Famous People Who Died on June 25

Discover the most famous people who died on June 25. The list includes people like Michael Jackson, Michel Foucault, Thomas Eakins, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Philippe Halsman. Famous personalities featured on this list, include artists, biologists, actors and composers and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, France, United Kingdom and many more countries.

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Michael Jackson

(One of the Most Significant Cultural Figures of the 20th Century Popularly Known as the 'King of Pop')

Birthdate: August 29, 1958

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Gary, Indiana, United States

Died: 2009

The King of Pop and an international superstar, Michael Jackson was a musical entertainer whose work – both with Jackson 5 and solo – won accolades and hearts worldwide. Equally popular were his unique dance moves that created sensation and shaped future dance styles. Amongst the most successful entertainers of all time, Jackson was later accused of child molestation.

Farrah Fawcett

(Best Known for Her Role as ‘Jill Munroe’ in the TV Series ‘Charlie's Angels’)

Birthdate: February 2, 1947

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

Died: 2009

Farrah Fawcett is best remembered for posing for the iconic red swimsuit poster, which sold over 12 million copies and is regarded as a symbol of the late-1970s and a modern icon. Known for her good looks, Farrah was a popular Playboy model. The actress was also named in Men's Health magazine's 100 Hottest Women of All-Time list in 2011.

Jacques Cousteau

(Co-Inventor of the First Open-Circuit, Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus 'Aqua-Lung')

Birthdate: June 11, 1910

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France

Died: 1997

Jacques Cousteau was a French explorer, naval officer, filmmaker, conservationist, scientist, photographer, researcher, and author. Renowned for his exploration of various forms of life in water, Jacques Cousteau is credited with pioneering marine conservation and co-developing the Aqua-Lung, the first underwater breathing apparatus to achieve popularity and commercial success.

Birthdate: March 4, 1941

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Danville, Virginia, United States

Died: 2018

Businessman Richard Benjamin Harrison became famous as a reality TV personality when he started appearing in the History Channel series Pawn Stars as the co-owner of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop. His already successful business started thriving following the show’s success. He was nominated for the 2012 Time 100 list.

Fred Trump

(American Real Estate Developer and Father of Former US President 'Donald Trump')

Birthdate: October 11, 1905

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Bronx, New York, United States

Died: 1999

Fred Trump, father of Donald Trump, was a well-known real estate developer who built more than 27 thousand apartments in New York. Having lost his father early, Fred ventured into construction business with his mother when he was fifteen. Determined, he built himself a huge fortune but controversies surrounded him too including an investigation for not renting to black families.

Birthdate: May 21, 1967

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Montreal, Canada

Died: 2007

Often regarded as one of the best wrestlers of all time, Chris Benoit was known for putting his body on the line to create a greater impact than most of his fellow wrestlers. One of his popular moves, a diving headbutt, was cited as one of the reasons for his deteriorating mental health that eventually resulted in his suicide.

George Armstrong Custer

(United States Army Officer and Cavalry Commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars)

Birthdate: December 5, 1839

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: New Rumley, Ohio, United States

Died: 1876

George Armstrong Custer was a US Army officer. He played an important role as a cavalry commander in the American Indian Wars and the American Civil War. His death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, went on to become a well-known episode of the American Indian Wars.

Birthdate: March 18, 1496

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom

Died: 1533

Mary Tudor, Queen of France was an English princess who served as the Queen consort of France from 9 October 1514 to 1 January 1515. She was the third wife of Louis XII, who was 30 years her senior. After his death, Mary married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. Her life and career have inspired several historical fiction novels.

Patrick Macnee

(Former Actor in role of secret agent John Steed in the British television series The Avengers)

Birthdate: February 5, 1922

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Paddington, London, United Kingdom

Died: 2015

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Michel Lotito

(French Entertainer Known for Consuming Indigestible Objects)

Birthdate: June 15, 1950

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Grenoble, France

Died: 2007

Featured on Ripley’s 100 Best BIONS, Michel Lotito was known for his bizarre diet, consisting of glass and metal parts, TV sets, bicycles, and even a Cessna 150 airplane. The Guinness record holder was nicknamed Monsieur Mangetout, meaning Mr. Eat-All. The French entertainer died of natural causes later.

Birthdate: September 17, 1907

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Saint Paul, Minnesota

Died: 1995

Birthdate: April 13, 1962

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Haifa, Israel

Died: 1988

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Johnny Mercer

(Lyricist, songwriter,)

Birthdate: November 18, 1909

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Savannah, Georgia, United States

Died: 1976

John Fiedler

(American Actor)

Birthdate: February 3, 1925

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Platteville, Wisconsin, United States

Died: 2005

Height: 5'4" (163 cm)

Abdülmecid I

(Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)

Birthdate: April 23, 1823

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: İstanbul Eyaleti

Died: 1861

Abdülmecid I reigned as the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 2 July 1839 until his death on 25 June 1861. During his reign, Abdülmecid I tried to set up alliances with France and the United Kingdom. He also played an important role in the Crimean War against the Russians.

Stanford White

(Architect, Painter)

Birthdate: November 9, 1853

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: New York City

Died: 1906

Stanford White was an American architect who designed several important monuments including the Washington Square Arch. He also helped construct Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower, which happens to be his last design. Although White was an influential and prominent designer of his time, he is best remembered for his illicit relationship with Evelyn Nesbit which has inspired several works of art.

Birthdate: January 24, 1776

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Königsberg, Germany

Died: 1822

E. T. A. Hoffmann was a German author, jurist, artist, composer, and music critic. His stories served as an inspiration and laid the foundation for The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is also based on Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Hoffmann is among the most influential authors of the Romantic Movement.

Jerome Brown

(American football player)

Birthdate: February 4, 1965

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Brooksville, Florida, United States

Died: 1992

Height: 6'2" (188 cm)

Ernest Joseph King

(Naval Officer)

Birthdate: November 23, 1878

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Lorain, Ohio, United States

Died: 1956

Georg Philipp Telemann

(Composer)

Birthdate: March 14, 1681

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Magdeburg, Germany

Died: 1767

John B. Goodenough

(Physicist Known for Pioneering Work in the Development of Lithium-Ion Battery)

Birthdate: July 25, 1922

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Jena, Germany

Died: 2023

John B. Goodenough is an American solid-state physicist and materials scientist. He is credited with developing the lithium-ion battery. In 2019, he became the oldest person to receive a Nobel Prize when he was honored with the prestigious award for his work on lithium-ion batteries. He is also a recipient of the Copley Medal and the National Medal of Science.

Jimmy Doyle

(Boxer)

Birthdate: August 12, 1924

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Died: 1947

Thomas Eakins

(American Photographer, Realist Painter, Fine Arts Educator, and Sculptor)

Birthdate: July 25, 1844

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Died: 1916

Thomas Eakins was an American photographer, realist painter, fine arts educator, and sculptor. Often counted among the most prominent American artists of all time, Eakins painted several hundred portraits during his lifetime. As an educator, Thomas Eakins played an important role in influencing the American art during his generation.

Judith Wright

(Poet, Environmentalist, Campaigner for Aboriginal Land Rights)

Birthdate: May 31, 1915

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Armidale, Australia

Died: 2000

Judith Wright was an Australian environmentalist, poet, and campaigner for Indigenous land rights. Wright is credited with founding one of the earliest environmental conservation movements in Australia. Best remembered for her poetry skills, Judith Wright won the prestigious Christopher Brennan Award in 1976. In 1991, she was honored with the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Isabel Sarli

(Argentine Actress and Model)

Birthdate: July 9, 1929

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina

Died: 2019

Isabel Sarli was an Argentine glamor model and actress best remembered for starring in popular sexploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s. After being crowned as Miss Argentina in 1955, Sarli went on to debut as an actress. She collaborated with Armando Bó, becoming the quintessential sex symbol of Argentina. Isabel Sarli also achieved international recognition during her illustrious career.

Birthdate: January 8, 1836

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Dronrijp, Netherlands

Died: 1912

Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch classical subject painter whose painting about luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire became very well known. Regarded a prominent Victorian painter, he was successful, admired, famous and highly paid during his lifetime. However, his popularity waned after his death and saw a resurgence only in the second half of the 20th century.

Birthdate: May 2, 1906

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Riga

Died: 1979

Ephraim McDowell

(American Physician and Pioneer Surgeon Known for First Successful Ovariotomy)

Birthdate: November 11, 1771

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States

Died: 1830

Considered the founder of operative gynecology, Ephraim McDowell was also the first person to perfect lithotomy, a surgical technique for removing stones obstructing urinary bladder. He came to limelight when he successfully removed a 20-pound tumor from Jane Todd Crawford’s ovary, later performing twelve more ovariotomies, out of which seven were successful, thus demonstrating the viability of elective abdominal surgery.

Alberto Ginastera

(Composer)

Birthdate: April 11, 1916

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Died: 1983

Abiola Ajimobi

(Nigerian Politician Who Became the First Oyo State Governor to Serve 2 Terms)

Birthdate: December 16, 1949

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Oja'ba, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Died: 2020

Former senator from Oyo State in Nigeria, Abiola Ajimobi was previously an oil tycoon who headed the National Oil and Chemical Marketing Company as its MD/CEO. The first Oyo State governor to successfully serve 2 terms, he died of COVID-19 in 2020 at age 70.

Lucy Webb Hayes

(American first lady)

Birthdate: August 28, 1831

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Chillicothe, Ohio , United States

Died: 1889

Kenneth Griffith

(Actor, Activist)

Birthdate: October 12, 1921

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Died: 2006

Height: 5'8" (173 cm)

Ernest Walton

(Irish Physicist and Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics)

Birthdate: October 6, 1903

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Abbeyside, Ireland

Died: 1995

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Walton was the first person to split the atom. He boasted of a PhD from Cambridge and, with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, developed the world’s first nuclear particle accelerator, or the Cockcroft-Walton generator, with which they conducted the first artificial nuclear reaction without radioactive substances.

James Stirling

(Greatest architects of the latter 20th century and was known for drawing from all of architectural history)

Birthdate: April 22, 1926

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Died: 1992

James Stirling was a British architect best remembered for his collaboration with fellow architects, James Gowan and Michael Wilford. Stirling is credited with overseeing prestigious projects like the University of Cambridge's History Faculty Library. Over the course of his illustrious career, James Stirling was honored with several prestigious awards, such as the Pritzker Prize and the Alvar Aalto Medal.

Igor Gouzenko

(Cipher clerk known for exposing Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets)

Birthdate: January 26, 1919

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Dmitrov, Russia

Died: 1982

Arif Mardin

(Music Producer)

Birthdate: March 15, 1932

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: İstanbul, Turkey

Died: 2006

Lounés Matoub

(Algerian Singer, Thinker, Poet, and Mandole Player)

Birthdate: January 24, 1956

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Béni-Aïssi, Algeria

Died: 1998

Lounés Matoub was an Algerian singer, thinker, poet, and mandole player. An ardent advocate of human rights, secularism, and the Berber cause in Algeria, Matoub sparked an intellectual revolution. Lounès Matoub remained unpopular among the Muslim population for his secular and atheist politics and was assassinated on June 25, 1998.

Margaret Maud Tyzack

(Actress)

Birthdate: September 9, 1931

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: West Ham, Essex, England

Died: 2011

Height: 5'6" (168 cm)

Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers

(Nobleman)

Birthdate: 1440 AD

Birthplace: Grafton Regis, England

Died: 1483

Lau Kar-leung

(Actor)

Birthdate: July 28, 1934

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Guangzhou, China

Died: 2013

Height: 5'4" (163 cm)

Antoine-Jean Gros

(Painter)

Birthdate: March 16, 1771

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Paris, France

Died: 1835

Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester

(Nobleman)

Birthdate: 1160 AD

Birthplace: Montfort-l'Amaury, France

Died: 1218

Frederick III of Sicily

(King)

Birthdate: December 13, 1272

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain

Died: 1337

William Fothergill Cooke

(Inventor)

Birthdate: May 4, 1806

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Ealing,London, England

Died: 1879

Birthdate: January 24, 1828

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Wrocław, Poland

Died: 1898

Ferdinand Cohn was a German biologist who is credited with co-founding microbiology and modern bacteriology. Apart from publishing more than 150 research reports, Cohn also made significant contributions to the field of botany. He was also the first person to classify algae as plants. Ferdinand Cohn received the prestigious Leeuwenhoek Medal in 1885.

Maja Einstein

(Romanist)

Birthdate: November 18, 1881

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Munich, Germany

Died: 1951

Maja Einstein is remembered as Albert Einstein’s younger sister and only sibling. After acquiring a Ph.D. in romance languages and literature from Bern, Switzerland, she got married. However, at the beginning of World War II, she fled to the U.S. and remained estranged from her husband till her death.

Tok Janggut

(Malay Warrior)

Birthdate: 1853 AD

Birthplace: Jeram, Malaysia

Died: 1915

Legendary Malaysian peasant rebellion leader Muhammad Hasan was known as Tok Janggut because of his long white beard. He led a strong anti-colonial movement of about 2,000 farmers against the British and also led a tax boycott. He eventually died in an attack and became a martyr of the struggle.

Robert Carney

(Admiral)

Birthdate: March 26, 1895

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Vallejo, California, United States

Died: 1990