On the first of the year, Hsu Tsang-houei, the dean of Taiwanese music, passed away after a fall left him in a coma. Then came the news that Chang Kwang-chih, the respected archeologist and former vice-president of the Academia Sinica, had died of illness in the United States. Finally, on the afternoon of January 9, the historian Tai Kuo-hui died of septicemia.
首先是去年底意外摔倒昏迷的台灣音樂耆老許常惠，在新世紀的第一天溘然長逝，其次是國際知名考古學家、前中研院副院長張光直病逝美國；一月九日下午，歷史學家戴國煇也因敗血症過世。