List of Famous people who died in 2018
Costas Kondylis
Costas Kondylis was an American architect. He designed over 85 buildings in New York City, many of them for real-estate developer and later U.S. president Donald Trump, through his eponymous architectural firm.
Makoto Shimotsuka
Yasuyuki Takimoto
Antonio Agostinho Marochi
Antônio Agostinho Marochi was a Catholic bishop.
Christian Burchard
Shin'ichi Koga
Yutaka Nakaoki
Sergio Balanzino
Sergio Silvio Balanzino was an Italian diplomat.
Al Hinkle
Al Hinkle was a childhood friend of Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady who was the inspiration for the character of Ed Dunkle in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. In December 1948 Hinkle contributed $100 to the down payment on the 1949 Hudson automobile that Cassady drove across the United States, the journey memorialized in Kerouac’s novel. He was also the real life inspiration for characters in two other Kerouac books: Slim Buckle in Visions of Cody and Ed Buckle in Book of Dreams.