July 25 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on July 25

Born	Writer	Known as
1976	Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan	Macedonian writer
1974	Lauren Faust	American animator, writer, voice director, and storyboard artist
1964	Breuk Iversen	American designer and writer (born 1964)
1953	Joseph A. Tunzi	American author, publisher, and producer (born 1953)
1944	Sally Beauman	English writer and journalist
1940	Richard Ballantine	American-British bicycling writer and journalist (1940–2013)
1934	Claude Zidi	French film director and screenwriter
1927	Midge Decter	American journalist and author (1927–2022)
1925	Jutta Zilliacus	Estonian-Finnish journalist and writer (1925–2026)
1923	Maria Gripe	Swedish children's writer (1923–2007)
1908	Ambroise-Marie Carré	Ambroise-Marie Carré, French priest and author (died 2004)
1905	Elias Canetti	German-language author (1905–1994)
1905	Denys Watkins-Pitchford	British naturalist, illustrator and author (1905–1990)
1901	Ruth Krauss	American poet, children's writer (1901–1993)
1896	Josephine Tey	Scottish author (1896–1952)
1875	Jim Corbett	Anglo-Indian hunter, naturalist and author (1875–1955)
1870	Maxfield Parrish	American painter and illustrator (1870–1966)
1683	Pieter Langendijk	Dutch writer and poet (1683–1756)
1556	George Peele	16th-century English translator, poet, and playwright

Writers who died on July 25

Died	Writer	Known as
2016	Tim LaHaye	Evangelical Christian minister and author from the United States
2014	Bel Kaufman	American novelist
2013	Walter De Maria	American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer (1935–2013)
2012	B. R. Ishara	Indian film director and screenwriter
2011	Michael Cacoyannis	Greek-Cypriot filmmaker and playwright (1921–2011)
2009	Stanley Middleton	British novelist (1919–2009)
2006	Ezra Fleischer	Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist
2002	Abdel Rahman Badawi	Egyptian academic, philosopher and poet (1917–2002)
1982	Hal Foster	Canadian-American illustrator (1892–1982)
1981	Rosa A. González	Puerto Rican writer, nurse and activist
1980	Vladimir Vysotsky	Soviet entertainer and poet (1938–1980)
1966	Frank O'Hara	American poet, art critic and writer
1834	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1773–1834)
1826	Kondraty Ryleyev	Russian poet and Decembrist Revolt leader (1795–1826)
1794	André Chénier	French poet (1762–1794)
1794	Jean-Antoine Roucher	French poet (1745–1794)
1794	Friedrich von der Trenck	Prussian army officer, adventurer, and author (1726-1794)
1195	Herrad of Landsberg	Alsatian nun, abbess, and author (12th-century)

Literary events on July 25

Year	Event
2010	WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War in Afghanistan in one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
1897	American author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take part in the Klondike's gold rush, from which he wrote his first successful stories.

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Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan (1976) — Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan is a Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic.

Lauren Faust (1974) — Lauren J. Faust is an American animator, writer, director, and producer. She is known for developing the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and DC Super Hero Girls.

Breuk Iversen (1964) — Breuk Iversen is an American designer and writer. He is known for launching 11211 Magazine and creating 2003 site-specific exhibit "Offal: Salon des Refuses", with Jan McLaughlin, at the Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, that explored issues of economy, aesthetics, politics and popular culture through society's byproducts.

July 25 in literary history

Writers born on July 25

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