- Jan 3 Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
- Jan 8 Ada Rehan, Irish-American stage actress and comedian (Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre), dies from arteriosclerosis and cancer at 58
- Jan 8 Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
- Jan 14 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73
- Jan 15 Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
- Jan 16 Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57
- Jan 22 Iwan Knorr, German composer, dies at 63
- Jan 29 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62