- Jan 1 DJ Shadow [Joshua Davis], American hip-hop DJ and songwriter (Endtroducing.....), born in San Jose, Clifornia
- Jan 2 Christopher Lennertz, American television, film, and video game composer, born in Methuen, Massachusetts
- Jan 3 Kevin Puts, American composer ("Silent Night" - Pulitzer Prize for Music 2012), born in St. Louis, Missouri [1]
- Jan 3 Nichole Nordeman, American pop and contemporary Christian singer-songwriter, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Jan 5 Sakis Rouvas, Greek pop-rock singer and musician ("Shake It"), born in Corfu Island, Greece
- Jan 6 Nek [Filippo Neviani], Italian singer-songwriter, born in Sassuolo, Modena
- Jan 14 Predrag Gosta, Serbian-American conductor (Makris Symphony Orchestra, 2015-present), harpsichordist, and baritone, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
- Jan 16 Greg Page, Australian musician and actor (The Wiggles), born in Sydney, Australia
- Jan 17 Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter, born in Higashi-osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Jan 17 Stéphane Escoms, French jazz keyboard and accordion player, born in France
- Jan 21 Cat Power [Charlyn "Chan" Marshall], American indie rock-folk singer-songwriter (Jukebox), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Jan 21 Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese video game and film composer (Inazuma Eleven), born in Tokuyama, Japan
- Jan 24 Beth Hart, American blues-rock singer-songwriter ("LA Song (Out of This Town)", Screamin' for My Supper), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jan 24 Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer, born in Kōchi
- Jan 27 Mark Owen, English pop singer (Take That - "Pray"; solo - "Four Minute Warning"), born in Oldham, Lancashire, England
- Jan 28 Tunde Jegede, Nigerian-British cellist, kora player, and composer of contemporary classical, African and pop music, born in London, England
About January 1972
How Old? 52 years old
Generation: Generation X
Leap Year: Yes
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