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)
“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)
“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)