Barnes' novel The Sense of an Ending Deaths January 1 January – Sir Robin Carnegie, Army general (b. 1926) 2 January – Pete Postlethwaite, actor (b. 1946) 3 January – Jill Haworth, actress (b. 1945) 4 January John Gray, physiologist (b. 1918) Mick Karn, musician (b. 1958) Dick King-Smith, author (b. 1922) Gerry Rafferty, singer-songwriter (b. 1947) Jack Richardson, chemical engineer (b. 1920) 5 January David Hart, political activist (b. 1944) Helene Palmer, actress (b. 1928) Brian Rust, jazz discographer (b. 1922) 6 January John Bendor-Samuel, missionary and linguist (b. 1929) Gary Mason, boxer (b. 1962) Reg Ward, first chief executive of the London Docklands Development Corporation (b. 1927) 7 January – Derek Gardner, racing car designer (b. 1931) 9 January Richard Butcher, footballer (b. 1981) Peter Yates, film director (b. 1929) 10 January John Gross, writer and critic (b. 1931) A. W. B. Simpson, legal historian (b. 1931) 11 January – Dame Barbara Clayton, pathologist (b. 1922) 12 January – Kenneth Stevenson, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Portsmouth (1995–2009) (b. 1949) 15 January Kenneth Grant, occultist (b. 1924) Michael Langham, actor and theatre director (b. 1919) Nat Lofthouse, footballer (b. 1925) Susannah York, actress (b. 1939) 16 January – Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, peer and diplomat, Governor of the Seychelles (1962–1967) (b. 1916) 17 January Brian Boobbyer, rugby union player (b. 1928) David Bradby, theatre academic (b. 1942) Sir Bernard Crossland, engineer (b. 1923) 18 January – John Herivel, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park (b. 1918) 20 January – Maurice Brown, RAF fighter pilot (b. 1919) 21 January – Wally Hughes, footballer and coach (b. 1934) 22 January – Sir Chandos Blair, Army general (b. 1919) 24 January – Phil Gallie, Conservative & Unionist MP and MSP (b. 1939) 25 January Vincent Cronin, writer and historian (b. 1924) Alison Geissler, glass engraver (b. 1907) R. F. Langley, poet and diarist (b. 1938) 27 January – Diana Norman, writer and journalist (b. 1933) 28 January Raymond Cohen, violinist (b. 1919) Dame Margaret Price, opera singer (b. 1941) 29 January Raymond McClean, physician and politician, Mayor of Derry (1973–1974) (b. 1933) Dorothy Thompson, historian (b. 1923) Norman Wilkinson, footballer (b. 1931) 30 January John Barry, composer (b. 1933) Raymond Challinor, Marxist historian (b. 1929) Ian R. Porteous, mathematician (b. 1930) 31 January Stuart Hood, television producer (b. 1915) Mark Ryan, musician (b. 1959) Norman Uprichard, footballer