List of Famous people who died in 2018

Zvonko Bego was a Croatian footballer. He spent most of his career with Croatian side Hajduk Split. Internationally he played six games for Yugoslavia: he was part of the Yugoslavian side which won gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Pierre-Marie Pincemaille was a French organist, improviser, and pedagogue. He was known for his organ improvisations, both in concert and on CD and for his recordings of Charles-Marie Widor's complete organ symphonies played on organs built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, as well as his recordings of the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé and César Franck, and organ works of Pierre Cochereau and Louis Vierne in particular.

Jean-Jacques Béchio was an Ivorian politician. A member of the Attie ethnic group, he came from the student trade union milieu where he started his career.

Oleg Pavlov was a prominent Russian writer and winner of the Russian Booker Prize.

Zang Tianshuo was a Chinese rock musician.

Abdelmalek Benhabylès was an Algerian politician. He was born in Chevreuil. He was a chairman of the Constitutional Council from 11 January 1992 until 14 January 1992, thus was acting head of state when the military ousted Chadli Bendjedid. He received the 1st Class, Grand Cordon of Order of the Rising Sun on 17 December 2012.

Enno Patalas was a German film historian, collector, and expert film preservationist. A former head of the Munich Film Museum (1973–1994), his restorations include films such as Metropolis, M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder and Die Nibelungen, all directed by Fritz Lang. Patalas also restored the film The Battleship Potemkin for viewing at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005.

Günther Haensch was a German linguist and lexicographer. A specialist on Catalan and Aragonese dialectology, he has also published more general dictionaries and works on Spanish and French culture.

Jean-Marie Pirot, popularly known as Arcabas, was a French contemporary sacred artist.

Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez was a Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.