Anniversaries 25 July

Birth

Henry Knox8

Continental Army and US Army general, US Secretary of War 1750–1806

Edward Payson9

American religious leader 1783–1827

Maria Weston Chapman6

American abolitionist 1806–1885

Thomas Eakins19

American painter 1844–1916

Arthur James Balfour48

British Conservative politician and statesman 1848–1930

Maxfield Parrish11

American painter and illustrator 1870–1966

Morris Raphael Cohen5

American philosopher 1880–1947

Gavrilo Princip1

Bosnian assassin 1894–1918

Josephine Tey3

Scottish author, mystery writer 1896–1952

Eric Hoffer240

American philosopher 1898–1983

Elias Canetti43

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist,… 1905–1994

Rosalind Franklin2

British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer 1920–1958

Dennis Lindley14

British statistician 1923–2013

Estelle Getty6

actress 1923–2008

Paisios of Mount Athos1

Greek Eastern Orthodox monk 1924–1994

Ismail Mahomed1

South African judge 1931–2000

Colin Renfrew1

British archaeologist 1937

Stuart M. Matlins1

Religious scholar 1940–2019

Joseph Delaney15

British writer 1945

John Gibson (media host)11

American radio talk show host 1946

Стив Гудман1

American folk music singer-songwriter 1948–1984

Jack Thompson (attorney)3

American activist and disbarred attorney 1951

James Mason (neo-Nazi)1

American National Socialist 1952

Jürgen Trittin1

German Green politician 1954

Hélène Binet6

Swiss photographer 1959

Thae Yong-ho6

former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea 1961

Anne Applebaum5

journalist 1964

Rachel Vail1

American writer 1966

Günther (cantante)1

Swedish musician 1967

Lauren Faust3

American animator and writer 1974

Tera Patrick1

American pornographic actress 1976

Jared Golden1

American politician from Maine 1982

Bowinn Ma6

Canadian politician 1985

Olga Rotari1

Moldovan classical pianist and chamber musician 1989

Saman Jalili1

Iranian singer and composer 1990

Death

Thomas à Kempis41

German canon regular 1380–1471

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor2

king of Bohemia and Hungary 1503–1564

Charles Dibdin5

British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor 1745–1814

George Nicholas3

American lawyer 1754–1799

Samuel Taylor Coleridge220

English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

John Taylor (Latter Day Saints)4

third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day… 1808–1887

Walter Rauschenbusch83

United States Baptist theologian 1861–1918

Jack Judge1

British song-writer and music-hall entertainer 1878–1938

Harry Warner1

Film studio executive 1881–1958

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog1

Israeli rabbi 1888–1959

Otto Dix10

German painter and printmaker 1891–1969

Lazar Kaganovich2

Soviet politician 1893–1991

Гарри Патч1

1898–2009

John C. Slater1

American physicist 1900–1976

Osvaldo Pugliese5

Argentine pianist, tango composer 1905–1995

Bel Kaufmanová25

American novelist, teacher 1911–2014

Ralph P. Boas Jr.2

American mathematician 1912–1992

John Passmore6

Australian philosopher 1914–2004

Frank O'Hara28

American poet, art critic and writer 1926–1966

Mason Cooley23

American academic 1927–2002

Zuheir Mohsen1

Palestinian politician 1936–1979

Rudiger Dornbusch10

German economist 1942–2002

David Trimble2

Northern Irish politician 1944–2022

Yasmin Ahmad6

Malaysian film director 1958–2009

Randy Pausch83

American professor of computer science, human-computer inte… 1960–2008