Anniversaries 25 January

Birth

Thomas Aquinas104

Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho… 1225–1274

Robert Boyle21

English natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and invent… 1627–1691

Joseph Louis Lagrange6

Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist 1736–1813

Robert Burns114

Scottish poet and lyricist 1759–1796

Michael Madhusudan Dutta1

Bengali poet and dramatist 1824–1873

Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter)2

English Anglican bishop, died 1906 1825–1906

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher30

Royal Navy admiral of the fleet 1841–1920

Rufus M. Jones17

American writer 1863–1948

W. Somerset Maugham158

British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

Emil Ludwig2

German writer 1881–1948

Virginia Woolf382

English writer 1882–1941

Paul-Henri Spaak2

Belgian politician 1899–1972

Theodosius Dobzhansky9

geneticist and evolutionary biologist 1900–1975

Jacques Heurgon1

French historian and classical philologist 1903–1995

D. D. Raphael6

Philosopher 1916–2015

Jânio Quadros5

Brazilian politician 1917–1992

Samuel T. Cohen8

American physicist 1921–2010

André Gernez3

French physician 1923–2014

Edward E. David Jr.1

American engineer 1925–2017

Eduard Shevardnadze2

Georgian politician and diplomat 1928–2014

Robert Faurisson1

French Holocaust specialist 1929–2018

Michael Michai Kitbunchu1

Catholic cardinal 1929

Joseph Fiorenza1

US Roman Catholic archbishop 1931–2022

Paavo Haavikko1

Finnish poet and writer from 20th century 1931–2008

Alden Nowlan1

Canadian writer 1933–1983

Conrad Burns5

United States Marine 1935–2016

Tobe Hooper1

American film director, screenwriter and producer 1943–2017

Paul Cremona1

Catholic archbishop 1946

Paul Nurse2

Nobel prize winning British biochemist 1949

Gloria Naylor6

American writer 1950–2016

John Cooper Clarke14

English performance poet 1951

Steve Prefontaine1

United States long-distance runner 1951–1975

Bill Viola1

American video and installation artist 1951

Alice Fulton1

American poet 1952

Peter Tatchell6

British gay rights activist 1952

Lee Strobel4

American writer 1952

Chang Yu-hern1

Taiwanese politician 1954

David Grossman1

Israeli author 1954

Chris Impey1

astronomer 1956

Ibrahim Ali6

Member of the Dewan Rakyat (parliament) 1957

Robert Wright3

American journalist, born 1957 1957

Peter Watts1

Canadian biologist and sci-fi author 1958

Alessandro Baricco9

Italian writer 1958

James C. Collins22

American business consultant and writer 1958

Tim Dorsey4

American writer 1961

Chet Culver1

American football player and politician 1966

Kelli Ward1

American politician 1969

Stephen Chbosky163

American writer 1970

Obert Skye17

American writer 1970

Geoff Johns2

American comic book writer 1973

Volodymyr Zelensky14

6th President of Ukraine 1978

Lila Tretikov1

Russian–American engineer, manager and former executive dir… 1978

Alicia Keys10

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress 1981

Noemi1

Italian singer, screenwriter and music video director 1982

Claudia Kim4

South Korean actress 1985

Lendl Simmons1

West Indian cricketer 1985

Death

Gregory of Nazianzus5

Christian saint, bishop, and theologian 329–389

Henry Suso22

Dominican friar and mystic 1295–1366

Robert Burton111

English scholar 1577–1640

Dorothy Wordsworth6

English author, poet and diarist 1771–1855

Thomas Garrett3

American abolitionist 1789–1871

David Whitmer8

Book of Mormon witness 1805–1888

Pierre Emmanuel Félix Chazal2

Belgian politician (1808-1892) 1808–1892

Ouida6

British novelist 1839–1908

Carl Hayden8

American federal politician 1877–1972

E. Stanley Jones1

Methodist missionary and theologian 1884–1973

Erhard Milch5

German general 1892–1972

Charlotte Whitton2

Canadian politician 1896–1975

Шарлотта Элизабет Уиттон1

1896–1975

Al Capone44

American gangster 1899–1947

Yvor Winters12

American poet and literary critic 1900–1968

Philip Johnson2

American architect 1906–2005

Daniel Bell24

American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritu… 1919–2011

Ava Gardner12

American actress 1922–1990

Charles Reis Felix4

American writer 1923–2017

Elizabeth Jennings3

poet 1926–2001

Mary Tyler Moore9

American actress, television producer 1936–2017

Buchi Emecheta11

author 1944–2017

Jonathan Larson28

American composer and playwright 1960–1996