People who died on April 25 (various years) * 2007 - Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer * 2007 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter * 2007 - Alan Ball, English footballer * 2006 - Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist * 2005 - Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk * 2004 - Thom Gunn, British poet * 2003 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete * 2002 - Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) * 2002 - Indra Devi, yoga teacher * 2001 - Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver * 2000 - Lucien le Cam, French mathematician * 2000 - David Merrick, American theatrical producer * 1999 - Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president * 1998 - Wright Morris, American writer * 1996 - Saul Bass, American graphics designer * 1995 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer * 1995 - Art Fleming, American game show host * 1992 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter * 1990 - Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist * 1982 - John Cardinal Cody, American cardinal * 1980 - Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann * 1976 - Carol Reed, British film producer and director * 1975 - Mike Brant, Israeli singer * 1972 - George Sanders, British actor * 1968 - John Tewksbury, American athlete * 1944 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player * 1943 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director * 1937 - Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b.1857) * 1928 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary * 1923 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician * 1915 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State * 1911 - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist * 1892 - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer * 1891 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist * 1878 - Anna Sewell, English author * 1843 - Edward Drummond, British civil servant * 1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician * 1800 - William Cowper, English poet * 1770 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist * 1744 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer * 1740 - Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, an outstanding General and Peshwa * 1690 - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist * 1660 - Henry Hammond, English churchman * 1644 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China * 1605 - Naresuan, King of Siam * 1595 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet * 1566 - Louise Labé, French poet * 1566 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France * 1516 - John Yonge, English diplomat * 1472 - Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher * 1295 - King Sancho IV of Castile * 1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader * 1185 - Emperor Antoku of Japan i just post this.. ahaha!