List of Famous people born on January 1st

Tom McDermott is a pianist and composer born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1957. He began studying piano at age seven, became a professional musician at 16, and received a Master of Music degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1982. Two years later he moved to New Orleans and became noted for the styles of music associated with that town, especially Traditional jazz and New Orleans R&B. He was in the group "Dukes of Dixieland" through much of the 1990s. In 1994 he co-founded and wrote arrangements for the innovative brass band the New Orleans Nightcrawlers. He has released 17 CDs as a leader, and has received praise from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times and other publications. Since 2001 he has devoted much time travelling to Brazil, where he has studied and recorded choro music.

Tony Smith is a British manager best known as talent manager for Genesis since 1973 and for the solo careers of Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks. He is also, as of 2007, co-manager of Pink Floyd along with Paul Loasby. Alongside these mostly English bands and musicians, he also manages other bands worldwide. In 2000, the Music Managers Foundation presented him with the Peter Grant Award.

Larry Kaplan is an American video game designer and programmer best known for the 1981 Atari 2600 game Kaboom!, and for helping to found Activision.

Ken Kensei is a Japanese actor who is known for various cameo appearances in numerous movies.

Masashi Fujimoto is a Japanese actor, singer, musician, and entertainer who lives in London, UK. He was born in Hiroshima in 1963, and graduated in music from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo in 1985. He joined Nikikai Opera in 1988. He moved to Italy in 1992, then to the UK in 1995.

Tôn-Thất Tiết is a Vietnamese-born French music composer. His double-character family name is Tôn Thất, his given name Tiết (尊室節).