Deaths in History on August 25

1482 Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI of England, dies at 52

1688 Henry Morgan, Welsh pirate and privateer who raided Spanish settlements and shipping, dies at 53

1776 David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65

1819 James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist (steam engine), dies at 83

1822 William Herschel, German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 83

1835 Ann Rutledge, said to be Abraham Lincoln's true love, dies at 22
1840 Karl Leberecht Immermann, German writer, dies at 44
1846 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller and naturalist, dies at 73
1867 Michael Faraday, English scientist who discovered principle of electric motor, dies at 75
1868 Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60
1868 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62
1868 Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament, dies at 66
1885 Reuben Fenton, American merchant and politician (22nd Governor of New York), dies at 66
1900 Kuroda Kiyotaka, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (1894-1899), dies of a brain haemorrhage at 59

1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and philologist (Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return), dies at 55

1901 Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever
1904 William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)

1908 Henri Becquerel, French physicist who discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), dies at 55

1908 Eyre Massey Shaw, British first chief of London Fire Brigade, dies at 78
1924 Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
1925 Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)
1936 Grigory Zinoviev [Hirsch Apfelbaum], Russian revolutionary, dies at 52
1938 Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67

1942 George EAE, English prince/earl of St Andrews, dies in battle at 39
1942 W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
1942 George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1943 Johan Petter Johansson, Swedish inventor and industrialist (modern adjustable spanner), dies at 86
1944 Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
1944 Mussa Dshalil, writer, dies
1945 John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
1947 Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (American Indian), dies at 76
1956 Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies from a heart ailment and pneumonia at 62
1957 Leo Perutz, Austrian writer and mathematician, dies at 74
1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
1967 Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
1975 John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67
1976 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76
1980 Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60

1984 Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), dies of liver cancer at 59

1988 Price Daniel, American politician (38th Governor of Texas), dies at 77
1990 Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
1991 Niven Busch, American writer (Duel in the Sun), dies
1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide
1992 Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
1993 Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26
1994 Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52
1996 Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58
1996 Erskine Childers, UN official/civil servant, dies at 67
1997 Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies
1997 Robert Pinget, French novelist (The Interrogation) and playwright, dies at 78
1998 Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court justice (1972-87), dies at 90
2000 Carl Barks, American cartoonist (creator of Scrooge McDuck), dies at 99
2002 Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
2005 Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
2008 John Thoday, British geneticist, dies at 91
2008 Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1959)
2009 Edward [Ted] M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1932)

2012 Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, dies from heart surgery complications at 82

2015 Frank E. Petersen Jr, American soldier and 1st African American Marine aviator & General, dies at 83
2016 Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer, dies at 86
2016 James Cronin, American nuclear physicist (Physics Nobel Prize 1980), dies at 84
2016 Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer (Miles Davis, John Coltrane), dies at 91