25 January: today's birthdays

• Olivier Assayas - French film director and writer
• Jean-Marc Ayrault - French politician
• Youssef Chahine - Egyptian film director
• Arthur Guilherme de Morais Gusmão - Brazilian soccer player
• Giacomo Di Chirico - Italian painter
• Wilhelm Furtwängler - German conductor and composer
  
• Giorgio Gaber - Stage name of Giorgio Gaberscik, Italian singer-songwriter, actor and playwright
• Arne Garborg - Norwegian writer and translater. He translated the Odyssey into Norwegian 
• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - German philosopher
• Alicia Keys - Stage name of Alicia Augello Cook, American singer, pianist and actress
• Mia Kirshner - Canadian actress
• Somerset Maugham - French-born English novelist and playwright. He wrote The Letter and The Razor's Edge
• Marco Parolo - Italian professional footballer
• Il'ja Romanovič Prigožin (Ilya Romanovich Prigogine) - Russian-born Belgian chemist and physicist
• Virginia Woolf - English author, born Adeline Virginia Stephen. She wrote Mrs Dalloway and A Room of One's Own
• Xavi - Nickname of Xavier Hernández i Creus, Catalan footballer