Actors Who Died on May 25
- 1862 Johann Nestroy, Austrian actor, singer and playwright (Judith und Holofernes), dies at 60
- 1940 Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director, dies at 67
- 1971 Terence De Marney, British actor (Lorna Doone, Doctor Who, The Immortal Gentleman), dies after accidentally falling under a subway at 63
- 1974 Donald Crisp, British actor and director (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana), dies at 91
- 1982 Larry J. Blake, American actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68
- 1983 Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- 1983 Sydney Box, British film producer and screenwriter (The Seventh Veil), dies at 76
- 1990 Victor "Vic" Tayback, American actor (Mel Sharples-"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore "), dies of a heart attack at 60
- 1993 Dan Seymour [Daniel Seymour Katz], American actor (To Have and Have Not, We the People, Sing It Again), dies following a stroke at 78
- 1995 Dany Robin, French actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta), dies at 68
- 1999 Hillary Brooke, American film actress (The Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 84
- 2000 Nicholas Clay, English actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 53
- 2002 Patricia "Pat" Coombs, British comedienne and actress (Carry On Again Doctor, Cranford), dies at 75
- 2005 Sunil Dutt, Indian Bollywood director, actor and politician (Yaadein, Mother India, Khandaan), dies at 75
- 2007 Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian and gameshow panelist (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies at 76
- 2010 Michael H. Jordan, businessman and former CEO PepsiCo and CBS Corporation (b. 1936)
- 2011 Paul Splittorff, American MLB pitcher and broadcaster (KC Royals), dies of oral cancer at 64
- 2014 Herb Jeffries [Umberto Alejandro Ballentino], American actor and director (The Bronze Buckaroo, Mundo depravados), dies of heart failure at 100
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