List of Famous people who died at 25

The death of Joe Cinque occurred in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory on 26 October 1997. Cinque's coffee was laced with rohypnol, a sedative, at a dinner party, after which he was injected with a lethal dose of heroin by his girlfriend Anu Singh, who was a law student at the Australian National University at the time. Singh was convicted in 1999 of manslaughter. She was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, but was released early in 2001. Since her release, she has undertaken criminology research. The crime was portrayed in Helen Garner's non-fiction book Joe Cinque's Consolation (2004), which was later adapted into a film of the same name.

Priyadarshini Mattoo was a 25-year-old law student who was found raped and murdered at her house in New Delhi on 23 January 1996. On 17 October 2006, the Delhi High Court found Santosh Kumar Singh guilty on both counts of rape and murder and on 30 October of the same year sentenced him to death. On 6 October 2010, the Supreme Court of India commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. Santosh Kumar Singh, the son of an Inspector-General of Police, had earlier been acquitted by a trial court in 1999, and the High Court decision was widely perceived in India as a landmark reversal. This decision was overturned as the facts were not presented correctly in the lower court.

Josef Erwin Bachmann became widely known in Germany for his assassination attempt on the student movement leader Rudi Dutschke, firing three bullets at him, on 11 April 1968. Bachmann was convicted of the attack and sentenced to seven years in prison. He committed suicide in 1970 while serving his sentence.

Motjeka Madisha was a South African professional soccer player who played for Mamelodi Sundowns, as a defender.

Zakir Rashid Bhat or Zakir Musa was a former Hizbul Mujahideen field operational commander (2017), and founder of the Indian wing of Al-Qaeda, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind in 2017. Musa split with the political objectives of the Hizbul Mujahideen for Kashmir in favour of Al-Qaeda's radical religious objectives of imposing Shariah in the region.

Masakatsu Morita was a Japanese political activist who committed seppuku with Yukio Mishima in Tokyo.

Samuel Sochukwuma Okwaraji was a professional footballer who played internationally for Nigeria. He was also a qualified lawyer who had a masters in international law from the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome. He collapsed and died of congestive heart failure in the 77th minute of a World Cup qualification match against Angola at the Lagos National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos State on 12 August 1989.

De’Runnya S. Wilson was an American football wide receiver for the Albany Empire of the Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs.

Tara Römer was a French actor. He starred in the film Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988).

Kona McKay Schwenke was an American football defensive tackle who played college football at Notre Dame.