page_title: Deaths in 2011
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2011 / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Gerry Rafferty performing in the National Stadium on 6 September 1980
context_page_description: Previous: 2010 Next: 2012
context_section_description: January 1 - Flemming Jørgensen, 63, Danish actor and musician.
  January 1 - Faizal Yusof, 32, Malaysian actor, heart failure.
  January 2 - Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor, cancer.
  January 2 - Anne Francis, 80, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
  January 2 - Richard Winters, 92, American paratrooper.
  January 4 - Salmaan Taseer, 46, Pakistani politician, Governor of the Punjab, shot.
  January 4 - Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter, liver failure.
  January 4 - Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, Tunisian fruit seller and figure in the Arab world uprising, suicide by burning.
  January 4 - Dick King-Smith, 88, British writer.
  January 6 - Gary Mason, 48, British, boxer, road accident.
  January 8 - John Roll, 63, American judge, shot.
  January 9 - Peter Yates, 81, British movie director.
  January 10 - John Dye, 47, American actor.
  January 10 - Margaret Whiting, 86, American singer.
  January 13 - Charles Muscat, 48, Maltese footballer.
  January 14 - Mississippi Winn, 113, American supercentenarian.
  January 15 - Nat Lofthouse, 85, English footballer.
  January 15 - Susannah York, 72, British actress, bone cancer.
  January 16 - Steve Prestwich, 56, Australian musician, brain tumour.
  January 17 - Don Kirshner, 76, American music producer, heart failure.
  January 18 - Sargent Shriver, 95, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
  January 21 - Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer.
  January 23 - Jack LaLanne, 96, American physical fitness and nutrition expert, respiratory failure from pneumonia.
  January 24 - Bernd Eichinger, 61, German movie producer and director, heart attack.
  January 24 - Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Indian musician.
  January 27 - Charlie Callas, 83,  American comedian, natural causes.
  January 29 - Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer.
  January 30 - John Barry, 77, British composer, heart attack.
  January 31 - Eunice Sanborn, 114, American, world's second-oldest person at the time of her death.
caption: Gerry Rafferty 1947-2011
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