- Jan 12 Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer, arranger, and pedagogue (Juilliard School, 1924-34), dies of cancer at 46
- Jan 15 Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
- Jan 16 Annie Patterson, Irish organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 65
- Jan 19 Armand Parent, Belgian composer, dies at 70
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