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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson
Inventor
25-Jan-1878 14-May-1975 Developed radio and television at GE and RCA
Elizabeth Allen
Actor
25-Jan-1929 19-Sep-2006 The Jackie Gleason Show
Robert E. Allen
Business
25-Jan-1935   CEO of AT&T, 1988-97
Corazon Aquino
Head of State
25-Jan-1933 1-Aug-2009 President of the Philippines, 1986-92
Olivier Assayas
Film Director
25-Jan-1955   Clean
Michael J. Birck
Business
25-Jan-1938   CEO of Tellabs, 1975-2004
James R. Birle
Business
25-Jan-1936   Former Partner, Blackstone Group
Homer T. Bone
Politician
25-Jan-1883 11-Mar-1970 US Senator from Washington, 1933-44
Robert Boyle
Chemist
25-Jan-1627 30-Dec-1691 Pioneer of modern chemistry
William C. Bullitt
Diplomat
25-Jan-1891 15-Feb-1967 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1933-36
Conrad Burns
Politician
25-Jan-1935   US Senator from Montana, 1989-2007
Robert Burns
Poet
25-Jan-1759 21-Jul-1796 Most beloved Scottish poet
Arvid Carlsson
Scientist
25-Jan-1923   Signal transduction in the nervous system
Chris Chelios
Hockey
25-Jan-1962   Detroit Red Wings
Samuel T. Cohen
Physicist
25-Jan-1921 28-Nov-2010 Neutron bomb
William Colgate
Business
25-Jan-1783 25-Jan-1857 Toothpaste empirebuilder
Chet Culver
Politician
25-Jan-1966   Governor of Iowa, 2007-11
Charles Curtis
Politician
25-Jan-1860 8-Feb-1936 US Vice President, 1929-33
Harry L. Davis
Politician
25-Jan-1878 21-May-1950 Governor of Ohio, 1921-23
T. G. Dobzhansky
Scientist
25-Jan-1900 18-Dec-1975 Genetics and the Origin of Species
King Donovan
Actor
25-Jan-1918 30-Jun-1987 Character actor husband of Imogene Coca
Charles-François Dumouriez
Military
25-Jan-1739 14-Mar-1823 French general, intriguer
Mildred Dunnock
Actor
25-Jan-1901 5-Jul-1991 Death of a Salesman
António Ramalho Eanes
Head of State
25-Jan-1935   President of Portugal, 1976-86
Robert Faurisson
Scholar
25-Jan-1929   French Holocaust denier
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Conductor
25-Jan-1886 30-Nov-1954 Pre-War German conductor
Kim Gandy
Activist
25-Jan-1954   President of NOW
Luis Alfredo Garavito
Criminal
25-Jan-1957   Colombian serial killer, murdered 140+ boys
David Grossman
Author
25-Jan-1954   The Smile of the Lamb
Lou Groza
Football
25-Jan-1924 29-Nov-2000 With Cleveland Browns for 21 years
Ralph F. Hake
Business
25-Jan-1949   CEO of Maytag, 2001-06
Richard Hanna
Politician
25-Jan-1951   Congressman, New York 24th
Ernie Harwell
Sports Journalist
25-Jan-1918 4-May-2010 Voice of the Detroit Tigers
Tobe Hooper
Film Director
25-Jan-1943   Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Diana Hyland
Actor
25-Jan-1936 27-Mar-1977 Susan Winter on Peyton Place
Toru Iwatani
Business
25-Jan-1955   Created Pacman
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Philosopher
25-Jan-1743 18-Mar-1819 German Spinozist
Etta James
Singer
25-Jan-1938 20-Jan-2012 Soul Diva
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Musician
25-Jan-1927 8-Dec-1994 The Girl from Ipanema
Joi
Singer
25-Jan-1972   Crunk/R&B vocalist
Dean Jones
Actor
25-Jan-1931   That Darn Cat!
Alicia Keys
Singer
25-Jan-1981   Fallin'
Mia Kirshner
Actor
25-Jan-1975   The L Word
Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr.
Judge
25-Jan-1940   Justice, Virginia Supreme Court
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician
25-Jan-1736 10-Apr-1813 Mécanique Analytique
Christine Lakin
Actor
25-Jan-1979   Alicia Lambert on Step by Step
John Leslie
Pornstar
25-Jan-1945 5-Dec-2010 Talk Dirty To Me
Jenifer Lewis
Actor
25-Jan-1957   The Preacher's Wife
Emil Ludwig
Author
25-Jan-1881 17-Sep-1948 German biographer
Witold Lutoslawski
Composer
25-Jan-1913 7-Feb-1994 Aleatoric composer
Dinah Manoff
Actor
25-Jan-1958   Ordinary People
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist
25-Jan-1874 16-Dec-1965 Of Human Bondage
Don Maynard
Football
25-Jan-1935   NFL Hall of Famer
Florence Mills
Singer
25-Jan-1896 1-Nov-1927 Jazz singer, Queen of Happiness
Garrett Morris
Comic
25-Jan-1937   Saturday Night Live
Gloria Naylor
Novelist
25-Jan-1950   The Women of Brewster Place
Edwin Newman
Journalist
25-Jan-1919 13-Aug-2010 Journalist and commentator for NBC News
Paul Nurse
Scientist
25-Jan-1949   Regulators of cell cycle
Ana Ortiz
Actor
25-Jan-1971   Hilda Suarez on Ugly Betty
Gregg Palmer
Actor
25-Jan-1927   The Rebel Set
Bill Pascrell
Politician
25-Jan-1937   Congressman, New Jersey 8th
Steve Prefontaine
Track and Field
25-Jan-1951 30-May-1975 Long distance runner
Ilya Prigogine
Chemist
25-Jan-1917 28-May-2003 Theory of dissipative structures
Tose Proeski
Singer
25-Jan-1981 16-Oct-2007 Macedonian pop star
Alfred Reed
Composer
25-Jan-1921 17-Sep-2005 Russian Christmas Music
Marjorie Scardino
Business
25-Jan-1947   CEO of Pearson
Dan Schaefer
Politician
25-Jan-1936 16-Apr-2006 Congressman from Colorado, 1983-99
Paul Shanley
Religion
25-Jan-1931   Molesting priest
Eduard Shevardnadze
Head of State
25-Jan-1928   President of Georgia, 1995-2003
Thomas P. Shoesmith
Diplomat
25-Jan-1922 26-Apr-2007 US Ambassador to Malaysia, 1983-87
Gregory Sierra
Actor
25-Jan-1941   Det. Sgt. Chano on Barney Miller
Eusebio Ferreira da Silva
Soccer
25-Jan-1942   Top euro soccer scorer 1968 and 1973
J. Marion Sims
Doctor
25-Jan-1813 13-Nov-1883 Father of gynecology
Paul-Henri Spaak
Head of State
25-Jan-1899 31-Jul-1972 Belgian Prime Minister, NATO chief
Whit Stillman
Film Director
25-Jan-1952   The Last Days of Disco
Leigh Taylor-Young
Actor
25-Jan-1945   I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Harold Watkinson
Politician
25-Jan-1910 19-Dec-1995 UK Minister of Defence, 1959-62
John L. Weinberg
Business
25-Jan-1925 7-Aug-2006 Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1976-90
Sherwin T. Wine
Religion
25-Jan-1928 21-Jul-2007 Humanistic Judaism
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
25-Jan-1882 28-Mar-1941 Suicidal English novelist




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