JANUARY BIRTHDAYS

JANUARY 31

• 1892 – Eddie Cantor
• 1915 – Alan Lomax
• 1919 – Jackie Robinson
• 1921 – Carol Channing
• 1928 – Chuck Willis
• 1931 – Ernie Banks
• 1937 – Philip Glass
• 1937 – Suzanne Pleshette
• 1944 – Connie Booth
• 1944 – Charlie Musselwhite
• 1946 – Terry Kath
• 1947 – Nolan Ryan
• 1947 - Stephen Peter "Steve" Marriott
• 1951 – Harry Wayne Casey
• 1951 – Phil Manzanera
• 1956 – John Lydon
• 1961 – Lloyd Cole
• 1967 – Chad Channing
• 1967 – Jason Cooper
• 1981 – Justin Timberlake

JANUARY 30   

• 1922 – Dick Martin
• 1942 – Marty Balin
• 1951 – Phil Collins

JANUARY 29 

• 1737 – Thomas Paine
• 1860 – Anton Chekhov
• 1880 – W. C. Fields
• 1923 – Paddy Chayefsky
• 1929 – Ed Shaughnessy
• 1934 – Noel Harrison
• 1936 – James Jamerson
• 1944 – Andrew Loog Oldham
• 1946 – Bettye LaVette
• 1953 – Peter Baumann
• 1954 – Richard Manitoba
• 1954 – Oprah Winfrey
• 1964 – Roddy Frame
• 1981 – Jonny Lang

JANUARY 28 

• 1887 – Arthur Rubinstein
• 1892 – Ernst Lubitsch
• 1912 – Jackson Pollock
• 1927 – Ronnie Scott
• 1936 – Alan Alda
• 1941 – King Tubby
• 1943 – Dick Taylor
• 1944 – John Tavener
• 1945 – Robert Wyatt
• 1962 – Sam Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Sarah McLachlan
• 1968 – DJ Muggs
• 1981 – Elijah Wood

JANUARY 27 

• 1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 1832 – Lewis Carroll
• 1918 – Skitch Henderson
• 1918 – Elmore James
• 1919 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.
• 1921 – Donna Reed
• 1936 – Troy Donahue
• 1937 – John Ogdon
• 1941 – Bobby Hutcherson
• 1942 – Kate Wolf
• 1944 – Nick Mason
• 1946 – Nedra Talley (Ronettes)
• 1951 – Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy)
• 1951 – Seth Justman
• 1961 – Gillian Gilbert
• 1968 – Mike Patton

JANUARY 26

• 1905 – Maria von Trapp
• 1921 – Akio Morita
• 1925 – Paul Newman
• 1929 – Jules Feiffer
• 1936 – Huey "Piano" Smith
• 1943 – Jean Knight
• 1944 – Angela Davis
• 1946 – Gene Siskel
• 1951 – Andy Hummel
• 1953 – Lucinda Williams
• 1955 – Eddie Van Halen
• 1958 – Anita Baker
• 1958 – Ellen DeGeneres
• 1963 – Andrew Ridgeley

JANUARY 25

• 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham
• 1882 – Virginia Woolf
• 1899 – Sleepy John Estes
• 1924 – Speedy West
• 1927 – Antônio Carlos Jobim
• 1931 – Dean Jones
• 1938 – Etta James
• 1949 – John Cooper Clarke
• 1956 – Andy Cox
• 1981 – Alicia Keys

JANUARY 24

• 1917 – Ernest Borgnine
• 1936 – Doug Kershaw
• 1939 – Ray Stevens
• 1941 – Neil Diamond
• 1941 – Aaron Neville
• 1943 – Sharon Tate
• 1944 – Klaus Nomi
• 1947 – Warren Zevon
• 1949 – John Belushi
• 1958 – Jools Holland
• 1974 – Ed Helms

JANUARY 23

• 1910 - Jean "Django" Reinhardt
• 1919 – Ernie Kovacs
• 1944 – Rutger Hauer
• 1950 - Daniel Paul "Danny" Federici

JANUARY 22

• 1552 – Sir Walter Raleigh
• 1561 – Francis Bacon
• 1788 – Lord Byron
• 1897 – Blind Willie Johnson
• 1931 – Sam Cooke
• 1932 – Piper Laurie
• 1934 – Bill Bixby
• 1934 – Graham Kerr
• 1946 – Malcolm McLaren
• 1953 – Jim Jarmusch
• 1959 – Linda Blair
• 1960 – Michael Hutchence
• 1961 – Daniel Johnston
• 1965 – DJ Jazzy Jeff

JANUARY 21

• 1922 – Telly Savalas
• 1938 – Wolfman Jack
• 1940 – Jack Nicklaus
• 1941 – Plácido Domingo
• 1941 – Richie Havens
• 1942 – Mac Davis
• 1942 – Edwin Starr
• 1955 – Jeff Koons
• 1965 – Jam Master Jay
• 1972 – Cat Power

JANUARY 20

• 1894 – Harold Gray (Cartoonist: Little Orphan Annie)
• 1894 – Walter Piston
• 1920 – Federico Fellini
• 1920 – DeForest Kelley
• 1923 – Slim Whitman
• 1929 – Jimmy Cobb
• 1929 – Arte Johnson
• 1943 – Rick Evans (Zager and Evans)
• 1945 – Eric Stewart
• 1946 – David Lynch
• 1952 – Paul Stanley

JANUARY 19

• 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe
• 1839 – Paul Cézanne
• 1917 – John Raitt
• 1923 – Jean Stapleton
• 1926 – Fritz Weaver
• 1930 – Tippi Hedren
• 1932 – Richard Lester
• 1939 – Phil Everly
• 1943 – Janis Joplin
• 1946 – Dolly Parton
• 1947 – Rod Evans
• 1949 – Robert Palmer
• 1954 – Katey Sagal
• 1955 – Simon Rattle

JANUARY 18

• 1882 – A. A. Milne
• 1892 – Oliver Hardy
• 1904 – Archibald Alexander Leach (Cary Grant)
• 1913 – Danny Kaye
• 1941 – David Ruffin
• 1944 - "Legs" Larry Smith
• 1952 – R. Stevie Moore
• 1973 – Luther Dickinson

JANUARY 17

• 1706 – Benjamin Franklin
• 1820 – Anne Brontë
• 1922 – Betty White
• 1927 – Eartha Kitt
• 1928 – Vidal Sassoon
• 1931 – James Earl Jones
• 1933 – Shari Lewis
• 1942 – Muhammad Ali
• 1943 – Chris Montez
• 1949 – Andy Kaufman
• 1949 – Mick Taylor
• 1952 – Ryuichi Sakamoto
• 1953 – Jeff Berlin
• 1955 – Steve Earle
• 1956 – Paul Young
• 1959 – Susanna Hoffs
• 1962 – Ari Up
• 1964 – Andy Rourke

JANUARY 16

• 1908 – Ethel Merman
• 1910 – Dizzy Dean
• 1933 – Susan Sontag
• 1934 – Marilyn Horne
• 1944 – Jim Stafford
• 1946 – Ronnie Milsap
• 1948 – John Carpenter
• 1950 – Robert Schimmel
• 1950 – Damo Suzuki (Can)

JANUARY 15

• 1893 – Ivor Novello
• 1909 – Gene Krupa
• 1923 – Ivor Cutler
• 1929 – Earl Hooker
• 1929 – Queen Ida
• 1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1941 – Captain Beefheart
• 1948 – Ronnie Van Zant

JANUARY 14

• 1875 – Albert Schweitzer
• 1892 – Hal Roach
• 1938 – Allen Toussaint
• 1940 – Julian Bond
• 1941 – Faye Dunaway
• 1948 – T-Bone Burnett
• 1949 – Lamar Williams
• 1965 – Ellis Paul
• 1967 – Zakk Wylde
• 1968 – LL Cool J
• 1969 – Jason Bateman
• 1969 – Dave Grohl

JANUARY 13

• 1884 – Sophie Tucker
• 1929 – Joe Pass
• 1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly
• 1942 – Carol Cleveland
• 1954 – Trevor Rabin
• 1961 – Wayne Coyne 

JANUARY 12

• 1904 – Mississippi Fred McDowell
• 1905 – Tex Ritter
• 1917 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• 1923 – Ira Hayes
• 1926 – Ray Price
• 1930 – Glenn Yarbrough
• 1934 - Des O'Connor
• 1940 – Ronald Shannon Jackson
• 1941 – Long John Baldry
• 1944 – Joe Frazier
• 1945 – Maggie Bell
• 1946 – George Duke
• 1951 – Kirstie Alley
• 1951 - Christopher Branford "Chris" Bell
• 1954 – Howard Stern
• 1955 – Tom Ardolino
• 1965 – Rob Zombie

JANUARY 11

• 1924 – Slim Harpo
• 1942 – Clarence Clemons
• 1946 – Tony Kaye
• 1948 – Terry Williams
• 1956 – Robert Earl Keen
• 1958 – Vicki Peterson
• 1971 – Mary J. Blige

JANUARY 10 

• 1843 – Frank James
• 1904 – Ray Bolger
• 1905 – Albert Arlen
• 1917 – Jerry Wexler
• 1924 – Max Roach
• 1927 – Johnnie Ray
• 1935 – Ronnie Hawkins
• 1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose
• 1938 – Willie McCovey
• 1939 – Scott McKenzie
• 1939 – Sal Mineo
• 1943 – Jim Croce
• 1944 – Frank Sinatra, Jr.
• 1945 – Rod Stewart
• 1946 – Aynsley Dunbar
• 1948 – Donald Fagen
• 1952 – Scott Thurston
• 1953 – Pat Benatar
• 1955 – Michael Schenker
• 1956 – Shawn Colvin

JANUARY 9 

• 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee
• 1913 – Richard M. Nixon
• 1914 – Kenny Clarke
• 1915 – Fernando Lamas
• 1916 – Vic Mizzy
• 1935 – Bob Denver
• 1941 – Joan Baez
• 1943 – Scott Walker
• 1943 – Jerry Yester
• 1944 – Jimmy Page
• 1948 – Bill Cowsill
• 1950 – David Johansen
• 1951 – Crystal Gayle
• 1967 – Dave Matthews

JANUARY 8 

• 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday
• 1904 – Tampa Red
• 1923 – Larry Storch
• 1926 – Soupy Sales
• 1931 – Bill Graham
• 1934 – Roy Kinnear
• 1935 – Elvis Presley
• 1937 – Shirley Bassey
• 1938 – Bob Eubanks
• 1946 – Robby Krieger
• 1947 – David Bowie
• 1947 – Terry Sylvester
• 1964 – Ron Sexsmith
• 1969 – Ami Dolenz
• 1975 – Tift Merritt

JANUARY 7 

• 1899 – Al Bowlly
• 1908 – Red Allen
• 1911 – Butterfly McQueen
• 1912 – Charles Addams
• 1928 – William Peter Blatty
• 1936 – Hunter Davies
• 1945 – Tony Conigliaro
• 1946 – Jann Wenner
• 1948 – Kenny Loggins
• 1959 – Kathy Valentine

JANUARY 6 

• 1412 – Joan of Arc
• 1878 – Carl Sandburg
• 1880 – Tom Mix
• 1912 – Danny Thomas
• 1924 – Earl Scruggs
• 1931 – E. L. Doctorow
• 1935 – Nino Tempo
• 1937 – Doris Troy
• 1940 – Van McCoy
• 1944 – Bonnie Franklin
• 1946 – Syd Barrett
• 1947 – Sandy Denny
• 1951 – Kim Wilson
• 1953 – Malcolm Young
• 1954 – Trudie Styler
• 1955 – Rowan Atkinson
• 1986 – Alex Turner

JANUARY 5 

• 1895 – Elizabeth Cotten
• 1914 – George Reeves
• 1929 – Wilbert Harrison
• 1931 – Alvin Ailey
• 1931 – Robert Duvall
• 1934 – Phil Ramone
• 1946 – Diane Keaton
• 1969 – Marilyn Manson

JANUARY 4 

• 1809 – Louis Braille
• 1942 – John McLaughlin
• 1943 – Doris Kearns Goodwin
• 1954 – Eugene Chadbourne
• 1956 – Nels Cline
• 1956 – Bernard Sumner
• 1957 – Patty Loveless
• 1958 – Andy Borowitz
• 1958 – Matt Frewer
• 1960 – Michael Stipe
• 1962 – Robin Guthrie
• 1965 – Beth Gibbons
• 1965 – Cait O'Riordan

JANUARY 3

• 1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien
• 1907 – Ray Milland
• 1909 – Victor Borge
• 1916 – Maxene Andrews
• 1926 – George Martin
• 1929 – Sergio Leone
• 1932 – Dabney Coleman
• 1941 – Van Dyke Parks
• 1945 – Stephen Stills
• 1946 – John Paul Jones
• 1954 – Ross the Boss

JANUARY 2

• 1905 – Michael Tippett
• 1920 – Isaac Asimov
• 1936 – Roger Miller
• 1952 – Christine Lavin
• 1961 – Todd Haynes

JANUARY 1

• 1735 – Paul Revere
• 1752 – Betsy Ross
• 1900 – Xavier Cugat
• 1908 – Bill Tapia
• 1909 – Dana Andrews
• 1911 – Hank Greenberg
• 1919 – Rocky Graziano
• 1919 – J. D. Salinger
• 1933 – Joe Orton
• 1935 – B. Kliban
• 1942 – Country Joe McDonald
• 1943 – Don Novello
• 1958 – Grandmaster Flash