page_title: 1915
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1915 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Fotografie von Alan Lomax. English: Alan Lomax playing guitar on stage at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.
context_page_description: 1915 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1915th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 915th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1915, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1
  Branko Ćopić, Yugoslav writer (d. 1984)
  Tom Godwin, American science fiction author (d. 1980)
  Fazlollah Reza, Iranian university professor, electrical engineer (d. 2019)
  January 2 – John Hope Franklin, African-American historian (d. 2009)
  January 3
  Sid Hudson, American baseball player (d. 2008)
  Mady Rahl, German stage, film actress (d. 2009)
  January 4
  Meg Mundy, English-born American actress (d. 2016)
  Adolf Opálka, Czechoslovak soldier (d. 1942)
  January 5
  Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer, cartographer (d. 2004)
  Humberto Teixeira, Brazilian flautist (d. 1979)
  January 6
  Don Edwards, American politician (d. 2015)
  Alan Watts, British philosopher (d. 1973)
  January 7
  Franz Bartl, Austrian field handball player (d. 1941)
  Helen Mussallem, Canadian nursing administrator (d. 2012)
  January 9
  Fernando Lamas, Argentine-born actor (d. 1982)
  Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970)
  January 11 – Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder of the Special Air Service (d. 1955)
  January 14 – Mark Goodson, American television game show producer (d. 1992)
  January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist, sculptor (d. 2009)
  January 16
  Susan Ahn Cuddy, United States Navy gunnery officer (d. 2015)
  Leslie H. Martinson, American film director (d. 2016)
  January 17 – Sammy Angott, American boxer (d. 1980)
  January 18 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician (d. 2012)
  January 20
  Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani civil servant, 7th President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
  Edward Stewart, American set decorator (d. 1999)
  January 23
  W. Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
  Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1985)
  January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
  January 25 – Ewan MacColl, English folk singer, songwriter, and poet (d. 1989)
  January 28 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-born American writer (d. 2009)
  January 29
  Albert Henderson, American actor (d. 2004)
  V. V. Sadagopan, Indian film actor, music teacher, performer and composer
  John Serry, Sr., American musician, composer, and arranger (d. 2003)
  January 30
  Ed Keats, American rear admiral (d. 2019)
  Joachim Peiper, German Waffen-SS officer (d. 1976)
  John Profumo, British politician (d. 2006)
  January 31
  Alan Lomax, American folklorist, musicologist (d. 2002)
  Thomas Merton, American monk, author (d. 1968)
caption: Alan Lomax
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