January 15

Events
 * 1907 - The three-element vacuum tube was issued a U.S. patent to Dr Lee de Forest, its inventor.

Births


 * 1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music theorist (d. 1522)
 * 1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)
 * 1908 - Russ Columbo, American singer (d. 1934)
 * 1917 - Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1988)
 * 1938 - Jack Jones, American singer
 * 1938 - Allen Toussaint, American singer
 * 1953 - Gordon Byrd, Canadian musician
 * 1956 - Étienne Daho, French singer and songwriter
 * 1956 - Ben Heppner, Canadian singer
 * 1959 - Geoff Tate, American musician (Queensrÿche)
 * 1965 - Ellis Paul, American singer-songwriter and folk musician
 * 1967 - Zakk Wylde, American musician (Black Label Society)
 * 1969 - David Grohl, American drummer and composer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
 * 1978 - Just Blaze, American hip hop producer