List of Famous people who died in 2018

Arvid Carlsson was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. For his work on dopamine, Carlsson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, together with Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard.

Maya Kuliyeva was a Turkmeni operatic soprano and actress of the Soviet era.

Daniel Clarence Quinn was an American author, cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy. Instead, Quinn referred to his philosophy as "new tribalism".

Jean-Marc Mazzonetto was a French rugby union player. His position was Wing or Fullback and he last played for Stade Montois (Mont-de-Marsan) in the Top 14.

José Tarciso de Souza, known as simply Tarciso, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger for clubs in Brazil and Paraguay.

Bruno Zaremba was a French professional footballer who played for Valenciennes, Metz, Dunkerque and Arras, as a striker.

Ota Filip was a Czech novelist and journalist. He wrote in both German and Czech.

Vladimir Andreyevich Uspensky was a Russian mathematician, linguist, writer, doctor of physics and mathematics (1964). He was the author of numerous papers on mathematical logic and linguistics. In addition, he also penned a number of memoir essays. Uspensky initiated a reform of linguistic education in Russia.

Yevgeny Maximovich Titarenko was a Russian writer and the brother of Raisa Gorbacheva.

Heinz Schilcher was an Austrian football player and manager, who worked as a scout for AFC Ajax.