Birthdates Which Occur on January 25:
749 Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (775-80)
1037 Su Tung-p'o [J Sotoba], China, layman/poet/administrator [or Dec 19]
1477 Anna de Bretagne wife of Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII
1509 Giovanni Morone Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic"
1540 Edmund Campion London, saint/Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes)
1615 Govert Flinck Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob)
1626 John van de Cappelle Amsterdam, landscape painter
1627 Robert Boyle Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)
1634 Gaspar Fagel lawyer/pension advisor of Holland (1672-88)
1693 Anna Ivanova Romanova daughter of Ivan V/empress of Russia (1730-40)
1708 Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Italian painter
1728 Antoine Court de G‚belin French vicar/writer
1736 Joseph-Louis comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician
1750 Johann Gottfried Vierling composer
1759 Robert Burns Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne)
1766 Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern German advisor to Dutch king Willem I
1770 Francis Burdett British politician
1777 Elias Canneman Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14)
1796 William McGillivray Old Aberdeen, naturalist
1806 Daniel Maclise painter
1814 Francis Harrison Pierpont governor (Union), died in 1899
1826 Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure Dutch 1st Chamber member
1834 Pablo Hernandez Salces composer
1839 Seldon Connor Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
1841 John Arbuthnot Fisher Ceylon, 1st Baron Fisher/admiral of the fleet
1844 Frederick E Kitziger composer
1851 Jan Blockx Belgium, opera composer (Pub princess of Herberg)
1858 Giuseppi Radiciotti composer
1860 Charles Curtis (R) 31st US VP (1929-33)
1866 Emile Vandervelde leader of Belgian BWP party
1874 Hewlett Johnson [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop
and [William] Somerset Maugham Paris, novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage)
1880 Francis George Scott composer
1881 Gustave Frederic Soderlund composer
1882 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf London, author (Jacob's Room, To Lighthouse)
1884 Edward Kilenyi composer
1885 A J Else Mauhs German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon)
1886 Wilhelm Frtw„ngler Berlin Germany, conductor/composer
1887 Diego Valeri Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze)
1889 Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov composer
1891 Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies Britian, actress (Cleopatra)
and William C Bullitt 1st US ambassador to USSR
1896 John Moores British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire
1898 Joachim Wach German/US philosopher/sociologist (Understanding)
1899 Ace Goodman KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces)
19-- John Leslie Bkln Ny, XXX actor (Anna Obsessed, Babylon Gold)
and Ron Hightower XXX actor (Ebony Erotica, Dark Alleys, Danger Ass)
1900 Mildred Dunnock Balt, actress (Baby Doll, Nun's Story)
and Theodosius Dobzhansky Ukraine, genetist/writer (Mankind Evolving)
1902 Gerard P M Knuvelder Dutch literature historian (Vocation, Kitty)
1903 "Sleepy" John Estes rocker
1904 Frans Goedhart Dutch journalist/founder (Het Parool)
and G‚za Frid Hungarian/Dutch composer/pianist
1908 Lord Iliffe English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar)
1910 Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck composer
1911 Julia Frances Smith composer
1913 Witold Lutoslawski Warsaw Poland, composer (Jeux V‚nitiens)
1918 Ken Mayers actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol)
1919 Edwin Newman NYC, newscaster/journalist/author (NBC-TV, Comment)
1921 Alfred Reed composer
1922 Jules P de Palm Antilles writer
and Raymond Baxter British TV host/author
1924 Lou "The Toe" Groza AAFC, NFL tackle, kicker (Cleve Browns)
1927 Gregg Palmer SF, actor (Scream, To Hell & Back)
and Seung Sahn zen teacher (Korean line)
1928 Eduard Shevardnadze Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of USSR (-91)
1931 Dean Jones Decatur Ala, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug)
and Harold Lloyd Jr son of comedian Harold Lloyd
and Paavo J Haavikko finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio
1933 Coraz¢n Aquino president of Philippines (1986-92)
1934 Elizabeth Allen Jersey City NJ, actress (Laura-Bracken's World)
1936 Dan Schaefer (Rep-R-CO, 1983- )
and Diana Hyland Cleve Hgts Ohio, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough)
1937 Don Maynard NFL receiver (NY Jets), #13
1938 Betico Croes Arubian politician (Status Aparte)
and Etta James [Jamesette Hawkins], US singer (Roll With Me Henry)
1941 Elzie "Buddy" Baker race-car driver
1945 Leigh Taylor-Young Wash DC, actress (Peyton Place, Alice B Toklas)
1946 Josephine M Verspaget sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
and Ronnie Brandon rocker (McCoys)
1950 Michael Cotton rocker (Tubes)
1953 Malcolm Green rocker (Split Enz-I Got You)
1954 Condredge Holloway Alabama, CFL quarterback (Ottawa, Toronto)
and Richard Finch rock bassist (KC & Sunshine-That's the Way I Like It)
1955 Joe Strummer vocalist/guitarist (Clash-Rock the Casbah) [or 8/21/53]
1957 Edmund Theodore Sylvers rocker
and Martha Elizabeth Thomsen Moses Lake Wash, playmate (May, 1980)
1958 Dinah Manoff NYC, actress (Elaine-Soap, Carol-Empty Nest)
and Gary Brian Tibbs London, rock bassist (Adam & The Ants, Roxy Music)
and Harti Weirather Austrian alpine skier
1960 Andy Cox rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
1961 Michele Tobin Chicago Ill, actress (Fitzpatricks)
1963 Carl Fysh rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
and Suzanne Klemann Dutch singer (Lo‹s Lane)
1964 Chip Foster actor (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday)
and Pepper Foster actress (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday)
1965 Brian Holman Winfield Ks, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1969 Jesse Harte Rome Ga, heavy metal vocalist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1971 China Slick rocker (daughter of Grace Slick)
1974 Jonathan Bryan Colling Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1978 Christine Lakin actress (Step by Step)
1759 Birth of Robert Burns Alloway
Deaths Which Occured January 25:
98 Mark Cocceius Nerva emperor of Rome (96-98), dies in his 60s
1138 Anacletus II [Pietro Pierleone], Pope (1130-38), dies
1139 Godfried I with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies
1494 Ferdinand I cruel king of Naples, dies
1547 Lieven Algoet Flemish humanist, dies
1586 Lucas Cranach "the Young" German painter, dies at 70
1640 Robert Burton author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies
1726 Guillaume Delisle French geographer (Atlas g‚ographique), dies
1733 Reinier V of Hompesch, gen-maj cavalry, dies
1744 Domenico Natale Sarro composer, dies at 64
1820 Joseph F Weigl German/Austria violin cellist, dies
1821 Johan Valckenier Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62
1829 William Shield composer, dies at 80
1855 Dorothy Wordsworth writer, dies
1875 Leopold Jansa composer, dies at 79
1882 Peter Singer composer, dies at 71
1896 Frans C Baeckelmans Flemish architect (Court of Justice), dies at 68
Frederic Leighton President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies
1899 Alfredo d'Escragnolle French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies
1906 Joseph Wheeler Confederate General, dies at 70
Pierre L Goossens archbishop of Mechelen/Cardinal, dies
1910 L‚on Walras French economist (School of Lausanne), dies
1920 Amadeo Modigliani Italian sculptor/painter, dies
1921 Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych composer, dies at 43
1942 Eugene Samuel-Holeman composer, dies at 78
1947 Al Capone Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis
Grace Moore actress (One Night of Love), dies at 45
1949 Emil Axman composer, dies at 62
1952 Sveinn Bjírnsson Danish poet (Figur og ild), dies at 70
1960 Diana Barrymore actress (Ladies Courageous), dies at 38
Rutland Boughton composer, dies at 82
1963 Wilson Kettle Nfld, dies at 102, leaving 582 living descendents
1965 Staff Nees Flemish composer (Maria-oratorio), dies at 63
1968 Virginia Maskell actress (Only Two Can Play), dies at 31
1969 John Zaj¡c Czech student, self incinerates
1970 Eunice Hunton Carter 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70
Marie Benavente actress (Paradise), dies at 84
1975 Vivien Kellems TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78
1977 Donald Kerr actor (Devil Bat, Killer Bats), dies at 85
1978 Tango Duke dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse
1979 J Robertson Hare actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87
1980 David Newell actor (Dangerous Curves, White Heat), dies at 75
1981 Adele Marie Astaire sister of Fred Astaire, dies at 82
Richard Talmadge actor (Speed Reporter), dies
[Adele] Marie Astaire actress (Last Man on Earth, Millie), dies at 82
1982 Mihail A Suslov Soviet party leader, dies
1987 Emil Hlobil composer, dies at 85
1988 Colleen Moore actress (These Girls Won't Talk), dies at 87
1990 Alexander Lockwood actor (Duel), dies
Ava Gardner actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies at 67 of pneumonia
Ian Dudley Hardy entertainer, dies
1991 Stanley Brock actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59
1992 John Touchstone actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59
Nico Schuyt composer, dies
Vernon William Reed Sr singer, dies after a long illness at 73
1995 Tom Brugman puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62
Holidays Which Occur January 25:
Uganda 2nd Republic Day
2001 China Chinese New Years-The Year of the Snake (4699)
Religious Observances on January 25:
Ang, Luth, RC Feast of the Conversion of St Paul the Apostle
Christian Commemoration of St Ananias of Damascus
Things to Remember for January 25:
Flowers-carnation & snowdrop Gem-garnet
National Soup-National Egg Month-National Hobby Month
25 Days Astrological sign: Aquarius
[Ancient Rome] a d viij Kal Feb
Highlights in History Which Occur January 25:
844 Gregory IV begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1139 Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant
1327 King Edward III accedes to British throne
1348 Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000
1494 Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples
1533 England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
1565 Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army
1579 Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
1721 Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1799 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1802 Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1817 Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
1825 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
1835 Opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
and Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
1844 Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative
1851 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1854 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow
1856 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
1858 Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen
Victoria's daughter to crown prince of Prussia
1863 Battle of Kinston, NC
and General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
1865 CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
1875 Anti-slavery society formed in NY
1877 Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1882 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
1885 Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie," premieres
1890 National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
and Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
and United Mine Workers of America forms
1894 HW boxing champ James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell
1902 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
1904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
and J M Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin
1905 Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
1906 Del Valle Inclans "El Marqu‚s de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid
1907 Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
1908 John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
1909 Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden
1910 Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
1914 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #778 Theobalda
and G Neujmin discovers asteroids #779 Nina, #780 Armenia & #781 Kartvelia
1915 Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
and Giordano, Sardou & Moreaus opera premieres in NYC
and Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF)
1916 Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
1918 Russia declared a republic of Soviets
1919 Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
1921 Karel Cap‚k's "RUR," premieres in Prague
1923 NVV donates Ÿ100,000 to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
1924 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
1932 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1250 Galanthus & #1251 Hedera
1937 1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
and Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
and Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio
1938 Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC
1939 Earthquake hits Chill n Chile, 10,000 killed
and HW boxing champ Joe Louis KOs John H Lewis in NYC
1940 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
1942 Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
and Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
and Topping, Webb & MacPhail purchase Yanks for $2.8 million
and West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
1946 Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres
and United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
1949 1st Emmy Awards presented; best TV film, NBC's "Necklace"
and 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
1950 73øF (23øC) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January
1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1953 WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting
and Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec
1955 Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
and Russia ends state of war with Germany
and US & Panama sign canal treaty
1956 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record)
1957 FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
1959 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301)
and Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council
1961 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)
and Military coup in El Salvador
and Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1964 Beatles 1st US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
and Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
1965 A D Andrews discovers asteroid #1727 Mette
1966 WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968 Risse St in Bronx named
and Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in NYC
1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
1971 Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
and Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
and Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada
and Phila mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar
and WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl
in a game with Minnesota
1974 Blent Ecevit forms govt in Turkey
1975 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
and Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1978 Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
and Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
1980 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
and Dutch Govt demands boycott of Olympics
and Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
and Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported
1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
and Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
and Super Bowl XV: Oakland Raiders-27, Phila Eagles-10 in New Orleans
1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
and Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
and Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
1985 "Black and Blue," premieres in Paris
and "We are the World" is recorded
1986 General Tito Okello's govt flees Kampala Uganda
1987 E W Elst discovers asteroid #3631 Sigyn
and Super Bowl XXI: NY Giants-39, Denver Broncos-20 in Pasadena
1988 George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab"
and Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
and Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname
and VP Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts
to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair
1989 Augusto Alcalde, 1st S Amer Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
and Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
and Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
and Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
and West-Europe's strongest hurricane
1991 Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US govt
and Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2« year run
1992 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41"
and Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
1993 Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
1994 Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55
and US space probe Clementine launched
1995 Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
1904 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania.
1937 Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, killing 13 people.
Your Special Reminders for January 25:
1945 2øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1967 60øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 25th day of year with 340 remaining (Numerology = 8)
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