| 96751 | August 25 | Death | 1632 – Thomas Dekker, English author and playwright (b. 1572) |
| 96752 | August 25 | Death | 1688 – Henry Morgan, Welsh admiral and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1635) |
| 96753 | August 25 | Death | 1699 – Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646) |
| 96754 | August 25 | Death | 1711 – Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1656) |
| 96755 | August 25 | Death | 1742 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese organist and composer (b. 1704) |
| 96756 | August 25 | Death | 1774 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer and educator (b. 1714) |
| 96757 | August 25 | Death | 1776 – David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1711) |
| 96758 | August 25 | Death | 1794 – Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (b. 1727) |
| 96759 | August 25 | Death | 1798 – Mikiel'Ang Grima, Maltese surgeon (b. 1729) |
| 96760 | August 25 | Death | 1819 – James Watt, Scottish-English engineer and instrument maker (b. 1736) |
| 96761 | August 25 | Death | 1822 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (b. 1738) |
| 96762 | August 25 | Death | 1867 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791) |
| 96763 | August 25 | Death | 1882 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (b. 1803) |
| 96764 | August 25 | Death | 1886 – Zinovios Valvis, Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791) |
| 96765 | August 25 | Death | 1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844) |
| 96766 | August 25 | Death | 1904 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836) |
| 96767 | August 25 | Death | 1908 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) |
| 96768 | August 25 | Death | 1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886) |
| 96769 | August 25 | Death | 1924 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818) |
| 96770 | August 25 | Death | 1925 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852) |
| 96771 | August 25 | Death | 1930 – Frankie Campbell, American boxer (b. 1904) |
| 96772 | August 25 | Death | 1938 – Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (b. 1870) |
| 96773 | August 25 | Death | 1939 – Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904) |
| 96774 | August 25 | Death | 1940 – Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874) |
| 96775 | August 25 | Death | 1942 – Prince George, Duke of Kent (b. 1902) |
| 96776 | August 25 | Death | 1945 – John Birch, Indian-American soldier and missionary (b. 1918) |
| 96777 | August 25 | Death | 1950 – Earl Caddock, American wrestler (b. 1888) |
| 96778 | August 25 | Death | 1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and academic (b. 1894) |
| 96779 | August 25 | Death | 1965 – Moonlight Graham, American baseball player and physician (b. 1879) |
| 96780 | August 25 | Death | 1967 – Stanley Bruce, Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883) |