Anniversaries 25 January
Birth
![Thomas Aquinas photo]()
Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho…
1225–1274
![Robert Boyle photo]()
English natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and invent…
1627–1691
![Joseph Louis Lagrange photo]()
Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist
1736–1813
![Robert Burns photo]()
Scottish poet and lyricist
1759–1796
![Michael Madhusudan Dutta photo]()
Bengali poet and dramatist
1824–1873
![Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter) photo]()
English Anglican bishop, died 1906
1825–1906
![John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher photo]()
Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
1841–1920
![Rufus M. Jones photo]()
American writer
1863–1948
![W. Somerset Maugham photo]()
British playwright, novelist, short story writer
1874–1965
![Paul-Henri Spaak photo]()
Belgian politician
1899–1972
![Theodosius Dobzhansky photo]()
geneticist and evolutionary biologist
1900–1975
![Jacques Heurgon photo]()
French historian and classical philologist
1903–1995
![Jânio Quadros photo]()
Brazilian politician
1917–1992
![Samuel T. Cohen photo]()
American physicist
1921–2010
![André Gernez photo]()
French physician
1923–2014
![Edward E. David Jr. photo]()
American engineer
1925–2017
![Eduard Shevardnadze photo]()
Georgian politician and diplomat
1928–2014
![Robert Faurisson photo]()
French Holocaust specialist
1929–2018
![Joseph Fiorenza photo]()
US Roman Catholic archbishop
1931–2022
![Paavo Haavikko photo]()
Finnish poet and writer from 20th century
1931–2008
![Alden Nowlan photo]()
Canadian writer
1933–1983
![Conrad Burns photo]()
United States Marine
1935–2016
![Tobe Hooper photo]()
American film director, screenwriter and producer
1943–2017
![Paul Nurse photo]()
Nobel prize winning British biochemist
1949
![Gloria Naylor photo]()
American writer
1950–2016
![John Cooper Clarke photo]()
English performance poet
1951
![Steve Prefontaine photo]()
United States long-distance runner
1951–1975
![Bill Viola photo]()
American video and installation artist
1951
![Peter Tatchell photo]()
British gay rights activist
1952
![Chang Yu-hern photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1954
![Ibrahim Ali photo]()
Member of the Dewan Rakyat (parliament)
1957
![Robert Wright photo]()
American journalist, born 1957
1957
![Peter Watts photo]()
Canadian biologist and sci-fi author
1958
![James C. Collins photo]()
American business consultant and writer
1958
![Chet Culver photo]()
American football player and politician
1966
![Geoff Johns photo]()
American comic book writer
1973
![Volodymyr Zelensky photo]()
6th President of Ukraine
1978
![Lila Tretikov photo]()
Russian–American engineer, manager and former executive dir…
1978
![Alicia Keys photo]()
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
1981
![Noemi photo]()
Italian singer, screenwriter and music video director
1982
![Claudia Kim photo]()
South Korean actress
1985
![Lendl Simmons photo]()
West Indian cricketer
1985
Death
![Gregory of Nazianzus photo]()
Christian saint, bishop, and theologian
329–389
![Henry Suso photo]()
Dominican friar and mystic
1295–1366
![Robert Burton photo]()
English scholar
1577–1640
![Dorothy Wordsworth photo]()
English author, poet and diarist
1771–1855
![Thomas Garrett photo]()
American abolitionist
1789–1871
![David Whitmer photo]()
Book of Mormon witness
1805–1888
![Pierre Emmanuel Félix Chazal photo]()
Belgian politician (1808-1892)
1808–1892
![Ouida photo]()
British novelist
1839–1908
![Carl Hayden photo]()
American federal politician
1877–1972
![E. Stanley Jones photo]()
Methodist missionary and theologian
1884–1973
![Charlotte Whitton photo]()
Canadian politician
1896–1975
![Al Capone photo]()
American gangster
1899–1947
![Yvor Winters photo]()
American poet and literary critic
1900–1968
![Philip Johnson photo]()
American architect
1906–2005
![Daniel Bell photo]()
American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritu…
1919–2011
![Ava Gardner photo]()
American actress
1922–1990
![Charles Reis Felix photo]()
American writer
1923–2017
![Mary Tyler Moore photo]()
American actress, television producer
1936–2017
![Jonathan Larson photo]()
American composer and playwright
1960–1996
