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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 25 is the 25th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
340 days remain until the end of the year (341 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
AD 41 – After a night of
negotiation, Claudius is
accepted as Roman Emperor by
the Senate.[1] ·
750 – In the Battle of the Zab,
the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate,
leading to overthrow of the dynasty.[2] ·
1348 – A strong earthquake strikes
the South Alpine region of Friuli in
modern Italy, causing considerable damage to
buildings as far away as Rome.[3] ·
1494 – Alfonso II becomes
King of Naples.[4] ·
1515 – Coronation of Francis I of France takes
place at Reims Cathedral,
where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the
sword of Charlemagne.[5] ·
1533 – Henry VIII of
England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.[6] ·
1554 – São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests.[7] ·
1573 – Battle of
Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.[8] ·
1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese
navigator Paulo Dias de Novais. ·
1704 – The Battle of Ayubale results
in the destruction of most of the Spanish
missions in Florida. ·
1755 – Moscow University is
established on Tatiana Day. ·
1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in
the Falkland Islands near
the southern tip of South America,
is founded. ·
1787 – Shays's Rebellion:
The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory,
results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty. ·
1791 – The British
Parliament passes the Constitutional
Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of
Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada. ·
1792 – The London
Corresponding Society is founded. ·
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is
played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria,
and Friedrich
of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional. ·
1879 – The Bulgarian
National Bank is founded. ·
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham
Bell form the Oriental
Telephone Company. ·
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. ·
1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut
performance at the Dresden State Opera. ·
1915 – Alexander Graham
Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service,
speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco. ·
1918 – The Ukrainian
People's Republic declares independence from Soviet
Russia. ·
1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens
in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games. ·
1932 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National
Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin. ·
1937 – The Guiding Light debuts
on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television,
where it remains until September 18, 2009. ·
1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic
Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. ·
1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United
States and United Kingdom. ·
1945 – World War II:
The Battle of the Bulge ends. ·
1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins
the American
Federation of Labor. ·
1946 – United
Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff
Committee is adopted. ·
1947 – Thomas Goldsmith
Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement
Device", the first ever electronic game. ·
1949 – The first Emmy Awards are presented; the venue is
the Hollywood
Athletic Club. ·
1960 – The National
Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines
for any disc jockeys who
accept money for playing particular records. ·
1961 – In Washington,
D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers
the first live presidential television news conference. ·
1961 – 101 Dalmatians premiered
from Walt Disney
Productions. ·
1964 – Blue Ribbon Sports,
which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track
and field athletes. ·
1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to
fight against the military
dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles. ·
1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the
1969 Tate–LaBianca
murders. ·
1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president. ·
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts
his first official papal visits outside
Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic,
and Mexico. ·
1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's
highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. ·
1986 – The National
Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda. ·
1993 – Five
people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Two are killed and three wounded. ·
1994 – The
spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is
launched. ·
1995 – The Norwegian
rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile. ·
1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to
be hanged in the U.S.A. ·
1998 – During a
historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands
political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US
attempts to isolate the country. ·
1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills
eight and injures 25 others. ·
1999 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits
western Colombia killing at least 1,000. ·
2003 – Invasion of Iraq:
A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq,
to serve as
human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops
from bombing certain locations. ·
2005 – A stampede at
the Mandhradevi temple
in Maharashtra, India
kills at least 258. ·
2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection
with the serial killing of
at least ten elderly women. ·
2010 – Ethiopian
Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off
the coast of Na'ameh, Lebanon, killing 90.[9] ·
2011 – The first
wave of the Egyptian
revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street
demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes,
and violent clashes. ·
2013 – At least 50
people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. ·
2015 – A clash in Mamasapano,
Maguindanao in the Philippines killing 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF),
at least 18 from the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro
Islamic Freedom Fighters. ·
2019 – A mining
company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city,
killing at least 7 people and leaving 200 missing.[10] Births[edit]
·
750 – Leo IV the Khazar,
Byzantine emperor (d. 780)[11] ·
1408 – Katharina of Hanau,
German countess regent (d. 1460) ·
1459 – Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and
composer (d. 1537)[12] ·
1477 – Anne of Brittany (probable;[13] d. 1514) ·
1509 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580) ·
1526 – Adolf,
Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1586) ·
1615 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660) ·
1618 – Nicolaes Visscher I,
Dutch engraver and cartographer (d. 1679) ·
1627 – Robert Boyle, Irish-English chemist and
physicist (d. 1691) ·
1634 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch politician and diplomat
(d. 1688) ·
1635 – Daniel
Casper von Lohenstein, German writer, diplomat and lawyer (d.
1683) ·
1640 – William
Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and
politician, Lord Steward of the
Household (d. 1707) ·
1736 – Joseph-Louis
Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1813) ·
1739 – Charles
François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French
Minister of Defence (d. 1823) ·
1743 – Friedrich
Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher and author (d. 1819) ·
1750 – Johann
Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (d. 1813) ·
1755 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and
anatomist (probable;[14] d. 1815) ·
1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter
(d. 1796) ·
1783 – William Colgate, English-American
businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (d.
1857) ·
1794 – François-Vincent
Raspail, French chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer (d.
1878) ·
1796 – William MacGillivray,
Scottish ornithologist and biologist (d. 1852) ·
1813 – J. Marion Sims, American gynecologist and
physician (d. 1883) ·
1816 – Anna Gardner, American abolitionist and
teacher (d. 1901)[15] ·
1822 – Charles Reed Bishop,
American businessman, philanthropist, and politician, founded the Bishop Museum (d. 1915) ·
1822 – William
McDougall, Canadian lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories (d.
1905) ·
1823 – José María Iglesias,
Mexican politician and interim President (1876–1877) (d. 1891)[16] ·
1824 – Michael
Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1873) ·
1841 – John
Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, English admiral (d. 1920) ·
1858 – Mikimoto
Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1954) ·
1860 – Charles Curtis, American lawyer and
politician, 31st Vice
President of the United States (d. 1936) ·
1864 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author
(d. 1934) ·
1868 – Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and
composer (d. 1894) ·
1874 – W. Somerset Maugham,
British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1965) ·
1878 – Ernst Alexanderson,
Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975) ·
1882 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist,
short story writer, and critic (d. 1941) ·
1885 – Kitahara
Hakushū, Japanese poet and author (d. 1942) ·
1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler,
German conductor and composer (d. 1954) ·
1895 – Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and
actress (d. 1927) ·
1899 – Sleepy John Estes,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977) ·
1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian lawyer and
politician, 46th Prime Minister
of Belgium (d. 1972) ·
1900 – István Fekete, Hungarian author (d. 1970) ·
1900 – Yōjirō
Ishizaka, Japanese author and educator (d. 1986) ·
1900 – Theodosius Dobzhansky,
Ukrainian geneticist and pioneer of evolutionary biology (d. 1975)[17] ·
1901 – Martín
de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver and pilot (d. 1982) ·
1901 – Mildred Dunnock, American actress (d. 1991) ·
1905 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (d. 1985) ·
1905 – Margery Sharp, English author and educator
(d. 1991) ·
1906 – Toni Ulmen, German race car driver and
motorcycle racer (d. 1976) ·
1908 – Hsieh Tung-min, Taiwanese politicians
and Vice
President of the Republic of China (d. 2001) ·
1910 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian, author,
and politician, Estonian
Minister of Education (d. 1984) ·
1913 – Huang Hua,
Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d.
2010) ·
1913 – Witold
Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1994) ·
1913 – Luis Marden, American photographer and
journalist (d. 2003) ·
1914 – William
Strickland, American conductor and organist (d. 1991) ·
1915 – Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter,
actor and producer (d. 1989) ·
1916 – Pop Ivy, American football player and coach
(d. 2003) ·
1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2003) ·
1917 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian lawyer and
politician, 22nd President of Brazil (d.
1992) ·
1919 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and author
(d. 2010) ·
1921 – Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and
academic (d. 2010) ·
1921 – Josef
Holeček, Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2005)[18] ·
1922 – Raymond Baxter, English television host and
pilot (d. 2006) ·
1923 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist and
physician, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2018) ·
1923 – Shirley Ardell Mason,
American psychiatric patient
(d. 1998) ·
1923 – Sally Starr,
American actress and television host (d. 2013) ·
1923 – Jean Taittinger, French politician, French
Minister of Justice (d. 2012) ·
1924 – Lou Groza, American football player and
coach (d. 2000) ·
1924 – Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish wrestler
and coach (d. 2014) ·
1924 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer
(d. 2003) ·
1925 – Gordy Soltau, American football player and
sportscaster (d. 2014) ·
1925 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and songwriter (d.
1992) ·
1926 – Dick McGuire, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2010)[19] ·
1927 – Antônio Carlos Jobim,
Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1994) ·
1928 – Jérôme Choquette,
Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2017) ·
1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze,
Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d.
2014) ·
1928 – Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer and
manager (d. 2006) ·
1929 – Elizabeth Allen,
American actress and singer (d. 2006) ·
1929 – Robert Faurisson, English-French author and
academic (d. 2018) ·
1929 – Benny Golson, American saxophonist and
composer ·
1930 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian child diarist (d.
1944) ·
1931 – Dean Jones,
American actor and singer (d. 2015) ·
1933 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician,
11th President of
the Philippines (d. 2009) ·
1935 – Conrad Burns, American soldier, journalist,
and politician (d. 2016) ·
1935 – António Ramalho
Eanes, Portuguese general and politician, 16th President of
Portugal[20] ·
1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977) ·
1936 – Onat Kutlar, Turkish author and poet (d.
1995) ·
1937 – Ange-Félix Patassé,
Central African engineer and politician, President
of the Central African Republic (d. 2011) ·
1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori,
Japanese author and illustrator (d. 1998) ·
1938 – Etta James, American singer (d. 2012) ·
1938 – Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese author,
illustrator, and animator ·
1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky,
Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1980) ·
1941 – Buddy Baker, American race car driver and
sportscaster (d. 2015) ·
1942 – Carl Eller, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1942 – Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer
(d. 2014) ·
1943 – Tobe Hooper, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2017) ·
1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young,
American actress ·
1945 – Dave Walker, English singer and guitarist ·
1946 – Doc Bundy, American race car driver and
technician ·
1947 – Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer (d.
2017) ·
1947 – Tostão, Brazilian footballer, journalist,
and physician ·
1948 – Ros Kelly, Australian educator and
politician, 1st Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel ·
1948 – Georgy Shishkin, Russian painter and
illustrator ·
1949 – John Cooper Clarke,
English poet and critic ·
1949 – Paul Nurse, English geneticist and
biologist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1950 – Gloria Naylor, American novelist (d. 2016) ·
1951 – Steve Prefontaine,
American runner (d. 1975) ·
1952 – Peter Tatchell, Australian-English
journalist and activist ·
1952 – Timothy White,
American journalist, author, and critic (d. 2002) ·
1954 – Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer and
manager ·
1954 – Kay Cottee, Australian sailor ·
1954 – Renate Dorrestein,
Dutch journalist and author (d. 2018) ·
1956 – Andy Cox, English guitarist ·
1956 – Dinah Manoff, American actress ·
1957 – Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish technologist and
politician, Swedish
Minister for Rural Affairs ·
1957 – Andrew Harris,
American politician ·
1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress and singer ·
1958 – Franco Pancheri, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan,
Singaporean ophthalmologist and politician, Singaporean
Ministry of National Development ·
1962 – Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
and manager ·
1963 – Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and
politician, 61st Mayor of São
Paulo ·
1963 – Molly Holzschlag, American computer
scientist and author ·
1964 – Billy Andrade, American golfer ·
1964 – Stephen Pate, Australian cyclist ·
1965 – Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player and
coach ·
1966 – Chet Culver, American educator and
politician, 41st Governor of Iowa ·
1966 – Yiannos Ioannou, Cypriot footballer and
manager ·
1967 – Nelson Asaytono, Filipino basketball player ·
1967 – David Ginola, French footballer, forward ·
1967 – Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1968 – Eric Orie, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1969 – Sergei
Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2012) ·
1970 – Stephen Chbosky, American author,
screenwriter, and director ·
1970 – Chris Mills,
American basketball player ·
1970 – Milt Stegall, American football player and
sportscaster[21] ·
1971 – Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver ·
1971 – Philip Coppens,
Belgian journalist and author (d. 2012) ·
1971 – Ana Ortiz, American actress ·
1972 – Shinji Takehara, Japanese boxer ·
1973 – Geoff Johns, American author, screenwriter,
and producer ·
1974 – Robert Budreau, Canadian director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1974 – Emily Haines, Canadian singer-songwriter and
keyboard player ·
1974 – Attilio Nicodemo, Italian footballer ·
1975 – Duncan Jupp, Anglo-Scottish footballer,
defender[22] ·
1975 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress ·
1976 – Stephanie Bellars,
American wrestler and manager ·
1976 – Mário Haberfeld,
Brazilian race car driver ·
1976 – Dimitris Nalitzis,
Greek footballer ·
1977 – Michael
Brown, English footballer, midfielder, manager and pundit[23] ·
1978 – Ahmet Dursun, Turkish footballer ·
1978 – Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist ·
1978 – Derrick Turnbow, American baseball player ·
1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver ·
1980 – Alayna Burns, Australian track cyclist[24] ·
1980 – Xavi,
Spanish footballer ·
1981 – Francis Jeffers, English footballer ·
1981 – Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, and actress ·
1981 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (d. 2007) ·
1984 – Stefan Kießling,
German footballer ·
1984 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer ·
1984 – Fara Williams, English footballer[25] ·
1985 – Brent Celek, American football player[26] ·
1985 – Patrick Willis, American football player ·
1985 – Hwang Jung-eum, South Korean actress ·
1986 – Chris O'Grady, English footballer ·
1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player[27] ·
1988 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player[28] ·
1988 – Ryota Ozawa, Japanese actor ·
1990 – Apostolos Giannou,
Greek-Australian footballer ·
1990 – Lee Jun-ho,
South Korean singer and actor (2PM) ·
1991 – Nigel Melker, Dutch race car driver Deaths[edit]
·
390 – Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch
of Constantinople (b. 329) ·
477 – Gaiseric, king of the Vandals (b. 389) ·
750 – Ibrahim ibn al-Walid,
Umayyad caliph ·
844 – Pope Gregory IV (b. 795) ·
863 – Charles of Provence,
Frankish king (b. 845) ·
951 – Ma Xiguang, ruler of Chu (Ten Kingdoms) ·
1003 – Lothair
I, Margrave of the Nordmark ·
1067 – Emperor Yingzong
of Song (b. 1032) ·
1138 – Antipope Anacletus
II ·
1139 – Godfrey I,
Count of Louvain and Duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VI) ·
1366 – Henry Suso, German priest and mystic (b.
1300) ·
1413 – Maud
de Ufford, Countess of Oxford (b. 1345) ·
1431 – Charles II,
Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364) ·
1492 – Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and rebel
(b. 1443) ·
1494 – Ferdinand I of
Naples (b. 1423) ·
1559 – Christian II of
Denmark (b. 1481) ·
1578 – Mihrimah
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1522) ·
1586 – Lucas Cranach
the Younger, German painter (b. 1515) ·
1640 – Robert Burton,
English physician and scholar (b. 1577) ·
1670 – Nicholas
Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612) ·
1726 – Guillaume Delisle,
French cartographer (b. 1675) ·
1733 – Sir
Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, English banker and
politician, Lord Mayor of London (b.
1652) ·
1751 – Paul Dudley,
American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1675) ·
1852 – Fabian
Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and
explorer (b. 1778) ·
1872 – Richard S. Ewell, American general (b. 1817) ·
1881 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed
the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral
of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794) ·
1884 – Périclès Pantazis,
Greek-Belgian painter (b. 1849) ·
1891 – Theo van Gogh,
Art dealer, the brother of Vincent van Gogh (b. 1857) ·
1900 – Princess
Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of
Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835)[29] ·
1907 – René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879) ·
1908 – Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839) ·
1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and
theoretician (b. 1850) ·
1910 – W. G. Read Mullan,
American Jesuit and academic (1860) ·
1912 – Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal and
politician (b. 1816) ·
1925 – Juan Vucetich, Croatian-Argentinian
anthropologist and police officer (b. 1858) ·
1939 – Charles Davidson
Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (b. 1870) ·
1947 – Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss
(b. 1899) ·
1949 – Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician,
15th Japanese
Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861) ·
1957 – Ichizō
Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded Hankyu Hanshin
Holdings (b. 1873) ·
1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist
(b. 1871) ·
1958 – Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish surgeon and
politician, Mayor of
Istanbul (b. 1866) ·
1958 – Robert R. Young, American businessman and
financier (b. 1897) ·
1960 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921) ·
1966 – Saul Adler, Belarusian-English
microbiologist and parasitologist (b. 1895) ·
1968 – Louie Myfanwy Thomas,
Welsh writer (b. 1908) ·
1970 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (b. 1877) ·
1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese director and
producer (b. 1901) ·
1971 – Barry III, Guinean lawyer and politician (b.
1923) ·
1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892) ·
1975 – Charlotte Whitton,
Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896) ·
1978 – Skender
Kulenović, Bosnian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1910) ·
1981 – Adele Astaire, American actress, singer, and
dancer (b. 1896) ·
1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Russian economist and
politician (b. 1902) ·
1985 – Ilias Iliou, Greek jurist and politician (b.
1904) ·
1987 – Frank J. Lynch, American lawyer, judge, and
politician (b. 1922) ·
1988 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1899) ·
1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922) ·
1991 – Frank Soo, English footballer and manager
(b. 1914) ·
1992 – Mir Khalil ur Rehman,
Founder and editor of the Jang Group of Newspapers (b. 1927) ·
1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene,
American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1909) ·
1996 – Jonathan Larson, American playwright and
composer (b. 1960)[30] ·
1997 – Dan Barry,
American author and illustrator (b. 1923) ·
1999 – Sarah Louise Delany,
American author and educator (b. 1889) ·
1999 – Robert Shaw,
American conductor (b. 1916) ·
2001 – Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and
logician (b. 1906) ·
2002 – Cliff Baxter, employee at Enron (b. 1958) ·
2003 – Sheldon
Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923) ·
2003 – Samuel Weems, American lawyer and author (b.
1936) ·
2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen,
Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918) ·
2004 – Miklós Fehér,
Hungarian footballer (b. 1979) ·
2005 – Stanisław
Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923) ·
2005 – William Augustus
Bootle, American lawyer and judge (b. 1902) ·
2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed
the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (b.
1906) ·
2005 – Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean author and poet
(b. 1907) ·
2005 – Netti
Witziers-Timmer, Dutch runner (b. 1923) ·
2009 – Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (b.
1932) ·
2009 – Ewald Kooiman, Dutch organist and educator
(b. 1938) ·
2009 – Kim Manners, American director and producer
(b. 1951) ·
2010 – Ali Hassan al-Majid,
Iraqi general and politician, Iraqi Minister
of Defence (b. 1941) ·
2011 – Vassilis C.
Constantakopoulos Greek captain and businessman (b. 1935) ·
2011 – Vincent Cronin, Welsh historian and author
(b. 1924) ·
2012 – Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and
conductor (b. 1929) ·
2012 – Jacques Maisonrouge,
French businessman (b. 1924) ·
2012 – Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and
academic (b. 1939) ·
2012 – Robert Sheran, American lawyer, judge, and
politician (b. 1916) ·
2013 – Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 25th Lieutenant
Governor of Quebec (b. 1924) ·
2013 – Kevin
Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1929) ·
2013 – Aase Nordmo Løvberg,
Norwegian soprano and actress (b. 1923) ·
2014 – Arthur Doyle, American singer-songwriter,
saxophonist, and flute player (b. 1944) ·
2014 – Heini Halberstam, Czech-English
mathematician and academic (b. 1926) ·
2014 – Dave Strack, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1923) ·
2015 – John Leggett, American author and academic
(b. 1917) ·
2015 – Richard McBrien, American priest,
theologian, and academic (b. 1936) ·
2015 – Bill Monbouquette,
American baseball player and coach (b. 1936) ·
2015 – Demis Roussos, Egyptian-Greek singer (b.
1946) ·
2017 – Stephen
P. Cohen, Canadian academic (b. 1945) ·
2017 – Robert
Garcia, American politician (b. 1933) ·
2017 – John Hurt, English actor (b. 1940)[31] ·
2017 – Harry Mathews, American novelist and poet
(b. 1930) ·
2017 – Marcel Prud'homme,
Canadian politician (b. 1934) ·
2017 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, dancer,
and producer (b. 1936) ·
2018 – Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist,
philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat (b. 1916) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Burns Night (Scotland and Scottish community) ·
Christian feast day: o Feast
of the Conversion of Saint Paul (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, which concludes
the Week
of Prayer for Christian Unity) o Gregory the
Theologian (Eastern
(Byzantine) Catholic Church) o The
last day of the Week
of Prayer for Christian Unity (Christian ecumenism) o January
25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which the first day
of Carnival of Cádiz can
fall, while February 28 is the latest; celebrated two Sundays before Ash
Wednesday until Ash Wednesday (Cádiz) ·
Earliest day on which the Liberation of
Auschwitz Memorial can fall, while January 31 is the latest;
observed on the last Sunday in January (Netherlands) ·
National
Nutrition Day (Indonesia) ·
National Voters' Day (India) ·
Tatiana Day or Russian Students Day (Russia, Eastern Orthodox) |
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