Birthdays in Music
- Jan 1 Roland Diggle, English-born American composer and organist (d. 1954)
- Jan 23 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, Polish composer and conductor, born in Lviv, Ukraine (d. 1944)
- Jan 27 Jerome Kern, American Broadway composer (Showboat, Roberta), born in NYC, New York
- Jan 27 Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 4 Iosif Kotek, Russian composer and violinist, dies at 29