Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 25

Births

• 1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
• 1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
• 1874 - William Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
• 1882 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941) (pictured)
• 1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
• 1980 - Alicia Keys, American singer

Deaths

• 1908 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
• 1947 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
• 1990 - Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)