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Events from the year 1925 in the United Kingdom.
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- 7 January - Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (died 1995)
- 17 February - Ron Goodwin, composer and conductor (died 2003)
- 21 March - Peter Brook, film director
- 23 March - David Watkin, cinematographer
- 2 April - George MacDonald Fraser, author (died 2008)
- 22 April - George Cole, actor
- 3 June - Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (died 2001)
- 28 July - John Stonehouse, government minister noted for faking his own death (died 1988)
- 30 July - Alexander Trocchi, writer (died 1984)
- 12 August
- 27 August - Nat Lofthouse, footballer
- 8 September - Peter Sellers, comedian and actor (died 1980)
- 23 September - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar and Chinese historian (died 2006)
- 13 October - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 16 October - Angela Lansbury, actress
- 17 October - Harry Carpenter, boxing commentator
- 31 October - John Pople, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
- 10 November - Richard Burton, actor (died 1984)
- 11 November - June Whitfield, actress
- 27 November
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- 3 February - Oliver Heaviside, mathematician (born 1850)
- 6 February - James Kenyon, businessman and cinema pioneer (born 1850)
- 24 February - Joseph Rowntree, Quaker and philanthropist (born 1836)
- 20 March - George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (born 1859)
- 28 March - Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (born 1864)
- 4 April - W. W. Rouse Ball, mathematician and lawyer (born 1850)
- 6 April - Alexandra Kitchin, model for Lewis Carroll (born 1864)
- 7 May - William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, soap-maker and philanthropist (born 1851)
- 14 May - H. Rider Haggard, writer (born 1856)
- 22 May - John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, World War I field marshal (born 1852)
- 20 November - Alexandra of Denmark, queen of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (born 1844)
- 18 December - Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (born 1850)
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