The 25th day of the year
Born on 25 January
Every 25 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The date behind the standard example
25 January is the date this site uses to show the mistake: someone born on 25 January 1990 belongs to the Earth Snake, not the Metal Horse, because the new year of 1990 did not come until 27 January. 1990 is one of 91 years from 1920 to 2026 in which this date fell before the new year. In the other 16 the new year had already arrived, and in four of those it arrived on the day itself.
Those four were 1944, the Wood Monkey; 1963, the Water Rabbit; 1982, the Water Dog; and 2020, the Metal Rat. After 2020 the engine does not put the new year on 25 January again until 2096, so for a long time to come a 25 January birthday will take the animal of the year before unless the new year has come earlier still, as it did on 22 January 2023.
The sign is simpler: 25 January was Aquarius from midnight to midnight in every year from 1920 to 2026, and in every time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 25 January in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 25 January in 91 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 16 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1944, 1963, 1982 and 2020.
Shaded: 25 January came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 25 January. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 25 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 25 January falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Wednesday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Monday 15, Saturday 15.
Showing 25 January in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 25 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,772 babies were born on 25 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 307th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 25 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Volodymyr Zelenskyy | 1978– | President of Ukraine since 2019 |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882–1941 | English modernist writer |
| Robert Burns | 1759–1796 | Scottish poet and lyricist |
| Vladimir Vysotsky | 1938–1980 | Soviet singer-songwriter and actor |
| Robert Boyle | 1627–1691 | Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor |
| W. Somerset Maugham | 1874–1965 | English playwright and author |
| Corazon Aquino | 1933–2009 | President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 |
| Joseph-Louis Lagrange | 1736–1813 | Mathematician and astronomer |
| Eduard Shevardnadze | 1928–2014 | Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat, Soviet foreign minister and second President of Georgia (1995–2003) |
| Alicia Keys | 1981– | American singer-songwriter and pianist |
| Xavi | 1980– | Spanish footballer and manager |
| Eusébio | 1942–2014 | Portuguese footballer |
| Ilya Prigogine | 1917–2003 | Russian-Belgian physical chemist |
| Robinho | 1984– | Brazilian former association football player |
| Etta James | 1938–2012 | American singer |
| Antônio Carlos Jobim | 1927–1994 | Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and singer |
| Anne of Brittany | 1477–1514 | Duchess of Brittany and twice Queen of France |
| Charles Curtis | 1860–1936 | vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 |
Died on 25 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Al Capone | 1899–1947 | American gangster |
| Edmond Halley | 1656–1742 | English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist |
| Gregory of Nazianzus | 329–390 | Christian saint and theologian |
| Ava Gardner | 1922–1990 | American actress |
| Pope Gregory IV | 795–844 | Pope and bishop of Rome from 827 to 844 |
| Philip Johnson | 1906–2005 | American architect |
| John Hurt | 1940–2017 | British actor |
| Mary Tyler Moore | 1936–2017 | American actress and television producer |
| Gaiseric | 389–477 | King of the Vandals and Alans |
| Demis Roussos | 1946–2015 | Greek singer |
| Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen | 1778–1852 | Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer |
| Christian II of Denmark | 1481–1559 | king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden |
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