Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 25 January today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for January 25
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on January 25
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 390 | Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329) |
| 477 | Gaiseric, 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) |
| 951 | Ma Xiguang, ruler of Chu (Ten Kingdoms) |
| 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) |
| 1413 | Maud de Ufford, Countess of Oxford (b. 1345) |
| 1431 | Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364) |
| 1492 | Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and rebel (b. 1443) |
| 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) |
| 1742 | Edmond Halley, English astronomer (b. 1656) |
| 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) |
| 1891 | Theo van Gogh, Art dealer, the brother of Vincent van Gogh (b. 1857) |
| 1900 | Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835) |
| 1907 | René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879) |
| 1908 | Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839) |
| 1910 | W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit and academic (1860) |
| 1914 | Frank Avery Hutchins, American librarian and educator (b. 1851) |
| 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) |
| 1958 | Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish surgeon and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1866) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 1992 | Mir Khalil ur Rehman, Founder and editor of the Jang Group of Newspapers (b. 1927) |
| 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) |
| 2001 | Alice Ambrose, American philosopher and logician (b. 1906) |
| 2002 | Cliff Baxter, employee at Enron (b. 1958) |
| 2003 | Sheldon Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923) |
| 2004 | Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918) |
| 2005 | Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923) |
| 2009 | Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (b. 1932) |
| 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) |
| 2012 | Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929) |
| 2013 | Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1924) |
| 2014 | Arthur Doyle, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (b. 1944) |
| 2015 | John Leggett, American author and academic (b. 1917) |
| 2017 | Stephen P. Cohen, Canadian academic (b. 1945) |
| 2018 | Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat (b. 1916) |
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