January 25th, 1955

Born on January 25th, 1955

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 25,000 days old!

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What 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.

January 25th, 1704

English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of raids against the largely peaceful population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.

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

Born on January 25th, 1955

69

Mario Castelnuovo

Italian singer-songwriter

*January 25th, 1955, Rome

69

Olivier Assayas

French film director, screenwriter and film critic

*January 25th, 1955, Paris

69

Christine Fletcher

New Zealand politician

*January 25th, 1955, New Zealand

69

Liz Miles

American rower

*January 25th, 1955, Fresno

69

Marinela Ghiță

Romanian rower

*January 25th, 1955, Bucharest

69

Rick Adduono

Canadian ice hockey player

*January 25th, 1955, Thunder Bay

69

Petra Gerster

German television presenter

*January 25th, 1955, Worms

69

Nicole Bacharan

French historian and political scientist

*January 25th, 1955, Saint-Gaudens

69

Naamah Kelman

American rabbi

*January 25th, 1955, New York City

69

Maurizio Guarini

Italian keyboardist

*January 25th, 1955, Rome

69

Jürgen Renfordt

German record producer, presenter and composer

*January 25th, 1955, Wetter

69

Irina Yurevich

Soviet actress

*January 25th, 1955, Saint Petersburg

69

Max Krott

Austrian professor

*January 25th, 1955, Vienna

69

Tōru Iwatani

Japanese video game designer, creator of Pac-Man

*January 25th, 1955, Meguro-ku

68

Piedad Córdoba

Colombian lawyer and politician (1955-2024)

*January 25th, 1955, Medellín †January 20th, 2024, Medellín

69

Vladislav Lauda

Czech soccer player

*January 25th, 1955, Czechoslovakia

69

Ken Fogarty

English footballer and manager (born 1955)

*January 25th, 1955, Manchester

69

Boris Psaker

Association football player

*January 25th, 1955, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

69

Jean-Paul Rabier

French footballer and manager

*January 25th, 1955, Vendôme

69

Rick Bowness

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

*January 25th, 1955, Moncton

69

Jeffrey Vallance

American artist

*January 25th, 1955, Torrance

69

José Manzur Quiroga

Mexican politician

*January 25th, 1955, State of Mexico

69

Kyriakos Mavronikolas

Cypriot politician

*January 25th, 1955, Paphos Municipality

69

Lie Sang Bong

Fashion designer from Korea

*January 25th, 1955, Seoul

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61

Martin Brygmann

Danish composer, comedian and actor

*January 25th, 1963, Kølvrå

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

31

Huang Yuxiang

Chinese badminton player

*January 25th, 1993, Hangzhou

29

Mark Caljouw

Badminton player

*January 25th, 1995, Rijswijk

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

45

Pi Hongyan

French-Chinese badminton player

*January 25th, 1979, Chongqing

54

Thomas Solberg

Norwegian footballer

*January 25th, 1970, Oslo

46

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

President of Ukraine since 2019

*January 25th, 1978, Kryvyi Rih

38

Kazuteru Kozai

Badminton player

*January 25th, 1986, Kumamoto Prefecture

74

Jean-Marc Ayrault

Prime Minister of France (2012-2014)

*January 25th, 1950, Maulévrier

42

Vladimir Vysotsky

Soviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)

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

57

David Ginola

French association football player (born 1967)

*January 25th, 1967, Gassin

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

30

Lee Chun Hei

Hong Kong badminton player

*January 25th, 1994, Hong Kong

96

Ted White

American stuntman and actor

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

43

Alicia Keys

American singer

*January 25th, 1981, Hell's Kitchen

70

David Grossman

Israeli author

*January 25th, 1954, Jerusalem

27

Michelle Tong

Badminton player

*January 25th, 1997, Singapore

74

Christine Canavan

American politician in Massachusetts (born 1950)

*January 25th, 1950, Dorchester

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Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47th president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

68

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*November 30th, 1955, Copenhagen

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

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No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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