List of Famous people who died in 2018

Jens Dyhr Okking, was a Danish actor, singer and politician.

Armando, born Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd, was a Dutch painter, sculptor and writer.

Leonid Aleksandrovich Kvinihidze was a Russian screenwriter and film director His father, Aleksandr Faintsimmer, was also a film director.

Rafael Amador Flores was a Mexican football defender who played for Mexico in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also played and managed Liga MX side Club Universidad Nacional.

Johan Willem van Hulst was a Dutch school director, university professor, author, politician and chess player. In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of Amsterdam, he was instrumental in saving over 600 Jewish children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg who were destined for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. For his humanitarian actions he received the Yad Vashem distinction Righteous Among the Nations from the State of Israel in 1973.

David Goldblatt HonFRPS was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid. After apartheid had ended he concentrated more on the country's landscapes. What differentiates Goldblatt's body of work from those of other anti-apartheid artists is that he photographed issues that went beyond the violent events of apartheid and reflected the conditions that led up to them. His forms of protest have a subtlety that traditional documentary photographs may lack: "[M]y dispassion was an attitude in which I tried to avoid easy judgments. . . . This resulted in a photography that appeared to be disengaged and apolitical, but which was in fact the opposite." He has numerous publications to his name.

Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig was a Polish-born American Holocaust survivor who was interned during World War II at the Płaszów concentration camp where she was forced to work as a maid for SS camp commandant Amon Göth.

Nelson Pereira dos Santos was a Brazilian film director. He directed films such as Vidas Secas, based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.

Antonio García-Trevijano Forte was a Spanish republican, a political activist, and an author. He was born in Alhama de Granada, noted for his activism against the Francoist Spain.

Cheng Kaijia, also known as Kai Chia Cheng, was a Chinese nuclear engineer and nuclear physicist. He was a pioneer and key figure in Chinese nuclear weapon development. He is known as one of the founding fathers of Two Bombs, One Satellite.