What happened on July 25 ?

306 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)

1409 - King Martin I of Sicily

1492 - Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)

1616 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)

1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)

1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)

1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)

1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)

1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)

1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)

1794 - André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)

1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)

1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)

1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)

1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)

1853 - Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw

1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)

1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)

1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)

1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)

1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)

1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877

1971 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)

1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)

1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)

1988 - Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)

1996 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)

1997 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)

2000 - 113 Passengers, crew, and bystanders, as an Air France Concorde crashes near Paris.

2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)

2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)

2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)