Events in Film & TV
- Jan 9 First episode of "Third Rock from the Sun" screened on NBC
Golden Globes
Jan 21 53rd Golden Globes: "Sense and Sensibility", Nicolas Cage, & Sharon Stone win
Nicolas Cage
- Jan 28 12th Sundance Film Festival: "Welcome to the Dollhouse" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Jan 1 Mary Gibbs, American child actress
Florence Pugh
Jan 3 Florence Pugh, English actress (Outlaw Kingdom, Little Women), born in Oxford, England
Florence Pugh
- Jan 5 Max Baldry, English actor, born in Redhill, United Kingdom
Dove Cameron
Jan 15 Dove Cameron, American actress ("Liv and Maddie"), born in Seattle, Washington
Dove Cameron
Weddings in Film & TV
- Jan 27 "ER" TV actress Yvette Freeman (39) weds musical director Lawny Hartley (49) in Dunleith, Delaware
Deaths in Film & TV
- Jan 9 Fearless Mary Nadia Wadia, actress, dies at 88
- Jan 13 Denise Grey [Edouardine Verthuy], actress (Julietta), dies at 99
- Jan 18 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923)
- Jan 19 Donald Simpson, American film producer (Flashdance), dies at 52
- Jan 25 Ruth Berghaus, German choreographer and opera director, dies at 68
- Jan 27 Patrick Ludlow, British actor (Naughty Husbands, Evergreen and Modesty Blaise), dies at 93
- Jan 28 Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist, dies at 84
- Jan 30 Guy Doleman, actor (Deadly Bees, Idol, Thunderball), dies at 72