List of Famous people who died in 2018

Elisa Frota Pessoa, born Elisa Esther Habbema de Maia, was a Brazilian experimental physicist. She was one of the first women to graduate in physics in Brazil, in 1942, and a founding member of the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas. She was distinguished by her studies of radioactivity with nuclear emulsions; reactions and disintegrations of K and π mesons in nuclear emulsions; and reactions of protons and deuterons with nuclei of average masses.

Jamal Naji, was a Jordanian author of Palestinian origins. He was born in 1954 in the refugee camp of Aqbat Jaber in the West Bank. He moved to Jordan in 1967, when he was in his early teens.

Agenor Girardi was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Lia Wyler was a Brazilian translator.

İbrahim Ayhan was a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin and a former Member of Parliament for Şanlıurfa.

Darmanto Jatman was an Indonesian poet and writer. He was an Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, Diponegoro University (UNDIP), Semarang. He was known as a humanist, philosopher and poet of Indonesia. He gave birth to the establishment of the Faculty of Psychology at UNDIP and became the first professor in the faculty. On 27 July 2007, Susilo Wibowo of UNDIP gave him the title of Professor, exactly a month before he retired, so that he was immediately given the title of Emeritus Professor.