- Jan 10 Jose Antonio de Donostia, Basque musicologist and composer, born in Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain (d. 1956)
- Jan 22 John Joseph Becker, American composer and conductor, born in Henderson, Kentucky (d. 1961)
- Jan 25 Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (Berlin Philharmonic, 1922-45, 1952-54), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1954)
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