List of Famous people who died in 2018

Chiang Pin-kung was a Taiwanese politician. He led the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 1993 to 1996, when he was named Minister of the Council for Economic Planning and Development, where he served until 2000. Chiang was subsequently elected to consecutive terms on the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2008. During his first term as a legislator, Chiang was Vice President of the Legislative Yuan. He was Chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation from 2008 to 2012.

Luigi Agnolin was an Italian football referee. He was mostly known for supervising four matches in the FIFA World Cup, one in 1986 and three in 1990. He also refereed the 1988 European Cup Final between PSV Eindhoven and S.L. Benfica.

Oscar Rabin Russian: Оскар Яковлевич Рабин; Moscow, 2 January 1928 - Florence, 7 November 2018) was a major Russian painter and activist who defined the core of the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement, affecting the careers of countless painters and sculptors of that era and its aftermath.

Aleksei Aleksandrovich Paramonov was a Soviet football player and manager, 1956 Olympic champion. He was born in Borovsk.

Palden Gyatso was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Arrested for protesting during the Chinese invasion of Tibet, he spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps, where he was extensively tortured, and served the longest term of any Tibetan political prisoner. After his release in 1992 he fled to Dharamsala in North India, in exile. He was still a practicing monk and became a political activist, traveling the world publicizing the cause of Tibet up until his death in 2018. His autobiography Fire Under the Snow is also known as The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk. He was the subject of the 2008 documentary film Fire Under the Snow.

Mohammed Karim Lamrani was a Moroccan politician who was the Prime Minister of Morocco for three separate terms.

Patrick Moody Williams was an American composer, arranger, and conductor who worked in many genres of music, and in film and television.

Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ was a Greenlandic politician for Siumut party.

Johann Georg Reißmüller was a German journalist, a co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). He was a correspondent in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, from 1967 to 1971. When the country broke up, he was instrumental in Germany recognizing Croatia and Slovenia.

Warwick Estevam Kerr was a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 in Rio Claro, São Paulo in the southeast of Brazil from hives operated by Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.