- Jan 5 Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (My Mother the Car, Coach), dies at 86
- Jan 8 Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor (Da Vinci's Inquest, Danger Bay), dies of cancer at 80
- Jan 9 Terence Marsh, British production designer (Oliver!; Dr. Zhivago; Spaceballs), dies of cancer at 86
- Jan 10 Wiesje Backer, Dutch ballet dancer, actress. and playwright, dies at 79
- Jan 12 Bella Emberg [Sybil Dyke], British comic actress (The Russ Abbott Show), dies of alcohol toxicity at 80
- Jan 12 Keith Jackson, American sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football, college football), dies at 89
- Jan 13 Tzimis Panousis, Greek musician, stand-up comedian, and radio presenter, dies of a heart attack at 63
- Jan 14 Hugh Wilson, American screenwriter, film director The First Wives Club; Blast from the Past), and TV series creator (WKRP in Cincinnati; Frank's Place), dies of lung cancer and emphysema at 74
- Jan 15 Peter Wyngarde [Cyril Goldbert], British actor (Department S and Jason King), dies at 90
- Jan 16 Bradford Dillman, American actor (Compulsion, Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer), dies of complications of pneumonia at 87
- Jan 17 Jessica Falkholt, Australian actress (Hope Morrison-Home and Away, dies at 29, three days after a car crash which also killed both her parents
- Jan 17 Simon Shelton Barnes, British actor (Teletubbies-Tinky Winky), dies of hypothermia at 52
- Jan 19 Allison Shearmur [Allison Ivy Brecker], American film executive and producer (Star Wars, The Hunger Games, Jason Bourne), dies of complications from lung cancer at 54
- Jan 19 Dorothy Malone, American actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place), dies at 93
- Jan 19 Olivia Cole, American actress (Roots, Backstairs at the White House), dies of a heart attack at 75
- Jan 20 Bob Smith, American author and a groundbreaking gay comedian (The Tonight Show, Funny Gay Males), dies from Lou Gehrig’s disease at 59
- Jan 20 Howard Lew Lewis, English comedian and actor (Maid Marian and Her Merry Men and Brush Strokes), dies at 76
- Jan 20 John Coleman, American journalist, co-founder of The Weather Channel and broadcaster (1953-2014), dies at 83
- Jan 21 Connie Sawyer [Rosie Cohen], American actress known as "The Clown Princess of Comedy" (Pineapple Express, Dumb and Dumber), dies at 105
- Jan 23 Lari White, American country music singer and actress (You Can Be a Star winner- 1988), dies of peritoneal cancer at 52
- Jan 25 John Morris, American film and Broadway composer who commonly worked alongside Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, dies of a respiratory infection at 91
- Jan 27 Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois), dies at 94
- Jan 30 Mark Salling, American actor and musician (Glee), commits suicide at 35
- Jan 31 Anne Gillis [Alma Conner], American actress (Faline-Bambi, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Men), dies at 90
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