Sadly, for several of my friends, family friends, and coworkers, January '18 was not a good month. There were cancer diagnoses, emergency hospitalizations, and, in the case of three different friends, deaths in the family, some of them taken far too early under tragic circumstances. Thinking about that got me to notice that we don't have a new one of these threads for 2018 yet to honor those who pass away this year, so here we are. Already copied over the 2018 deaths that were already reported in the 2017 thread to here; if I missed any, please let me know.
January[HIDE]January 17: Simon Shelton Barnes (actor), age 52
January 19: Derrick Coleman, a.k.a. Fredo Santana (rapper), age 27
January 22: Ursula K. Le Guin (author), age 88
January 24: Mark E. Smith (musician), age 60
January 27: Ingvar Kamprad (businessman), age 91
January 27: Mort Walker (cartoonist), age 94[/HIDE] February[HIDE]February 1: Dennis Edwards (musician), age 74
February 2: Hiroki Takagi (animator), age 57
February 2: Michael Fleisher (writer), age 75
February 4: John Mahoney (actor), age 77
February 9: Reg E. Cathey (actor), age 59
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March[HIDE]March 3: David Ogden Stiers (actor), age 75
March 14: Stephen Hawking (physicist), age 76
March 14: Jim Bowen (TV personality), age 80
March 14: Alfred Crosby (historian), age 87
March 22: Charles Lazarus (businessman), age 94 [/HIDE]
April[HIDE]April 5: Isao Takahata (director), age 82
April 8: Chuck McCann (actor), age 83
April 15: R. Lee Ermey (actor), age 74
April 16: Harry Anderson (actor), age 65
April 17: Barbara Bush (former First Lady), age 92
April 18: Bruno Sammartino (wrestler), age 82
April 18: Dale Winton (TV personality), age 62
April 20: Tim Bergling, a.k.a. Avicii (musician), age 28
April 21: Verne Troyer (actor), age 49 [/HIDE]
May[HIDE]May 4: John Altamura (actor), age 58
May 13: Margot Kidder (actress), age 69
May 14: Tom Wolfe (author), age 88
May 22: Philip Roth (author), age 85
May 24: John Bain, a.k.a. TotalBiscuit (YouTube personality), age 33
May 24: Jerry Maren (actor), age 98
May 25: MUBU Krump (rapper), age 32
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June[HIDE]June 5: Katherine Brosnahan, a.k.a. Kate Spade (designer), age 55
June 8: Anthony Bourdain (chef), age 61
June 8: Danny Kirwan (musician), age 68
June 15: Matt "Guitar" Murphy (musician), age 88
June 18: Jahseh Onfroy, a.k.a. XXXTentacion (rapper), age 20
June 18: Leon White, a.k.a. Big Van Vader (wrestler), age 63
June 19: Koko (gorilla), age 46
June 22: Vincent Abbott, a.k.a. Vinnie Paul (musician), age 54
June 25: Richard Harrison, Jr. (businessman/TV personality), age 77
June 27: Joe Jackson (talent manager), age 89
June 27: Harlan Ellison (writer), age 84
June 29: Steve Ditko (cartoonist), age 90
June 29: Matt Cappotelli (wrestler), age 38 [/HIDE]
July[HIDE]July 2: Alan Longmuir (musician), age 70
July 5: Claude Lanzmann (filmmaker), age 92
July 8: Arthur Kelm a.k.a. Tab Hunter (actor), age 86
July 19: Denis Ten (figure skater), age 25
July 19: Jon Schnepp (cartoonist, voice actor, and more), age 51
July 19: Shinobu Hashimoto (director), age 100 [/HIDE]
August[HIDE]August 1: Rick Genest, a.k.a. Zombie Boy (actor), age 32
August 5: Charlotte Rae (actress), age 92
August 5: Barry Elliott, a.k.a. Barry Chuckle (comedian), age 73
August 13: Jim Neidhart, a.k.a. The Anvil (wrestler), age 63
August 13: Unsho Ishizuka (voice actor), age 67
August 16: Aretha Franklin (musician), age 76
August 21: Stefán Karl Stefánsson (actor), age 43
August 25: John McCain (politician), age 81
August 26: Neil Simon (writer), age 91
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September[HIDE]September 4: Bill Daily (actor), age 91
September 6: Burt Reynolds (actor), age 82
September 7: Malcolm McCormick, a.k.a. Mac Miller (rapper), age 26
September 23: Gary Kurtz (filmmaker), age 78
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October[HIDE]October 1: Carlos Ezquerra (cartoonist), age 70
October 4: Will Vinton (animator), age 70
October 6: Montserrat Caballé (opera singer), age 85
October 6: Scott Wilson (actor), age 76
October 27: Mario Segale (businessman), age 84
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November[HIDE]November 11: Douglas Rain (actor), age 90
November 12: Stan Lee (comic book writer/editor/publisher), age 95
November 15: Roy Clark (singer), age 85
November 16: William Goldman (writer), age 87
November 25: Akira Miyazaki (screenwriter), age 84
November 25: Masaru "Yū" Yamamoto (screenwriter), age 71 November 26: Stephen Hillenburg (animator/cartoonist), age 57
November 30: George H. W. Bush (former US President), age 94
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December[HIDE]December 5: Thomas Billington, a.k.a. Dynamite Kid (wrestler), age 60
December 8: Roger (kangaroo), age 12
December 17: Penny Marshall (actress), age 75
December 28: June Whitfield (actress), age 93
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