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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

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
• Border by Ali Abbasi
• Phantom Thread by Paul Thomas Anderson

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 by Kali Uchis
• Discophilia Belgica by various
• Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991 by various
• Deus É Mulher by Elza Soares

Singles

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

Deaths

Deaths in 2018

• Norman Gimbel, 91, an American lyricist ("Killing Me Softly with His Song").
• 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.

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

See also

• 2010s