List of Famous people who died in 2018

William Allen Alsop, was a British architect and Professor of Architecture at University for the Creative Arts's Canterbury School of Architecture.

Elliot "Ellie" Mannette was a Trinidadian musical instrument maker and steel pan musician, also known as the "father of the modern steel drum".

José Marcelo Januário de Araújo, commonly known as Esquerdinha, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a left back.

Enrique Martín Bernales Ballesteros was a Peruvian scholar and politician. He was a member of the Peruvian Senate and the first UN Special Rapporteur on mercenaries.

Anne Voase Coates was a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career. She was perhaps best known as the editor of David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, for which she won an Oscar. Coates was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the films Lawrence of Arabia, Becket (1963), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Out of Sight (1998). In an industry where women accounted for only 16 percent of all editors working on the top 250 films of 2004, and 80 percent of the films had absolutely no women on their editing teams at all, Coates thrived as a top film editor. She was awarded BAFTA's highest honour, a BAFTA Fellowship, in February 2007 and was given an Academy Honorary Award, which are popularly known as a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in November 2016 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Salvador Borrego Escalante was a Mexican journalist and historical revisionist writer.

Yuan Mu was a Chinese politician and journalist. During his tenure at the State Council, he acted as its spokesperson and headed the State Council Research Office.

Sir Theodore Wilson Harris was a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but subsequently became a novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging. Harris is considered one of the most original and innovative voices in postwar literature in English.

Michel Sénéchal was a French tenor, particularly associated with French and Italian character roles in a repertory ranging from Baroque to contemporary works.

Jean-Baptiste Natama was a Burkinabé politician, diplomat, writer, and former candidate for the Presidency in the country's 2015 election.