- Jan 5 Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (My Mother the Car, Coach), dies at 86
- Jan 8 Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor (Da Vinci's Inquest, Danger Bay), dies of cancer at 80
- Jan 9 Terence Marsh, British production designer (Oliver!; Dr. Zhivago; Spaceballs), dies of cancer at 86
- Jan 10 Wiesje Backer, Dutch ballet dancer, actress. and playwright, dies at 79
- Jan 12 Bella Emberg [Sybil Dyke], British comic actress (The Russ Abbott Show), dies of alcohol toxicity at 80
- Jan 12 Keith Jackson, American sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football, college football), dies at 89
- Jan 13 Tzimis Panousis, Greek musician, stand-up comedian, and radio presenter, dies of a heart attack at 63
- Jan 14 Hugh Wilson, American screenwriter, film director The First Wives Club; Blast from the Past), and TV series creator (WKRP in Cincinnati; Frank's Place), dies of lung cancer and emphysema at 74
- Jan 15 Peter Wyngarde [Cyril Goldbert], British actor (Department S and Jason King), dies at 90
- Jan 16 Bradford Dillman, American actor (Compulsion, Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer), dies of complications of pneumonia at 87
- Jan 17 Jessica Falkholt, Australian actress (Hope Morrison-Home and Away, dies at 29, three days after a car crash which also killed both her parents
- Jan 17 Simon Shelton Barnes, British actor (Teletubbies-Tinky Winky), dies of hypothermia at 52
- Jan 19 Allison Shearmur [Allison Ivy Brecker], American film executive and producer (Star Wars, The Hunger Games, Jason Bourne), dies of complications from lung cancer at 54
- Jan 19 Dorothy Malone, American actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place), dies at 93
- Jan 19 Olivia Cole, American actress (Roots, Backstairs at the White House), dies of a heart attack at 75
- Jan 20 Bob Smith, American author and a groundbreaking gay comedian (The Tonight Show, Funny Gay Males), dies from Lou Gehrig’s disease at 59
- Jan 20 Howard Lew Lewis, English comedian and actor (Maid Marian and Her Merry Men and Brush Strokes), dies at 76
- Jan 20 John Coleman, American journalist, co-founder of The Weather Channel and broadcaster (1953-2014), dies at 83
- Jan 21 Connie Sawyer [Rosie Cohen], American actress known as "The Clown Princess of Comedy" (Pineapple Express, Dumb and Dumber), dies at 105
- Jan 23 Lari White, American country music singer and actress (You Can Be a Star winner- 1988), dies of peritoneal cancer at 52
- Jan 25 John Morris, American film and Broadway composer who commonly worked alongside Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, dies of a respiratory infection at 91
- Jan 27 Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois), dies at 94
- Jan 30 Mark Salling, American actor and musician (Glee), commits suicide at 35
- Jan 31 Anne Gillis [Alma Conner], American actress (Faline-Bambi, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Men), dies at 90
- Feb 4 John Mahoney, British-born American actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out), dies of throat cancer at 77
- Feb 4 Kenneth Haigh, British actor (Look Back in Anger, Search for the Nile), dies at 86
- Feb 7 Mickey Jones, American musician and actor (Home Improvement, Justified), dies at 76
- Feb 9 Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic theatre, dance, and film score composer (The Theory of Everything), dies from a combination of cocaine and prescription medication at 48
- Feb 9 John Gavin [Juan Vincent Apablasa Jr], American actor (Imitation of Life, Psycho), and US Ambassador to Mexico (1981–86), dies of complications from pneumonia at 86
- Feb 9 Reginald "Reg" E Cathey, American actor (The Wire, Oz, House of Cards), dies of lung cancer at 59
- Feb 11 Vic Damone [Vito Farinola], American singer ("On the Street Where You Live"), entertainer, actor and TV presenter (Vic Damone Show), dies at 89
- Feb 15 Wynn Irwin, American actor (Lotsa Luck, Sugar Time), dies at 85
- Feb 21 Emma Chambers, British actress (The Vicar of Dibley, Notting Hill), dies from natural causes at 53
- Feb 22 Nanette Fabray [Ruby Fabares], American actress and singer (Love Life, Caesar's Hour, One Day at a Time), dies at 97
- Feb 23 Lewis Gilbert, British director, producer and screenwriter (You Only Live Twice, Sink the Bismarck!), dies at 97
Sridevi Kapoor (1963-2018)
Feb 24 Indian actress and film producer referred to as Indian cinema's "first female superstar" (Himmatwala, Solva Sawan), drowns at 54
- Mar 3 David Ogden Stiers, American stage and screen actor (M*A*S*H, 1977-83 - "Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III"; Lilo & Stitch), dies of bladder cancer at 75
- Mar 5 André S. Labarthe, French actor, film producer and director (Vivre sa vie, Cinéastes de notre temps), dies at 86
- Mar 6 Shammi [Nargis Rabadi], Indian actress (Half Ticket, Dekh Bhai Dekh), dies from natural causes at 88
- Mar 11 Ken Dodd, British singer and comedian described as "the last great music hall entertainer," dies of complications from a chest infection at 90
- Mar 12 Nole "Nokie" Edwards, American surf-rock guitarist (The Ventures) and actor (Deadwood), dies of complications following a surgery at 82
- Mar 12 Oleg Tabakov, Soviet-Russian actor and artistic director (Moscow Art Theatre), dies at 82
- Mar 13 Dr. T Berry Brazelton, American child development paediatrician, author, TV host (What Every Baby Knows), who developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), dies at 99
- Mar 14 Jim Bowen, British TV game show host (Bullseye) and comedian, dies at 80
- Mar 20 Katie Boyle [Lady Sander Saunders], Italian born British actress and broadcaster (Eurovision), dies at 91
- Mar 22 Morgana King, American jazz singer and actress (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II), dies of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 87
- Mar 23 DuShon Monique Brown, American actor (Prison Break, Connie-Chicago Fire), dies at 49
- Mar 24 Lawrence K. Grossman, American news executive (PBS, NBC-TV) and author (The Electronic Republic), dies of Parkinson’s disease and cancer at 86
- Mar 27 Stephane Audran, French actress (Just Before Nightfall), dies at 85
- Mar 29 Rusty Staub, American baseball utility (6 x MLB All Star; Houston Colt .45s / Astros; Montreal Expos; NY Mets; Detroit Tigers) and broadcaster (Mets games 1986-95), dies from multiple organ failure at 73
- Mar 30 Bill Maynard [Walter Williams], English actor (Greengrass-Heartbeat) and comedian, dies at 89
- Mar 31 Frank Aendenboom, Flemish actor (Lion of Flanders), dies at 76
- Apr 1 Steven Bochco, American TV producer and co-creator of Hill Street Blues, LA Law and NYPD Blue, dies at 74
- Apr 2 Susan Anspach, American actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Hair, Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again Sam), dies at 75
- Apr 3 Lill-Babs [Barbro Margareta Svensson], Swedish pop singer, (Eurovision, 1961) actress, and television presenter, dies of heart failure while battling cancer at 80
- Apr 4 Gertrude Jeannette, African American taxi driver, playwright and film and stage actress (Shaft, Cotton Comes to Harlem), dies at 103
- Apr 5 Isao Takahata, Japanese anime film director, screenwriter and producer (Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya), dies of lung cancer at 82
- Apr 11 Mitzi Shore [Lillian Saidel], American owner of The Comedy Store and founder of The Comedy Channel, dies at 87
- Apr 13 Miloš Forman, Czech-American award-winning director (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Amadeus; The Firemen's Ball), dies at 86
- Apr 15 R. Lee Ermey, American actor (Full Metal Jacket- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman), dies at 74
- Apr 16 Harry Anderson, American comic, magician, and actor (Night Court - "Judge Harry Stone"; Daves's World), dies at 65
Bruno Sammartino (1935-2018)
Apr 18 Italian-American strongman and professional wrestler, dies at 82
- Apr 21 Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director (Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês, Vidas Secas), dies at 89
- Apr 21 Verne Troyer, American actor (Mini-Me in Austin Powers movies), dies at 49
- Apr 22 Dave Nelson, American baseball infielder (MLB All Star 1973 Washington Senators/Texas Rangers) and broadcaster (Milwaukee Brewers Fox Sports Wisconsin), dies of liver cancer at 73
- Apr 27 Paul Junger Witt, American TV and film producer (Brian's Song; Soap; The Golden Girls; Dead Poets Society), dies of cancer at 77
- Apr 29 Robert Mandan, American actor best known for his role as Chester Tate in US sitcom "Soap", dies at 86
- May 1 Andrés Reyes [Universo 2000], Mexican pro wrestler (3 x CMLL World Heavyweight Championship), dies from a heart attack at 55
- May 1 Javier Aller, Spanish actor (The Biggest Robbery Never Told), dies at 46 of complications from diabetes
- May 1 Sun Yueh, Chinese-born Taiwanese actor (Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing), dies of sepsis at 87
- May 2 Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress, dies at 93
- May 2 Wolfgang Völz, German actor, dies at 87
- May 4 Cathy Godbold, Australian actress (The Saddle Club, Home and Away), dies of brain cancer at 43
- May 5 Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director (The Tree of Wooden Clogs), dies at 86
- May 8 Anne V. Coates, British film editor (1962 Oscar, Lawrence of Arabia), dies at 92
- May 11 Josh Greenfeld, American author and screenwriter (A Child Called Noah), dies at 90
- May 13 Margot Kidder, Canadian American actress (Lois Lane in Superman films, Amityville Horror), dies at 69
- May 16 Joseph Campanella, American character actor (Guiding Light, Mannix), dies at 93
- May 18 Stephanie Adams, American Playboy playmate (November 1992), kills herself and her child at 47
- May 20 Patricia Morison, American actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill, Kiss Me, Kate The King and I), dies at 103
- May 21 Clint Walker, American actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen), dies at 90
- May 23 Glynn Edwards, English television actor, dies at 87
- May 24 Jerry Maren [Gerard Marenghi], American actor (The Wizard of Oz; Mayor McCheese), dies at 98
- May 26 Ted [Samuel Frederick] Dabney, American electrical engineer and founder of Atari (Pong), dies at 81
- May 27 Russell Nype, American singer and actor (The Stuff,;Call Me Madam; Dorothy), dies at 98
- May 28 Cornelia Frances [Zulver], British-Australian actress (Home and Away), dies from bladder cancer at 77
- May 28 María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer and actress, dies at 93
- Jun 4 Georgann Johnson, American actress (Marge-Mr Peepers, Star Trek, Midnight Cowboy), dies at 91
- Jun 8 Anthony Bourdain, American-French celebrity chef, author, and TV personality considered one of the most influential chefs in the world (No Reservations, Parts Unknown), commits suicide by hanging at 61
- Jun 8 Eunice Gayson, British actress and 1st Bond Girl (Sylvia Trench- "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love"), dies at 90 [1]
- Jun 18 Leon White [Big Van Vader], American professional wrestler (WWF, AJPW), dies at 63
- Jun 26 Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor, (Ryan's Hope; Dallas), dies at 77
- Jun 28 Harlan Ellison, American sci-fi author and screenwriter (Star Trek -"The City on the Edge of Forever"), dies at 84
- Jun 29 Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer, and singer (Nine, Grand Hotel), dies of colon cancer at 85
- Jul 1 Dame Gillian Lynne [Pyrke], British dancer, choreographer and actress, known for Broadway work on "Cats" and "The Phantom of the Opera," dies at 92
- Jul 3 Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak), dies at 78
- Jul 8 Tab Hunter [Arthur Andrew Kelm], American actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust) and singer ("Young Love"), dies of complications of deep vein thrombosis at 86
- Jul 12 Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo), dies at 81
- Jul 12 Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host, director, and screenwriter (Avro), dies at 79
- Jul 27 Bernard Hepton, English actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII), dies at 92
- Aug 3 Moshe Mizrahi, Israeli film director (Madame Rosa), dies of pneumonia at 86
- Aug 5 Charlotte Rae, American character actress (Facts of Life - "Edna"), comedian, singer, and dancer, dies at 92
- Aug 13 Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, American professional wrestler (WWF/WCW/NJPW/CWFI/Calgary), dies at 63
- Aug 21 Barbara Harris, American Tony Award-winning actress (Plaza Suite; Family Plot), dies at 83
- Aug 21 Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (Lazytown), dies of cancer at 43
- Aug 24 Robin Leach, English TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous), dies at 76
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
Aug 26 American playwright (The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues), dies at 91
Burt Reynolds (1936-2018)
Sep 6 American actor (Deliverance, Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball), dies of cardiac arrest at 82
- Sep 11 Fenella Fielding, English actress (Carry On films), dies at 90
- Sep 15 Dudley Sutton, British stage and screen actor (Leather Boys; Brimstone & Treacle; Lovejoy - "Tinker Dill"), dies of cancer at 85
- Sep 16 Frank Parker, American actor (Days of our Lives, Never Too Young), dies at 79
- Sep 20 John Cunliffe, British children's book author and television presenter (Postman Pat; Rosie and Jim), dies of cardio-pulmonary failure at 85
- Sep 30 Geoffrey Hayes, British TV presenter and actor (Rainbow, Z-Cars), dies at 76
- Oct 6 Scott Wilson, American actor (The Walking Dead; The Ninth Configuration), dies of cancer at 76
- Oct 14 Al Fann, American actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor), dies at 93
- Oct 27 Murray Khouri, New Zealand classical clarinet player (Australia Ensemble), writer, and broadcaster, dies at 77
- Nov 2 Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer, popularized martial arts worldwide, dies at 91
- Nov 2 Torben Jensen, Danish actor (Taxa; Hayfever; Watch Me Fly; Guldregn), dies at 74
- Nov 3 Sondra Locke, American actress (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Willard), and director (Impulse), dies at 74 of a heart attack while suffering from breast and bone cancer
- Nov 7 Francis Lai, French film music composer (Love Story), dies at 86
- Nov 9 Paula Wayne [Watkins], American stage and Emmy Award-winning actress (Golden Boy; Everglade!), pop vocalist ("Everything's Great"), and civil rights activist, dies of cancer at 84
- Nov 14 Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor, American actress (Little House On The Prairie - "Harriet Oleson"), dies at 93
- Nov 16 William Goldman, American screenwriter and author (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), dies at 87
- Nov 17 Mary Kay Stearns, American actress (Mary Kay & Johnny), dies at 93
- Nov 17 Richard Baker, English broadcaster (newsreader for BBC News, 1954-1982), dies at 93
- Nov 18 Larry Pickering, Australian political cartoonist and illustrator, dies of lung cancer at 76
- Nov 20 Levine Andrade, Indian-British violinist (Arditti Quartet, 1974-90), film score composer, and conductor, dies at 64
- Nov 23 Nicolas Roeg, English cinematographer and director (Aria, Eureka), dies of natural causes at 90
- Nov 24 Ricky Jay [Richard Potash], American magician and actor (Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay), dies at 72
Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018)
Nov 26 Italian director (Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor), dies of lung cancer at 77
Stephen Hillenburg (1961-2018)
Nov 27 American animator and cartoonist (SpongeBob SquarePants), dies of ALS syndrome at 51
- Dec 1 Kenneth "Ken" Berry, American actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama's Family), dies at 85
- Dec 3 Philip Bosco, American actor (Trading Places, Lend Me a Tenor), dies at 88
- Dec 9 Melvin Dummar, American gas station attendant, claimant to the Howard Hughes estate, and subject of the film "Melvin and Howard", dies at 74
- Dec 16 Lee Leonard, American television personality (ESPN, CNN), dies at 89
Penny Marshall (1943-2018)
Dec 17 American actress (The Odd Couple; Laverne & Shirley), and director (Big; Awakenings; A League of Their Own), and producer (Cinderella Man), dies of diabetes complications at 75
- Dec 20 Donald Moffat, British actor (Logan's Run), dies at 87
- Dec 26 Sono Osato, American Japanese ballet dancer and actress, dies at 99
- Dec 28 June Whitfield, English comedian and actress (Terry and June, Absolutely Fabulous), dies at 93
- Dec 30 Mrinal Sen, Bengali film director (In Search of Famine), dies at 95
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