Rock Stars Celebrating Birthdays in January

Welcome to 2026 and with the calendar year turning, we have a whole new batch of January birthdays to celebrate.

Who is turning another year older and which rock legends are now celebrating heavenly birthdays? We've got the rundown and here's the perfect opportunity to see if you share a January birthday with any of them.

The month of January is when KISS legend Paul Stanley was born. You can also blow out the candles for Trivium's Matt Heafy and the face and voice of Shinedown, Brent Smith.

Dave Grohl celebrates a birthday this month. So does Rob Zombie and Korn's Jonathan Davis!

We've got birthdays this month for Rammstein's Till Lindemann, Five Finger Death Punch's Ivan Moody and rising star Poppy.

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We've also got some pretty significant birthdays of rockers who are no longer with us. Eddie Van Halen, Peter Steele, Malcolm Young and Jeff Hanneman all crafted significant musical legacies during their time on Earth and we'll celebrate those birthdays, as well.

So scroll through the list of January Rock + Metal Rock Star Birthdays below!