- Jan 3 Raoul Pugno, Italian-French piano prodigy, organist (Church of Saint-Eugène, 1872–92), composer, and pedagogue (Paris Conservatoire, 1892-1901), dies at 62
- Jan 4 Silas Weir Mitchell, American physician (discovered causalgia, erythromelalgia) and author (Roland Blake, Hugh Wynne), dies at 84
- Jan 8 Simon Bolivar Buckner, American soldier, Confederate lieutenant general and 30th governor of Kentucky (1887-91), dies of uremic poisoning at 90
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Jan 11 American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets & Dust), dies at 71
- Jan 11 Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
- Jan 13 Bernardus Hermanus Heldt, Dutch trade union leader and politician, dies at 72
- Jan 13 Valentin Zubiaurre Spanish composer (Ferdinand Set), and educator, dies at 76
- Jan 20 (Henry Southwick) H.S. Perkins, American hymn composer, lyricist, conductor, and teacher, dies at 80
- Jan 20 Emil Liebling, German-American composer, dies at 62
- Jan 20 Henry Southwick Perkins, American composer, educator, and founder of Music Teachers' National Association, dies at 80
- Jan 21 Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
- Jan 22 Frederik Rung, Danish composer, dies at 60
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