Deaths in 2018  

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• Norman Gimbel, 91, an American lyricist ("Killing Me Softly with His Song").
• Wah Wah Watson, 67, American guitarist.
• 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.
• Amos Oz, 79, Israeli author and journalist, cancer.
• Wendy Beckett, 88, British religious sister and art historian.
• Jorge Grau, 88, Spanish artist and filmmaker (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie).
• Pete Shelley, 63, English musician (Buzzcocks), heart attack.
• 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).
• William Goldman, 87, American author (The Princess Bride) and screenwriter (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men), complications from colon cancer and pneumonia.
• Hardy Fox, 73, primary composer and producer for The Residents ("Kaw-Liga").
• 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.
• Walter Laqueur, 97, German-born American historian and journalist.
• 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.
• Burt Reynolds, 82, American actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Boogie Nights, Deliverance), Emmy winner (1991), heart attack.
• Aretha Franklin, 76, American Hall of Fame singer ("Respect", "Chain of Fools", "A Natural Woman") and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• John Calder, 91, Canadian-born British publisher (Calder Publishing).
• Sir V. S. Naipaul, 85, Trinidadian-born British writer (A House for Mr Biswas), Nobel Prize laureate (2001).
• Fakir Musafar, 87, American performance artist and modern primitive proponent, lung cancer.
• Claude Seignolle, 101, French author.
• Tab Hunter, 86, American actor (Lust in the Dust, Polyester).
• Claude Lanzmann, 92, French documentary filmmaker (Shoah, The Last of the Unjust, Pourquoi Israël).
• 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.
• Antonio Mercero, 82, Spanish film and television director (La cabina).
• 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).
• John "Jabo" Starks, 79, American drummer (James Brown, The J.B.'s).
• Steven Marcus, 89, American literary critic and scholar.
• Avicii, 28, Swedish electronic musician ("Levels") and disc jockey.
• 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).
• Juraj Herz, 83, Czech film director, actor, writer and scenic designer (The Cremator).
• Polixeni Papapetrou, 57, Australian photographer, breast cancer (Olympia as Lewis Carroll’s Beatrice Hatch before White Cliffs).
• Cecil Taylor, 89, American jazz pianist and poet (Indent).
• Jacques Higelin, 77, French pop singer.
• 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).
• Matt Dike, 55, American hip hop producer, mixer (Paul's Boutique) and label executive (Delicious Vinyl).
• Hubert de Givenchy, 91, French fashion designer (Givenchy).
• André S. Labarthe, 86, French actor (Vivre sa vie), film producer and director.
• 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).
• John Perry Barlow, 70, American writer, lyricist (Grateful Dead) and internet activist, co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• Dennis Edwards, 74, American Hall of Fame soul and R&B singer (The Contours, The Temptations), complications from meningitis.
• Ursula K. Le Guin, 88, American science fiction writer (The Left Hand of Darkness).
• Mark E. Smith, 60, English singer and songwriter (The Fall).
• Yves Afonso, 73, French actor.
• Hugh Masekela, 78, South African jazz trumpeter ("Grazing in the Grass"), prostate cancer.
• Wendell Castle, 85, American furniture designer and artist.
• Paul Bocuse, 91, French chef.
• Dolores O'Riordan, 46, Irish singer and musician (The Cranberries).
• Edwin Hawkins, 74, American gospel singer ("Oh Happy Day"), pancreatic cancer.
• Mario Perniola, 76, Italian philosopher.
• Denise LaSalle, 78, American blues singer ("Trapped by a Thing Called Love").
• France Gall, 70, French singer ("Laisse tomber les filles", "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", "Ella, elle l'a"), infection complicated from cancer.
• Carlo Pedretti, 89, Italian historian (Leonardo da Vinci).

See also

• Deaths in 2017
• Deaths in 2016
• Deaths in 2015
• Deaths in 2014
• Deaths in 2013
• Deaths in 2012
• Deaths in 2011
• Deaths in 2010
• Deaths in 2009
• Deaths in 2008