Famous people born on 25 July

• Rosalind FranklinBritish chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer · 1920–1958
  37 yrs
• Elias CanettiBulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer · 1905–1994
  89 yrs
• Gavrilo PrincipBosnian Serb assassin · 1894–1918
  23 yrs
• Arthur BalfourBritish Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman · 1848–1930
  81 yrs
• John B. Goodenough ↗American materials scientist · 1922–2023
  100 yrs
• Andrea del Sarto ↗Italian painter · 1486–1530
  44 yrs
• Walter Brennan ↗American actor · 1894–1974
  80 yrs
• Vasily Shukshin ↗Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and film director · 1929–1974
  45 yrs
• Thomas Eakins ↗American painter · 1844–1916
  71 yrs
• Kim Yong-sik ↗Japanese and South Korean association football player · 1910–1985
  74 yrs
• Eric Hoffer ↗American philosopher · 1902–1983
  80 yrs
• Brad Renfro ↗American actor · 1982–2008
  25 yrs
• Jim Corbett ↗British hunter, tracker, naturalist and author · 1875–1955
  79 yrs
• Anna Harrison ↗First Lady of the United States from 1841 to 1841 · 1775–1864
  88 yrs
• Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians ↗Queen of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 · 1876–1965
  89 yrs
• Emmett Till ↗African-American lynching victim · 1941–1955
  14 yrs
• Estelle Getty ↗American actress · 1923–2008
  84 yrs
• Colin Renfrew ↗British archaeologist · 1937–2024
  87 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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