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What happend on 25. April in History
In our data base we found 325 events happened on 25. April:
• 1077: Géza I of Hungary (b. 1040) [category: Deaths]
• 1134: The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094. [category: Events]
• 1214: Louis IX of France (d. 1270) [category: Births]
• 1228: Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254) [category: Births]
• 1265: Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader (b. 1195) [category: Deaths]
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• 1284: Edward II of England (d. 1327) [category: Births]
• 1287: Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (d. 1330) [category: Births]
• 1295: Sancho IV of Castile (b. 1258) [category: Deaths]
• 1472: Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404) [category: Deaths]
• 1502: Georg Major, German theologian (d. 1574) [category: Births]
• 1516: John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467) [category: Deaths]
• 1566: Diane de Poitiers,French noblewoman, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499) [category: Deaths]
• 1566: Louise Labé, French poet (b. 1520s) [category: Deaths]
• 1595: Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544) [category: Deaths]
• 1599: Oliver Cromwell, English military and politician (d. 1658) [category: Births]
• 1605: Naresuan, King of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (b. 1555) [category: Deaths]
• 1607: Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. [category: Events]
• 1608: Gaston, Duke of Orléans (d. 1660) [category: Births]
• 1621: Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679) [category: Births]
• 1644: Chongzhen Emperor of China (b. 1611) [category: Deaths]
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• 1644: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng. [category: Events]
• 1660: Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605) [category: Deaths]
• 1666: Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer (d. 1727) [category: Births]
• 1690: David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610) [category: Deaths]
• 1694: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753) [category: Births]
• 1707: The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession. [category: Events]
• 1710: James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776) [category: Births]
• 1723: Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer (d. 1797) [category: Births]
• 1725: Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral (d. 1786) [category: Births]
• 1744: Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701) [category: Deaths]
• 1767: Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847) [category: Births]
• 1770: Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850) [category: Births]
• 1770: Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700) [category: Deaths]
• 1775: Charlotte of Spain (d. 1830) [category: Births]
• 1776: Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857) [category: Births]
• 1792: Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine. [category: Events]
• 1792: La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. [category: Events]
• 1800: William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731) [category: Deaths]
• 1804: The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire [category: Events]
• 1829: Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1840: Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781) [category: Deaths]
• 1843: Alice of the United Kingdom (d. 1878) [category: Births]
• 1846: Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War. [category: Events]
• 1847: The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness. [category: Events]
• 1849: Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1849: The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots. [category: Events]
• 1850: Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1851: Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist (d. 1901) [category: Births]
• 1859: British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal. [category: Events]
• 1861: American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C. [category: Events]
• 1862: Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English politician (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1862: American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana. [category: Events]
• 1864: American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills. [category: Events]
• 1868: John Bevins Moisant, American aviator (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1871: Lorne Currie, British sailor (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1873: Walter de la Mare, English poet (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1874: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and developed Marconi's law, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1875: Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1876: Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher and politician (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1878: William Merz, American gymnast and athlete (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1878: Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: Nathaniel Woodard, English priest and educator (b. 1811) [category: Deaths]
• 1892: Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1897: Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1898: Fred Haney, American baseball player, manager, and coach (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1898: Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain. [category: Events]
• 1900: Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1901: New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. [category: Events]
• 1902: Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1903: Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1905: George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1906: William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1906: John Knowles Paine, American composer (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1908: Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1909: William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1911: Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: Earl Bostic, American jazz musician (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1913: Nikolaos Roussen, Greek naval officer (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1914: Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1915: Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer, writer, editor, and politician, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
• 1915: 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. [category: Events]
• 1916: Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove. [category: Events]
• 1916: Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1917: Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1918: Astrid Varnay, Swedish soprano (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1918: Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1919: Finn Helgesen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1919: Augustus D. Juilliard, American businessman (b. 1836) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1920: At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East. [category: Events]
• 1921: Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1923: Albert King, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1923: Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1923: Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian politician (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1924: Franco Mannino, Italian composer, playwright, and novelist (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1925: Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1925: Louis O'Neil, Canadian professor and politician [category: Births]
• 1925: Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1926: Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1927: Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1927: Corín Tellado, Spanish novelist (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1928: Vassar Clements, American musician (Old and in the Way) (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1928: Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian army officer (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1929: Yvette Williams, New Zealand athlete [category: Births]
• 1930: Godfrey Milton-Thompson, English surgeon (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1930: Paul Mazursky, American director and writer [category: Births]
• 1931: Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1932: Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1932: William Roache, English actor [category: Births]
• 1933: Jerry Leiber, American songwriter and producer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1933: Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1934: Peter McParland, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1935: April Ashley, English model [category: Births]
• 1935: Reinier Kreijermaat, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1937: Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Roger Boisjoly, American engineer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1938: Ton Schulten, Dutch artist [category: Births]
• 1938: U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law. [category: Events]
• 1939: Ted Kooser, American poet [category: Births]
• 1939: DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time. [category: Events]
• 1940: Al Pacino, American actor [category: Births]
• 1940: Jochen Borchert, German politician [category: Births]
• 1941: Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter, and actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Princess Muna al-Hussein [category: Births]
• 1942: Jon Kyl, American politician [category: Births]
• 1942: Katsuji Adachi, Japanese wrestler [category: Births]
• 1943: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted. [category: Events]
• 1944: Len Goodman, English dancer [category: Births]
• 1944: George Herriman, American author (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. [category: Events]
• 1945: Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (ABBA and Hootenanny Singers) [category: Births]
• 1945: Richard C. Hoagland, American conspiracy theorist and author [category: Births]
• 1945: Stu Cook, American singer and musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival, Southern Pacific, and Creedence Clearwater Revisited) [category: Births]
• 1945: Elbe Day: United States and Soviet 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. [category: Events]
• 1945: Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations. [category: Events]
• 1945: The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy. [category: Events]
• 1945: The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland. [category: Events]
• 1946: Talia Shire, American actress [category: Births]
• 1946: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1948: Yu Shyi-kun, Taiwanese politician [category: Births]
• 1949: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician [category: Births]
• 1949: James Fenton, English poet [category: Births]
• 1949: Michael Brown, American musician and songwriter (The Left Banke and Stories) [category: Births]
• 1949: Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1950: Peter Jurasik, American actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Steve Ferrone, English drummer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Average White Band [category: Births]
• 1951: Da'i Bachtiar, Chief of Indonesian National Police [category: Births]
• 1951: Ian McCartney, British politician [category: Births]
• 1952: Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist and composer [category: Births]
• 1952: Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1953: Ron Clements, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1953: 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. [category: Events]
• 1954: Randy Cross, American football player [category: Births]
• 1954: Róisín Shortall, Irish politician [category: Births]
• 1955: Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1955: Christopher Tyng, American composer [category: Births]
• 1955: Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Zev Siegl, American businessman, co-founded Starbucks [category: Births]
• 1956: Dominique Blanc, French actress [category: Births]
• 1956: Jaroslava Schallerová, Czech actress [category: Births]
• 1957: Theo de Rooij, Dutch cyclist [category: Births]
• 1958: Fish, Scottish singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (Marillion) [category: Births]
• 1959: Tony Phillips, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1959: The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping. [category: Events]
• 1960: Bruce Redman, Australian director, critic and radio personality [category: Births]
• 1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. [category: Events]
• 1961: Dinesh D'Souza, American author [category: Births]
• 1961: Robert Garrett, American athlete (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit. [category: Events]
• 1962: Foeke Booy, Dutch footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1963: Bernd Müller, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1963: David Moyes, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1963: Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, French actress [category: Births]
• 1964: Andy Bell, English singer-songwriter and DJ (Erasure) [category: Births]
• 1964: Hank Azaria, American actor, director, and comedian [category: Births]
• 1965: Eric Avery, American musician and songwriter (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, and Polar Bear) [category: Births]
• 1965: Mark Bryant, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1965: Simon Fowler, English singer and musician (Ocean Colour Scene) [category: Births]
• 1965: Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California. [category: Events]
• 1966: Darren Holmes, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1966: Diego Domínguez, Argentine-Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1966: Erik Pappas, Greek-American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1966: Femke Halsema, Dutch politician [category: Births]
• 1966: James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1966: Man Arenas, Spanish comic creator [category: Births]
• 1966: Rubén Sosa, Uruguayan footballer [category: Births]
• 1966: The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake. [category: Events]
• 1968: Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Darren Woodson, American football player [category: Births]
• 1969: Gina Torres, American actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Joe Buck, American broadcaster [category: Births]
• 1969: Martin Koolhoven, Dutch film director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1969: Renée Zellweger, American actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Jason Lee, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Jason Wiles, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Steve Tovar, American football player [category: Births]
• 1970: Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1971: Brad Clontz American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Sara Baras, Spanish dancer [category: Births]
• 1972: George Sanders, English actor (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: 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. [category: Events]
• 1973: Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin) [category: Births]
• 1973: Olga Grey, Hungarian-American actress (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Dean Phoenix American porn actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou [category: Births]
• 1974: Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government. [category: Events]
• 1975: Emily Bergl, British-American actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Jacque Jones, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: 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. [category: Events]
• 1976: Gilberto da Silva Melo, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Kim Jong Kook, South Korean singer (Turbo) [category: Births]
• 1976: Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player [category: Births]
• 1976: Tim Duncan, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Carol Reed, English producer and director (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer-songwriter (One) [category: Births]
• 1977: Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Marguerite Moreau, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Matthew West, American singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1977: Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician and producer (Above & Beyond) [category: Births]
• 1978: Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model [category: Births]
• 1978: Matt Walker, British swimmer [category: Births]
• 1978: Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist [category: Births]
• 1980: Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer [category: Births]
• 1980: Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Katia Mann, German socialite, wife of Thomas Mann (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Anja Pärson, Swedish skier [category: Births]
• 1981: Dwone Hicks, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Felipe Massa, Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1981: John McFall, English sprinter [category: Births]
• 1981: More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan. [category: Events]
• 1982: Brian Barton, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Marco Russo, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Monty Panesar, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1982: John Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords. [category: Events]
• 1983: DeAngelo Williams, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: J.P. Howell, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress [category: Births]
• 1983: William S. Bowdern, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest and author (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: 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. [category: Events]
• 1983: Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. [category: Events]
• 1984: Andre' Woodson, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Melonie Diaz, American actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Robert Andino, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Giedo van der Garde, Dutch race car driver [category: Births]
• 1985: Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1986: Alexei Emelin, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1986: Claudia Rath, German heptathlete [category: Births]
• 1986: Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II. [category: Events]
• 1987: Jay Park, Korean-American singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actor (2PM) [category: Births]
• 1987: Johann Smith, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1987: Razak Boukari, Togolese footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1988: Valerie Solanas, American writer, attempted assassin of Andy Warhol (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. [category: Events]
• 1989: Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama [category: Births]
• 1989: Marie-Michèle Gagnon, Canadian alpine ski racer [category: Births]
• 1989: Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player [category: Births]
• 1990: Jean-Éric Vergne, French race car driver [category: Births]
• 1990: Taylor Walker, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist and actor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer and musician (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Rosita Moreno, Spanish film actress (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Andria Balanchivadze, Georgian composer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress [category: Births]
• 1996: Saul Bass, American graphics designer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Larry Troutman, American musician (Zapp) (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist, author, and sports official (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Roger Troutman, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Zapp) (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: David Merrick, American producer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Athanasios Papoulis, Greek-American engineer and mathematician (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Indra Devi, Russian yoga teacher and actress (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Lisa Lopes, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (TLC) (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected. [category: Events]
• 2004: Thom Gunn, English poet (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Hasil Adkins, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan. [category: Events]
• 2005: Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union. [category: Events]
• 2005: The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937. [category: Events]
• 2006: Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian writer and activist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Bobby Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894. [category: Events]
• 2008: Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician and broadcaster (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Bea Arthur, American comedienne, actress, and singer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak. [category: Events]
• 2012: Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 404_bc: Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends. [category: Events]
• 68: Mark the Evangelist, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Church of Alexandria [category: Deaths]
• 501: Rusticus, French archbishop [category: Deaths]
• _: ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: April 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Arbor Day (Germany) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Army Day (North Korea) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: DNA Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Flag Day (Faroe Islands) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Freedom Day (Portugal) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Malaria Awareness Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mark the Evangelist [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Military Foundation Day (North Korea) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Philo and Agathopodes [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Anianus of Alexandria [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Red Hat Society Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Robigalia, celebrated on 25 Aprilis. (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Sinai's Liberation Day (Egypt) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The latest possible date for Easter Sunday, last in 1943. [category: Holidays and observances]