Death in 2018 featured prominent personalities in the world of art and culture, including the British physicist Stephen Hawking and American singer Aretha Franklin.
In January
7. The famous French singer Franck Gall about 70 years old, especially known in the sixties and eighties of the last century.
15 - Dolores O'Reordan, 46, singer of the Irish band The Cranberries.
February
18 - Idrissa Widraogo, 64, a director from Burkina Faso, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990 for the film "Tillay".
24 - Sridevi, 54, was one of Bollywood's most prominent actresses.
March
14 - Stephen Hawking, 76, the British physicist who had a sclerotic disease that paralyzed him. He knew his work around the universe. He became an icon after the publication of his book "A Brief History of Time" in 1988.
Late French singer Charles Aznavour (Getty Images) |
13. Milos Forman, 86, a Czech-American film director who twice won the Academy Award for best director in 1976 for "One Flew Over the Cocos Nest" (1985) and "Amadeus".
20. The 28-year-old Swedish music producer, Tim Bergling,
May
7-Moran, 57, whose real name is Claudine Loebrets, a Belgian singer.
Tom Wolf, 88, is an American writer and the most prominent face of modern journalism and author of the world-renowned book Bonfire of Ventures.
14 - William Vance, 82, Belgian cartoonist.
22 - Philip Roth, 85, a giant of American literature, author of novels such as "stigma," which is often named among the candidates for the Nobel Prize, but did not get it.
June
18-American rap rapper XX Intense, 20, who was shot dead in Florida.
July
5. Claude Lanzmann, 92, film director and French journalist, author of "The Holocaust" in 1985.
Stan Lee, 95, a legend of American comics, |
August
11- In Assayapol (Vidadhar Surajprasad Naipol, 85), British writer and Nobel laureate of literature in 2001.
16 - Aretha Franklin, 76, is the legendary American singer called "Queen of Soul Music".
September
6. Bert Reynolds, 82, a Hollywood star in the 1970s and 1980s.
12. Rachid Taha, 59, Algerian singer and French rock star in the 1980s.
October
1- Charles Aznavour, 94, the giant of the French song of Armenian origin.
6- Spanish opera singer Monserrat Kabalieh (85 years).
15 - Arto Basilina, 76, a Finnish writer known for his novel "Year of the Wild Rabbit".
November
12. Stan Lee, 95, the American comic legend and iconic icon maker like Spiderman and the Green Man (Halk).
26 - Bernardo Bertolucci, 77, Italian film giant, director of the last film Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor.
December
28-Israeli writer Amos Oz, 79, known for his support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.