* 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader ( d. 1807 )

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter ( d. 1805 )

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.

* Robert Nisbet Bain, The First Romanovs 1613 – 1725 ( London, 1905 ; reprint, New York, 1967 ).

* 1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician ( d. 1767 )

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

Abdülhamid I, Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد اول ` Abdü ’ l-Ḥamīd-i evvel ), which translates to the Servant of God ( March 20, 1725 – April 7, 1789 ), was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

* 1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral ( d. 1786 )

* 1789 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan ( b. 1725 )

Russia n icon of the prophet Joel ( Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, c. 1700 – 1725 )

* Il quaresimale in epilogo ( 1725 – 1726 )

* 1725 – George Mason, American statesman ( d. 1792 )

* 1807 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist ( b. 1725 )

* Elizabeth Darwin ( 15 September 1725 – 8 April 1800 )

* 1725 – Abraham Clark, American founding father ( d. 1794 )

* 1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken, German child prodigy ( d. 1725 )

* 1725 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot ( d. 1783 )

* Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani ( Georgian, 1658 – 1725 ).

George Mason, ( 1725 – 1792 ) after whom the University is named.

Telemann returned to Hamburg, but would still supplement his income by taking up additional jobs: in 1723 – 1726 he served as Kapellmeister von Haus aus to the Bayreuth court, and between 1725 and 1730 he acted as corresponding agent to the court at Eisenach, supplying news from northern Europe.

Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) brought autocracy into Russia and played a major role in bringing his country into the European state system.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

* June 4 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer ( b. 1725 )

Some would consider the study of " nothing " to be foolish, a typical response of this type is voiced by Giacomo Casanova ( 1725 – 1798 ) in conversation with his landlord, one Dr. Gozzi, who also happens to be a priest,

* Giacomo Casanova ( 1725 – 1798 ), adventurer

* June 4-Giacomo Casanova, librarian and memoirist ( born 1725 )

* Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725 – 1798 Ebook

* 1660 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer ( d. 1725 )

* May 2 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer ( d. 1725 )

But the mention of Watteau should also alert us to the fact that Pierrot, along with his fellow Commedia masks, was beginning to be " poeticized " in this century — that he was beginning to be the subject, not only of poignant folksong (" Au clair de la lune ", sometimes attributed to Lully ), but also of the more ambitious art of Claude Gillot ( Master André's Tomb 1717 ), of Gillot's students Watteau ( Italian Actors 1719 ) and Nicolas Lancret ( Italian Actors near a Fountain 1719 ), of Jean-Baptiste Oudry ( Italian Actors in a Park 1725 ), and of Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( A Boy as Pierrot ).

* Berenice ( 1725 ), an Italian opera by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini ( mus.

The early 18th century bow referred to as the Corelli-Tartini model, is also referred to as the Italian ' sonata ' bow. This basic Baroque bow supplanted by 1725 an earlier French dance bow which was quite short with a little point.

Francesco Bartolozzi ( 25 September 1725 – 7 March 1815 ) was an Italian engraver, whose most productive period was spent in London.

Competent in Latin, French and Italian, he translated Andrea Pozzo's treatise on perspective as Rules and Examples of Perspective, proper for Painters and Architects ( 1707, 2nd edition c. 1725 ) and from the French of Claude Perrault, A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture ( 1708 ), and from the French of Dezallier d ' Argenville, The Theory and Practice of Gardening ( 1712, 2nd edition 1728, 3rd edition 1743.

* Alessandro Scarlatti ( 1660 – 1725 ), Italian composer

Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri ( 1651 – 1725 ) was a seventeenth-century Italian adventurer and traveler.

In 1699 Father Pinamonti ( d. 1703 ) published in Italian a short work on the Holy Heart of Mary, and in 1725, Joseph de Gallifet combined the cause of the Heart of Mary with that of the Heart of Jesus in order to obtain Rome's approbation of the two devotions and the institution of the two feasts.

Leopoldo Marco Antonio Caldani ( 1725 – 1813 ) was an Italian anatomist and physiologist.

The Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425, which may also be written Mandoline Concerto, is a concerto written by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi in 1725 and is often accompanied by The Four Seasons ( 1725 ).

* November 30 – George Glas, Scottish merchant and adventurer ( b. 1725 )