Camillo Golgi
Jan 21 Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and medical researcher (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1906), dies at 81
- Jan 23 Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Belgian philosopher and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 74
- Jan 23 Joseph Carl Breil, American composer (Les amours de la reine Élisabeth), dies at 55
- Jan 26 John Flannagan, Catholic priest, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University, dies at 66
- Jan 28 Kaufmann Kohler, German-born American reform rabbi and theologian, dies at 82
- Jan 30 Barbara La Marr [Reatha Watson], American vaudeville and silent film actress (The White Moth), and screenwriter, dies from pulmonary tuberculosis and nephritis at 29