List of Famous people who died in 2018

Paul Virilio was a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military.

Norman Keith Breyfogle was an American artist, best known for his comic book art on DC Comics' Batman franchise from 1987 to 1995. During this time, he co-created the villains Ventriloquist and Ratcatcher with writers Alan Grant and John Wagner, and the characters Anarky, Jeremiah Arkham, Victor Zsasz, and Amygdala with Grant alone. He co-created with writers Gerard Jones and Len Strazewski the Malibu Comics Ultraverse flagship hero Prime, and both wrote and drew the Malibu-published series featuring his original character Metaphysique.

Salih Mirzabeyoğlu was a Turkish Islamic fundamentalist with Sayyid origin. His family were close to both the Naqshabandi and Nurcu Islamic brotherhoods, and were involved with the Kurdish Sheyh Seit rebellion in 1925 against the newly founded Turkish Republic. Like most İBDA-C members, he was of Kurdish ethnicity.

Ivan Fedorovych Drach was a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, literary critic, politician, and political activist.

Ermanno Olmi was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok was a Belarusian composer, People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, and chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers.

Gena Turgel was a Jewish Polish author, educator, and Holocaust survivor.

Sarah Haffner was a German-British painter, author, and active feminist. In West Berlin she engaged with the protest issues of the 1960s, on occasion alongside her father, the journalist and writer Sebastian Haffner. Through a television documentary and a book she was instrumental in the late 1970s in establishing the city's first womens' shelter. The range of her painting included portraits, still lifes, landscapes and cityscapes.

Clément Rosset was a French philosopher and writer. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, and the author of books on 20th-century philosophy and postmodern philosophy.

Nini Arlette Theilade was a Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.