Birthdays in Music
- Jan 7 William Yeates Hurlstone, composer
- Jan 12 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer, born in Venice, Italy
- Jan 20 Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
- Jan 29 Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer
- Jan 29 [William] Havergal Brian, British composer ("Gothic" symphony), born in Dresden, Staffordshire (d. 1972)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 10 Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70