List of Famous people who died in 2018

Herbert Ehrenberg was a German politician.

David Cherkassky was Soviet and Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He made several animation pictures for the Kievnauchfilm.

Sebastian Fischer was a German actor. He has also worked frequently as a voice actor, dubbing foreign-language films for release in Germany.

Melvin M. Ragin, known professionally as "Wah Wah Watson", was an American guitarist who was a member of The Funk Brothers, the studio band for Motown Records.

Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber was a French journalist and politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1965 to 1967, representing Seine. He was a member of the Union for the New Republic, a center-right political party. He died on April 11, 2018 in Paris on his 100th birthday.

Pedro Erquicia López de Montenegro was a Spanish journalist and news anchor.

Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.

Soslan Petrovich Andiyev was a Soviet heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He was an Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980, world champion in 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1978, European champion in 1974, 1975 and 1982, and Soviet champion in 1973–78 and 1980. He won the World Cup in 1976 and 1981, but missed the 1984 Olympics due to their boycott by the Soviet Union and retired the same year. After that he first worked as a national wrestling coach, but in 1989 returned to his native Ossetia to become a sports functionary. In 1990–98, he served as vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee. In 2006 he was inducted into the FILA Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Alexander Filippovich Vedernikov was a Russian Soviet era opera and chamber singer (bass) and teacher. He was soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in 1958–1990.

Mariya Sergeevna Saakyan was a Russian film director, screenwriter, animator and editor. She is known for her work in movies like Farewell, Mayak, Honey Money among others.