Biographies: Deaths of 2018

Updated March 1, 2019 | Infoplease Staff

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Deaths of 2018

A-E | F-L | M-Q | R-Z

A-E

• Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft
• Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel laureate
• Alan Baker, English mathematician
• Bernardo Bertolucci, director and screenwriter
• Whitey Bulger, mobster
• George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President
• Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
• Harlan Ellison, American writer

F-L

• Aretha Franklin, singer and songwriter
• Riccardo Giacconi, Nobel astrophysicist
• Peter Grünberg, German Nobel physicist
• Barbara Harris, actress
• Stephen Hawking, physicist and cosmologist
• Jamal Khashoggi, journalist
• Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English Nobel chemist
• Koko, gorilla
• Ursula K. Le Guin, novelist
• Stan Lee, American comic book writer and editor
• Julius Lester, civil rights activist, writer,

M-Q

• John McCain, American politician
• Dolores O'Riordan, Imusician

R-Z

• Burt Reynolds, actor
• Philip Roth, writer
• Otis Rush, blues guitarist and singer
• Neil Simon, playwright
• Thomas A. Steitz, American Nobel biochemist
• Isao Takahata, film director, animator
• Tom Wolfe, author and journalist