June 25

Events
Up to 1900
253 Pope Cornelius is executed by beheading.
524 The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vezeronce.
841 Battle of Fontenay: Forces lead by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
1530 At the Diet of Augsburg, the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and electors of Germany.
1658 Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1678 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to get a Doctorate of Philosophy, graduating from the University of Padua.
1741 Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1786 Gavriil Pribylov discovers Saint George Island in the Pribilof Islands (now belonging to Alaska, US) in the Bering Sea.
1788 Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1888 Fire destroys Sundsvall, Sweden.
1900 Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts of great historical significance, in the Magao Caves at Dunhuang, China.
1901 2000
1903 Marie Curie announces the discovery of radium.
1910 Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" is first performed in Paris.
1935 Colombia and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
1938 Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
1940 World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany.
1943 The Holocaust: Jews in the Czestochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1944 World War II: The Nordic countries' biggest battle of the war, of Tali-Ihantala, begins.
1945 Sean T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
1947 The Diary of a Young Girl (Diary of Anne Frank) is first published.
1948 The Berlin airlift begins.
1949 "Long-Haired Hare", starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theatres.
1950 The beginning of the Korean War.
1953 In the UK, the murderer John Christie is sentenced to death.
1959 Eamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
1960 Two cryptographers working on the US National Security Agency leave for vacation in Mexico, and from there they defect to the Soviet Union.
1967 First global satellite television programme - "Our World".
1973 Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
1975 A State of Emergency is declared in India.
1976 A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in New Guinea kills 422 people.
1978 The Rainbow flag for Gay pride is flown for the first time in San Francisco.
1978 Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, beating the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time.
1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 A match-fixing scandal erupts after West Germany and Austria both qualify from the group stage of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in a very slow-paced match, at Algeria's expense.
1982 Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
1988 In West Germany, the Netherlands wins the UEFA European Championship, defeating the Soviet Union 2-0. In the game, Dutch striker Marco van Basten scores a goal that is widely considered to be the best in European Championship history.
1991 Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 David Letterman airs his last episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
1993 Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1993 Tansu Ciller becomes the first female Prime Minister of Turkey.
1993 Vienna Declaration is adopted by World Conference on Human Rights.
1996 Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
1997 The Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat erupts, killing 19 people.
1997 An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space Station Mir.
1998 Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
1998 In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1999 The American soap opera Another World airs its 8891st and final episode.
From 2001
2001 A typhoon strikes Fujian province of China, killing over 100 people.
2006 Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
2007 British soldiers leave Northern Ireland after 37 years.
2009 Pop star Michael Jackson dies suddenly, aged 50, leading to a worldwide outpouring of grief.
2013 Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the 8th Emir of Qatar.
2014 An explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, kills over 20 people.
Births
Up to 1900
1242 Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
1328 William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
1373 Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)
1560 Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1568 Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (d. 1597)
1612 John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1646 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher (d. 1684)
1715 Jean-Francois Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1726 Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
1755 Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1768 Lazare Hoche, French general (d. 1797)
1799 David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1821 Bartolome Mitre, President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1825 James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1888)
1842 Eloy Alfaro, 15th President of Ecuador (d. 1912)
1852 Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858 Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1860 Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
1863 Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
1864 Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1941)
1865 Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929)
1870 Yi Jun-yong, Korean Joseon Dynasty politician (d. 1917)
1884 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1886 Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950)
1887 Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938)
1887 George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director and actor (d. 1995)
1894 Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989)
1896 Alfred Anderson, Scottish centenarian and World War I veteran (d. 2005)
1900 Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988)
1900 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (d. 1979)
1901 1950
1902 Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953)
1903 George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950)
1903 Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1903 Bob Skelton, American swimmer (d. 1977)
1904 Vladimir Kokkinaki, Russian test pilot (d. 1985)
1905 Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer (d. 1976)
1907 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (d. 1973)
1908 Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911 William Howard Stein, American chemist (d. 1980)
1912 William T. Cahill, American politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1913 Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1915 Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998)
1917 Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012)
1917 Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018)
1921 Heinrich Windelen, German politician (d. 2015)
1923 Nicholas Mosley, British writer (d. 2017)
1923 Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994)
1924 Sidney Lumet, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
1925 June Lockhart, American actress
1925 Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018)
1926 Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (d. 2016)
1926 Ingeborg Bachmann, writer (d. 1973)
1926 Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge and politician (d. 2015)
1927 Antal Roka, Hungarian athlete (d. 1970)
1928 Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist (d. 2017)
1928 Peyo, Belgian comic book artist (d. 1992)
1928 Alex Toth, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1929 Eric Carle, American children's writer (d. 2021)
1929 Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1930 George Murdock, American actor (d. 2012)
1931 Mrunalini Devi Puar, Indian educator (d. 2015)
1931 V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
1932 George Sluizer, Dutch filmmaker (d. 2014)
1932 Peter Blake, British artist
1933 James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1935 Charles Sheffield, English mathematician, physicist and science fiction author (d. 2002)
1935 Larry Kramer, American writer and activist
1936 Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia, 1998 - 1999
1937 Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
1940 Denys Arcand, French-Canadian movie director, screenwriter and producer
1940 Peer Augustinski, German actor (d. 2014)
1940 Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
1942 Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
1945 Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
1945 Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (d. 2019)
1946 Romeo Dallaire, Canadian senator
1946 Ian McDonald, British musician
1949 Brigitte Bierlein, Austrian jurist and Chancellor of Austria
1951 1975
1952 Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter, musician and composer
1954 Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1954 Mario Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 David Paich, American singer-songwriter
1954 Alison Leslie, British diplomat
1955 Terry Chimes, musician
1956 Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956 Anthony Bourdain, American chef and writer (d. 2018)
1957 Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player
1959 Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
1960 Aldo Serena, Italian footballer
1960 Brian Hayward, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 Ricky Gervais, British comedian and actor
1961 Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakhstani producer and director
1962 Phill Jupitus, British comedian and broadcaster
1963 George Michael, British singer (d. 2016)
1963 Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian writer
1963 Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
1964 Johnny Herbert, British Formula One driver
1964 Greg Raymer, American poker player
1966 Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (d. 2015)
1966 Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
1969 Zim Sum, American guitarist
1970 Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1971 Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
1971 Scott Maslen, English actor
1971 Jason Lewis, American actor
1972 Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan politician
1973 Milan Hnilicka, Czech ice hockey player
1973 Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
1973 Sunetra Sarker, English actress
1974 Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1975 Derek Adams, Scottish footballer and coach
1975 Linda Cardellini, American actress
1975 Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
1975 Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
From 1976
1976 Jose Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
1976 Carlos Niesto, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1976 Iestyn Harris, Welsh rugby player
1976 Gavin Williamson, English politician
1977 Lola Ponce, Argentine-born Italian singer, actress and model
1979 Daniel Jensen, Danish footballer
1979 La La, American actress and TV host
1981 Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1981 Sheridan Smith, English actress and singer
1981 Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
1982 Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
1982 Rain, Korean singer and actor
1982 Cecile Cassel, French actress and singer
1983 Marc Janko, Austrian footballer
1984 Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer
1985 Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
1985 Hanna Perez Moza, Mexican singer (Ha*Ash)
1985 Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer
1986 Gabriele Grunewald, American runner (d. 2019)
1986 Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
1986 Charlie Davies, American soccer player
1987 Claudio Corti, Italian motorcycle racer
1987 Alissa Czisny, American figure skater
1988 Jhonas Enroth, Swedish ice hockey player
1989 Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1989 Rafael Morais, Portuguese actor, director and screenwriter
1991 Kyousuke Hamao, Japanese actor, singer and model
1991 Victor Wanyama, Kenyan footballer
1991 Simone Zaza, Italian footballer
1993 Barney Clark, English actor
1997 Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan footballer
2002 Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
253 Pope Cornelius
635 Emperor Gaozu, 1st Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 566)
1134 King Niels of Denmark (b. 1034)
1218 Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Norman crusader (b. 1160)
1291 Eleanor of Provence (b. 1223)
1533 Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
1579 Hatano Hideharu, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1541)
1593 Michele Mercati, Italian physician (b. 1541)
1634 John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1638 Juan Perez de Montalban, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665 Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630)
1671 Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1686 Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1767 Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
1792 Thomas Peters, Sierra Leone founding father (b. 1738)
1822 E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
1857 Langdon Cheves, American politician (b. 1776)
1861 Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1864 King William I of Wurttemberg (b. 1781)
1866 Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1876 George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839)
1876 Thomas Custer, American army officer (b. 1845)
1876 Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout (b. 1848)
1882 Francois Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884 Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858)
1886 Jean-Louis Beaudry, 11th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1809)
1889 Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (b. 1831)
1898 Ferdinand Julius Cohn, German botanist and microbiologist (b. 1828)
1901 2000
1906 Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853)
1916 Thomas Eakins, artist (b. 1844)
1922 Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet (b. 1882)
1929 Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist (b. 1858)
1932 Howard Valentine, American track and field athlete (b. 1881)
1933 Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (b. 1868)
1937 Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
1939 Dick Seaman, English racing driver (b. 1913)
1944 Denes Berinkey, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
1944 Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
1948 William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
1949 Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1960 Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1971 John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (b. 1880)
1974 Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
1976 Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
1977 Bob Skelton, American swimmer (b. 1903)
1979 Dave Fleischer, American animator, director and producer (b. 1894)
1983 Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
1983 Oddbjorn Hagen, Norwegian skier (b. 1908)
1984 Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1988 Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (b. 1962)
1992 James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926)
1995 Warren E. Burger, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice (b. 1907)
1995 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (b. 1905)
1997 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, movie maker and inventor (b. 1910)
1999 Tommy Ivan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
From 2001
2003 Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2006 Kenneth Griffith, British actor and director (b. 1921)
2008 Erika Crusardson, artist and actress (b. 1975)
2009 Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
2009 Michael Jackson, American entertainer and singer (b. 1958)
2009 Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1937)
2011 Margaret Tyzack, British actress (b. 1931)
2013 Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916)
2014 Ana Maria Matute, Spanish writer (b. 1925)
2014 Nigel Calder, English science writer (b. 1931)
2014 Arvid Jacobsen, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1938)
2015 Patrick Macnee, English-American actor (b. 1922)
2016 Bill Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1929)
2016 Giuseppe Ferrara, Italian movie director (b. 1932)
2016 Patrick Mayhew, British politician, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. 1929)
2016 Nicole Courcel, French actress (b. 1931)
2016 Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, Indian writer (b. 1926)
2017 Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (b. 1938)
2017 Elsa Daniel, Argentine actress (b. 1938)
2017 K. R. Mohanan, Indian film director (b. 1947)
2017 Jose Manuel Mourinho Felix, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2017 Walter Fillmore, American general (b. 1933)
2018 Paul Gerin-Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
2018 Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television presenter (b. 1941)
2018 David Goldblatt, South African photographer and critic of Apartheid (b. 1930)
2018 James M. Keck, American lieutenant general (b. 1921)
2019 Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (b. 1945)
2019 Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
Observances
Independence Day (Mozambique)
National Day of Slovenia and Croatia
Statehood Day (Virginia)
National Catfish Day (United States)
Arbor Day (Philippines)
Days of the year