25 January Deaths

January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of the year (341 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Deaths
390 – Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
477 – Genseric, king of the Vandals (b. 389)
750 – Ibrahim ibn al-Walid, Umayyad caliph
844 – Pope Gregory IV (b. 795)
863 – Charles of Provence, Frankish king (b. 845)
1003 – Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark
1067 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (b. 1032)
1138 – Antipope Anacletus II
1139 – Godfrey I, Count of Louvain and Duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VI)
1366 – Henry Suso, German priest and mystic (b. 1300)
1431 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1494 – Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
1559 – Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)
1578 – Mihrimah Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1522)
1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
1640 – Robert Burton, English physician and scholar (b. 1577)
1670 – Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
1726 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
1733 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1652)
1751 – Paul Dudley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1675)
1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1778)
1872 – Richard S. Ewell, American general (b. 1817)
1881 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794)
1884 – Périclès Pantazis, Greek-Belgian painter (b. 1849)
1907 – René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
1908 – Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)
1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
1912 – Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1816)
1925 – Juan Vucetich, Croatian-Argentinian anthropologist and police officer (b. 1858)
1939 – Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (b. 1870)
1947 – Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)
1949 – Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician, 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861)
1957 – Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (b. 1873)
1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1958 – Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish surgeon and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1866)
1958 – Robert R. Young, American businessman and financier (b. 1897)
1960 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921)
1966 – Saul Adler, Belarusian-English microbiologist and parasitologist (b. 1895)
1968 – Louie Myfanwy Thomas, Welsh writer (b. 1908)
1970 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (b. 1877)
1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese director and producer (b. 1901)
1971 – Barry III, Guinean lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
1978 – Skender Kulenović, Bosnian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
1981 – Adele Astaire, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1896)
1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Russian economist and politician (b. 1902)
1985 – Ilias Iliou, Greek jurist and politician (b. 1904)
1987 – Frank J. Lynch, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1922)
1988 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1899)
1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
1991 – Frank Soo, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1909)
1996 – Jonathan Larson, American playwright and composer (b. 1960)
1997 – Dan Barry, American author and illustrator (b. 1923)
1999 – Sarah Louise Delany, American author and educator (b. 1889)
1999 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
2001 – Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and logician (b. 1906)
2003 – Sheldon Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2003 – Samuel Weems, American lawyer and author (b. 1936)
2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918)
2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2005 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 – William Augustus Bootle, American lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (b. 1906)
2005 – Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean author and poet (b. 1907)
2005 – Netti Witziers-Timmer, Dutch runner (b. 1923)
2009 – Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (b. 1932)
2009 – Ewald Kooiman, Dutch organist and educator (b. 1938)
2009 – Kim Manners, American director and producer (b. 1951)
2010 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi general and politician, Iraqi Minister of Defence (b. 1941)
2011 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos Greek captain and businessman (b. 1935)
2011 – Vincent Cronin, Welsh historian and author (b. 1924)
2012 – Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929)
2012 – Jacques Maisonrouge, French businessman (b. 1924)
2012 – Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939)
2012 – Mark Reale, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1955)
2012 – Robert Sheran, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
2013 – Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1924)
2013 – Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1929)
2013 – Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Norwegian soprano and actress (b. 1923)
2014 – Arthur Doyle, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (b. 1944)
2014 – Heini Halberstam, Czech-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
2014 – Dave Strack, American basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
2015 – John Leggett, American author and academic (b. 1917)
2015 – Richard McBrien, American priest, theologian, and academic (b. 1936)
2015 – Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player and coach (b. 1936)
2015 – Demis Roussos, Egyptian-Greek singer (b. 1946)