Biographical anniversaries in 2025

Meet influential individuals with milestone anniversaries in 2025, marking significant life events ranging from 100 to 400 years ago. Browse our collection of biographies and learn more about each person's life and legacy …

You can use Oxford DNB’s advanced search options to find people who were born or died in a specific year. Here are some we’ve selected.

Born in 1925, 100 years ago: click for the full list of 252 individuals

Bown, Jane Hope (1925-2014), photographer	Born 13 March 1925
Postgate, Oliver (1925-2008), children's television writer and producer	Born 12 April 1925
Sellers, Peter (1925-1980), comedian	Born 8 September 1925
Thatcher, Margaret (1925-2013), prime minister	Born 13 October 1925

Died in 1925, 100 years ago: click for the full list of 166 individuals

Parkes, Bessie (1829-1925), campaigner for women’s rights and journalist	Died 29 March 1925
Cavendish, Lucy Caroline (1841-1925), promoter of women's education, voluntary worker, and diarist	Died 22 April 1925
Sandow, Eugen (1867-1925), strongman and physical culturist	Died 14 October 1925
Clark, William Stephens (1839-1925), shoe manufacturer and retailer	Died 20 November 1925

Born in 1875, 150 years ago: click for the full list of 188 individuals

Longstaff, Tom George (1875-1964), mountaineer	Born 15 January 1875
Billinghurst, May (1875-1953), suffragette	Born 31 May 1875
Thompson, Muriel Annie (1875-1939), volunteer ambulance driver and member of the FANY	Born 10 June 1875
Taylor, Samuel Coleridge- (1875-1912), composer	Born 15 August 1875

Died in 1875, 150 years ago: click for the full list of 228 individuals

Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875), novelist, Church of England clergyman, and controversialist	Died 23 January 1875
Baines, (John) Thomas (1820-1875), artist and explorer	Died 8 May 1875
Franklin, Jane, Lady Franklin (1792-1875), traveller and promoter of Arctic exploration	Died 18 July 1875
Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner (1797-1875), Egyptologist	Died 29 October 1875

Born in 1825, 200 years ago: click for the full list of 227 individuals

Lankester, Phebe (1825-1900), writer on botany and health	Born 10 April 1825
Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825-1894), author	Born 24 April 1825
Naoroji, Dadabhai (1825-1917), politician	Born 4 September 1825
Boucherett, Jessie (1825-1905), campaigner for women’s rights	Born November 1825

Died in 1825, 200 years ago: click for the full list of 124 individuals

Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1743-1825), poet and essayist	Died 9 March 1825
Fuseli, Henry (1741-1825), painter and writer	Died 16 April 1825
Dobree, Peter Paul (1782-1825), classical scholar	Died 24 September 1825
Nesbitt, Mary (1742/3-1825), courtesan and adventuress	Died November 1825

Born in 1775, 250 years ago: click for the full list of 189 individuals

Crawford, Jack (1775-1831), sailor and naval hero	Born 22 March 1775
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851), landscape and history painter	Born maybe 23 April 1775
Kemble, Charles (1775-1854), actor, theatre manager, and playwright	Born 25 November 1775
Austen, Jane (1775-1817), novelist	Born 16 December 1775

Died in 1775, 250 years ago: click for the full list of 101 individuals

Baskerville, John (1706-1775), printer and type founder	Died 8 January 1775
Caroline Matilda, Princess (1751-1775), queen of Denmark and Norway, consort of Christian VII	Died 10 May 1775
Bentinck, John Albert (1737-1775), naval officer and inventor of mechanical devices	Died 23 September 1775
Parker, Theresa (1745-1775), art patron	Died 21 December 1775

Born in 1725, 300 years ago: click for the full list of 121 individuals

Clive, Robert, first Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774), army officer in the East India Company and administrator in India	Born 29 September 1725
Anson, Elizabeth, Lady Anson (1725-1760), political correspondent and political manager	Born August 1725
Finch, Lady Charlotte (1725-1813), royal governess	Born 14 February 1725
Keppel, Augustus, Viscount Keppel (1725-1786), naval officer and politician	Born 25 April 1725

Died in 1725, 300 years ago: click for the a full list of 56 individuals

Garrard, Sir Samuel, fourth baronet (1651-1725), politician and merchant	Died 10 March 1725
Hyde, Jane, countess of Clarendon and Rochester (1672-1725), courtier	Died 24 May 1725
Strickland, Winifred, Lady Strickland (1645-1725), Jacobite courtier	Died 17 April 1725
Wild, Jonathan (bap. 1683, d. 1725)	Died 24 May 1725

Born in 1625, 400 years ago: click for the full list of 80 individuals

Compton, Sir William (1625-1663), army officer	Born 1625
Hamilton, Margaret, Lady Belhaven and Stenton (1625-1694), royalist heroine and medical practitioner	Born 1625
Morland, Sir Samuel, first baronet (1625-1695), natural philosopher and diplomat	Born 1625
Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678), poet and classical scholar	Born September 1625

Died in 1625, 400 years ago: click for the full list of 80 individuals

Pakington, Sir John (1549-1625), courtier	Died January 1625
James VI and I (1566-1625), king of Scotland, England, and Ireland	Died 27 March 1625
Fletcher, John (1579-1625), playwright	Died 19 August 1625
Florio, John (1553-1625), author and teacher of languages	Died October 1625