What happened on May 25 ?

709 - Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne

735 - Bede, English historian and monk

967 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)

992 - Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland

1085 - Pope Gregory VII

1261 - Pope Alexander IV

1452 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury

1555 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)

1555 - Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)

1595 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)

1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)

1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)

1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)

1693 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)

1741 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)

1786 - Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)

1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)

1797 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)

1805 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)

1848 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)

1849 - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)

1899 - Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1822)

1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)

1917 - Maksim Bahdanovi?, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)

1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)

1926 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)

1930 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)

1934 - Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)

1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1868)

1940 - Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)

1951 - Paula von Preradovi? , Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)

1954 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (Killed on Assignment) (b. 1913)

1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson, American singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1899)

1968 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)

1977 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)

1983 - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)

1986 - Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901)

1988 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

1994 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b. 1940)

1995 - Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)

1996 - Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (drug overdose) (b. 1968)

2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (drug overdose) (b. 1976)

2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)

2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)

2005 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)

2005 - Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)

2005 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)

2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)