List of Famous people who died in 1925
Assheton Curzon
Princess Theresa of Bavaria
Princess Therese of Bavaria was an ethnologist, zoologist, botanist, travel writer and leader in social care.
Pier Giorgio Frassati
Pier Giorgio Frassati was an Italian Roman Catholic social activist and a member from the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Action and the St Vincent de Paul Society, to better aid the poor and less fortunate living in his hometown of Turin; he put his own pious beliefs into practice to cater to their needs and was best known for his devotion and amiable character.
Victor Segoffin
Victor Joseph Jean Ambroise Segoffin was a French sculptor. Born in Toulouse, he early education was at the Lycée Pierre de Fermat. After school Ségoffin was admitted to the Toulouse School of Fine Arts in the studio of Charles Ponsin-Andarahy. In 1887, having become an orphan, he joined the army. He took further education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. Segoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He became an instructor at the Ecole, became an officier of the Légion d'honneur in 1922, and a street in Toulouse is named for him.
Marco Enrico Bossi
Marco Enrico Bossi was an Italian organist, composer, improviser and pedagogue.
Supayalat
Supayalat, also spelt Suphayalat, was the last queen of Burma who reigned in Mandalay (1878–1885), born to King Mindon Min and Queen of Alenandaw. The British corruption of her name was "Soup Plate". She was married to her half-brother, Thibaw, who became the last king of the Konbaung dynasty in 1878, upon Mindon Min's death. She is best known for engineering a massacre of 80 to 100 royal family members, to prevent potential rivals from usurping Thibaw's power, although she had always denied any knowledge of the plot, which may have been hatched by her mother together with some of the ministers, including the chancellor Kinwon Min Gyi U Kaung.
Roman Statkowski
Roman Statkowski was a Polish composer, most notable for his operas and chamber music.
A. D. Godley
Alfred Denis Godley was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and author of humorous poems. From 1910 to 1920 he was Public Orator at the University of Oxford, a post that involved composing citations in Latin for the recipients of honorary degrees. One of these was for Thomas Hardy who received an Honorary D. Litt. in 1920, and whose treatment of rural themes Godley compared to Virgil.
Khải Định
Khải Định was the 12th Emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty in Vietnam, reigning from 1916 to 1925. His name at birth was Prince Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Đảo. He was the son of Emperor Đồng Khánh, but he did not succeed him immediately.
Tikhon of Moscow
Saint Tikhon of Moscow, born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin, was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). On 5 November 1917 (OS) he was selected the 11th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, after a period of about 200 years of the Synodal rule in the ROC. He was canonised as a confessor by the ROC in 1989.