- Jan 6 Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer, and subject of the film 'The World's Fastest Indian", dies at 78
- Jan 6 Francine York, American actress (Slattery's People), dies at 80
- Jan 11 Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
- Jan 11 Michael Bates, English actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper), dies at 57
- Jan 14 Blossom Rock [Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald], American actress (Grandmamma-The Addams Family), dies at 81
- Jan 14 Harold Abrahams, British athlete (Olympic gold 100m, silver 4x100m 1924; depicted in film "Chariots of Fire"), dies at 78
- Jan 15 Jack Jackson, British trumpeter, dance band bandleader, and influential BBC disc jockey, dies at 71
- Jan 18 Carl Betz, American actor (The Donna Reed Show, Love of Life), dies of lung cancer at 56
- Jan 23 Jack Oakie, American actor (The Great Dictator, 1974 Photoplay Award), dies at 74
- Jan 26 Leo Genn, British lawyer and actor (Mourning Becomes Electra, Moby-Dick, Affair in Monte Carlo), dies at 72
- Jan 27 Oscar Homolka, Hungarian actor (Sabotage, The Seven Year Itch, Ball of Fire, I Remember Mama), dies at 79
- Jan 29 Tim McCoy, American actor (Arizona Bound) and soldier, dies at 86
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