Anniversarial — 2025
1725
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2025:
Births
- Académie de Dijon (founded 1725), French learned society
- Bandeuil, André, chevalier de Fautras (born 1725–died after 1790), French marine officer
- Berckel, Pieter Johan van (born 1725–died 1800), Dutch politician, diplomat, ambassador
- Binet, Abraham Gédéon (born 1725–died 1800), Swiss clockmaker, legal victim, tradesman
- Boillot, père Pierre Charles (born 1725), French churchman, friar, Capuchin
- Bowle, John (born 1725–died 1788), English churchman, academic, Hispanist, editor
- Brac, François Pierre Suzanne (born 1725–died 1800), French lawyer
- Burney, Elizabeth [née Allen] (born 1725–died 1796), English home-maker
- Cabanis de Salagnac, Jean Baptiste (born 1725–died 1786), French agriculturalist
- Caffiéri, Jean Jacques (born 1725–died 1792), French sculptor
- Carbonnel de Canisy, Marie Françoise Renée de, comtesse de Forcalquier (born 1725), French aristocrat
- Cargill, James (born 1725–died 1812), American [unknown occupation]
- Catt, Henri Alexandre de (born 1725–died 1795), Swiss servant
- Challes, Catherine Françoise de, comtesse de Charlier (born 1725), French aristocrat
- Charier, Antoine (born c. 1725–died 1781), French [unknown occupation]
- Clouet, Jean Charles (born 1725–died 1803), French naval administrator, civil servant
- Collet, John (born c. 1725–died 1780), English painter
- Coventry, Francis (born 1725–died 1754), English churchman, author
- Curson, Richard (born c. 1725–died 1805), American [unknown occupation]
- Cushing, Thomas [senior] (born 1725–died 1788), American merchant, politician
- Delahaye, Guillaume Nicolas (born 1725–died 1802), French engraver, cartographer
- Desmarest, Nicolas (born 1725–died 1815), French geologist, geographer, civil servant
- Duncombe, Susanna [née Highmore] (born 1725–died 1812), English author, poet
- Durival, Jean (born 1725–died 1810), French author, historian
- Du Terreaux, Charles Auguste (born 1725–died 1779), Swiss politician
- English, Thomas (born c. 1725–died 1798), English editor
- Féderbe, Louis Laurent de, comte de Modave (born 1725–died 1777), French soldier, aristocrat, civil servant, army officer, Orientalist
- Froment, Emet Ulla de (born c. 1725), Turkish home-maker
- Geoffroy, Etienne Louis (born 1725–died 1810), French entomologist, pharmacist, author
- Gerbier, Pierre Jean Baptiste (born 1725–died 1788), French lawyer, orator
- Grasset, Gabriel (born 1725–died 1782), Swiss printer, bookseller
- Hale, John (born 1725–died 1806), English army officer
- Hertzberg, Ewald Friedrich von, graf von Hertzberg (born 1725–died 1795), German lawyer, academician, civil servant, diplomat
- Hirzel, Johann Caspar (born 1725–died 1803), Swiss physician, author
- Hope, John (born 1725–died 1786), Scottish botanist, academician
- Jessop, Edmund (born 1725–died 1809), English surgeon, apothecary, academician
- Julie, Charles de (born 1725), French police informer
- Lalive de Jully, Ange Laurent (born 1725–died 1779), French court official, collector, courtier, civil servant
- La Virotte, Louis Anne de (born 1725–died 1759), French physician, journalist
- Le Gentil de La Galaisière, Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean Baptiste (born 1725–died 1792), French astronomer
- Lewenhaupt, Rigsgreve Adam (born 1725–died 1775), Swedish army officer
- Lort, Reverend Doctor Michael (born 1725–died 1790), Welsh churchman, academic, antiquarian, classicist
- McIntosh, Lachlan (born 1725–died 1806), American [unknown occupation]
- Madan, Martin (born 1725–died 1790), English churchman, author
- Maux, Jeanne Catherine de [née Quinault] (born 1725), French home-maker
- M’Caul, John (born 1725–died 1797), Scottish churchman, Presbyterian
- Méreau, Charles Hubert (born 1725–died 1795), French court official, courtier, civil servant, author
- Mignot, père Alexandre Jean, abbé de Seillières (born 1725–died 1790), French author, historian, lawyer
- Montucla, Jean Étienne (born 1725–died 1799), French mathematician, civil servant
- Murphy, James [French] (born 1725–died 1759), Irish lawyer, author, playwright
- Newton, John (born 1725–died 1807), English churchman, Evangelical, slave trader
- Olavide, Pablo de, comte de Pilos (born 1725–died 1803), Peruvian politician, author, lawyer
- Otis, James (born 1725–died 1783), American [unknown occupation]
- Paoli, Pascal (born 1725–died 1807), Corsican army officer, patriot, governor
- Parker, James (born 1725–died 1797), American [unknown occupation]
- Pergen, Johann Baptist Anton von, graf von Pergen (born 1725–died 1814), Austrian aristocrat, politician, spymaster, spy
- Perrinet Des Franches, Horace Bénédict (born 1725–died 1791), Swiss lawyer, diplomat
- Pigott, Nathaniel (born 1725–died 1804), English astronomer, academician
- Pixell, John (born 1725–died 1784), English churchman, poet
- Pownall, John (born 1725–died 1795), English civil servant, colonial official, academician, antiquarian
- Rigoley, Claude Jean, baron d’Ogny (born 1725–died 1793), French civil servant
- Saladin, Antoine (born 1725–died 1811), Swiss banker, civil servant
- Schönaich, Christoph Otto von, Freiherr von Schönaich (born 1725–died 1807), German poet, satirist
- Steuart, Charles (born 1725–died 1797), Scottish colonial administrator, merchant
- Stevenson, Alexander (born c. 1725–died 1791), Scottish physician
- Stuart of Torrance, Andrew (born 1725–died 1801), Scottish lawyer, politician, member of Parliament
- Townshend, Charles (born 1725–died 1767), English aristocrat, lawyer, politician, member of Parliament, civil servant
- Varagne, François de, marquis de Bélestat (born 1725–died 1808), French army officer, scholar, academic
- Vasselier, Joseph (born 1725–died 1798), French author, poet, satirist
- Wilkes, John (born 1725–died 1797), English radical politician, member of Parliament
- Wright, Patience [née Lovell] (born 1725–died 1786), American wax modeller, spy, secret agent
- Zouch, Henry (born c. 1725–died 1795), English author, reformer
Deaths
- Aubusson, Louis d’, duc de La Feuillade (born 1673–died 1725), French army officer
- Barton, Reverend Jeffry [senior] (born 1661–died 1725), English churchman
- Clayton, Reverend John (born 1657–died 1725), American churchman, theologian, traveller, academician
- Conyers, John (born 1650–died 1725), English lawyer, politician, member of Parliament
- Fleetwood, John (born c. 1674–died 1725), English diplomat, merchant
- Gastrell, Reverend Francis, bishop of Chester (born 1662–died 1725), English churchman
- Gordoun, Reverend James (died 1725), Irish churchman
- Johnston, Doctor William (born c. 1644–died 1725), English physician
- Langford, Sir Henry (born after 1652–died before 1725), English lawyer
- Le Semelier, Jean Laurent (born 1660–died 1725), French theologian, scholar, author
- Molesworth, Robert, 1st Viscount Molesworth of Swords (born 1656–died 1725), English politician, academician
- Phélypeaux, Louis, marquis de La Vrillière (born 1672–died 1725), French aristocrat
- Rémond, Nicolas François (born 1638–died 1725), French civil servant, mathematician, scholar, author
- Whitworth, Charles, 1st Baron Whitworth (born 1675–died 1725), English aristocrat, diplomat, politician, member of Parliament
- Wright, George (born 1677–died 1725), English civil servant
