List of Famous people who died in 2018

Reinhard Tritscher was an Austrian alpine skier who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics where he finished 8th in the Giant Slalom.

Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric and conservative politician who was the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council from 14 August 2017 until his death on 24 December 2018. He was previously the Chief Justice of Iran from 1999 to 2009.

Hilmar Hoffmann was a German stage and film director, cultural politician and academic lecturer. He founded the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. He was for decades an influential city councillor in Frankfurt, where he initiated the Museumsufer of 15 museums, including the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. He was the president of the Goethe-Institut and taught at universities such as Bochum and Tel Aviv. He wrote the book Kultur für alle, which was a motto of his life and work.

Donald Lusk was an American animator and director.

Izumi Maki was a Japanese long-distance runner who competed in the marathon. She represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1992 and 1996. She competed for the Wacoal corporate team during her career.

Hans-Reinhard Koch was a German Roman Catholic prelate. Ordained to the priesthood in 1955, he served as titular bishop of Mediana and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erfurt, Germany, from 1985 to 2004.

Sidy Lamine Niasse was a Senegalese lawyer, teacher, journalist, and religious guide. He was the founder and CEO of the Senegalese press group WalFadjri.

Dante Caputo was an Argentine academic, diplomat and politician, who served as the nation's foreign minister under President Raúl Alfonsín.

Seydou Badian Kouyaté was a Malian writer and politician. He wrote the lyrics to the Malian national anthem, "Le Mali".

Walter Patricio Arízala Vernaza, also known as William Quiñonez or Luis Alfredo Pai Jiménez,, better known by his nom de guerre Alias Guacho was an Ecuadorian, member of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), after 2016 peace agreement became a FARC dissident.