List of Famous people who died in 2018

Ahmad Matlub was Professor of Rhetoric and Criticism, President of the Iraqi Scientific Academy, and Minister of Culture and Guidance in the Republic of Iraq in 1967 AD. Ahmed was born on Sunday, Sha'ban 10, 1355 AH / October 25, 1936 AD, in the village of Al-Awja, south of Tikrit, Iraq. He died at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, 8 Dhul Qi'dah 1439 AH / July 21, 2018.

T. V. Rajeswar was an Indian Police Service officer, an Intelligence Bureau chief and a Governor of Sikkim, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2012. He died on 14 January 2018

Jean-Louis Koszul was a French mathematician, best known for studying geometry and discovering the Koszul complex. He was a second generation member of Bourbaki.

Alastair Kenneth Yates was an English news anchor, for over 20 years with the BBC, on BBC World News and BBC News.

Sir Alan Rushton Battersby was an English organic chemist best known for his work to define the chemical intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway to vitamin B12 and the reaction mechanisms of the enzymes involved. His research group was also notable for its synthesis of radiolabelled precursors to study alkaloid biosynthesis and the stereochemistry of enzymic reactions. He won numerous awards including the Royal Medal in 1984 and the Copley Medal in 2000. He was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours. Battersby died in February 2018 at the age of 92.

Ali Kadhim Nassir Al-Tameemi , 1 January 1949 – 2 January 2018) was an Iraqi football striker who played for Iraq in the 1972 AFC Asian Cup & 1976 AFC Asian Cup. He also played for Al Zawraa. He held Iraq's goal record with 35 goals in his time, until Hussein Saeed broke it in 1982. He's also Ali Adnan Kadhim's uncle, the Iraqi international who plays for the Vancouver Whitecaps