April 25

2024 Calendar

April 25 is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

68 – Saint Mark
487 - Emperor Kenzo of Japan (b. 450)
501 - Saint Rusticus, French archbishop (b. 455)
1077 – Geza I of Hungary (b. 1040)
1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader (b. 1195)
1295 – King Sancho IV of Castile (b. 1258)
1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet and philosopher (b. 1404)
1516 – John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
1566 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France (b. 1499)
1595 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
1605 – Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
1644 – Chongzhen Emperor of China (b. 1611)
1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
1770 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
1800 – William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
1840 - Simeon Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
1873 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (b. 1783)
1875 – Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)
1878 – Anna Sewell, English writer (b. 1820)
1878 - Coles Bashford, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1816)

1901 – 2000

1911 - Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (b. 1862)
1915 - Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer, writer, editor and politician (b. 1830)
1923 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, 8th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1928 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
1943 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, playwright and producer (b. 1858)
1944 - George Herriman, American writer (b. 1880)
1944 - William Stephens, American politician, 24th Governor of California (b. 1859)
1961 - Robert Garrett, American athlete (b. 1875)
1968 – Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1976 - Carol Reed, English director and producer (b. 1906)
1980 – Katia Mann, German writer (b. 1883)
1980 - Mario Bava, Italian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
1982 - John Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
1984 - David Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy (b. 1955)
1988 - Valerie Solanas, American author (b. 1936)
1990 - Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer and actor (b. 1923)
1992 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer (b. 1965)
1993 - Rosita Moreno, Spanish-American actress (b. 1907)
1995 – Andrea Fortunato, Italian footballer (b. 1971)
1995 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
1995 - Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
1996 - Saul Bass, American graphic designer, photographer and moviemaker (b. 1920)
1998 – Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (b. 1882)
1999 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish Olympic official (b. 1914)

From 2001

2002 – Indra Devi, Latvian-born yoga teacher (b. 1899)
2002 - Lisa Lopes, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress (b. 1971)
2007 – Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer (b. 1945)
2007 - Bobby Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
2008 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician (b. 1921)
2009 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress (b. 1922)
2010 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (b. 1928)
2011 – Poly Styrene, British singer (b. 1957)
2011 – Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet (b. 1917)
2013 - Anna Proclemer, Italian actress (b. 1923)
2013 - Virginia Gibson, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1925)
2014 - Tito Vilanova, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1968)
2014 - Stanko Lorger, Slovenian Olympic hurdler (b. 1931)
2014 - Stefanie Zweig, German writer (b. 1932)
2014 - Earl Morrall, American football player (b. 1934)
2015 - Dan Fredinburg, American executive (b. 1981)
2015 - Matthias Kuhle, German geographer (b. 1948)
2015 - Jim Fanning, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2015 - Don Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1922)
2015 - Mike Phillips, American basketball player (b. 1956)
2015 - Christine Stewart, Canadian politician (b. 1941)
2016 - Martin Gray, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer (b. 1922)
2016 - Michal Hornstein, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1920)
2016 - Tom Lewis, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1922)
2016 - Mei Baojiu, Chinese opera artist (b. 1934)
2017 - Sasha Lakovic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1971)
2017 - Munyua Waiyaki, Kenyan politician (b. 1926)
2017 - Erik Martin, German songwriter and editor (b. 1936)
2017 - Philippe Mestre, French media executive and politician (b. 1927)
2018 - Abbas, Iranian photographer (b. 1944)
2018 - Shuhrat Abbosov, Uzbek actor, film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2018 - Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian economist and academic (b. 1930)
2018 - Inuka, Singapore-bred polar bear (b. 1990)
2018 - Hans-Reinhard Koch, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1929)
2018 - Michael Anderson, British film director (b. 1920)
2019 - Robert de Greef, Dutch cyclist (b. 1991)
2019 - John Havlicek, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2019 - Larry "Flash" Jenkins, American actor (b. 1955)
2019 - Manuel Lujan Jr., American politician (b. 1928)
2019 - Faty Papy, Burundiian footballer (b. 1990)
2019 - Feargal Quinn, Irish businessman and politician (b. 1936)

Births

1901 – 1950

1902 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (died 1964)
1903 – Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (died 1987)
1903 - Michele Pellegrino, Italian archbishop of Turin (died 1986)
1905 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (died 1986)
1906 – William J. Brennan, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died 1997)
1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (died 1965)
1909 - William Pereira, American architect (died 1985)
1911 - Connie Marrero, Cuban baseball player (died 2014)
1914 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., writer (died 1948)
1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (died 1996)
1918 – Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (died 1995)
1918 – Astrid Varnay, operatic soprano (died 2006)
1920 - Jean Carmet, French actor (died 1994)
1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (died 2006)
1922 - Georges Cottier, Swiss cardinal (died 2016)
1923 – Albert King, American musician (died 1992)
1923 - Anita Björk, Swedish actress (died 2012)
1924 - Ingemar Johansson, Swedish race walker (died 2009)
1924 - Franco Mannini, Italian composer, playwright and writer (died 2005)
1925 – Sammy Drechsel, journalist, movie director, and cabaretist (died 1986)
1927 – Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
1928 – Vassar Clements, American musician
1928 – Cy Twombly, American painter (died 2011)
1928 - Yury Yakovlev, Russian actor (died 2013)
1929 - John S. Waugh, American chemist (died 2014)
1929 - Yvette Williams, New Zealand athlete (died 2019)
1930 – Paul Mazursky, American movie director and writer (died 2014)
1930 - Peter Schulz, Mayor of Hamburg (died 2013)
1931 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician and physicist (died 1980)
1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player (died 2015)
1932 - Lia Manoliu, Romanian discus thrower (died 1998)
1932 - William Roache, English actor
1933 – Jerry Leiber, American composer (died 2011)
1934 - Denny Miller, American actor (died 2014)
1935 - Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese social commentator and historian (died 2018)
1935 – April Ashley, English model
1936 - Henck Arron, 1st Prime Minister of Suriname (died 2000)
1938 - Roger Boisjoly, American engineer (died 2012)
1939 - Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer
1939 - Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (died 2005)
1940 – Al Pacino, American actor
1941 - Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
1941 - Princess Muna al-Hussein of Jordan
1941 - Walter Mixa, German bishop
1942 - Jon Kyl, American politician
1943 - Julio Montero Castillo, Uruguayan footballer
1943 - Angelo Anquilletti, Italian footballer (died 2015)
1943 - Tony Christie, British singer
1944 – Len Goodman, British dancer
1945 – Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
1945 - Stu Cook, English bass guitarist
1946 - Andrzej Seweryn, Polish actor
1946 – Talia Shire, American actress
1946 - Peter Sutherland, Irish lawyer, politician and businessman (died 2018)
1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
1947 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (died 2016)
1948 - Mike Selvey, English cricketer
1948 - Yu Shyi-kun, 39th Premier of the Republic of China
1949 - Paul Judge, British businessman and political executive (died 2017)
1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French politician and economist, former head of the IMF
1950 – Peter Jurasik, American actor
1950 - Peter Hintze, German politician (died 2016)

1951 – 1975

1952 - Jacques Santini, French footballer and manager
1952 - Vladislav Tretiak, Russian ice hockey goaltender
1952 – Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1953 - Ron Clements, American animator, director, producer and screenwriter
1955 - Americo Gallego, Argentine footballer
1955 - Zev Siegel, American businessman
1956 - Dominique Blanc, French actress
1957 - Eric Bristow, English darts player (died 2018)
1957 - Roch Marc Kaboré, former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
1958 – Fish, Scottish singer, musician and actor
1959 - Paul Madden, English diplomat
1960 - Robert Peston, English journalist
1962 - Juha Sipila, Finnish politician, Prime minister of Finland
1963 – David Moyes, Scottish footballer and manager
1963 - Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, French actress
1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor
1964 – Andy Bell, British musician (Erasure)
1964 - Fiona Bruce, British journalist, newsreader and television presenter
1965 - John Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2014)
1965 - Simon Fowler, English singer and guitarist
1965 – Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction)
1969 – Joe Buck, baseball and American football broadcaster
1969 – Darren Woodson, American football player
1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
1969 – Gina Torres, American actress
1970 – Jason Lee, American actor
1970 - Jason Wiles, American actor
1972 – Sofia Helin, Swedish actress
1974 - Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
1975 - Steven Paterson, Scottish politician

From 1976

1976 – Tim Duncan, American basketball player
1976 – Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
1976 – Gilberto da Silva Melo, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Marguerite Moreau, American actress
1980 - Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
1980 - Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
1980 - Ben Johnston, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1980 - James Johnston, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1980 - Lee Spick, English snooker player (died 2015)
1981 – Felipe Massa, Brazilian racing driver
1981 – Anja Parson, Swedish skier
1982 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer
1983 - Jonathan Thurston, Australian rugby league player
1986 – Alexei Emelin, Russian ice hockey player
1986 - Claudia Rath, German heptathlete
1986 - Daniel Sharman, British actor
1987 - Razak Boukari, Togolese footballer
1988 - James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
1989 - Marie-Michèle Gagnon, Canadian alpine ski racer
1989 - Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player
1996 - Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress
1996 - Liam Henderson, Scottish footballer

Deaths

Observances

Saints of the Day: Saint Mark the Evangelist; Saint Franca of Piacenza
ANZAC Day - Australia, New Zealand, Tonga
DNA Day
World Malaria Day
Flag Day (Faroe Islands, Swaziland)
Liberation Day (Italy)
Freedom Day (Portugal)
Army Day (North Korea)
Latest date for Easter (March 22 is the earliest), last occurred on this date in 1943 and will next do so in 2038