Albert Stevens
Jan 9 Albert Stevens, an American patient in secret medical trials who survived the highest known radiation dose in a human, dies of heart disease at 79
- Jan 10 Fen Cresswell, New Zealand cricket slow bower (3 Tests, 13 wickets; Wellington, Central Districts), dies from suicide at 50
- Jan 10 Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom), dies at 69
- Jan 11 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss-French painter and sculptor, dies at 64
- Jan 11 Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian politician and Prime Minister of India (1964-66), dies under suspicious circumstances at 61
- Jan 11 Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (Olympic gold 1912), dies at 76
- Jan 14 Sergei Korolev, Soviet Russian rocket engineer & spacecraft designer (Sputnik; Voskhod), dies during surgery at 59
- Jan 14 Bill Carr, American athlete (Olympic gold 400m, 4 x 400m 1932), dies at 56
- Jan 16 Margarete Susman, German-Jewish writer, dies at 91
- Jan 17 Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50
- Jan 18 Kathleen Norris, American novelist and newspaper columnist, dies at 85
- Jan 22 Herbert Marshall, actor (Dark Angel, Duel in the Sun), dies at 75
- Jan 24 Homi J. Bhabha, Indian nuclear physicist, dies at 56
- Jan 29 Josef Winckler, German dentist and writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84
- Jan 29 Pierre Mercure, Canadian composer, dies in an accident at 38
- Jan 31 Elizabeth Patterson, actress (Tall Story), dies at 90