- Jan 8 Charles Borromeo Mills, American composer, born in Asheville, North Carolina (d. 1982)
- Jan 9 Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (Epistrop), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1985)
- Jan 16 Roger Wagner, French-American choral director, and educator, born in Le Puy, France (d. 1992)
- Jan 22 Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer, born in Platanoussa, Greece (d. 2001)
- Jan 29 Menelaos Pallantios, Greek composer, born in Piraeus (d. 2012)
About January 1914
How Old? 110 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: No