Birthdays in Music
- Jan 5 Uta Graf, singer/teacher
- Jan 10 Dean Dixon, American conductor, born in Harlem, New York (d. 1975)
- Jan 18 Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
- Jan 19 Alvy West, American orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Jan 24 Vitezslava Kapralova, composer
- Jan 25 Ewan MacColl, Scottish folk singer-songwriter (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face), born in Broughton, United Kingdom (d. 1989)
- Jan 27 Jack Brymer, clarinetist
- Jan 29 John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
- Jan 31 Bobby Hackett, American jazz cornetist and orchestra leader (Air time '57), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1976)
- Jan 31 Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
About January 1915
How Old? 104 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation or the G.I. Generation
Leap Year: No