2018 deaths

British historian (1929–2018)

Irish-American gangster and crime boss (1929-2018)

Bolivian dictator (1929-2018)

Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast (1969–2018)

Afghan leader of the Haqqani network (1939–2018)

Australian linguist (1925-2018)

Hungarian fencer (1940-2018)

American racing driver, constructor and team owner

Prime Minister of Swaziland (1942-2018)

Russian conductor and composer (1931-2018)

American basketball player (1946-2018)

Norwegian politician (1931–2018)

American journalist (1950-2018)

American politician (1924-2018)

Italian-born American professional wrestler (1935-2018)

British philosopher and ethicist (1919–2018)

Indian politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India (1924–2018)

British catholic cardinal (1938–2018)

athletics competitor

British novelist (1956–2018)

Italian businessman (1952–2018)

American jazz pianist and poet (1929–2018)

accountant in Auschwitz (1921–2018)

American mathematician (1931-2018)

Norwegian cross country skier

Israeli writer (1932–2018)

French architect (1938-2018)

South Korean politician (1926–2018)

American actor and comedian (1931–2018)

Soviet-Russian stage and film actor, singer and musician

American composer and guitarist (1948-2018)

American actress, singer and dancer (1920-2018)

South African politician (1932-2018)

former Namibian politician (1938–2018)

Irish association football player (1981-2018)

Italian-born British actress, presenter (1926-2018)

Italian Argentine footballer (1937–2018)

President of Haiti (1932-2018)

American politician (1932–2018)

Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane (; 12 November 1960 – 7 May 2018), was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress.

French academic and Holocaust denier (1929–2018)

American politician (1930–2018)

American actor (1930–2018)

British recording engineer (1945-2018)

American actress (1912-2018)

Italian footballer and manager (1935-2018)

English actress (1964–2018)

American actress (1926–2018)

American actor (1930-2018)

Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years; this recommendation was later changed to a whole life tariff in December 1994. In his later years, Nilsen was imprisoned at HM Prison Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Iranian historian and linguist (1920–2018)

English footballer (1958-2018)

Hong Kong film producer (1927–2018)

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

American actor (1927–2018)

American astronaut (1933–2018)

Danish princess (1935-2018)

Soviet and Russian actor (1930—2018)

American artist (1931-2018)

President of Federated States of Micronesia (1935-2018)