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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 25th of May 1085 | EVENT | Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors. |
| 25th of May 1420 | EVENT | Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ. |
| 25th of May 1521 | EVENT | The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw. |
| 25th of May 1659 | EVENT | Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England. |
| 25th of May 1738 | EVENT | A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners. |
| 25th of May 1787 | EVENT | In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides. |
| 25th of May 1798 | EVENT | United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre takes place. |
| 25th of May 1809 | EVENT | Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence. |
| 25th of May 1810 | EVENT | May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence. |
| 25th of May 1819 | EVENT | The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated. |
| 25th of May 1833 | EVENT | The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated. |
| 25th of May 1837 | EVENT | The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom. |
| 25th of May 1865 | EVENT | In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes. |
| 25th of May 1878 | EVENT | Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London. |
| 25th of May 1895 | EVENT | Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison. |
| 25th of May 1895 | EVENT | The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president. |
| 25th of May 1914 | EVENT | The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland. |
| 25th of May 1925 | EVENT | Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. |
| 25th of May 1926 | EVENT | Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic. |
| 25th of May 1935 | EVENT | Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| 25th of May 1936 | EVENT | The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins. |
| 25th of May 1938 | EVENT | Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths. |
| 25th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins. |
| 25th of May 1946 | EVENT | The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir. |
| 25th of May 1953 | EVENT | Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test. |
| 25th of May 1953 | EVENT | The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston. |
| 25th of May 1955 | EVENT | First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band. |
| 25th of May 1955 | EVENT | In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S. |
| 25th of May 1961 | EVENT | Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade. |
| 25th of May 1962 | EVENT | The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business. |
| 25th of May 1963 | EVENT | In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established. |
| 25th of May 1966 | EVENT | Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches. |
| 25th of May 1966 | EVENT | The first prominent dazibao during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University. |
| 25th of May 1977 | EVENT | Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday. |
| 25th of May 1979 | EVENT | American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground. |
| 25th of May 1979 | EVENT | Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York City home, prompting an international search for the child, and causing U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983). |
| 25th of May 1981 | EVENT | In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. |
| 25th of May 1982 | EVENT | HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War. |
| 25th of May 1985 | EVENT | Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people. |
| 25th of May 1997 | EVENT | A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah. |
| 25th of May 1999 | EVENT | The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades. |
| 25th of May 2000 | EVENT | Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978. |
| 25th of May 2001 | EVENT | 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
| 25th of May 2002 | EVENT | China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people. |
| 25th of May 2002 | EVENT | A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people. |
| 25th of May 2009 | EVENT | North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community. |
| 25th of May 1048 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Shenzong of Song China (d. 1085) |
| 25th of May 1334 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Suko, Japanese Pretender (d. 1398) |
| 25th of May 1458 | BIRTHDAY | Sultan Mahmud Begada of Gujarat (d. 1511) |
| 25th of May 1606 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649) |
| 25th of May 1661 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737) |
| 25th of May 1713 | BIRTHDAY | John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792) |
| 25th of May 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776) |
| 25th of May 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Gregorio Funes, Argentine clergyman, politician and Junta Grande figure (d. 1829) |
| 25th of May 1783 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician and Supreme Court justice (d. 1841) |
| 25th of May 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873) |
| 25th of May 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882) |
| 25th of May 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897) |
| 25th of May 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1893) |
| 25th of May 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923) |
| 25th of May 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet and writer (d. 1900) |
| 25th of May 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, editor and publisher (d. 1924) |
| 25th of May 1852 | BIRTHDAY | William Muldoon, American Greco-Roman wrestler (d. 1933) |
| 25th of May 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Franchet d'Esperey, French general (d. 1942) |
| 25th of May 1860 | BIRTHDAY | James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944) |
| 25th of May 1865 | BIRTHDAY | John Mott, American evangelical; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1955) |
| 25th of May 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943) |
| 25th of May 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954) |
| 25th of May 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American tap dancer and actor (d. 1949) |
| 25th of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-born British publisher (d. 1964) |
| 25th of May 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Alexandre Barre, French neurologist (d. 1967) |
| 25th of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956) |
| 25th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Murray, Scottish-born American labor leader (d. 1952) |
| 25th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Rash Behari Bose, Indian revolutionary (d. 1945) |
| 25th of May 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1968) |
| 25th of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969) |
| 25th of May 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Sikorsky, Russian-born American aviation designer (d. 1972) |
| 25th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav resistance leader and staesman (d. 1980) |
| 25th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Tunney, American boxer(d. 1978) |
| 25th of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Bennett Cerf, American publisher and TV personality (d. 1971) |
| 25th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet and musician (d. 1976) |
| 25th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975) |
| 25th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998) |
| 25th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995) |
| 25th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963) |
| 25th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999) |
| 25th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Menken, American filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970) |
| 25th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Deokhye of Korea (d. 1989) |
| 25th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Rockwell, American wrestling and football coach (d. 2005) |
| 25th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz "Pritzl" Bar, German fighter pilot (d. 1957) |
| 25th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965) |
| 25th of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Hesburgh, American educator and theologian |
| 25th of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Cochran, American actor (d. 1965) |
| 25th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 25th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter |
| 25th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 25th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico Berlinguer, Italian P.C.I. politician (d. 1984) |
| 25th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Kitty Kallen, American big band singer |
| 25th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Istvan Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005) |
| 25th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974) |
| 25th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Don Liddle, American baseball player (d. 2000) |
| 25th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 25th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Ludlum, American writer (d. 2001) |
| 25th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007) |
| 25th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Frost, American actor |
| 25th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut |
| 25th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Irwin Winkler, American film producer and director |
| 25th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Aili Jogi, Estonian anti-Soviet occupation figure |
| 25th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | K. C. Jones, American professional basketball player and coach |
| 25th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003) |
| 25th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | W. P. Kinsella, Canadian writer |
| 25th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Basdeo Panday, Trinidadian statesman |
| 25th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Spencer, English footballer |
| 25th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Cookie Gilchrist, American football player |
| 25th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988) |
| 25th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter |
| 25th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988) |
| 25th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 25th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ian McKellen, English actor |
| 25th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Voronin, Moldovan statesman |
| 25th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jessi Colter, American country singer |
| 25th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | John Palmer, British musician (Family) |
| 25th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2005) |
| 25th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Bunnell, American law enforcement official and TV personality |
| 25th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Robert MacPherson, American mathematician |
| 25th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Oz, British-born American puppeteer and director |
| 25th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | David A. Hargrave, American writer and role-playing games designer (d. 1988) |
| 25th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Valentine, American actress |
| 25th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions) |
| 25th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist |
| 25th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Gale, American screenwriter |
| 25th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Al Sarrantonio, American writer |
| 25th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Bewkes, American media executive |
| 25th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Smith, American politician |
| 25th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Eve Ensler, American playwright |
| 25th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo) |
| 25th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer |
| 25th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Alistair Burt, British politician |
| 25th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Stavros Arnaoutakis, Greek politician |
| 25th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sugar Minott, Jamaican reggae singer |
| 25th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 25th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | David P. Sartor, American composer |
| 25th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Lee, American writer |
| 25th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Picard, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 25th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Newcomer, American folksinger |
| 25th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Aikaterini Batzeli, Greek politician |
| 25th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Weller, English musician |
| 25th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Clary, British television personality |
| 25th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician |
| 25th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 25th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Klobuchar, American politician |
| 25th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Anthea Turner, British television personality |
| 25th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 25th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Eha Runne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower |
| 25th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian |
| 25th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut |
| 25th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | David Shaw, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 25th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Stevenson, British actor |
| 25th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker |
| 25th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands |
| 25th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Poppy Z. Brite, American author |
| 25th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kendall Gill, American basketball player |
| 25th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist (Megadeth) |
| 25th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Heche, American actress |
| 25th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Stacy London, American fashion consultant |
| 25th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actresses |
| 25th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Eischen, American baseball player |
| 25th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Kennedy, American actor |
| 25th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Satsuki Yukino, Japanese voice actress |
| 25th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Cappato, Italian politician |
| 25th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Henry, American actor |
| 25th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Octavia Spencer, American actress |
| 25th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Karan Johar, Indian director, producer, writer, actor |
| 25th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Daz Dillinger, American rapper |
| 25th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Demetri Martin, American comedian |
| 25th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Sims, American model and actress |
| 25th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Tejada, Dominican baseball player |
| 25th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Klepacki, American musician |
| 25th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lauryn Hill, American singer |
| 25th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Blaise Nkufo, Swiss footballer |
| 25th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cillian Murphy, Irish actor |
| 25th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Nasic, German singer (Guano Apes) |
| 25th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelo Silva, Brazilian footballer |
| 25th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tarik Glenn, American football player |
| 25th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ethan Suplee, American actor |
| 25th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Del Rio, Mexican wrestler |
| 25th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Karthik Sivakumar, Indian actor |
| 25th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Urlacher, American football player |
| 25th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice-hockey player |
| 25th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer |
| 25th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Bocanegra, American footballer |
| 25th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player |
| 25th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jae Hee, South Korean actor |
| 25th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Joe King, American musician (The Fray) |
| 25th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | David Navarro, Spanish footballer |
| 25th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michalis Pelekanos, Greek footballer |
| 25th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Boyd, English footballer |
| 25th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer |
| 25th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Kubel, American baseball player |
| 25th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder |
| 25th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Webster, Australian rules footballer |
| 25th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tiaguinho Brazilian footballer |
| 25th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kunal Khemu, Indian actor |
| 25th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Martakis, Greek singer |
| 25th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 25th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir, Icelandic beauty pageant constestant (Miss World 2005) |
| 25th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Ball, Australian rules footballer |
| 25th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | A. J. Foyt IV, American race car driver |
| 25th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M) |
| 25th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Shawne Merriman, American football player |
| 25th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress |
| 25th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Crace, English actress |
| 25th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Edewin Fanini, Brazilian footballer |
| 25th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Yoan Gouffran, French footballer |
| 25th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist |
| 25th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Juri Ueno, Japanese actress |
| 25th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer |
| 25th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Yves De Winter, Belgian goalkeeper |
| 25th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer |
| 25th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 25th of May 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Gabby Soleil, American actress |
| 25th of May 0615 | DEATH | Pope Boniface IV (Born c. 550) |
| 25th of May 0709 | DEATH | Aldhelm, English Christian saint, Latin poet and Anglo-Saxon literature scholar (Born c. 639) |
| 25th of May 0735 | DEATH | The Venerable Bede, English historian and monk (Born 672 or 673) |
| 25th of May 0967 | DEATH | Murakami, Emperor of Japan (Born 926) |
| 25th of May 0992 | DEATH | Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans (Born c. 935) |
| 25th of May 1085 | DEATH | Pope Gregory VII (Born c. 1020) |
| 25th of May 1261 | DEATH | Pope Alexander IV |
| 25th of May 1452 | DEATH | John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 25th of May 1555 | DEATH | King Henry II of Navarre (Born 1503) |
| 25th of May 1555 | DEATH | Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (Born 1508) |
| 25th of May 1595 | DEATH | Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (Born 1567) |
| 25th of May 1632 | DEATH | Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (Born 1572) |
| 25th of May 1667 | DEATH | Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (Born 1620) |
| 25th of May 1681 | DEATH | Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (Born 1600) |
| 25th of May 1693 | DEATH | Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (Born 1634) |
| 25th of May 1741 | DEATH | Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (Born 1660) |
| 25th of May 1786 | DEATH | Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (Born 1717) |
| 25th of May 1789 | DEATH | Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (Born 1751) |
| 25th of May 1797 | DEATH | John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (Born 1719) |
| 25th of May 1805 | DEATH | William Paley, English philosopher (Born 1743) |
| 25th of May 1848 | DEATH | Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, German writer (Born 1797) |
| 25th of May 1849 | DEATH | Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (Born 1777) |
| 25th of May 1899 | DEATH | Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (Born 1822) |
| 25th of May 1912 | DEATH | Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (Born 1860) |
| 25th of May 1917 | DEATH | Maksim Bahdanovic, Belarusian poet (Born 1891) |
| 25th of May 1919 | DEATH | Madam C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (Born 1867) |
| 25th of May 1924 | DEATH | Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (Born 1889) |
| 25th of May 1926 | DEATH | Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (Born 1879) |
| 25th of May 1927 | DEATH | Payne Whitney, American businessman (Born 1876) |
| 25th of May 1930 | DEATH | Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1848) |
| 25th of May 1934 | DEATH | Gustav Holst, English composer (Born 1874) |
| 25th of May 1939 | DEATH | Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (Born 1868) |
| 25th of May 1940 | DEATH | Joe De Grasse, American film director (Born 1873) |
| 25th of May 1942 | DEATH | Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist (Born 1902) |
| 25th of May 1943 | DEATH | Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (Born 1888) |
| 25th of May 1951 | DEATH | Paula von Preradovic, Croatian-born writer (Born 1887) |
| 25th of May 1954 | DEATH | Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (Born 1913) |
| 25th of May 1965 | DEATH | Aleck "Rice" Miller, American blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player |
| 25th of May 1968 | DEATH | Georg von Kuchler, German field marshal (Born 1881) |
| 25th of May 1970 | DEATH | Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer (Born 1932) |
| 25th of May 1977 | DEATH | Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (Born 1904) |
| 25th of May 1979 | DEATH | John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (Born 1949) |
| 25th of May 1981 | DEATH | Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (Born 1898) |
| 25th of May 1983 | DEATH | Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1925) |
| 25th of May 1983 | DEATH | Idris I, King of Libya (Born 1889) |
| 25th of May 1983 | DEATH | Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (Born 1917) |
| 25th of May 1986 | DEATH | Chester Bowles, American Democratic politician (Born 1901) |
| 25th of May 1988 | DEATH | Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1906) |
| 25th of May 1994 | DEATH | Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (Born 1940) |
| 25th of May 1995 | DEATH | Dany Robin, French actress (Born 1927) |
| 25th of May 1996 | DEATH | Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (Born 1968) |
| 25th of May 1996 | DEATH | Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (Born 1929) |
| 25th of May 2000 | DEATH | Nicholas Clay, British actor (Born 1946) |
| 25th of May 2002 | DEATH | Pat Coombs, English actress (Born 1926) |
| 25th of May 2003 | DEATH | Jeremy Michael Ward, American sound technician and vocal operator (The Mars Volta) (Born 1976) |
| 25th of May 2004 | DEATH | Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (Born 1917) |
| 25th of May 2005 | DEATH | Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (Born 1929) |
| 25th of May 2005 | DEATH | Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (Born 1965) |
| 25th of May 2005 | DEATH | Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (Born 1938) |
| 25th of May 2005 | DEATH | Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (Born 1934) |
| 25th of May 2006 | DEATH | Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (Born 1941) |
| 25th of May 2007 | DEATH | Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and TV host (Born 1931) |
| 25th of May 2008 | DEATH | J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (Born 1909) |
| 25th of May 2008 | DEATH | Camu Tao, American rapper and producer (Born 1977) |
| 25th of May 2009 | DEATH | Haakon Lie, Norwegian Labour politician (Born 1905) |
| 25th of May 2010 | DEATH | Michael H. Jordan, American businessman and Chief Executive Officer (Born 1936) |
| 25th of May 2010 | DEATH | Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African opera singer (Born 1975) |
| 25th of May 2010 | DEATH | Alan Hickinbotham, Australian businessman, football player, & football coach (Born 1925) |
| 25th of May 2010 | DEATH | Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (Born 1959) |
| 25th of May 2010 | DEATH | Gabriel Vargas, Mexican cartoonist (Born 1915) |
| 25th of May 2010 | DEATH | Silvius Magnago, Italian politician (Born 1914) |