What Happened in 2018 — Events, Births & Deaths

For the first time in history, all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.

Hennenman–Kroonstad train crash: A passenger train operated by Shosholoza Meyl collides with a truck on a level crossing at Geneva Station between Hennenman and Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa. Twenty people are killed and 260 injured.

A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii causes widespread panic in the state.

British multinational construction and facilities management services company Carillion goes into liquidation – officially, "the largest ever trading liquidation in the UK".

Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.

A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.

A group of four or five gunmen attack The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others.

Syrian civil war: The Government of Turkey announces the initiation of the Afrin offensive and begins shelling Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in Afrin Region.

A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.

A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.

The China–United States trade war begins when President Donald Trump places tariffs on Chinese solar panels and washing machines.

Former doctor Larry Nassar is sentenced up to 175 years in prison after being found guilty of using his position to sexually abuse female gymnasts.

An Ariane 5 rocket is launched carrying SES-14, Al Yah 3, and NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, but the satellites end up in the wrong orbit.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight.

Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.

Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.

Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes near Moscow, Russia with 71 deaths and no survivors.

Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.

A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries.

Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Dena sub-range in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, Resulting in 66 Deaths

A man throws a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.

Parliamentary elections are held in Djibouti.

Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin.

The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) is held on International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then held annually across Pakistan, and the feminist slogan "Mera Jism Meri Marzi" (My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence, came into vogue in Pakistan.

A Bombardier Challenger 604 crashes into the Zagros Mountains near the Iranian city of Shar-e-kord, killing all 11 people on board.

US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, killing 51 and injuring 20.

President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.

Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.

Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District.

The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.

Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution.

YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.

Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.

A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others.

Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the "Car-Wash Operation". Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, before being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.

Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.

An Ilyushin Il-76 owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.

The New York Times and The New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.

King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.

Anti-government protests start in Nicaragua.

A vehicle-ramming attack kills 11 people and injures 15 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.

The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) resumes the Deir ez-Zor campaign in order to clear the remnants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border.

Barisan Nasional, the coalition that had governed Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957, suffer a historic defeat in the 2018 Malaysian general election.

Paris knife attack: A man is fatally shot by police in Paris after killing one and injuring several others.

A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people.

Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes in Santiago de las Vegas after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, killing 112 of the 113 people on board.

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.

Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.

Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.

The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.

United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea hold the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.

Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.

The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.

Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.

Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.

Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.

France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

The Knesset passes the controversial Nationality Bill, which defines the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

A wildfire in East Attica kills at least 102 people. It is the deadliest wildfire in the history of Greece.

As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.

Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border, concluding the second phase of the Deir ez-Zor campaign.

Crisis in Venezuela: Seven people are injured when two drones detonate explosives on Avenida Bolívar, Caracas while president Nicolás Maduro is giving a speech to the Venezuelan National Guard.

Horizon Air employee Richard Russell hijacks and performs an unauthorized takeoff on a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 plane at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in Washington, flying it for more than an hour before crashing the plane and killing himself on Ketron Island in Puget Sound.

An anti-government rally turns into a riot when members of the Romanian Gendarmerie attack the 100,000 people protesting in front of the Victoria Palace, leading to 452 recorded injuries. The authorities alleged that the crowd was infiltrated by hooligans who began attacking law enforcement agents.

Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada, Syria.

The collapse of the Ponte Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, left 16 people injured and 43 people killed.

Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.

National Museum of Brazil fire: A massive fire destroys most of the Paço de São Cristóvão, which houses the National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. The museum holds important archaeοlogical and anthropological objects, including the remains of the Luzia Woman, Marajoara vases and Egyptian mummies.

Supreme Court of India decriminalises all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.

Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.

A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.

At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.

LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens.

Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.

The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia.

The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process.

Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.

Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.

13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.

The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.

A mass shooting and bombing at Kerch Polytechnic College in Crimea kills 21 people including the attacker and injures 70 others.

The BepiColombo spacecraft is launched on an Ariane 5 rocket to study Mercury.

A passenger train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 people and injuring 187.

The world's longest sea crossing, the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, opens for public traffic.

A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing eleven and injuring six, including four police officers.

Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England.

Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.

Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board. This is the first of two crashes that will lead to the plane being grounded worldwide.

Founders of Italian fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana issue an apology following a series of offensive advertisements on social media promoting a fashion show in Shanghai, China, which was canceled.

The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.

The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.

A tsunami caused by an eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia kills at least 430 people and injures almost a thousand more.

The 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown, the second-longest shutdown of the U.S. federal government in history, begins.

A helicopter crash kills Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor.

Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.

Prince Louis of Wales, British royal

Robert Mann, American violinist (born 1920)

Jon Paul Steuer, American actor (born 1984)

Guida Maria, Portuguese actress (born 1950)

Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1927)

Colin Brumby, Australian composer (born 1933)

Asghar Khan, Pakistani three star general and politician (born 1921)

Thomas Bopp, American astronomer best known as the co-discoverer of comet Hale–Bopp (born 1949)

Karin von Aroldingen, German ballerina (born 1941)

Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (born 1938)

France Gall, French singer (born 1947)

Kato Ottio, Papua New Guinean rugby league player (born 1994)

Edgar Ray Killen, American murderer (born 1925)

Keith Jackson, American sports commentator and journalist (born 1928)

Spanky Manikan, Filipino veteran actor (born 1942)

Cyrille Regis, French Guianan-English footballer (born 1958)

Dolores O'Riordan, Irish pop singer (born 1971)

Ed Doolan, British radio presenter (born 1941)

Oliver Ivanović, Kosovo Serb politician (born 1953)

Paul Bocuse, French chef (born 1926)

Naomi Parker Fraley, American naval machiner, considered the model for the "We Can Do It!" posters of World War II (born 1921)

Ursula K. Le Guin, American sci-fi and fantasy novelist (born 1929)

William B. Jordan, American art historian (born 1940)

Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, composer and singer (born 1939)

Wyatt Tee Walker, American civil rights activist and pastor (born 1928)

Mark E. Smith, British singer-songwriter (born 1957)

Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat (born 1916)

Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA (born 1926)

Mort Walker, American cartoonist (born 1923)

Mark Salling, American actor and musician (born 1982)

Rasual Butler, American professional basketball player (born 1979)

Leah LaBelle, American singer (born 1986)

Barys Kit, Belarusian rocket scientist (born 1910)

Mowzey Radio, Ugandan singer and songwriter (born 1985)

John Mahoney, English-American actor, voice artist, and comedian (born 1940)

Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (born 1935)

Reg E. Cathey, American actor of stage, film, and television (born 1958)

Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic composer (born 1969)

John Gavin, American actor and United States ambassador to Mexico (born 1931)

Vic Damone, American singer, songwriter and actor (born 1928)

Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human-rights lawyer and social activist (born 1952)

Jan Maxwell, American stage and television actress (born 1956)

Qazi Wajid, Pakistani drama actor, writer and artist (born 1930)

Bill Crider, American author (born 1941)

Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (born 1934)

Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (born 1939)

Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (born 1952)

Billy Graham, American evangelist (born 1918)

Sridevi, Indian actress (born 1963)

Haukur Hilmarsson, Icelandic political activist and internationalist volunteer fighter (born 1986)

Steve Folkes, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1959)

María Rubio, Mexican television, film and stage actress (born 1934)

Billy Herrington, American actor (born 1969)

Lin Hu, Chinese lieutenant general (born 1927)

Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete, first man to run a four-minute mile (born 1929)

Mal Bryce, Australian politician (born 1943)

Vanessa Goodwin, Australian politician (born 1969)

David Ogden Stiers, American actor, voice actor and musician (born 1942)

Davide Astori, Italian soccer player (born 1987)

Peter Nicholls, Australian science fiction critic and encyclopedist (born 1939)

Kate Wilhelm, American author (born 1928)

Jo Min-ki, Korean actor (born 1965)

Ken Dodd, English comedian and singer (born 1927)

Siegfried Rauch, German actor (born 1932)

Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (born 1936)

Mary Rosenblum, American science fiction and mystery author (born 1952)

Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. (born 1931)

Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality (born 1937)

Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist (born 1979)

Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (born 1942)

Liam O'Flynn, Irish uileann piper (born 1945)

Louise Slaughter, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (born 1929)

Mike MacDonald, Canadian comedian (born 1954)

Phan Văn Khải, the fifth Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1933)

C. K. Mann, Ghanaian Highlife musician and producer (born 1936)

Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (born 1911)

Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (born 1924)

Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist (born 1966)

Fabrizio Frizzi, Italian television presenter (born 1958)

Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (born 1936)

Anita Shreve, American author (born 1946)

Bill Maynard, English actor (born 1928)

Nick Newton, inventor of the Newton Starting Blocks (born 1933)

Steven Bochco, American television writer and producer (born 1943)

Isao Takahata, Japanese director (born 1935)

Art Bell, American radio host (born 1945)

R. Lee Ermey, American actor (born 1944)

Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1929)

Harry Anderson, American actor and magician (born 1952)

Barbara Bush, American political matriarch and literacy advocate, First Lady of the United States (1989–1993), and Second Lady of the United States (1981–1989) (born 1925)

Carl Kasell, American radio personality (born 1934)

Avicii, Swedish DJ and musician (born 1989)

Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian (born 1900)

Madeeha Gauhar, Pakistani actress, playwright and director of social theater, and women's rights activist (born 1956)

James Hylton, American race car driver (born 1934)

Luis García Meza, Bolivian general, 57th President of Bolivia (born 1929)

Michael Martin, British politician (born 1945)

Big Bully Busick, American professional wrestler (born 1954)

Anne V. Coates, British film editor (Lawrence of Arabia, The Elephant Man, Erin Brockovich), Oscar winner (1963) (born 1925)

Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor (born 1938)

David Goodall, Australian botanist and ecologist (born 1914)

Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (born 1945)

Tom Wolfe, American author (born 1931)

Zhengzhang Shangfang, Chinese linguist (born 1933)

John "TotalBiscuit" Bain, English gaming commentator and critic (born 1984)

Gudrun Burwitz, daughter of Margarete Himmler and Heinrich Himmler (born 1929)

Kaduvetti Guru, Indian politician and Veera Vanniyar caste leader (born 1961)

Gardner Dozois, American science fiction author and editor (born 1947)

Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (born 1963)

Jens Christian Skou, Danish medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress (born 1941)

Kate Spade, American fashion designer (born 1962)

Anthony Bourdain, American chef and travel documentarian (born 1956)

Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (born 1960)

Neal E. Boyd, American singer, winner of the 2008 season of America's Got Talent (born 1975)

Jon Hiseman, English drummer (born 1944)

XXXTentacion, American rapper (born 1998)

Big Van Vader (also known as Vader) American professional wrestler (born 1955)

Jimmy Wopo, American rapper (born 1997)

Koko, western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (born 1971)

Charles Krauthammer, American columnist and conservative political commentator (born 1950)

Vinnie Paul, American musician (born 1964)

Joe Jackson, American manager, father of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (born 1928)

Liz Jackson, Australian journalist and former barrister (born 1951)

William McBride, Australian obstetrician (born 1927)

Harlan Ellison, American writer (born 1934)

Steve Ditko, American comic writer and illustrator (born 1927)

Smoke Dawg, Canadian rapper (born 1996)

Alan Longmuir, Scottish musician (born 1948)

Henri Dirickx, Belgian footballer (born 1927)

Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (born 1940)

Shoko Asahara, founder of Japanese cult group Aum Shinrikyo (born 1955)

Tab Hunter, American actor, pop singer, film producer and author (born 1931)

Henry Morgenthau III, American author and television producer (born 1917)

Annabelle Neilson, English socialite (born 1969)

Jonathan Gold, American food critic (born 1960)

Adrian Cronauer, American radio personality (born 1938)

Jon Schnepp, American producer, director, voice actor, editor, writer, cartoonist, animator, and cinematographer (born 1967)

Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (born 1993)

Alene Duerk, U.S. Navy first female admiral (born 1920)

Frank Havens, American canoeist (born 1924)

Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian businessman (born 1952)

Adem Demaçi, Kosovo Albanian politician and writer (born 1936)

John Kline, American basketball player (born 1931)

Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian literature critic, television host and sexologist

Wanny van Gils, Dutch footballer (born 1959)

Oliver Dragojević, Croatian recording artist (born 1947)

Nikolai Volkoff, Yugoslav-born American professional wrestler (born 1947)

Michael A. Sheehan, American author, former government official and military officer (born 1955)

Tony Bullimore, British sailor and businessman (born 1939)

Alan Rabinowitz, American zoologist (born 1953)

Joël Robuchon, French Chef (born 1945)

Margaret Heckler, American politician (born 1931)

Anya Krugovoy Silver, American poet (born 1968)

M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and prominent leader of Tamils (born 1924)

Stan Mikita, Slovak hockey player (born 1940)

Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field athlete (born 1990)

V S Naipaul, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)

Terry A. Davis, American computer programmer, creator of TempleOS (born 1969)

Jim Neidhart, American wrestler (born 1955)

Jill Janus, American singer (born 1975)

Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter (born 1942)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian poet and 12th Prime Minister of India (born 1924)

Wakako Yamauchi, American-Japanese writer (born 1924)

Denis Edozie, Nigerian Supreme Court judge (born 1935)

Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (born 1938)

Uri Avnery, Israeli writer, politician and peace activist (born 1923)

Jennifer Ramírez Rivero, Venezuelan model (born 1978)

Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (born 1975)

Ed King, American musician (born 1949)

Krishna Reddy, Indian printmaker, sculptor and teacher (born 1925)

John McCain, American politician (born 1936)

Neil Simon, American playwright and author (born 1927)

James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

Paul Taylor, American choreographer (born 1930)

Carole Shelley, British-American actress (born 1939)

Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (born 1926)

Claire Wineland, American activist and author (born 1997)

Bill Daily, American actor, comedian (born 1927)

Krzysztof Sitko, Polish association football player (born 1967)

Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (born 1934)

Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (born 1926)

Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (born 1926)

Liz Fraser, English actress (born 1930)

Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)

Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer (born 1939)

Mac Miller, American rapper (born 1992)

Gennadi Gagulia, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (born 1948)

Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (born 1932)

Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler (born 1935)

Zienia Merton, British actress (born 1945)

Helen Clare, British singer (born 1916)

James Burdette Thayer, American brigadier general (born 1920)

Arthur Mitchell, American ballet dancer & choreographer (born 1934)

Bernard "Bunny" Carr, Irish TV presenter (born 1927)

Trần Đại Quang, President of Vietnam (born 1956)

Vitaliy Masol, Ukrainian Former Prime Minister (born 1928)

Chas Hodges, English musician and singer (born 1943)

Edna Molewa, South African politician (born 1957)

Charles Kuen Kao, Hong Kong-American-British electrical engineer and physicist (born 1933)

Gary Kurtz, American film producer (born 1940)

Jane Fortune, American author, journalist, and philanthropist (born 1942)

Kavita Mahajan, Indian author and translator (born 1967)

Michael Payton, American football quarterback (born 1970)

Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji, Indian nobleman and politician (born 1935)

Marty Balin, American singer, co-founder of the band Jefferson Airplane (born 1942)

Predrag Ejdus, Serbian actor (born 1947)

Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (born 1934)

Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (born 1945)

Geoffrey Hayes, British television presenter and actor (born 1942)

Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (born 1925)

Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer, composer, writer, filmmaker and public figure (born 1924)

Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (born 1958)

Scott Wilson, American actor (born 1942)

Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (born 1933)

Annapurna Devi, Indian surbahar (bass sitar) player (born 1927)

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (born 1953)

Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (born 1931)

Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 5th President of the Sudan (born 1934)

Wim Kok, Dutch prime minister (born 1938)

Todd Reid, Australian tennis player (born 1984)

Tony Joe White, American singer/songwriter (born 1943)

Thomas Keating, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1923)

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman, chairman of Leicester City F.C. (born 1958)

Colin Sylvia, Australian rules footballer (born 1985)

Willie McCovey, American baseball player (born 1938)

Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (born 1927)

Sondra Locke, American actress and director (born 1944)

Bernard Landry, Canadian lawyer, politician and Premier of Quebec (born 1937)

Dennis Wrong, Canadian-born American sociologist (born 1923)

Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor, and publisher (born 1922)

William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1931)

James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress (born 1929)

Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

Stephen Hillenburg, American animator, voice actor, and marine science educator (born 1961)

Harry Leslie Smith, British writer and political commentator (born 1923)

George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st President of the United States and 43rd Vice President of the United States (born 1924)

Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (born 1931)

Ken Berry, American actor, dancer, and singer (born 1933)

David Weatherall, English physician, geneticist, and academic (born 1933)

Noah Klieger, Holocaust survivor who became an award-winning Israeli journalist (born 1926)

Eryue He, Chinese historical fiction writer (born 1945)

Girma Wolde-Giorgis, President of Ethiopia (born 1924)

Paddy Ashdown, British politician (born 1941)

Simcha Rotem, last survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (born 1924)

Herman Sikumbang, Indonesian guitarist (born 1982); casualty during 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami

Martha Érika Alonso, Governor of Puebla (born 1973)

Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor of Puebla (born 1968)

Sulagitti Narasamma, Indian midwife (born 1920)

Frank Blaichman, Polish resistance fighter (born 1922)

Brian Garfield, American novelist, historian and screenwriter (born 1939)

Rosenda Monteros, Mexican actress (born 1935)

Kader Khan, Indian actor (born 1937)