| 9181 | January 21 | Death | 1989 – Billy Tipton, American pianist and saxophonist (b. 1914) |
| 9182 | January 21 | Death | 1993 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903) |
| 9183 | January 21 | Death | 1994 – Bassel al-Assad, Syrian colonel (b. 1962) |
| 9184 | January 21 | Death | 1994 – Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (b. 1889) |
| 9185 | January 21 | Death | 1997 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (b. 1909) |
| 9186 | January 21 | Death | 1998 – Jack Lord, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1920) |
| 9187 | January 21 | Death | 1999 – Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (b. 1920) |
| 9188 | January 21 | Death | 1999 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938) |
| 9189 | January 21 | Death | 2001 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (b. 1921) |
| 9190 | January 21 | Death | 2002 – Peggy Lee, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1920) |
| 9191 | January 21 | Death | 2003 – Paul Kuusberg, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1916) |
| 9192 | January 21 | Death | 2004 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright (b. 1929) |
| 9193 | January 21 | Death | 2005 – Theun de Vries, Dutch author and poet (b. 1907) |
| 9194 | January 21 | Death | 2006 – Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo journalist and politician 1st President of Kosovo (b. 1944) |
| 9195 | January 21 | Death | 2007 – UNee, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1981) |
| 9196 | January 21 | Death | 2007 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian runner (b. 1977) |
| 9197 | January 21 | Death | 2007 – Myrtle Devenish, Welsh actress (b. 1913) |
| 9198 | January 21 | Death | 2008 – Marie Smith Jones, American speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918) |
| 9199 | January 21 | Death | 2009 – Krista Kilvet, Estonian journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1946) |
| 9200 | January 21 | Death | 2011 – Theoni V. Aldredge, Greek-American costume designer (b. 1922) |
| 9201 | January 21 | Death | 2011 – Dennis Oppenheim, American sculptor and photographer (b. 1938) |
| 9202 | January 21 | Death | 2011 – E. V. V. Satyanarayana, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1958) |
| 9203 | January 21 | Death | 2012 – Irena Jarocka, Polish singer and actress (b. 1946) |
| 9204 | January 21 | Death | 2013 – Ahmet Mete Işıkara, Turkish geophysicist and academic (b. 1941) |
| 9205 | January 21 | Death | 2013 – Chumpol Silpa-archa, Thai academic and politician Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1940) |
| 9206 | January 21 | Death | 2013 – Michael Winner, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1935) |
| 9207 | January 21 | Death | 2014 – Tony Crook, English racing driver (b. 1920) |
| 9208 | January 21 | Death | 2015 – Marcus Borg, American scholar, theologian, and author (b. 1942) |
| 9209 | January 21 | Death | 2015 – Leon Brittan, English lawyer and politician Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1939) |
| 9210 | January 21 | Death | 2015 – Kemal Monteno, Bosnian singer-songwriter (b. 1948) |