January 25th, 1947

Born on January 25th, 1947

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 28,000 days old!

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What happened on January 25th, 1947?

January 25th, 1947

Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_T._Goldsmith_Jr.

What else happened on January 25th?

January 25th, 1944

Representatives of the Chetnik movement began a four-day congress to organise political opposition to the Allied support of the communist-led Yugoslav Partisans in Yugoslavia.

January 25th, 2011

The Egyptian revolution began with protests (protester pictured) on the "Day of Anger", eventually leading to the removal of President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.

January 25th, 2010

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, en route to Addis Ababa, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 people on board.

January 25th, 2006

Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza was arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.

January 25th, 2004

Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum.

January 25th, 1998

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonated a truck bomb at the sacred Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, killing 17.

January 25th, 1995

A team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII sounding rocket, which was mistaken by Russian forces for a Trident missile.

January 25th, 1993

Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi shot five people outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, killing two.

January 25th, 1990

Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village of Cove Neck, New York, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.

January 25th, 1971

Idi Amin seized power from Ugandan president Milton Obote in a coup d'état, beginning eight years of military rule.

January 25th, 1967

South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Cao Kỳ fired his rival Nguyễn Hữu Có while the latter was overseas on a diplomatic visit.

January 25th, 1917

Serving as a British armed merchant cruiser, Laurentic (pictured) was sunk by German naval mines off the northern coast of Ireland, resulting in 354 deaths.

January 25th, 1890

American journalist Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the globe by land and sea in a then-record 72 days.

January 25th, 1792

Thomas Hardy founded the London Corresponding Society to seek a "radical reform of parliament", later influencing the reform movements of early-19th-century England.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 25th

Born on January 25th, 1947

77

Tostão

Brazilian footballer

*January 25th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

70

Ángel Nieto

Spanish motorcycle racer

*January 25th, 1947, Zamora †August 3rd, 2017, Ibiza

77

Cain Mathema

Zimbabwean politician

*January 25th, 1947, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

77

Paolo La Rosa

Italy naval officer

*January 25th, 1947, Bologna

77

Staffan de Mistura

Italian-Swedish diplomat

*January 25th, 1947, Stockholm

77

Andy Pratt

American rock music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

*January 25th, 1947, Boston

77

Abdelfattah Boussetta

Tunisian sculptor and painter

*January 25th, 1947, Ksar Hellal

77

Paul Linnman

American broadcaster

*January 25th, 1947, Portland

77

Masamichi Kondo

Japanese politician

*January 25th, 1947, Izumozaki

77

Kay Elson

Australian politician

*January 25th, 1947, Brisbane

77

Masakatsu Shibasaki

Japanese chemist

*January 25th, 1947, Saitama Prefecture

77

Deusdete Vasconcelos

Brazilian boxer

*January 25th, 1947, São Paulo

77

Marjorie Scardino

American business woman

*January 25th, 1947, Flagstaff

77

Harrie Jansen

Dutch racing cyclist

*January 25th, 1947, Amsterdam

77

Krešimir Zubak

Bosnian Croat politician

*January 25th, 1947, Doboj

77

Patrick Chinamasa

Zimbabwean politician

*January 25th, 1947, Southern Rhodesia

77

Bruce Hodgetts

Cricketer

*January 25th, 1947, Burnie

77

Wes Pruitt

American politician

*January 25th, 1947, Springfield

77

Helder Bataglia dos Santos

Portuguese-Angolan businessman

*January 25th, 1947, Seixal

77

Kersti Kreismann

Estonian actress

*January 25th, 1947, Tali

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 25th?

70

Hans-Jürgen Dörner

East German football player and long-term coach of national junior football teams (1951–2022)

*January 25th, 1951, Görlitz †January 19th, 2022, Dresden

61

Martin Brygmann

Danish composer, comedian and actor

*January 25th, 1963, Kølvrå

31

Huang Yuxiang

Chinese badminton player

*January 25th, 1993, Hangzhou

29

Mark Caljouw

Badminton player

*January 25th, 1995, Rijswijk

42

Vladimir Vysotsky

Soviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)

*January 25th, 1938, Moscow †July 25th, 1980, Moscow

74

Jean-Marc Ayrault

Prime Minister of France (2012-2014)

*January 25th, 1950, Maulévrier

22

Lil Mosey

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*January 25th, 2002, Mountlake Terrace

24

Johanita Scholtz

South African badminton player

*January 25th, 2000, Cape Town

67

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist (1927-1994)

*January 25th, 1927, Rio de Janeiro †December 8th, 1994, New York City

96

Ted White

American stuntman and actor

*January 25th, 1926, Texas †October 14th, 2022, California

45

Pi Hongyan

French-Chinese badminton player

*January 25th, 1979, Chongqing

74

Christine Canavan

American politician in Massachusetts (born 1950)

*January 25th, 1950, Dorchester

46

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

President of Ukraine since 2019

*January 25th, 1978, Kryvyi Rih

38

Kazuteru Kozai

Badminton player

*January 25th, 1986, Kumamoto Prefecture

54

Thomas Solberg

Norwegian footballer

*January 25th, 1970, Oslo

80

Bernard Tschumi

Swiss architect

*January 25th, 1944, Lausanne

30

Lee Chun Hei

Hong Kong badminton player

*January 25th, 1994, Hong Kong

27

Michelle Tong

Badminton player

*January 25th, 1997, Singapore

43

Alicia Keys

American singer

*January 25th, 1981, Hell's Kitchen

75

Paul Nurse

Nobel prize winning British biochemist

*January 25th, 1949, Norwich

Same year
Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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