Famous Deaths for 25th October 2025

1907 – Edmund Hart Turpin, English composer, dies at 72
1910 – Willie Anderson, Scottish golfer (US Open 1901, 1903-05), dies of epilepsy at 31
1939 – Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73
1968 – Rudolf Forster, Austrian actor (Threepenny Opera), dies at 83
1972 – Johnny Mantz, American auto racer (Southern 500, 1950, first 500-mile race in NASCAR history), dies in a car accident at 54
1988 – Johnnie Richardson, American RandB musician (Johnnie and Joe), dies at 53
1989 – Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Group), dies, at 77
1989 – Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer (Men of Goods), dies at 91
1992 – Roger Miller, American Grammy and Tony Award-winning country singer-songwriter (“King of the Road”; “Dang Me”), fiddler, and guitarist, dies of cancer at 56
2002 – Rene Thom, French mathematician, 1958 Fields Medal for work in topology, dies at 79

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