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- Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier; 25 January 1736 - 10 April 1813), also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia, was an Italian mathematician and astronomer, later naturalized French. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics. In 1766, on the recommendation of Swiss Leonhard Euler and French d'Alembert, Lagrange succeeded Euler as the director of mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Prussia, where he stayed for over twenty years, producing volumes of work and winning several prizes of the French Academy of Sciences. Lagrange's treatise on analytical mechanics (Mécanique analytic, 4. ed., 2 vols. Paris: Gauthier-Villars ET fills, 1788-89), written in Berlin and first published in 1788, offered the most comprehensive treatment of classical mechanics since Newton and formed a basis for the development of mathematical physics in the nineteenth century.In 1787, at age 51, he moved from Berlin to Paris and became a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He remained in France until the end of his life. He was instrumental in the decimalization in Revolutionary France, became the first professor of analysis at the École Polytechnique upon its opening in 1794, was a founding member of the Bureau desk Longitudes, and became Senator in 1799.
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Robert Burns was born to a poor farming family in the Lowlands of Scotland in 1759. During his adult years he wrote several volumes of poetry that were well received. By the time of his death he was considered the poet laureate of Scotland, and is still considered so by many to this day. Among his many poems are; Auld Lang Syne, Coming Thro the Rye, Tam O'Shanter etc.- Writer
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James Hogg was born on 25 January 1770 in Ettrick, Selkirkshire, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for Only One Night (1939), Memoirs of a Sinner (1986) and Festival (1960). He died on 21 November 1835 in Altrive, Yarrow of the Borders, Scotland, UK.- Robert McWade Sr. was born on 25 January 1835 in Long Sault Rapids, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for As You Like It (1912), Rip Van Winkle (1912) and Papa Puts One Over (1913). He was married to Laura J. Childress. He died on 5 March 1913 in New York City, New York, USA.
- John Fisher was born on 25 January 1841 in Ramboda, Ceylon. He was married to Frances Katharine Josepha Broughton. He died on 10 July 1920 in London, England, UK.
- Albert Price was born on 25 January 1844 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for The Heir to Skjoldborg (1914), Nøddebo præstegaard (1911) and Fru Kristina (1917). He died on 13 June 1927.
- Arne Garborg was born on 25 January 1851 in Time, Norway. He was a writer, known for Læraren (1963), Læraren (1994) and Til deg - du hei (1987). He was married to Hulda Bergersen. He died on 14 January 1924 in Oslo, Norway.
- Jan Blockx was born on 25 January 1851 in Antwerp, Belgium. He was a composer, known for Waar het groeide (1956). He died on 26 May 1912 in Kapelenbos, Flanders, Belgium.
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Pierre Decourcelle was born on 25 January 1856 in Paris, France. He was a writer and producer, known for La brèche d'enfer (1923), When Paris Loves (1913) and Le crime d'une sainte (1923). He died on 10 October 1926 in Paris, France.- Richard Foster Baker was born on 25 January 1857 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Little Girl Next Door (1916), A Bunch of Keys (1915) and Kidder and Ko (1918). He died on 21 February 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Charles Curtis was born near Topeka, KS, in 1860. Of Native American ancestry (possibly as much as half), he lived on a Kaw Indian reservation for several years early in his life. In 1881 he was admitted to the state bar in Kansas, and was the Shawnee County District Attorney from 1885-89. He ran for Congress on the Republican ticket in 1893 and won, and served as a US Representative until 1907, when he ran for and won a seat in the US Senate. He served until 1913, when he was defeated in a re-election bid. However, he ran again in 1915 and won, and served until 1929, when he resigned to become Herbert Hoover's Vice Presidential candidate in the 1929 election, which they won. He served as Vice President until 1932, when he and Hoover lost their bid for re-election. Curtis stayed in Washington, DC, to practice law. He died there in 1936.
- Adelaide Coutinho was born on 25 January 1860 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was an actress, known for Pega na Chaleira (1909), Um Cavalheiro Deveras Obsequioso (1909) and Lucrecia Borgia (1910). She died on 25 September 1952 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- Henry Walter Barnett was born on 25 January 1862 in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a director and producer, known for Prince Ranjitsinhji Practising Batting in the Nets (1897), Melbourne, les courses: présentation du vainqueur (1896) and Melbourne, les courses: sorties de chevaux (1896). He died on 16 January 1934 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Léon Gandillot was born on 25 January 1862 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Ferdinand le noceur (1935), Les femmes collantes (1920) and Les femmes collantes (1938). He died on 22 September 1912 in Paris, France.
- Henry Stanley was born on 25 January 1864 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for A Woman in the Case (1910), Neal of the Navy (1915) and The Human Soul (1914).
- Karel Zelenský was born on 25 January 1865 in Ostrovacice Cechy, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Sílený lékar (1920). He died on 30 November 1935 in Zbraslav, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Antonio Scotti was born on 25 January 1866 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He died on 26 February 1936 in Naples, Campania, Italy.
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Juventino Rosas was born on 25 January 1868 in Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was a composer, known for Heavenly Creatures (1994), Pitch Perfect (2012) and Irrational Man (2015). He died on 13 July 1894 in Surgidero de Batabanó, Cuba.- Charles Lane was born on 25 January 1869 in Madison, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Sadie Thompson (1928) and The Canary Murder Case (1929). He died on 17 October 1945 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Lotten Olsson was born on 25 January 1869 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Sonja (1943), Flickan i frack (1926) and The Blizzard (1923). She died on 27 December 1949.
- Producer
- Actor
Paul Gerson was born on 25 January 1871 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a producer and actor, known for The Midnight Limited (1926), Perils of the Coast Guard (1926) and The Pride of the Force (1925). He died on 6 June 1957 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Robert McWade was born on 25 January 1872 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Kennel Murder Case (1933), The Dragon Murder Case (1934) and Anything Goes (1936). He was married to Almina Lee. He died on 19 January 1938 in Culver City, California, USA.
- Marion Craig Wentworth was born on 25 January 1872 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Marion Craig was a writer, known for War Brides (1916). Marion Craig died in 1942 in the USA.
- Matija Zemljic was born on 25 January 1873 in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia. Matija is known for Laibach featuring Severa Gjurin, Boris Benko & Tomi Meglic: O, Triglav, moj dom (2023). Matija died on 26 July 1934 in Sveti Tomaz, Slovenia.
- Karol Irzykowski was born on 25 January 1873 in Blazkowa, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Blazkowa, Podkarpackie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Widziadlo (1984). He died on 2 November 1944 in Zyrardów, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Writer
- Actor
Popular British novelist, playwright, short-story writer and the highest-paid author in the world in the 1930s, Somerset Maugham graduated in 1897 from St. Thomas' Medical School and qualified as a doctor, but abandoned medicine after the success of his first novels and plays. During World War I he worked as a secret agent and in 1928 settled in Cap Ferrat in France, from where he made journeys all over the world. Maugham's spy novel "Ashenden; or The British Agent" (1928) is partly based on his own experiences in the secret service. In making the transition from secret agent to writer, Maugham carried on in the tradition of such classic writers as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and Daniel Defoe to such contemporary writers as Graham Greene, John le Carré, John Dickson Carr, Alec Waugh and Ted Allbeury. Maugham's skill in handling plot is compared by critics to that of Guy de Maupassant. In many of Maugham's novels the surroundings are international and the stories are told in a clear, economical style with a cynical or resigned undertone. Although Maugham was successful as an author he was never knighted and his relationship with Gerald Haxton, his secretary, has been subject to speculation.- May Milloy was born on 25 January 1875 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. She was an actress, known for The Man from Blankley's (1930), Dad's Day (1929) and Hurdy Gurdy (1929). She was married to Ford West. She died on 18 November 1967 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- Actress
- Director
Rosa Valetti was born Rosa Alice Vallentin, the daughter of industrialist Felix Vallentin and his wife, Bertha. Her brother was actor Hermann Vallentin, who emigrated to Mandatory Palestine. She first appeared on the Berlin stage and later also in Paris, Brussells and Vienna. During the First World War, she worked with Ludwig Roth, her first husband, at the Residenz-Theater in Berlin. She also worked as a director and acted in many theaters. A meeting with Kurt Tucholsky gave her an opportunity to work in cabaret, firstly in "Schall und Rauch." Valetti produced her own cabaret show "Café Grössenwahn" in 1920, then "Die Rampe" in 1922, and "Comedia Valetti" in 1923.
Valetti played in many cabarets around Europe and appeared in the premiere of "Die Dreigroschenoper" ("The Three Penny Opera"). In all, she appeared in more than 40 films, including in 1930 's "Der Blaue Engel" (The Blue Angel) with Marlene Dietrich. In 1933, she left Nazi Germany for Vienna and worked until 1935 at the Theater at der Josefstadt, also making guest appearances in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1934, she moved back to Berlin and then in 1936 to Palestine. She died the following year in Vienna. Her only child, her daughter Elisabeth, an actress known as Lisl Valetti, emigrated to the USA.- Herbert Eulenberg was born on 25 January 1876 in Mülheim, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a writer, known for The Dream of the Rhine (1933). He was married to Hedda. He died on 4 September 1949 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Coming to the US at the age of 34, New Zealand-born Rupert Julian started his career as a stage and screen actor touring Australia and New Zealand. Having made his name (and a cool million for Universal) as a dead ringer for Kaiser Wilhelm II in the 1918 film The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918), he turned director. His output was mostly routine until he was assigned to complete Merry-Go-Round (1923) when director Erich von Stroheim was fired from it. His best-known picture was Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (though he in turn was fired and replaced before filming was completed), but he soon fell into a professional decline, and after directing only two films after the advent of sound, his career fizzled out.- Mikhail Obukhov was born on 25 January 1879 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Mikhail died on 25 March 1914 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia].
- Actor
Eugene Beday was born on 25 January 1880 in Switzerland. He was an actor. He died on 1 August 1975 in Orange County, California, USA.- Emil Ludwig was born on 25 January 1881 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Hitler's Madman (1943). He was married to Elga Wolff. He died on 17 September 1948 in Moscia, Ticino, Switzerland.
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Mark Goldaine was born on 25 January 1881 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Neck and Neck (1920), The Rip Snorter (1925) and A Much Needed Rest (1919). He died on 30 August 1970 in Orange, California, USA.- Elly Heuss-Knapp was born on 25 January 1881 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]. She was a director, known for Katharine (1938). She was married to Theodor Heuss. She died on 19 June 1952 in Bonn, Germany.
- London-born Virginia Woolf came from a wealthy family and, unlike her brothers, received her education at home, an unusual step for the times. Her parents had both had children from previous marriages, so she grew up with a variety of siblings, stepbrothers and stepsisters. Her father was a well-respected editor and author and the former son-in-law of William Makepeace Thackeray. Author James Russell Lowell was her godfather, and Henry James and George Elliott were regular visitors and guests at the family home. As she recalled later in life, her most pleasant childhood memories were of the summers spent at the family home in Cornwall, by Porthminster Bay (the Godrevy Lighthouse there was the basis for her novel "To the Lighthouse").
The sudden death of Virginia's mother in 1895, when she was 13, and the passing of her sister two years later led to the first of Virginia's mental breakdowns. In 1904 her father died, which caused a complete mental and physical collapse and for a while she was sent to a mental institution to recover. Nervous breakdowns and bouts of severe depression tormented Virginia throughout her life, and the fact that as children she and her sister Vanessa were sexually abused by two of their stepbrothers added to her already considerable feelings of guilt and inferiority.
She studied at London's Kings College, where she became acquainted with such literary figures as Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner and Leonard Woolf. She married Woolf in 1912. Virginia was always ashamed of what she termed her "unattractive countenance", and once wrote that "being wanted [was] a pleasure that I have never felt". In 1922 she met Vita Sackville-West, and the two women began a relationship that lasted for almost ten years. She was said to have written her novel "Orlando" as a love letter to West.
After the publication of her novel "Between the Acts" she fell into a deep depression, exacerbated by the destruction of her London home by Nazi planes during the bombing of that city, and the less than enthusiastic critical reaction to her biography of her close friend Roger Fry. Her condition deteriorated to the point where she was unable to write or even read. She finally had a full-blown nervous breakdown. Unable and unwilling to continue, she wrote a note to her husband saying that "I am certain I am going mad again" and "I shan't recover this time . . . I can't fight any longer . . . I can't go on spoiling your life any longer." On March 28, 1941, she left her home, walked to the banks of the nearby River Ouse, loaded heavy stones into her pockets and walked into the water. She was 59 years old. - Edgar Nelson was born on 25 January 1882 in Tower City, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Way Down East (1920), The House of a Thousand Candles (1915) and Sandra (1924). He died on 27 December 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- Ab Jenkins was born on 25 January 1883 in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA. He was married to Evelyn Thorstenberg and Pearl Decker. He died on 9 August 1956 in Wisconsin, USA.
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- Actor
C.W.R. Knight was born on 25 January 1884 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) and Gone to Earth (1950). He was married to Eva Bennet. He died on 19 May 1957.- Composer
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Composer, author, conductor and teacher, educated at the Hungarian State College (BA), the National Music School in Rome (with Mascagni), and Columbia University (MA, Ph.D) on a fellowship with Rybner and Mason. He came to the USA in 1908, became a US citizen in 1915, and joined ASCAP in 1927. He authored many articles on music, and was a teacher of George Gershwin. He was a music director for film theatres in New York, and composed and arranged for and supervised Hollywood studios' music departments for thirty years, as well as offering private music study in Los Angeles.- Reinhold Balqué was born on 25 January 1885 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Spaßvögel (1939). He was married to Elisabeth Günther. He died on 5 January 1946 in Leipzig, Germany.
- William Wand was born on 25 January 1885 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK. William was married to Amy Wiggins. William died on 16 August 1977 in Lingfield, Surrey, England, UK.
- Additional Crew
Phillip W. Booker was born on 25 January 1885 in Virginia, USA. Phillip W. died on 2 November 1970 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Writer
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José González Castillo was born on 25 January 1885 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. José was a writer, known for The Law They Forgot (1938), Resaca (1916) and Juan sin ropa (1919). José died on 22 October 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Actor
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- Director
Franklyn Hall was born on 25 January 1886 in Oakland, California, USA. He is known for Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1913), A Branded Soul (1917) and Where Are My Children? (1916).- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Wilhelm Furtwängler was born on 25 January 1886 in Berlin, Germany. He is known for Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King (1972), A Dream, What Else? (1995) and Les passagers (1999). He was married to Elisabeth Ackermann and Zitla Lund. He died on 30 November 1954 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany.- J. Oscar Humphrey was born on 25 January 1886 in the USA. He was married to Esther Carmel Friday. He died on 31 March 1956 in the USA.
- Ernst Eschmann was born on 25 January 1886 in Richterswil, Zürich, Zürich. Ernst was a writer, known for Das Menschlein Matthias (1941). Ernst died on 29 September 1953 in Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Emilio Petacci was born on 25 January 1886 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Beatrice Cenci (1941), Stasera alle undici (1938) and Anna (1951). He died on 20 March 1965 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Art Director
- Production Designer
Klaus Richter was born on 25 January 1887 in Berlin, Germany. He was an art director and production designer, known for The Student of Prague (1913) and New Year's Eve (1924). He died on 3 January 1948 in Berlin, Germany.