January 25: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is January 25th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on January 25th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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January 25th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

January 25th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian Rococo and Neoclassic painter (Apollo and Two Muses, Diana and Cupid, Lady Mary Fox and The Sacred Family), as born on January 25, 1708.

Benjamin Robert Haydon, British historical painter (Head of Selene's Horse and Portrait of William Wordsworth), was born on January 25, 1786.

American horror film director William Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Salem's Lot, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) was born on January 25, 1943.

Irish painter Daniel Maclise (The Play Scene in Hamlet and Spirit of Chivalry) was born on January 25, 1806.

Viljo Revell, Finnish Functionalist architect (Toronto City Hall), was born on January 25, 1910.

January 25th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Elzie Wylie (Buddy or Leadfoot) Baker, Jr., American racecar driver, was born on January 25, 1941.

Wallace Edward (Wally) Bunker, American professional baseball player (Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals), was born on January 25, 1945.

American professional football player Carl Eller (Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks), was born on January 25, 1942.

Eusebio da Silva Ferreira, Portuguese soccer player, was born on January 25, 1942. Eusebio has been called "The Black Pearl" and "The Black Panther."

Russian-French tennis star Tatiana Golovin was born on January 25, 1988.

American professional football player Kenneth James (Ken) Grandberry (Chicago Bears) was born on January 25, 1952.

Louis Roy (Lou) Groza, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns) and radio sportscaster (ABC Radio), was born on January 25, 1924.

American professional football player Donald (Don) Maynard (Houston Texans, New York Giants, New York Jets, New York Titans, Shreveport Steamers and St. Louis Cardinals) was born on January 25, 1935.

Richard (Dick) McGuire, American professional basketball player (Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks) and coach, was born on January 25, 1926.

American runner Steve Prefontaine was born on January 25, 1951. Steve Prefontaine's life story was the inspiration for several motion pictures, including the 1995 documentary Fire on the Track, the 1997 film Prefontaine andthe 1998 film Without Limits.

Vernon Gerald (Vern) Ruhle, American professional baseball player (California Angels, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros), was born on January 25, 1951.

Eugene Washington, American professional football player (Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots), was born on January 25, 1944.

January 25th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Robert Burns, Scottish Romantic poet ("Ae Fond Kiss," "Auld Lang Syne," "The Battle of Sherramuir," "A Man's A Man for A' That," "A Red, Red Rose," "Scots Wha Hae," "Tam O'Shanter," "To a Louse" and "To a Mouse"), was born on January 25, 1759. Robert Burns was known as "The Bard of Ayrshire" and "The Ploughman Poet."

Scottish poet and author James Hogg (The Brownie of the Black Haggs, Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Domestic Manner and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott, The Forest Minstrel, Jacobite Reliques, The Pilgrims of the Sun, Queen Hynde, Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd, Tales and Sketches of the Ettrick Shepherd, The Three Perils of Man and The Three Perils of Woman) was born on January 25, 1770.

William Somerset Maugham, British author (Cakes and Ale, The Casuarina Tree, Christmas Holiday, Liza of Lambeth, The Magician, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs. Craddock, Of Human Bondage, The Painted Veil, Points of View, The Razor's Edge and Up at the Villa), as born on January 25, 1874.

American broadcast journalist (NBC News and PBS) and author (A Civil Tongue, Comet, Strictly Speaking, Sunday Punch and Your Public Best) Edwin Newman was born on January 25, 1919.

Virginia Woolf, British author (Between the Acts, The Common Reader, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, A Haunted House, Jacob's Room, The Moment and Other Essays, Mrs. Dalloway, Night and Day, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, To the Lighthouse, The Voyage Out, The Waves and The Years), was born

January 25th Birthdays: Famous Performers

American contemporary Christian guitarist and singer Nathan Barlowe (Luna Halo, Reality Check) was born on January 25, 19--.

Mike Burch, American country music drummer and singer (River Road), was born on January 25, 1966.

Alicia Augello (Alicia Keys) Cook, American R&B singer ("Diary," "Every Little Bit Hurts," "Fallin'," "Girlfriend," "If I Ain't Got You," "Karma," "Like You'll Never See Me Again," "No One," "Superwoman," "Teenage Love Affair" "A Woman's Worth" and "You Don't Know My Name") and actress (The Nanny Diaries, The Secret Life of Bees, Sesame Street and Smokin' Aces), was born on January 25, 1981.

American jazz pianist and singer Barbara (Carroll) Carole Coppersmith (Barbara Carroll Trio) was born on January 25, 1925.

Andy Cox, British rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals), was born on January 25, 1956.

American funk-rock bassist, singer and songwriter Richard Finch (KC and the Sunshine Band) was born on January 25, 1954.

Diana (Hyland) Gentner, American actress (The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, The Chase, Eight Is Enough, The Eleventh Hour, One Man's Way, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone and Welcome Back Kotter), was born on January 25, 1936.

Elizabeth (Allen) Ellen Gillease, American model, singer, television personality (The Jackie Gleason Show) and actress (Another World, Bracken's World, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Cheyenne Autumn, Columbo, CPO Sharkey, Diamond Head, Donovan's Reef, Kojak, The Paul Lynde Show and Texas), was born on January 25, 1929.

American country music singer Claude Gray ("Family Bible," "How Fast Them Trucks Can Go" and "I'll Have Another Cup of Coffee - Then I'll Go") was born on January 25, 1932.

American jazz, blues, soul and Gospel singer Jamesetta (Etta James) Hawkins ("Almost Persuaded," "At Last," "Fools Rush in," "Piece of My Heart," "Pushover," "Seven Day Fool," "Stop the Wedding" and "A Sunday Kind of Love") was born on January 25, 1938.

American actor Dean Carroll Jones (Beethoven, Any Wednesday, Blackbeard's Ghost, Born Again, Clear and Present Danger, Designing Woman, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Imitation General, Jailhouse Rock, The Love Bug, The Million Dollar Duck, Once Upon a Brothers Grimm, The Opposite Sex, Other People's Money, The Shaggy D.A., Snowball Express, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Tea and Sympathy, That Darn Cat, Torpedo Run, Two on a Guillotine, The Ugly Dachshund, Under the Yum Yum Tree and The Visual Bible: Acts) was born

China Wing Kantner, American television personality (MTV) and actress (Airheads, The Evening Star, Home Improvement and The Stoned Age), was born on January 25, 1971. China Kantner is the daughter of singer and actress Grace Slick and guitarist Paul Kantner.

American actress (The Hottie and the Nottie, Reefer Madness, The Rose and the Jackal, Step by Step and Who's Your Daddy) and television personality (Wild 'n Out) Christine Helen Lakin was born on January 25, 1979.

American actress (Beaches, Corrina Corrina, Courthouse, Dead Presidents, A Different World, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, In Living Color, Madea's Family Reunion, Panther, Poetic Justice, The Preacher's Wife, Renaissance Man, Sister Act, Strong Medicine and What's Love Got to Do with It) and voice-over artist (Cars and Shark Tale) Jenifer Jeanette Lewis was born on January 25, 1957.

Dinah Beth Manoff, American actress (Child's Play, Empty Nest, Grease, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Leader of the Pack, Ordinary People, Soap and State of Grace), was born on January 25, 1958.

American rocker Arthur Marsh (3D FM, Adelaide) was born on January 25, 19--.

Matthew Thomas (Matt) Odmark, American Christian alternative rock and folk guitarist and singer (Jars of Clay), was born on January 25, 1974.

Ana Ortiz, American actress (King of L.A., Tortilla Heavenand Ugly Betty), was born on January 25, 1971.

American actress Leigh Taylor-Young (The Adventurers, Can't Stop the Music, Dallas, Honeymoon Academy, The Horsemen, I Love You Alice B. Toklas, Peyton Place, Picket Fences and Soylent Green) was born on January 25, 1945.

January 25th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Irish philosopher, physicist, chemist (Boyle's Law) and author (The Sceptical Chymist) Robert Boyle was born on January 25, 1627.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange, French astronomer, mathematician and author (Lecons sur le Calcul des Fonctions, Mecanique Analytique and Theorie des Fonctions Analytiques), was born on January 25, 1736.

January 25th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

Maria Corazon Aquino, Filipino President, was born on January 25, 1933.

Charles Curtis, 31^st U.S. Vice President (under 31^st U.S. President Herbert Hoover), was born on January 25, 1860.

Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor, was born on January 25, 749 A.D.

Russian Empress Anna Ivanova Romanova was born on January 25, 1693.

Georgian President Eduard Amvrosiyevich Shevardnadze was born on January 25, 1928.

Do you know any others who are celebrating birthdays on January 25th?

If you know additional notable people (including yourself) who may be celebrating a birthday on January 25th, please indicate so in a comment below. Thank you!

Happy Birthday, January 25th.

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