List of Famous people who died in 2018
Aldyr Garcia Schlee
Aldyr Garcia Schlee was a Brazilian writer, journalist, translator, illustrator and professor.
Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell
Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, PC was a British Conservative Party politician who served as an MP from 1970 until 1987 and as Secretary of State for Wales during the first two terms of the Thatcher government.
Mongi Kooli
Mongi Kooli was a Tunisian politician and diplomat. He joined the Socialist Destourian Party. He was the governor of the Jendouba Governorate and the Bizerte Governorate. He was the Tunisian Ambassador to Spain and Czechoslovakia. He was the Tunisian Health Minister in 1976–1977. He authored a 2012 memoir, Au Service de la République.
Sangharakshita
Sangharakshita was a British spiritual teacher and writer, and the founder of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, which in 2010 was renamed the Triratna Buddhist Community.
Robert Assaraf
Robert Assaraf was a Moroccan Jewish historian and writer. He resided between Paris, France and Marrakesh, Morocco.
Orlando Ramírez
Orlando Aliro Ramírez Vera was a Chilean football forward who played for Chile in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Universidad Católica and Palestino.
Richard Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill
Field Marshal Richard Frederick Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill, was a British Army officer. After serving with British Army of the Rhine he served with the Commonwealth Brigade in Malaysia during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. He commanded 12th Light Air Defence Regiment in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and later commanded 19th Airportable Brigade. Although he never served as one of the individual service heads, he went on to be Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff in the late 1980s and then Chief of the Defence Staff in the aftermath of the Gulf War. He subsequently became Chair of the Military Committee of NATO in the mid-1990s.
K. K. Haridas
K. K. Haridas was an Indian film director in Malayalam cinema. His best known works are Vadhu Doctoranu, Kakkakum Poochakkum Kalyanam and Kinnam Katta Kallan.
Ferdinando Imposimato
Ferdinando Imposimato was an Italian magistrate and the honorary president of the Supreme Court of Italy.
Donald Stovel Macdonald
Donald Stovel Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer, politician and diplomat. Macdonald was a long-time Liberal party Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister. In the early 1980s, he headed a royal commission which recommended that Canada enter a free trade agreement with the United States.