Birthday facts

Born on January 25.

Everyone born on January 25 is a Aquarius — ruled by Uranus, contrarian on principle. The stone is garnet, the flower carnation, and the day is shared with Virginia Woolf and W. Somerset Maugham.

Sun sign

Aquarius ♒︎

the Water-Bearer · ruled by Uranus · contrarian on principle

Birthstone

Garnet

January

Birth flower

Carnation

& snowdrop

Your book

Born on January 25? Add the year.

Then it is a pop-up book: the sky the day you arrived, the No. 1 that week, the president, what a stamp cost, your life in weeks, and who was exactly your age when they did the thing they are known for — and at the end, a birthday poster of the day, engraved, to take home. One field. The date lives after the # in the link, which no server sees — nothing about you leaves your browser.

Making it for someone else? Send it as a pop-up birthday card.

The old books say

Aquarius, January 20 to February 18.

The Water-Bearer, which is an air sign, and the books enjoy the confusion. Ruled by Saturn in the old texts and Uranus in the new, credited with originality, a wide circle and a certain coolness at the centre of it — the friend of everyone, intimate of few. Its people are supposed to be ahead of their time, which is only comfortable once the time catches up. The tradition calls it the sign of the future and cannot say whose.

Astrology, reported rather than endorsed — the astronomy is the part of the book that is real.

Good company

Also born on January 25.

The names most looked up among everyone who shares the day — leaning on the ones who last.

1882

Virginia Woolf

English novelist and essayist

1874

W. Somerset Maugham

British playwright and novelist

1980

Xavi

Spanish footballer

1759

Robert Burns

Scottish poet and songwriter

1978

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Ukrainian actor and comedian

1981

Alicia Keys

American singer-songwriter and pianist

1942

Eusébio

Mozambican-Portuguese footballer

1957

Jenifer Lewis

American actress and singer

On this day

What January 25 has seen.

It is Feast day of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Christianity), and of Dwynwen in Wales.

1533Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with the future Elizabeth I, secretly married Henry VIII of England in the second of his six marriages.

1971Idi Amin seized power from Ugandan president Milton Obote in a coup d'état, beginning eight years of military rule.

1995A team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII sounding rocket, which was mistaken by Russian forces for a Trident missile.

2006Three independent observing campaigns announced the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, a super-Earth 21,500 ± 3,300 light-years away from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.

2011Arab Spring: The Egyptian revolution began with protests on the "Day of Anger", eventually leading to the removal of President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.

The calendar

When January 25 falls.

A Sunday in 2026, a Monday in 2027, a Tuesday in 2028, a Thursday in 2029, and a Friday in 2030.