List of Famous people who died in 2018

Cornelius "Sonny" Fortune was an American jazz saxophonist. Fortune played soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones, clarinet, and flute.

Gilbert Facchinetti was an Italian-Swiss entrepreneur. He was best known as president of Neuchâtel Xamax.

Seymour Stanley Cohen was an American biochemist. Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York in April 1917. He attended City College of New York and his PhD came from Columbia University. In the 1940s he worked on plant viruses and for the Rockefeller Institute. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945. He was known by his studies with marked of radioactive isotopes, whose results suggested an essential paper of the DNA like base of the hereditary genetic material, that would remain checked in 1952 by Hershey and Chase. Cohen died in December 2018 at the age of 101.

Luis Montes Mieza, was a Spanish anesthetist and pro-euthanasia activist. He was the Federal President of the association "Derecho a Morir Dignamente" from 2009 till his death.

Dame Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick, was a Kenyan of British descent, author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry, particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the wild for over 30 years. She was the founder of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

Kacem Kefi was a Tunisian singer and composer.

Sa'id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtani (1952–2018) was a Saudi Arabian Muslim scholar and writer. Qahtani was born in the village of Al-Arin, 'Asir region, in 1952. He also served as the imam of mosque in Saudi Arabia. His authored about eighty books, the most famous of which is the book Hisnul Muslim. He was suffering from liver cancer and died on October 1, 2018 in Riyadh.

Horst Schulze was a German actor and opera singer. He was born in Dresden and died in Berlin at the age of 97.

Yvan Blot was a French conservative politician. A founding member of the GRECE, he was also the co-creator and president of the Club de l'Horloge.

Florence Hui Hiu-fai, SBS was one of the undersecretaries appointed by the Government of Hong Kong. She served as the Undersecretary for Home Affairs from 2008 to 2017.