- Jan 6 Tex Rickard, American boxing promoter and entrepreneur (founder NHL New York Rangers; builder third incarnation of Madison Square Garden, NYC), dies of complications from an appendectomy at 59
Wilfred Baddeley (1872-1929)
Jan 24 British tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), dies at 57
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