- Jan 9 Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Spanish officer and 10th Count of Aranda, dies at 79
- Jan 20 Christian Cannabich, German violinist, composer and royal chaplain master, dies at 66
- Jan 22 Lewis Morris, American landowner and farmer (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 71
- Jan 22 Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66
- Jan 26 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer, conductor and tutor of Ludwig van Beethoven, dies at 49 [some sources give date as 28th]
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