- Jan 1 Margot Grahame [Margaret Clark], British actress (The Three Musketeers, Criminal Lawyer), dies from chronic bronchitis at 70
- Jan 1 Victor Buono, American actor (Man from Atlantis: The, Untouchables; Batman - "King Tut"), dies at 43
- Jan 5 Hans Conried, American actor (Peter Pan; Bullwinkle Show; Make Room for Daddy - "Uncle Tonoose"; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T), dies from a heart ailment at 64
- Jan 5 Harvey Lembeck, American stage and screen actor (The Phil Silvers Show; Stalag 17; Beach Party films), dies of a heat attack at 58
- Jan 8 Grégoire Aslan, American actor (The Return of the Pink Panther, King of Kings), dies of a heart attack at 73
- Jan 8 Reta Shaw, American actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir, Mary Poppins, Picnic), dies of emphysema at 69
- Jan 10 Paul Lynde, American comedian and actor (The Hollywood Squares, Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies after a heart attack at 55
- Jan 13 Marcel Camus, French film director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69
- Jan 18 Trent Lehman, American child actor (Butch-Nanny & the Professor), commits suicide at 20
- Jan 23 Hope Hampton, actress (Star Dust, Lawful Larcency), dies at 83
- Jan 27 Iris Korn, American actress (Widder-Palmerstown USA), dies at 60
- Jan 30 Stanley Holloway, English comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91
- Jan 31 Jiří Srnka, Czech classical and film score composer, dies at 74
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