- Jan 3 Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (The Murderess), dies at 59
- Jan 9 Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
- Jan 9 Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (Song of our Saviour), dies at 57
- Jan 15 Wilhelm Berger, German composer, pianist and conductor, dies at 49
- Jan 17 Francis Galton, British anthropologist and geneticist (eugenics), dies at 88
- Jan 24 Carl Eilhardt, German composer and conductor, dies at 67
- Jan 24 David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
- Jan 25 Kanno Sugako, Japanese anarcho-feminist journalist, hanged for her role in the plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji, dies at 29
- Jan 26 Charles Dilke, British statesman and Radical politician, dies at 67
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