James Longstreet
Jan 2 James Longstreet, American Confederate general, dies at 82
James Longstreet
- Jan 2 Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess (daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg, daughter of King Frederick I of Württemberg) and socialite, dies at 83
- Jan 5 Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel, German geologist and paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64
- Jan 9 Alfred Richard, cricketer (6 & 0 in only Test for S Af 1895-96), dies
- Jan 10 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
- Jan 15 Eduard Lassen, Belgian-Danish composer, dies at 73
- Jan 24 Franz Coenen, composer, dies at 77
- Jan 26 John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64
- Jan 26 Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
- Jan 27 Adam Minchejmer, composer, dies at 73