| 2221 | January 5 | Death | 1910 – Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834) |
| 2222 | January 5 | Death | 1919 – Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress and singer (b. 1886) |
| 2223 | January 5 | Death | 1922 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874) |
| 2224 | January 5 | Death | 1933 – Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872) |
| 2225 | January 5 | Death | 1937 – Marie Booth, English daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864) |
| 2226 | January 5 | Death | 1940 – Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant (b. 1885) |
| 2227 | January 5 | Death | 1941 – Amy Johnson, English pilot (b. 1903) |
| 2228 | January 5 | Death | 1942 – Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896) |
| 2229 | January 5 | Death | 1943 – George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864) |
| 2230 | January 5 | Death | 1946 – Kitty Cheatham, American singer and actress (b. 1864) |
| 2231 | January 5 | Death | 1947 – Charles Schlee, Danish-American cyclist (b. 1873) |
| 2232 | January 5 | Death | 1951 – Andrei Platonov, Russian author (b. 1899) |
| 2233 | January 5 | Death | 1951 – Seo Jae-pil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (b. 1864) |
| 2234 | January 5 | Death | 1952 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian-Italian physician and activist (b. 1869) |
| 2235 | January 5 | Death | 1952 – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish colonel and politician 46th Governor-General of India (b. 1887) |
| 2236 | January 5 | Death | 1954 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (b. 1891) |
| 2237 | January 5 | Death | 1956 – Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875) |
| 2238 | January 5 | Death | 1957 – Jerome Steever, American water polo player (b. 1880) |
| 2239 | January 5 | Death | 1963 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896) |
| 2240 | January 5 | Death | 1970 – Cyril Fagan, Irish-American astrologer and author (b. 1896) |
| 2241 | January 5 | Death | 1970 – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882) |
| 2242 | January 5 | Death | 1970 – Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896) |
| 2243 | January 5 | Death | 1971 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899) |
| 2244 | January 5 | Death | 1974 – Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1907) |
| 2245 | January 5 | Death | 1976 – Hamit Kaplan, Turkish wrestler (b. 1934) |
| 2246 | January 5 | Death | 1976 – John A. Costello, Irish lawyer and politician 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891) |
| 2247 | January 5 | Death | 1976 – Mal Evans, English talent manager (b. 1935) |
| 2248 | January 5 | Death | 1977 – Artur Adson, Estonian-Swedish poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1889) |
| 2249 | January 5 | Death | 1978 – Wyatt Emory Cooper, American author and screenwriter (b. 1927) |
| 2250 | January 5 | Death | 1979 – Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1894) |