January 25
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Births
- 1746 - Madame de Genlis, French writer and educator (Diners du Baron d'Holbach) (d. 1830)
- 1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
- 1874 - W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
- 1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
- 1936 - Steve Reich, American composer
- 1938 - Etta James, American singer
- 1943 - Tobe Hooper, American film director
- 1944 - Bernard Tschumi, Swiss architect, writer, and educator
- 1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
- 1951 - Jack Vettriano (born 25 January 1951 Fife) is a Scottish painter.
- 1962 - Keith Farley, American DJ and record producer
Deaths
- 1586 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
- 1640 - Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
- 1791 - George Selwyn, British politician, the archetypical British sadist (b. 1719)
- 1831 - Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann, German writer (Nightwatches) (b. 1777)
- 1861 - Charles Philipon, French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist (b. 1800)
- 1891 - Theo van Gogh (art dealer), Dutch art dealer, younger brother of Vincent van Gogh (b. 1857)
- 1947 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
- 1990 - Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
Notes
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