Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957)
Jan 10 Chilean poet (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1945), educator and diplomat, dies of pancreatic cancer at 67
Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)
Jan 14 American actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies of cancer of the esophagus at 57
- Jan 16 Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and Canada, dies at 82
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957)
Jan 16 Italian cellist and conductor (La Scala, 1898-1908 & 1921-29; Metropolitan Opera, 1908-15; New York Philharmonic, 1926-36; NBC Symphony Orchestra, 1937-41 & 1944-54), dies after a stroke in NYC at 89
- Jan 19 József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
- Jan 20 Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver, dies at 69
- Jan 20 James Connolly, American athlete and author, 1st Modern Olympic Champion in 1896, dies at 88
- Jan 21 Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist, dies at 87
- Jan 22 Paul Walden, Latvian chemist (Walden inversion, room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate), dies at 93
- Jan 23 Willie Edwards, US African American, murdered by KKK at 25
- Jan 24 Dan Taylor, South African cricket batsman (2 Tests, HS 36; Natal), dies at 70
- Jan 25 Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
- Jan 25 Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
- Jan 28 Fred Stein, TV panelist (Live Begins at 80), dies at 88
- Jan 30 Grigore Gafencu, Romanian minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65
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