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What happened in history on this day: July 25?
On July 25 in ...
- 1939 - TV station W2XBS in New York City presents television's first musical comedy: Topsy and Eva.
- 1952 - CBC/Radio Canada TV covers a Montreal Royals baseball game, the first experimental Canadian telecast.
- 1987 - The Fox TV network airs the first episode of Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
- 1995 - The last episode of the TV show Thunder Alley airs.
- 1997 - Sony releases the film Air Force One to theaters.
Births on July 25
- 1894 - Birth of Walter Brennan in Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point, The Tycoon, The Guns of Will Sonnett, "Old Rivers", "Dutchman's Gold", three supporting actor Oscars).
- 1899 - Birth of Ralph Dumke in Indiana, USA; actor (Movieland Quiz).
- 1908 - Birth of Jack Gilford AKA Yankel Gellman in New York City, New York, USA; character actor (Cracker Jacks commercials (1960-1972), Soap TV show, The Duck Factory, Apple Pie, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, David Frost Revue, Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2).
- 1923 - Birth of Estelle Sher AKA Estelle Getty in New York City, New York, USA; American actor (Sophia Petrillo - The Golden Girls).
- 1925 - Birth of Jerry Paris in San Francisco, California, USA; director/actor (Jerry - Dick Van Dyke Show).
- 1934 - Birth of Don Ellis in Los Angeles, California, USA; jazz musician and composer (The French Connection movie score (1973)).
- 1935 - Birth of Barbara Harris; actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot, The Nurses, Stand Up and Cheer).
- 1935 - Birth of Laurent Terzieff in Paris, France; actor (Pharoah - Moses the Law Giver).
- 1943 - Birth of Janet Margolin in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Take the Money and Run, David and Lisa).
- 1954 - Birth of Lynn Frederick in Middlesex, England; actress (Schizophrenia).
- 1955 - Birth of Iman; model/actress (Star Trek VI, Tyra Banks Show, Project Runway).
- 1961 - Birth of Katherine Kelly Lang in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Brooke - The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1961 - Birth of Bobbie Eakes; actress-singer (All My Children, The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1965 - Birth of Illeana Douglas; actress (Action, Law and Order SVU).
- 1967 - Birth of Matt LeBlanc; actor (Joey, Friends).
- 1969 - Birth of D.B. Woodside; actor (24).
- 1971 - Birth of Miriam Shor; actress (Swingtown).
- 1975 - Birth of Jay R Ferguson Junior in Dallas, Texas; actor (Taylor Newton - Evening Shade).
- 1985 - Birth of James Lafferty; American athlete, actor (One Tree Hill).
Deaths on July 25
- 1958 - Death of Harry Warner at age 76; pioneer Hollywood film executive (Warner Bros.).
- 1981 - Ian Martin, actor (Uncle Bill - O'Neills), dies at age 69.
- 1992 - Death of Alfred Drake at age 77 in New York, USA; actor and singer (Oklahoma! (1943), Kismet (1954 Tony Award)).
- 1999 - Death of Martin Agronsky at age 84 of congestive heart failure; print and TV journalist (NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face the Nation, PBS' Agronsky and Company).
- 2022 - Death of Paul Sorvino at age 83 of natural causes at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, USA; Italian American actor (That Championship Season Broadway play (1972), Reds movie (1981), Henry Kissinger - Nixon (1981), Lord Capulet - Romeo + Juliet movie (1996), Sergeant Phil Cerreta - Law & Order TV show, Paulie Cicero - Goodfellas movie), opera singer, sculptor, author.
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