January 25 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 25, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#198 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 25 birthdays
Ivan Shishkin · Russian landscape painter1831
Charles Curtis · Vice president of the United States from 1929 to 19331860
W. Somerset Maugham · English playwright and author1874
Virginia Woolf · English modernist writer1882
Ilya Prigogine · Russian-Belgian physical chemist1917
Antônio Carlos Jobim · Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist1927
Eduard Shevardnadze · Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat1928
Corazon Aquino · President of the Philippines from 1986 to 19921933
Vladimir Vysotsky · Soviet singer-songwriter and actor1938
Etta James · American singer1938
Eusébio · Portuguese footballer1942
Tobe Hooper · American film director, screenwriter and producer1943
Jean-Marc Ayrault · Prime Minister of France1950
Volodymyr Zelenskyy · President of Ukraine since 20191978
Lila Tretikov · Russian–American engineer1978
Xavi · Spanish footballer and manager1980
Noemi · Italian singer-songwriter and television presenter1982
Yasuyuki Konno · Japanese association football player1983
Robinho · Brazilian former association football player1984
Ariana DeBose · American actress1991
On this day in history
1890American journalist Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the globe by land and sea in a then-record-breaking 72 days.
1995A team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII sounding rocket, which was mistaken by Russian forces for a Trident missile.
2011Arab Spring: The Egyptian revolution began with protests on the "Day of Anger", eventually leading to the removal of President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.
2018An Ariane 5 rocket is launched carrying SES-14, Al Yah 3, and NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, but the satellites end up in the wrong orbit.
1994The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
2004Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum.
2006Three independent observing campaigns announced the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, a super-Earth 21,500 ± 3,300 light-years away from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.
2010Avatar, a science-fiction film directed by James Cameron, became the highest-grossing film of all time.
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