List of Famous people who died in 2018

Teodoro Petkoff Malec was a Venezuelan politician, guerrilla, economist and journalist. One of Venezuela's most prominent politicians on the left, Petkoff began as a communist but gravitated toward liberalism in the 1990s. As Minister of Planning, he oversaw President Rafael Caldera's adoption of neoliberal economic policies in the mid-1990s. He was a prominent critic of President Hugo Chávez and was a candidate to run against him in the 2006 presidential election until he dropped out four months before the vote to support Manuel Rosales. Petkoff launched the newspaper Tal Cual in 2000 and remained its editor until his death in 2018.

Robert Earl Cleary was a United States Marine who served as the 10th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps from 1983 to 1987. He served in the Marines for 36 years, including seeing in combat in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War. For his actions in Vietnam, he was awarded the Silver Star, the Navy Commendation Medal, and two Purple Hearts. He was the last Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps to have served in the Korean War.

Richard Harmon Fulton was an American Democratic politician who served as a member of the Tennessee State Senate and of the United States House of Representatives, and the second mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.

Raed Fares was a Syrian journalist, activist and civil society leader from Kafr Nabl, Syria. He was the founder of Radio Fresh FM in 2013, an independent radio station reaching audiences in Idlib, Aleppo, and Hamah provinces.

Shaun Lewis, better known by the stage names Stormin and Teddy Bruckshot, was a pioneering grime and drum and bass MC from Plaistow, London.

Amoroso Katamsi was an Indonesian actor and artist. He is well known by Penumpasan Pengkhianatan G 30 S PKI created in 1982 by director, Arifin C. Noer and by Djakarta 1966 supported by Umar Kayam with same director. He became chief of PARFI.

Walter Ze'ev Laqueur was a German-born American historian, journalist and political commentator. He was an influential scholar on the subjects of terrorism and political violence.

Heriyanto, also known as Aa Jimmy, was an Indonesian actor and comedian.

Sir Durward Randolph Knowles was a sailor and Olympic champion from the Bahamas. He won the gold medal in the Star class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, together with Cecil Cooke. He won the bronze medal in the same class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He had previously competed for the United Kingdom in the 1948 Olympics finishing in 4th place in the Star class together with Sloane Elmo Farrington. Representing the Bahamas, Knowles also won gold in the 1959 Pan American Games star class.

Vladimir Cvijan was a Serbian lawyer and politician who served as the member of the National Assembly from 2012 to 2014. He was also a member of the Presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party and before that the legal advisor and General Secretary of the President of Serbia Boris Tadić from 2004 to 2010.