List of Famous people who died in 2018

Judith Appelbaum was an American editor, consultant and author. She was active in the publishing industry for 50 years and was awarded both the Publishers Marketing Association Lifetime Achievement Award and the Book Industry Study Group Lifetime Service Award.

Anthony Claude Acevedo was a Mexican-American soldier during World War II. He kept a diary while being held at the Berga concentration camp that was instrumental in documenting Nazi atrocities against American prisoners of war. In civilian life, Acevedo worked as an engineer.

Yan Jizhou was a Chinese film director. Having fought on the frontline during the Chinese Civil War, he made popular war films in the 1950s and 1960s including Struggles in an Ancient City, Tiger Heroes, Heroes at Sea, and Two Good Brothers, which have come to be regarded as "red classic films". He won the Golden Rooster Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2012 and the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2017 China Film Director's Guild Awards.

Kim Chol-man was a North Korean politician and military official. He was a member of several important committees and organizations, including the Central Military Commission, the Politburo, and the Second Economic Committee. He was at the forefront of the North Korean munitions industry, the country's economic base. In old age Kim was no longer considered a major player in North Korean politics, having retired from most of his important posts.

Zíbia Alencastro Gasparetto was a Brazilian spiritualist writer. Gasparetto said that some of her books were dictated by a spirit named Lucius.

Smilja Avramov was a Serbian academician, legal scholar, social activist and educator in international law. She was a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska from 1996 to 2009. Before she retired she was a Professor of International law at the Law Faculty at Belgrade University.

Daniel Charles "Snowshoes" Maloney was a professional ice hockey left winger in the National Hockey League (NHL) and NHL coach.

Kenichi Hirose was one of the members of the Japanese doomsday-cult group Aum Shinrikyo.

Günter Blobel was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.

Jose Clemente de Andres, popularly known by his stage name Bangkay, was a Filipino actor.