- Jan 1 Cyrill Kistler, German composer, educator, and music theorist, dies at 58
- Jan 3 Josef Foerster, Czech composer, and music teacher, dies at 73
- Jan 6 Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
- Jan 7 Anton Urspruch, German composer, dies at 56
- Jan 8 Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 57
- Jan 9 Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Queen of Hanover, dies at 88
- Jan 14 Karl von Perfall, German composer, dies at 82
- Jan 14 Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
- Jan 16 Alfred Shaw, English cricket medium/spin bowler (7 Tests; bowled first ball in Test cricket; first to take 5 wickets in a Test innings; Nottinghamshire CCC, MCC), dies at 64
- Jan 25 René Pottier, French racing cyclist (Tour de France 1906), dies at 27
- Jan 31 Timothy Eaton, Irish-born Canadian department store founder (Eatons), dies at 72
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