C. Harrison, English historian, 96 (born 1921) Jenny Joseph, English poet, 85 (born 1932) Tricia Walker, English best-selling writer, 53 (born 1964) January 9 – Heikki Kirkinen, Finnish historian, 90 (born 1927) Yılmaz Onay, Turkish writer and translator, 80 (born 1937) Mario Perniola, Italian philosopher and professor of aesthetics, 76 (born 1941) January 10 – Gordon Hølmebakk, Norwegian publishing editor, essayist and novelist, 89 (born 1928) January 12 – Doodhnath Singh, Indian Hindi language writer, 81 (born 1936) Heinrich von Stietencron, German Indologist, 84 (born 1933) January 13 – Darmanto Jatman, Indonesian poet, 75 (born 1942) January 14 – Geoffrey Best FBA, English historian, 89 (born 1928) Pablo García Baena, Spanish poet and 1984 Asturias Prize recipient, 96 (born 1921) Samuel A. Schreiner Jr., American writer, 96 (born 1921) January 15 – Moussa Diagana, Mauritanian writer, 71 (born 1946) January 17 – Guy Dupré, French writer and publisher, 89 (born 1928) January 18 – Peter Mayle, English best-selling memoirist of A Year in Provence and A Good Year, 78 (born 1939 Nancy Richler, Canadian novelist and second cousin of the novelist Mordecai Richler, 60 (born 1957) Henry Soles Jr., American editor of two books: The Soul Food New Testament and the Children of Color Bible (both published by Tyndale House), 82 (born 1935) January 19 – Saqi Farooqi, Pakistani poet, 81 (born 1936) David M. Knight, English historian of science, 81 (born 1936) January 21 – Jock Haswell, English military historian and intelligence officer, 98 (born 1919) January 22 – Emilio Gastón, Spanish poet, 83 (born 1935) Ursula K. Le Guin, American science fiction and fantasy author, 88 (born 1929) January 23 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet and physicist, 103 (born 1914) January 24 – Matti Rissanen, Finnish philologist with an interest in Old English, director of the project that produced the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts covering 1,000 years of the English language and used widely since its publication in 1991, involved in the translation of Shakespeare, 80 (born 1937) January 25 – Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan poet, 93 (born 1924) Shawkat Ali, Bangladeshi writer, 81 (born 1936) Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher and novelist, 101 (born 1916) January 29 – Anthony Kemp, English military historian, 78 (born 1939) Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood , Scottish philosopher of religion, explorer of continental thinkers including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Søren Kierkegaard, Albert Camus and Simone Weil, 76 (born 1941) January 30