January 25th, 1949

Born on January 25th, 1949

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on January 25th, 1949?

January 25th, 1949

The first Emmy Awards are presented in the United States; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.

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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, 1949

75

Paul Nurse

Nobel prize winning British biochemist

*January 25th, 1949, Norwich

75

John Cooper Clarke

English poet

*January 25th, 1949, Salford

75

Sheila Crump Johnson

American businesswoman

*January 25th, 1949, McKeesport

75

Roman Krzyżelewski

Polish admiral

*January 25th, 1949, Rzeczenica

75

Katherine Ann Power

American ex-convict and long-time fugitive, who was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most Wanted List

*January 25th, 1949, Denver

75

Barb Goodwin

American politician

*January 25th, 1949, Minneapolis

67

Laurie Carlos

American playwright (1949-2016)

*January 25th, 1949, New York City †December 29th, 2016, Saint Paul

75

Phil Boyer

English footballer (born 1949)

*January 25th, 1949, Nottingham

75

Tom Paulin

Northern Irish poet

*January 25th, 1949, Leeds

75

Robert J. Barham

American politician

*January 25th, 1949, Monroe

75

Bertie Miller

British footballer (born 1949)

*January 25th, 1949, Dunfermline

75

Barry Cummins

Ice hockey player

*January 25th, 1949, Regina

75

Siby Ginette Bellegarde

Malian politician

*January 25th, 1949, Martinique

71

Seyoum Mesfin

Ethiopian politician (1949-2021)

*January 25th, 1949, Adigrat †January 13th, 2021

68

Rainer Frieb

German actor

*January 25th, 1949, Starnberg †May 25th, 2017

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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

74

Jean-Marc Ayrault

Prime Minister of France (2012-2014)

*January 25th, 1950, Maulévrier

29

Mark Caljouw

Badminton player

*January 25th, 1995, Rijswijk

74

Christine Canavan

American politician in Massachusetts (born 1950)

*January 25th, 1950, Dorchester

22

Lil Mosey

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*January 25th, 2002, Mountlake Terrace

42

Vladimir Vysotsky

Soviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)

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

24

Johanita Scholtz

South African badminton player

*January 25th, 2000, Cape Town

45

Pi Hongyan

French-Chinese badminton player

*January 25th, 1979, Chongqing

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

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

30

Lee Chun Hei

Hong Kong badminton player

*January 25th, 1994, Hong Kong

43

Alicia Keys

American singer

*January 25th, 1981, Hell's Kitchen

57

David Ginola

French association football player (born 1967)

*January 25th, 1967, Gassin

27

Michelle Tong

Badminton player

*January 25th, 1997, Singapore

80

Bernard Tschumi

Swiss architect

*January 25th, 1944, Lausanne

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75

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

75

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg Municipality †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

74

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

74

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

74

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

74

Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

74

Gertrúd Ladányi

Badminton player

*May 3rd, 1949, Esztergom

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer and musician

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

67

Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

40

Stiv Bators

American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

*October 22nd, 1949, Youngstown †June 3rd, 1990, 1st arrondissement of Paris

74

Sverre Årnes

Norwegian writer

*May 14th, 1949, Surnadal Municipality

74

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

74

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

74

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

74

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

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No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

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