What happened on January 25 ?

750 - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor

1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)

1509 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)

1615 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)

1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)

1634 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)

1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)

1736 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)

1739 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)

1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)

1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)

1796 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)

1825 - George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)

1841 - Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)

1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)

1860 - Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)

1864 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)

1874 - William Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)

1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)

1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)

1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)

1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)

1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)

1913 - Witold Lutos?awski, Polish composer (d. 1994)

1916 - Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian Football coach (d. 2003)

1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2003)

1917 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)

1918 - Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster

1919 - Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer

1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d. 1994)

1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia

1929 - Benny Golson, Jazz Musician

1931 - Dean Jones, American actor

1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines

1936 - Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)

1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Manga and tokusatsu (Japan superhero) creater (d. 1998)

1938 - Etta James, American singer

1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (d. 1980)

1941 - Buddy Baker, American race car driver

1941 - Gregory Sierra, American actor

1942 - Carl Eller, American football player

1942 - Eusébio, Portuguese footballer

1943 - Tobe Hooper, American film director

1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model and actress

1944 - Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress

1947 - Tostão, Brazilian footballer

1949 - Paul Nurse, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1951 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)

1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)

1953 - Wayne Ferris, American Professional Wrestler

1954 - Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer

1955 - Terry Chimes, co-founder and drummer of the British punk rock band The Clash

1956 - Andy Cox, British musician (The Beat (band), Fine Young Cannibals)

1958 - Dinah Manoff, American actress

1969 - Kina, American singer

1971 - Luca Badoer, Italian race-car driver

1973 - Geoff Johns, American comic book writer

1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete

1976 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress

1979 - Pi Hongyan, French badminton player

1979 - Gabe Jennings, American distance runner

1981 - Alicia Keys, American singer and musician

1984 - Robinho, Brazilian footballer

1985 - Tina Karol, Ukraninan singer

1986 - Chris O'Grady, English footballer