List of Famous people who died in 2018

Peter Temple was an Australian crime fiction writer, mainly known for his Jack Irish novel series. He won several awards for his writing, including the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first for an Australian. He was also an international magazine and newspaper journalist and editor.

Elias Menachem Stein was an American mathematician who was a leading figure in the field of harmonic analysis. He was the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, where he was a faculty member from 1963 until his death in 2018.

Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin was a Soviet-Norwegian jazz pianist, known as a key member of the Moscow Art Trio.

Moncef Lazaâr was a Tunisian actor and screenwriter.

Stelvio Cipriani was an Italian composer, mostly of motion picture soundtracks.

Peter Ramseier was a Swiss international football player who played as a defender during the 1960s and 1970s.

Joana Biarnés was a Spanish photographer and photojournalist of Catalan descent. She is considered Catalonia's first woman photojournalist.

Luis Roberto Gneiting Dichtiar was a Paraguayan politician.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Sharov was a Russian novelist who was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 2014 for his novel Return to Egypt.

Hardy Rodenstock was a publisher and manager of pop and Schlager music in Germany and a prominent wine collector, connoisseur, and trader, with a special interest in old and rare wines. He became famous for his allegedly uncanny ability to track down old and very rare wines, and for arranging extravagant wine tastings featuring these wines. It has been alleged that Rodenstock was the perpetrator of an elaborate wine fraud. In 1992, a German court found that Rodenstock had "knowingly offered adulterated wine" for sale. On appeal, the case was settled out of court.