List of Famous people who died in 2018

Mãe Stella de Oxóssi was a iyalorixá, or priestess in the Brazilian Candomblé religion. She was the fifth iyalorixá of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá, a Candomblé terreiro in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Mãe Stella was trained as a public health nurse. She was initiated into the Candomblé religion in 1939 and became the iyalorixá of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá in 1976. Mãe Stella is noted for writing on the beliefs and practices of Candomblé for the general public, rather than practitioners. She lived in the interior of Bahia after a stroke and was interred in Salvador after her death in 2018.

Yuri Grigorievich Shatalov was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for Krylya Sovetov Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1974.

Guy Modeste was a French professional footballer.

Jesús Kumate Rodríguez was a Mexican physician and politician. He served as the Secretary of Health during the Presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

Dominique Blanchar was a stage, television, and film actress from France. She won two Molière Awards in her career.

Adolf Knoll was an Austrian professional football player.

Vicente Verdú was a Spanish writer, journalist and economist.

Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection.

Frank Charles Carlucci III was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Sophia Lösche, a 28-year-old female student and pro-migration activist went missing while travelling from Leipzig to her hometown Amberg in the Upper Palatinate where she never arrived.