- Jan 2 Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, dies at 74
Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)
Jan 5 American aviator (1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic), is declared dead at 41 after disappearing over the Pacific Ocean in 1937
- Jan 6 Albert Ward, cricketer (England batsman in 7 Tests 1893-95), dies
- Jan 9 Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor and Royal Ball director, dies at 72
- Jan 10 Jameson Thomas, British actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies from tuberculosis at 50
- Jan 10 Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Little Violet; Missa Austriaca), dies at 64
- Jan 13 Jacob Ruppert Jr., American Baseball HOF executive (owner New York Yankees 1915-39; signed Babe Ruth; built Yankee Stadium), dies from phlebitis at 71
- Jan 19 Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- Jan 23 Matthias Sindelar, Austria soccer star, dies under mysterious circumstances at 35
- Jan 24 Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist, dies at 71
- Jan 27 John Watson, Canadian philosopher (Objective Idealism), dies at 91
- Jan 28 W. B. Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923), dies at 73
Assassination
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Plane Crash
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