List of Famous people who died in 2018
Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat
Vladimír Weiss
Vladimír Weiss was a Czechoslovak football defender and coach. He won the Olympic silver medal for Czechoslovakia at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Henry Williams
Henry Williams, nicknamed, "Hi-Fly", was an American professional basketball player.
María Irene Fornés
María Irene Fornés was a Cuban-American playwright and director, notable in off-off-Broadway in the 1960s. She was first inspired to write while living with Susan Sontag, whom she encouraged at a difficult moment in Sontag’s own writing career. Fornés’ plays range widely in subject-matter, but often relate to the impact of economic conditions on personal relationships. Fornés won many Obie Theatre Awards and was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
John Temple Gore
Peter Copeman
Peter William Monckton Copeman FRCS was an English dermatologist known as "Dr Spot" by his colleagues. He was consultant physician at Westminster Hospital and consulting dermatologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He treated many celebrities and also helped modernise Qatar’s medical services. He authored over a hundred peer-reviewed articles and pioneered research on allergic vasculitis and malignant melanoma.
Lewis Elton
Lewis Richard Benjamin Elton was a German-born British physicist and researcher into education, specialising in higher education.
Denis Akiyama
Denis Van Akiyama was a Japanese–Canadian actor and voice actor, best known as providing the voice of Iceman/Bobby Drake, Silver Samurai/Kenuichio Harada and Sunfire in X-Men and Malachite in the original English version of Sailor Moon. He played Shinji in Johnny Mnemonic.
Gertraude Portisch
Anthea Bell
Anthea Bell was an English translator of literary works, including children's literature, from French, German and Danish. These include The Castle by Franz Kafka Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, the Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke and the French Asterix comics along with co-translator Derek Hockridge.