Died on Saturday, 25th October – Famous Deaths

25/10/2025

Satish Shah, Indian actor and comedian (born 1951)

Satish Ravilal Shah was an Indian actor and comedian, best known for his iconic comic roles in films such as Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983), Main Hoon Na (2004), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Fanaa (2006), and Om Shanti Om (2007) and television series such as Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi (1984), and Sarabhai vs Sarabhai (2004) for which he won the ITA Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role and the Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role.

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Rolf Dupuy, anarchist and historian of the anarchist movement in France and Spain (born 1946)

Rolf Dupuy, his real name being Daniel Dupuy, was a French educator for the blind, librarian, anarchist and historian of the anarchist movement in France and Spain.

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25/10/2024

Phil Lesh, American bassist (born 1940)

Philip Chapman Lesh was an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he developed a unique style of improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30-year career.

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Kim Soo-mi, South Korean actress (born 1949)

Kim Soo-mi was a South Korean actress who had a prolific career in film and television.

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25/10/2019

Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (born 1937)

Dilip Ramanbhai Parikh was an Indian politician and industrialist. He was the 13th Chief Minister of Gujarat from 28 October 1997 to 4 March 1998. Dilip Parekh is also the most recent non BJP Chief Minister of Gujarat as of now. As BJP has been ruling the state ever since.

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25/10/2018

Thomas Keating, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1923)

Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. was an American Trappist priest known as one of the principal developers of centering prayer, a contemplative method that emerged from St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts.

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25/10/2016

Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (born 1944)

Carlos Alberto "Capita" Torres, also known as "O Capitão do Tri", was a Brazilian football player and manager who played as an attacking right-sided full-back or wing-back. A technically gifted defender with good ball skills and defensive capabilities, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time. He also stood out for his leadership, and was an excellent penalty taker. Nicknamed O Capitão, he captained the Brazil national team to victory in the 1970 World Cup, scoring the fourth goal in the final, considered one of the greatest goals in the history of the tournament.

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Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (born 1922)

Robert Anderson Hoover was an American fighter pilot, test pilot, flight instructor, and record-setting air show aviator.

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25/10/2015

David Cesarani, English historian and author (born 1956)

David Ian Cesarani was a British historian who specialised in Jewish history, especially the Holocaust. He also wrote several biographies, including Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind (1998).

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Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (born 1944)

Lisa Anne Jardine was a British historian of the early modern period.

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Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (born 1988)

Cecil Sonwabile Lolo was a South African professional footballer, who played as a defender and midfielder for Ajax Cape Town.

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Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (born 1955)

Philip Daniel "Flip" Saunders was an American basketball player and coach. During his career, he coached the La Crosse Catbirds, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, and Washington Wizards.

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25/10/2014

Jack Bruce, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1943)

John Symon Asher Bruce was a Scottish musician. He gained popularity as the primary lead vocalist and ‍bassist ‍of rock band Cream. After the group disbanded in 1968, he pursued a solo career and also played with several bands.

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Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (born 1940)

Carlos Morales Troncoso was a Dominican chemical engineer, businessman, and politician. Before entering public life, Morales Troncoso built a distinguished career as an executive in the sugar industry, rising to lead major corporations and contributing to the economic development of the eastern region of the Dominican Republic. He later transitioned into public service, serving as Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 1986 to 1994, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1996 and again from 2004 to 2014, and Ambassador to the United States from 1989 to 1990. He was also a prominent leader in the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC), serving as its president from 2009 to 2014.

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25/10/2013

Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1934)

Ronald Charles Ackland was a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1960s and 1970s, who represented New Zealand in the 1957 and 1960 World Cups, and coached New Zealand in the 1977 World Cup. His nephew, John, also played for New Zealand.

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Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic (born 1924)

Arthur Coleman Danto was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he contributed significantly to a number of fields, including the philosophy of action. His interests included thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theories of representation, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, and the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (born 1930)

Admiral Sir Nicholas John Streynsham Hunt was a senior Royal Navy officer. He was Commander-in-Chief Fleet from 1985 to 1987.

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Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)

Hal Brett Needham was an American stuntman, film director, actor, writer, and NASCAR team owner. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with actor Burt Reynolds, usually in films involving fast cars, such as Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Hooper (1978), The Cannonball Run (1981) and Stroker Ace (1983).

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Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (born 1930)

Paul Reichmann was a Canadian businessman and member of the Reichmann family. He is best known for his leadership of the Olympia & York real estate development company.

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Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)

William Walton Sharman was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is mostly known for his time with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s, partnering with Bob Cousy in what was then considered the greatest backcourt duo of all time. As a coach, Sharman won titles in the ABL, ABA, and NBA, and is credited with introducing the now-ubiquitous morning shootaround.

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Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (born 1942)

Marcia Karen Wallace was an American actress and comedian, primarily known for her roles on sitcoms. She is best known for her roles as receptionist Carol Kester on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show, Mrs. Carruthers on Full House, and as the voice of elementary school teacher Edna Krabappel on the animated series The Simpsons, for which she won an Emmy in 1992. The character was retired after her death but sporadically appears through archive recording.

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25/10/2012

Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (born 1907)

Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.

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Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)

Jaspal Singh Bhatti was an Indian television personality known for his satirical take on the problems of the common man. He was most well known for his television series Flop Show, Full Tension and mini capsules Ulta Pulta which ran on Doordarshan, India's public service broadcaster, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was commonly known as the "King of Comedy" and also the "King of Satire". He carried out various anti-corruption crusades in Chandigarh. His frontal attack on issues like red-tapism, nepotism, and corruption was both comic and awakening for the masses.

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John Connelly, English footballer (born 1938)

John Michael Connelly was an English footballer. He played as an outside forward and was capped 20 times for his country.

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Emanuel Steward, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster (born 1944)

Emanuel "Manny" Steward was an American boxer, trainer, and commentator for HBO Boxing. Known as "the godfather of Detroit boxing," Steward trained 41 world champion fighters throughout his career, most notably Thomas Hearns, through the famous Kronk Gym and later heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko. Emanuel trained over two dozen boxers who turned out to be champions in the course of his career. His heavyweight fighters had a combined record of 34–2–1 in title fights. He was an inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame, and the World Boxing Hall of Fame. Steward was also known for his charity work in Detroit, Michigan, helping youth to attain an education.

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25/10/2010

Lisa Blount, American actress (born 1957)

Lisa Suzanne Blount was an American actress and film producer. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year for her performance in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), and later won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for producing The Accountant (2001).

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Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (born 1951)

Gregory Anthony Isaacs OD was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in The New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae".

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Vesna Parun, Croatian poet and author (born 1922)

Vesna Parun was a Croatian poet.

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25/10/2004

John Peel, English radio host and producer (born 1939)

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.

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25/10/2003

Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher (born 1920)

Pandurang Shastri Athavale, also known as Dada /Dadaji, was an Indian activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary, and religion reformist, who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar in 1954. Swadhyaya is a self-study process based on the Bhagavad Gita which has spread across nearly 100,000 villages in India, Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and other Asian countries with five million adherents. Noted for his discourses on the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas and the Upanishads.

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Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician (born 1925)

Veikko Johannes Hakulinen was a Finnish cross-country skier, triple champion in both the Olympics and World Championships. He also competed in biathlon, orienteering, ski-orienteering, cross-country running, and rowing at a national level.

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25/10/2002

Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (born 1930)

Richard St John Francis Harris was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous accolades including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe. In 2020 he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

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René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (born 1923)

René Frédéric Thom was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958.

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Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (born 1944)

Paul David Wellstone was an American academic, author, and politician. He represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, in 2002, several days before that year's election for the seat. A member of the Democratic Party (DFL), Wellstone was a leader of the populist and progressive wings of the party.

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25/10/2000

Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (born 1909)

Mochitsura Hashimoto was a Japanese officer and a submarine commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He was captain of the submarine I-58, which sank the American heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis in 1945 after its delivery of parts, gun and bullet, for the first atomic weapon used in wartime, Little Boy, prior to the attack on Hiroshima.

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25/10/1999

Leonard Boyle, Irish and Canadian palaeographer and medievalist (born 1923)

Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP was an Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography.

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Payne Stewart, American golfer (born 1957)

William Payne Stewart was an American professional golfer who won 11 PGA Tour events, including three major championships, the last of which came just a few months before his death in an airplane accident at the age of 42.

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25/10/1995

Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (born 1920)

Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors was a Swedish-American stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress.

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Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (born 1918)

Robert Larimore Riggs was an American tennis champion who was the world No. 1 amateur in 1939 and world No. 1 professional in 1946 and 1947. He played his first professional tennis match on December 26, 1941.

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25/10/1994

Kara Hultgreen, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1965)

Kara Spears Hultgreen was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash. She died just months after she was certified for combat, when the F-14 Tomcat she was piloting crashed into the sea on final approach to the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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Mildred Natwick, American actress (born 1905)

Mildred Natwick was an American actress. She won a Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards.

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25/10/1993

Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1958)

Danny Chan Pak-Keung was a Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor. One of the first Cantopop idols in Hong Kong, he gained fame alongside performers Alan Tam, Anita Mui, and Leslie Cheung, who were collectively known as "Three Kings and a Queen" (三王一后) or "Tam Cheung Mui Chan" (譚張梅陳) in the 1980s. He is best remembered for such songs as "Waiting", "Life Expectations", "Ripples", "Loving You Alone" and "Cherish Tonight".

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Vincent Price, American actor (born 1911)

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was an American actor, known to film audiences for his work in the horror genre, mostly portraying villains. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television.

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25/10/1992

Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1936)

Roger Dean Miller Sr. was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me", and "England Swings".

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Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (born 1916)

Richard Warren Pousette-Dart was an American abstract expressionist artist most recognized as a founder of the New York School of painting. His artistic output also includes drawing, sculpture, and fine-art photography.

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25/10/1991

Bill Graham, German-American concert promoter (born 1931)

Bill Graham was a German-born American impresario and rock concert promoter.

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25/10/1990

Alberto da Costa Pereira, Portuguese footballer (born 1929)

Alberto da Costa Pereira was a Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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25/10/1989

Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (born 1912)

Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, her intimate friendship with her colleague Hannah Arendt and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959. She was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. In 1973, she delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature? The same year she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984. McCarthy held honorary degrees from Bard, Bowdoin, Colby, Smith College, Syracuse University, the University of Maine at Orono, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Hull.

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25/10/1986

Forrest Tucker, American actor (born 1919)

Forrest Meredith Tucker was an American actor in movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked in vaudeville as a straight man at the age of fifteen. While he was on a trip to California, party hostess Cobina Wright persuaded guest Wesley Ruggles to give Tucker a screen test because of Tucker's photogenic good looks, thick wavy hair and height of six feet, five inches.

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25/10/1985

Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter (born 1952)

Gary Frederick Holton was an English singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He was the frontman of the band Heavy Metal Kids (1972–1977), worked with Casino Steel (1981–1984), and played the part of Wayne in the UK television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983–1985). Holton died from an overdose of morphine combined with alcohol in 1985.

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25/10/1982

Bill Eckersley, English footballer (born 1925)

William Eckersley was an English footballer. He played as a fullback, spending his entire playing career at Blackburn Rovers.

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Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver (born 1901)

Arvid Håkan Herbert Carlsson "Fågeln" Wallman was a Swedish diver. He competed in the plain high diving event at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics and finished in first and eighth place, respectively. After graduating in 1923 from the Chalmers University of Technology, he worked as a civil engineer. His granddaughter Susanne Wetteskog also became an Olympic diver.

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25/10/1980

Virgil Fox, American organist and educator (born 1912)

Virgil Keel Fox was an American organist, known especially for his years as organist at Riverside Church in New York City, from 1946 to 1965, and his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Bach in the 1970s, staged complete with light shows. Many of his recordings on the RCA Victor and Capitol labels, mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, have been remastered and re-released on compact disc.

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Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (born 1948)

Víctor Emilio Galíndez Torre was an Argentine boxer who was the third Latin American to win the world Light Heavyweight championship, after Puerto Rico's José Torres and Venezuela's Vicente Rondon.

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Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (born 1921)

Abdul Hayee, popularly known by his pen name (takhallus) Sahir Ludhianvi, was an Indian poet who wrote primarily in Urdu in addition to Hindi. He is regarded as one of the greatest film lyricists and poets of 20th century India.

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25/10/1979

Gerald Templer, English field marshal and politician, British High Commissioner in Malaya (born 1898)

Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and was involved in the British response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. As Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army between 1955 and 1958, Templer was Prime Minister Anthony Eden's chief military adviser during the Suez Crisis. He is also credited as a founder of the United Kingdom's National Army Museum.

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25/10/1977

Félix Gouin, French politician (born 1884)

Félix Gouin was a French Socialist politician who was a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO).

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25/10/1976

Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (born 1903)

Raymond Auguste Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour.

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25/10/1975

Vladimir Herzog, Brazilian journalist and activist (born 1937)

Vladimir Herzog, known by the nickname Vlado among his family and friends, was a Brazilian journalist, university professor and playwright of Croatian-Jewish origin and born in today's Croatia. He also developed a taste for photography, because of his film projects.

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25/10/1973

Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (born 1932)

Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, he won his second gold medal, making him the first athlete to successfully defend an Olympic marathon title. In both victories, he ran in world record time.

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Cleo Moore, American actress (born 1928)

Cleo Una Moore was an American actress, usually featured in the role of a blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s, including seven films with Hugo Haas. She also became a well-known pin-up girl.

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Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (born 1891)

Robert Scholl was a Württembergian politician and father of Hans and Sophie Scholl. Robert Scholl was a critic of the Nazi Party before, during and after the Nazi regime, and was twice sent to prison for his criticism of Nazism. He was mayor of Ingersheim 1917–1920, mayor of Forchtenberg 1920–1930 and lord mayor of Ulm 1945–1948, and co-founded the All-German People's Party in 1952.

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25/10/1972

Johnny Mantz, American race car driver (born 1918)

Johnny Mantz was an American racecar driver.

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25/10/1971

Mikhail Yangel, Soviet missile designer (born 1911)

Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel, was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk who was the leading designer in the missile program of the former Soviet Union.

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25/10/1970

Ülo Sooster, Estonian painter (born 1924)

Ülo Ilmar Sooster was an Estonian nonconformist painter.

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25/10/1969

Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (born 1893)

Ellinor Aiki was an Estonian painter who is possibly best recalled for her works in later life of vibrant and colorful, heavily textured portraits, landscapes and compositions interspersed with whimsical motifs.

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25/10/1967

Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright (born 1886)

Margaret Ayer Barnes was an American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. Her 1930 novel Years of Grace was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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25/10/1963

Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (born 1898)

Roger Désormière was a French conductor. He was an enthusiastic champion of contemporary composers, but also conducted performances of early eighteenth century French music.

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25/10/1960

Harry Ferguson, Irish-English engineer, founded the Ferguson Company (born 1884)

Henry George Ferguson was an Irish mechanic and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor and its three-point linkage system, for being the first person in Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99.

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25/10/1957

Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime boss. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organization, Anastasia eventually rose to the position of boss in what became the modern Gambino crime family. He also controlled New York City's waterfront for most of his criminal career, mainly through dockworker unions. Anastasia was murdered on October 25, 1957, on the orders of Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino; Gambino subsequently became the boss of the family.

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Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, English-Irish author, poet, and playwright (born 1878)

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. He published more than 90 books during his lifetime, and his output consisted of hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, and essays; further works were published posthumously. Having gained a name in the 1910s as a writer in the English-speaking world, he is best known today for the 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter, and his first book, The Gods of Pegāna, which depicts a fictional pantheon. Many critics feel his early work laid grounds for the fantasy genre.

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25/10/1956

Risto Ryti, Finnish lawyer, politician and Governor of the Bank of Finland; 5th President of Finland (born 1889)

Risto Heikki Ryti was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar period. He made a wide range of international contacts in the world of banking and within the framework of the League of Nations. Ryti served as prime minister during the Winter War and the Interim Peace, and as president during the Continuation War.

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25/10/1955

Sadako Sasaki, Japanese girl (born 1943)

Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known hibakusha—a Japanese term meaning "bomb-affected person". She is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. She died at the age of 12 on October 25, 1955, at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.

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25/10/1954

Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, Indian jeweller and namesake of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers (born 1874)

P. N. Gadgil Jewellers Limited, also known as Purshottam Narayan Gadgil Jewellers, is an Indian jewellery company founded by Ganesh Gadgil in Sangli in 1832. It is one of the oldest jewellery companies in India, known for its production of jewellery distinctive to the Maharashtra. As of 2025, the company is headquartered in Pune and operates 53 retail stores, including 52 in Maharashtra and Goa and one in California, US.

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25/10/1953

Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (born 1867)

Holger Pedersen was a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about thirty authoritative works concerning several languages. He was born in Gelballe, Denmark, and died in Hellerup, next to Copenhagen.

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25/10/1949

Mary Acworth Orr Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (born 1867)

Mary Acworth Evershed was a British astronomer and scholar. Her work on Dante Alighieri was written under the pen name M.A. Orr.

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25/10/1945

Robert Ley, German politician (born 1890)

Robert Ley was a German Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front during its entire existence, from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the Nazi Party, including Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter.

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25/10/1941

Franz von Werra, Swiss-German captain and pilot (born 1914)

Franz Xaver Freiherr von Werra was a German World War II fighter pilot and flying ace who was shot down over Britain and captured. He was the only Axis prisoner of war to escape from Canadian custody and return to Germany apart from a U-boat seaman, Walter Kurt Reich, said to have jumped from a Polish troopship into the St. Lawrence River in July 1940. Werra managed to return to Germany via the US, Mexico, South America and Spain, finally reaching Germany on 18 April 1941.

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25/10/1940

Thomas Waddell, Irish-Australian politician, 15th Premier of New South Wales (born 1854)

Thomas Waddell, an Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1887 to 1917, was briefly the premier of New South Wales during 1904, and was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1917 to 1934. His 75 days in office marks the shortest tenure of any New South Wales premier.

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25/10/1938

Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author (born 1892)

Alfonsina Carolina Storni was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period.

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25/10/1924

Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet, and activist (born 1876)

Mehmet Ziya Gökalp was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp, which he retained for the rest of his life. As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was influential in the negation of Islamism, pan-Islamism, and Ottomanism as ideological, cultural, and sociological identifiers. In a 1936 publication, sociologist Niyazi Berkes described Gökalp as "the real founder of Turkish sociology, since he was not a mere translator or interpreter of foreign sociology".

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25/10/1921

Bat Masterson, American lawman, buffalo hunter, and sport writer (born 1853)

Bartholemew William Barclay "Bat" Masterson was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the late 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. He was born to a working-class Irish family in Quebec, but he moved to the Western frontier as a young man and quickly distinguished himself as a buffalo hunter, civilian scout, and Indian fighter on the Great Plains. He later earned fame as a gunfighter and sheriff in Dodge City, Kansas, during which time he was involved in several notable shootouts.

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25/10/1920

Alexander of Greece (born 1893)

Alexander was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death on 25 October 1920.

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Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright, politician, Lord Mayor of Cork died on hunger strike (born 1879)

Terence James MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He was arrested by the British Government on charges of sedition and imprisoned in Brixton Prison. His death there in October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike brought him and the Irish Republican campaign to international attention.

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Joe Murphy, (Irish-American), died on hunger strike during the 1920 Cork hunger strike (born 1895)

Joseph Patrick Murphy was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was one of 22 Irish Republicans who died on hunger strike in the 20th century. He was an officer in the Irish Republican Army who died as a result of his participation in the 1920 Cork hunger strike at Cork Gaol.

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25/10/1919

William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland (born 1849)

William Kidston was an Australian bookseller, politician and Premier of Queensland, from January 1906 to November 1907 and again from February 1908 to February 1911.

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25/10/1916

William Merritt Chase, American painter and educator (born 1849)

William Merritt Chase was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later became the Parsons School of Design.

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25/10/1910

Willie Anderson, Scottish-American golfer (born 1878)

William Law Anderson was a Scottish-American golfer who became the first man to win four U.S. Opens, with victories in 1901, 1903, 1904, and 1905. Although Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus equalled his total of four championships, Anderson remains the only man to win three consecutive U.S. Open titles, as of 2026. He is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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25/10/1902

Frank Norris, American journalist and novelist (born 1870)

Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903).

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25/10/1895

Charles Hallé, German-English pianist and conductor (born 1819)

Sir Charles Hallé was a Prussian and later British pianist and conductor, best known for founding the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester.

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25/10/1889

Émile Augier, French playwright (born 1820)

Guillaume Victor Émile Augier was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857.

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25/10/1852

John C. Clark, American lawyer and politician (born 1793)

John Chamberlain Clark was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a United States representative from New York from 1827 to 1829 and from 1837 to 1843.

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25/10/1833

Abbas Mirza, Persian prince (born 1789)

Abbas Mirza was the Qajar crown prince of Iran during the reign of his father Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. As governor of the vulnerable Azerbaijan province, he played a crucial part in the two wars against the Russian Empire, as well as the war of 1821–1823 against the Ottoman Empire. He is also recognized for leading Iran's first reform and modernization attempts with the help of his ministers Mirza Bozorg Qa'em-Maqam and Abol-Qasem Qa'em-Maqam.

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25/10/1826

Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (born 1745)

Philippe Pinel was a French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy. He worked for the abolition of the shackling of mental patients by chains and, more generally, for the humanisation of their treatment. He also made notable contributions to the classification of mental disorders and has been described by some as "the father of modern psychiatry".

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25/10/1806

Henry Knox, American general and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of War (born 1750)

Henry Knox was an American military officer, politician, bookseller, and a Founding Father of the United States. Knox, born in Boston, became a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, serving as chief of artillery in all of George Washington's campaigns. Following the war, he oversaw the War Department under the Articles of Confederation from 1785 to 1789. Washington appointed him the nation's first secretary of war, a position which he held from 1789 to 1794. He is well known today as the namesake of Fort Knox in Kentucky, which is often conflated with the adjacent United States Bullion Depository.

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25/10/1760

George II of Great Britain (born 1683)

George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760.

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25/10/1757

Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (born 1672)

Antoine Augustin Calmet was a French Benedictine abbot, born in Ménil-la-Horgne, then in the Duchy of Bar, part of the Holy Roman Empire.

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25/10/1733

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1667)

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri was an Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician. He is considered the forerunner of non-Euclidean geometry.

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25/10/1683

William Scroggs, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (born 1623)

Sir William Scroggs was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1678 to 1681. He is best remembered for presiding over the Popish Plot trials, where he was accused of showing bias against the accused.

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25/10/1651

Saint Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint (born 1551)

Job of Pochayev, to the world Ivan Zalizo, in Great Schema John was an Eastern Orthodox monk and saint.

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25/10/1647

Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)

Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. The torr is named after him.

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25/10/1557

William Cavendish, English courtier and civil servant (born 1505)

Sir William Cavendish MP was an English politician, knight and courtier. Cavendish held public office and accumulated a considerable fortune, and became one of Thomas Cromwell's "visitors of the monasteries" during the dissolution of the monasteries. He was MP for Thirsk in 1547. In 1547 he married Bess of Hardwick, and the couple began the construction of Chatsworth House in 1552, a project which would not be completed until after his death. His second son William Cavendish (1552–1626) became the first Earl of Devonshire, purchasing his title from the impecunious King James I.

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25/10/1514

William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and academic, founded University of Aberdeen (born 1431)

William Elphinstone was a Scottish statesman, Bishop of Aberdeen and founder of the University of Aberdeen.

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25/10/1495

John II of Portugal (born 1455)

John II, called the Perfect Prince, was King of Portugal from 1481 until his death in 1495, and also for a brief time in 1477. He is known for reestablishing the power of the Portuguese monarchy, reinvigorating the economy of Portugal, and renewing the Portuguese exploration of Africa and Asia.

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25/10/1492

Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop (born 1455)

Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh c. 1455 – 25 October 1492, was an Irish ecclesiastic. He was a bishop who never ruled his see, even though he was appointed to two of them: Bishop of Ross, Ireland in 1482 and Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1490. His feast day is 25 October.

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25/10/1478

Catherine of Bosnia (born 1425)

Catherine of Bosnia was Queen of Bosnia as the wife of King Thomas, the penultimate Bosnian sovereign. She was born into the powerful House of Kosača, staunch supporters of the Bosnian Church. Her marriage in 1446 was arranged to bring peace between the King and her father, Stjepan Vukčić. The queenship of Catherine, who at that point converted to Roman Catholicism, was marked by an energetic construction of churches throughout the country.

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25/10/1415

Charles I of Albret

Charles I d'Albret was the Lord of Albret and the Constable of France from 1402 until 1411, and again from 1413 until 1415. He was also the co-commander of the French army at the Battle of Agincourt where he was killed by the English forces led by King Henry V.

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Philip II, Count of Nevers (born 1389)

Phillip II, Count of Nevers was the youngest son of Philip the Bold and Margaret III of Flanders.

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Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont (born 1371)

Frederick I, or Ferry I of Lorraine was a Count of Vaudémont.

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Jean I, Duke of Alençon (born 1385)

Jean I of Alençon, known as the Wise, was a French nobleman, killed at the Battle of Agincourt.

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Anthony, Duke of Brabant (born 1384)

Anthony, Duke of Brabant, was Count of Rethel (1402–1406), Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1406–1415), and Co-Duke of Luxemburg (1411-1415). He was killed at the battle of Agincourt.

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Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, English soldier (born 1394)

Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk was an English nobleman, the eldest son of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Katherine de Stafford.

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Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, English politician (born 1373)

Edward, 2nd Duke of York,, known as the Earl of Rutland between 1390 and 1397 and again between 1399 and 1402 and as the Duke of Aumale between 1397 and 1399, was an English nobleman, military commander and magnate. He was the eldest son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and a grandson of King Edward III of England. He held significant appointments during the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V, and is also known for his translation of the hunting treatise The Master of Game. He was killed in 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt, while commanding the right wing of the English army.

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Dafydd Gam, Welsh nobleman (born c. 1380)

Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Hywel, better known as Dafydd Gam, anglicized to David or Davy Gam, was a Welsh warrior, a prominent opponent of Owain Glyndŵr. He died at the Battle of Agincourt fighting for Henry V, King of England in that victory against the French.

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25/10/1400

Geoffrey Chaucer, English philosopher, poet, and author (born c. 1343)

Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

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25/10/1359

Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (born 1293)

Beatrice of Castile or Beatriz was an infanta of Castile, daughter of Sancho IV and María de Molina. She was Queen of Portugal from the accession of her husband, Afonso IV, in 1325 until his death on 28 May 1357.

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25/10/1349

James III of Majorca (born 1315)

James III, known as James the Rash, was King of Majorca from 1324 to 1344. He was the son of Ferdinand of Majorca and Isabella of Sabran.

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25/10/1292

Robert Burnell, Lord Chancellor of England

Robert Burnell was an English bishop who served as Lord Chancellor of England from 1274 to 1292. A native of Shropshire, he served as a minor royal official before entering into the service of Prince Edward, the future King Edward I of England. When Edward went on the Eighth Crusade in 1270, Burnell stayed in England to secure the prince's interests. He served as regent after the death of King Henry III of England while Edward was still on crusade. He was twice elected Archbishop of Canterbury, but his personal life—which included a long-term mistress who was rumoured to have borne him four sons—prevented his confirmation by the papacy. In 1275 Burnell was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells, after Edward had appointed him Lord Chancellor in 1274.

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25/10/1230

Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (born 1180)

Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, 5th Earl of Gloucester, 1st Lord of Glamorgan, 7th Lord of Clare was the son of Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford (c. 1153–1217), from whom he inherited the Clare estates. He also inherited from his mother, Amice Fitz William, the estates of Gloucester and the honour of St. Hilary, and from Rohese, an ancestor, the moiety of the Giffard estates. In June 1202, he was entrusted with the lands of Harfleur and Montivilliers in Normandy.

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25/10/1200

Conrad of Wittelsbach, German cardinal (born 1120)

Conrad of Wittelsbach was the Archbishop of Mainz and Archchancellor of Germany from 20 June 1161 to 1165 and again from 1183 to his death. He was also a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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25/10/1180

John of Salisbury, French bishop (born c. 1120)

John of Salisbury, who described himself as Johannes Parvus, was an English author, philosopher, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres. The historian Hans Liebeschuetz described him as one of the most notable figures of the "medieval Renaissance" of the 12th century.

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25/10/1154

Stephen, King of England

Stephen, often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154. He was Count of Boulogne jure uxoris from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy from 1135 until 1144. His reign was marked by the Anarchy, a civil war with his cousin and rival, the Empress Matilda, whose son, Henry II, succeeded Stephen as the first of the Angevin kings of England.

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25/10/1053

Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu

Enguerrand II was the son of Hugh II count of Ponthieu. He assumed the county upon the death of his father on November 20, 1052.

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25/10/1047

Magnus the Good, Norwegian king (born 1024)

Magnus Olafsson, better known as Magnus the Good, was King of Norway from 1035 and King of Denmark from 1042 until his death in 1047.

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25/10/0912

Rudolph I, king of Burgundy (born 859)

Rudolph I was King of Upper Burgundy from his election in 888 until his death.

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25/10/0625

Pope Boniface V

Pope Boniface V was the bishop of Rome from 23 December 619 to his death on 25 October 625. He did much for the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, and enacted the decree by which churches became places of sanctuary.

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