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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 25th of August 1248 | EVENT | The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht. |
| 25th of August 1258 | EVENT | Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea. |
| 25th of August 1537 | EVENT | The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. |
| 25th of August 1580 | EVENT | Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal. |
| 25th of August 1609 | EVENT | Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. |
| 25th of August 1758 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf. |
| 25th of August 1768 | EVENT | James Cook begins his first voyage. |
| 25th of August 1814 | EVENT | Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812. |
| 25th of August 1825 | EVENT | Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil. |
| 25th of August 1830 | EVENT | The Belgian Revolution begins. |
| 25th of August 1835 | EVENT | The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax. |
| 25th of August 1894 | EVENT | Kitasato Shibasaburo discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. |
| 25th of August 1898 | EVENT | 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece. |
| 25th of August 1912 | EVENT | The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded. |
| 25th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I The University Library of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost. |
| 25th of August 1916 | EVENT | The United States National Park Service is created. |
| 25th of August 1920 | EVENT | Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated. |
| 25th of August 1921 | EVENT | The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur. |
| 25th of August 1933 | EVENT | The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people. |
| 25th of August 1939 | EVENT | The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power. |
| 25th of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged. |
| 25th of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. |
| 25th of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies. |
| 25th of August 1945 | EVENT | Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War. |
| 25th of August 1948 | EVENT | The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. |
| 25th of August 1950 | EVENT | President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike. |
| 25th of August 1980 | EVENT | Zimbabwe joins the United Nations. |
| 25th of August 1981 | EVENT | Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn |
| 25th of August 1989 | EVENT | Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe. |
| 25th of August 1989 | EVENT | Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary. |
| 25th of August 1989 | EVENT | Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System. |
| 25th of August 1991 | EVENT | Belarus declares its independence from the Soviet Union |
| 25th of August 1991 | EVENT | The Battle of Vukovar has begun. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August : November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence |
| 25th of August 1997 | EVENT | Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall. |
| 25th of August 2003 | EVENT | The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko). |
| 25th of August 1530 | BIRTHDAY | Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584) |
| 25th of August 1561 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632) |
| 25th of August 1624 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709) |
| 25th of August 1662 | BIRTHDAY | John Leverett the Younger, American educator (d. 1724) |
| 25th of August 1707 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis I of Spain, (d. 1724) |
| 25th of August 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Amedee-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795) |
| 25th of August 1724 | BIRTHDAY | George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806) |
| 25th of August 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792) |
| 25th of August 1744 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803) |
| 25th of August 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Louis Leon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794) |
| 25th of August 1776 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1853) |
| 25th of August 1786 | BIRTHDAY | King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868) |
| 25th of August 1796 | BIRTHDAY | James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876) |
| 25th of August 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850) |
| 25th of August 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader (d. 1880) |
| 25th of August 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Eugenie de Jesus, Founder of the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898) |
| 25th of August 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (d. 1909) |
| 25th of August 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902) |
| 25th of August 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917) |
| 25th of August 1845 | BIRTHDAY | King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886) |
| 25th of August 1867 | BIRTHDAY | James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951) |
| 25th of August 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter (d. unknown) |
| 25th of August 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Sean T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966) |
| 25th of August 1891 | BIRTHDAY | David Shimoni, Russian-born Israeli poet and writer (d. 1956) |
| 25th of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962) |
| 25th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973) |
| 25th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975) |
| 25th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) |
| 25th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972) |
| 25th of August 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992) |
| 25th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Faustina Kowalska, Polish mystic (d. 1938) |
| 25th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Smith, England cricketer (d. 1979) |
| 25th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971) |
| 25th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | George Cisar, American baseball player (d. 2010) |
| 25th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993) |
| 25th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea Tanning, American painter |
| 25th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Vo Nguyen Giap (Vo Nguyen Giap), Vietnamese general and statesman |
| 25th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994) |
| 25th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973) |
| 25th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 25th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997) |
| 25th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Van Johnson, American actor (d. 2008) |
| 25th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) |
| 25th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000) |
| 25th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (d. 2008) |
| 25th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress |
| 25th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985) |
| 25th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990) |
| 25th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | George Wallace, American politician (d. 1998) |
| 25th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Monty Hall, Canadian-born game show host |
| 25th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999) |
| 25th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (d. 1999) |
| 25th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004) |
| 25th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003) |
| 25th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | John "Kayo" Dottley, American football player |
| 25th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2004) |
| 25th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 25th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor |
| 25th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Connery, Scottish actor |
| 25th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (d. 2003) |
| 25th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007) |
| 25th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Regis Philbin, American television host |
| 25th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Skerritt, American actor |
| 25th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician |
| 25th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician |
| 25th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Ilarde, Filipino disk jockey, television host, and Senator |
| 25th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Wright, American poet |
| 25th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Giridharilal Kedia, Indian entrepreneur (d. 2009) |
| 25th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Canary, American actor |
| 25th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Forsyth, English author |
| 25th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John Badham, American film director |
| 25th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Van Dam, Belgian baritone |
| 25th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Marshall Brickman, American film writer |
| 25th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Deal, American politician |
| 25th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Black, newspaper magnate |
| 25th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Demers, Canadian hockey coach |
| 25th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Heald, American actor |
| 25th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rollie Fingers, American baseball player |
| 25th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and children's author |
| 25th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Sanders, American football player |
| 25th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas A. Peppas, Greek chemical and biomedical engineer |
| 25th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Amis, English novelist |
| 25th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Savage, American actor |
| 25th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer |
| 25th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Simmons, Israeli-born musician (Kiss) |
| 25th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician |
| 25th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest) |
| 25th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Handel, American radio personality |
| 25th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (The Buggles, Yes, Asia) |
| 25th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 25th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Elvis Costello, English musician |
| 25th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gerd Muller, German politician |
| 25th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Vijayakanth, Tamil actor and politician |
| 25th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Takeshi Okada, Japanese football manager |
| 25th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (d. 1986) |
| 25th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer |
| 25th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Simon McBurney, British actor, writer and theatre director |
| 25th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Christian LeBlanc, American actor |
| 25th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Burton, American film director |
| 25th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Sterling Harwood, American academic |
| 25th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Ann Swenson, American operatic soprano |
| 25th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Crow, American actress |
| 25th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Zellhofer, Austrian footballer |
| 25th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer and actor |
| 25th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Vivian Campbell, Irish musician (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio) |
| 25th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer |
| 25th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Maris Bruziks, Latvian triple jumper |
| 25th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | David Packer, American actor |
| 25th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Christine McGlade, Canadian actress (You Can't Do That on Television) |
| 25th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Shock G, American singer and rapper (Digital Underground) |
| 25th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician |
| 25th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Vasilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster |
| 25th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer |
| 25th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Parent, American comic book artist and writer |
| 25th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Blair Underwood, American actor |
| 25th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Whalley, British actress |
| 25th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelius Bennett, American football player |
| 25th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sanjeev Sharma, Indian cricketer |
| 25th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993) |
| 25th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Maschio, American actor |
| 25th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Belle, American baseball player |
| 25th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist |
| 25th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco) |
| 25th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Hollander, English actor |
| 25th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer |
| 25th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Mitsui, Japanese actress, model and racing driver |
| 25th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000) |
| 25th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian) |
| 25th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Ray, American chef and television personality |
| 25th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer and composer |
| 25th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Vivek Razdan, Indian cricketer |
| 25th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Shelley, English actress |
| 25th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Staley, American voice actor |
| 25th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | John Witt, author, sportswriter, actor and Ballhawk |
| 25th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor |
| 25th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Horry, American basketball player |
| 25th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer |
| 25th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Schiffer, German model |
| 25th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003) |
| 25th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Marvin Harrison, American football player |
| 25th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Fatih Ak?n, German film director |
| 25th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Luza, Dutch comedian |
| 25th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Millegan, American actor |
| 25th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player |
| 25th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Petria Thomas, Australian swimmer |
| 25th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Damon Jones, American basketball player |
| 25th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jensen Atwood, American actor |
| 25th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Javed Qadeer, Pakistani cricketer |
| 25th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Skarsgard, Swedish actor |
| 25th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Cadieux, Canadian actress |
| 25th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Andy McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 25th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Togo, American actor |
| 25th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007) |
| 25th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mohr, German rugby player |
| 25th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kel Mitchell, American actor |
| 25th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Marlon Harewood, English footballer |
| 25th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Deanna Nolan, American basketball player |
| 25th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Musser, American baseball player |
| 25th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Bilson, American actress |
| 25th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007) |
| 25th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | James Rossiter, British racing driver |
| 25th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer and songwriter |
| 25th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Blake Lively, American actress |
| 25th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Stacey Farber, Canadian actress |
| 25th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Whitney Stevens, Panamanian/American pornographic actress |
| 25th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | James Wesolowski, Australian footballer |
| 25th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Upton, American baseball player |
| 25th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer |
| 25th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Burke, English singer |
| 25th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Quinn, English singer |
| 25th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Park, Brazilian/American golfer |
| 25th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer |
| 25th of August 1998 | BIRTHDAY | China Anne McClain, American actress |
| 25th of August 0079 | DEATH | Pliny the Elder, Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher and military commander (Born 23) |
| 25th of August 0383 | DEATH | Gratian, Roman Emperor (Born 359) |
| 25th of August 0471 | DEATH | Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (Born 458) |
| 25th of August 1192 | DEATH | Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1142) |
| 25th of August 1270 | DEATH | Louis IX of France (Born 1214) |
| 25th of August 1282 | DEATH | Thomas Cantilupe, English saint (Born c. 1218) |
| 25th of August 1330 | DEATH | Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (Born 1286) |
| 25th of August 1482 | DEATH | Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (Born 1429) |
| 25th of August 1554 | DEATH | Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (Born 1473) |
| 25th of August 1632 | DEATH | Thomas Dekker, English dramatist (Born c. 1572) |
| 25th of August 1650 | DEATH | Richard Crashaw, English poet (Born c. 1613) |
| 25th of August 1688 | DEATH | Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer (Born c. 1635) |
| 25th of August 1699 | DEATH | Christian V of Denmark (Born 1646) |
| 25th of August 1711 | DEATH | Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician |
| 25th of August 1742 | DEATH | Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (Born 1704) |
| 25th of August 1774 | DEATH | Niccolo Jommelli, Italian composer (Born 1714) |
| 25th of August 1776 | DEATH | David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (Born 1711) |
| 25th of August 1792 | DEATH | Jacques Cazotte, French writer (Born 1719) |
| 25th of August 1794 | DEATH | Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (Born 1727) |
| 25th of August 1822 | DEATH | William Herschel, German-born astronomer (Born 1738) |
| 25th of August 1867 | DEATH | Michael Faraday, English scientist (Born 1791) |
| 25th of August 1900 | DEATH | Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (Born 1844) |
| 25th of August 1900 | DEATH | Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (Born 1840) |
| 25th of August 1904 | DEATH | Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (Born 1836) |
| 25th of August 1904 | DEATH | William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (Born 1827) |
| 25th of August 1908 | DEATH | Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1852) |
| 25th of August 1924 | DEATH | Mariano Alvarez, Filipino general (Born 1818) |
| 25th of August 1925 | DEATH | Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (Born 1852) |
| 25th of August 1930 | DEATH | Frankie Campbell, American Boxer (Born 1904) |
| 25th of August 1938 | DEATH | Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (Born 1870) |
| 25th of August 1939 | DEATH | Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1904) |
| 25th of August 1940 | DEATH | Jean d'Orleans, duc de Guise, Orleanist pretender to the French throne (Born 1874) |
| 25th of August 1942 | DEATH | George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (Born 1902) |
| 25th of August 1945 | DEATH | John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (Born 1918) |
| 25th of August 1950 | DEATH | Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (Born 1888) |
| 25th of August 1956 | DEATH | Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (Born 1894) |
| 25th of August 1965 | DEATH | Moonlight Graham, American baseball player (Born 1879) |
| 25th of August 1967 | DEATH | Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1883) |
| 25th of August 1967 | DEATH | Paul Muni, Polish actor (Born 1895) |
| 25th of August 1967 | DEATH | George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (Born 1918) |
| 25th of August 1968 | DEATH | Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (Born 1910) |
| 25th of August 1970 | DEATH | Tachu Naito, Japanese architect (Born 1886) |
| 25th of August 1971 | DEATH | Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (Born 1890) |
| 25th of August 1976 | DEATH | Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1900) |
| 25th of August 1979 | DEATH | Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (Born 1911) |
| 25th of August 1980 | DEATH | Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (Born 1919) |
| 25th of August 1984 | DEATH | Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (Born 1899) |
| 25th of August 1984 | DEATH | Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (Born 1921) |
| 25th of August 1984 | DEATH | Truman Capote, American author (Born 1924) |
| 25th of August 1985 | DEATH | Samantha Smith, American social activist (Born 1972) |
| 25th of August 1990 | DEATH | Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (Born 1903) |
| 25th of August 1999 | DEATH | Rob Fisher, English musician (Born 1956) |
| 25th of August 2000 | DEATH | Carl Barks, American cartoonist (Born 1901) |
| 25th of August 2000 | DEATH | Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (Born 1937) |
| 25th of August 2001 | DEATH | Aaliyah, American R&B singer and actress (Born 1979) |
| 25th of August 2001 | DEATH | Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1938) |
| 25th of August 2001 | DEATH | Ken Tyrrell, British race driver (Born 1924) |
| 25th of August 2001 | DEATH | Philippe Leotard, French actor and singer (Born 1940) |
| 25th of August 2002 | DEATH | Giannis Gionakis, Greek actor (Born 1922) |
| 25th of August 2002 | DEATH | Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (Born 1923) |
| 25th of August 2005 | DEATH | Peter Glotz, German politician (Born 1939) |
| 25th of August 2006 | DEATH | Noor Mohamed Hassanali, 2nd president of Trinidad & Tobago (Born 1918) |
| 25th of August 2007 | DEATH | Ray Jones, English footballer (Born 1988) |
| 25th of August 2008 | DEATH | Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (Born 1964) |
| 25th of August 2008 | DEATH | Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer (Born 1959) |
| 25th of August 2009 | DEATH | Edward M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts, brother of John F. Kennedy (Born 1932) |