March 25 facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

March 25th is a special day filled with many important moments throughout history! From ancient times to today, people have celebrated big events, welcomed new lives, and remembered those who have passed away. It's also a day for many different holidays and observances around the world. Let's explore some of the interesting things that have happened on this date!

Historical Events
- Early History (Before 1600)
- Modern History (1601-Present)
Famous Births
Notable Deaths
Holidays and Celebrations
See also

Historical Events

Early History (Before 1600)

410 – The city of Guanggu, capital of the Southern Yan kingdom, was captured by the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu. This ended the Southern Yan dynasty.
421 – The famous Italian city of Venice was founded. Its first church, San Giacomo di Rialto, was dedicated on the islet of Rialto.
708 – Pope Constantine became the 88th pope. He was the last pope to visit Constantinople for a very long time, until 1967.
717 – Theodosius III stepped down as emperor of the Byzantine Empire to join the clergy. This allowed Leo III to become emperor and start a new ruling family.
919 – Romanos Lekapenos took control of the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople. He became the regent, or temporary ruler, for the young Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
1000 – The Fatimid ruler al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah took full control of the government after his chief minister passed away.
1065 – The Great German Pilgrimage, a journey by many people, was attacked by bandits.
1306 – Robert the Bruce became the King of Scots in Scotland.
1409 – The Council of Pisa met to try and fix a big disagreement within the Christian church called the Western Schism.
1410 – The Yongle Emperor of Ming China started his first military campaigns against the Mongols. This led to the defeat of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
1519 – Hernando Cortes entered the province of Tabasco and defeated the Tabascan Indians there.
1576 – Jerome Savage started the Newington Butts Theatre outside London, a new place for plays.
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh received permission to start a colony in Virginia.

Modern History (1601-Present)

1655 – Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, which is the largest moon of the planet Saturn.
1708 – A French fleet sailed near Fife Ness as part of a planned invasion of Britain.
1725 – Bach's beautiful musical piece, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, was performed for the first time.
1770 – Daskalogiannis led the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule.
1802 – The Treaty of Amiens was signed, creating a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, also known as the Oystermouth Railway, became the first railway in the world to carry passengers.
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing a pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism.
1821 – This is the traditional date for the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war actually began a bit earlier, on February 23, 1821.
1845 – New Zealand's Legislative Council passed the first Militia Act, which created the New Zealand Army.
1865 – During the American Civil War and the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces briefly captured Fort Stedman from the Union before being pushed back.
1894 – Coxey's Army, one of the first big protest marches in America, started its journey from Massillon, Ohio to Washington, D.C.
1905 – The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras was founded in the city of Rhodes.
1911 – In New York City, the terrible Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened, killing 146 garment workers.
1914 – The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki was founded in Thessaloniki.
1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church got back its independence, which had been taken away by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic was established.
1924 – On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou announced the creation of the Second Hellenic Republic.
1932 – The famous Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was revealed in Athens.
1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers by signing the Tripartite Pact.
1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois killed 111 people.
1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicted that a tornado would hit Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma.
1949 – More than 92,000 people called kulaks were suddenly moved from the Baltic states to Siberia.
1957 – The European Economic Community was created. Its first members were West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
1959 – Chain Island in California was sold to a businessman named Russell Gallaway III, who wanted to use it for hunting and fishing.
1965 – Civil rights activists, led by Martin Luther King Jr., successfully finished their 4-day, 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1971 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam stopped trying to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia passed away.
1979 – The first fully working Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, arrived at the John F. Kennedy Space Center to get ready for its first launch.
1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava was the first big protest of the 1980s against the communist government in Czechoslovakia.
1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki (a website anyone can edit), was made public by Ward Cunningham.
1996 – The European Union banned the export of British beef because of mad cow disease.
2006 – Protesters in Belarus, who wanted a new election, had conflicts with police.
2018 – After the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces started an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District.

Famous Births

Born Before 1600

1252 – Conradin, a Duke of Swabia.
1259 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, a Byzantine emperor.
1297 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, another Byzantine emperor.
1297 – Arnošt of Pardubice, the first Bohemian archbishop.
1345 – Blanche of Lancaster.
1347 – Catherine of Siena, an Italian philosopher and saint.
1404 – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, an English military leader.
1414 – Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, an English noble.
1434 – Eustochia Smeralda Calafato, an Italian saint.
1479 – Vasili III of Russia.
1491 – Marie d'Albret, Countess of Rethel.
1510 – Guillaume Postel, a French linguist.
1538 – Christopher Clavius, a German mathematician and astronomer.
1541 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
1545 – John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.
1546 – Giacomo Castelvetro, an Italian writer.
1593 – Jean de Brébeuf, a French-Canadian missionary and saint.

Born Between 1601 and 1900

1611 – Evliya Çelebi, an Ottoman Turk traveler and writer.
1636 – Henric Piccardt, a Dutch lawyer.
1643 – Louis Moréri, a French priest and scholar.
1661 – Paul de Rapin, a French soldier and historian.
1699 – Johann Adolph Hasse, a German singer and composer.
1741 – Jean-Antoine Houdon, a French sculptor.
1745 – John Barry, an American naval officer, known as the "father of the American navy."
1767 – Joachim Murat, a French general.
1782 – Caroline Bonaparte, daughter of Carlo Buonaparte.
1800 – Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, a German geologist.
1808 – José de Espronceda, a Spanish poet.
1824 – Clinton L. Merriam, an American banker and politician.
1840 – Myles Keogh, an Irish-American colonel.
1863 – Simon Flexner, an American physician.
1867 – Gutzon Borglum, an American sculptor who designed Mount Rushmore.
1867 – Arturo Toscanini, an Italian-American conductor.
1868 – Bill Lockwood, an English cricketer.
1871 – Louis Perrée, a French fencer.
1872 – Horatio Nelson Jackson, an American race car driver and physician.
1873 – Rudolf Rocker, a German-American author and activist.
1874 – Selim Sırrı Tarcan, a Turkish educator and politician.
1876 – Irving Baxter, an American high jumper.
1877 – Walter Little, a Canadian politician.
1878 – František Janda-Suk, a Czech discus thrower.
1879 – Amedee Reyburn, an American swimmer.
1881 – Béla Bartók, a Hungarian pianist and composer.
1881 – Patrick Henry Bruce, an American painter.
1881 – Mary Webb, an English author.
1893 – Johannes Villemson, an Estonian runner.
1895 – Siegfried Handloser, a German general and physician.
1885 – Jimmy Seed, an English international footballer.
1897 – Leslie Averill, a New Zealand doctor and soldier.
1899 – François Rozet, a French-Canadian actor.
1900 – George Carstairs, an Australian rugby league player.

Born After 1900

1901 – Ed Begley, an American actor.
1903 – Binnie Barnes, an English-American actress.
1903 – Frankie Carle, an American pianist.
1903 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, a Ukrainian-American theologian.
1904 – Pete Johnson, an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.
1905 – Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, a German colonel.
1906 – Jean Sablon, a French singer.
1906 – A. J. P. Taylor, an English historian.
1908 – David Lean, an English film director.
1910 – Magda Olivero, an Italian soprano singer.
1910 – Benzion Netanyahu, a Polish-Israeli historian.
1912 – Melita Norwood, an English civil servant and spy.
1912 – Jean Vilar, a French actor and director.
1913 – Reo Stakis, a Cypriot-Scottish businessman who founded Stakis Hotels.
1914 – Norman Borlaug, an American agronomist and humanitarian, who won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1914 – Tassos, a Greek engraver and sculptor.
1915 – Dorothy Squires, a Welsh singer.
1916 – S. M. Pandit, an Indian painter.
1918 – Howard Cosell, an American journalist.
1920 – Paul Scott, an English author.
1920 – Patrick Troughton, an English actor.
1920 – Usha Mehta, an Indian freedom fighter.
1921 – Nancy Kelly, an American actress.
1921 – Simone Signoret, a French actress.
1921 – Alexandra of Yugoslavia, the last Queen of Yugoslavia.
1922 – Eileen Ford, an American businesswoman who co-founded Ford Models.
1923 – Bonnie Guitar, an American singer-songwriter.
1923 – Wim van Est, a Dutch cyclist.
1924 – Roberts Blossom, an American actor.
1924 – Machiko Kyō, a Japanese actress.
1925 – Flannery O'Connor, an American short story writer.
1925 – Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, an English philosopher.
1925 – Kishori Sinha, an Indian politician.
1926 – Riz Ortolani, an Italian composer.
1926 – László Papp, a Hungarian boxer.
1926 – Shirley Jean Rickert, an American actress.
1926 – Jaime Sabines, a Mexican poet.
1926 – Gene Shalit, an American journalist.
1927 – P. Shanmugam, an Indian politician.
1928 – Jim Lovell, an American astronaut.
1928 – Gunnar Nielsen, a Danish runner.
1928 – Peter O'Brien, an Australian rugby league player.
1928 – Hans Steinbrenner, a German sculptor.
1929 – Cecil Taylor, an American pianist.
1930 – David Burge, an American pianist and composer.
1930 – Carlo Mauri, an Italian mountaineer.
1930 – Rudy Minarcin, an American baseball player.
1931 – Humphrey Burton, an English radio and television host.
1932 – Penelope Gilliatt, an English novelist.
1932 – Wes Santee, an American runner.
1934 – Johnny Burnette, an American singer-songwriter.
1934 – Bernard King, an Australian actor and chef.
1934 – Karlheinz Schreiber, a German-Canadian businessman.
1934 – Gloria Steinem, an American feminist activist.
1935 – Gabriel Elorde, a Filipino boxer.
1936 – Carl Kaufmann, an American-German sprinter.
1937 – Tom Monaghan, an American businessman who founded Domino's Pizza.
1938 – Hoyt Axton, an American singer-songwriter.
1938 – Daniel Buren, a French sculptor and painter.
1938 – Fritz d'Orey, a Brazilian racing driver.
1939 – Toni Cade Bambara, an American author and activist.
1939 – D. C. Fontana, an American screenwriter.
1941 – Gudmund Hernes, a Norwegian sociologist and politician.
1942 – Aretha Franklin, an American singer-songwriter and pianist.
1942 – Richard O'Brien, an English actor and screenwriter.
1942 – Kim Woodburn, an English television host.
1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, an American actor and director.
1945 – Leila Diniz, a Brazilian actress.
1946 – Cliff Balsom, an English footballer.
1946 – Daniel Bensaïd, a French philosopher.
1946 – Stephen Hunter, an American author.
1946 – Maurice Krafft, a French volcanologist.
1947 – Richard Cork, an English historian.
1947 – Elton John, an English singer-songwriter and pianist.
1948 – Bonnie Bedelia, an American actress.
1948 – Michael Stanley, an American singer-songwriter.
1949 – Ronnie Flanagan, a Northern Irish police officer.
1949 – Sue Klebold, an American activist.
1950 – Chuck Greenberg, an American saxophonist.
1950 – Ronnie McDowell, an American singer-songwriter.
1950 – David Paquette, an American-New Zealander pianist.
1951 – Jumbo Tsuruta, a Japanese wrestler.
1952 – Stephen Dorrell, an English politician.
1952 – Antanas Mockus, a Colombian mathematician and politician.
1953 – Christos Ardizoglou, a Greek footballer.
1953 – Robert Fox, an English producer.
1953 – Vesna Pusić, a Croatian sociologist and politician.
1953 – Haroon Rasheed, a Pakistani cricketer.
1954 – Thom Loverro, an American journalist.
1955 – Daniel Boulud, a French chef.
1955 – Lee Mazzilli, an American baseball player.
1957 – Christina Boxer, an English runner.
1957 – Kanellos Kanellopoulos, a Greek cyclist.
1957 – Jonathan Michie, an English economist.
1957 – Aleksandr Puchkov, a Russian hurdler.
1957 – Jim Uhls, an American screenwriter.
1958 – Susie Bright, an American journalist.
1958 – Lorna Brown, a Canadian artist.
1958 – Sisy Chen, a Taiwanese journalist and politician.
1958 – María Caridad Colón, a Cuban javelin thrower.
1958 – John Ensign, an American physician and politician.
1958 – Ray Tanner, an American baseball coach.
1958 – Åsa Torstensson, a Swedish politician.
1960 – Steve Norman, an English saxophonist.
1960 – Peter O'Brien, an Australian actor.
1960 – Brenda Strong, an American actress.
1961 – Mark Brooks, an American golfer.
1962 – Marcia Cross, an American actress.
1962 – David Nuttall, an English lawyer and politician.
1963 – Karen Bruce, an English dancer.
1963 – Velle Kadalipp, an Estonian architect.
1963 – Andrew O'Connor, a British actor and television presenter.
1964 – René Meulensteen, a Dutch footballer and coach.
1964 – Ken Wregget, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1964 – Norm Duke, an American bowler.
1965 – Avery Johnson, an American basketball player and coach.
1965 – Stefka Kostadinova, a Bulgarian high jumper.
1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, an American actress.
1966 – Tom Glavine, an American baseball player.
1966 – Humberto Gonzalez, a Mexican boxer.
1966 – Jeff Healey, a Canadian singer-songwriter.
1966 – Anton Rogan, a Northern Irish footballer.
1967 – Matthew Barney, an American sculptor.
1967 – Doug Stanhope, an American comedian.
1967 – Debi Thomas, an American figure skater.
1969 – George Chlitsios, a Greek conductor.
1969 – Dale Davis, an American basketball player.
1969 – Cathy Dennis, an English singer-songwriter.
1969 – Jeffrey Walker, an English singer-songwriter.
1970 – Magnus Larsson, a Swedish golfer.
1971 – Stacy Dragila, an American pole vaulter.
1971 – Cammi Granato, an American ice hockey player.
1971 – Sheryl Swoopes, an American basketball player.
1972 – Naftali Bennett, an Israeli politician.
1972 – Giniel de Villiers, a South African racing driver.
1972 – Phil O'Donnell, a Scottish footballer.
1973 – Michaela Dorfmeister, an Austrian skier.
1973 – Anders Fridén, a Swedish singer-songwriter.
1973 – Bob Sura, an American basketball player.
1974 – Serge Betsen, a Cameroonian-French rugby player.
1974 – Lark Voorhies, an American actress.
1975 – Ladislav Benýšek, a Czech ice hockey player.
1975 – Melanie Blatt, an English singer-songwriter.
1975 – Erika Heynatz, a Papua New Guinean-Australian model.
1976 – Francie Bellew, an Irish footballer.
1976 – Lars Figura, a German sprinter.
1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, a Ukrainian boxer.
1976 – Rima Wakarua, a New Zealand-Italian rugby player.
1977 – Natalie Clein, an English cellist.
1977 – Andrew Lindsay, a Scottish rower.
1978 – Gennaro Delvecchio, an Italian footballer.
1978 – Teddy Lussi-Modeste, a French film director.
1979 – Muriel Hurtis-Houairi, a French sprinter.
1980 – Kathrine Sørland, a Norwegian fashion model.
1981 – Casey Neistat, an American YouTube personality.
1982 – Danica Patrick, an American race car driver.
1982 – Álvaro Saborío, a Costa Rican footballer.
1982 – Jenny Slate, an American comedian and actress.
1983 – Mickaël Hanany, a French high jumper.
1984 – Katharine McPhee, an American singer-songwriter.
1984 – Liam Messam, a New Zealand rugby player.
1985 – Carmen Rasmusen, a Canadian-American singer-songwriter.
1985 – Diana Rennik, an Estonian figure skater.
1986 – Marco Belinelli, an Italian basketball player.
1986 – Megan Gibson, an American softball player.
1986 – Kyle Lowry, an American basketball player.
1986 – Mickey Paea, an Australian rugby league player.
1987 – Jacob Bagersted, a Danish handball player.
1987 – Victor Obinna, a Nigerian footballer.
1987 – Nobunari Oda, a Japanese figure skater.
1987 – Hyun-jin Ryu, a South Korean baseball player.
1988 – Big Sean, an American rapper.
1988 – Ryan Lewis, an American music producer.
1988 – Mitchell Watt, an Australian long jumper.
1988 – Arthur Zeiler, a German rugby player.
1989 – Aly Michalka, an American singer-songwriter.
1989 – Scott Sinclair, an English footballer.
1990 – Mehmet Ekici, a Turkish footballer.
1990 – Alexander Esswein, a German footballer.
1991 – Scott Malone, an English footballer.
1992 – Meg Lanning, an Australian cricketer.
1993 – Jacob Gagan, an Australian rugby league player.
1993 – Sam Johnstone, an English footballer.
1994 – Justine Dufour-Lapointe, a Canadian skier.
2000 – Ozan Kabak, a Turkish footballer.

Notable Deaths

Died Before 1600

908 – Li Kening, a Chinese general.
940 – Taira no Masakado, a Japanese samurai.
990 – Nicodemus of Mammola, an Italian monk and saint.
1005 – Kenneth III, a king of Scotland.
1051 – Hugh IV, a French nobleman.
1189 – Frederick, a duke of Bohemia.
1223 – Alfonso II, a king of Portugal.
1351 – Kō no Moronao, a Japanese samurai.
1351 – Kō no Moroyasu, a Japanese samurai.
1392 – Hosokawa Yoriyuki, a Japanese samurai.
1458 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, a Spanish poet and politician.
1558 – Marcos de Niza, a French friar and explorer.

Died Between 1601 and 1900

1603 – Ikoma Chikamasa, a Japanese daimyō.
1609 – Olaus Martini, a Swedish archbishop.
1609 – Isabelle de Limeuil, a French noblewoman.
1620 – Johannes Nucius, a German composer.
1625 – Giambattista Marino, an Italian poet.
1658 – Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, a German nobleman.
1677 – Wenceslaus Hollar, a Czech-English painter.
1701 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, a French poet.
1712 – Nehemiah Grew, an English anatomist.
1732 – Lucy Filippini, an Italian teacher and saint.
1736 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, an English architect.
1738 – Turlough O'Carolan, an Irish harp player and composer.
1801 – Novalis, a German poet.
1818 – Caspar Wessel, a Norwegian-Danish mathematician.
1848 – Nicolai Wergeland, a Norwegian priest and writer.
1857 – William Colgate, an English-American businessman who founded Colgate-Palmolive.
1860 – James Braid, a Scottish surgeon.
1869 – Edward Bates, an American politician.
1873 – Wilhelm Marstrand, a Danish painter.

Died After 1900

1907 – Ernst von Bergmann, a Latvian-German surgeon.
1908 – Durham Stevens, an American diplomat.
1914 – Frédéric Mistral, a French poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1917 – Elizabeth Storrs Mead, an American academic.
1918 – Claude Debussy, a French composer.
1918 – Peter Martin, an Australian footballer.
1927 – Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, a Palestinian Roman Catholic nun.
1931 – Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, an Indian journalist and politician.
1931 – Ida B. Wells, an American journalist and activist.
1932 – Harriet Backer, a Norwegian painter.
1942 – William Carr, an American rower.
1951 – Eddie Collins, an American baseball player.
1956 – Lou Moore, an American race car driver.
1956 – Robert Newton, an English actor.
1958 – Tom Brown, an American trombonist.
1964 – Charles Benjamin Howard, a Canadian businessman and politician.
1965 – Viola Liuzzo, an American civil rights activist.
1969 – Billy Cotton, an English singer and bandleader.
1969 – Max Eastman, an American poet and activist.
1973 – Jakob Sildnik, an Estonian photographer.
1973 – Edward Steichen, a Luxembourgian-American photographer.
1975 – Juan Gaudino, an Argentinian race car driver.
1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia, the King of Saudi Arabia.
1975 – Deiva Zivarattinam, an Indian lawyer and politician.
1976 – Josef Albers, a German-American painter.
1976 – Benjamin Miessner, an American radio engineer.
1979 – Robert Madgwick, an Australian colonel.
1979 – Akinoumi Setsuo, a Japanese sumo wrestler.
1980 – Milton H. Erickson, an American psychiatrist.
1980 – Walter Susskind, a Czech-English conductor.
1982 – Goodman Ace, an American comedian.
1983 – Bob Waterfield, an American football player and coach.
1986 – Gloria Blondell, an American actress.
1987 – A. W. Mailvaganam, a Sri Lankan physicist.
1988 – Robert Joffrey, an American dancer and choreographer who co-founded the Joffrey Ballet.
1991 – Marcel Lefebvre, a French-Swiss archbishop.
1992 – Nancy Walker, an American actress and director.
1994 – Angelines Fernández, a Spanish-Mexican actress.
1994 – Bernard Kangro, an Estonian poet.
1994 – Max Petitpierre, a Swiss jurist and politician.
1995 – James Samuel Coleman, an American sociologist.
1995 – John Hugenholtz, a Dutch engineer.
1998 – Max Green, an Australian lawyer.
1998 – Steven Schiff, an American lawyer and politician.
1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., an American baseball player and coach.
2000 – Helen Martin, an American actress.
2001 – Brian Trubshaw, an English pilot.
2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, an English journalist.
2005 – Paul Henning, an American screenwriter.
2006 – Bob Carlos Clarke, an Irish photographer.
2006 – Rocío Dúrcal, a Spanish singer and actress.
2006 – Richard Fleischer, an American film director.
2006 – Buck Owens, an American singer-songwriter.
2007 – Andranik Margaryan, an Armenian politician.
2008 – Ben Carnevale, an American basketball player and coach.
2008 – Thierry Gilardi, a French journalist.
2008 – Abby Mann, an American screenwriter.
2008 – Herb Peterson, an American businessman who created the McMuffin.
2009 – Johnny Blanchard, an American baseball player.
2009 – Kosuke Koyama, a Japanese-American theologian.
2009 – Dan Seals, an American musician.
2009 – Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, a Turkish politician.
2012 – Priscilla Buckley, an American journalist.
2012 – Hal E. Chester, an American actor and director.
2012 – John Crosfield, an English businessman.
2012 – Edd Gould, an English animator who founded Eddsworld.
2012 – Antonio Tabucchi, an Italian author.
2013 – Léonce Bernard, a Canadian politician.
2013 – Ben Goldfaden, an American basketball player.
2013 – Anthony Lewis, an American journalist.
2013 – Jean Pickering, an English runner.
2013 – Jean-Marc Roberts, a French author.
2013 – John F. Wiley, an American football player and coach.
2014 – Lorna Arnold, an English historian.
2014 – Hank Lauricella, an American football player and politician.
2014 – Jon Lord, a Canadian businessman and politician.
2014 – Sonny Ruberto, an American baseball player.
2014 – Jonathan Schell, an American journalist.
2014 – Ralph Wilson, an American businessman who founded the Buffalo Bills.
2015 – George Fischbeck, an American journalist.
2016 – Shannon Bolin, an American actress and singer.
2017 – Cuthbert Sebastian, a politician from St. Kitts and Nevis.
2019 – Barrie Hole, a Welsh footballer.
2020 – Floyd Cardoz, an Indian-born American chef.
2021 – Beverly Cleary, an American author.
2022 – Taylor Hawkins, an American drummer and singer.

Holidays and Celebrations

Anniversary of the Arengo and the Feast of the Militants in San Marino.
Christian feast days:
- Feast of the Annunciation
- March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Christian Saints' days:
- Ælfwold II of Sherborne
- Barontius and Desiderius
- Blessed Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas
- Omelyan Kovch (in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
- Dismas, known as the "Good Thief"
- Humbert of Maroilles
- Quirinus of Tegernsee
Commemoration Day for the Victims of Communist Genocide in Latvia.
Cultural Workers Day in Russia.
Empress Menen's Birthday for Rastafari followers.
EU Talent Day in the European Union.
Freedom Day (Belarus).
Independence Day in Greece, celebrating the start of the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (international).
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members (recognized by the United Nations General Assembly).
International Day of the Unborn Child (international).
Maryland Day in Maryland, United States.
Medal of Honor Day in the United States.
Mother's Day in Slovenia.
New Year's Day (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and some of the future United States and Canada from 1155 through 1751, until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 moved it to January 1.
NZ Army Day.
Quarter day (the first of four) in Ireland and England.
Struggle for Human Rights Day in Slovakia.
Tolkien Reading Day.
Vårfrudagen or Våffeldagen, which means "Waffle Day" in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

2025 Calendar

March 25 in recent years

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