Famous people born on 25 January

• Virginia WoolfEnglish modernist writer · 1882–1941
  59 yrs
• Robert BurnsScottish poet and lyricist · 1759–1796
  37 yrs
• Vladimir VysotskySoviet singer-songwriter and actor · 1938–1980
  42 yrs
• Robert BoyleAnglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor · 1627–1691
  64 yrs
• William Somerset MaughamEnglish playwright and author · 1874–1965
  91 yrs
• Corazon AquinoPresident of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 · 1933–2009
  76 yrs
• Joseph-Louis LagrangeMathematician and astronomer · 1736–1813
  77 yrs
• Eduard ShevardnadzeSoviet and Georgian politician and diplomat, Soviet foreign minister and second President of Georgia · 1928–2014
  86 yrs
• EusébioPortuguese footballer · 1942–2014
  71 yrs
• Ilya PrigogineRussian-Belgian physical chemist · 1917–2003
  86 yrs
• Etta James ↗American singer · 1938–2012
  73 yrs
• Ivan Shishkin ↗Russian landscape painter · 1831–1898
  67 yrs
• Antônio Carlos Jobim ↗Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist · 1927–1994
  67 yrs
• Charles Curtis ↗Vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 · 1860–1936
  76 yrs
• Paul-Henri Spaak ↗Belgian politician · 1899–1972
  73 yrs
• Arvid Carlsson ↗Swedish neuroscientist · 1923–2018
  95 yrs
• Leo IV the Khazar ↗Byzantine emperor · AD 750–780
  30 yrs
• Toše Proeski ↗Macedonian musician · 1981–2007
  26 yrs
• Wilhelm Furtwängler ↗German conductor and composer · 1886–1954
  68 yrs
• Philip the Bold ↗Duke of Burgundy · 1342–1404
  62 yrs
• Witold Lutosławski ↗Polish composer and conductor · 1913–1994
  81 yrs
• Theodosius Dobzhansky ↗Geneticist and evolutionary biologist · 1900–1975
  75 yrs
• Henri Fantin-Latour ↗French painter and printmaker · 1836–1904
  68 yrs
• Arne Garborg ↗Norwegian writer · 1851–1924
  72 yrs
• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ↗German philosopher · 1743–1819
  76 yrs
• Sabino Arana ↗Basque nationalist, writer and politician · 1865–1903
  38 yrs
• Jânio Quadros ↗Brazilian politician, former president of Brazil · 1917–1992
  75 yrs
• Tobe Hooper ↗American film director, screenwriter and producer · 1943–2017
  74 yrs
• René of Anjou ↗King of Naples · 1409–1480
  71 yrs
• Ange-Félix Patassé ↗Former President of the Central African Republic · 1937–2011
  74 yrs
• Emil Ludwig ↗German writer · 1881–1948
  67 yrs
• Katō Takaaki ↗Japanese politician · 1860–1926
  66 yrs
• Youssef Chahine ↗Egyptian film director · 1926–2008
  82 yrs
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ↗Italian population geneticist · 1922–2018
  96 yrs

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