- Jan 5 Jean Murat, French actor (Eternal Rain, Carnival Flanders), dies at 79
- Jan 10 Basil Sydney, British actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife), dies of pleurisy at 73
- Jan 10 Howard Smith, American actor (Kiss of Death, Call Northside 777), dies at 74
- Jan 16 John Davidson, American stage and silent and sound screen actor (The Bronze Bell; Dick Tracy vs Crime, Inc; Chinese Cat), dies at 81
- Jan 18 Bert Wheeler, American vaudevillian (Wheeler & Woolsey), and comic actor (Brave Eagle; The Nitwits; Hold 'em Jail; High Flyers; Rainmakers), dies of emphysema at 72
- Jan 18 John Ridgely, American actor (Northern Pursuit; They Died with Their Boots On; Air Force), dies from a heart ailment at 58
- Jan 25 Virginia Maskell, English actress (Only Two Can Play), dies after an overdose at 31
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