List of Famous people who died in 2018
Xerardo Fernández Albor
Gerardo Fernández Albor, also Xerardo Fernández Albor, was a Spanish physician and president of the autonomous community of Galicia. He lost a motion of no confidence in 1987. He was a member of the People's Party.
Thorvald Stoltenberg
Thorvald Stoltenberg was a Norwegian politician and diplomat. He served as Minister of Defence from 1979–1981 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1987–1989 and again from 1990–1993 in two Labour governments.
Antoni Imiela
Antoni Imiela was a German-born convicted serial rapist who grew up in County Durham, England. He was found guilty of the rape of nine women and girls, and the indecent assault, and attempted rape, of a 10-year-old girl whom he repeatedly punched and throttled. The crimes took place in Surrey, Kent, Berkshire, London, Hertfordshire and Birmingham, and the press dubbed the offender the M25 Rapist after the M25 motorway that passes in the vicinity of all those areas except Birmingham. He died in HM Prison Wakefield on 8 March 2018.
Yoshito Sengoku
Yoshito Sengoku was a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan.
Jacques Verdier
Jacques Verdier was a French sports journalist and writer for Midi Olympique.
Reyes Abades Tejedor
Reyes Abades was a Spanish specialist in special effects. He won nine Goya Awards. He died on 1 February 2018 aged 68.
Michael Rutschky
Michael Rutschky was a German author.
Albert Millaire
Rodolphe Albert Millaire, CC, CQ was a Canadian actor and theatre director.
María Concepción César
María Concepción César was an Argentine actress, singer and dancer. Her first film was Pampa Bárbara with her uncle, actor Francisco Petrone.
Edgar Hilsenrath
Edgar Hilsenrath was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1944, he lived in Palestine and France, before settling in New York City in 1951 where he lived for 24 years and published his first novels. Although he was a naturalized United States citizen, he chose to return to Germany in 1975 where he lived until his death in 2018.