- Jan 6 George P Baker, American educator and playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68
- Jan 7 Alfred Ewing, Scottish Physicist (magnetic properties of metals, hysteresis), dies at 79
- Jan 10 Charlie McGahey, Australian cricketer (MCC tour of Aus 1901-02 cured his TB), dies
Teddy Flack
Jan 10 edwin flack, Australian athlete, (Olympic gold 800m, 1500m 1896), dies at 61
Teddy Flack
- Jan 14 Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Urlinie) know for his Schenkerian analysis of music, dies at 66
- Jan 16 Richard Wetz, German composer (Requiem, Op. 50 in B minor), dies of lung cancer at 59
- Jan 16 Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
- Jan 22 Horace Rawlins, English golfer (US Open 1895), dies at 60
- Jan 28 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and musician (Armenian Rhapsody), dies at 75