July 25: National Day of Galicia
- 1547 – Henry II was crowned King of France at Reims Cathedral.
- 1591 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch and English forces relieved the siege of Knodsenburg in the Spanish Netherlands, having defeated the Duke of Parma's army in the field.
- 1893 – The Corinth Canal was formally opened, bisecting the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece to connect the Ionian Sea's Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf.
- 1950 – Korean War: After American troops withdrew, North Korean forces captured the village of Yongdong in South Korea.
- 2007 – Pratibha Patil (pictured) was sworn in as the first female president of India.
- Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (d. 1190)
- James Barry (d. 1865)
- Guillermo Mota (b. 1973)
- Azimzhan Askarov (d. 2020)