Deaths on 25 January
2000s
Gloria Romero
2025
Filipino actress and model (1933–2025)
Sanath Nishantha
2024
Sri Lankan politician (1975–2024)
Neagu Djuvara
2018
Romanian historian (1916–2018)
Stephen P. Cohen (Middle East scholar)
2017
American academic
Robert Garcia (New York politician)
2017
American politician (1933-2017)
John Hurt
2017
English actor (1940–2017)
Harry Mathews
2017
American author
Marcel Prud'homme
2017
Canadian politician
Mary Tyler Moore
2017
American actress and television producer (1936–2017)
John Leggett
2015
American writer
Richard McBrien
2015
American Catholic priest (1936–2015)
Bill Monbouquette
2015
American baseball player (1936–2015)
Demis Roussos
2015
Greek musician (1946–2015)
Arthur Doyle
2014
American musician
Heini Halberstam
2014
British mathematician
Dave Strack
2014
American college sports coach and administrator (1923–2014)
Morrie Turner
2014
American cartoonist
Martial Asselin
2013
Canadian politician
Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer)
2013
Irish Gaelic footballer and manager (1929–2013
Aase Nordmo Løvberg
2013
Musical artist
Paavo Berglund
2012
Finnish conductor and violinist
Jacques Maisonrouge
2012
Franco Pacini
2012
Italian astrophysicist
Robert Sheran
2012
American judge
Vassilis Constantakopoulos
2011
Greek entrepreneur (1935–2011)
Vincent Cronin
2011
British writer, editor and historian (1924-2011)
Ali Hassan al-Majid
2010
Iraqi military officer and politician (1941–2010)
Eleanor F. Helin
2009
American astronomer (1932–2009)
Ewald Kooiman
2009
Dutch organist
Kim Manners
2009
American television producer, director, and actor
Stanisław Albinowski
2005
Polish economist, columnist, and journalist (born 1923)
William Augustus Bootle
2005
American judge (1902–2005)
Philip Johnson
2005
American architect (1906–2005)
Manuel Lopes (writer)
2005
Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist (1907- 2005)
Netti Witziers-Timmer
2005
Dutch sprinter
Fanny Blankers-Koen
2004
Dutch athlete (1918–2004)
Miklós Fehér
2004
Hungarian footballer (1979–2004)
Sheldon Reynolds (producer)
2003
American television producer (1923–2003)
Samuel Weems
2003
American lawyer and convicted felon (1936–2003)
J. Clifford Baxter
2002
Enron Corporation executive (1958–2002)
Alice Ambrose
2001
American philosopher, logician, and author (1906–2001)
1900s
Sarah Louise Delany
1999
African-American educator and civil rights activist
Robert Shaw (conductor)
1999
American conductor
Dan Barry (cartoonist)
1997
American cartoonist (1923–1997)
Jonathan Larson
1996
American composer, lyricist and playwright (1960–1996)
Stephen Cole Kleene
1994
American mathematician (1909–1994)
Mir Khalil-ur-Rehman
1992
Pakistani newspaper founder
Frank Soo
1991
English footballer
Ava Gardner
1990
American actress (1922–1990)
Colleen Moore
1988
American actress (1899–1988)
Frank J. Lynch
1987
American politician
Ilias Iliou
1985
Greek lawyer and politician
Mikhail Suslov
1982
Soviet statesman (1902–1982)
Adele Astaire
1981
American dancer and entertainer (1896–1981)
Skender Kulenović
1978
Bosnian writer (1910-1978
Charlotte Whitton
1975
Canadian politician (1896–1975)
Erhard Milch
1972
German general (1892–1972)
Barry III
1971
Guinean politician (1923–1971)
Jane Bathori
1970
French mezzo-soprano (1877–1970)
Eiji Tsuburaya
1970
Japanese special effects director (1901–1970)
Louie Myfanwy Thomas
1968
Welsh writer
Yvor Winters
1968
American poet (1900–1968)
Saul Adler
1966
Israeli microbiologist
Diana Barrymore
1960
American actress (1921–1960)
Cemil Topuzlu
1958
Turkish social democratic politician and a leading surgeon
Robert R. Young
1958
American financier and industrialist
Ichizō Kobayashi
1957
Japanese industrialist (1873–1957)
Kiyoshi Shiga
1957
Japanese physician (1871–1957)
Makino Nobuaki
1949
Japanese politician (1861–1949)
Al Capone
1947
American gangster and businessman (1899–1947)
Charles Davidson Dunbar
1939
British military musician
Juan Vucetich
1925
Argentine-Croatian police official
Frank Avery Hutchins
1914
American educator, librarian and co-founder of the Wisconsin Library Association
Dmitry Milyutin
1912
Russian general and noble (1816–1912)
W. G. Read Mullan
1910
American Jesuit and academic
Ouida
1908
English novelist (1839–1908)
Mikhail Chigorin
1908
Russian chess player (1850–1908)
René Pottier
1907
French cyclist
Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
1900
Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein from 1869 to 1880
1800s
Theo van Gogh (art dealer)
1891
Dutch art dealer (1857–1891)
Périclès Pantazis
1884
Greek painter
Konstantin Thon
1881
Russian architect (1794–1881)
Richard S. Ewell
1872
United States Army officer and Confederate general (1817-1872)
John Doubleday (restorer)
1856
British antiquities restorer (c. 1789 – 1856)
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
1852
Russian Navy officer, cartographer, and explorer (1778–1852)
Before 1800
Paul Dudley (jurist)
1751
American lawyer
Edmond Halley
1742
English astronomer (1656–1742)
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet
1733
British merchant and politician
Guillaume Delisle
1726
French cartographer (1675–1726)
Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine
1670
Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1634
Robert Burton
1640
English scholar and author (1577–1640)
Lucas Cranach the Younger
1586
German Renaissance artist (1515–1586)
Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Suleiman I)
1578
Ottoman princess (1522–1578)
Christian II of Denmark
1559
King of Denmark and Norway from 1513 to 1523
Ferdinand I of Naples
1494
King of Naples from 1458 to 1494
Ygo Gales Galama
1492
Charles II, Duke of Lorraine
1431
Duke of Lorraine from 1390 to 1431
Maud de Ufford
1413
Henry Suso
1366
German Dominican friar and writer (1295–1366)
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain
1139
Count of Louvain (c. 1060–1139)
Antipope Anacletus II
1138
Antipope from 1130 to 1138
Emperor Yingzong of Song
1067
Emperor of China from 1063 to 1067
Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark
1003
Ma Xiguang
951
Prince of Chu from 947 to 951
Charles of Provence
863
Ruler of Provence and Lower Burgundy from 855 to 863
Pope Gregory IV
844
Head of the Catholic Church from 827 to 844
Ibrahim ibn al-Walid
750
13th and penultimate Umayyad caliph in 744
Gaiseric
477
King of the Vandals and Alans (r. 428–477)
Gregory of Nazianzus
390
Archbishop of Constantinople from 379 to 381