List of Famous people who died in 2018

Paul Belville Taylor Jr. was an American dancer and choreographer. He was among the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists. He founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954 in New York City.

Kwun-Lai Ng (1934-2018) is a former Chinese actress and Cantonese opera singer from Hong Kong. Ng is credited with over 150 films.

Zhang Ouying was a Chinese football (soccer) player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics as well as the 1999, 2003, and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was a member of the Chinese team that won the silver medal at the 1999 World Cup.

Stanley Louis Cavell was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. As an interpreter, he produced influential works on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references.

Pablo García Baena was a Spanish poet. He was born and raised in Córdoba. In 1947, he formed an literary/artistic group called Cántico with his friends and fellow-writers Ricardo Molina, Juan Bernier, Julio Aumente and Mario López. Also in the group were the painters Miguel del Moral and Ginés Liébana.

Nila Valeryivnia Kryukova was a Ukrainian actress. She was awarded a 1985 People's Artist of Ukraine, 1989 Shevchenko National Prize, 2006 Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, and 2008 Hero of Ukraine.

Serigne Sidi Moukhtar Mbacké was a Senegalese religious leader. He served as the Caliph of the Mouride movement, a large Sufi order based in Senegal, from July 1, 2010, until his death on January 9, 2018.

Dylan Gabriel Mika was a New Zealand-born rugby union player who represented the national teams of both Samoa and New Zealand.

Irina Petrovna Tokmakova was a Soviet and Russian writer of children's books, a poet, playwright, and a translator of classic children's literature into Russian. Her translations of Tove Jansson, Astrid Lindgren and Kenneth Grahame's works were particularly renowned. She was a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for children's literature, and the Alexander Grin literary prize.

Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.