Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson |
Inventor |
25-Jan-1878 |
14-May-1975 |
Developed radio and television at GE and RCA |
Elizabeth Allen |
Actor |
25-Jan-1929 |
19-Sep-2006 |
The Jackie Gleason Show |
Robert E. Allen |
Business |
25-Jan-1935 |
|
CEO of AT&T, 1988-97 |
Corazon Aquino |
Head of State |
25-Jan-1933 |
1-Aug-2009 |
President of the Philippines, 1986-92 |
Olivier Assayas |
Film Director |
25-Jan-1955 |
|
Clean |
Michael J. Birck |
Business |
25-Jan-1938 |
|
CEO of Tellabs, 1975-2004 |
James R. Birle |
Business |
25-Jan-1936 |
|
Former Partner, Blackstone Group |
Homer T. Bone |
Politician |
25-Jan-1883 |
11-Mar-1970 |
US Senator from Washington, 1933-44 |
Robert Boyle |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1627 |
30-Dec-1691 |
Pioneer of modern chemistry |
William C. Bullitt |
Diplomat |
25-Jan-1891 |
15-Feb-1967 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1933-36 |
Conrad Burns |
Politician |
25-Jan-1935 |
|
US Senator from Montana, 1989-2007 |
Robert Burns |
Poet |
25-Jan-1759 |
21-Jul-1796 |
Most beloved Scottish poet |
Arvid Carlsson |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1923 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
Chris Chelios |
Hockey |
25-Jan-1962 |
|
Detroit Red Wings |
Samuel T. Cohen |
Physicist |
25-Jan-1921 |
28-Nov-2010 |
Neutron bomb |
William Colgate |
Business |
25-Jan-1783 |
25-Jan-1857 |
Toothpaste empirebuilder |
Chet Culver |
Politician |
25-Jan-1966 |
|
Governor of Iowa, 2007-11 |
Charles Curtis |
Politician |
25-Jan-1860 |
8-Feb-1936 |
US Vice President, 1929-33 |
Harry L. Davis |
Politician |
25-Jan-1878 |
21-May-1950 |
Governor of Ohio, 1921-23 |
T. G. Dobzhansky |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1900 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Genetics and the Origin of Species |
King Donovan |
Actor |
25-Jan-1918 |
30-Jun-1987 |
Character actor husband of Imogene Coca |
Charles-François Dumouriez |
Military |
25-Jan-1739 |
14-Mar-1823 |
French general, intriguer |
Mildred Dunnock |
Actor |
25-Jan-1901 |
5-Jul-1991 |
Death of a Salesman |
António Ramalho Eanes |
Head of State |
25-Jan-1935 |
|
President of Portugal, 1976-86 |
Robert Faurisson |
Scholar |
25-Jan-1929 |
|
French Holocaust denier |
Wilhelm Furtwängler |
Conductor |
25-Jan-1886 |
30-Nov-1954 |
Pre-War German conductor |
Kim Gandy |
Activist |
25-Jan-1954 |
|
President of NOW |
Luis Alfredo Garavito |
Criminal |
25-Jan-1957 |
|
Colombian serial killer, murdered 140+ boys |
David Grossman |
Author |
25-Jan-1954 |
|
The Smile of the Lamb |
Lou Groza |
Football |
25-Jan-1924 |
29-Nov-2000 |
With Cleveland Browns for 21 years |
Ralph F. Hake |
Business |
25-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Maytag, 2001-06 |
Richard Hanna |
Politician |
25-Jan-1951 |
|
Congressman, New York 24th |
Ernie Harwell |
Sports Journalist |
25-Jan-1918 |
4-May-2010 |
Voice of the Detroit Tigers |
Tobe Hooper |
Film Director |
25-Jan-1943 |
|
Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
Diana Hyland |
Actor |
25-Jan-1936 |
27-Mar-1977 |
Susan Winter on Peyton Place |
Toru Iwatani |
Business |
25-Jan-1955 |
|
Created Pacman |
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi |
Philosopher |
25-Jan-1743 |
18-Mar-1819 |
German Spinozist |
Etta James |
Singer |
25-Jan-1938 |
20-Jan-2012 |
Soul Diva |
Antonio Carlos Jobim |
Musician |
25-Jan-1927 |
8-Dec-1994 |
The Girl from Ipanema |
Joi |
Singer |
25-Jan-1972 |
|
Crunk/R&B vocalist |
Dean Jones |
Actor |
25-Jan-1931 |
|
That Darn Cat! |
Alicia Keys |
Singer |
25-Jan-1981 |
|
Fallin' |
Mia Kirshner |
Actor |
25-Jan-1975 |
|
The L Word |
Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr. |
Judge |
25-Jan-1940 |
|
Justice, Virginia Supreme Court |
Joseph-Louis Lagrange |
Mathematician |
25-Jan-1736 |
10-Apr-1813 |
Mécanique Analytique |
Christine Lakin |
Actor |
25-Jan-1979 |
|
Alicia Lambert on Step by Step |
John Leslie |
Pornstar |
25-Jan-1945 |
5-Dec-2010 |
Talk Dirty To Me |
Jenifer Lewis |
Actor |
25-Jan-1957 |
|
The Preacher's Wife |
Emil Ludwig |
Author |
25-Jan-1881 |
17-Sep-1948 |
German biographer |
Witold Lutoslawski |
Composer |
25-Jan-1913 |
7-Feb-1994 |
Aleatoric composer |
Dinah Manoff |
Actor |
25-Jan-1958 |
|
Ordinary People |
W. Somerset Maugham |
Novelist |
25-Jan-1874 |
16-Dec-1965 |
Of Human Bondage |
Don Maynard |
Football |
25-Jan-1935 |
|
NFL Hall of Famer |
Florence Mills |
Singer |
25-Jan-1896 |
1-Nov-1927 |
Jazz singer, Queen of Happiness |
Garrett Morris |
Comic |
25-Jan-1937 |
|
Saturday Night Live |
Gloria Naylor |
Novelist |
25-Jan-1950 |
|
The Women of Brewster Place |
Edwin Newman |
Journalist |
25-Jan-1919 |
13-Aug-2010 |
Journalist and commentator for NBC News |
Paul Nurse |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1949 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
Ana Ortiz |
Actor |
25-Jan-1971 |
|
Hilda Suarez on Ugly Betty |
Gregg Palmer |
Actor |
25-Jan-1927 |
|
The Rebel Set |
Bill Pascrell |
Politician |
25-Jan-1937 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 8th |
Steve Prefontaine |
Track and Field |
25-Jan-1951 |
30-May-1975 |
Long distance runner |
Ilya Prigogine |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1917 |
28-May-2003 |
Theory of dissipative structures |
Tose Proeski |
Singer |
25-Jan-1981 |
16-Oct-2007 |
Macedonian pop star |
Alfred Reed |
Composer |
25-Jan-1921 |
17-Sep-2005 |
Russian Christmas Music |
Marjorie Scardino |
Business |
25-Jan-1947 |
|
CEO of Pearson |
Dan Schaefer |
Politician |
25-Jan-1936 |
16-Apr-2006 |
Congressman from Colorado, 1983-99 |
Paul Shanley |
Religion |
25-Jan-1931 |
|
Molesting priest |
Eduard Shevardnadze |
Head of State |
25-Jan-1928 |
|
President of Georgia, 1995-2003 |
Thomas P. Shoesmith |
Diplomat |
25-Jan-1922 |
26-Apr-2007 |
US Ambassador to Malaysia, 1983-87 |
Gregory Sierra |
Actor |
25-Jan-1941 |
|
Det. Sgt. Chano on Barney Miller |
Eusebio Ferreira da Silva |
Soccer |
25-Jan-1942 |
|
Top euro soccer scorer 1968 and 1973 |
J. Marion Sims |
Doctor |
25-Jan-1813 |
13-Nov-1883 |
Father of gynecology |
Paul-Henri Spaak |
Head of State |
25-Jan-1899 |
31-Jul-1972 |
Belgian Prime Minister, NATO chief |
Whit Stillman |
Film Director |
25-Jan-1952 |
|
The Last Days of Disco |
Leigh Taylor-Young |
Actor |
25-Jan-1945 |
|
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! |
Harold Watkinson |
Politician |
25-Jan-1910 |
19-Dec-1995 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1959-62 |
John L. Weinberg |
Business |
25-Jan-1925 |
7-Aug-2006 |
Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1976-90 |
Sherwin T. Wine |
Religion |
25-Jan-1928 |
21-Jul-2007 |
Humanistic Judaism |
Virginia Woolf |
Novelist |
25-Jan-1882 |
28-Mar-1941 |
Suicidal English novelist |