Events in Music
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 3 Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"; Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"), born in Dallas, Texas
- Jan 4 JayDee Maness, American pedal steel guitar player (Desert Rose Band - "Love Reunited"), born in Loma Linda, California
- Jan 7 Dave Cousins [Hindson], English rock singer-songwriter (Strawbs - "Part of the Union"), born in Hounslow, England
Rod Stewart (78 years old)
Jan 10 British singer ("Maggie Maey"; "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"; "Downtown Train"), and model railroad designer, born in London, England
- Jan 12 Maggie Bell, Scottish rock vocalist, born in Glasgow, Scotland
- Jan 14 Maina Gielgud, British ballet dancer and administrator, born in London, United Kingdom
- Jan 17 Ivan Karabits, Ukrainian composer, conductor, and educator, born in Yalta, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine (d. 2002)
- Jan 17 Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter, born in Gwalior, India
- Jan 17 William Hart, American soul singer and songwriter (4 Gents; Delfonics - "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)"; "La-La Means I Love You"), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2022)
- Jan 19 Charles Amirkhanian, American composer, born in Fresno, California
- Jan 20 Eric Stewart, English rock singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer (10cc - "I'm Not in Love"), born in Droylsden, United Kingdom
- Jan 21 Chris Britton, British rock guitarist (Troggs - "Wild Thing"; "Love Is All Around"), born in Watford, England
- Jan 26 Ashley Hutchings, British folk-rock bassist, vocalist, songwriter, and record producer (Fairport Convention; Steeleye Span), born in Southgate, London England
- Jan 26 Jacqueline du Pré, British concert cellist, born in Oxford, England (d. 1987)
- Jan 26 Marti Caine [Lynne Stringer], British comedienne, singer and television host, born in Sheffield, England (d. 1995)
- Jan 28 José Luis Perales, Spanish pop singer-songwriter ("Quisiera Decir tu Nombre" (I Would Like to Say Your Name)), born Castejón, Spain
- Jan 28 Robert Wyatt, English progressive rock musician (Soft Machine), born in Bristol, England
- Jan 30 Robert Wittinger, Austrian-born German composer, born in Knittelfeld, Austria
- Jan 31 Noah Creshevsky, American electroacoustic composer, born in Rochester, New York (d. 2020)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 1 Vit Nejedly, Czech composer, dies at the front during WWII at 33
- Jan 3 Théodore "Fyodor" Akimenko, Ukrainian composer, dies at 68
- Jan 14 Sándor Vándor, Hungarian Jewish composer, murdered in the Holocaust at 43 [1]
- Jan 22 Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday
- Jan 27 Gideon Klein, Moravian pianist and composer, dies in a Nazi labor camp at 26 (date approximate)
- Jan 30 William Busch, British composer, dies at 43
