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On This Day · The 298th day of the year

October 25

25 years on from Microsoft, October 25 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

♏ZodiacScorpio ◈BirthstoneOpal ❀Birth flowerMarigold

Scorpio is the sign for October 25 — read more on the Scorpio page, or see October's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on October 25?

October 25 is the 298th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1616 and 2010. Famous people born on October 25 include Pablo Picasso, Évariste Galois and Wendy Hall.

Released on October 25

Movies, games, albums & shows

2024

  • Game Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  • Game Finding Frankie
  • Game Miraculous: Paris Under Siege
  • Game Rogue Flight

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1616

    Dirk Hartog

  2. 1760

    George III

  3. 1875

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  4. 1920

    Terence MacSwiney

  5. 1927

    SS Principessa Mafalda

  6. 1944

    USS Tang (SS-306)

  7. 1944

    World War II

  8. 1971

    China

  9. 2001

    Microsoft

  10. 2010

    Mount Merapi

Famous birthday twins

Born on October 25

Pablo Picasso

b. 1881

Évariste Galois

b. 1811

Wendy Hall

b. 1952

Jorge Batlle

b. 1927

Marcellin Berthelot

b. 1827

Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren

b. 1760

Jan Stanisław Sapieha

b. 1589

Katy Perry

b. 1984

Deaths

  • 2014Carlos Morales Troncoso
  • 1995Bobby Riggs
  • 1973Abebe Bikila
  • 1945Robert Ley
  • 1920Terence MacSwiney
  • 1400Geoffrey Chaucer

Holidays & observances

  • —Armed Forces Day (Romania)
  • —Christian feast day: Bernat Calbó (Bernard of Calvo)
  • —Christian feast day: Pope Boniface I
  • —Christian feast day: Canna
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed Carlo Gnocchi
  • —Christian feast day: Crysanthus and Daria (Western Christianity)
  • —Christian feast day: Crispin and Crispinian
  • —Christian feast day: Fructus

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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