List of Famous people who died in 2018

Karre Mastanamma was an Indian centenarian who became a popular chef on YouTube with millions of followers. At the time of her death in 2018, she had 2 million followers on YouTube. Despite having little knowledge of technology and only a basic education in rural Andhra Pradesh in southern India, Mastanamma, filmed by her grandson, became an Internet sensation following her first recording making an Baingan bharta in 2016. At the time of her death, she was the oldest YouTuber in the world.

Olivia Carlena Cole was an American actress.

Maartin Allcock was an English multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer.

Raymond Danon was a French film producer. He produced 61 films beginning in 1963.

Kidari Sarveswara Rao was an Indian politician originally representing the YSR Congress Party and later the TDP. He was a Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Araku Valley. On 23 September 2018, he was shot dead at Araku valley by Maoists. After the death of Kidari His Son named Kidari Sravan Kumar elected as State Tribal Welfare Minister without participation in Public Election by TDP Government.

Eva Irene Probst was a German actress.

Christopher Dennis Ashford-Smith, better known by his ring name Chris Champion, was an American professional wrestler. He primarily worked for various National Wrestling Alliance member territories, including Florida Championship Wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions. He is also known as Yoshi Kwan, initially from World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

Sir John Edward Sulston was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz. He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. Sulston was in favour of science in the public interest, such as free public access of scientific information and against the patenting of genes and the privatisation of genetic technologies.

Allison Ivy Shearmur was an American film executive and producer. Representing companies including Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate, her production work involved such films as the American Pie and Jason Bourne franchises, The Hunger Games films, the live-action remake of Cinderella, as well as the Star Wars anthology films Rogue One and Solo.

Lottie Gertrude Stevenson was a Zimbabwean ambassador and politician. She was a member of parliament for Harare North in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. She was also a founding member of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of Zimbabwe, the first white woman to be voted into the MDC National Executive and, during her tenure, the country's only white female Member of Parliament.