page_title: 2016 in the United Kingdom
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Sussex cricketer Matt Hobden warming up during match against Hampshire at Hove, in June 2015.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2016 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 January – Mark B, 45, hip-hop record producer.
  2 January
  Matt Hobden, 22, cricketer (Sussex).
  Thomas Johnstone McWiggan, 97, aviation engineer.
  Leonard White, 99, television producer and actor.
  3 January
  Olwyn Hughes, 87, literary agent (Ted Hughes).
  Peter Powell, 83, kite maker.
  Tommy Sale, 97, rugby league player (Leigh, Widnes).
  4 January
  Tom Allin, 28, cricket player (Warwickshire).
  Robert Balser, 88, animator (Yellow Submarine, Heavy Metal, The Jackson 5ive).
  Colin Butler, 102, entomologist.
  John Roberts, 69, footballer (Arsenal, Birmingham, Wrexham).
  Robert Stigwood, 81, band manager (Bee Gees, Cream) and film producer (Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Evita).
  5 January
  Sian Blake, 43, actress (EastEnders) (body discovered).
  Percy Freeman, 70, footballer (Lincoln City, West Bromwich Albion, Reading).
  Albert Gubay, 87, businessman (Kwik Save).
  7 January
  Paddy Doherty, 89, Irish civil rights activist.
  Alan Haven, 80, jazz organist.
  Sir Christopher Wallace, 73, army general, Commandant Royal College of Defence Studies (2001–2005)
  8 January – Ida Gaskin, 96, teacher and quiz show contestant.
  9 January
  Ed Stewart, 74, radio presenter.
  Gareth Hoskins, 48, architect.
  Mike McGinnity, football chairman (Coventry City).
  10 January
  David Bowie, 69, singer-songwriter ("Space Oddity", Ziggy Stardust, Station to Station), record producer and actor (Labyrinth).
  Anthony Mellows, 79, barrister and academic, Lord Prior of the Order of St John (2008–2014).
  John Stokes, 70, soldier and mountaineer.
  11 January
  Elizabeth Aston, 67, author.
  Sir Kenneth Corfield, 91, camera engineer, inventor of the Corfield Periflex.
  John Easter, 70, squash player and cricketer.
  12 January
  Robert Black, 68, serial killer and kidnapper.
  Tommy Mulgrew, 86, footballer (Southampton).
  John Stevens, 86, journalist.
  13 January
  Brian Bedford, 80, actor (Robin Hood, Nixon, Much Ado About Nothing).
  Sir Albert McQuarrie, 98, Scottish politician, MP for East Aberdeenshire (1979–1983) and Banff and Buchan (1983–1987).
  Conrad Phillips, 90, television and film actor (The Adventures of William Tell).
  Mike Salmon, 82, racing driver.
  14 January
  Glyn W. Humphreys, 61, neuropsychologist.
  Alan Rickman, 69, actor (Harry Potter, Die Hard, Love Actually).
  Robert Banks Stewart, 84, television writer (Doctor Who, Bergerac, Shoestring).
  15 January
  Robin Fletcher, 93, academic administrator and Olympic field hockey player.
  Charles Harbord-Hamond, 12th Baron Suffield, 62, nobleman.
  17 January
  Dale Griffin, 67, drummer (Mott the Hoople).
  Delphine Parrott, 87, immunologist.
  Angus Ross, 49, darts player.
  18 January
  Terence Cook, 88, rugby union and rugby league footballer.
  Andy Dog Johnson, 57, artist, designer of The The record sleeves.
  Mike MacDowel, 83, racing driver.
  19 January
  Robert M. Carter, 73, marine geologist and climate skeptic.
  Laurence Lerner, 90, literary critic.
  Sheila Sim, Lady Attenborough, 93, actress (A Canterbury Tale, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, West of Zanzibar).
  20 January
  Stuart Cowden, 90, footballer (Stoke City).
  Brian Key, 68, politician,  MEP for Yorkshire South (1979–1984).
  George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, 96, publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist.
  21 January
  Michael Sheringham, literary academic, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford University (2004–2015).
  Gerald Williams, 86, tennis commentator.
  22 January
  Jack Bannister, 85, cricket player (Warwickshire) and commentator.
  Tommy Bryceland, 76, footballer (St Mirren, Norwich, Oldham Athletic).
  John Dowie, 60, footballer (Fulham, Celtic).
  Ian Murray, 83, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles (1999–2008).
  Denise Newman, 91, Olympic diver (1948).
  Cecil Parkinson, Lord Parkinson, 84, Conservative politician and cabinet minister, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1983), Energy (1987–1989), and Transport (1989–1990), and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1997–1998).
  Anthony Simmons, 93, screenwriter and film director (The Optimists of Nine Elms, Black Joy).
  Alec Wishart, 76, musician (Hogsnort Rupert).
  23 January
  Jimmy Bain, 68, bassist (Rainbow, 
caption: Matt Hobden (1993–2016)
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