- Jan 5 Mistinguett [Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois], French actress and singer (Moulin Rouge star), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 80
- Jan 12 Norman Kerry [Kaiser], American silent and sound screen actor (A Little Princess; The Phantom of the Opera; Air Eagles), dies of a liver ailment at 61
- Jan 13 Lyonel Feininger, German-American cartoonist and painter, dies at 84
- Jan 19 Charles Dingle, American actor (The Little Foxes), dies at 68
- Jan 23 Alexander Korda, British movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62
- Jan 27 Erich Kleiber, Austrian-Argentine conductor (Teatro Colón, 1937-49; NBC Symphony, 1947-48), dies at 65
- Jan 30 Jane Seymour [Marjorie S. Fitz-patrick], Canadian-American actress (Tom, Dick and Harry, Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 62
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