| 10381 | January 25 | Birth | 1841 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Sri Lankan-English admiral (d. 1920) |
| 10382 | January 25 | Birth | 1858 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1954) |
| 10383 | January 25 | Birth | 1860 – Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936) |
| 10384 | January 25 | Birth | 1864 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author (d. 1934) |
| 10385 | January 25 | Birth | 1868 – Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and composer (d. 1894) |
| 10386 | January 25 | Birth | 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, French-English author and playwright (d. 1965) |
| 10387 | January 25 | Birth | 1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975) |
| 10388 | January 25 | Birth | 1882 – Virginia Woolf, English author and critic (d. 1941) |
| 10389 | January 25 | Birth | 1885 – Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and author (d. 1942) |
| 10390 | January 25 | Birth | 1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (d. 1954) |
| 10391 | January 25 | Birth | 1886 – Morgan Russell, American painter (d. 1953) |
| 10392 | January 25 | Birth | 1896 – Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1927) |
| 10393 | January 25 | Birth | 1899 – Sleepy John Estes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977) |
| 10394 | January 25 | Birth | 1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1972) |
| 10395 | January 25 | Birth | 1900 – István Fekete, Hungarian author (d. 1970) |
| 10396 | January 25 | Birth | 1900 – Yōjirō Ishizaka, Japanese author and educator (d. 1986) |
| 10397 | January 25 | Birth | 1905 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (d. 1985) |
| 10398 | January 25 | Birth | 1905 – Margery Sharp, English author (d. 1991) |
| 10399 | January 25 | Birth | 1906 – Toni Ulmen, German racing driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1976) |
| 10400 | January 25 | Birth | 1910 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian, author, and politician Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1984) |
| 10401 | January 25 | Birth | 1913 – Huang Hua, Chinese translator and politician 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 2010) |
| 10402 | January 25 | Birth | 1913 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1994) |
| 10403 | January 25 | Birth | 1913 – Luis Marden, American photographer and journalist (d. 2003) |
| 10404 | January 25 | Birth | 1915 – Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 1989) |
| 10405 | January 25 | Birth | 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) |
| 10406 | January 25 | Birth | 1917 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992) |
| 10407 | January 25 | Birth | 1917 – Paul Rowe, Canadian football player (d. 1990) |
| 10408 | January 25 | Birth | 1918 – Ernie Harwell, American sportscaster (d. 2010) |
| 10409 | January 25 | Birth | 1919 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and author (d. 2010) |
| 10410 | January 25 | Birth | 1921 – Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and academic (d. 2010) |