Deaths in History on August 25

Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482)

Queen consort of England by marriage to King Henry VI, dies at 52

1554 Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies
1556 David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54
1580 Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht, dies
1632 Thomas Dekker, English pamphleteer and dramatist dies at about 60 [his life was poorly documented, exact birth and death dates are uncertain]
1649 Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36

Henry Morgan (c. 1635-1688)

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

1699 Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway, dies at 53
1711 Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician

David Hume (1711-1776)

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

1789 Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies
1792 Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)

James Watt (1736-1819)

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

William Herschel (1738-1822)

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

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

English scientist discovered electromagnetic induction, invented 1st 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

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

German philosopher and philologist (Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return), dies of a stroke due to syphilis at 55

1900 Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese diplomat and politician (2nd Prime Minister of Japan, 1888-1889; President of the Privy Council, 1894-90), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 59
1904 William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
1908 Eyre Massey Shaw, British first chief of London Fire Brigade, dies at 78

Henri Becquerel (1852-1908)

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

1924 Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
1925 Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal, dies at 72
1936 Grigory Zinoviev [Hirsch Apfelbaum], Russian revolutionary, dies at 52
1938 Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67
1942 George Edward Alexander Windsor, British nobleman (Duke of Kent), and RAF officer, dies in battle at 39
1942 W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
1943 Johan Petter Johansson, Swedish inventor and industrialist (modern adjustable spanner), dies at 86
1944 Krijn van den Helm, Dutch resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
1944 Musa Cälil, Russian-Soviet Tatar poet (The Moabit Notebooks), and resistance fighter, executed by guillotine in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin at 38
1945 John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
1947 Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (American Indian), dies at 76
1947 Franz Cumont, Belgian religious historian and archaeologist (cult of Mithra), dies at 79
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, American far-right political activist. founder and leader of the American Nazi Party, assassinated by former party member John Patler at 49
1967 Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia, dies at 84
1975 John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67
1976 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist (Return to Ithaca; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1974), dies at 76
1984 Andy Varipapa, American ten-pin bowler (BPAA All-Star champion 1947-48), dies at 93

Truman Capote (1924-1984)

American author (Breakfast At Tiffany's; 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 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, Indian Hindu leader and politician, murdered at 52
1996 Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58
1996 Erskine Childers, Irish writer and United Nations civil servant official, 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)
2004 Helen Copley, American newspaper publisher (The San Diego Union-Tribune), dies at 81
2005 Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
2008 John Thoday, British geneticist, dies at 91
2008 Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1959)

Ted Kennedy (1932-2009)

American politician (US Senator (D)-Massachusetts, 1962- 2009), dies of brain cancer at 77

Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)

American X-15 pilot and astronaut - 1st man on the Moon (Gemini 8, Apollo 11), 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 James Cronin, American nuclear physicist (Physics Nobel Prize, 1980), dies at 84
2016 Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer, dies at 86