| 4951 | January 11 | Death | 1703 – Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (b. 1632) |
| 4952 | January 11 | Death | 1713 – Pierre Jurieu, French priest and theologian (b. 1637) |
| 4953 | January 11 | Death | 1735 – Metropolitan Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš, Serbian metropolitan (b. 1670) |
| 4954 | January 11 | Death | 1753 – Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (b. 1660) |
| 4955 | January 11 | Death | 1762 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French-English sculptor (b. 1695) |
| 4956 | January 11 | Death | 1763 – Caspar Abel, German poet, historian, and theologian (b. 1676) |
| 4957 | January 11 | Death | 1771 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (b. 1704) |
| 4958 | January 11 | Death | 1788 – François Joseph Paul de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722) |
| 4959 | January 11 | Death | 1791 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh composer and poet (b. 1717) |
| 4960 | January 11 | Death | 1798 – Erekle II of Kartli (b. 1720) |
| 4961 | January 11 | Death | 1801 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749) |
| 4962 | January 11 | Death | 1836 – John Molson, Canadian businessman, founded the Molson Brewing Company (b. 1763) |
| 4963 | January 11 | Death | 1843 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1779) |
| 4964 | January 11 | Death | 1866 – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Irish actor (b. 1818) |
| 4965 | January 11 | Death | 1866 – John Woolley, English academic and clergyman, the first principal of the University of Sydney, Australia (b. 1816) |
| 4966 | January 11 | Death | 1867 – Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian politician 1st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1812) |
| 4967 | January 11 | Death | 1882 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (b. 1810) |
| 4968 | January 11 | Death | 1891 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French urban planner (b. 1809) |
| 4969 | January 11 | Death | 1901 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian bassoon player and composer (b. 1866) |
| 4970 | January 11 | Death | 1902 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862) |
| 4971 | January 11 | Death | 1904 – William Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1815) |
| 4972 | January 11 | Death | 1914 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and philanthropist (b. 1842) |
| 4973 | January 11 | Death | 1920 – Steinar Schjøtt, Norwegian philologist and lexicographer (b. 1844) |
| 4974 | January 11 | Death | 1923 – Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868) |
| 4975 | January 11 | Death | 1928 – Thomas Hardy, English author and poet (b. 1840) |
| 4976 | January 11 | Death | 1931 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor, historian, and author (b. 1852) |
| 4977 | January 11 | Death | 1937 – Nuri Conker, Turkish colonel and politician (b. 1882) |
| 4978 | January 11 | Death | 1938 – Johan Salonen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1884) |
| 4979 | January 11 | Death | 1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German mathematician, philosopher, and chess player (b. 1868) |
| 4980 | January 11 | Death | 1944 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1903) |