- Jan 4 Lily Laskine, French harpist, dies at 94
- Jan 4 Predrag Milošević, Serbian pianist, conductor, composer (Simfonijeta), and pedagogue, dies at 83
- Jan 29 Bantcho Bantchevsky, Bulgarian-American singer, commits suicide during a performance of at the Metropolitan Opera at 81
- Jan 29 Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 46
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