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2018 is the 18th year of the 3rd millennium, the 18th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.

Events

• Gilets jaunes protests

Arts and culture

In the public domain

In the public domain in 2018 according the 70 years rule

Major names include (life + 70 years):

• Pierre Bonnard (b. 1867), French painter
• Pierre Janet (b. 1859), French psychologist
• Arthur Machen (b. 1863), Welsh writer
• Alfred North Whitehead (b. 1861), English philosopher
• Aleister Crowley (b. 1875), English occultist
• Luigi Russolo (b. 1885), Italian artist

Books

• Whiteshift (2018) by Eric Kaufmann

Film

• The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam
• BlacKkKlansman by Spike Lee
• Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley
• Annihilation by Alex Garland

Documentary

• Three Identical Strangers by Tim Wardle
• The Cleaners by Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block
• Living in the Future's Past by Susan Kucera

Shorts

• This Magnificent Cake! by Marc James Roels and Emma de Swaef

Music

Albums

• Isolation (Kali Uchis album)
• Discophilia Belgica by various
• Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991 by various

Singles

• Fefe by 6ix9ine
• This Is America by Childish Gambino

Deaths

Deaths in 2018

• Mac Miller, 26, American rapper ("Everybody's Gotta Live")
• Joe Frank, 79, French-born American radio personality (KPFA, KCRW, All Things Considered) and humorist.
• Edgar Hilsenrath, 92, German writer (The Nazi and the Barber, The Story of the Last Thought), complications from pneumonia.
• Bernardo Bertolucci, 77, Italian film director (Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, Novecento), cancer.
• Nicolas Roeg, 90, English film director (Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth) and cinematographer (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum).
• Francis Lai, 86, French film score composer (A Man and a Woman, Rider on the Rain, Love Story).
• Tony Joe White, 75, American singer-songwriter ("Polk Salad Annie", "Rainy Night in Georgia"), heart attack.
• Mel Ramos, 83, American artist, heart failure.
• Stelvio Cipriani, 81, Italian composer, complications from a stroke.
• Charles Aznavour, 94, French-Armenian singer ("La Bohème", "She") and lyricist.
• Jerry González, 69, American bandleader and trumpeter, heart attack.
• Joseph Hoo Kim, 76, Jamaican record producer, liver cancer.
• Paul Virilio, 86, French philosopher and urbanist, heart attack.
• Robert Venturi, 93, American architect, Pritzker Prize winner (1991), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Aretha Franklin, 76, American Hall of Fame singer ("Respect", "Chain of Fools", "A Natural Woman") and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Fakir Musafar, 87, American performance artist and modern primitive proponent, lung cancer.
• Tab Hunter, 86, American actor (Lust in the Dust, Polyester).
• Harlan Ellison, 84, American writer (A Boy and His Dog; I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream) and screenwriter ("The City on the Edge of Forever").
• Maria Rohm, 72, Austrian actress (99 Women, Venus in Furs).
• Philip Roth, 85, American writer (Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral), Pulitzer Prize winner (1998), heart failure.
• Robert Indiana, 89, American pop artist (Love) and actor, respiratory failure.
• Bernard Lewis, 101, British-American historian.
• Margot Kidder, 69, Canadian-American actress (Superman, The Amityville Horror, Black Christmas) and activist.
• Tom Wolfe, 88, American author (The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff) and journalist.
• Glenn Branca, 69, American avant-garde composer (The Ascension) and guitarist (Theoretical Girls), throat cancer.
• Gérard Genette, 87, French literary theorist.
• Adam Parfrey, 61, American writer, editor and publisher (Apocalypse Culture and Rants and Incendiary Tracts).
• Mel Gordon, 71, American historian (Voluptuous Panic).
• Steven Marcus, 89, American literary critic and scholar.
• Vittorio Taviani, 88, Italian film director (Padre Padrone, Kaos, Caesar Must Die).
• Miloš Forman, 86, Czech-American film director (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt).
• Cecil Taylor, 89, American jazz pianist and poet (Indent).
• Stéphane Audran, 85, French actress (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Babette's Feast, The Big Red One).
• Stephen Hawking, 76, English theoretical physicist, professor (University of Cambridge) and writer (A Brief History of Time).
• Hubert de Givenchy, 91, French fashion designer (Givenchy).
• Gillo Dorfles, 107, Italian art critic, painter and philosopher.
• Boyd Jarvis, 59, American music producer (Herbie Hancock, La Toya Jackson, Johnny Kemp), cancer.
• Jóhann Jóhannsson, 48, Icelandic film composer (The Theory of Everything, Arrival, Sicario).
• Ursula K. Le Guin, 88, American science fiction writer (The Left Hand of Darkness).
• Mark E. Smith, 60, English singer and songwriter (The Fall).
• Hugh Masekela, 78, South African jazz trumpeter ("Grazing in the Grass"), prostate cancer.
• Wendell Castle, 85, American furniture designer and artist.
• France Gall, 70, French singer ("Laisse tomber les filles", "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", "Ella, elle l'a"), infection complicated from cancer.

See also

• 2010s