Famous People Who Died on August 25

• Aaliyah (2001)

  Pop singer and actress who sang "Try Again"

• Armstrong, Neil (2012)

  The first human to walk on the moon

• Birch, John (1945)

  Missionary for whom the John Birch Society was named

• Capote, Truman (1984)

  Author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's

• Faraday, Michael (1867)

  Inventor of the first dynamo

• Hume, David (1776)

  Scottish skeptic who wrote A Treatise of Human Nature

• Kennedy, Edward (Ted) (2009)

  U.S. senator from Massachusetts, 1962-2009

• McCain, John (2018)

  The former POW who became a U.S. senator and 2008 presidential candidate

• Nietzsche, Friedrich (1900)

   The 19th century German who said "God is dead" 

See also: Born on August 25