- Jan 2 Joe Darling, Australian cricket batsman and captain (34 Tests, 21 as captain; 3 x 100s, TS 178; South Australia CA), dies following a gall bladder operation at 75
William Joyce (1906-1946)
Jan 3 American-born Irish Fascist politician and NAZI propagandist, hanged in Britain for treason at 39
- Jan 5 (Catherine) "Kitty" Cheatham, American folk singer and children's music singer-songwriter, dies at 81
- Jan 5 George "Slim" Summerville, American actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Keystone Cops), dies of a stroke at 53
- Jan 7 Adamo Didur, Polish operatic bass singer (New York Metropolitan Opera, 1908-32), dies at 71
Dion Fortune (1890-1946)
Jan 8 British occultist and author (Psychic Self-Defence, The Mystical Qabalah), dies of leukemia at 55
- Jan 9 Countee Cullen, African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance (The Black Christ; Copper Sun), dies from high blood pressure and uremic poisoning at 42 [1]
- Jan 9 Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
- Jan 17 Gottfried Rudinger, German composer, dies at 59
- Jan 18 Feliks Nowowiejski, Polish organist and composer, dies at 68
- Jan 23 Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Italian linguist, dies at 72
- Jan 26 Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
- Jan 29 Harry Hopkins, American statesman and presidential advisor (US Secretary of Commerce, Loan & Lease law), dies at 55
- Jan 29 Sidney Jones, British conductor and composer (The Geisha, A Gaiety Girl), dies at 84
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