March 25

March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 421 – Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
• 708 – Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.
• 717 – Theodosios III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
• 1199 – Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
• 1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
• 1409 – The Council of Pisa opens.
• 1555 – The city of Valencia is founded in present-day Venezuela.
• 1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
• 1634 – The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
• 1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
• 1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
• 1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
• 1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
• 1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
• 1821 – (Julian Calendar) Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821. The date was chosen in the early years of the Greek state so that it falls on the day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, strengthening the ties between the Greek Orthodox Church and the newly found state.
• 1865 – American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
• 1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
• 1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
• 1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
• 1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
• 1924 – On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
• 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
• 1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
• 1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
• 1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
• 1949 – The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
• 1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity.
• 1957 – The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
• 1958 – Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
• 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
• 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
• 1971 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
• 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
• 1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
• 1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
• 1990 – The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in the New York City borough of The Bronx.
• 1992 – Pakistan national cricket team won the 1992 Cricket World Cup first time in the history of cricket, Final was played at Melbourne Cricket Ground .
• 1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
• 1993 – Warrington Bomb victim Tim Parry dies five days after the IRA bomb detonated in Warrington, Cheshire on 20 March 1993 in the second of the Warrington bomb attacks.
• 1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
• 1996 – An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
• 1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
• 2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
• 2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

Births

• 1252 – Conradin, German son of Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1268)
• 1259 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332)
• 1297 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
• 1297 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Polish archbishop (d. 1364)
• 1345 – Blanche of Lancaster (d. 1369)
• 1347 – Catherine of Siena, Italian philosopher, theologian, and saint (d. 1380)
• 1479 – Vasili III of Russia (d. 1533)
• 1539 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1612)
• 1541 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
• 1593 – Jean de Brébeuf, French-Canadian missionary and saint (d. 1649)
• 1643 – Louis Moréri, French priest (d. 1680)
• 1661 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
• 1699 – Johann Adolph Hasse, German singer-songwriter (d. 1783)
• 1767 – Joachim Murat, French admiral (d. 1815)
• 1782 – Caroline Bonaparte, French daughter of Carlo Buonaparte (d. 1839)
• 1800 – Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist (d. 1889)
• 1808 – José de Espronceda, Spanish poet (d. 1842)
• 1824 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
• 1840 – Myles Keogh, Irish-American captain (d. 1876)
• 1863 – Simon Flexner, American physician and educator (d. 1946)
• 1867 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor, designed Mount Rushmore (d. 1941)
• 1867 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (d. 1957)
• 1868 – Bill Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
• 1871 – Louis Perrée, French fencer (d. 1924)
• 1872 – Horatio Nelson Jackson, American race car driver and physician (d. 1955)
• 1873 – Rudolf Rocker, German-American author and activist (d. 1958)
• 1876 – Irving Baxter, American jumper and pole vaulter (d. 1957)
• 1877 – Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
• 1879 – Amedee Reyburn, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1920)
• 1881 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1945)
• 1881 – Mary Webb, English author (d. 1927)
• 1884 – Georges Imbert, French chemist (d. 1950)
• 1892 – Andy Clyde, Scottish-American actor (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Johannes Villemson, Estonian runner (d. 1971)
• 1895 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
• 1897 – John Laurie, Scottish actor (d. 1980)
• 1898 – Marcelle Narbonne, French super-centenarian (d. 2012)
• 1899 – K. S. Arulnandhy, Ceylon Tamil teacher and academic (d. 1972)
• 1899 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
• 1899 – François Rozet, French-Canadian actor (d. 1994)
• 1901 – Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
• 1903 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Ukrainian-American theologian and scholar (d. 1990)
• 1905 – Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German colonel (d. 1944)
• 1906 – Jean Sablon, French singer and actor (d. 1994)
• 1906 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d. 1980)
• 1908 – David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
• 1910 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
• 1910 – Benzion Netanyahu, Polish-Israeli historian and educator (d. 2012)
• 1911 – Jack Ruby, American murderer (d. 1967)
• 1912 – Melita Norwood, English civil servant and spy (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Jean Vilar, French actor and director (d. 1971)
• 1913 – Reo Stakis, Cypriot-Scottish businessman, founded Stakis Hotels (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Jean Rogers, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1918 – Howard Cosell, American journalist (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
• 1920 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Alexandra of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Simone Signoret, German-French actress (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Eileen Ford, American businesswoman, co-founded Ford Models
• 1923 – Bonnie Guitar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1923 – Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Roberts Blossom, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1924 – Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress
• 1925 – Flannery O'Connor, American author (d. 1964)
• 1925 – Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher (d. 2010)
• 1926 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
• 1926 – Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999)
• 1927 – P. Shanmugam, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Puducherry (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Jim Lovell, American captain and astronaut
• 1929 – Cecil Taylor, American pianist and composer
• 1930 – David Burge, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer (d. 1982)
• 1930 – Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (d. 1978)
• 1932 – Penelope Gilliatt, English author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 1993)
• 1932 – Wes Santee, American runner (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Gene Shalit, American critic
• 1934 – Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (The Rock and Roll Trio) (d. 1964)
• 1934 – Bernard King, Australian actor and chef (d. 2002)
• 1934 – Karlheinz Schreiber, German-Canadian businessman
• 1934 – Gloria Steinem, American journalist and activist, co-founded the Women's Media Center
• 1935 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino boxer (d. 1985)
• 1937 – Tom Monaghan, American businessman, founded Domino's Pizza
• 1938 – Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
• 1938 – Fritz d'Orey, Brazilian race car driver
• 1939 – Toni Cade Bambara, American author, academic, and activist (d. 1995)
• 1939 – D. C. Fontana, American television script writer and story editor
• 1940 – Anita Bryant, American model and singer
• 1941 – Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician
• 1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1942 – Richard O'Brien, English actor and screenwriter
• 1942 – Kim Woodburn, English television host
• 1943 – William H. Ginsburg, American lawyer (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor and director
• 1946 – Cliff Balsom, English footballer
• 1946 – Daniel Bensaïd, French philosopher (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Stephen Hunter, American author and critic
• 1946 – Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
• 1946 – Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (d. 1995)
• 1947 – Elton John, English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
• 1948 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
• 1950 – Chuck Greenberg, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
• 1951 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (d. 2000)
• 1951 – Maizie Williams, Caribbean-English singer (Boney M.)
• 1952 – Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician, Mayor of Bogotá
• 1953 – Vesna Pusić, Croatian politician
• 1954 – Elli Stai, Greek journalist and talk show host
• 1954 – Thom Loverro, American journalist
• 1954 – Tim White, American wrestling referee and producer
• 1955 – Daniel Boulud, French chef
• 1955 – Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1956 – Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977)
• 1957 – Jim Uhls, American screenwriter and producer
• 1958 – Susie Bright, American author
• 1958 – Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and journalist
• 1958 – John Ensign, American politician
• 1958 – James McDaniel, American actor and director
• 1958 – Ray Tanner, American baseball player and coach
• 1958 – Åsa Torstensson, Swedish politician
• 1960 – Idy Chan, Hong Kong actress
• 1960 – Haywood Nelson, American actor
• 1960 – Steve Norman, English saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (Spandau Ballet)
• 1960 – Peter O'Brien, Australian actor
• 1960 – Brenda Strong, American actress
• 1961 – Mark Brooks, American golfer
• 1961 – Fred Goss, American actor, director, and producer
• 1961 – Linda Sue Park, American author
• 1961 – Hiro Saito, Japanese wrestler
• 1962 – Marcia Cross, American actress
• 1963 – Velle Kadalipp, Estonian architect
• 1964 – Kate DiCamillo, American author
• 1964 – Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress and director
• 1964 – René Meulensteen, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1964 – Alex Solis, Panamanian-American jockey
• 1964 – Ken Wregget, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Avery Johnson, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 – Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper
• 1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1966 – Tom Glavine, American baseball player
• 1966 – Jeff Healey, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Jeff Healey Band) (d. 2008)
• 1966 – Tatjana Patitz, German model and actress
• 1966 – Anton Rogan, Irish footballer
• 1967 – Matthew Barney, American sculptor and photographer
• 1967 – Debi Thomas, American figure skater
• 1967 – Doug Stanhope, American comedian and actor
• 1969 – Dale Davis, American basketball player
• 1969 – Cathy Dennis, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1969 – Jeffrey Walker, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Carcass, Blackstar, and Electro Hippies)
• 1970 – Kari Matchett, Canadian actress
• 1970 – Teri Moïse, American singer (d. 2013)
• 1971 – Stacy Dragila, American pole vaulter
• 1971 – Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player
• 1971 – Sheryl Swoopes, American basketball player
• 1972 – Giniel de Villiers, South African race car driver
• 1972 – Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (d. 2007)
• 1973 – Anthony Barness, English footballer
• 1973 – Anders Fridén, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (In Flames, Passenger, Dark Tranquillity, and Ceremonial Oath)
• 1973 – Bob Sura, American basketball player
• 1974 – Lark Voorhies, American actress and singer
• 1975 – Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player
• 1975 – Melanie Blatt, English singer-songwriter and actress (All Saints)
• 1976 – Francie Bellew, Irish footballer
• 1976 – Lars Figura, German sprinter
• 1976 – Baek Ji-young, South Korean singer
• 1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
• 1976 – Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1976 – Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor and singer
• 1976 – Rima Wakarua, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
• 1978 – Gennaro Delvecchio, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Teanna Kai, Filipino-American porn actress
• 1979 – Lee Pace, American actor
• 1979 – Natasha Yi, American model and actress
• 1980 – Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress
• 1982 – Sean Faris, American actor and producer
• 1982 – Danica Patrick, American race car driver
• 1982 – Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer
• 1982 – Jenny Slate, American actress and author
• 1984 – Katharine McPhee, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1984 – Liam Messam, New Zealand rugby player
• 1985 – Carmen Rasmusen, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1985 – Diana Rennik, Estonian figure skater
• 1986 – Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player
• 1986 – Megan Gibson, American softball player
• 1986 – Kyle Lowry, American basketball player
• 1987 – Jacob Bagersted, Danish handball player
• 1987 – Jason Castro, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1987 – Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer
• 1987 – Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
• 1988 – Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
• 1988 – Ryan Lewis, American rapper, DJ, and producer
• 1988 – Big Sean, American rapper
• 1988 – Arthur Zeiler, German rugby player
• 1989 – Haiqeem, American singer
• 1989 – Aly Michalka, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (78violet)
• 1989 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer
• 1990 – Mehmet Ekici, Turkish footballer
• 1990 – Alexander Esswein, German footballer
• 1991 – Seychelle Gabriel, American actress
• 1991 – Samia Yusuf Omar, Somalian sprinter (d. 2012)
• 1993 – Sam Johnstone, English footballer

Deaths

• 1223 – Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
• 1458 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
• 1558 – Marcos de Niza, French friar (b. 1495)
• 1603 – Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese daimyo (b. 1526)
• 1609 – Olaus Martini, Swedish archbishop (b. 1557)
• 1620 – Johannes Nucius, German composer (b. 1556)
• 1625 – Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
• 1677 – Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech-English etcher (b. 1607)
• 1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English anatomist and physiologist (b. 1641)
• 1732 – Lucy Filippini, Italian saint (b. 1672)
• 1736 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, English architect, designed Easton Neston and Christ Church (b. 1661)
• 1738 – Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harp player and composer (b. 1670)
• 1751 – Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
• 1801 – Novalis, German poet and author (b. 1772)
• 1818 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (b. 1745)
• 1860 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
• 1873 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
• 1907 – Ernst von Bergmann, German surgeon (b. 1836)
• 1908 – Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
• 1914 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 – Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American academic (b. 1832)
• 1917 – Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
• 1918 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
• 1918 – Peter Martin, Australian footballer and soldier (b. 1875)
• 1931 – Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1890)
• 1931 – Ida B. Wells, American journalist and activist (b. 1862)
• 1942 – William Carr, American rower (b. 1876)
• 1951 – Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1956 – Lou Moore, American race car driver (b. 1904)
• 1956 – Robert Newton, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1957 – Max Ophüls, German director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1958 – Tom Brown, American trombonist (b. 1888)
• 1964 – Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1885)
• 1967 – Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b. 1913)
• 1969 – Billy Cotton, English bandleader (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Max Eastman, American poet (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Jakob Sildnik, Estonian photographer and director (b. 1883)
• 1975 – Juan Gaudino, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1893)
• 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Hanna Ralph, German actress (b. 1888)
• 1979 – Robert Madgwick, Australian academic (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1980 – Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Walter Susskind, Czech-English conductor (b. 1913)
• 1980 – James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
• 1983 – Bob Waterfield, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 1987 – A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan Tamil physicist and academic (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the Joffrey Ballet (b. 1930)
• 1991 – Marcel Lefebvre, French archbishop (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Nancy Walker, American actress and director (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Angelines Fernández, Spanish-Mexican actress (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Bernard Kangro, Estonian writer, poet and journalist (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician and jurist (b. 1899)
• 1995 – James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player and coach (b. 1948)
• 1995 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch designer (b. 1914)
• 1996 – John Snagge, English journalist (b. 1904)
• 1998 – Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
• 1998 – Steven Schiff, American politician (b. 1947)
• 1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1936)
• 2000 – Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Brian Trubshaw, English pilot (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sportscaster (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Paul Henning, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Richard Fleischer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Buck Owens, American singer and guitarist (The Buckaroos) (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Ben Carnevale, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Thierry Gilardi, French sportscaster (b. 1958)
• 2008 – Abby Mann, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Gene Puerling, American singer (The Hi-Lo's and The Singers Unlimited) (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Kosuke Koyama, Japanese-American theologian (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
• 2009 – Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
• 2010 – Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian actor, director, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Priscilla Buckley, American author (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Edd Gould, English animator and voice actor, founded Eddsworld (b. 1988)
• 2013 – Ellen Einan, Norwegian poet and illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Jean Pickering, English runner and long jumper (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Jean-Marc Roberts, French author and screenwriter (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Lou Sleater, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2013 – John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

• Anniversary of the Arengo and the Feast of the Militants (San Marino)
• Christian feast day:
  • Alfwold
  • Barontius and Desiderius
  • Dismas, the "Good Thief"
  • Humbert of Maroilles
  • Quirinus of Tegernsee
  • March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which Seward's Day can fall, while March 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Monday in March. (Alaska)
• Passover (Judaism, 2013)
• In the Julian calendar, Birkat Hachama is recited every 28 years on this day
• Freedom Day (Belarus)
• Hilaria (Roman Empire)
• International Day of the Unborn Child
• Revolution Day in Greece, celebrating the symbolic outbreak of the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
• Maryland Day (Maryland)
• Mother's Day (Slovenia)
• Struggle for Human Rights Day (Slovakia)
• Tolkien Reading Day
• The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christianity), and its related observances (some churches move the observance if March 25 falls on a Sunday or during Holy Week):
  • Historic start of the new year (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. (The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began on 1 January.) It is one of the four Quarter days in Ireland and England.
• Vårfrudagen or Våffeldagen, "Waffle Day" (Sweden)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to March 25.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada