Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Jan 1 American photographer and art dealer (Camera Work), born in Hoboken, New Jersey
Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
Jan 1 Chinese painter famous for whimsical and playful watercolor paintings, born in Xiangtan, China
- Jan 5 Bob Caruthers, American baseball player, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1911)
Ban Johnson (1864-1931)
Jan 6 American Baseball HOF executive (founder, President American League), born in Norwalk, Connecticut
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
Jan 10 African-American agricultural scientist (studied the peanut), born in Diamond Grove, Missouri [or Jul 12]
- Jan 10 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1931)
- Jan 11 Thomas Dixon, American white supremacist, novelist, playwright (The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan), born in Shelby, North Carolina (d. 1946)
- Jan 13 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (1911 Nobel Prize for Physics - displacement law), born in Gaffken, Prussia (d. 1928)
- Jan 15 Frances Benjamin Johnston, American photographer, born in Grafton West Virginia (d. 1952)
- Jan 16 Frank Bacon, American playwright, actor and author (Lightnin'), born near Yuba City, California (d. 1922)
- Jan 17 Lucien Herr, French intellectual and librarian (École Normale Supérieure), born in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin, France (d. 1926)
- Jan 24 Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
- Jan 25 Julije Kempf, Croatian historian & writer, born in Požega, Croatia (d. 1934)
- Jan 28 Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
- Jan 29 Adolf Philipp, German-American Broadway composer (Adele), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1936)