* 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.

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 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer ( d. 1798 )

* 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.

* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and soldier ( d. 1807 )

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

* March 4 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter ( b. 1725 )

Both Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 1699 – 1779 ) and Jean-Baptiste Greuze ( 1725 – 1805 ), were important French painters of the Rococo era who are considered Anti-Rococo.

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 ).

* Jean-Baptiste Greuze ( 1725 – 1805 ), artist

It is based on earlier inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon ( 1725 ), Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1728 ) and Jacques Vaucanson ( 1740 ).

* Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ( 1725 – 1807 ), French nobleman and soldier who participated in the American Revolutionary War

* Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ( 1725 – 1807 ), Marshal of France since 28. 12. 1791

* Jean-Baptiste Greuze ( French, 1725 – 1805 ) Important 18th Century painter

Jean-Baptiste Greuze ( 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805 ) was a French painter.

Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière ( Coutances, September 12, 1725 – Paris, October 22, 1792 ) was a French astronomer.

Marshal of France Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau (; 1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807 ) was a French nobleman and general who played a major role in helping America win independence during the American Revolution.

He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, and he won a prize at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris in 1725.

He went to Paris in 1725, studying under Jean-Baptiste Massé and François Lemoyne, on whose recommendation he was taken to Naples by the Marquis Puysieux.

* 1661 – Paul de Rapin, French historian ( d. 1725 )

* 1793 – Louis de Bourbon, French admiral ( b. 1725 )

* 1661 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor ( d. 1725 )

* 1810 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master ( b. 1725 )

* 1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist ( d. 1815 )

* 1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician ( d. 1799 )

* 1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer ( d. 1792 )

* March 25 – Paul de Rapin, French historian ( d. 1725 )

* November 1 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor ( d. 1725 )

* May 10 – Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier ( b. 1725 )

* October 22 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer ( b. 1725 )

* September 20 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist ( b. 1725 )

* August 12 – Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist ( b. 1725 )

* October 2 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer ( b. 1725 )

* March 4 – Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, French admiral ( b. 1725 )

* November 18 – Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer ( b. 1725 )

* October 30 – Philippe de La Guêpière, French architect ( b. 1725 )

The name of Biloxi in French was " Bilocci " ( with " fort Maurepas "), and the name was sometimes translated into English as " Fort Bilocci " on maps updated circa year 1710 / 1725.

During the escalation that preceded Father Rale's War ( 1722 – 1725 ), some Acadians, the Wabanaki Confederacy and the French priests participated again in defending Acadia at its border against New England.

Originally settled in 1725 by hunters and traders, Romney was known as Pearsall's Flats and was the site of the French and Indian War stockade Fort Pearsall.