January
- 1 January – Frank McGarvey, 66, Scottish footballer (St Mirren, Celtic, national team) (b. 1956), pancreatic cancer. [1]
- 2 January – Andrew Downes, 72, English classical composer. [2]
- 3 January
- Roger Kean, British magazine publisher ( Crash , Zzap!64 ), co-founder of Newsfield. [3]
- Alan Rankine, 64, Scottish musician (The Associates) (b. 1958) [4] (death announced on this date)
- 4 January – Wyllie Longmore, 82, Jamanican-born British actor ( Coronation Street , Love Actually ), cancer. [5]
- 5 January
- Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, 82, British banker and peer, lord chamberlain (1998–2000). [6]
- David Gold, 86, British retailer, publisher (Gold Star Publications), and football executive, chairman of West Ham United (since 2010). [7]
- Fay Weldon, 91, British author ( The Life and Loves of a She-Devil , Puffball , The Cloning of Joanna May ), essayist and playwright. [8]
- 7 January – Ken Scotland, 86, Scottish rugby union player (Leicester Tigers, national team) and cricketer (national team), cancer. [9]
- 8 January – Ray Middleton, 86, British Olympic racewalker (1964), respiratory failure. [10]
- 9 January – David Duckham, 76, English rugby union player (Coventry, national team). [11]
- 10 January
- Jeff Beck, 78, English rock guitarist (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, Beck, Bogert & Appice), bacterial meningitis. [12] [13] [14] [15]
- Shirley Dynevor, 89, Welsh actress ( Charlesworth , Rogue Male , The Wednesday Play ). [16]
- 11 January
- Piers Haggard, 83, British film and television director ( Pennies from Heaven , Quatermass , The Blood on Satan's Claw , The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu ). [17]
- Eli Ostreicher, 39, British-born American serial entrepreneur, motorcycle accident in Thailand. [18]
- 12 January
- Paul Johnson, 94, British journalist, historian and author ( Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s , A History of the American People , A History of Christianity ). [19]
- Roy Pierpoint, 93, British racing driver, saloon car champion (1965). [20]
- 13 January – Marc Worth, 61, British fashion executive, co-founder of WGSN, heart attack. [21]
- 14 January
- Alireza Akbari, 61, Iranian-British politician and convicted spy, execution by hanging. [22] (death announced on this date)
- Ronald Blythe, 100, English writer and columnist ( Church Times ). [23]
- John Wickham, 73, British motor racing team owner (Spirit Racing). [24]
- 15 January – Bruce Gowers, 82, British television director ( American Idol ) and music video director ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), complications from acute respiratory infection. [25]
- 16 January
- John Bicourt, 77, British Olympic middle-distance runner (1972, 1976). [26] (death announced on this date)
- Brian Tufano, 83, English cinematographer ( Trainspotting , A Life Less Ordinary , Billy Elliot ). [27]
- 17 January – Jonathan Raban, 80, British travel writer, critic, and novelist ( Soft City , Waxwings , For Love & Money ). [28]
- 19 January
- David Sutherland, 89, Scottish illustrator and comics artist ( The Beano , Dennis the Menace and Gnasher , The Bash Street Kids ). [29] [30]
- Peter Thomas, 78, English-Irish footballer (Waterford, Ireland national team). [31]
- Anton Walkes, 25, English footballer (Portsmouth, Atlanta United, Charlotte FC), boat crash. [32]
- 22 January – Ian Black, 69, British journalist ( The Guardian ), and author ( Israel's Secret Wars ), complications from frontotemporal lobar degeneration. [33]
- 23 January – Fred Lindop, 84, British rugby league referee. [34]
- 27 January – Sylvia Syms, 89, English actress ( Peak Practice , EastEnders ). [35]
- 31 January – Alan Hurst, 77, British politician, MP for Braintree (1997–2005). [36]
