page_title: 2011
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Gerry Rafferty performing in the National Stadium on 6 September 1980
context_page_description: 2011 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 11th year of the 3rd millennium, the 11th year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2010s decade.
  A series of protests and government overthrows, known as the Arab Spring, swept through the Middle East in 2011.
  2011 was designated as:
  International Year of Forests
  International Year of Chemistry
  International Year for People of African Descent
context_section_description: January 2
  Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
  Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)
  Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
  January 4
  Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi of Iran (b. 1966)
  Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
  January 10
  John Dye, American actor (b. 1963)
  Margaret Whiting, American country and pop musician (b. 1924)
  January 11 – David Nelson, American actor, director and producer (b. 1936)
  January 15
  Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (b. 1925)
  Susannah York, English actress (b. 1939)
  January 18 – Sargent Shriver, American diplomat, politician, and activist (b. 1915)
  January 21 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (b. 1938)
  January 27 – Charlie Callas, American comedian and actor (b. 1924)
  January 29 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (b. 1916)
  January 30 – John Barry, English composer (b. 1933)
caption: Gerry Rafferty
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