- Jan 2 Gardner Read, American composer (Quiet Music for Strings; Dance of the Locomotives), and pedagogue (Boston University, 1948-78), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2005)
- Jan 9 Dr. Hepcat [Albert Lavada Durst], American blues pianist, born in Austin, Texas (d. 1995)
- Jan 10 Haywood Frank Henry, American jazz baritone saxophonist, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1994)
- Jan 15 Miriam Hyde, Australian composer, born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 2005)
- Jan 18 Giannis "Yannis" Papaioannou, Greek musician and composer, born in Kios, Ottoman Empire (now Gemlik, Turkey) (d. 1972)
- Jan 22 Verdina Shlonsky, Israeli pianist and avant-garde composer, born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1990)
- Jan 24 Norman Dello Joio [Nicodemo DeGioio], American classical composer (Choreography: Three Dances for Strings), born in New York City (d. 2008)
- Jan 25 Witold Lutosławski, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (Musique funèbre; Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1994)
Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990)
Jan 26 American Acadeny and Emmy Award-winning composer and songwriter ("All The Way"; "Love & Marriage"; "Come Fly With Me"), born in Syracuse, New York [1]
- Jan 27 Milton Adolphus, American pianist and composer, born in the Bronx, New York (d. 1988)
- Jan 27 Valery Zhelobinsky, Russian pianist and composer, born in Tambov, Russia (d. 1946)
- Jan 28 Jan Masseus, Dutch composer, born in Rotterdam (d. 1999)
- Jan 31 Héctor Iglesias Villoud, Argentine composer, born in San Nicolás, Argentina (d. 1988)
About January 1913
How Old? 111 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: No
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