Births on 25 January
2000s
Lil Mosey
2002
American rapper (born 2002)
Elisabetta Cocciaretto
2001
Italian tennis player (born 2001)
1900s
Noah Hanifin
1997
American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Mohamed Hany
1996
Egyptian footballer (born 1996)
Seunghee
1996
South Korean singer (born 1996)
Adama Traoré (footballer, born 1996)
1996
Spanish footballer
Ariana DeBose
1991
American actress (born 1991)
Ahmed Hegazi
1991
Egyptian footballer (born 1991)
Apostolos Giannou
1990
Professional footballer
Lee Jun-ho
1990
South Korean singer and actor (born 1990)
Tatiana Golovin
1988
French tennis player (born 1988)
Ryota Ozawa
1988
Japanese actor
Maria Kirilenko
1987
Russian tennis player (born 1987)
Chris O'Grady
1986
English footballer (born 1986)
Brent Celek
1985
American football player and executive (born 1985)
Hwang Jung-eum
1985
South Korean actress and singer (born 1984)
Tina Karol
1985
Ukrainian singer (born 1985)
Acie Law
1985
American basketball player (born 1985)
Hartley Sawyer
1985
American actor
Michael Trevino
1985
American actor (born 1985)
Patrick Willis
1985
American football player (born 1985)
Jay Briscoe
1984
American professional wrestler (1984–2023)
Stefan Kießling
1984
German footballer (born 1984)
Robinho
1984
Brazilian footballer (born 1984)
Fara Williams
1984
English footballer (born 1984)
Josh Powell
1983
American basketball player (born 1983)
Francis Jeffers
1981
English association football player and coach (born 1981)
Alicia Keys
1981
American singer and songwriter (born 1981)
Toše Proeski
1981
Macedonian singer (1981–2007)
Alayna Burns
1980
Australian cyclist (born 1980)
Michelle McCool
1980
American retired professional wrestler (born 1980)
Xavi (footballer, born 1980)
1980
Spanish footballer and manager (born 1980)
Christine Lakin
1979
American actress (born 1979)
David Mutendera
1979
Zimbabwean cricketer (born 1979)
Rodrigo Ribeiro (racing driver)
1979
Brazilian racing driver (born 1979)
Charlene, Princess of Monaco
1978
Princess of Monaco since 2011
Ahmet Dursun
1978
Turkish former professional footballer
Denis Menchov
1978
Russian cyclist
Derrick Turnbow
1978
American baseball player (born 1978)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
1978
President of Ukraine since 2019
Michael Brown (footballer, born 1977)
1977
English footballer, manager, and pundit
Stephanie Bellars
1976
American professional wrestling valet (born 1976)
Mário Haberfeld
1976
Brazilian racing driver
Dimitris Nalitzis
1976
Greek footballer (born 1976)
Duncan Jupp
1975
Footballer (born 1975)
Mia Kirshner
1975
Canadian actress (born 1975)
Robert Budreau
1974
Canadian film director
Emily Haines
1974
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1974)
Attilio Nicodemo
1974
Italian footballer (born 1974)
Geoff Johns
1973
American comic book writer
Shinji Takehara
1972
Japanese boxer (born 1972)
Luca Badoer
1971
Italian racing driver (born 1971)
Philip Coppens (author)
1971
Belgian writer
Ana Ortiz
1971
American actress and singer (born 1971)
Stephen Chbosky
1970
American writer and director (born 1970)
Chris Mills (basketball)
1970
American basketball player (born 1970)
Milt Stegall
1970
American gridiron football player (born 1970)
Sergei Ovchinnikov (volleyball)
1969
Russian volleyball coach
Eric Orie
1968
Dutch footballer and manager (born 1968)
Nelson Asaytono
1967
Filipino basketball player
David Ginola
1967
French footballer (born 1967)
Randy McKay
1967
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1967)
Nicole Uphoff
1967
German equestrian
Chet Culver
1966
American politician (born 1966)
Yiannos Ioannou
1966
Cypriot footballer (born 1966)
Mark Schlereth
1966
American football player and sportscaster (born 1966)
Esa Tikkanen
1965
Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1965)
Stephen Pate
1964
Fernando Haddad
1963
Brazilian politician and academic (born 1963)
Molly Holzschlag
1963
American computer scientist (1963–2023)
Chris Chelios
1962
Greek-American ice hockey player (born 1962)
Vivian Balakrishnan
1961
Singaporean politician (born 1961)
Tim Dorsey
1961
American novelist (1961–2023)
Franco Pancheri
1958
Italian footballer and coach
Peter Watts (author)
1958
Canadian science fiction author (born 1958)
Eskil Erlandsson
1957
Swedish politician (born 1957)
Andy Harris (politician)
1957
American politician (born 1957)
Jenifer Lewis
1957
American actress (born 1957)
Andy Cox
1956
British guitarist
Dinah Manoff
1956
American actress
Ricardo Bochini
1954
Argentine footballer (born 1954)
Kay Cottee
1954
Australian sailor (born 1954)
Renate Dorrestein
1954
Dutch writer (1954–2018)
The Honky Tonk Man
1953
American professional wrestler (born 1953)
Peter Tatchell
1952
Australian-born British human rights campaigner (born 1952)
Timothy White (writer)
1952
American music journalist (1952–2002)
Steve Prefontaine
1951
American long-distance runner (1951–1975)
Gloria Naylor
1950
American novelist (1950–2016)
John Cooper Clarke
1949
English poet (born 1949)
Paul Nurse
1949
English geneticist and Nobel laureate (born 1949)
Ros Kelly
1948
Australian politician (born 1948)
Georgy Shishkin
1948
Russian artist
Ángel Nieto
1947
Spanish motorcycle racer (1947–2017)
Tostão
1947
Brazilian footballer
Byron Beck
1945
American basketball player (born 1945)
Leigh Taylor-Young
1945
American actress (born 1945)
Tobe Hooper
1943
American filmmaker (1943–2017)
Carl Eller
1942
American football player (born 1942)
Eusébio
1942
Portuguese footballer (1942–2014)
Buddy Baker
1941
American racing driver (1941–2015)
Shotaro Ishinomori
1938
Japanese manga artist
Etta James
1938
American blues singer (1938–2012)
Leiji Matsumoto
1938
Japanese manga artist (1938–2023)
Vladimir Vysotsky
1938
Soviet singer, songwriter, poet and actor (1938–1980)
Ange-Félix Patassé
1937
Central African politician (1937–2011)
Diana Hyland
1936
American actress (1936–1977)
Onat Kutlar
1936
Turkish writer and poet, founder (1936–1995)
Conrad Burns
1935
American politician (1935–2016)
António Ramalho Eanes
1935
President of Portugal from 1976 to 1986
Don Maynard
1935
American football player (1935–2022)
Corazon Aquino
1933
President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
Anne Innis Dagg
1933
Canadian zoologist, feminist, and author (1933–2024)
Dean Jones (actor)
1931
American actor (1931–2015)
Elizabeth Allen (actress)
1929
American actor (1929–2006)
Robert Faurisson
1929
French academic and Holocaust denier (1929–2018)
Benny Golson
1929
American jazz saxophonist and composer (1929–2024)
Jérôme Choquette
1928
Canadian lawyer and politician
Eduard Shevardnadze
1928
Georgian politician and diplomat (1928–2014)
Cor van der Hart
1928
Dutch footballer (1928–2006)
Antônio Carlos Jobim
1927
Brazilian composer and musician (1927–1994)
Dick McGuire
1926
American basketball player and coach (1926–2010)
Gordy Soltau
1925
American football player (1925–2014)
Giorgos Zampetas
1925
Musical artist
Lou Groza
1924
American football player (1924–2000)
Husein Mehmedov
1924
Bulgarian wrestler (1924–2014)
Speedy West
1924
American pedal steel guitarist (1924–2003)
Arvid Carlsson
1923
Swedish neuroscientist (1923–2018)
Shirley Ardell Mason
1923
American art teacher (1923–1998)
Sally Starr (TV hostess)
1923
American celebrity television personality (1923–2013)
Jean Taittinger
1923
French politician
Raymond Baxter
1922
English television presenter (1922–2006)
Samuel T. Cohen
1921
American physicist (1921–2010)
Josef Holeček (canoeist)
1921
Norman Newell
1919
English record producer (1919–2004)
Edwin Newman
1919
American newscaster, journalist and author
Ilya Prigogine
1917
Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
Jânio Quadros
1917
President of Brazil in 1961
Pop Ivy
1916
American football player and coach (1916–2003)
Ewan MacColl
1915
British folk singer-songwriter and activist (1915–1989)
William Strickland (conductor)
1914
American conductor
Huang Hua
1913
Chinese revolutionary, politician and diplomat (1913–2010)
Witold Lutosławski
1913
Polish composer and conductor (1913–1994)
Luis Marden
1913
American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist
Edgar V. Saks
1910
Estonian historian and author
Hsieh Tung-min
1908
Taiwanese politician (1908–2001)
Toni Ulmen
1906
German motorcycle racer and racing driver (1906–1976)
Maurice Roy
1905
20th-century Canadian Catholic cardinal
Margery Sharp
1905
English author (1905–1991)
Sava Kovačević
1905
Yugoslav Partisan commander (1905–1943)
Mildred Dunnock
1901
American actress (1901–1991)
István Fekete
1900
Hungarian writer (1900 - 1970)
Yōjirō Ishizaka
1900
Theodosius Dobzhansky
1900
Russian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900–1975)
1800s
Sleepy John Estes
1899
American blues singer-songwriter (d. 1977)
Paul-Henri Spaak
1899
Belgian politician (1899–1972)
Florence Mills
1895
American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian (1896–1927)
Aino Aalto
1894
Finnish architect and designer (1894–1949)
Wilhelm Furtwängler
1886
German conductor and composer (1886–1954)
Dean Ivan Lamb
1886
American pioneer aviator and mercenary
Hakushū Kitahara
1885
Japanese tanka poet
Virginia Woolf
1882
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Ernst Alexanderson
1878
Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor (1878–1975
W. Somerset Maugham
1874
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
Juventino Rosas
1868
Mexican composer and violinist (1868–1894)
Julije Kempf
1864
Croatian historian and writer (1864-1934)
Charles Curtis
1860
Vice President of the United States from 1929 to 1933
Kokichi Mikimoto
1858
Japanese entrepreneur (1858–1954)
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
1841
Royal Navy officer (1841–1920)
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
1824
Bengali poet and dramatist (1824–1873)
José María Iglesias
1823
President of Mexico in 1876
Charles Reed Bishop
1822
American businessman, politician, and philanthropist (1822–1915)
William McDougall (Ontario politician)
1822
Canadian Father of Confederation (1822–1905)
Anna Gardner
1816
American writer (1816–1901)
J. Marion Sims
1813
American physician and gynecologist (1813–1883)
Before 1800
William MacGillivray
1796
Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (1796–1852)
François-Vincent Raspail
1794
French chemist, naturalist, physician, physiologist, attorney and politician
William Colgate
1783
Business magnate
Robert Burns
1759
Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)
Paolo Mascagni
1755
Italian physician and anatomist (1755–1815)
Johann Gottfried Vierling
1750
German organist and composer
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
1743
German philosopher, literary figure, and socialite (1743–1819)
Charles François Dumouriez
1739
French politician and military officer (1739–1823)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
1736
Italian-French scientist (1736–1813)
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire
1640
English politician (1640–1707)
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein
1635
17th-century German writer
Gaspar Fagel
1634
Dutch politician
Robert Boyle
1627
Anglo-Irish scientist (1627–1691)
Govert Flinck
1615
Dutch painter (1615–1660)
Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
1526
16th Century Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Giovanni Morone
1509
Italian cardinal (1509–1580)
Anne of Brittany
1477
Queen of France (1491–1498; 1499��1514) and Duchess of Brittany (1488–1514)
Paul Hofhaimer
1459
Austrian organist and composer (1459–1537)
Katharina of Hanau
1408
15th-century German regent
Leo IV the Khazar
750
Byzantine emperor from 775 to 780