Maurice Gibb (1949-2003)
Jan 12 English rock-pop-disco singer-songwriter and bassist (Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever), dies of cardiac arrest at 53
- Jan 15 Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter ("Tutti Frutti"; You Always Hurt the One You Love": "Tampico"), dies at 87
- Jan 16 Henryk Czyz, Polish composer and musician, dies at 79
- Jan 17 Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (b. 1936)
- Jan 26 John Browning, American pianist (Leventritt Award-1956), dies at 69
- Jan 30 Joan Franks Williams, American contemporary classical composer, and promoter (founder of New Dimensions in Music (NDM)), dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 72
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