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:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)