List of Famous people who died in 2018

Hatem Ben Rabah, Hatem Berrabeh, or Hatem Berrabah was a Tunisian actor.

José María Setién Alberro was a Spanish Catholic prelate. He was auxiliary bishop of San Sebastián between 1972 and 1979, and bishop between 1979 and 2000.

Julio Ivnisky, known as Julio Blanck, was an Argentine journalist and television personality.

Engelbert Siebler was a German Roman Catholic bishop.

Bill Siegel was an American documentary film producer and director. Documentaries directed by Siegel include Emmy Award-winning The Trials of Muhammad Ali and the Academy Award-nominated The Weather Underground in 2003.

Juan Antonio Ramírez Sunyer was a Spanish judge and engineer. After passing through the courts of Terrassa, Sant Boi de Llobregat and Badalona, since 2003 he was in charge of the Court of Instruction number 13 of Barcelona. He issued controversial orders of provisional detention against the squatting movement and anti-establishment groups.

Salomón Cohen Levy was an Jewish Palestianian-Venezuelan civil engineer and real estate businessman. He was the founder and owner of the construction company Sambil.

António Duarte Arnaut, GOL was a Portuguese poet, fiction writer, essayist, lawyer, and politician. He was Minister of Social Affairs in the second Constitutional Portuguese Government, led by Mário Soares. He is considered the "father" of the Portuguese national health service, having created the first basic health law in Portugal and contributed to universal access to medical care for all Portuguese.

Franz Beyer was a German musicologist who is best known for his revising and restoration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music, in particular his unfinished Requiem, KV 626, which he restored in the early 1970s.

Norman Gimbel was an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes. He wrote the lyrics for songs including "Killing Me Softly with His Song", "Ready to Take a Chance Again" and "Canadian Sunset". He also wrote English-language lyrics for many international hits, including "Sway", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "How Insensitive", "Drinking-Water", "Meditation", "I Will Wait for You" and "Watch What Happens". Of the movie themes he co-wrote, five were nominated for Academy Awards and/or Golden Globe Awards, including "It Goes Like It Goes", from the film Norma Rae, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for 1979. Gimbel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984.