List of Famous people who died in 2018

Walter Mischel

First Name Walter
Last Name Mischel
Born on February 22, 1930
Died on September 12, 2018 (aged 88)
Born in Austria

Walter Mischel was an Austrian-born American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. He was the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Mischel as the 25th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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Galt MacDermot

Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot
First Name Galt
Last Name MacDermot
Born on December 18, 1928
Died on December 17, 2018 (aged 89)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot was a Canadian-American composer, pianist and writer of musical theatre. He won a Grammy Award for the song "African Waltz" in 1960. His most successful musicals were Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971). MacDermot also composed music for film soundtracks, jazz and funk albums, and classical music, and his music has been sampled in hit hip-hop songs and albums. He is best known for his work on Hair, and in particular three of the songs from the show; "Aquarius", "Let the Sunshine In", and "Good Morning Starshine", all three of which were number one hits in 1969.

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Agnès-Marie Valois

Agnès Marie Madeleine Cécile Valois
First Name Agnès-Marie
Born on June 30, 1914
Died on April 19, 2018 (aged 103)
Born in France, Normandy

Agnès Cécile Marie-Madeleine Valois, also known as Sister Agnès-Marie, was a French Roman Catholic religious sister and nurse. She became known as "Angel of Dieppe” for her heroic efforts in caring for soldiers at the disastrous World War II Dieppe Raid. For this she was decorated by France and Canada. An Augustinian sister, she had been trained as a surgical nurse before the war. She died on 19 April 2018 at the age of 103, at a monastery near Dieppe, France.

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Richard Sipe

First Name Richard
Last Name Sipe
Born on December 11, 1932
Died on August 8, 2018 (aged 85)

Aquinas Walter Richard Sipe was an American Benedictine monk-priest for 18 years, a psychotherapist and the author of six books about Catholicism, the clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and clerical celibacy.

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Christa Dichgans

First Name Christa
Born on April 6, 1940
Died on July 14, 2018 (aged 78)
Born in Germany

Christa Dichgans was a German painter, associated with the Pop Art movement.

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Wolfhart Westendorf

First Name Wolfhart
Born on September 18, 1924
Died on February 23, 2018 (aged 93)

Wolfhart Westendorf was a German Egyptologist. He was a student of Hermann Grapow, and with him, was a co-author of the Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter, the most extensive study of the subject of ancient Egyptian medicine done in any language. He has also published many other books on Egyptology and the ancient Egyptian language.

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François Garnier

François Charles Garnier
First Name François
Last Name Garnier
Born on April 7, 1944
Died on August 15, 2018 (aged 74)

François Charles Garnier was a French Roman Catholic archbishop.

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Albrecht Wellmer

First Name Albrecht
Last Name Wellmer
Born on July 9, 1933
Died on September 13, 2018 (aged 85)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Albrecht Wellmer was a German philosopher at the Freie Universität Berlin.

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Marcos Carvajal

First Name Marcos
Last Name Carvajal
Born on August 19, 1984
Died on January 24, 2018 (aged 33)
Born in Venezuela, Bolívar

Marcos José Carvajal was a Venezuelan relief pitcher who played for the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball. Listed at 6' 4", (1.93 m), 175 lb. (79 k), Carvajal batted and threw right-handed.

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Hans Kloss

First Name Hans
Last Name Kloss
Born on July 12, 1938
Died on September 12, 2018 (aged 80)

Hans Kloss was a German artist and graphic designer. He is best known for his large paintings combining medieval and modern styles.

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