph Guste Jr. was an American attorney and politician from the state of Louisiana. He was Attorney General of Louisiana from 1972 to 1992.

2013

Hugh Huxley

English-American biologist and academic (born 1924)

Hugh Esmor Huxley was a British molecular biologist who made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. He was a graduate in physics from Christ's College, Cambridge. However, his education was interrupted for…

2013

Bel Kaufman

German-American author and academic (born 1911)

Bella Kaufman was an American teacher and author, well known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel Up the Down Staircase.

2014

Richard Larter

Australian painter and illustrator (born 1929)

Richard Larter was an Australian painter, often identified as one of Australia's few highly recognisable pop artists. Larter also frequently painted in a Pointillist style. He took advantage of unusual techniques with…

2014

Jacques Andreani

French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (born 1929)

Jacques Andreani was French ambassador to Egypt, Italy and the United States.

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). He was the…

2015

Bob Kauffman

American basketball player and coach (born 1946)

Robert Kauffman was an American professional basketball player and coach. Kauffman was a three-time NBA All-Star.

2015

Tim LaHaye

American Christian minister and author (born 1926)

Timothy Francis LaHaye was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister and political activist who wrote more than 85 books, both non-fiction and fiction, including the Left Behind series of novels depicting…

2016

Tom Peterson

American television personality (born 1930)

Thomas Howard Peterson was an American retailer, pitchman, and television personality from Portland, Oregon. Peterson opened his first store in 1964, which grew to a regional consumer electronics, home appliance, and…

2016

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". He charted four hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and nine…

2017

Sergio Marchionne

Italian-Canadian businessman (born 1952)

Sergio Marchionne was an Italian-Canadian businessman, widely known for his turnarounds of the automakers Fiat and Chrysler, his business acumen and his outspoken and often frank approach, especially when dealing with…

2018

Beji Caid Essebsi

4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1926)

Beji Caid Essebsi was a Tunisian politician who served as the fourth president of Tunisia from 31 December 2014 until his death on 25 July 2019. Previously, he served as minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1986 and…

2019

Peter Green

English blues rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and founder of Fleetwood Mac (born 1946)

Peter Allen Greenbaum, known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who was the founder and original leader of the band Fleetwood Mac. Green formed the group in 1967…

2020

Lou Henson

American college basketball coach (born 1932)

Louis Ray Henson was an American college basketball coach. He retired as the all-time leader in victories at the University of Illinois with 423 victories and New Mexico State with 289 victories. Overall, Henson won 779…

2020

Paul Sorvino

American actor (born 1939)

Paul Anthony Sorvino was an American actor. He often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law.

2022

Shafin Ahmed

Bangladeshi bassist and singer-songwriter (born 1961)

Shafin Ahmed was a Bangladeshi rock bassist, singer-songwriter, record producer and politician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and bassist for the Bangladeshi rock band Miles, where he and his elder brother Hamin…

2024

Martin Indyk

American diplomat (born 1951)

Martin Sean Indyk was an Australian-American diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East.

2024

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Maria Szymanowska — Polish composer and pianist (1789–1831)

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Known forShe toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St

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