Born on January 25
January 25 birthdays & history
If you were born on January 25, you share a birthday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Virginia Woolf and Robert Burns. January 25 babies are Aquarius, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 25 is the 25th day of the year in leap years.
Famous people born on January 25
- 1978Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian actor, comedian, and politician, 6th President of Ukraine
- 1882Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic
- 1759Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter
- 1938Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet
- 1627Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist
- 1874W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer
- 1736Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer
- 1981Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
- 1980Xavi, Spanish footballer
- 1942Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer
What happened on January 25
- 1515Francis I, a great-great-grandson of Charles V, was crowned king of France in the Reims Cathedral.
- 1533Anne Boleyn (depicted), already pregnant with the future Elizabeth I, secretly married Henry VIII of England in the second of his six marriages.
- 1765Port Egmont, the first British colony in the Falkland Islands, was founded.
- 1792Thomas Hardy founded the London Corresponding Society to seek a "radical reform of parliament", later influencing the reform movements of early-19th-century England.
- 1819University of Virginia chartered by Commonwealth of Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders.
- 1858The 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.
- 1879The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- 1881Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- 1890American journalist Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the globe by land and sea in a then-record-breaking 72 days.
- 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.
Also observed on January 25
- Betico Day (Aruba)
- Burns Night (Scotland)
- National Nutrition Day (Indonesia)
- National Police Day (Egypt)
- National Voters' Day (India)
- Revolution Day 2011 (Egypt)
Questions, answered
What star sign is January 25?
People born on January 25 are Aquarius. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.
Which famous people were born on January 25?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (1978), Virginia Woolf (1882), Robert Burns (1759), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Robert Boyle (1627), W. Somerset Maugham (1874) were all born on January 25.
What happened on January 25 in history?
Among other things: in 2004, Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum; in 2006, Three 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; in 2010, Avatar, a science-fiction film directed by James Cameron, became the highest-grossing film of all time.
Can I get a newspaper front page from January 25?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 25 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “January 25”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.