* 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 – 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.

* February 28 – Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman ( b. 1725 )

Thomas Hardwick Senior ( 1725 – 1798 ) and Thomas Hardwick Junior ( 1752 – 1829 ) were both from Brentford and are buried in the old church of St Laurence.

St Thomas ' was founded in the mid-12th Century in the borough and parts of it remain at St Thomas Street ; Guy's was founded opposite this in 1725.

Thomas Cockey ( 1676 – 1737 ) settled in Limestone Valley in 1725 at Taylor's Hall ( an area now just north of Padonia Road and east of Interstate 83 ).

In country house building, major commissions for Kent were designing the interiors of Houghton Hall ( c. 1725 – 35 ), recently built by Colen Campbell for Sir Robert Walpole, but at Holkham Hall the most complete embodiment of Palladian ideals is still to be found ; there Kent collaborated with Thomas Coke, the other " architect earl ", and had for an assistant Matthew Brettingham, whose own architecture would carry Palladian ideals into the next generation.

Bonsall never lived there but rented the property in 1725 to Thomas Tatnall, and he and his wife Ann bought the property the same year.

The English Baroque, brick-built, western range of Wentworth Woodhouse was begun in 1725 by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, after 1728 Lord Malton after he inherited it from his father in 1723.

* Henry Benedict Maria Clement Thomas Francis Xavier Stuart ( 11 March 1725 – 13 July 1807 ), later known as the Cardinal Duke of York, never married.

* Thomas de Pinedo, 1725, Stephanus de urbibus ( Amsterdam )

To the period of his Dublin residence are also to be referred the Thoughts on Laughter ( 1725 ) ( a criticism of Thomas Hobbes ) and the Observations on the Fable of the Bees, being in all six letters contributed to Hibernicus ' Letters, a periodical that appeared in Dublin ( 1725 – 1727, 2nd ed.

* Thomas Gouye ( 1650 – 1725 ), scientist

Thomas Smyth ( 1650 – 1725 ), Bishop of Limerick, and Dorothea Burgh ( daughter of the Rt.

Richard Rawlinson was a younger son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson ( 1647 – 1708 ), Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1705-6, and a brother of Thomas Rawlinson ( 1681 – 1725 ), the bibliophile who ruined himself in the South Sea Company, at whose sale in 1734 Richard bought many of the Orientalia.

He was educated at Dr Barrow's school in Soho Square and trained as an architect under his father, Thomas Hardwick ( junior ) ( 1752 – 1829 ), who was in turn the son of architect Thomas Hardwick Sr. ( 1725 – 1798 ).

* Andrew Thomas Stewart, 9th Baron Castle Stewart ( 1725 – 1809 ) ( reclaimed 1774 ; created Earl Castle Stewart in 1800 )

* Andrew Thomas Stuart, 1st Earl Castle Stewart ( 1725 – 1809 )

* Thomas Cushing ( 1725 – 1788 ), American lawyer and statesman

* Thomas Howard, 6th Baron Howard of Effingham ( 1682 – 1725 )

* Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves ( 1725 – 1802 )