Deaths
- 2 January – George MacDonald Fraser, author (born 1925)
- 3 January – Jimmy Stewart, racing driver (born 1931)
- 9 January – John Harvey-Jones, businessman (born 1924)
- 19 January – Morris Maddocks, bishop (born 1928)
- 30 January – Jeremy Beadle, television presenter, writer and producer (born 1948)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)