- Jan 6 Jose Enrique Pedreira, Puerto Rican composer ("Tus Caricias"; "Siempre"), and pedagogue, dies at 54
- Jan 9 Edwin A. Fleisher, American music patron (founder of the Symphony Club), musicologist (The Fleisher Collection), and philanthropist, dies at 71 [1]
- Jan 21 Lamar Stringfield, American composer, dies at 61
- Jan 28 Viktor Josef Keldorfer, Austrian composer, dies at 85
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