- Jan 6 Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
- Jan 16 Alfred Shaw, English cricket medium/spin bowler (7 Tests; bowled first ball in Test cricket; first to take 5 wickets in a Test innings; Nottinghamshire CCC, MCC), dies at 64
- Jan 25 René Pottier, French racing cyclist (Tour de France 1906), dies of suicide at 27
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