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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, January 25


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Births

* 1966 Chet Culver 41st Governor of Iowa, from 2007 to 2011.
* 1958 Linda Smith British stand-up comic and comedy writer.
* 1952 Peter Tatchell Human rights activist.
* 1951 Steve Prefontaine American middle and long-distance runner.
* 1951 Bill Viola Today known for his work in video art.
* 1949 Paul Nurse British biochemist.
* 1949 John Cooper Clarke British performance poet from Salford, Lancashire.
* 1944 Anita Pallenberg Italian-born actress, model, and fashion designer.
* 1935 Conrad Burns Served three terms in the United States Senate from Montana.
* 1928 Eduard Shevardnadze Georgian politician.
* 1900 Theodosius Dobzhansky Noted geneticist, evolutionary biologist, and a leader of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis.
* 1899 Paul-Henri Spaak Second Secretary General of NATO.
* 1882 Virginia Woolf Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was a British writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century.
* 1874 William Somerset Maugham English playwright, novelist, and short story writer; often published as simply W Somerset Maugham.
* 1825 Edward (bishop of Exeter) Bickersteth Bishop in the Church of England.
* 1759 Robert Burns Poet and pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became an important source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism.
* 1736 Joseph Louis Lagrange Italian-French mathematician and astronomer who made important contributions to all fields of analysis and number theory and to classical and celestial mechanics.

Deaths

† 2005 Philip Johnson American architect.
† 1996 Jonathan Larson American composer and playwright, famous as a writer of musicals, including tick, tick.
† 1990 Ava Gardner American actress.
† 1975 Charlotte Whitton Noted Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa.
† 1972 Erhard Milch German field marshal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the re-armament of Germany following World War I Milch was sentenced to life imprisonment at Landsberg prison.
† 1972 Carl Hayden U S Representative from Arizona (1912-1927) and U S Senator from Arizona (1927-1969).
† 1947 Al Capone Popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was a famous American gangster in the 1920s and 1930s.
† 1908 Ouida Pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramι.
† 1888 David Whitmer Early adherent of the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates.
† 1871 Thomas Garrett Abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War.
† 1855 Dorothy Wordsworth English diarist, travel-writer and catalyst in the writing of her brother William Wordsworth's poems.
† 1640 Robert Burton English scholar at Oxford University, whose chief claim to fame is for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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