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January 25

January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 340 days remain until the end of the year (341 in leap years).

Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

• 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.^[1]
• 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.^[2]
• 1327 – Fourteen-year-old Edward III ascends the throne of England after his father the king is forced to abdicate by Queen Isabella and her lover, Roger Mortimer.^[3]
• 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.^[4]
• 1479 – The Treaty of Constantinople ends the 16-year-long First Ottoman–Venetian War.^[5]
• 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.^[6]
• 1515 – CoronationofFrancis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral, where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne.^[7]
• 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.^[8]
• 1554 – São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests.^[9]
• 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.^[10]
• 1576 – Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
• 1585 – Walter Raleigh is knighted, shortly after renaming North America region "Virginia", in honor of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".^[11]

1601–1900[edit]

• 1704 – The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
• 1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
• 1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
• 1787 – Shays' Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
• 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
• 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• 1819 – University of Virginia chartered by Commonwealth of Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders.^[12]
• 1858 – The Wedding MarchbyFelix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
• 1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
• 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

1901–present[edit]

• 1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• 1917 – Sinking of the SSLaurentic after hitting two German mines off the coast of northwest Ireland.^[13]
• 1918 – The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.
• 1918 – The Finnish Defence Forces (The White Guards) are established as the official army of independent Finland, and Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed its Commander-in-Chief.^[14]
• 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
• 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
• 1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
• 1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
• 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
• 1946 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
• 1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.^[15]
• 1949 – The first Emmy Awards are presented in the United States; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
• 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters in the United States reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
• 1961 – In Washington, D.C., US President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1964 – Blue Ribbon Sports, which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes.
• 1967 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky fires rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, while the latter is overseas on a diplomatic visit.^[16]
• 1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
• 1971 – Charles Manson and four "Family" members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
• 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
• 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
• 1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
• 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito OkelloinUganda.
• 1990 – Avianca Flight 052 crashes in Cove Neck, New York, killing 73.^[17]
• 1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA HeadquartersinLangley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
• 1994 – The spacecraft ClementinebyBMDO and NASA is launched.
• 1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
• 1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States.
• 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
• 1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil EelamonSri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
• 1999 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
• 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
• 2005 – A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
• 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
• 2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Na'ameh, Lebanon, killing 90.^[18]
• 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
• 2013 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riotinBarquisimeto, Venezuela.
• 2015 – A clashinMamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
• 2019 – A mining company's dam collapsesinBrumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.^[19]

Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

• 750 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (d. 780)^[20]
• 1408 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (d. 1460)
• 1459 – Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1537)^[21]
• 1477 – Anne of Brittany (probable;^[22] d. 1514)
• 1509 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
• 1526 – Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1586)

1601–1900[edit]

• 1615 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
• 1627 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1691)^[23]
• 1634 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch politician and diplomat (d. 1688)
• 1635 – Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, German writer, diplomat and lawyer (d. 1683)
• 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician, Lord Steward of the Household (d. 1707)
• 1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1813)
• 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1823)
• 1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher and author (d. 1819)
• 1750 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (d. 1813)
• 1755 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (probable;^[24] d. 1815)
• 1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (d. 1796)^[25]
• 1783 – William Colgate, English-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (d. 1857)
• 1794 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer (d. 1878)
• 1796 – William MacGillivray, Scottish ornithologist and biologist (d. 1852)
• 1813 – J. Marion Sims, American gynecologist and physician (d. 1883)
• 1816 – Anna Gardner, American abolitionist and teacher (d. 1901)^[26]
• 1822 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman, philanthropist, and politician, founded the Bishop Museum (d. 1915)
• 1822 – William McDougall, Canadian lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories (d. 1905)
• 1823 – José María Iglesias, Mexican politician and interim President (d. 1891)^[27]
• 1824 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1873)
• 1841 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, English admiral (d. 1920)
• 1858 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1954)
• 1860 – Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
• 1864 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author (d. 1934)
• 1868 – Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and composer (d. 1894)
• 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1965)
• 1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975)
• 1882 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1941)
• 1885 – Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and author (d. 1942)
• 1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (d. 1954)
• 1894 – Aino Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (d. 1949)^[28]
• 1895 – Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1927)
• 1899 – Sleepy John Estes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian lawyer and politician, 46th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1972)
• 1900 – István Fekete, Hungarian author (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Yōjirō Ishizaka, Japanese author and educator (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Russian-American geneticist and pioneer of evolutionary biology (d. 1975)^[29]

1901–present[edit]

• 1901 – Mildred Dunnock, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Margery Sharp, English author and educator (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Sava Kovačević, Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (d. 1943)^[30]
• 1906 – Toni Ulmen, German racing driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1976)
• 1908 – Hsieh Tung-min, Taiwanese politicians and Vice President of the Republic of China (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian, author, and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1984)
• 1913 – Huang Hua, Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 2010)
• 1913 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1994)
• 1913 – Luis Marden, American photographer and journalist (d. 2003)
• 1914 – William Strickland, American conductor and organist (d. 1991)
• 1915 – Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, actor and producer (d. 1989)
• 1916 – Pop Ivy, American football player and coach (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992)
• 1919 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and academic (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Josef Holeček, Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2005)^[31]
• 1922 – Raymond Baxter, English television host and pilot (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
• 1923 – Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Sally Starr, American actress and television host (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Jean Taittinger, French politician, French Minister of Justice (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Lou Groza, American football player and coach (d. 2000)^[32]
• 1924 – Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish wrestler and coach (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Gordy Soltau, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1926 – Dick McGuire, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)^[33]
• 1927 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1994)
• 1928 – Jérôme Choquette, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
• 1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Elizabeth Allen, American actress and singer (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Robert Faurisson, English-French author and academic (d. 2018)
• 1929 – Benny Golson, American saxophonist and composer
• 1931 – Dean Jones, American actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)^[32]
• 1935 – Conrad Burns, American journalist, and politician (d. 2016)
• 1935 – António Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese general and politician, 16th President of Portugal^[34]
• 1935 – Don Maynard, American football player (d. 2022)
• 1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
• 1936 – Onat Kutlar, Turkish author and poet (d. 1995)
• 1937 – Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African engineer and politician, 5th President of the Central African Republic (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 1998)
• 1938 – Etta James, American singer (d. 2012)^[32]
• 1938 – Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese author, illustrator, and animator (d. 2023)
• 1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1980)
• 1941 – Buddy Baker, American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2015)
• 1942 – Carl Eller, American football player and sportscaster^[32]
• 1942 – Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Tobe Hooper, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)^[35]
• 1945 – Byron Beck, American basketball player^[36]
• 1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress^[37]
• 1947 – Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 2017)
• 1947 – Tostão, Brazilian footballer, journalist, and physician
• 1948 – Ros Kelly, Australian educator and politician, 1st Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel
• 1948 – Georgy Shishkin, Russian painter and illustrator
• 1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English poet and critic
• 1949 – Paul Nurse, English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 – Gloria Naylor, American novelist (d. 2016)
• 1951 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)^[32]
• 1952 – Peter Tatchell, Australian-English journalist and activist
• 1952 – Timothy White, American journalist, author, and critic (d. 2002)
• 1953 – The Honky Tonk Man, American wrestler^[38]
• 1954 – Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1954 – Kay Cottee, Australian sailor
• 1954 – Renate Dorrestein, Dutch journalist and author (d. 2018)
• 1956 – Andy Cox, English guitarist
• 1956 – Dinah Manoff, American actress^[37]
• 1957 – Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish technologist and politician, Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs
• 1957 – Andrew Harris, American politician
• 1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress and singer^[37]
• 1958 – Franco Pancheri, Italian footballer and manager
• 1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean ophthalmologist and politician, Singaporean Ministry of National Development
• 1961 – Tim Dorsey, American novelist (d. 2023)^[39]
• 1962 – Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player and manager
• 1963 – Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician, 61st Mayor of São Paulo
• 1963 – Molly Holzschlag, American computer scientist and author (d. 2023)
• 1964 – Stephen Pate, Australian cyclist
• 1965 – Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 – Chet Culver, American educator and politician, 41st Governor of Iowa
• 1966 – Yiannos Ioannou, Cypriot footballer and manager
• 1966 – Mark Schlereth, American football player and sportscaster^[40]
• 1967 – Nelson Asaytono, Filipino basketball player
• 1967 – David Ginola, French footballer
• 1967 – Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 – Nicole Uphoff, German equestrian^[41]
• 1968 – Eric Orie, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1969 – Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1970 – Stephen Chbosky, American author, screenwriter, and director
• 1970 – Chris Mills, American basketball player
• 1970 – Milt Stegall, American football player and sportscaster^[42]
• 1971 – Luca Badoer, Italian racing driver
• 1971 – Philip Coppens, Belgian journalist and author (d. 2012)
• 1971 – Ana Ortiz, American actress^[37]
• 1972 – Shinji Takehara, Japanese boxer
• 1973 – Geoff Johns, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1974 – Robert Budreau, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Emily Haines, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1974 – Attilio Nicodemo, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Duncan Jupp, Anglo-Scottish footballer^[43]
• 1975 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress^[37]
• 1976 – Stephanie Bellars, American wrestler and manager
• 1976 – Mário Haberfeld, Brazilian racing driver
• 1976 – Dimitris Nalitzis, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Michael Brown, English footballer, manager and pundit^[44]
• 1978 – Charlene, Princess of Monaco^[32]
• 1978 – Ahmet Dursun, Turkish footballer
• 1978 – Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
• 1978 – Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player
• 1978 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian actor, comedian, and politician, 6th President of Ukraine^[45]
• 1979 – Christine Lakin, American actress and director^[37]
• 1979 – David Mutendera, Zimbabwean cricketer^[46]
• 1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
• 1980 – Alayna Burns, Australian track cyclist^[47]
• 1980 – Michelle McCool, American wrestler^[38]
• 1980 – Xavi, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Francis Jeffers, English footballer
• 1981 – Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress^[48]
• 1981 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (d. 2007)^[49]
• 1983 – Josh Powell, American basketball player^[50]
• 1984 – Jay Briscoe, American wrestler (d. 2023)^[51]
• 1984 – Stefan Kießling, German footballer
• 1984 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Fara Williams, English footballer^[52]
• 1985 – Brent Celek, American football player^[53]
• 1985 – Hwang Jung-eum, South Korean actress
• 1985 – Acie Law, American basketball player^[54]
• 1985 – Hartley Sawyer, American actor^[32]
• 1985 – Michael Trevino, American actor^[37]
• 1985 – Patrick Willis, American football player
• 1986 – Chris O'Grady, English footballer
• 1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player^[55]
• 1988 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player^[56]
• 1988 – Ryota Ozawa, Japanese actor
• 1990 – Apostolos Giannou, Greek-Australian footballer
• 1990 – Lee Jun-ho, South Korean singer and actor
• 1991 – Ariana DeBose, American actress, singer, and dancer^[32]
• 1991 – Ahmed Hegazi, Egyptian footballer^[57]
• 1996 – Mohamed Hany, Egyptian footballer^[58]
• 1996 – Seunghee, South Korean singer and television personality^[59]
• 1997 – Noah Hanifin, American ice hockey player^[60]
• 2001 – Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Italian tennis player^[61]
• 2002 – Lil Mosey, American rapper^[62]

Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

• 390 – Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
• 477 – Gaiseric, king of the Vandals (b. 389)
• 750 – Ibrahim ibn al-Walid, Umayyad caliph
• 844 – Pope Gregory IV (b. 795)
• 863 – Charles of Provence, Frankish king (b. 845)
• 951 – Ma Xiguang, ruler of Chu (Ten Kingdoms)
• 1003 – Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark
• 1067 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (b. 1032)
• 1138 – Antipope Anacletus II
• 1139 – Godfrey I, Count of Louvain and Duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VI)
• 1366 – Henry Suso, German priest and mystic (b. 1300)
• 1413 – Maud de Ufford, Countess of Oxford (b. 1345)
• 1431 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
• 1492 – Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and rebel (b. 1443)
• 1494 – Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
• 1559 – Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)
• 1578 – Mihrimah Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1522)
• 1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)

1601–1900[edit]

• 1640 – Robert Burton, English physician and scholar (b. 1577)
• 1670 – Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
• 1726 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
• 1733 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1652)
• 1742 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer (b. 1656)^[63]
• 1751 – Paul Dudley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1675)
• 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1778)
• 1856 – John Doubleday, British craftsperson, restorer, and dealer^[64]

• 1872 – Richard S. Ewell, American general (b. 1817)
• 1881 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794)
• 1884 – Périclès Pantazis, Greek-Belgian painter (b. 1849)
• 1891 – Theo van Gogh, Art dealer, the brother of Vincent van Gogh (b. 1857)
• 1900 – Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835)^[65]

1901–present[edit]

• 1907 – René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
• 1908 – Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)
• 1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
• 1910 – W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit and academic (1860)
• 1914 – Frank Avery Hutchins, American librarian and educator (b. 1851)^[66]
• 1912 – Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1816)
• 1925 – Juan Vucetich, Croatian-Argentinian anthropologist and police officer (b. 1858)
• 1939 – Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (b. 1870)
• 1947 – Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)
• 1949 – Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician, 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861)
• 1957 – Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (b. 1873)
• 1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
• 1958 – Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish surgeon and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1866)
• 1958 – Robert R. Young, American businessman and financier (b. 1897)
• 1960 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Saul Adler, Belarusian-English microbiologist and parasitologist (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Louie Myfanwy Thomas, Welsh writer (b. 1908)
• 1968 – Yvor Winters, American poet and literary critic (b. 1900)^[67]
• 1970 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (b. 1877)
• 1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese director and producer (b. 1901)
• 1971 – Barry III, Guinean lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
• 1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)^[68]
• 1978 – Skender Kulenović, Bosnian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Adele Astaire, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1896)
• 1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Russian economist and politician (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Ilias Iliou, Greek jurist and politician (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Frank J. Lynch, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1991 – Frank Soo, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Mir Khalil ur Rehman, Founder and editor of the Jang Group of Newspapers (b. 1927)
• 1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Jonathan Larson, American playwright and composer (b. 1960)^[69]
• 1997 – Dan Barry, American author and illustrator (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Sarah Louise Delany, American author and educator (b. 1889)
• 1999 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and logician (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Cliff Baxter, employee at Enron (b. 1958)
• 2003 – Sheldon Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Samuel Weems, American lawyer and author (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
• 2005 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2005 – William Augustus Bootle, American lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
• 2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean author and poet (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Netti Witziers-Timmer, Dutch runner (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Ewald Kooiman, Dutch organist and educator (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Kim Manners, American director and producer (b. 1951)
• 2010 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi general and politician, Iraqi Minister of Defence (b. 1941)
• 2011 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos Greek captain and businessman (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Vincent Cronin, Welsh historian and author (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Jacques Maisonrouge, French businessman (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Robert Sheran, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Norwegian soprano and actress (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Arthur Doyle, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Heini Halberstam, Czech-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Dave Strack, American basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Morrie Turner, American cartoonist (b. 1923)^[70]
• 2015 – John Leggett, American author and academic (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Richard McBrien, American priest, theologian, and academic (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player and coach (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Demis Roussos, Egyptian-Greek singer (b. 1946)
• 2017 – Stephen P. Cohen, Canadian academic (b. 1945)
• 2017 – Robert Garcia, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2017 – John Hurt, English actor (b. 1940)^[71]
• 2017 – Harry Mathews, American novelist and poet (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Marcel Prud'homme, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and producer (b. 1936)^[72]
• 2018 – Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat (b. 1916)
• 2024 – Sanath Nishantha, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1975)^[73]

Holidays and observances[edit]

• Betico Day (Aruba)^[74]
• Burns Night (Scotland)^[75]
• Christian feast day:
  • Dydd Santes Dwynwen (Wales)
  • Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, which concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity)
  • Gregory the Theologian (Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church)
  • The last day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Christian ecumenism)
  • January 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• National Nutrition Day (Indonesia)
• National Police Day (Egypt)
• National Voters' Day (India)
• Revolution Day 2011 (Egypt)
• Tatiana Day or Russian Students Day (Russia, Eastern Orthodox)

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to January 25.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Historical Events on January 25