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January 25

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Event anniversary

102

1924 Winter Olympics

102 years ago

Born this day

1978

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Turns 48

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Oldest record

801st

Thomas Aquinas

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1225 · 801 yrs

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas ( ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Catholic theology and Western philosophy.

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ReligionDied aged 49

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1477 · 549 yrs

Anne of Brittany

Anne of Brittany (Breton: Anna; 25/26 January 1477 – 9 January 1514) was suo jure Duchess of Brittany from 1488 until her death, and Queen of France from 1491 to 1498 and again from 1499 to her death. She was the only woman to have been queen consort of France twice.

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SportsDied aged 36

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1627 · 399 yrs

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish chemist, alchemist, physicist, theologian, and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.

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ScienceDied aged 64

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1736 · 290 yrs

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier; 25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813), also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia, was an Italian and naturalized French mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

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ScienceDied aged 77

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1759 · 267 yrs

Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.

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LiteratureDied aged 37

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1860 · 166 yrs

Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under President Herbert Hoover. He was the Senate majority leader from 1924 to 1929.

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PoliticsDied aged 76

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1874 · 152 yrs

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels, and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university.

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LiteratureDied aged 91

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1882 · 144 yrs

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

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1899 · 127 yrs

Paul-Henri Spaak

Paul-Henri Charles Spaak (French:; 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was an influential Belgian Socialist politician, diplomat, and statesman who thrice served as the prime minister of Belgium and later as the second secretary general of NATO. Nicknamed "Mr.

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1923 · 103 yrs

Arvid Carlsson

Arvid Carlsson (25 January 1923 – 29 June 2018) was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease.

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ScienceWould be 103

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1927 · 99 yrs

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation: ), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and singer.

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MusicWould be 99

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1928 · 98 yrs

Eduard Shevardnadze

Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე; Russian: Эдуа́рд Амвро́сиевич Шевардна́дзе, romanized: Eduard Amvrosiyevich Shevardnadze; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for several non-consecutive periods from 1972 until…

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1559 · 467 yrs

Christian II of Denmark

Christian II (1 July 1481 – 25 January 1559) was a monarch under the Kalmar Union, reigning as King of Denmark and Norway from 1513 until 1523. He was briefly King of Sweden from 1520 until 1521.

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RoyaltyDied aged 77

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1742 · 284 yrs

Edmond Halley

Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (8 November 1656 – 25 January 1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.

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ScienceDied aged 85

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1947 · 79 yrs

Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel Capone (kə-POHN; Italian:; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.

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1952 · 74 yrs

Sveinn Björnsson

Sveinn Björnsson (Icelandic:; 27 February 1881 – 25 January 1952) was the first president of Iceland, serving from 1944 until his death in 1952.

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PoliticsWould be 145

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1982 · 44 yrs

Mikhail Suslov

Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (Russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Су́слов; 21 November 1902 – 25 January 1982) was a Soviet politician. In addition to serving as the Central Committee's longtime Secretary of Ideology, he held office as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965 until his death in 1982.

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PoliticsWould be 123

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1990 · 36 yrs

Ava Gardner

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak's film noir The Killers.

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FilmWould be 103

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2005 · 21 yrs

Philip Johnson

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.

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ArtWould be 120

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2015 · 11 yrs

Demis Roussos

Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos ( ROO-sohss; Greek: Αρτέμιος "Ντέμης" Βεντούρης-Ρούσσος, IPA:; 15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015) was an Egyptian-born Greek musician.

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MusicWould be 80

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2017 · 9 yrs

John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor. Regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation and described as having the "most distinctive voice in Britain", he was referred to by David Lynch as "simply the greatest actor in the world".

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FilmWould be 86

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2017 · 9 yrs

Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, producer, and social advocate.

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TelevisionWould be 89

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Events5

1924 · 102 yrs

1924 Winter Olympics

The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (French: Iers Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 (Arpitan: Chamôni 1924), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.

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Sports

2010 · 16 yrs

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 was an international commercial flight scheduled from Beirut to Addis Ababa of a Boeing 737-800 that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Rafic Hariri International Airport on 25 January 2010, killing all 90 people on board.

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Disaster

2011 · 15 yrs

2011 Egyptian revolution

The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January Revolution (Arabic: ثورة ٢٥ يناير, romanized: Thawrat khamsa wa-ʿišrūn yanāyir), began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt.

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Politics

2019 · 7 yrs

Brumadinho dam disaster

The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure.

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Disaster

2020 · 6 yrs

COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which was declared by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

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