Famous Birthdays for January 25th

Pre-1600[edit]

• 750 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (d. 780)^[18]
• 1408 – Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (d. 1460)
• 1459 – Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1537)^[19]
• 1477 – Anne of Brittany (probable;^[20] d. 1514)
• 1509 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
• 1526 – Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1586)
• 1540 – Edmund Campion, English priest and martyr (d. 1581)

1601–1900[edit]

• 1615 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
• 1618 – Nicolaes Visscher I, Dutch engraver and cartographer (d. 1679)
• 1627 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1691)^[21]
• 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;^[22] d. 1815)
• 1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (d. 1796)
• 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)^[23]
• 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)^[24]
• 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)^[25]
• 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)^[26]

1901–present[edit]

• 1901 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian racing driver and pilot (d. 1982)
• 1901 – Mildred Dunnock, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Margery Sharp, English author and educator (d. 1991)
• 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)^[27]
• 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)
• 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)^[28]
• 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
• 1930 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian child diarist (d. 1944)
• 1931 – Dean Jones, American actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Conrad Burns, American journalist, and politician (d. 2016)
• 1935 – António Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese general and politician, 16th President of Portugal^[29]
• 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, President of the Central African Republic (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 1998)
• 1938 – Etta James, American singer (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese author, illustrator, and animator
• 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
• 1942 – Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Tobe Hooper, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)^[30]
• 1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
• 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)
• 1952 – Peter Tatchell, Australian-English journalist and activist
• 1952 – Timothy White, American journalist, author, and critic (d. 2002)
• 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
• 1957 – Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish technologist and politician, Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs
• 1957 – Andrew Harris, American politician
• 1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress and singer
• 1958 – Franco Pancheri, Italian footballer and manager
• 1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean ophthalmologist and politician, Singaporean Ministry of National Development
• 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
• 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
• 1967 – Nelson Asaytono, Filipino basketball player
• 1967 – David Ginola, French footballer
• 1967 – Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 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^[31]
• 1971 – Luca Badoer, Italian racing driver
• 1971 – Philip Coppens, Belgian journalist and author (d. 2012)
• 1971 – Ana Ortiz, American actress
• 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^[32]
• 1975 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
• 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^[33]
• 1978 – Ahmet Dursun, Turkish footballer
• 1978 – Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
• 1978 – Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player
• 1978 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine and actor^[34]
• 1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
• 1980 – Alayna Burns, Australian track cyclist^[35]
• 1980 – Xavi, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Francis Jeffers, English footballer
• 1981 – Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress^[36]
• 1981 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (d. 2007)^[37]
• 1984 – Stefan Kießling, German footballer
• 1984 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Fara Williams, English footballer^[38]
• 1985 – Brent Celek, American football player^[39]
• 1985 – Patrick Willis, American football player
• 1985 – Hwang Jung-eum, South Korean actress
• 1986 – Chris O'Grady, English footballer
• 1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player^[40]
• 1988 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player^[41]
• 1988 – Ryota Ozawa, Japanese actor
• 1990 – Apostolos Giannou, Greek-Australian footballer
• 1990 – Lee Jun-ho, South Korean singer and actor
• 2001 – Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Italian tennis player^[42]