List of Famous people who died in 2018

Sam Nzima was the South African photographer who took what became the well known image of Hector Pieterson for the Soweto uprising, but struggled for years to get the copyright.

Benny Holger Fredriksson was a Swedish actor, theatre director, and CEO of Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm.

Firmin Le Bourhis was a French detective writer. He authored 32 detective novels over the course of 18 years. He died of a heart attack on his way to the Envolée des livres, a book festival in Châteauroux.

Alfred W. Crosby Jr. was professor of History, Geography, and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University and University of Helsinki. He was the author of books including The Columbian Exchange (1972) and Ecological Imperialism (1986). In these works, he provided biological and geographical explanations for the question why Europeans were able to succeed with relative ease in what he referred to as the "Neo-Europes" of Australasia, North America, and southern South America.

Lothar Baumgarten was a German conceptual artist, based in New York and Berlin. His work includes installation and film.

Thomas Joel Bopp was an American amateur astronomer. In 1995, he discovered comet Hale–Bopp; Alan Hale discovered it independently at almost the same time, and it was thus named after both of them. At the time of the comet discovery he was a manager at a construction materials factory and an amateur astronomer. On the night of July 22, Bopp was observing the sky with friends in the Arizona desert when he made the discovery. It was the first comet he had observed and he was using a borrowed, home-built telescope.

Robert Charles Morlino was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, from 2003 until his death in 2018. He was the Bishop of Helena, Montana, from 1999 to 2003. Morlino was widely perceived as a conservative bishop.

Luc Charles Henri Beyer de Ryke was a Belgian journalist and politician. He succeeded Jean Rey as a member of the European Parliament in 1980 and served until 1989. He died in Paris of a ruptured aorta on 18 January 2018, aged 84.

Paul Delos Boyer was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" with John E. Walker, making Boyer the first Utah-born Nobel laureate; the remainder of the Prize in that year was awarded to Danish chemist Jens Christian Skou for his discovery of the Na+/K+-ATPase.

Andrea Milani Comparetti was an Italian mathematician and astronomer, based at the University of Pisa.