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2018 in the United States#January

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This is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States.

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Events

= January =

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  • January 1
  • The 2018 North American cold wave takes place, with record low temperatures in the Midwestern and Eastern United States. Times Square in New York City has a temperature of {{convert|9|F}}, with {{convert|-4|F}} wind chill,{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/31/us/new-years-eve-winter-weather/index.html|title=New year brings record cold across US|first1=Theresa|last1=Waldrop|first2=Catherine E.|last2=Shoichet|publisher=CNN}} in addition to Omaha having a temperature of {{convert|-15|F}} on December 30, 2017, lower than the previous record set in 1884.{{cite news|url=http://time.com/5083230/midwest-record-cold-new-year-2018/|title=Dangerously Cold Temperatures Grip Midwest as 2018 Begins|magazine=Time|access-date=January 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101231436/http://time.com/5083230/midwest-record-cold-new-year-2018/|archive-date=January 1, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Retail sale of marijuana begins in California, the largest U.S. state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-california-marijuana-sales-20180101-story.html|title=Recreational pot sales roll out in California, with celebratory 'blunts' and big crowds|first1=Angel|last1=Jennings|first2=Sarah|last2=Parvini|date=January 1, 2018|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}
  • January 3 – President Donald Trump boasts on Twitter that his nuclear button is "much bigger" and "more powerful" than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42549687|title=Trump to Kim: My nuclear button is 'bigger and more powerful'|date=January 3, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=January 3, 2018}}
  • January 6 – The 2017–18 United States flu season causes dozens of deaths.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-flu-surge-20180106-htmlstory.html|title=Severe flu brings medicine shortages, packed ERs and a rising death toll in California|first=Soumya|last=Karlamangla|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=January 12, 2018}}
  • January 8 – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that 2017 was the costliest year on record for climate and weather-related disasters in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42608161|title=Most expensive year on record for US natural disasters|date=January 8, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=January 9, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.noaa.gov/news/2017-was-3rd-warmest-year-on-record-for-us|title=2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for U.S.|date=January 8, 2018|work=NOAA|access-date=January 9, 2018}}
  • January 9 – The 2018 Southern California landslides occur, killing at least 13 people, and injuring 25. The main damage occurs in Montecito, California, which was nearly burned by the Thomas Fire a month prior.
  • January 10 – The city council of Washington, D.C., renames the street outside Russia's embassy after Boris Nemtsov, an opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin who was shot dead outside the Kremlin.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42640239|title=Washington renames Russian embassy street after slain opposition MP|date=January 10, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=January 11, 2018}}
  • January 11 – During a meeting with lawmakers about immigration, President Trump is reported to have asked, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?"{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/11/bfc0725c-f711-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html|title=Trump derides protections for immigrants from 'shithole' countries|date=January 12, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 12, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/11/trump-pans-immigration-proposal-as-bringing-people-from-shithole-countries|title=Trump pans immigration proposal as bringing people from 'shithole countries'|date=January 12, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=January 12, 2018}} His remarks are condemned as "racist" and "shocking" by a UN spokesman.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42656433|title=Trump 'in crude Oval Office outburst about migrants'|date=January 12, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=January 12, 2018}} (comp. Donald Trump racial views) The government of Botswana demands a clarification,{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-asked-why-pretty-korean-lady-wasnt-helping-north-korea-negotiations-1655052|title=Trump asked why 'pretty Korean lady' wasn't helping with North Korea negotiations|work=International Business Times|date=January 13, 2018|access-date=January 13, 2018}} and Ambassador Earl R. Miller is asked if the USDS regards Botswana as a "shithole" country.{{cite news|last1=Bentson|first1=Clark|title=World leaders slam Trump's 's—hole countries' remarks: 'Offensive,' 'shocking,' 'shameful'|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/world-leaders-slam-trumps-hole-countries-remarks-offensive/story?id=52309707|access-date=January 13, 2018|publisher=ABC News|location=United States|date=January 12, 2018}} The event is termed by many media outlets "Shitholegate".{{cite news|last1=Murdock|first1=Deroy|title=President Trump, Dr. King, and Shitholegate|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455449/donald-trump-democrats-not-friends|access-date=January 16, 2018|work=National Review|date=January 15, 2018}}
  • January 12 – A Baltimore woman who was a patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center is taken outside and left by hospital employees in freezing temperatures wearing nothing but her hospital gown and socks. She is stranded until bystander Imanu Baraka calls 911.{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-media-fury-follows-video-of-dazed-woman-put-out-in-cold-by-baltimore-hospital/2018/01/11/b8a7866c-f70d-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html|title=He saw a dazed woman put out in the cold by a Baltimore hospital. He started filming.|newspaper=The Washington Post}}
  • January 13 – The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency sends a false alarm warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack, causing widespread panic across the state.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-missile.html|title=Hawaii Panics After Alert About Incoming Missile Is Sent in Error|first1=Adam|last1=Nagourney|first2=David E.|last2=Sanger|first3=Johanna|last3=Barr|date=January 18, 2018|website=The New York Times}}
  • January 15 – Turpin case: Police in California arrest a couple, 57-year-old computer engineer at Northrop Grumman David Allen Turpin and his wife, 49-year-old Louise Anna Turpin, who allegedly held their 13 children captive, some chained to beds in the dark.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42698562|title=Turpin: Shackled siblings found in Perris, California home|access-date=January 16, 2018|publisher=BBC News|date=January 16, 2018}}
  • January 16
  • Democrat Patty Schachtner wins the special election for Wisconsin's 10th Senate District, the same district President Trump won by 17 points.{{cite web|url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2018/01/16/wisconsin-voters-chose-legislators-tuesdays-special-elections/1038687001/|title=Democrats grab key Wisconsin Senate seat in Tuesday's special elections|access-date=January 17, 2018|work=Journal Sentinel|date=January 16, 2018}}
  • A meteor is reported near Michigan that causes a magnitude 2.0 earthquake.{{cite web|url=http://wgntv.com/2018/01/17/meteor-lights-up-sky-over-midwest-causes-2-0-earthquake|title=Meteor confirmed in skies over Midwest, causes 2.0 magnitude earthquake|date=January 17, 2018|publisher=WGN TV}}
  • January 18 – Scotland Yard reveals that U.S. actor Kevin Spacey is being investigated over a third accusation of sexual assault in the UK, from 2005.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/18/kevin-spacey-scotland-yard-investigates-third-sexual-assault-claim-against-actor|title=Kevin Spacey: Scotland Yard investigates third sexual assault claim against actor|access-date=January 18, 2018|work=The Guardian|date=January 18, 2018}}
  • January 20 – Senate Democrats block a bill that would have kept the government running until mid-February and the government shutdown of January 2018 begins.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/government-braces-for-shutdown-as-senate-fails-to-meet-deadline-for-spending-deal|title=Government braces for shutdown as Senate fails to meet deadline for spending deal|first=Adam|last=Shaw|date=January 20, 2018|publisher=Fox News}}
  • January 22
  • Amazon opens the first Amazon Go store to the public, the first completely cashier-less grocery store, located in Seattle.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16008589011|title=Amazon Go|date=January 22, 2018|publisher=Amazon|access-date=January 23, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/1/22/16920784/amazon-go-cashier-less-grocery-store-seattle-shoplifting-punishment-detection|title=Amazon doesn't care if you accidentally shoplift from its cashier-less store|date=January 22, 2018|work=The Verge|access-date=January 23, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/the-future-of-shopping-amazon-go-launches-cashless-supermarket-with-no-cashiers-lines-or-registers/news-story/43bc168c8d47cd9fb2e65bcd0c629642|title=People are lining up to shop at Amazon Go's new "queue-free" concept store|date=January 23, 2018|work=news.com.au|access-date=January 23, 2018}}
  • Minnie Mouse receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of her 90th anniversary.{{cite web|url=https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/minnie-mouse-receives-star-hollywood-walk-fame|title=Minnie Mouse Receives Star on Hollywood Hall of Fame|date=22 January 2018|website=The Walt Disney Company|access-date=19 June 2021}}
  • January 23 – A tsunami alert is triggered after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake is recorded off the southern Alaskan coast.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42786107|title=Alaska tsunami fears prompt brief evacuation|access-date=January 23, 2018|date=January 23, 2018|publisher=BBC News}}
  • January 24
  • Disgraced Olympic gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar receives a prison sentence of up to 175 years after testimony from nearly 160 of his victims.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42811304|title=Larry Nassar: Disgraced US Olympics doctor jailed for 175 years|access-date=January 24, 2018|date=January 24, 2018|publisher=BBC News}}
  • President Trump attends the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland.
  • January 30 – President Trump gives his first official State of the Union Address.{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/30/state-of-the-union-2018-january-30-270753|title=Trump to give State of the Union on Jan. 30|work=Politico|date=November 30, 2017}} 75 percent of State of the Union viewers approved of Trump's address.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viewers-approve-of-trumps-first-state-of-the-union-address-cbs-news-poll/|title=Viewers approve of Trump's first State of the Union address – CBS News poll|publisher=CBS|date=January 30, 2018}}

= February =

  • February 2 – President Trump approves the release of a controversial Republican memo accusing the FBI of abusing its powers during the inquiry into alleged Russian meddling of US elections.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42922995|title=Trump-Russia: Republican memo accuses FBI of abusing power|publisher=BBC News|access-date=February 2, 2018|date=February 2, 2018}}
  • February 4 – The Philadelphia Eagles win their first Super Bowl in franchise history by defeating the New England Patriots, 41–33, in Super Bowl LII, ending a 57-year championship drought.{{cite news|url=http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/dave-spadaro/article-1/THE-EAGLES-ARE-SUPER-BOWL-CHAMPIONS/921650aa-5fb5-42fa-b8fc-9aea308a246a|title=THE EAGLES ARE SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!!|work=PhiladelphiaEagles.com|access-date=February 4, 2018|date=February 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206190248/http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/dave-spadaro/article-1/THE-EAGLES-ARE-SUPER-BOWL-CHAMPIONS/921650aa-5fb5-42fa-b8fc-9aea308a246a|archive-date=February 6, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • February 5 – The Dow Jones share index closes down 4.6%, its biggest drop since the 2008 financial crisis.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42942921|title=Dow Jones hit by worst fall since 2008|date=February 5, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=February 5, 2018}}
  • February 6 – SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon Heavy rocket from LC39A at John F. Kennedy Space Center.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42969020|title=Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully|publisher=BBC News|date=February 6, 2018|access-date=February 6, 2018}}
  • February 9–25 – The United States compete at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea and win 9 gold, 8 silver, and 6 bronze medals.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/with-23-medals-team-usa-falls-short-of-expectations-at-pyeongchang-olympics/2018/02/25/2352ea02-1954-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html|title=With 23 medals, Team USA falls short of expectations at PyeongChang Olympics|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Rick|last=Maese|date=February 25, 2018|access-date=March 5, 2018}}
  • February 14 – A mass shooting occurs at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, resulting in 17 fatalities.{{cite news|url=https://www.wptv.com/news/state/shooting-investigated-at-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-in-broward-county|title=Sheriff: Broward Co. school shooter in custody, 14 victims|publisher=WTVJ|agency=Associated Press|date=February 14, 2018|access-date=February 14, 2018}} It is the deadliest high school shooting in the United States, surpassing the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
  • February 15 – Pearl Fernandez pleads guilty to the murder of her son Gabriel Fernandez, an eight-year old tortured and killed in California. Her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre is also later convicted of murder in relation to the case.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mother-pleads-guilty-to-murder-torture-in-death-of-8-year-old-california-boy/|title=Mother pleads guilty to murder, torture in death of 8-year-old California boy|publisher=CBS News|date=February 15, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • February 16
  • Special Counsel Robert Mueller announces that 13 Russians have been charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43092085|title=Russia-Trump inquiry: Russians charged over US 2016 election tampering|date=February 16, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=February 16, 2018}}
  • Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler, is released by Marvel Studios as the 18th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It becomes the second-highest-grossing film of 2018 and the ninth highest-grossing film of all time at that point (now the thirteenth), earning $1.347 billion during its run.
  • February 18 – In Stock Car racing, Austin Dillon wins the 60th running of the Daytona 500. Darrell Wallace Jr. finishes 2nd highest finish for an African-American in the Daytona 500.
  • February 22 – Teachers and other education personnel in West Virginia go on the first ever statewide strike in state history.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/22/588086091/west-virginias-teachers-walk-off-the-job-protesting-low-pay-and-benefit-cuts|title=West Virginia's Teachers Walk Off The Job, Protesting Low Pay And Benefit Cuts|date=February 22, 2018|publisher=NPR|access-date=March 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223001312/https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/22/588086091/west-virginias-teachers-walk-off-the-job-protesting-low-pay-and-benefit-cuts|archive-date=February 23, 2018|url-status=live}}
  • February 23
  • President Trump announces a plan for the largest ever package of sanctions against North Korea, aimed at cutting off revenue for its nuclear program.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/23/north-korea-sanctions-trump-announces-largest-ever-package|title=North Korea sanctions: Trump announces 'largest-ever' package|date=February 23, 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=February 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223173742/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/23/north-korea-sanctions-trump-announces-largest-ever-package|archive-date=February 23, 2018|url-status=live}}
  • President Trump's former deputy campaign manager, Rick Gates, admits charges of conspiracy and lying to investigators in a plea deal.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43164325|title=Trump-Russia: Ex-campaign aide Rick Gates pleads guilty|date=February 23, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=February 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223201409/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43164325|archive-date=February 23, 2018|url-status=live}}
  • February 24 – Paul Manafort is indicted with five federal criminal charges including money laundering and foreign lobbying violations.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43177864|title=Trump-Russia: Manafort 'paid European ex-politicians'|date=February 24, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=February 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224012212/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43177864|archive-date=February 24, 2018|url-status=live}}
  • February 25 – In the wake of concerns about gun control, a number of major companies announce they are severing ties with the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) – including Alamo, Allied Van Lines, Avis Rent a Car, Budget Rent a Car, Delta, Enterprise, First National Bank of Omaha, Hertz, Met Life, National, SimpliSafe, Symantec, Teladoc, and United.{{cite news|author1=Danielle Wiener-Bronner|title=Why companies are abandoning the NRA|url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/25/news/companies/boycott-nra-companies/index.html|access-date=16 October 2023|publisher=CNN Business|date=February 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225194112/https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/25/news/companies/boycott-nra-companies/index.html|archive-date=February 25, 2018|language=en-us}}{{cite news|title=#BoycottNRA: Firms cut ties with gun lobby after Florida shooting|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/2/25/boycottnra-firms-cut-ties-with-gun-lobby-after-florida-shooting|access-date=16 October 2023|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=February 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216004235/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/2/25/boycottnra-firms-cut-ties-with-gun-lobby-after-florida-shooting|archive-date=February 16, 2021|language=en}}

= March =

  • March 1 – President Trump announces tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43249614|title=US steel and aluminium imports face big tariffs, Trump says|date=March 1, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=March 1, 2018}}
  • March 4 – The 90th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water winning four awards out of 13 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell respectively win Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Gary Oldman wins Best Actor for Darkest Hour and Allison Janney wins Best Supporting Actress for I, Tonya. The telecast garners 26.5 million viewers, at that point the least-watched televised ceremony in Oscar history.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscars-2018-winners-full-list-2018-03-04-90th-academy-awards|title=Oscars 2018: Complete list of winners|date=March 5, 2018|publisher=CBS News}}
  • March 5 – Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sues agricultural giant Monsanto, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma|title=Monsanto concealed effects of toxic chemical for decades, Ohio AG says in suit|publisher=NBC News|date=March 6, 2018}}
  • March 6 – Gary Cohn, a top economic adviser to President Trump, resigns his position.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/politics/gary-cohn-resigns.html|title=Gary Cohn to Resign as Trump's Top Economic Adviser|last1=Kelly|first1=Kate|last2=Haberman|first2=Maggie|access-date=March 6, 2018|date=March 6, 2018|work=The New York Times}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43311581|title=Gary Cohn: Key Trump economic policy adviser resigns|access-date=March 7, 2018|date=March 7, 2018|publisher=BBC News}}
  • March 7
  • Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress who alleges she had an affair with President Trump, files a lawsuit against him alleging that a nondisclosure contract she signed is invalid.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43312158|title=Stormy Daniels sues Trump over 'hush agreement'|access-date=March 7, 2018|date=March 7, 2018|publisher=BBC News}}
  • Florida passes a law by 67–50 votes to raise the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43325913|title=Florida shooting: Gun control law moves step closer|publisher=BBC News|date=March 7, 2018|access-date=March 8, 2018}}
  • March 9
  • President Trump accepts an invite from Kim Jong-un through South Korean officials for a meeting by May.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43339901|title=Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un to hold 'milestone' meeting|publisher=BBC News|date=March 9, 2018}}
  • Former drug firm executive Martin Shkreli is sentenced to seven years in federal prison for defrauding investors.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43352073|title='Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli sentenced to seven years|publisher=BBC News|date=March 9, 2018|access-date=March 9, 2018}}
  • March 13 – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired (effective March 31) by President Trump. CIA Director Mike Pompeo is nominated to replace him.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43388723|title=Trump fires Rex Tillerson as secretary of state|publisher=BBC News|date=March 13, 2018|access-date=March 13, 2018}}
  • March 14
  • Democrat Conor Lamb wins the 2018 special Congressional election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, previously considered a safe seat for Republicans.{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/378297-dem-conor-lamb-declares-victory-in-pa-special-election-upset/|title=Democrat Conor Lamb declares victory in Pennsylvania race|work=The Hill|date=March 14, 2018|access-date=March 14, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/democrat-conor-lamb-is-the-apparent-winner-of-pennsylvania-special-election-in-trump-country.html|title=Democrat Conor Lamb is the apparent winner of Pennsylvania special election in Trump country|publisher=CNBC|date=March 14, 2018|access-date=March 14, 2018}}
  • The Senate passes, by 67 to 31, a bill to reform the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a set of post-financial crisis rules.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/u-s-senate-approves-bill-rewriting-post-crisis-bank-rules-n856766?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma|title=U.S. Senate approves bill rewriting post-crisis bank rules|publisher=NBC News|date=March 14, 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/politics/banking-bill-vote-mike-crapo/index.html|title=Senate votes to roll back parts of Dodd-Frank banking law|first1=Donna|last1=Borak|first2=Ted|last2=Barrett|publisher=CNN}}
  • President Trump appoints Larry Kudlow to be Director of the National Economic Council, succeeding Gary Cohn.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/trump-to-name-larry-kudlow-as-gary-cohn-replacement.html|title=Larry Kudlow to replace Gary Cohn as Trump's top economic advisor|first1=Eamon|last1=Javers|first2=Jacob|last2=Pramuk|access-date=March 14, 2018|date=March 14, 2018|publisher=CNBC}}
  • March 15 – A pedestrian bridge collapses at Florida International University, resulting in 6 fatalities.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43418898|title=At least six dead in Florida university bridge collapse|publisher=BBC News|date=March 15, 2018|access-date=March 15, 2018}}
  • March 16
  • Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is dismissed for "lack of candor" days before he was due to retire with pension rights. McCabe denies the claims and insists he was targeted because of his involvement in the Russia inquiry.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43439066|title=FBI ex-deputy director Andrew McCabe sacked days before retirement|publisher=BBC News|date=March 17, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2018}}
  • Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, a data firm accused of mishandling Facebook user profiles.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43440043|title=Facebook suspends controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica|publisher=BBC News|date=March 16, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2018}}
  • In the NCAA Tournament, the UMBC Retrievers defeat the Virginia Cavaliers, 74–54, becoming the first 16th-seed in NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament history to defeat a 1-seed.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401025813|title=UMBC vs. Virginia - Men's College Basketball Game Recap - March 16, 2018}}
  • March 19
  • Uber suspends all of its self-driving cars worldwide after a woman is killed by one of the vehicles in Tempe, Arizona.{{cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/610572/a-self-driving-uber-has-killed-a-pedestrian-in-arizona/|title=A self-driving Uber has killed a pedestrian in Arizona|work=Technology Review|date=March 19, 2018|access-date=March 19, 2018}}
  • British TV station, Channel 4, airs a documentary about Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis company that worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Undercover reporters, talking to executives from the firm, discover the use of bribes, honey traps, fake news campaigns and operations with ex-spies to swing election campaigns around the world.{{cite web|url=https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-trumps-election-consultants-filmed-saying-they-use-bribes-and-sex-workers-to-entrap-politicians-investigation|title=Revealed: Trump's election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians|publisher=Channel 4 News|date=March 19, 2018|access-date=March 19, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43465700|title=Cambridge Analytica: Warrant sought to inspect company|publisher=BBC News|date=March 19, 2018|access-date=March 19, 2018}}
  • California residents are ordered to evacuate ahead of a storm described as an "atmospheric river".{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thousands-californians-ordered-evacuate-ahead-powerful-storm-n858116?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma|title='Not the storm to question': Thousands of Californians ordered to evacuate ahead of heavy rain|publisher=NBC News|date=March 20, 2018}}
  • March 20 – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg receives a formal request from the British government to answer questions regarding Cambridge Analytica and the "catastrophic failure of process" behind the data breach.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-mps-evidence-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-latest-updates-a8264906.html|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-mps-evidence-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-latest-updates-a8264906.html|archive-date=May 1, 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=UK Parliament summons Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to be questioned over Cambridge Analytica scandal|work=The Independent|date=March 20, 2018|access-date=March 20, 2018}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43474760|title=Cambridge Analytica: Facebook boss summoned over data claims|publisher=BBC News|date=March 20, 2018|access-date=March 20, 2018}}
  • March 21 – It is reported that the Opioid epidemic may be worse than previously thought due to omissions on death certificates.{{cite web|url=https://kffhealthnews.org/news/omissions-on-death-certificates-lead-to-undercounting-of-opioid-overdoses/|title=Omissions on Death Certificates Lead To Undercounting of Opioid Overdoses|date=March 29, 2018|website=khn.org}}{{cite web|url=http://wyso.org/post/opioid-overdoses-may-be-seriously-undercounted#stream/0|title=Opioid Overdoses May Be Seriously Undercounted|first=Jake|last=Harper|website=wyso.org|date=March 21, 2018}}
  • March 22
  • President Trump announces tariffs on up to $60bn in Chinese goods and plans to limit the country's investment in the US. The Dow Jones falls sharply in response.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43494001|title=Trump announces tariffs on $60bn in Chinese imports|publisher=BBC News|date=March 22, 2018|access-date=March 22, 2018}}
  • President Trump replaces his National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster with former United Nations ambassador John Bolton.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43509695|title=Trump replaces National Security Adviser HR McMaster with John Bolton|publisher=BBC News|date=March 23, 2018|access-date=March 23, 2018}}
  • March 25 – Advocates warn that Congress needs to devote more money to address the growing opioid epidemic.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/states-federal-money-for-opioid-crisis-a-small-step-forward/2018/03/25/41a284fa-3037-11e8-b6bd-0084a1666987_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325182342/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/states-federal-money-for-opioid-crisis-a-small-step-forward/2018/03/25/41a284fa-3037-11e8-b6bd-0084a1666987_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 25, 2018|title=States: Federal money for opioid crisis a small step forward|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 25, 2018|access-date=March 28, 2018}}
  • March 26
  • Six children are killed by their adoptive mothers, Jennifer and Sarah Hart, when their SUV intentionally drives over a California cliff in a mass murder-suicide.{{cite web|last1=Yan|first1=Holly|last2=Simon|first2=Darran|last3=Nieves|first3=Rosalina|title=The troubling past of a family whose car plunged off a cliff|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/us/family-suv-pacific-coast-crash-what-we-know/index.html|publisher=CNN|date=April 3, 2018|access-date=April 11, 2018}} Both perpetrators were known to have abused their six children before the crash.{{Cite web|url=https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/podcast-alleges-abuse-before-mother-drove-adopted-kids-off-cliff/news-story/14eb8f0feb672b223a8e3193516b112e|title=Devonte Hart family mystery: Podcast sheds new light on horrific deaths|work=news |access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • President Trump orders the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats following the ex-spy poisoning case in the UK.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43545565|title=Spy poisoning: Russian diplomats expelled across US and Europe|publisher=BBC News|date=March 26, 2018|access-date=March 26, 2018}}
  • March 28 – At least 12 states are reported to be suing the Trump administration over inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/census-citizenship-question.html|title=At Least Twelve States to Sue Trump Administration Over Census Citizenship Question|first1=Michael|last1=Wines|first2=Emily|last2=Baumgaertner|date=March 27, 2018|website=The New York Times}}
  • March 29
  • Russia announces it will expel 60 US diplomats and close the US Consulate in St. Petersburg in retaliation for the US expelling 60 Russian diplomats.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/europe/russia-expels-us-diplomats-intl/index.html|title=Russia expels US diplomats, shuts consulate in tit-for-tat|first1=Angela|last1=Dewan|first2=Mary|last2=Ilyushina|first3=Sebastian|last3=Shukla|publisher=CNN}}
  • President Trump nominates Ronny Jackson, current physician to the President, to replace Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/28/politics/shulkin-va-jackson/index.html|title=Shulkin out, Ronny Jackson in as VA secretary|first1=Juana|last1=Summers|author2-link=Jeremy Diamond (journalist)|first2=Jeremy|last2=Diamond|publisher=CNN}}
  • Mark Zuckerberg disavows a 2016 memo on Facebook's expansion plans, saying in a statement that Andrew Bosworth "is a talented leader who says many provocative things. This was one that most people at Facebook including myself disagreed with strongly. We've never believed the ends justify the means."{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-zuckerberg/zuckerberg-disavows-memo-saying-all-user-growth-is-good-idUSKBN1H602S|title=Zuckerberg disavows memo saying all user growth is good|first=David|last=Ingram|date=March 30, 2018|work=Reuters}}

= April =

  • April 3 – Three people suffer gunshot wounds when a female shooter, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, attacks the YouTube headquarters in California, before killing herself.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43638221|title=YouTube shooting: Female suspect 'angry over video postings'|publisher=BBC News|date=April 4, 2018|access-date=April 4, 2018}}
  • April 4
  • China announces 25% tariffs on 106 US Products, including cars and soybeans.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43632315|title=Wall Street recovers from trade war fears|publisher=BBC News|date=April 4, 2018|access-date=April 4, 2018}}
  • Thousands of people gather in Memphis, Tennessee, to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.{{cite web|url=https://www.local10.com/news/national/thousands-gather-in-memphis-to-honor-dr-martin-luther-king-jr|title=Thousands gather in Memphis to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.|website=local10.com|publisher=local10|date=April 4, 2018|access-date=April 5, 2018}}
  • April 6 – The Trump administration imposes sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and 17 senior government officials, accusing them of "malign activity around the globe".{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43672190|title=US punishes key Putin allies over worldwide 'malign activity'|publisher=BBC News|date=April 6, 2018|access-date=April 6, 2018}}
  • April 9 – The FBI raids the home, office and hotel room of President Trump's long-time lawyer, Michael Cohen, pursuant to a federal search warrant.{{cite web|last1=Strobel|first1=Warren|last2=Walcott|first2=John|title=FBI raids offices, home of Trump's personal lawyer: sources|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cohen-raid/fbi-raids-offices-home-of-trumps-personal-lawyer-sources-idUSKBN1HG336|work=Reuters|access-date=April 10, 2018|date=April 10, 2018}}
  • April 10 – Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is questioned in a joint session of several US senate committees, after the revelation that 87 million people had their private information accessed by Cambridge Analytica.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43719784|title=Zuckerberg: Facebook is in 'arms race' with Russia|publisher=BBC News|date=April 11, 2018|access-date=April 11, 2018}}
  • April 11 – House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan announces that he will not run for re-election in November.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43729218|title=US House Speaker Paul Ryan to retire in blow to Republicans|publisher=BBC News|date=April 11, 2018|access-date=April 11, 2018}}
  • April 13 – President Trump orders targeted strikes in Syria to retaliate for a suspected chemical weapons attack.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/13/trump-to-address-the-nation-about-syria-nbc-news.html|title=Trump orders targeted strikes in Syria to retaliate for suspected chemical weapons attack|first=Amanda|last=Macias|publisher=CNBC|date=April 13, 2018}}
  • April 17 – Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, a Boeing 737-700 suffers an engine failure at cruise altitude, debris enters the fuselage causing substantial damage to the aircraft and loss of cabin pressure and diverts at Philadelphia International Airport. One passenger dies and seven are injured.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/17/philadelphia-plane-emergency-southwest-landing-engine-explosion-latest|title=Southwest Airlines passenger dies after being partially sucked out of window|work=The Guardian|date=April 18, 2018|access-date=April 18, 2018}}
  • April 18 – Coffee chain Starbucks is the subject of racism accusations when two black men are arrested at its Philadelphia store after asking to use a restroom reserved for paying customers.
  • April 19 – Jim Bridenstine is confirmed as the next NASA administrator.
  • April 20 – Smallville actress Allison Mack appears in court on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.{{cite web|title='Smallville' Actress Allison Mack Arrested in Connection to NXIVM Sex Cult Case|url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Actress-Allison-Mack-Arrested-Nxivm-Sex-Cult-480387783.html|date=April 20, 2018|publisher=NBC New York|access-date=April 21, 2018}}
  • April 22 – Four people are killed at a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, when a naked gunman shoots them with a semi-automatic rifle before fleeing on foot.{{cite web|title=Naked gunman kills four in Nashville Waffle House|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43855097|date=April 22, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=April 22, 2018}} The gunman is captured the next day after a manhunt and James Shaw Jr. propelled to national fame as a hero after disarming the armed aggressor and saving others in the restaurant.
  • April 23 – French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in the U.S. for a three-day visit, during which he meets President Trump and makes a speech to Congress.{{cite web|title=Emmanuel Macron goes to Washington – in pictures|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/apr/24/emmanuel-macron-goes-to-washington-in-pictures|date=April 24, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=April 26, 2018}}{{cite web|title=Macron attacks nationalism in speech to US Congress|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43897212|date=April 25, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=April 26, 2018}}
  • April 24 – Joseph James DeAngelo, a suspect in the Golden State Killer case, is apprehended after law enforcement matched his DNA to the serial rapist and murderer.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-james-deangelo-golden-state-killer-east-area-rapist-arrested-california-officials-latest-updates2018-04-25/|title=Golden State Killer case: Ex-cop Joseph James DeAngelo arrested|publisher=CBS News|date=April 25, 2018|access-date=May 7, 2018}}
  • April 26
  • TV star Bill Cosby is found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.{{cite news|first1=Eric|last1=Levenson|first2=Aaron|last2=Cooper|title=Bill Cosby guilty on all three counts in indecent assault trial|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/us/bill-cosby-trial/index.html|publisher=CNN}}{{cite news|title=Bill Cosby found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting woman at his estate in 2004|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/04/26/bill-cosby-found-guilty-of-drugging-and-sexually-assaulting-woman-at-his-estate-in-2004/|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 26, 2018}}{{cite news|last1=Bowley|first1=Graham|last2=Hurdle|first2=Jon|title=Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Sexual Assault After Years of Accusations|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/arts/television/bill-cosby-guilty-retrial.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=66887745&pgtype=Homepage|work=The New York Times|date=April 26, 2018}}
  • CIA Director Mike Pompeo is confirmed as Secretary of State by the Senate.{{cite web|title=Mike Pompeo sworn in as Trump's second secretary of state|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/26/politics/mike-pompeo-senate-confirmation-vote-richard-grenell/index.html|date=April 26, 2018|publisher=CNN|access-date=April 27, 2018}}
  • Veteran TV anchor Tom Brokaw is accused of sexual harassment by a former NBC News anchor.{{cite news|title=Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former NBC Anchor (Exclusive Video)|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/tom-brokaw-sexual-harassment-nbc-news-correspondent-1202789627/|work=Variety}}
  • April 27 – Avengers: Infinity War, directed by the Russo brothers, is released by Marvel Studios as the 19th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to 2012's The Avengers and 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron. It becomes the highest-grossing film of 2018 and the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time at that point (now the fifth), earning $2.048 billion as the fourth film to cross $2 billion. The film is also one of the most expensive of all time (unadjusted for inflation).

= May =

  • May 1 – A study conducted by health services company Cigna reveals that American adults are experiencing a "loneliness epidemic" with nearly half of Americans reporting they sometimes or always feel alone (46 percent) or left out (47 percent).{{cite news|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-cigna-study-reveals-loneliness-at-epidemic-levels-in-america-300639747.html|title=New Cigna Study Reveals Loneliness at Epidemic Levels in America|agency=PR Newswire}}
  • May 2
  • The state of Iowa approves the so-called "heartbeat" bill, banning most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heartbeat-abortion-bill-nations-toughest-okd-by-iowa-lawmakers/|title="Heartbeat" abortion bill, nation's toughest, OK'd by Iowa lawmakers|publisher=CBS News|date=May 2, 2018|access-date=May 2, 2018}}
  • A C-130 military plane crash in Savannah, Georgia kills nine people.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/military-c-130-plane-crashes-near-airport-savannah-georgia-n870786|title=9 dead after Puerto Rican National Guard plane crashes in Georgia|publisher=NBC News|date=May 3, 2018}}
  • Following a series of small earthquakes, the USGS warns that the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii could erupt.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilauea-volcano-in-hawaii-could-erupt-after-hundreds-of-small-earthquakes/|title=Kilauea volcano in Hawaii could erupt after hundreds of small earthquakes|publisher=BBC News|date=May 2, 2018}} Two days later it erupts, there are stronger earthquakes and Hawaii declares a state of emergency, evacuating 1,700 residents.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44001651|title=Kilauea: Hawaii emergency declared over volcano eruption|publisher=BBC News|date=May 4, 2018}}
  • May 4
  • The national unemployment rate hits 3.9 percent, the lowest rate since 2000.{{cite news|title=Unemployment Rate Hits 3.9%, a Rare Low, as Job Market Becomes More Competitive|work=The New York Times|date=May 4, 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/business/economy/jobs-report.html|last1=Kitroeff|first1=Natalie}}
  • The Trump administration announces an end to the special Temporary Protected Status program for 57,000 Hondurans.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/05/04/trump-administration-ends-protections-57-k-hondurans/572528002/|title=Trump administration ends special immigration protections for 57,000 Hondurans|work=USA Today}}
  • May 5
  • NASA's InSight spacecraft, designed to study the interior and subsurface of Mars, successfully launches at 11:05 UTC, with an expected arrival on November 26, 2018.{{cite news|last=Chang|first=Kenneth|title=NASA's InSight Launches for Six-Month Journey to Mars|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/science/nasa-mars-insight-launch.html|date=May 5, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 5, 2018}}{{cite web|last1=Agle|first1=D.C.|last2=Good|first2=Andrew|last3=Brown|first3=Dwayne|last4=Wendel|first4=JoAnna|title=NASA, ULA Launch Mission to Study How Mars Was Made|url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7114|date=May 5, 2018|access-date=May 5, 2018|website=jpl.nasa.gov}}
  • The state of California becomes the world's fifth-largest economy, with the state's GDP surpassing that of the United Kingdom's.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/386372-california-becomes-the-worlds-fifth-biggest-economy/|title=California becomes the world's fifth-biggest economy|date=May 5, 2018|work=The Hill}}
  • In horse racing, pre-race favorite Justify wins the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby, becoming the first horse since 1882 to win the race while unraced as a two-year-old. The race was run under the wettest conditions in its history; by post time, more than 2.8 inches (7.1 cm) of rain had fallen on race day, breaking a record that had lasted since 1918.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/sports/kentucky-derby.html|title=Justify Wins Kentucky Derby, Conquering Rain, Mud and a 136-Year Curse|first=Melissa|last=Hoppert|work=The New York Times|date=May 6, 2018|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/kentucky-derby-2018-results-winner-justify-pulls-away-on-back-stretch-to-beat-apollo-curse/|title=Kentucky Derby winner Justify delivers for Bob Baffert: Final results from Churchill Downs|first=Cody|last=Benjamin|website=CBS Sports|publisher=CBS Corporation|date=May 6, 2018|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://fox41blogs.typepad.com/wdrb_weather/2018/05/not-done-yet-more-showers-and-storms-tonight-.html|title=Not Done Yet! More Showers and Storms Tonight!|first=Katie|last=McGraw|work=WDRB Weather Blog|date=May 6, 2018|access-date=August 11, 2018}}
  • May 8
  • The Senate Intelligence Committee releases an unclassified version of its investigation into Russian cyberattacks in 2016, concluding: "Russian-affiliated cyber actors were able to gain access to restricted elements of election infrastructure. [...] In a small number of states, these cyber actors were in a position to, at a minimum, alter or delete voter registration data; however, they did not appear to be in a position to manipulate individual votes or aggregate vote totals."{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/386833-senate-intel-report-says-russia-waged-unprecedented-cyber-campaign/|title=Senate Intel: Russia waged 'unprecedented' cyber campaign on U.S. voting systems|work=The Hill|date=May 8, 2018|access-date=May 10, 2018}}
  • New York's attorney general Eric Schneiderman resigns over multiple allegations of assault.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/eric-schneiderman-violence-allegations/index.html|title=New York AG Eric Schneiderman resigns over assault allegations|publisher=CNN|date=May 8, 2018|access-date=May 8, 2018}}
  • President Trump announces his intention to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear agreement.{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/386656-trump-pulls-us-out-of-iran-deal/|title=Trump pulls US out of Iran nuke deal|first=Geoffrey|last=Rowland|date=May 8, 2018|work=The Hill}} In a statement, former U.S. President Barack Obama calls the move "a serious mistake".{{cite news|title='A serious mistake': Read Barack Obama's statement on President Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/a-serious-mistake-read-obamas-statement-on-trumps-decision-to-pull-out-of-iran-deal.html|date=May 8, 2018|publisher=CNBC}}
  • The National Centers for Environmental Information reports that April 2018 was the coldest month in the U.S. since 1997.{{cite news|title=Coldest April in 20 years across the United States, feds say|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/news/weather/coldest-april-20-years-philadelphia-weather-global-warming-20180508.html|website=Philadelphia Daily News}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-201804|title=Assessing the U.S. Climate in April 2018|website=ncei.noaa.gov|date=May 2018}}
  • May 9 – The California Energy Commission introduces its 2019 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, requiring all new homes to be fitted with solar power from 2020. It is the first state in the US to enact such a law.{{cite web|url=http://www.energy.ca.gov/releases/2018_releases/2018-05-09_building_standards_adopted_nr.html|title=Energy Commission Adopts Standards Requiring Solar Systems for New Homes, First in Nation|website=energy.ca.gov|publisher=California Energy Commission|date=May 9, 2018|access-date=May 10, 2018|archive-date=May 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511081557/http://www.energy.ca.gov/releases/2018_releases/2018-05-09_building_standards_adopted_nr.html|url-status=dead}}
  • May 10
  • At around 2 a.m. local, President Trump ceremoniously greets three freed Korean-Americans, who were detained by North Korea for more than a year for "anti-state activities", on Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.{{cite magazine|url=http://time.com/5272214/donald-trump-north-korea-detainees-return-home/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510202819/http://time.com/5272214/donald-trump-north-korea-detainees-return-home/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 10, 2018|title=President Trump Welcomes U.S. Detainees Freed from North Korea|magazine=Time}}
  • NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) is cancelled by the Trump administration.{{cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2018-05-white-house-cancels-nasa-greenhouse.html|title=NASA program to track greenhouse gas is canceled (Update)|website=PhysOrg|date=May 10, 2018|access-date=May 13, 2018}}
  • May 11 – U.S. fighter jets intercept two Russian TU-95 bombers in Alaskan airspace.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-fighter-jets-intercept-russian-bombers-near-alaska-2018-05-12/|title=U.S. fighter jets intercept Russian bombers near western coast of Alaska|publisher=CBS News|date=May 12, 2018}}
  • May 16 – President Trump meets with Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
  • May 17 – The Kīlauea shield volcano on the Big Island of the state of Hawaii erupts from its summit, shooting ash {{convert|30000|ft|m}} into the sky.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-volcano-kilauea-eruption-update-today-2018-05-17-live-stream-updates/|title=Hawaii volcano erupts from summit, shooting plume of ash|publisher=CBS News|access-date=May 17, 2018|date=May 17, 2018}}
  • May 18 – A school shooting takes place at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. Eight students and two teachers are killed and thirteen other people are injured.
  • May 20 – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin states that the Trump administration will put its proposed tariffs on Chinese imports "on hold", averting fears of a trade war between the two countries.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/20/us-and-china-put-trade-war-on-hold|title=US and China put trade war 'on hold'|work=The Guardian|date=May 20, 2018|access-date=May 21, 2018}}
  • May 21 – The Supreme Court, in a 5–4 ruling, upholds a law preventing employees from filing class action lawsuits against their employers over pay and hour disputes.{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/388601-supreme-court-upholds-agreements-that-prevent-employee-class-action/|title=Supreme Court upholds agreements that prevent employee class-action suits|first=Geoffrey|last=Rowland|date=May 21, 2018|work=The Hill}}
  • May 23 – It is reported that Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44215656|title=Trump lawyer 'paid by Ukraine' to arrange White House talks|publisher=BBC News|date=May 23, 2018|access-date=May 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725173526/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44215656|archive-date=July 25, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • May 24 – Actor Morgan Freeman is accused of sexual harassment by eight women.{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/morgan-freeman-accused-of-sexual-harassment-by-eight-women-20180525-p4zhe0.html|title=Morgan Freeman accused of sexual harassment by eight women|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=May 25, 2018|access-date=May 25, 2018}}
  • May 25 – Harvey Weinstein is charged with rape and several other counts of sexual abuse involving two separate women after turning himself in to police in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44257202|title=Harvey Weinstein charged with rape following New York arrest|publisher=BBC News|date=May 25, 2018|access-date=May 25, 2018}}
  • May 28 – The Center for the Study of the Drone at New York's Bard College estimates that just over 900 law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and emergency services across the country are now using drones, no longer seen as a novelty by officials.{{cite news|title=Law enforcement agencies turning to drones to fight crime|url=http://www.fox5ny.com/news/law-enforcement-agencies-drones|website=fox5ny.com}}
  • May 29
  • ABC TV cancels comedian Roseanne Barr's show after she tweets a racist comment, likening Valerie Jarrett to an ape.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44294632|title=Roseanne blames racist tweet on sleeping pills|publisher=BBC News|date=May 29, 2018|access-date=May 29, 2018}}
  • Missouri Governor Eric Greitens announces his resignation (effective June 1) amid a sex scandal.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/us/eric-greitens-resigns.html|title=Missouri's Governor, a Rising G.O.P. Star, Resigns Amid Scandal|work=The New York Times|date=May 29, 2018|access-date=May 31, 2018}}
  • Starbucks temporarily closes its stores for one day to undergo racial sensitivity training following an incident in April in which two black men were arrested in its Philadelphia store.
  • May 30
  • By a majority of 23–12, the California State Senate votes to approve a bill that would reinstate the net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December.{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17406182/california-senate-net-neutrality-vote|title=California Senate votes to restore net neutrality|website=The Verge|date=May 30, 2018|access-date=May 31, 2018}}
  • The FDA approves the first artificial iris.{{cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm609291.htm|title=FDA approves first artificial iris|publisher=FDA|date=May 30, 2018|access-date=June 1, 2018}}
  • May 31 – The Trump administration announces that it will extend its tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminium (10%) to include the EU, Mexico and Canada, starting at midnight.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44320221|title=US tariffs: Steel and aluminium levies slapped on key allies|publisher=BBC News|date=May 31, 2018|access-date=May 31, 2018}}

= June =

  • June 4 – In a 7–2 decision (Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission), the Supreme Court rules in favor of a Colorado baker who, citing the First Amendment's protection of religion, refused to create a customized wedding cake for a homosexual couple.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-05/court-sides-with-colorado-baker-on-same-sex-wedding-cake/9834790|title=Court sides with Colorado baker on same-sex wedding cake|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=June 4, 2018}}
  • June 7 – The Washington Capitals defeat the Vegas Golden Knights in game five of the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals to give the Capitals their first Stanley Cup in franchise history and the first championship for the city of D.C. since the Redskins won Super Bowl XXVI. Capitals left-winger Alex Ovechkin is the playoff MVP.
  • June 8
  • The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveils Summit as the world's most powerful supercomputer, with a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second, or 200 petaflops.{{cite web|title=ORNL Launches Summit Supercomputer|url=https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-launches-summit-supercomputer|date=June 8, 2018|publisher=Oak Ridge National Laboratory|access-date=June 9, 2018}}{{cite web|title=Summit Up and Running at Oak Ridge, Claims First Exascale Application|url=https://www.top500.org/news/summit-up-and-running-at-oak-ridge-claims-first-exascale-application/|date=June 9, 2018|work=Top500|access-date=June 9, 2018}}
  • Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade both die of suicide, leading to growing concerns of alarming public health that can lead to people living with breakdowns and mental health before asking others if can have any intention on taking their own lives.
  • The Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers, four games to none, to win the NBA Championship.
  • June 8–9 – At the G7 summit in Canada, President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia). He also proposes the elimination of tariffs.{{cite web|title=Trump at G7: US president calls for end to tariffs and trade barriers|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44423072|date=June 9, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=June 9, 2018}}
  • June 11–12 – In a historic first, President Trump meets with Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore.{{cite web|title=Trump Kim summit: US president hails deal after historic talks|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44450739|date=June 12, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=June 12, 2018}}
  • June 14 – The Sand Blaster roller coaster on the Daytona Beach boardwalk derails. Six people are taken to hospital, with two suffering traumatic injuries.{{Cite news|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-roller-coaster-derails-daytona-beach-rescue-20180615-story.html|title=Roller coaster derails in Daytona Beach, six injured in accident|last=Weiner|first=Jeff|work=Orlando Sentinel|access-date=June 15, 2018}}
  • June 15
  • Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson cancels Paul Manafort's bail and orders that he be jailed for alleged witness tampering.{{cite web|title=Paul Manafort jailed by judge for alleged witness tampering|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44500034|date=June 15, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=June 15, 2018}}
  • Pixar Animation Studios' 20th feature film, Incredibles 2, the sequel to 2004's The Incredibles, is released in theaters. It is currently Pixar's biggest financial success, grossing over $1.242 billion worldwide.
  • June 17 – A shooting at an all-night arts festival in Trenton, New Jersey, leaves one person dead and seventeen people injured.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/nyregion/trenton-mass-shooting.html|title=One Dead, 17 Shot at New Jersey Arts Festival|access-date=June 17, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=June 17, 2018|last1=Ferré-Sadurní|first1=Luis|last2=Zaveri|first2=Mihir}}
  • June 18
  • 70 former U.S. Attorneys deliver a letter to Jeff Sessions, urging that he end his "dangerous, expensive, zero tolerance" migrant policy, which separates children at the border, calling it "inconsistent with the values of the institution in which we served."{{cite web|title=Bipartisan Group of Former United States Attorneys Call on Sessions to End Family Separation|url=https://medium.com/@formerusattorneys/bipartisan-group-of-former-united-states-attorneys-call-on-sessions-to-end-child-detention-e129ae0df0cf?stream=top|date=June 18, 2018|work=Medium|access-date=June 19, 2018}}
  • Rapper XXXTentacion is shot and killed in Deerfield Beach, FL on the same day fellow rapper Jimmy Wopo is also shot and killed in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
  • June 19
  • The United States announces that it will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/u-s-withdraw-u-n-human-rights-council-n884751|title=U.S. withdraws from U.N. Human Rights Council|publisher=NBC News|date=June 20, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/policy/international/393086-us-pulls-out-of-un-human-rights-council/|title=US pulls out of UN Human Rights Council|first=Avery|last=Anapol|date=June 19, 2018|work=The Hill}}
  • Koko, a western Lowland gorilla largely known for having learned to communicate in American Sign Language, dies in her sleep in California.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/koko-the-gorilla-who-knew-sign-language-dies-at-46/2018/06/21/c8d7ba48-753e-11e8-bda1-18e53a448a14_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621163016/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/koko-the-gorilla-who-knew-sign-language-dies-at-46/2018/06/21/c8d7ba48-753e-11e8-bda1-18e53a448a14_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 21, 2018|title=Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, dies at 46|agency=Associated Press|date=June 21, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=June 21, 2018|issn=0190-8286}}
  • Antwon Rose Jr. a 17-year-old African-American man is shot and killed by white Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld.
  • June 25
  • Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson announces that it will shift some production outside the U.S. as a result of retaliatory tariffs introduced by the European Union.{{cite web|title=Harley-Davidson to shift some production outside US over EU tariffs|url=https://www.ft.com/content/54a6cc82-7867-11e8-8e67-1e1a0846c475|date=June 25, 2018|work=Financial Times|access-date=June 25, 2018}}
  • Epidiolex, for the treatment of epilepsy, becomes the first drug derived from marijuana to win federal approval.{{cite web|title=A drug derived from marijuana has become the first to win federal approval, and experts predict an avalanche effect|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/marijuana-epilepsy-drug-approved-fda-2018-5|date=June 25, 2018|work=Business Insider|access-date=June 25, 2018}}{{cite web|title=FDA approves first drug {{sic|comprised|hide=y|of}} an active ingredient derived from marijuana to treat rare, severe forms of epilepsy|url=https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm611046.htm|date=June 25, 2018|work=FDA|access-date=June 25, 2018}}
  • June 26 – The Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban in a 5–4 decision.{{cite web|title=US supreme court upholds Trump's travel ban|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/26/trump-supreme-court-upholds-travel-ban|date=June 26, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=June 26, 2018}}
  • June 27
  • In a landmark 5–4 decision that overturns Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977), the Supreme Court rules in Janus v. AFSCME that it is a violation of the First Amendment for public-sector unions to compel non-members to pay fair-share representation fees.
  • Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announces that he will retire from the United States Supreme Court on July 31, prompting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to vow that Kennedy's successor will be confirmed by the fall.
  • June 28
  • The 2018 North American heat wave begins.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heat-wave-fourth-of-july-weekend-2018-06-29/|title=Dangerous heat wave hitting U.S. over Fourth of July weekend|publisher=CBS News|date=June 29, 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/world/canada/canada-quebec-heat-wave.html|title=Record-Smashing Heat Wave Kills 33 in Quebec|work=The New York Times|date=July 5, 2018|last1=Bilefsky|first1=Dan}}
  • 575 women protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are arrested during a demonstration outside the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.{{cite web|title=Hundreds Arrested Protesting Trump Administration's Immigration Policies|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624401005/hundreds-arrested-protesting-trump-administrations-immigration-policies|publisher=NPR|date=June 28, 2018|access-date=June 29, 2018|last1=Wiener|first1=Talia}}
  • Five people are killed in a mass shooting in the newsroom of The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.{{cite web|last1=Bogel-Burroughs|first1=Nicholas|last2=Rector|first2=Kevin|title=Five dead in 'targeted attack' at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, police say|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html|website=The Baltimore Sun|access-date=June 29, 2018|archive-date=May 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190520063325/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html|url-status=dead}}
  • Mass arrests of Occupy ICE demonstrators are made by Homeland Security agents at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-ice-facility-protesters-moved-by-homeland-security-agents-in-oregon-today-2018-06-28/|title=Portland ICE facility protesters moved by Homeland Security agents|publisher=CBS News|date=June 28, 2018}}
  • June 30 – Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate across all 50 U.S. states against family separations carried out by the United States.{{cite web|title=Protesters march against Trump immigration policies – live updates|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/jun/30/trump-immigration-family-separation-protest-live-updates|date=June 30, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=June 30, 2018}}

=July=

  • July 5 – Scott Pruitt resigns as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, effective July 6. He is replaced by Andrew Wheeler.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/opinion/scott-pruitt-epa-resigns-corruption.html|title=Scott Pruitt Exits, Sticking You With the Tab|work=The New York Times|date=July 5, 2018|access-date=July 6, 2018}}
  • July 6
  • U.S. tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods come into effect, as President Trump suggests the final total could reach $550bn. China accuses the U.S. of starting the "largest trade war in economic history" and announces immediate retaliatory tariffs.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-05/trump-s-trade-war-threat-to-turn-reality-as-china-tariffs-begin|title=China's Tariff Response Takes Effect as Trump Ignites Trade War|publisher=Bloomberg News|date=July 6, 2018|access-date=July 6, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44707253|title=China hits back after US imposes tariffs worth $34bn|publisher=BBC News|date=July 6, 2018|access-date=July 6, 2018}}
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp, directed by Peyton Reed, is released by Marvel Studios as the 20th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to 2015's Ant-Man.
  • July 9 – President Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh, a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to become an Associate Justice for the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • July 11 – President Trump attends the NATO Summit in Brussels.
  • July 12 – President Trump arrives in the UK. The four-day visit includes talks with Theresa May, tea with the Queen and a trip to Scotland. There are mass protests in London, featuring a 'Trump baby' blimp flown over Westminster.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/12/uk-different-route-brexit-than-people-expected-donald-trump-says|title=Donald Trump arrives in UK for start of contentious visit|date=July 12, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=July 12, 2018}}
  • July 13 – Special counsel Mueller charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking during the 2016 election.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/13/russia-indictments-latest-news-hacking-dnc-charges-trump-department-justice-rod-rosenstein|title=US indicts 12 Russians for hacking DNC emails during the 2016 election|date=July 13, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=July 13, 2018}}
  • July 16 – President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin for private talks in the Finnish capital Helsinki. In a press conference afterwards, Trump praises Russia and Putin, drawing sharp criticism from both Republicans and Democrats alike.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44852812|title=Trump sides with Russia against FBI at Helsinki summit|date=July 16, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=July 16, 2018}} Senator John McCain describes it as "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-putin-helsinki/h_53c55e9e4fda7536ca7c5ec6949b892f|title=Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki|date=July 16, 2018|publisher=CNN|access-date=July 16, 2018}}
  • July 18 – In an interview with CBS News, President Trump says he holds Putin personally responsible for interference in the 2016 US election; a sharp contrast to his earlier comments in Helsinki.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44885844/trump-i-hold-putin-responsible-over-election-meddling|title=Trump: I hold Putin responsible over election meddling|date=July 19, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=July 19, 2018}}
  • July 19
  • The Trump administration proposes limiting habitat protections for endangered species.{{cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2018/07/19/endangered-species-habitat-protection-changes/|title=Trump administration proposes limiting habitat protections for endangered species|date=July 19, 2018|work=The Denver Post|access-date=July 19, 2018}}
  • 17 people die after an amphibious "duck boat" capsizes while carrying 31 tourists on Table Rock Lake, Missouri.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44895391|title=Missouri duck boat capsizes killing 17 people|date=July 20, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=July 20, 2018}}
  • President Trump invites Vladimir Putin to visit America.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44895384|title=Trump Putin: Incredulity as Russian leader is invited to visit US|date=July 20, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=July 20, 2018}}
  • July 20 – The New York Times reports that President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen secretly recorded his client discussing payments to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who says she had an affair with Trump.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44906898|title=Trump 'secretly recorded discussing payment to Playboy model'|date=July 20, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=July 21, 2018}}
  • July 26
  • Tesfaye Cooper is convicted of hate crime and aggravated kidnapping charges in Illinois and sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the 2017 Chicago torture incident. He is the fourth and final member of an African-American group to be convicted in relation to the kidnapping of a mentally disabled white man in Chicago who livestreamed their torture of him on Facebook, shouting "Fuck Trump" and "Fuck white people" while doing so.{{cite news|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/facebook-hate-crime-sentenced-7-years/|title=Final defendant in Facebook hate crime case sentenced to 7 years|work=Chicago Sun-Times}}
  • The share price of Facebook drops by almost 20 percent after the company warns investors that user growth has slowed following the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal. More than $109bn is wiped from its market value, the biggest stock market loss in corporate history, which includes a $14.5bn personal loss for founder Mark Zuckerberg.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/26/facebook-market-cap-falls-109bn-dollars-after-growth-shock|title=Over $109bn wiped off Facebook's market cap after growth shock|date=July 26, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=July 26, 2018}}
  • Michael Avenatti, the attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, claims he is representing three other women who were allegedly paid by Donald Trump, AMI and Michael Cohen to keep quiet.{{cite web|url=http://abc7.com/politics/stormy-daniels-attorney-says-3-other-women-were-paid-to-stay-quite-by-trump-cohen/3830894/|title=Stormy Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, says 3 other women claim they were paid by AMI, Donald Trump, Michael Cohen|date=July 27, 2018|publisher=ABC7|access-date=July 27, 2018}}
  • July 28 – John Delaney announces his candidacy for U.S. president in 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/everyone-who-is-running-for-president-in-2020-2019-1|date=March 14, 2019|access-date=March 18, 2019|work=Business Insider|last=Alfaro|first=Mariana|title=Here's everyone who has officially announced they are running for president in 2020}}
  • July 29 – Wildfires in northern California continue to rage across vast swathes of land, destroying hundreds of structures and causing several deaths.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44995333|title=Carr fire: California blaze kills children and great-grandmother|date=July 29, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=July 29, 2018}}

=August=

  • August 1 – President Trump calls for the Russia investigation to end "right now", urging Attorney General Jeff Sessions to halt the inquiry into alleged election meddling, while accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of being "totally conflicted".{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45026754|title=Trump demands Russia probe end 'right now'|date=August 1, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=August 1, 2018}}
  • August 2
  • The U.S. Department of Commerce proceeds with applying revised tariffs on Canadian newsprint.{{cite web|url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2018/08/02/united-states-tariffs-canadian-newsprint/37264097/|title=US goes ahead with tax on Canadian newsprint|work=Detroit News}}
  • Apple, Inc. becomes the first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion, as its share price exceeds a new record high above $207.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45050213|title=Apple is first public company worth $1 trillion|date=August 2, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=August 2, 2018}}
  • August 5 – President Trump admits that his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., attended a meeting at Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign "to get information on an opponent," but insists it was "totally legal and done all the time in politics – and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!"{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45079377|title=Trump admits son met Russian for information on opponent|date=August 6, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=August 6, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026084333315153924|title=Donald J. Trump on Twitter|via=Twitter}}{{Primary source inline|date=February 2025}}
  • August 6 – The ongoing wildfires in California are officially declared as the largest in the state's history.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45093636|title=California wildfire declared 'largest in state's history'|date=August 7, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=August 7, 2018}}
  • August 7
  • The U.S. reimposes sanctions on Iran.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45098031|title=Iran sanctions: Trump warns trading partners|date=August 7, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=August 7, 2018}}
  • Harvard University has four Black women faculty deans for the first time in history: Michelle Ann Williams (School of Public Health), Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study), Bridget Terry Long (Graduate School of Education), and Claudine Gay (Faculty of Arts and Sciences).{{cite web|url=https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/botwc-firsts/for-the-first-time-in-history-harvard-has-four-black-women-faculty-deans|title=FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, HARVARD HAS FOUR BLACK WOMEN FACULTY DEANS|publisher=Because of them we can|date=August 7, 2018|access-date=March 23, 2019}}
  • August 8 – Missouri voters vote against the right-to-work law by 67% to 33%.{{cite web|url=https://fox2now.com/2018/08/07/right-to-work-overturned-as-prop-a-fails/|title=Right-to-work overturned as Prop A fails|date=August 8, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/07/politics/missouri-right-to-work-vote/index.html|title=Unions notch win in deep-red Missouri with rejection of right-to-work law|first=Eli|last=Watkins|date=August 8, 2018|publisher=CNN}}{{cite news|title=Missouri voters reject right-to-work, McCulloch loses, Stenger wins|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2018/08/07/missouri-voters-reject-right-to-work.html|work=St. Louis Business Journal|date=Aug 7, 2018|author=Joe Biafore}}
  • August 10
  • In a landmark case, Monsanto is ordered to pay $289m to 46-year-old Dewayne Johnson, after a jury rules that the company's Roundup weedkiller caused his terminal cancer and that the corporation failed to warn him of the health hazards.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/10/monsanto-trial-cancer-dewayne-johnson-ruling|title=Monsanto ordered to pay $289m as jury rules weedkiller cause of man's cancer|date=August 11, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=August 11, 2018}}
  • A Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 is stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport with no passengers on board, prompting F15 fighter jets to scramble and intercept. After being contacted by Seattle/Tacoma air traffic control, the plane crashes near Ketron Island in Pierce County, Washington, killing the 29-year-old male pilot.{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/PierceSheriff/status/1028138179298189312|title=Pierce Co Sheriff on Twitter|via=Twitter|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Primary source inline|date=February 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45153535|title=Stolen plane closes Seattle-Tacoma airport before crashing|date=August 11, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=August 11, 2018}}
  • The Democratic National Committee reverses its ban on accepting donations from the fossil fuel industry.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dnc-fossil-fuel-donations_us_5b6dddd4e4b0530743c9ca67|title=Democratic National Committee Backtracks on Its Ban of Fossil Fuel Donations|date=August 10, 2018|work=HuffPost|access-date=August 12, 2018}}
  • August 12
  • NASA launches the Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind.{{cite news|last=Chang|first=Kenneth|title=Parker Solar Probe Launches on NASA Voyage to 'Touch the Sun'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/science/parker-solar-probe-launch.html|date=August 12, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 12, 2018}}{{cite news|last=Chang|first=Kenneth|title=NASA's Parker Solar Probe Is Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun – Eugene N. Parker predicted the existence of solar wind in 1958. The NASA spacecraft is the first named for a living person.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/science/eugene-parker-solar-wind-nasa-probe.html|date=August 10, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 12, 2018}}{{Cite journal|last1=Fox|first1=N. J.|last2=Velli|first2=M. C.|last3=Bale|first3=S. D.|last4=Decker|first4=R.|last5=Driesman|first5=A.|last6=Howard|first6=R. A.|last7=Kasper|first7=J. C.|last8=Kinnison|first8=J.|last9=Kusterer|first9=M. |first10=D. |last10=Lario|first11=M. K.|last11=Lockwood|first12=D. J.|last12=McComas|first13=N. E.|last13=Raouafi|first14=A.|last14=Szabo|date=November 11, 2015|title=The Solar Probe Plus Mission: Humanity's First Visit to Our Star|journal=Space Science Reviews|volume=204|issue=1–4|pages=7–48|doi=10.1007/s11214-015-0211-6|issn=0038-6308|doi-access=free}}
  • The Unite the Right 2 rally is held at Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, D.C.. Organized by Jason Kessler to mark the anniversary of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which ended in violence,{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/inside-jason-kesslers-hate-fueled-rise/2018/08/11/335eaf42-999e-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html|title=Inside Jason Kessler's Hate-Fueled Rise|last=Shapira|first=Ian|date=August 10, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=August 12, 2018}} the rally attracts some 20 to 30 of Kessler's supporters and thousands of counter-demonstrators amid a heavy police presence.{{cite news|first1=Joe|last1=Heim|first2=Reis|last2=Thebault|first3=Peter|last3=Jamison|first4=Marissa|last4=Lang|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/washington-readies-for-todays-planned-white-supremacist-rally-near-white-house/2018/08/12/551720c4-9c28-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html|title=Anti-hate protesters far outnumber white supremacists as groups rally near White House|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 12, 2018}}.
  • August 14 – Nebraska executes Carey Dean Moore, who was convicted of murder, in the state's first execution for 21 years and the first by lethal injection.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/us/nebraska-death-penalty-execution.html|title=Pope's Death Penalty Stance Won't Stop Execution, Nebraska's Catholic Governor Says|work=The New York Times|date=August 3, 2018|access-date=August 3, 2018|last1=Williams|first1=Timothy}}
  • August 15 – Former CIA Director John O. Brennan, an outspoken critic of Trump, has his security clearance revoked by the President.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-opts-revoke-former-cia-director-brennan-s-security-clearance-n901026|title=Trump revokes former CIA Director Brennan's security clearance|publisher=NBC News|access-date=August 15, 2018}} The move is criticized as political retribution for Brennan's comments.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/politics/president-trump-revokes-security-clearance-of-former-cia-director|title=President Trump revokes security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan|work=7NEWS|publisher=CNN|date=August 15, 2018|access-date=August 15, 2018}}
  • August 19 – The Last Sharknado: It's About Time airs for the first time on Syfy.{{cite web|first=Matt|last=Mitovich|title=Final Sharknado, Wynonna Earp and Killjoys Get Syfy Summer Dates|url=http://tvline.com/2018/05/10/final-sharknado-movie-premiere-date-wynonna-earp-killjoys/|work=TVLine|date=May 10, 2018}}
  • August 21
  • Police in Iowa announce they have found a body in Poweshiek County during their investigation into the Disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts. They were led to the site by suspect Cristhian Bahena Rivera, an undocumented immigrant.{{cite web|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2018/08/21/mollie-tibbetts-found-dead-missing-iowa-student-search-brooklyn-update-latest-girl-facebook-reddit/1050165002/|title=Mollie Tibbetts search: An undocumented immigrant has been charged with first-degree murder|work=Des Moines Register}}
  • Michael Cohen, who worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump from 2006 until May 2018, pleads guilty to eight charges: five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate or campaign.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/worst-hour-for-trump-after-convictions-for-manafort-and-cohen|title=Donald Trump: 'worst hour' for president as Manafort and Cohen guilty|work=The Guardian|date=August 22, 2018|access-date=August 22, 2018}}
  • Paul Manafort, the former election campaign chairman for Trump, is convicted on eight out of eighteen charges of tax and bank fraud.
  • August 22 – Mark Chapman, the man who shot and killed former Beatle John Lennon in 1980, is denied parole for the tenth time.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/24/john-lennon-killer-mark-chapman-denied-parole-for-tenth-time|title=John Lennon's killer denied parole for 10th time|date=August 24, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=August 25, 2018}}
  • August 23 – Intelligence specialist Reality Winner is sentenced to five years and three months in prison as part of a plea deal after pleading guilty to felony transmission of national defense information.{{cite news|last=Philipps|first=Dave|date=August 23, 2018|title=Reality Winner, Former N.S.A. Translator, Gets More Than 5 Years in Leak of Russian Hacking Report|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/reality-winner-nsa-sentence.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824223258/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/reality-winner-nsa-sentence.html|archive-date=August 24, 2018|url-status=live}}
  • August 25 – Arizona Senator John McCain dies at his home in Cornville, Arizona from glioblastoma, a rare aggressive form of brain cancer he had been battling for the past thirteen months at the time, four days before his 82nd birthday.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/obituaries/john-mccain-dead.html|title=John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, Dies at 81|date=August 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 25, 2018}}
  • August 26 – A mass shooting occurs during a Madden NFL 19 tournament at the Jacksonville Landing in Jacksonville, Florida, resulting in three fatalities including the perpetrator.{{citation|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45315970|title=Florida shooting: Video gamer kills two at tournament|date=August 26, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=August 26, 2018}}
  • August 28
  • California approves S.B. 100, a proposal to transition the state to 100% emissions-free electricity sources by 2045.{{citation|url=https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/30/california-renewable-clean-energy-fossil-fuels-2045/|title=California lawmakers pass bill to phase out fossil fuels by 2045|date=August 30, 2018|work=Engadget|access-date=August 31, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB100|title=Bill Text – SB-100 California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: emissions of greenhouse gases.|website=leginfo.legislature.ca.gov|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Shayna Hubers is convicted of the 2012 murder of her boyfriend Ryan Poston for a second time. Her previous conviction in relation to his fatal shooting had previously been overturned due to a member of the jury being ineligible.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/northern-ky/2018/08/28/shayna-hubers-retrial-defense-says-poston-dangerous-man/1120926002/|title=Shayna Hubers guilty: 2nd conviction in murder of Ryan Poston 'Today we embrace justice'|first=Chris|last=Mayhew|website=The Enquirer|access-date=November 24, 2022}}

=September=

  • September 5
  • In an editorial in The New York Times, an unnamed senior Trump official writes that members of the administration are working to frustrate parts of the President's agenda to protect the country from his "worst inclinations".{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html|title=I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration|date=September 5, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 6, 2018}} Trump responds by calling the anonymous writer "gutless" and the newspaper "phony".{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45427838|title=Trump senior official: 'I am part of the resistance'|date=September 6, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 6, 2018}}
  • Hurricane Florence becomes the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.{{cite web|first1=Robbie|last1=Berg|first2=Jamie|last2=Rhome|website=nhc.noaa.gov|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=September 5, 2018|access-date=September 11, 2018|title=Hurricane Florence Tropical Cyclone Update|url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2018/al06/al062018.update.09051232.shtml}}{{cite web|first1=Robbie|last1=Berg|first2=Jamie|last2=Rhome|website=nhc.noaa.gov|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=September 5, 2018|access-date=September 11, 2018|title=Hurricane Florence Advisory Number 26|url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2018/al06/al062018.discus.026.shtml}}
  • September 8 – The Cortlandt Street subway station reopens in Lower Manhattan, 17 years after it was destroyed by the 9/11 attacks.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45463886|title=9/11 attack: New York City subway station reopens after 17 years|date=September 9, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 9, 2018}}
  • September 13 – Overpressured natural gas lines in the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts cause a massive outbreak of explosions and fires in nearly 40 homes, killing one and injuring dozens.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/13/multiple-gas-explosions-set-more-than-homes-ablaze-across-three-communities-north-boston/|title='How did this happen?': Gas blasts set homes ablaze, triggering chaos in Massachusetts|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 14, 2018}}
  • September 14 – Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina, with evacuation warnings in place for more than a million people.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45517260|title=Hurricane Florence: Deadly 'brute' of a storm ravages Carolinas|date=September 14, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 14, 2018}}
  • September 15 – NASA launches ICESat-2, the agency's most technologically advanced ice-monitoring spacecraft to date.{{citation|title=ICESat will get unprecedented view of Earth's ice|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45523524|date=September 15, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 15, 2018}}
  • September 16 – Christine Blasey Ford alleges that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html|title=California professor, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about her allegation of sexual assault|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 16, 2018}}
  • September 22 – Christine Blasey Ford agrees to testify against Brett Kavanaugh the following week.{{citation|title=Brett Kavanaugh: Judge accuser agrees to testify on Thursday|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45615854|date=September 22, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 22, 2018}}
  • September 23 – A second woman comes forward with sexual misconduct claims against Brett Kavanaugh.{{citation|title=Brett Kavanaugh: Embattled Trump nominee 'not going anywhere'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45629767|date=September 24, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 24, 2018}}
  • September 25 – TV star Bill Cosby, 81, is given a three to 10-year jail term for drugging and molesting a woman in 2004. Judge Steven O'Neill designates Cosby a "sexually violent predator", meaning he must undergo counselling for life and be listed on the sex offender registry.{{citation|title=Bill Cosby sentenced to state prison for sexual assault|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45644374|date=September 25, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 25, 2018}}
  • September 26 – A third woman accuses Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.{{citation|title=Brett Kavanaugh: third woman accuses supreme court nominee of sexual misconduct|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/brett-kavanaugh-latest-accusation-julie-swetnick-sexual-misconduct-michael-avenatti|date=September 26, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=September 26, 2018}}
  • September 27
  • Christine Blasey Ford appears before a Senate Judiciary Committee to give evidence against Brett Kavanaugh.{{citation|title=Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh rebuts abuse allegation|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-45668820|date=September 27, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 27, 2018}}
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) files a suit in New York alleging securities fraud by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.{{citation|title=Regulators accuse Tesla's Elon Musk of securities fraud|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45672813|date=September 27, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 27, 2018}}

=October=

  • October 2 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, triggering a diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
  • October 5 – A Star Is Born is theatrically released by Warner Bros. A remake of the 1934, 1957 and 1976 versions, it was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $436 million worldwide and receiving praise for the performances Bradley Cooper (who also directed), Lady Gaga and Sam Elliott as well as the screenplay, cinematography and music.
  • October 6
  • The Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination by a vote of 50–48, amid controversy over sexual assault claims against him.
  • Twenty people are killed in a crash involving a limousine transporting birthday party guests in Schoharie County, New York.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45778366|title=Limo crash leaves 20 dead in New York state|date=October 7, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=October 7, 2018}} It is the deadliest transport crash in the U.S. since Colgan Air Flight 3407, also in New York state, which claimed 50 lives in 2009.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45788063|title=New York limo crash: Car had failed road safety test|date=October 8, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=October 8, 2018}}
  • October 9 – America's ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, a senior Trump cabinet member, resigns unexpectedly.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45802828|title=Nikki Haley: US ambassador to UN resigns|date=October 9, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=October 9, 2018}}
  • October 10 – Hurricane Michael approaches the Florida Panhandle, attaining peak wind speeds of 155 mph (250 km/h) and becoming the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in that region.
  • October 17 – After 50 years of performing the characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, longtime Sesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney announces his retirement in 2015. Spinney's role was limited to voice only due to health problems.
  • October 20 – President Trump announces that the US will "terminate" the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty over alleged Russian violations.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45930206|title=President Trump to pull US from Russia missile treaty|date=October 21, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=October 21, 2018}}
  • October 24 – After a bomb was found at the home of George Soros in the suburbs of New York, suspected explosive devices are also sent to former US President Barack Obama and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The latter devices are intercepted by technicians who screen mail sent to former US officials. The Time Warner building in New York (home to news broadcaster CNN) is also evacuated, after a package containing an explosive and suspicious powder is found addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan. Additional suspicious packages, addressed to Democratic Representative Maxine Waters and former Attorney General Eric Holder, are investigated by law enforcement.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45969100|title='Explosive devices' sent to Clinton, Obama, CNN, and other US officials|date=October 24, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=October 24, 2018}}
  • October 25 – A suspicious package is found in Tribeca, New York City, addressed to actor Robert De Niro. Authorities also find two packages in Delaware, addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden.{{cite web|url=https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9bxd/two-new-pipe-bombs-said-to-target-joe-biden|title=Two new pipe bombs said to target Joe Biden|date=October 25, 2018|work=Vice|access-date=October 26, 2018}}
  • October 26
  • Two more suspicious packages are found, addressed to New Jersey senator Cory Booker and the former director of national intelligence, James Clapper.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/26/suspicious-package-pipe-bombs-latest-found-cory-booker-florida|title=Suspicious packages addressed to Cory Booker and James Clapper discovered|date=October 26, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 26, 2018}}
  • The perpetrator, Cesar Sayoc Jr., is captured in Plantation, Florida, in connection with the mail bombing attempts. He is questioned by FBI agents with the Joint Terrorism Task Force.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/oct/26/pipe-bombs-latest-live-news-updates-arrest-florida|title=Pipe bombs: man arrested in Florida over explosive devices – live updates|date=October 26, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 26, 2018}}
  • October 27 – A mass shooting occurs at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, leaving 11 congregants dead. A 46-year-old male suspect is arrested and charged on making anti-semitic chants.{{cite news|last=Mele|first=Cristopher|title=Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Leaves 'Several' Dead, Official Says|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shooter-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting.html|date=October 27, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 27, 2018}}{{cite news|last1=Andone|first1=Dakin|last2=Allen|first2=Keith|title=Hate crime charges filed in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left 11 dead|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/27/us/pittsburgh-synagogue-active-shooter/index.html|date=October 27, 2018|publisher=CNN|access-date=October 27, 2018}}
  • October 28 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers, four games to one, to win their ninth World Series Championship.
  • October 29 – 800 U.S. soldiers are deployed to the Mexico–United States border as a part of Operation Faithful Patriot, reinforcing the border against incoming Central American migrant caravans.{{cite news|last1=Burns|first1=Arthur|title=Pentagon to Send 5,200 Troops to Border, Becerra Calls Deployment 'Disturbing'|url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11702079/as-trump-threatens-migrant-caravan-becerra-decries-facile-use-of-troops|access-date=October 29, 2018|publisher=KQED-FM|date=October 29, 2018}}
  • October 30
  • NASA announces that its Kepler space telescope mission has ended, with the telescope having run out of fuel two weeks before, after nine-and-a-half years in space. The telescope discovered 2,681 exoplanets, with a further 2,900 candidates at the time of its retirement. The spacecraft also discovered that there are more planets than stars in our galaxy.[https://www.nasa.gov/kepler/presskit Briefing Materials: RELEASE 18-092: NASA Retires the Kepler Space Telescope] NASA, October 30, 2018.[https://www.space.com/41363-kepler-exoplanet-hunting-telescope-dead.html RIP, Kepler: NASA's Revolutionary Planet-Hunting Telescope Runs Out of Fuel] Space.com, October 30, 2018.[https://www.space.com/42301-kepler-space-telescope-ultimate-fate.html NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope Is Done. What Will Happen to It?] Space.com, October 31, 2018.
  • The Supreme Court of Hawaii approves the resumption of construction on Mauna Kea of one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Thirty Meter Telescope, costing $1.4 billion. Some native Hawaiians, regarding the mountain as sacred, opposed the construction since 2015.[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46046864 Hawaii top court approves controversial Thirty Meter Telescope] BBC News, October 31, 2018.

=November=

  • November 2 – Bohemian Rhapsody, a biographical film about Queen singer Freddie Mercury, is released in theaters nationwide, becoming a major box office success, grossing over $905 million worldwide on a production budget of about $50 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2018 worldwide and setting the all-time box office records for the biopic and drama genres.
  • November 6
  • Mid-term elections: The Democrats gain 40 seats to take control of the House of Representatives, but lose two seats in the Senate.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/nov/06/us-midterms-elections-2018-latest-live-polls-news-updates-donald-trump-republicans-democrats|title=Democrats secure 218 seats in midterms to win control of House – as it happened|date=November 7, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=November 8, 2018}}
  • Gubernatorial elections: The Democrats gain seven new seats.
  • Michigan becomes the tenth state to legalize recreational marijuana.{{cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/07/michigan-marijuana-legalized/|title=Michigan becomes 10th state to legalize recreational marijuana; other measures pass in Missouri and Utah|date=November 7, 2018|work=The Denver Post|access-date=November 8, 2018}}
  • November 7
  • Attorney General Jeff Sessions tenders his resignation at President Trump's request.
  • 12 people and the perpetrator are killed in a shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill, in Thousand Oaks, California, about 40 miles (65 km) north-west of Los Angeles.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46135459|title=Thousand Oaks: Ex-Marine Ian David Long identified as suspect|date=November 8, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=November 8, 2018}}
  • November 8
  • The White House shares apparently doctored footage posted by InfoWars, a conspiracy theory website, showing Jim Acosta making contact with a Trump aide, in a bid to justify its suspension of the CNN reporter's press pass.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jim-acosta-trump-cnn-press-conference-pass-white-house-infowars-sarah-sanders-a8623441.html|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jim-acosta-trump-cnn-press-conference-pass-white-house-infowars-sarah-sanders-a8623441.html|archive-date=May 1, 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=Jim Acosta: White House shares apparently doctored video posted by conspiracy site InfoWars to justify suspending CNN reporter's press pass|date=November 8, 2018|work=The Independent|access-date=November 8, 2018}}{{cbignore}}
  • Federal judge Brian Morris rules that the Keystone Pipeline cannot be built until a new Environmental impact assessment is completed.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/federal-judge-rules-against-keystone-xl-pipeline_n_5be5037de4b0dbe871a91728|title=Federal Judge Halts Construction of Keystone XL Pipeline|work=Huffpost|date=November 9, 2018|access-date=April 3, 2019}} Four months later, on March 30, 2019, President Donald Trump issued a new permit.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/keystone-xl-pipeline-trump-presidential-permit_n_5c9ee89ae4b00ba6327d620a|title=Trump Sidesteps Court Order, Issues Edict To Build Controversial Keystone XL Pipeline|work=Huffpost|date=March 30, 2019|access-date=April 3, 2019|last=Papenfuss|first=Mary}}
  • November 8–25 – Major wildfires in California, including the Woolsey in southern California and Camp to the north, leave 91 dead and at least 1,000 missing, with more than 250,000 residents forced to flee.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-46163232/california-wildfires-continue-to-spread-across-state|title=California: Wildfires continue to spread across state|date=November 10, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=November 10, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46190118|title=California fires: At least 42 die in state's deadliest wildfire|date=November 13, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=November 13, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46230927|title=California wildfires: Number of missing leaps to 631|date=November 16, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=November 16, 2018}} President Trump suggests that wildfires could be stopped by spending "a lot of time on raking and cleaning".{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46256296|title=California wildfires: Finland bemused by Trump raking comment|date=November 19, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=November 19, 2018}}
  • November 21 – William Riley Gaul, a 18-year-old college football player murdered his ex-girlfriend Emma Walker in Knoxville, Tennessee.{{Cite news |last=Megargee |first=Steve |date=September 14, 2018 |title=Ex-Division III player says he didn’t mean to kill |url=https://apnews.com/general-news-2f41f1c83181457d95bf21148d052554 |work=Associated Press}}{{Cite news |last=Mahato |first=Nikita |date=February 6, 2024 |title=Where Is Emma Walker’s Killer Riley Gaul Now? |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/where-emma-walker-killer-riley-115800361.html |work=Yahoo! Entertainment}}
  • November 23 – Volume II of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) is released.{{cite web|url=https://www.globalchange.gov/news/release-nca4-volume-ii-and-soccr2-letter-acting-chair-subcommittee-global-change-research-and|title=On the release of NCA4 Volume II and SOCCR2: A letter from the Acting Chair of the Subcommittee on Global Change Research and our Executive Director|date=November 23, 2018|website=GlobalChange.gov|access-date=November 24, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ucsusa.org/press/2018/latest-national-climate-assessment-shows-us-already-suffering-damages-climate-change|title=Latest National Climate Assessment Shows US Already Suffering Damages from Climate Change|date=November 23, 2018|publisher=Union of Concerned Scientists|access-date=November 24, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/23/climate-change-america-us-government-report|title=Climate change 'will inflict substantial damages on US lives'|date=November 23, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=November 24, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46325168|title=Climate change: Report warns of growing impact on US life|date=November 23, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=November 24, 2018}}
  • November 26 – SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg dies at the age of 57 from ALS.
  • November 29 – President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress in relation to the Russia inquiry.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46390368|title=Michael Cohen in court: Trump ex-lawyer admits lying to Congress|date=November 29, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=November 29, 2018}}
  • November 30
  • Former President George H. W. Bush dies from Parkinson's disease at the age of 94 at his home in Houston, Texas. His passing was announced the next morning and at the time, he was both the nation's oldest and longest living president, a record surpassed by Jimmy Carter in 2019.
  • Anchorage is hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

=December=

  • December 11 – The Balangiga bells, which had been taken by the United States Army from Balangiga, Eastern Samar in 1901 as war trophies during the Philippine–American War, are returned to the Philippines after 117 years of U.S. possession.{{cite news|last1=de Guzman|first1=Chad|title=Balangiga bells now back in PH|url=http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/12/11/Balangiga-bells-back-PH.html|access-date=December 11, 2018|publisher=CNNPhilippines|date=December 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215215503/http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/12/11/Balangiga-bells-back-PH.html|archive-date=December 15, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • December 12 – Michael Cohen, the ex-Trump lawyer who once said he'd "take a bullet" for the president, is given a 36-month jail term.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46546238|title=Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen jailed for 36 months|date=December 12, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=December 12, 2018}}
  • December 13 – In a rare rebuke to the White House, the Senate votes 56–41 to end US military assistance to Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen over alleged war crimes. It passes a separate resolution that holds Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally responsible for the death of Saudi dissident Jamal Kashoggi.{{cite news|work=The New York Times|date=December 13, 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/yemen-saudi-war-pompeo-mattis.html|title=Senate Votes to End Aid for Yemen Fight Over Khashoggi Killing and Saudis' War Aims}}
  • December 14
  • Federal judge Reed O'Connor rules that the health insurance mandate component of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46577152|title=Obamacare: Texas court rules key health law is unconstitutional|date=December 15, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=December 15, 2018}}
  • Denise Williams is found guilty of the murder of her husband Jerry Michael Williams, who disappeared in December 2000 and was assumed to have accidentally drowned at Lake Seminole, Florida.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/12/14/denise-williams-trial-verdict-guilty-mike-williams-tallahassee-murder-case-jury/2304171002/|title='JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL': 18 years later, Denise guilty in murder of husband Mike Williams|first=Jennifer Portman and Karl|last=Etters|website=Tallahassee Democrat|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • December 18 – The Donald J. Trump Foundation is shut down, amid allegations that President Trump and others illegally misused its funds.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46611178|title=Donald Trump's troubled charity foundation to shut down|date=December 18, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=December 18, 2018}}
  • December 20 – Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigns, effective February 28, 2019, after failing to persuade Trump to reconsider his decision of the previous day to withdraw the remaining American troops from Syria.{{cite news|last=Cooper|first=Helene|work=The New York Times|title=Jim Mattis, Marine General Turned Defense Secretary, Will Leave Pentagon in February|date=December 20, 2018|access-date=December 20, 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/us/politics/jim-mattis-defense-secretary-trump.html}}{{cite news|last1=O'Brien|first1=Connor|last2=Bender|first2=Brien|work=Politico|title=Mattis breaks with Trump in resignation letter|date=December 20, 2018|access-date=December 20, 2018|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/20/mattis-to-retire-in-february-trump-says-1072150}}
  • December 21
  • The Dow Jones closes at 22,445.37 after its worst week since 2008.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46654064|title=US stocks suffer worst week in a decade|date=December 21, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=December 23, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/us-stocks-set-for-lower-week-after-fed-decision-government-shutdown-fears.html|title=Dow dives 400 points to end its worst week in 10 years|date=December 21, 2018|publisher=CNBC|access-date=December 23, 2018}}
  • Aquaman, directed by James Wan, is released as the sixth film in the DC Extended Universe, becoming currently the franchise's biggest financial success.
  • December 22
  • A partial shutdown of the government begins after Congress fails to agree a budget.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46657393|title=US government partially shuts down over border wall row|date=December 22, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=December 22, 2018}}
  • U.S. envoy Brett McGurk resigns over Trump's decision to pull troops from Syria.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46661384|title=US envoy quits over Trump Syria pullout|date=December 22, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=December 22, 2018}}
  • December 24 – Actor Kevin Spacey is charged with sexually assaulting a teenager at a bar in Massachusetts in July 2016 and ordered to appear in court on January 7.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46675194|title=Kevin Spacey: Actor charged with sexual assault in Massachusetts|date=December 24, 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=December 25, 2018}}
  • December 31 – Senator Elizabeth Warren announces her intention to run for president in the 2020 election.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/31/elizabeth-warren-2020-run-president-trump|title=Elizabeth Warren announces 2020 run for president against Trump|date=December 31, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=December 31, 2018}}

Deaths

=January=

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  • January 1
  • Robert Mann, violinist and composer (b. 1920){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/obituaries/robert-mann-dead-juilliard-string-quartet-violinist.html|title=Robert Mann, a Founder of the Juilliard Quartet, Dies at 97|first=Margalit|last=Fox|work=The New York Times|date=January 2, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Milton P. Rice, politician (b. 1920){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/tennessean/name/milton-rice-obituary?id=11071710|title=Milton Paul Rice's Obituary (1920 - 2018) The Tennessean|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jon Paul Steuer, actor and singer (b. 1984){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/obituaries-people-news/star-trek-jon-paul-steuer-dies-dead-33-1202654375/|title='Star Trek' Actor Jon Paul Steuer Dies at 33|first1=Matt|last1=Fernandez|date=January 5, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Betty Willis, soul singer (b. 1941){{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/homeless-man-charged-with-murdering-ex-60s-soul-singer-during-attempted-rape|title=Homeless man charged with murdering ex-60s soul singer during attempted rape|first=Kathleen|last=Joyce|date=January 4, 2018|publisher=Fox News|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 2
  • Frank Buxton, actor, writer, author, and director (b. 1930)
  • Emily Dole, professional wrestler (b. 1957)
  • Rick Hall, record producer, songwriter, and music publisher (b. 1932)
  • Thomas S. Monson, religious leader and writer (b. 1927)
  • Betty Woodman, ceramic artist and sculptor (b. 1930)
  • January 3
  • Fred Bass, bookseller (Strand Bookstore) (b. 1928){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/fred-bass-strand-bookstore-dies-at-89.html|title=Fred Bass, Who Made the Strand Bookstore a Mecca, Dies at 89|first=William|last=Grimes|work=The New York Times|date=January 3, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Heriberto Hermes, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)[http://www.jmnoticia.com.br/2018/01/03/morre-dom-heriberto-hermes-bispo-emerito-de-cristalandia/ Morre Dom Heriberto Hermes, bispo emérito de Cristalândia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006235334/https://www.jmnoticia.com.br/2018/01/03/morre-dom-heriberto-hermes-bispo-emerito-de-cristalandia/ |date=October 6, 2018 }} {{in lang|pt}}
  • Rob Picciolo, baseball player and coach (b. 1953){{Cite web|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/sd-sp-long-time-padres-coach-rob-picciolo-dies-at-64-20180103-story.html|title=Longtime Padres coach Picciolo dies; 'just loved the game of baseball'|date=January 4, 2018|website=The San Diego Union-Tribune|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Alan Sagner, public servant and political fundraiser (b. 1920){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/obituaries/alan-sagner-dies-revitalized-port-authority.html|title=Alan Sagner, Who Revitalized the Port Authority, Dies at 97|first=Sam|last=Roberts|work=The New York Times|date=January 8, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 4
  • Dick Bestwick, football coach (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=https://roanoke.com/sports/college/uva/former-uva-football-coach-dick-bestwick-remembered-favorably/article_4b6d9fd5-7d48-5e2a-8512-9f91a05ded38.html|title=Former UVa football coach Dick Bestwick remembered favorably|first=Doug|last=Doughty|website=Roanoke Times|date=January 5, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Brendan Byrne, politician (b. 1924){{Cite web|url=https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2018/01/04/former-new-jersey-governor-brendan-byrne-dies/1005829001/|title=Former New Jersey governor Brendan Byrne dies|first=Dustin|last=Racioppi|website=North Jersey Media Group|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Gerard Conley, politician (b. 1929){{Cite web|url=https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/04/gerard-conley-sr-former-mayor-house-member-senator-dies-at-88/|title=Gerard Conley Sr., former Portland mayor, House member, senator, dies at 88|first=Melanie|last=Creamer|date=January 5, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Carmen Cozza, baseball and football player, and coach (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-carm-cozza-dies-20180104-story.html|title=Hall of Famer Carm Cozza Dies at Age 87; Coached Yale For 32 Seasons|website=Hartford Courant|date=January 4, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Bruce Halle, auto parts executive and philanthropist, founder of Discount Tire (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/entrepreneurs/2018/01/04/bruce-halle-discount-tire-founder-obit-arizona-richest-man-dies-age-87/1004974001/|title=Bruce Halle, Discount Tire founder and Arizona's richest man, dies at 87|first=Russ Wiles and Robert|last=Anglen|website=The Arizona Republic|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jack N. Merritt, army general (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=https://www.ausa.org/news/former-ausa-president-gen-jack-n-merritt-dies|title=Former AUSA President Gen. Jack N. Merritt Dies|date=January 5, 2018|website=AUSA|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 5
  • Robert Q. Crane, politician (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/20180106/former-state-treasurer-robert-crane-dies-at-91|title=Former state treasurer Robert Crane dies at 91|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Carole Hart, television writer (b. 1943){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/obituaries/carole-hart-childrens-tv-producer-dies-at-74.html|title=Carole Hart, Producer and Writer of Children's TV, Dies at 74|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|work=The New York Times|date=January 11, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Norman Lamb, politician (b. 1935){{Cite web|url=https://kfor.com/news/former-oklahoma-state-sen-norman-lamb-dies-at-age-82/|title=Former Oklahoma State Sen. Norman Lamb dies at age 82|work=KFOR.com Oklahoma City |date=January 6, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jerry Van Dyke, actor (b. 1931){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/obituaries/jerry-van-dyke-dead.html|title=Jerry Van Dyke, 'Coach' Actor and Foil for His Brother, Dick, Dies at 86|first=Daniel E.|last=Slotnik|work=The New York Times|date=January 6, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • John Young, astronaut (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-010618a-astronaut-john-young-obituary.html|title=John Young, ninth astronaut on moon, led first shuttle mission, dies at 87 | collectSPACE|website=collectSPACE.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 6
  • Horace Ashenfelter, Olympic athlete (b. 1923)
  • Thomas Bopp, astronomer (b. 1949)
  • Rita Crocker Clements, political organizer (b. 1931){{Cite web|url=http://www.12newsnow.com/news/rita-clements-former-first-lady-of-texas-dies-at-86/505501030|title=Rita Clements, former first lady of Texas, dies at 86|access-date=November 24, 2022|archive-date=January 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108214009/http://www.12newsnow.com/news/rita-clements-former-first-lady-of-texas-dies-at-86/505501030|url-status=dead}}
  • Marjorie Holt, politician (b. 1920)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/marjorie-holt-marylands-first-republican-congresswoman-dies-at-97/2018/01/09/cf6ba652-f556-11e7-a9e3-ab18ce41436a_story.html Marjorie Holt, Maryland's first Republican congresswoman, dies at 97]
  • Bob Jenson, politician (b. 1931){{Cite web|url=http://www.mycolumbiabasin.com/2018/01/08/former-pendleton-representative-bob-jenson-passes-away/|title=Former Pendleton representative Bob Jenson passes away|access-date=November 24, 2022|archive-date=January 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109181250/http://www.mycolumbiabasin.com/2018/01/08/former-pendleton-representative-bob-jenson-passes-away/|url-status=dead}}
  • William R. Ojala, politician (b. 1925){{Cite web|url=http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/government-and-politics/4385456-true-son-iron-range-lawyer-politician-bill-ojala-dies-92|title='A true son of the Iron Range': Lawyer, politician Bill Ojala dies at 92|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110055000/http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/government-and-politics/4385456-true-son-iron-range-lawyer-politician-bill-ojala-dies-92|archive-date=January 10, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Jimmy Robinson, recording engineer (b. 1950){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/james-robinson-obituary?id=17413752|title=JAMES ROBINSON's Obituary (2018) New York Times|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Dave Toschi, police detective (Zodiac Killer) (b. 1931){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/obituaries/david-toschi-86-detective-who-pursued-the-zodiac-killer-dies.html|title=David Toschi, 86, Detective Who Pursued the Zodiac Killer, Dies|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|work=The New York Times|date=January 13, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Frank Varrichione, football player (b. 1932){{Cite web|url=https://www.nortonfuneralhome.com/obituary/frank-varrichione?lud=B065D5A91C5E1B2868BF963759D0C99C|title=Obituary for Frank Joseph Varrichione at Norton Funeral Home, Inc.|website=nortonfuneralhome.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 7
  • Will Gay Bottje, composer (b. 1925){{Cite web|url=https://www.lifestorynet.com/obituaries/will-g-bottje.120202|title=Will G. Bottje Obituary & Funeral|website=Heritage Life Story Funeral Homes|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Joe Ellis Brown, politician (b. 1933){{Cite web|url=https://www.wistv.com/story/37210065/former-sc-state-rep-joe-e-brown-passes-away-sunday|title=Former SC State Rep. Joe E. Brown passes away Sunday|first=Tanita|last=Gaither|website=wistv.com|date=January 8, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Tom Dowling, football coach (b. 1940){{cite web|url=http://www.lex18.com/story/37211292/coach-tom-dowling-passes-away|title=Coach Tom Dowling Has Passed Away|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109063659/http://www.lex18.com/story/37211292/coach-tom-dowling-passes-away|archive-date=January 9, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Anna Mae Hays, military officer and nurse (b. 1920){{Cite web|url=https://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-anna-mae-hayes-dies-20180107-story.html|title=Allentonian Anna Mae Hays, first female general in U.S. armed forces, dies at 97|website=The Morning Call|date=January 8, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Tom Netherton, singer (b. 1947){{Cite web|url=https://www.nashvillefuneralandcremation.com/obit/thomas-h-netherton-jr|title=Nashville Funeral and Cremation|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Dick Young, baseball player (b. 1927){{Cite web|url=http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Richard-Young&lc=2853&pid=187778397&mid=7714309|title=Richard Young Obituary|website=obits.dignitymemorial.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Doug Young, voice actor (b. 1919){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/seattletimes/name/douglas-young-obituary?id=17376961|title=Douglas Hiram Young's Obituary (1919 - 2018) The Seattle Times|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 8
  • Bruce Cole, humanist (b. 1938)
  • Frank Kreith, Austrian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1922)
  • Denise LaSalle, singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1934)
  • George Lindbeck, Lutheran theologian (b. 1923)
  • Kynaston McShine, curator (b. 1935)
  • James N. Morgan, economist (b. 1918)
  • Chuck Murphy, prelate (b. 1947)
  • Myron Rush, Kremlinologist (b. 1921)
  • Charles H. Turner, American attorney (b. 1935)
  • January 9
  • Terence Marsh, British production designer (b. 1931)
  • Joseph Wayne Miller, actor (b. 1981)
  • Milton J. Rosenberg, psychology professor and radio host (b. 1925)
  • January 10
  • Charles Davis, Olympic sports shooter (b. 1927)
  • John Sherrill Houser, artist (b. 1935)
  • William B. Keene, judge (b. 1925)
  • Katherine Kellgren, narrator and actress (b. 1969)
  • Tom Luken, politician (b. 1925)
  • Doreen Tracey, British-born American performer (b. 1943)
  • January 11
  • Doug Barnard Jr., politician (b. 1922)
  • Gene Cole, athlete (b. 1928)
  • Stephane Gauger, Vietnamese-born film director and screenwriter (b. 1969)
  • Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., lawyer (b. 1929)
  • John W. Hennessey Jr, academic (b. 1925)
  • Edgar Ray Killen, Ku Klux Klan leader and convicted murderer (b. 1925)
  • January 12
  • Lisa Chedekel, journalist (b. 1960)
  • Frankie Muse Freeman, civil rights attorney (b. 1916)
  • Robert W. Hamilton, legal scholar (b. 1931)
  • Keith Jackson, sports commentator, journalist, author, and radio personality (b. 1928)
  • John V. Tunney, politician (b. 1934)
  • January 13
  • Jean Porter, actress (b. 1922)
  • Naomi Stevens, actress (b. 1925)
  • January 14
  • Barbara Cope, rock 'n' roll groupie (b. 1950){{Cite web|url=http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/woman-dies-in-east-dallas-house-fire/507979752|title=Famous Dallas Rock 'N' Roll groupie dies in house fire|work=WFAA |access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Paul Lustig Dunkel, American flutist and conductor (b. 1943){{Cite web|url=https://www.westchesterphil.org/paul-lustig-dunkel-1943-2018|title=Paul Lustig Dunkel, 1943–2018|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116081411/https://www.westchesterphil.org/paul-lustig-dunkel-1943-2018|archive-date=January 16, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Dan Gurney, racing driver (b. 1931){{cite web|url=http://www.racer.com/f1/item/146728-dan-gurney-1931-2018|title=Dan Gurney, 1931–2018|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116015208/http://www.racer.com/f1/item/146728-dan-gurney-1931-2018|archive-date=January 16, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Bill Hughes, jazz trombonist (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=https://www.silive.com/entertainment/2018/01/william_hughes_basie_orchestra_trombonist.html|title=Count Basie Orchestra trombonist William Hughes dies at 87|date=January 24, 2018|website=silive|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Mario Martinez, weightlifter (b. 1957){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/thecalifornian/name/mario-martinez-obituary?id=10039824|title=Mario A. Martinez's Obituary (1957 - 2018) The Salinas Californian|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Samuel A. Schreiner Jr., writer (b. 1921){{Cite web|url=https://www.darientimes.com/96701/obituary-samuel-a-schreiner-jr-96-longtime-darien-resident/|title=Obituary: Samuel A. Schreiner Jr., 96, longtime Darien resident|access-date=November 24, 2022|archive-date=June 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615190909/https://www.darientimes.com/96701/obituary-samuel-a-schreiner-jr-96-longtime-darien-resident/|url-status=dead}}
  • Milton Shadur, federal judge (b. 1924){{cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/milton-shadur-retired-federal-judge-has-died/|title=Milton Shadur, retired judge who oversaw Chicago school desegregation plan, dies|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117012248/https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/milton-shadur-retired-federal-judge-has-died/|archive-date=January 17, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Marlene VerPlanck, jazz singer (b. 1933){{Cite web|url=https://www.jazzwax.com/2018/01/marlene-verplanck-1933-2018.html|title=Marlene VerPlanck (1933-2018) - JazzWax|website=jazzwax.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Hugh Wilson, film director and television producer (b. 1943){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/hugh-wilson-dead-dies-police-academy-wkrp-1202665878/|title=Hugh Wilson, 'Police Academy' Director and 'WKRP in Cincinnati' Creator, Dies at 74|first1=Ariana|last1=Brockington|date=January 16, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 15
  • Romana Acosta Bañuelos, public servant (b. 1925){{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-romana-acosta-banuelos-20180119-story.html|title=Romana Acosta Bañuelos, first Latina U.S. treasurer and Mexican American pioneer, dies at 92|website=Los Angeles Times|date=January 22, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Bob Barton, baseball player (b. 1941){{Cite web|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/sd-sp-former-padres-catcher-bob-barton-dies-20180123-story.html|title=Former Padres catcher Bob Barton dies|date=January 24, 2018|website=The San Diego Union-Tribune|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Anshel Brusilow, American violinist and conductor (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/performing-arts/2018/01/16/anshel-brusilow-former-dso-conductor-and-head-of-orchestra-programs-at-unt-and-smu-has-died/|title=Anshel Brusilow, former DSO conductor and head of orchestra programs at UNT and SMU, has died|date=January 16, 2018|website=Dallas News|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Edwin Hawkins, musician (b. 1943){{Cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/edwin-hawkins-dead-gospel-singer-oh-happy-day-8094294/|title=Edwin Hawkins, 'Oh Happy Day' Gospel Star, Dies at 74|magazine=Billboard|agency=Associated Press|date=January 15, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Dick King, American politician (b. 1934){{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/30-year-legislator-dick-king-dies-at-83/|title=30-year legislator Dick King dies at 83|first=Jerry|last=Cornfield|date=January 28, 2018|website=HeraldNet.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Mathilde Krim, Italian-born HIV/AIDS researcher (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=https://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2018/01/dr-mathilde-krim-founding-chairman-of-amfar-the-foundation-for-aids-research-dies-91.html|title=Dr. Mathilde Krim, Founding Chairman of amfAR, The Foundation For AIDS Research, Dies @ 91|website=Boy Culture : Covering Hot Men, Gay Issues, Celebrities, Movies, Music & More|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • William Scharf, artist (b. 1927){{cite web|url=https://www.afterlife.co/us/obituary-new-york-william-lester-scharf-jr-6757623|title=In loving memory of William Lester Scharf Jr.|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120235910/https://www.afterlife.co/us/obituary-new-york-william-lester-scharf-jr-6757623|archive-date=January 20, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Mike Shanahan, professional sports team owner (St. Louis Blues) (b. 1939){{Cite web|url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/professional/former-blues-owner-mike-shanahan-dies/article_9c52cc84-12e2-55d2-9ce1-8e48b33edae7.html|title=Former Blues owner Mike Shanahan dies|first=Jim|last=Thomas|website=STLtoday.com|date=January 15, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Wilse B. Webb, psychologist and sleep researcher (b. 1920){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gainesville/name/wilse-webb-obituary?id=8510173|title=WILSE BERNARD WEBB's Obituary (2018) Gainesville Sun|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 16
  • Bill Bain, management consultant (b. 1937)
  • George Bandy, politician (b. 1945)
  • Bradford Dillman, actor (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/bradford-dillman-dead-actor-compulsion-way-we-were-was-87-1075818/|title=Bradford Dillman, Actor in 'Compulsion' and 'The Way We Were,' Dies at 87|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 18, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • LaFayette Duckett, politician (b. 1918)
  • Kingdon Gould Jr., diplomat (b. 1923)
  • Tyler Hilinski, football player (b. 1996)
  • Julie Beth Lovins, computational linguist (b. 1945)
  • John Monteith, actor, writer and director (b. 1948)
  • Timothy J. O'Connor Jr., politician (b. 1936)
  • Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr., federal judge (b. 1928)
  • Harold Rosen, politician (b. 1925)
  • John Spellman, politician (b. 1926)
  • Jo Jo White, basketball player (b. 1946){{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22124169/jo-jo-white-boston-celtics-great-basketball-hall-famer-dies-71|title=Celtics great, HOFer Jo Jo White dies at 71|date=January 17, 2018|publisher=ESPN|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 17
  • John M. Andrist, journalist and politician (b. 1931){{Cite web|url=http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2018/jan/17/longtime-newspaperman-former-state-sen-john-andrist-dies/|title=Longtime newspaperman, former state Sen. John Andrist dies|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118181325/http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2018/jan/17/longtime-newspaperman-former-state-sen-john-andrist-dies/|archive-date=January 18, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Landrum Bolling, political scientist and academic administrator (b. 1913)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/landrum-bolling-college-president-peace-activist-and-presidential-go-between-dies-at-104/2018/01/30/2f0a1060-053a-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html Landrum Bolling, college president, peace activist and presidential go-between, dies at 104]
  • Paul Booth, political activist (b. 1943)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/paul-booth-labor-leader-and-antiwar-activist-dies-at-74/2018/01/19/d36b1884-fd29-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html Paul Booth, labor leader and antiwar activist, dies at 74]
  • Ed Moses, artist and painter (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-ed-moses-dies-20180118-story.html|title=Ed Moses, 'Cool School' painter who helped forge L.A.'s art scene, dies at 91|website=Los Angeles Times|date=January 19, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Arno Motulsky, German-born geneticist (b. 1923)
  • Herbert Schmertz, public relations executive (b. 1930){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/obituaries/herbert-schmertz-87-innovative-public-relations-man-dies-at-87.html|title=Herbert Schmertz, Innovative Public-Relations Man, Dies at 87|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|work=The New York Times|date=January 20, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 18
  • Julius Lester, civil rights activist, writer, musician, photographer, professor (b. 1939){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/obituaries/julius-lester-chronicler-of-black-america-is-dead-at-78.html|title=Julius Lester, Chronicler of Black America, Is Dead at 78|first=Margalit|last=Fox|work=The New York Times|date=January 20, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Edward C. Rochette, numismatist (b. 1927)
  • B. L. Shaw, educator and politician (b. 1933)
  • Anthony Allen Shore, serial killer and rapist (b. 1962)
  • Henry Soles Jr., chaplain and author (b. 1935)
  • Mae Tischer, politician (b. 1928)
  • Stansfield Turner, admiral and academic (b. 1923)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/adm-stansfield-turner-who-led-major-cia-overhaul-as-director-of-central-intelligence-dies-94/2018/01/18/eac46390-fc99-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html Adm. Stansfield Turner, who led major CIA overhaul as director of central intelligence, dies at 94]
  • January 19
  • Harvey R. Blau, attorney and executive (b. 1935)
  • Lin Bolen, television executive and producer (b. 1941)
  • James C. Browne, computer scientist (b. 1934)
  • Olivia Cole, actress (b. 1942){{Cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/tv/2018/01/24/olivia-cole-dead-roots-actress-dies-75/|title=Olivia Cole, Emmy-winning 'Roots' actress, dies at 75|first=Maureen|last=Lee Lenker|date=January 24, 2018|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • John Conboy, television producer (b. 1934)
  • Ed LaForge, politician (b. 1935)
  • Dorothy Malone, actress (b. 1924){{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/20/oscar-winner-dorothy-malone-mom-on-peyton-place-has-died|title=Oscar winner Dorothy Malone, mom on Peyton Place, has died|agency=Associated Press|date=January 20, 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Fredo Santana, rapper and singer-songwriter (b. 1990)
  • Allison Shearmur, film producer (b. 1963)
  • Moose Stubing, baseball player (b. 1938)
  • Barbara Weil, artist (b. 1933)
  • Leslie Wyche, community activist (b. 1944)
  • January 20
  • Wendell Castle, furniture designer and artist (b. 1932)
  • John Coleman, American meteorologist (b. 1934){{Cite web|url=https://www.kusi.com/longtime-kusi-weatherman-john-coleman-dies/|title=Longtime KUSI weatherman John Coleman dies at 83|work=McKinnon Broadcasting |date=January 23, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • William Cousins, judge (b. 1927)
  • Terry Evans, blues and soul singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
  • Naomi Parker Fraley, naval machinist (b. 1921){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/naomi-parker-fraley-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-96.html|title=Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96|first=Margalit|last=Fox|work=The New York Times|date=January 22, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Bill Johnson, 57, American baseball player (b. 1960)
  • Jerry Keeling, American-born Canadian football player (b. 1939)
  • Bob Smith, American comedian and author (b. 1958)
  • Jack Whitten, artist (b. 1939)
  • January 21
  • A. Dean Jeffs, politician (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=http://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/a-dean-jeffs/article_d40d7c30-8409-5f06-9c9a-50f90c274b41.html|title=A. Dean Jeffs|access-date=November 24, 2022|archive-date=February 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204150114/http://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/a-dean-jeffs/article_d40d7c30-8409-5f06-9c9a-50f90c274b41.html|url-status=dead}}
  • Jim Johannson, American ice hockey player (b. 1964){{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/hockey/2018/01/21/former-player-usa-hockey-executive-jim-johannson-dead-53-years-old/1051964001/|title=Former player, USA Hockey executive Jim Johannson dead at 53-years-old|website=USA Today|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Lyle Mehrkens, politician (b. 1937){{Cite web|url=http://www.republican-eagle.com/obituaries/4392245-lyle-g-mehrkens|title=Lyle G. Mehrkens|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127105823/http://www.republican-eagle.com/obituaries/4392245-lyle-g-mehrkens|archive-date=January 27, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Connie Sawyer, actress (b. 1912){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/connie-sawyer-dead-actress-was-105-781684/|title=Connie Sawyer, Late-Blooming Comic Actress, Dies at 105|first1=Cheryl|last1=Cheng|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 22, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 22
  • Carl Blair, painter and sculptor (b. 1932){{Cite web|url=https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2018/01/22/greenville-artist-and-former-bob-jones-university-professor-carl-blair-has-died/1055060001/|title=Greenville artist and former Bob Jones University professor Carl Blair has died|first=Donna Isbell|last=Walker|website=The Greenville News|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Andrew Carroll, 32, American ice hockey player (b. 1985){{Cite web|url=https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/22/college-mens-hockey-ex-umd-captain-andrew-carroll-dies-after-accident/|title=Ex-UMD hockey captain, Shoreview native Andrew Carroll dies after Chicago airport fall|date=January 23, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Dale Engstrom, politician (b. 1917)
  • Billy Hancock, musician (b. 1946)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/billy-hancock-rockabilly-performer-with-outrageous-style-dies-at-71/2018/01/23/8eadd05a-004a-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html Billy Hancock, rockabilly performer with outrageous style, dies at 71]
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, novelist (b. 1929){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html|title=Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88|first=Gerald|last=Jonas|work=The New York Times|date=January 23, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • William Joseph McDonough, banker (b. 1934)[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-25/ex-new-york-fed-chief-mcdonough-dies-led-bank-during-ltcm-9-11 Ex-New York Fed Chief McDonough Dies; Led Bank During LTCM, 9/11]
  • Preston Shannon, blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947){{Cite web|url=https://wreg.com/news/preston-shannon-the-king-of-beale-street-dead-at-70/|title=Preston Shannon, The King of Beale Street, dead at 70|date=January 22, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Annie Young, politician, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (b. 1942){{Cite web|url=https://www.startribune.com/obituary-annie-young-longtime-minneapolis-park-board-member-was-a-blunt-advocate-for-conservation/470785703/|title=Annie Young, longtime Minneapolis Park Board member and a blunt advocate for conservation, dies|first=Adam|last=Belz|website=Star Tribune|date=January 24, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 23
  • Robert Dowdell, actor (b. 1932){{Cite web|url=https://metv.com/stories/rip-robert-dowdell-of-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea|title=R.I.P. Robert Dowdell of 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'|website=Me-TV Network|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Galen L. Stone, American diplomat (b. 1921){{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2018/03/03/galen-stone-former-ambassador-cyprus-dies/Ml9oEhtnVcpSBy8MnQdwdI/story.html|title=Galen L. Stone, 96, former US ambassador to Cyprus|website=The Boston Globe|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304031423/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2018/03/03/galen-stone-former-ambassador-cyprus-dies/Ml9oEhtnVcpSBy8MnQdwdI/story.html|archive-date=March 4, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Ezra Swerdlow, film producer (b. 1953){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ezra-swerdlow-dead-dies-producer-1202681357/|title=Ezra Swerdlow, '21 Jump Street' and 'Spaceballs' Producer, Dies at 64|first1=Dave|last1=McNary|date=January 30, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Wyatt Tee Walker, American pastor, civil rights leader, and theologian (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=https://thegrio.com/2018/01/23/wyatt-tee-walker-dead/|title=Activist Wyatt Tee Walker, MLK's chief of staff, is dead at 88|first=Gerren Keith|last=Gaynor|date=January 23, 2018|website=TheGrio|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Lari White, American country singer (b. 1965){{Cite web|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/01/23/singer-songwriter-lari-white-dead-52/1055268001/|title=Singer, songwriter Lari White dead at 52|first=Juli|last=Thanki|website=The Tennessean|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 24
  • Bill Budness, football player (b. 1943){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/recorder/name/william-budness-obituary?id=10459210|title=William W. Budness's Obituary (2018) The Recorder|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jack Ketchum, author (b. 1946)
  • Warren Miller, American ski and snowboarding filmmaker (b. 1924){{Cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/snow-sports/pioneering-inspiring-snow-sports-filmmaker-warren-a-miller-has-died-at-his-home-on-orcas-island-at-the-age-of-93/|title=Pioneering, inspiring snow-sports filmmaker Warren Miller, 93, dies at Orcas Island home|date=January 24, 2018|website=The Seattle Times|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Raymond Nimmer, legal scholar (b. 1944){{Cite web|url=https://www.law.uh.edu/news/spring2018/0125Nimmer.asp|title=News and Events – University of Houston Law Center|website=law.uh.edu|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 25
  • Daniel M. Buechlein, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1938){{Cite web|url=https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/01/25/former-indianapolis-archbishop-daniel-m-buechlein-dies-hometown-jasper/1064877001/|title=Former Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein dies at Saint Meinrad|first=Vic|last=Ryckaert|website=The Indianapolis Star|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Dan Foster, medical researcher (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/obituaries/2018/01/26/dr-daniel-foster-former-diabetes-researcher-and-leader-at-ut-southwestern-dies-at-87/|title=Dr. Daniel Foster, former diabetes researcher and leader at UT Southwestern, dies at 87|date=January 26, 2018|website=Dallas News|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Bill Logan, American basketball player (b. 1934)[https://www.landof10.com/iowa/former-iowa-basketball-american-bill-logan-dies-83 Former Iowa basketball All-American Bill Logan dies at 83]
  • Floyd Miles, blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1943){{Cite web|url=https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/01/26/daytona-rampb-singer-mentored-teen-allmans/15460167007/|title=Daytona R&B singer mentored teen Allmans|first=Jim|last=Abbott|website=Daytona Beach News-Journal Online|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • John Morris, American film composer (b. 1926){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/obituaries/john-morris-composer-for-mel-brookss-films-dies-at-91.html|title=John Morris, Composer for Mel Brooks's Films, Dies at 91|first=Richard|last=Sandomir|work=The New York Times|date=January 28, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 26
  • Kendall Carly Browne, actress (b. 1918){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kendall-carly-browne-dead-actress-was-99-1079906/|title=Actress Kendall Carly Browne Dies at 99|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 29, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Buzz Clifford, American singer (b. 1942){{Cite web|url=http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2018/01/passings-buzz-clifford-1941-2018.html|title=Passings: Buzz Clifford (1941–2018)|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=January 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004503/http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2018/01/passings-buzz-clifford-1941-2018.html|url-status=dead}}
  • Raphael Cruz, acrobat and actor (b. 1986){{Cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/1/30/18393290/acrobat-actor-raphael-cruz-recently-at-lookingglass-dies-in-paris|title=Acrobat-actor Raphael Cruz, recently at Lookingglass, dies in Paris|date=January 30, 2018|website=Chicago Sun-Times|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Elizabeth Hawley, journalist (b. 1923)
  • Joe M. Haynes, American politician (b. 1936){{Cite web|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/26/joe-haynes-former-nashville-area-state-senator-dies-81/1070341001/|title=Joe Haynes, former Nashville area state senator, dies at 81|first=Dave Boucher and Joel|last=Ebert|website=The Tennessean|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Von G. Keetch, religious leader (b. 1960){{Cite web|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900008720/elder-von-g-keetch-lds-church-leader-dies-at-age-57.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127115548/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900008720/elder-von-g-keetch-lds-church-leader-dies-at-age-57.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 27, 2018|title=Elder Von G. Keetch, LDS Church leader, dies at age 57|website=Deseret News|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Cyrus Yavneh, producer (b. 1941){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/cyrus-yavneh-dead-producer-24-supernatural-pat-movie-was-76-1080416/|title=Cyrus Yavneh, Producer on '24,' 'Supernatural' and 'It's Pat: The Movie,' Dies at 76|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 30, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Isaiah Zeldin, Reform rabbi, founder of Stephen S. Wise Temple (b. 1920){{Cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/obituaries/230173/stephen-wise-temple-founder-rabbi-dies/|title=Stephen Wise Temple Founder, Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin, dies at 97|first=Tom|last=Tugend|date=January 27, 2018|website=Jewish Journal|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 27
  • Robert McCormick Adams Jr., anthropologist (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/former-smithsonian-leader-robert-mccormick-adams-dies-91-180967977/|title=Smithsonian Leader Who Helped Launch the American Indian Museum Dies at 91|first=Ryan P.|last=Smith|website=Smithsonian Magazine|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jerry Butler, pornographic actor (b. 1959){{Cite web|url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/jerry-butler-actor-in-adult-and-mainstream-dies-761735.html|title='80s Adult Icon Jerry Butler Dies AVN|first=Sherri L.|last=Shaulis|website=AVN|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Alfred Hübler, German-born American physicist (b. 1957)
  • Robert Parry, investigative journalist (b. 1949){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/obituaries/robert-parry-investigative-reporter-dies.html|title=Robert Parry, Investigative Reporter in Washington, Dies at 68|date=January 29, 2018|work=The New York Times|last=Roberts|first=Sam|access-date=June 1, 2022}}
  • Dennis Peron, American cannabis and LGBT activist (b. 1945){{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-dennisperon-idUSKBN1FH0XA|title=Dennis Peron, father of medical marijuana in California, dies at 72|date=January 28, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022|work=Reuters}}
  • Jerry Sneva, racing driver (b. 1949)
  • Mort Walker, comic artist (Beetle Bailey) (b. 1923)
  • January 29
  • Hilton McConnico, American designer (b. 1943){{Cite web|url=https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2018/01/31/hilton-mcconnico-memphis-paris-designer-has-died/1083086001/|title=Hilton McConnico, Memphis-to-Paris designer, has died|first=John|last=Beifuss|website=The Commercial Appeal|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Rick McKay, filmmaker (b. 1956){{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Acclaimed-Broadway-Filmmaker-Rick-McKay-Dies-20180130|title=Acclaimed Broadway Filmmaker Rick McKay Dies|first=Robert|last=Diamond|website=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Robert D. McWethy, submarine captain (b. 1920){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/capitalgazette/name/robert-mcwethy-obituary?id=11122151|title=Robert D. McWethy's Obituary (2018) The Capital Gazette|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Eddie Shaw, saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1937){{Cite web|url=http://bgindependentmedia.org/eddie-shaw-favorite-of-bg-blues-fans-dies-at-80/|title=Eddie Shaw, favorite of BG blues fans, dies at 80 – BG Independent News|first=David|last=Dupont|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • January 30
  • John W. Kern III, judge (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/john-kern-obituary?id=1656712|title=JOHN KERN III's Obituary (2018) The Washington Post|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Charles E. Lindblom, academic (b. 1917){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/santafenewmexican/name/charles-lindblom-obituary?id=11608565|title=Charles Edward Lindblom's Obituary (1917 - 2018) Santa Fe New Mexican|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • James McCray, opera singer and teacher (b. 1938){{Cite web|url=https://operawire.com/obituary-james-mccray-dies-at-79/|title=Obituary: James McCray Dies at 79|date=February 1, 2018|website=OperaWire|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Mark Salling, actor (b. 1982){{Cite web|url=http://www.wpxi.com/news/former-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-at-35/691541385|title=Actor Mark Salling dies weeks after child porn guilty plea|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211005513/http://www.wpxi.com/news/former-glee-actor-mark-salling-dead-at-35/691541385|archive-date=February 11, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Clyde Scott, football player (b. 1924){{Cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/sports/georgia-bulldogs/|title=AJC: UGA Sports News|website=ajc|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Victor W. Sidel, physician (b. 1931){{Cite web|url=https://psr.org/in-memoriam-dr-victor-w-sidel-psr-founding-member/|title=In Memoriam: Dr. Victor W. Sidel, PSR Founding Member | Physicians for Social Responsibility|date=February 1, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Kevin Towers, baseball executive (b. 1961){{Cite web|url=https://www.abc15.com/sports/sports-blogs-national/former-arizona-diamondbacks-general-manager-kevin-towers-dies|title=Former Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers dies|date=January 30, 2018|website=ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix (KNXV)|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Louis Zorich, actor (b. 1924){{cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-actor-louis-zorich-husband-of-olympia-dukakis-dead-at-93/|title=Actor Louis Zorich, South Side native and husband of Olympia Dukakis, dead at 93|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202012626/https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-actor-louis-zorich-husband-of-olympia-dukakis-dead-at-93/|archive-date=February 2, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • January 31
  • Richard N. Berry, politician (b. 1915){{Cite web|url=https://www.pressherald.com/obituaries|title=Obituary: Frances Evelyn Trufant Lieto|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Rasual Butler, basketball player (b. 1979){{Cite magazine|url=https://www.si.com/nba/2018/01/31/rasual-butler-death-wife-killed-fatal-car-crash|title=Rasual Butler, wife killed in Los Angeles car crash|first=Chris|last=Chavez|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=January 31, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Leah LaBelle, Canadian-born singer (b. 1986)
  • Del Delker, gospel singer (b. 1924){{Cite web|url=https://adventistreview.org/news/voice-of-prophecy-soloist-del-delker-passes-to-her-rest/|title=Voice of Prophecy Soloist Del Delker Passes to Her Rest | Adventist Review|date=February 1, 2018|website=adventistreview.org|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Gabriel Fackre, theologian (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/gabriel-fackre-obituary?id=1654279|title=Dr. Gabriel J. Fackre's Obituary (1926–2018)|work=The Boston Globe|via=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Oscar Gamble, baseball player (b. 1949){{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/22275377/former-major-league-outfielder-oscar-gamble-dead-68|title=Former MLB outfielder Oscar Gamble, 68, dies|date=January 31, 2018|publisher=ESPN|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jack Halpern, chemist (b. 1924){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/chicagotribune/name/jack-halpern-obituary?id=2757267|title=Jack Halpern's Obituary (2018) Chicago Tribune|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Elizabeth Hartley, archaeologist and curator (b. 1942){{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/yorkshirepost-uk/obituary.aspx?pid=188207009|title=Elizabeth Hartley|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • John Fitzallen Moore, physicist (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailyherald/name/john-moore-obituary?id=19799062|title=JOHN FITZALLEN MOORE's Obituary (1928 - 2018) Daily Herald|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • William O'Connor, artist (b. 1970){{Cite web|url=http://nthfh.com/tribute/details/1959/William-O-Connor/obituary.html|title=Obituary of William O'Connor|access-date=November 24, 2022|archive-date=February 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204124017/http://nthfh.com/tribute/details/1959/William-O-Connor/obituary.html|url-status=dead}}

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  • February 1
  • Cliff Bourland, athlete (b. 1921)
  • Dennis Edwards, singer (b. 1943)
  • Sonia Gechtoff, painter (b. 1926)
  • Nicholas von Hoffman, journalist (b. 1929)
  • Barys Kit, Belarusian-born rocket scientist (b. 1910)
  • Michael O'Hara, Olympic volleyball player (b. 1932)
  • Frank L. Oliver, politician (b. 1922)
  • Sewall Shurtz, Olympic fencer (b. 1933)
  • Alan Stout, composer (b. 1932)
  • February 2
  • Jon Huntsman Sr., businessman and philanthropist (b. 1937)
  • Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist (b. 1954)
  • February 3
  • Sam Cataldo, politician (b. 1937){{Cite web|url=http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20180204/NEWS/180209675/-1|title=Former state Sen. Sam Cataldo of Farmington killed in car crash|access-date=November 24, 2022|archive-date=July 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704182750/http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20180204/NEWS/180209675/-1|url-status=dead}}
  • Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, jazz/pop drummer (b. 1952){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/obituaries/leon-ndugu-chancler-versatile-drummer-is-dead-at-65.html|title=Leon (Ndugu) Chancler, Versatile Drummer, Is Dead at 65|first=Jon|last=Pareles|work=The New York Times|date=February 7, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Pierre Conner, mathematician (b. 1932){{Cite web|url=https://obits.nola.com/us/obituaries/nola/name/pierre-conner-obituary?id=1646442|title=Pierre Euclide Conner Jr.'s Obituary (1932 - 2018) The Times-Picayune|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Roy Dietzel, baseball player (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/charlotte/name/leroy-dietzel-obituary?id=1624643|title=Leroy Louis "Roy" Dietzel's Obituary (1931 - 2018) Charlotte Observer|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Michael Harner, anthropologist and author (b. 1929){{Cite web|url=https://shamanism.org/news/in-memoriam-michael-j-harner-1929-2018/|title=In Memoriam: MICHAEL J. HARNER, 1929 – 2018|date=February 4, 2018|website=Foundation for Shamanic Studies|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • George Shadid, politician (b. 1929){{cite web|url=http://www.1470wmbd.com/george-shadid-dies-age-88/|title=George Shadid Dies at Age 88|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211115915/https://www.1470wmbd.com/george-shadid-dies-age-88/|archive-date=December 11, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Bill Teale, educator (b. 1947){{Cite web|url=https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2018/02/05/advocate-leader-humanitarian-ila-mourns-the-loss-of-dr-william-h-teale|title=Advocate, Leader, Humanitarian: ILA Mourns the Loss of Dr. William H. Teale|website=literacyworldwide.org|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • February 4
  • Edwin Jackson, football player (b. 1991)
  • John Mahoney, British-born actor (b. 1940)
  • February 7
  • John Perry Barlow, internet activist, writer and lyricist (b. 1947)
  • Mickey Jones, drummer (b. 1941)
  • Pat Torpey, drummer (b. 1953)
  • February 8
  • Ben Agajanian, football player (b. 1919){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/obituaries/ben-agajanian-square-shoed-kicking-star-dies-at-98.html|title=Ben Agajanian, Square-Shoed Kicking Star, Dies at 98|first=Richard|last=Goldstein|work=The New York Times|date=February 13, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Carl K. Benhase, football coach (b. 1929){{Cite web|url=https://www.tuftsschildmeyer.com/obituary/Carl-K.-Benhase/Loveland-Ohio/1780798|title=Tufts Schildmeyer Family Funeral Homes | Loveland, Blanchester & Goshen, OH Funeral Home & Cremation|website=tuftsschildmeyer.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Robert A. Gross, physicist and engineering scientist (b. 1927){{Cite web|url=https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/robert-a-gross-obituary|title=Columbia Engineering Mourns Its 11th Dean, Robert A. Gross|date=February 14, 2018|website=Columbia Engineering|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Algia Mae Hinton, blues singer and guitarist (b. 1929)[http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/article199182894.html Algia Mae Hinton, one of the last surviving Piedmont blues greats, has died]
  • M. Cecil Mackey, academic administrator (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2018/maurice-cecil-mackey-jr-msus-16th-president-dies|title=Maurice Cecil Mackey, Jr., MSU's 16th president, dies|website=MSUToday | Michigan State University|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • John Martinkovic, football player (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=https://247sports.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/Article/Former-Packers-defensive-end-John-Martinkovic-passes-away--114949965/|title=Former Packers DE John Martinkovic passes away|website=Green Bay Packers|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Lovebug Starski, rapper and disc jockey (b. 1960){{Cite web|url=https://hiphopwired.com/744014/lovebug-starski-passes-away-at-57/|title=Lovebug Starski Passes Away at 57|date=February 9, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Sandra L. Townes, judge (b. 1944){{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-federal-judge-sandra-townes-dies-cancer-73-article-1.3816865|title=Brooklyn Federal Judge Sandra Townes dies of cancer at 73|website=Daily News|location=New York|date=February 12, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • February 9
  • Reg E. Cathey, actor (b. 1958)
  • John Gavin, actor and diplomat (b. 1931)
  • February 10
  • Jeff Bell, political consultant (b. 1943){{Cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/politics/2018/02/3-time_us_senate_candidate_jeff_bell_dies.html|title=3-time U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Bell dies|first=Brent|last=Johnson|date=February 12, 2018|website=The Star-Ledger|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Fran Bera, aviator (b. 1924){{Cite web|url=https://sandiego99s.com/history-of-the-san-diego-99s/|title=History of the San Diego 99s – San Diego 99s|work=San Diego 99s |access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Troy Blakely, music executive and talent manager (b. 1949){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/music/news/troy-blakely-apa-music-head-dead-1202694783/|title=Troy Blakely, Head of Music at APA, Dies at 68|date=February 11, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Richard C. Lamb, astrophysicist (b. 1933){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/kentucky/name/richard-lamb-obituary?id=12091985|title=Richard Lamb's Obituary (1933 - 2018) Lexington Herald-Leader|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Stephen A. Mahin, structural engineer (b. 1946){{cite web|url=http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2018/02/stephen-a-mahin-february-10-2018/|title=Stephen A. Mahin – February 10, 2018|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701192805/http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2018/02/stephen-a-mahin-february-10-2018/|archive-date=July 1, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Donald Mark, judge (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/02/12/donald-mark-state-supreme-court-justice-dies-91-marine-obit-veteran-world-war-ii-korean-war-penfield/327712002/|title=Donald Mark, former state Supreme Court justice, dies at 91|first=Lauren|last=Peace|website=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • William Merriweather Peña, architect (b. 1918){{Cite web|url=https://newsarchive.arch.tamu.edu/news/2018/2/12/pena-remembered/|title=Peña remembered as visionary architect, war hero, benefactor – One|Arch|website=newsarchive.arch.tamu.edu|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Calvin Edouard Ward, concert pianist (b. 1925){{Cite web|url=https://www.pagefuneralhome.com/obituary/Calvin-Ward|title=Obituary for Calvin Edouard Ward|website=Page Funeral Home|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • February 11
  • Anthony Acevedo, soldier and diarist (b. 1924)
  • Michael Cohen, physician and anthropologist (b. 1937)
  • Vic Damone, singer and actor (b. 1928)
  • Jon D. Fox, politician (b. 1947)
  • Jan Maxwell, actress and singer (b. 1956)
  • Tom Rapp, singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
  • Andy Rice, football player (b. 1940)
  • February 12
  • Marty Allen, comedian and actor (b. 1922)
  • Louise Latham, actress (b. 1922)
  • Daryle Singletary, country music singer (b. 1971)
  • February 13
  • Edward M. Abroms, film editor (b. 1935){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/edward-abroms-dead-steven-spielbergs-first-film-editor-was-82-1085266/|title=Edward Abroms, Steven Spielberg's First Film Editor, Dies at 82|first1=Mike Barnes,Carolyn|last1=Giardina|first2=Mike|last2=Barnes|first3=Carolyn|last3=Giardina|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 15, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Scott Boyer, singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1947){{Cite web|url=https://www.al.com/news/2018/02/shoals_musician_songwriter_sco.html|title=Shoals musician, songwriter Scott Boyer dies|first=Anna|last=Beahm|date=February 14, 2018|website=al|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Chyskillz, hip hop producer (b. 1969){{Cite web|url=https://hiphopwired.com/744468/nyc-producer-chylow-chyskillz-parker-dead-from-heart-attack/|title=NYC Producer Chylow "Chyskillz" Parker Dead From Heart Attack|date=February 14, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • James W. Downing, naval officer and author (b. 1913){{Cite web|url=https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/americas-2nd-oldest-pearl-harbor-survivor-passes-away|title=America's 2nd oldest Pearl Harbor survivor passes away|date=February 14, 2018|website=Fox 5 Atlanta|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Tito Francona, baseball player (b. 1933){{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/22437522/former-major-league-outfielder-tito-francona-father-cleveland-indians-manager-terry-francona-dies-age-84|title=Former MLB outfielder Tito Francona dies|date=February 14, 2018|publisher=ESPN|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Sandra Love, politician (b. 1945){{Cite web|url=https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jersey/2018/02/14/gloucester-township-mayor-sandi-love-dead/338975002/|title=Former Gloucester Township mayor dies|first=Jim|last=Walsh|website=Courier-Post|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Victor Milán, author (b. 1954){{Cite web|url=https://locusmag.com/2018/02/victor-milan-1954-2018/|title=Victor Milán (1954-2018)|date=February 14, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • George P. Steele, military officer (b. 1924){{Cite web|url=https://www.navalsubleague.org/links/miscellaneous/the-eternal-patrol/|title=Eternal Patrol|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Peter Daniel Truman, politician (b. 1934){{Cite web|url=https://archives.house.state.pa.us/people/member-biography?ID=437&body=H|title=Official Website – PA House Archives Official Website|website=archives.house.state.pa.us|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • February 14
  • Lois Barker, baseball player (b. 1923){{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/northjersey/name/lois-barker-obituary?id=11467363|title=Lois "Tommie" Barker's Obituary (1923 - 2018) The Record/Herald News|website=Legacy.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Lerone Bennett Jr., scholar and author (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/media/2018/02/14/lerone-bennett-jr-legendary-chronicler-black-life-dies/338927002/|title=Lerone Bennett Jr., legendary chronicler of black life, dies|first=Charisse|last=Jones|website=USA Today|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Don Carter, investor (b. 1933){{Cite web|url=http://www.wfaa.com/sports/mavericks-founding-owner-don-carter-passes-at-84/519105599|title=Mavericks founding owner Don Carter passes at 84|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218084125/http://www.wfaa.com/sports/mavericks-founding-owner-don-carter-passes-at-84/519105599|archive-date=February 18, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Marty Dolin, American-born Canadian politician (b. 1939){{cite web|title=Longtime activist and human rights defender Marty Dolin dies|date=February 15, 2018|publisher=CBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504114031/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/marty-dolin-obituary-1.4536489|archive-date=May 4, 2022|url-status=live|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/marty-dolin-obituary-1.4536489}}
  • Billy Henderson, football coach (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=http://www.onlineathens.com/sports/20180214/former-clarke-central-coach-billy-henderson-dies|title=Former Clarke Central coach Billy Henderson dies|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Arthur J. Moss, cardiologist (b. 1931){{Cite web|url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/02/17/dr-arthur-j-moss-famed-university-rochester-cardiologist-dies-86/348035002/|title=Dr. Arthur J. Moss, famed University of Rochester cardiologist, dies at 86|first=Steve|last=Orr|website=Democrat and Chronicle|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • John Pitman, journalist (b. 1940){{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/mar/07/john-pitman-obituary|title=John Pitman obituary|first=Anthony|last=Hayward|date=March 7, 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • February 15
  • Lassie Lou Ahern, actress (b. 1920)
  • Tom Brewer, baseball player (b. 1931)
  • Don J. Briel, theologian (b. 1946)
  • Leo Cahill, American-Canadian football coach (b. 1928)
  • Chuck Klausing, football player and coach (b. 1925)
  • J. Clay Smith Jr., jurist and author (b. 1942)
  • February 16
  • Jim Bridwell, free climber (b. 1944){{Cite web|url=https://www.rockandice.com/climbing-news/jim-bridwell-founder-of-yosar-and-big-wall-godfather-dead-at-73/|title=Jim Bridwell, Founder of YOSAR and Big-Wall Godfather, Dead at 73|date=February 16, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Little Sammy Davis, blues singer-songwriter and harmonicist (b. 1928)[http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2018/02/passings-bluesman-little-sammy-davis.html Passings: Bluesman Little Sammy Davis (1928–2018)]
  • Eleanor Winsor Leach, academic (b. 1937){{Cite web|url=https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-eleanor-winsor-leach|title=In Memoriam: Eleanor Winsor Leach | Society for Classical Studies|website=classicalstudies.org|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Harry R. Purkey, politician (b. 1934){{Cite web|url=https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/local/article_b9785351-3cf1-5d93-b753-cd21579ae93f.html|title=Harry "Bob" Purkey, former Virginia Beach delegate, dies at 84|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221161316/https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/local/article_b9785351-3cf1-5d93-b753-cd21579ae93f.html|url-status=dead}}
  • Mike Walker, gossip columnist (b. 1945){{citation needed|date=October 2019}}
  • February 17
  • Jim Dickey, football coach (b. 1934){{Cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/sports/state-sports/|title=State Sports Report|website=ajc|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Beebe Freitas, pianist and vocal coach (b. 1938){{Cite web|url=https://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/02/20/features/gifted-isle-musician-helped-others-reach-their-potential/|title=Gifted isle musician helped others reach their potential|first=Susan|last=Essoyan|date=February 20, 2018|website=Honolulu Star-Advertiser|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Boyd Jarvis, music producer (b. 1958){{Cite web|url=https://ra.co/news/41107|title=House producer and musician Boyd Jarvis has died · News ⟋ RA|website=Resident Advisor|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Kenneth Kester, politician (b. 1936){{Cite web|url=https://www.chieftain.com/news/region/southern-colorado-lawmaker-kester-passes-away-at/article_de940ccf-c0ff-5783-989c-510dcecb83dc.html|title=Southern Colorado lawmaker Kester passes away at 81|access-date=November 24, 2022|archive-date=February 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220213852/https://www.chieftain.com/news/region/southern-colorado-lawmaker-kester-passes-away-at/article_de940ccf-c0ff-5783-989c-510dcecb83dc.html|url-status=dead}}
  • February 18
  • Günter Blobel, Silesian-born Nobel biologist (b. 1936)
  • Peggy Cooper Cafritz, social activist and educator (b. 1947)
  • Peirce F. Lewis, geographer (b. 1927)
  • Larry Lolley, state judge (b. 1945)
  • Lee Harris Pomeroy, architect (b. 1932)
  • Barbara Wersba, youth writer (b. 1932)
  • February 19
  • Harry Blevins, politician (b. 1935){{Cite web|url=https://www.senators4va.com/articles/senate-republicans-mourn-passing-former-senator-harry-blevins|title=Senate republicans mourn passing of former senator Harry Blevins|access-date=November 24, 2022|archive-date=September 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927230524/https://www.senators4va.com/articles/senate-republicans-mourn-passing-former-senator-harry-blevins|url-status=dead}}
  • Fred Carr, football player (b. 1946){{Cite web|url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/02/20/ex-green-bay-packers-great-fred-carr-dies-71-left-legacy-south-phoenix/356969002/|title=Fred Carr, former Green Bay Packers, Phoenix College, Phoenix Union standout, dies at 71|first=Richard|last=Obert|website=The Arizona Republic|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Max Desfor, photographer (b. 1913){{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-ap-photographer-max-desfor-dies-at-104|title=Former AP photographer Max Desfor dies at 104|website=Fox News |date=February 19, 2018|agency=Associated Press|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Thomas Lockhart, politician (b. 1935){{Cite web|url=https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/former-state-lawmaker-tom-lockhart-of-casper-dies-at-82-represented-city-for-15-years/article_ff34e0f6-eb36-55b6-aeae-8bc27118b0e9.html|title=Former state lawmaker Tom Lockhart of Casper dies at 82, represented city for 15 years|first1=Arno|last1=Rosenfeld|first2=Elise|last2=Schmelzer|website=Casper Star-Tribune Online|date=February 19, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Robert McKim, politician (b. 1945){{cite web|url=http://www.citizentribune.com/robert-mckim-former-wyoming-lawmaker-from-afton-dies-at-remembered/article_925183fd-df81-5718-a7be-31dbcf3ac080.html|title=Robert McKim, former Wyoming lawmaker from Afton, dies at 72; remembered as 'gentleman' and mentor|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220194234/http://www.citizentribune.com/robert-mckim-former-wyoming-lawmaker-from-afton-dies-at-remembered/article_925183fd-df81-5718-a7be-31dbcf3ac080.html|archive-date=February 20, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Larry Smith, puppeteer (b. 1938){{Cite web|url=https://www.fox19.com/story/37571290/puppeteer-behind-hattie-the-witch-uncle-al-show-passes-away|title=Puppeteer behind 'Hattie the Witch', 'Uncle Al show' dies|website=fox19.com|date=February 23, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jim Springer, basketball player (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/James-Springer-105858835|title=James Springer Obituary – Indiana|website=tributes.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • February 20
  • David Caron, legal scholar (b. 1952)
  • William H. Friedland, rural sociologist (b. 1923)
  • DeWitt Hale, politician (b. 1917)
  • Waldo R. Tobler, geographer and cartographer (b. 1930)
  • February 21 – Billy Graham, evangelist and Southern Baptist minister (b. 1918)
  • February 22 – Nanette Fabray, actress (b. 1920)
  • February 23
  • Dom Anile, football coach and executive (Indianapolis Colts) (b. 1937)
  • James Colby, actor (b. 1961)
  • Allen B. Rosenstein, systems engineer (b. 1920)
  • February 24
  • Irwin Belk, politician, philanthropist and retail executive (b. 1922)
  • Ed Leede, 90, basketball player
  • Bud Luckey, actor and animator (b. 1934)
  • James McIntosh, rower, Olympic silver medalist (1956) (b. 1930)
  • Charles Byron Wilson, neurosurgeon (b. 1929){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/obituaries/charles-wilson-top-brain-surgeon-and-researcher-dies-at-88.html|title=Charles Wilson, Top Brain Surgeon and Researcher, Dies at 88|first=Richard|last=Sandomir|work=The New York Times|date=March 3, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • February 25
  • Dan Fegan, basketball agent (b. 1961)
  • Cynthia Heimel, columnist, author and humorist (b. 1947)
  • Richard Hundley, pianist and composer (b. 1931)
  • Burton Leland, politician (b. 1948)
  • John C. Mula, art director and production designer (b. 1942)
  • Frank Sander, law professor (b. 1927)
  • Bruce Nelson Stratton, radio personality (b. 1943)
  • February 26
  • Paul De Meo, screenwriter and producer (b. 1953)
  • Jim Dobson, baseball player (b. 1939)
  • Jim L. Gillis Jr., politician (b. 1916)
  • Sean Lavery, ballet dancer (b. 1956)
  • Benjamin Melniker, film producer (b. 1913)
  • Carmen A. Orechio, politician (b. 1926)
  • Michael J. Pikal, pharmaceutical scientist (b. 1939)
  • Gary H. Posner, chemist (b. 1943)
  • February 27
  • Gertrude Alderfer, baseball player (b. 1931)
  • William H. T. Bush, venture capitalist and financier (b. 1938)
  • Bill Lignante, comics artist(b. 1926)
  • Daniel Perlsweig, racehorse trainer (b. 1926)
  • February 28
  • Barry Crimmins, comedian and social activist (b. 1953)
  • Keith English, politician (b. 1967)
  • Marc L. Marks, politician (b. 1926)
  • Harvey Schmidt, musical theatre producer and writer (b. 1929)
  • Naomi Siegmann, artist (b. 1932)
  • William R. Trotter, author and historian (b. 1943)

=March=

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=April=

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  • April 1
  • Amsale Aberra, Ethiopian-born American fashion designer (b. 1953){{cite web|url=http://wwd.com/eye/people/bridal-designer-amsale-group-founder-amsale-aberra-64-dies-1202642598/|title=Bridal Designer and Amsale Group Founder Amsale Aberra, 64, Dies|first=Rosemary|last=Feitelberg|date=April 2, 2018}}
  • Bob Beattie, skiing coach and sports commentator (b. 1933){{cite news|url=http://gazette.com/bob-beattie-pioneer-of-alpine-world-cup-circuit-dies-in-colorado/article/1623675|title=Bob Beattie, pioneer of Alpine World Cup circuit, dies in Colorado|first=Pat|last=Graham|agency=Associated Press}}
  • Steven Bochco, American television producer and writer (b. 1943){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199/|title=Steven Bochco, Creative Force Behind 'Hill Street Blues,' 'L.A. Law' and 'NYPD Blue,' Dies at 74|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=April 1, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Foster Diebold, American academic (b. 1932){{cite web|url=http://www.goerie.com/news/20180401/former-edinboro-u-president-diebold-dies|title=Former Edinboro U president Diebold dies|first=Tim|last=Hahn}}
  • Robert F. Gatje, American architect (b. 1927){{Cite web|url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13340-obituary-robert-f-gatje-1927-2018|title=Obituary: Robert F. Gatje, 1927-2018 | 2018-04-05 | Architectural Record|website=architecturalrecord.com|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Audrey Morris, American jazz singer and pianist (b. 1928){{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/reich/ct-ent-audrey-morris-dead-0402-story.html|title=Singer-pianist Audrey Morris dies at 89, was an icon of Chicago cabaret and jazz|first=Howard|last=Reich|website=Chicago Tribune|date=April 2018}}
  • April 2
  • Susan Anspach, American actress (b. 1942){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/obituaries/susan-anspach-75-dies-daring-actress-in-maverick-films.html|title=Susan Anspach, 75, Dies; Daring Actress in Maverick Films|first=Anita|last=Gates|work=The New York Times|date=April 5, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Clyde Billington Jr., American politician (b. 1934){{cite web|url=http://www.courant.com/obituaries/hc-obituary-clyde-billington-jr-20180412-story.html|title=Clyde Billington Jr.|date=April 12, 2018}}
  • P. L. Thibaut Brian, American chemical engineer (b. 1931){{Cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2018/pl-thibaut-brian-professor-emeritus-chemical-engineering-dies-0418|title=P.L. Thibaut Brian, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, dies at 87|website=MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology|date=April 18, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Alton Ford, American basketball player (b. 1982){{cite news|url=https://www.chron.com/sports/cougars/article/Alton-Ford-Milby-UH-Rockets-dies-at-36-12801823.php|title=Alton Ford, former player for Milby, UH, Rockets, dies at 36|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=April 3, 2018|last1=Duarte|first1=Joseph}}
  • Morris Halle, Latvian-born linguist (b. 1923){{cite web|url=http://whamit.mit.edu/2018/04/02/morris-halle-23-july-1923-2-april-2018/|title=Morris Halle, 23 July 1923 – 2 April 2018 at Whamit!|website=whamit.mit.edu|date=April 2, 2018}}
  • Tuiloma Pule Lameko, Samoan politician (b. 1934){{Cite web|url=https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/25766|title=Member of Council of Deputies mourned|website=Samoa Observer|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Connie Lawn, American journalist (b. 1945){{cite web|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/353952/veteran-white-house-reporter-connie-lawn-dies-aged-73|title=Veteran White House reporter Connie Lawn dies aged 73|date=April 3, 2018}}
  • Bill Rademacher, American football player (b. 1942){{cite web|url=http://www.miningjournal.net/sports/2018/04/former-northern-michigan-university%E2%80%88football-coach-bill-rademacher-dies-at-75/|title=Former Northern Michigan University football coach Bill Rademacher dies at 75 – News, Sports, Jobs – The Mining Journal|website=miningjournal.net}}
  • Laura Roslof, American illustrator (b. 1948){{cite web|url=http://www.gazettextra.com/obituaries/other/laura-s-roslof/ad_d5beb996-87f4-56bf-936d-9dd162f2c7e5.html|title=Laura S. Roslof|access-date=May 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405152847/http://www.gazettextra.com/obituaries/other/laura-s-roslof/ad_d5beb996-87f4-56bf-936d-9dd162f2c7e5.html|archive-date=April 5, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Burton Smith, American computer scientist (b. 1941){{cite web|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/honoring-burton-smith-visionary-creative-computing/|title=Honoring Burton Smith, a creative visionary in computing – Microsoft Research|website=Microsoft|date=April 4, 2018}}
  • April 3
  • Ron Dunbar, American songwriter (b. 1940)
  • David Edgerton, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Burger King (b. 1928)
  • David J. Foulis, American mathematician (b. 1931)
  • Eugene M. Grant, American real estate mogul (b. 1919)
  • Mary Hatcher, American actress (b. 1930)
  • Dale Haupt, American football coach (b. 1930)
  • Charles McDew, American professor and civil rights activist (b. 1938)
  • April 4
  • David Bonetti, American art critic (b. 1947)
  • Burt Boyar, American voice actor and author (b. 1927)
  • Don Cherry, American singer and golfer (b. 1924)
  • Gertrude Jeannette, American actress (b. 1915)
  • C. Shannon Mallory, American Anglican prelate (b. 1936)
  • Soon-Tek Oh, South-Korean-American actor (b. 1932){{cite journal|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/soon-tek-oh-dead-dies-mulan-father-asian-american-theater-pioneer-1202746825|title=Soon-Tek Oh, Voice of Mulan's Father and Asian-American Theater Pioneer, Dies at 85|first=Erin|last=Nyren|date=April 7, 2018|publisher=Penske Business Media, LLC.|journal=Variety|access-date=1 October 2018}}
  • Stuart Pottasch, American astronomer (b. 1932)
  • Johnny Valiant, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1946)
  • April 5
  • Tim O'Connor, American actor (b. 1927)
  • Frederick D. Reese, American civil rights activist, teacher, and minister (b. 1929)
  • Cecil Taylor, American pianist and poet (b. 1929)
  • April 6
  • Daniel Akaka, educator and politician (b. 1924)
  • Dorothy Garlock, American historical romance author (b. 1920)
  • Donald McKayle, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
  • April 7
  • Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis, American biologist (b. 1936)
  • Gerald Ayres, American studio executive and film producer (b. 1936)
  • Samuel B. McKinney, American civil rights activist and pastor (b. 1926)
  • April 8
  • Nathan Davis, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
  • Chuck McCann, American actor (b. 1934)
  • Joe McConnell, American sports announcer (b. 1939)
  • April 9
  • Barney A. Ebsworth, American business executive and art collector (b. 1934)
  • Jonathan M. Hess, American philologist (b. 1965)
  • Kimberly G. Smith, American biologist (b. 1948)
  • April 10
  • Yvonne Staples, American singer (b. 1937){{cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/yvonne-staples-of-the-staples-singers-dies-at-80/|title=Yvonne Staples of the Staple Singers dead at 80|website=Chicago Sun-Times|access-date=January 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411091445/https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/yvonne-staples-of-the-staples-singers-dies-at-80/|archive-date=April 11, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • Jean Marzollo, American children's author (b. 1943)
  • J. D. McClatchy, American poet (b. 1945)
  • Richard Muth, American economist, gallbladder cancer (b. 1928)
  • Alastair Rellie, British intelligence officer (b. 1935)
  • Matthew Stark, American civil rights activist (b. 1930)
  • April 11
  • Karen Dawisha, American political scientist and writer (b. 1950)
  • Patrick F. McManus, American writer (b. 1934)
  • Mauro Panaggio, American basketball coach (b. 1934)
  • Mitzi Shore, American comedy club owner (b. 1931)
  • Alexander Welsh, American literary scholar (b. 1934)
  • Kevin Wortman, American ice hockey player (b. 1969)
  • April 13
  • Art Bell, American broadcaster and author (b. 1945)
  • Miloš Forman, Czech and American film director (b. 1932)
  • William Nack, American journalist and author (b. 1941)
  • April 14
  • David Buckel, American LGBT rights lawyer (b. 1958)
  • Daedra Charles, American basketball player (b. 1969)
  • Hal Greer, American Hall of Fame basketball player (b. 1937)
  • Sam Hamill, American poet and publisher (b. 1944)
  • Michael D. Healy, American military officer (b. 1927)
  • Robert Holmes, American football player (b. 1946)
  • Gerald Nachman, American journalist and author (b. 1938)
  • Kirk Simon, American documentarian (b. 1955)
  • April 15 – R. Lee Ermey, American actor (b. 1944){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/r-lee-ermey-dead-golden-globe-nominee-full-metal-jacket-was-74-1102863/|title=R. Lee Ermey, Golden Globe Nominee for 'Full Metal Jacket,' Dies at 74|first1=Kimberly|last1=Nordyke|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=April 15, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • April 16 – Harry Anderson, American actor and magician (b. 1952){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harry-anderson-night-court-dead-at-65-1202754949/|title=Harry Anderson, 'Night Court' Star, Dies at 65|first1=Cynthia|last1=Littleton|date=April 16, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • April 17 – Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (b. 1925){{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43805365|title=Former US First Lady Barbara Bush dies at 92|publisher=BBC News|date=April 17, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • April 18 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American professional wrestler (b. 1935){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/sports/bruno-sammartino-pro-wrestlings-champ-for-a-decade-dies-at-82.html|title=Bruno Sammartino, Durable Champ in WWE Hall of Fame, Dies at 82|first=Robert D.|last=McFadden|work=The New York Times|date=April 18, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • April 19
  • Allan Campbell, American microbiologist (b. 1930)
  • John Duffie, American baseball player (b. 1946)
  • Walter Moody, American convicted murderer (b. 1935)
  • Gil Santos, American sportscaster (b. 1938)
  • April 20
  • George Alusik, American baseball player (b. 1935)
  • Earle Bruce, American football coach (b. 1931)
  • John Petercuskie, American football coach (b. 1925)
  • James F. Sirmons, American broadcasting executive (b. 1918)
  • Al Swift, American broadcaster and politician (b. 1936)
  • Charles Zwick, American civil servant (b. 1927)
  • April 21
  • Dee Hardison, American football player (b. 1957)
  • Robert Kates, American geographer (b. 1929)
  • Jim Miceli, American politician (b. 1935)
  • Verne Troyer, American actor (b. 1969){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/austin-powers-actor-verne-troyer-dies-at-49-1104777/|title='Austin Powers' Actor Verne Troyer Dies at 49|first1=Katie|last1=Kilkenny|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=April 21, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • April 22
  • Ken Hofmann, American businessman (b. 1923)
  • Richard Jenrette, American investor (b. 1929)
  • Dave Nelson, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1944)
  • Charlie Rice, American jazz drummer (b. 1920)
  • Kona Schwenke, American football player(b. 1993)
  • Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr., American politician (b. 1924)
  • April 23
  • Don Bustany, American radio and television broadcaster (b. 1929)
  • Bennie Cunningham, American football player (b. 1955)
  • Bob Dorough, American pianist, singer and composer (b. 1923){{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/bob-dorough-schoolhouse-rock-dies/|title=Bob Dorough, 'Schoolhouse Rock!' Performer and Writer, Dies at 94|date=April 23, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jerrold Meinwald, American chemist (b. 1927)
  • Alice Provensen, American children's illustrator and writer (b. 1919)
  • Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer (b. 1938)
  • Bob Schermerhorn, American college basketball coach (b. 1943)
  • Art Simmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1926)
  • Arthur R.G. Solmssen, American novelist (b. 1929)
  • Edward W. Tayler, American literary scholar (b. 1931)
  • Leland B. Yeager, American economist (b. 1925)
  • April 24
  • Marv Rackley, American baseball player (b. 1922)
  • Quentin Sickels, American football player (b. 1927)
  • Susan Williams, American marine biologist (b. 1952)
  • April 26 – Charles Neville, American R&B and jazz musician (b. 1938){{Cite web|url=https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/charles-neville-smiling-saxophonist-of-the-neville-brothers-dies-at-79/article_5d6d65bd-58f7-58ab-a2d0-6d594601ac5b.html|title=Charles Neville, smiling saxophonist of the Neville Brothers, dies at 79|first=Doug|last=MacCash|website=NOLA.com|date=April 26, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • April 27
  • Kristin Nelson, American actress, painter and author (b. 1945){{Cite web|url=https://people.com/tv/mark-harmon-sister-kristin-downfall-life-death/|title=Inside the Tragic Downfall of Kristin Harmon: Mark Harmon's Late Sister and Former Member of TV Royalty|website=Peoplemag|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Paul Junger Witt, American film and television producer (b. 1941){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/paul-junger-witt-dead-77-golden-girls-soap-benson-1202790552/|title='Golden Girls' Producer Paul Junger Witt Dies at 77|first1=Cynthia|last1=Littleton|date=April 27, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • April 28 – Larry Harvey, artist and philanthropist (b. 1948)
  • April 29 – Robert Mandan, American actor (b. 1932){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/robert-mandan-dead-actor-who-played-chester-tate-soap-was-86-1116697/|title=Robert Mandan, the Womanizing Chester Tate on 'Soap,' Dies at 86|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=June 3, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • April 30
  • Tim Calvert, American rock guitarist (b. 1966)
  • Joel Kovel, American environmentalist and anti-war activist (b. 1937)
  • Ralph Stephan, American rower (b. 1929)
  • David Wiegand, American journalist (b. 1948)

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  • May 1
  • Arthur Barnard, American sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1929)
  • Dennis Claridge, American football player (b. 1942)
  • Ninalee Craig, American-born Canadian teacher (b. 1928)
  • Carl W. Duckworth, American politician (b. 1955)
  • Raymond D. Dzendzel, American politician (b. 1922)
  • Phil Gowan, American historian (b. 1953)
  • Robert B. Kennedy, American politician (b. 1940)
  • Chuck Missler, American evangelist and author (b. 1935)
  • John "Jabo" Starks, American drummer (b. 1937){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/obituaries/jabo-starks-drummer-for-james-brown-dies-at-79.html|title=Jabo Starks, Drummer for James Brown, Dies at 79|first=Daniel E.|last=Slotnik|work=The New York Times|date=May 1, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Betty Workman, American politician (b. 1925)
  • May 2
  • Dick Edell, American lacrosse coach (b. 1944)
  • James Thorp, American electrical engineer (b. 1937)
  • Chris Walsh, American politician (b. 1952)
  • May 3
  • Jim Argue, American politician (b. 1952)
  • Davida Coady, American pediatrician (b. 1938)
  • Dan Grimm, American football player (b. 1941)
  • David Pines, American physicist (b. 1925)
  • Bob Prewitt, American college basketball coach (b. 1925)
  • Junior Rodriguez, American politician (b. 1936)
  • Joe Scannella, American football coach (b. 1929)
  • May 4
  • Steve Coy, British-English musician (Dead or Alive), (b. 1962){{cite web|url=http://burningtheground.net/2018/05/steve-coy-dead-or-alive-1962-2018/|title=Steve Coy (Dead Or Alive) 1962–2018|date=May 5, 2018|website=Burningtheground.net|access-date=May 8, 2018|archive-date=May 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180506035917/http://burningtheground.net/2018/05/steve-coy-dead-or-alive-1962-2018/|url-status=dead}}
  • Paul Bloodgood, American artist (b. 1960)
  • Edwin G. Burrows, American historian and professor (b. 1944)
  • Bobbie Louise Hawkins, American poet and author (b. 1931)
  • Larry Hunter, American college basketball coach (b. 1949)
  • May 5
  • Frederic H. Dustin, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1930)
  • Stanley Falkow, American microbiologist (b. 1934)
  • Wilson Frost, American politician (b. 1926)
  • Aaron D. Panken, American rabbi (b. 1965)
  • Dick Williams, American singer (b. 1926)
  • Roy Wright, American baseball player (b. 1934)
  • May 6
  • Sam Aanestad, American politician (b. 1947)
  • Raymond Book, American politician (b. 1925)
  • Dick Casull, American gunsmith (b. 1931)
  • Daniel Cohen, American writer (b. 1936)
  • Charles W. Steger, American academic (b. 1948)
  • Brad Steiger, American author and paranormal researcher (b. 1936)
  • Ray Szmanda, American radio personality (b. 1927)
  • May 7
  • Crosbie E. Saint, American military officer (b. 1937)
  • Gayle Shepherd, American singer (Shepherd Sisters), (b. 1936){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/obituaries/gayle-shepherd-of-the-singing-shepherd-sisters-dies-at-81.html|title=Gayle Shepherd of the Singing Shepherd Sisters Dies at 81|first=Daniel E.|last=Slotnik|work=The New York Times|date=May 8, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Scott Wilson, American bodybuilder (b. 1950)
  • May 8
  • Anne V. Coates, British film editor (b. 1925)
  • George Deukmejian, politician; Governor of California (1983–1991) (b. 1928)
  • May 9
  • Poldine Carlo, American writer (b. 1921)
  • Tom Dooley, American football referee (b. 1935)
  • Tom Fletcher, American baseball player (b. 1943)
  • Richard Haag, American landscape architect (b. 1924)
  • May 12
  • Billy Brewer, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
  • Nick Drahos, American football player (b. 1919)
  • Geoffrey Hendricks, American artist (b. 1932)
  • Chuck Knox, American football coach (b. 1932)
  • Donald Gary Young, American business executive (b. 1949)
  • May 13 – Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress and activist (b. 1948){{Cite web|url=https://www.tmz.com/2018/08/08/margot-kidder-death-suicide-overdose-drugs-alcohol/|title=Margot Kidder's Death Ruled Suicidal Overdose|website=TMZ|date=August 8, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • May 14 – Tom Wolfe, author and journalist (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/15/tom-wolfe-journalist-and-author-dies-aged-87|title=Tom Wolfe, journalist and author of Bonfire of the Vanities, dies aged 88|date=May 15, 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • May 15 – Joseph G. Clemons, American soldier (b. 1928)
  • May 16
  • Joseph Campanella, American actor (b. 1924){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/obituaries/joseph-campanella-93-ubiquitous-character-actor-dies.html|title=Joseph Campanella, 93, Ubiquitous Character Actor, Dies|first=Richard|last=Sandomir|work=The New York Times|date=May 17, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Hugh Dane, American actor (b. 1942){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/hugh-dane-dead-dies-the-office-security-guard-1202830131/|title=Hugh Dane, Hank the Security Guard on 'The Office,' Dies at 75|first1=Christi|last1=Carras|date=June 5, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • May 17
  • Skip Finn, American Ojibwe politician (b. 1949)
  • Craig Harbison, American art historian (b. 1944)
  • Lawrence Jegen, American legal scholar (b. 1935)
  • Anthony Michael Milone, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
  • Jon Sholle, American musician (b. 1948)
  • Tom Von Ruden, American athlete (b. 1945)
  • May 19 – Robert Indiana, American artist (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=https://www.phillyvoice.com/robert-indiana-artist-behind-phillys-iconic-love-sculpture-dies-89/|title=Robert Indiana, artist behind Philly's iconic LOVE sculpture, dies at 89|date=May 21, 2018|website=PhillyVoice|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • May 20
  • Richard N. Goodwin, American writer (b. 1931)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/richard-n-goodwin-supreme-generalist-who-was-top-aide-to-jfk-and-lbj-dies-at-86/2018/05/21/23b96a5e-59f8-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html Richard N. Goodwin, ‘supreme generalist’ who was top aide to JFK and LBJ, dies at 86]
  • Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/patricia-morison-dead-kiss-me-kate-star-was-103-783157/|title=Patricia Morison, Star of the Original 'Kiss Me, Kate,' Dies at 103|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=May 20, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • May 21
  • Dovey Johnson Roundtree, civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney (b. 1914){{cite news|last1=Fox|first1=Margalit|title=Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Barrier-Breaking Lawyer, Dies at 104|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/obituaries/dovey-johnson-roundtree-dead.html|work=The New York Times|date=May 21, 2018}}
  • Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1926)[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/allyn-ann-mclerie-dead-wheres-charley-they-shoot-horses-dont-they-actress-dies-at-91-1115247 Allyn Ann McLerie, Actress in 'Where's Charley?' and 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' Dies at 91]
  • Clint Walker, American actor (b. 1927){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/clint-walker-dead-cheyenne-star-722381/|title=Clint Walker, Star of 1950s TV Western 'Cheyenne,' Dies at 90|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=May 22, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • May 22 – Philip Roth, American writer (b. 1933){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/obituaries/philip-roth-dead.html|title=Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85|first=Charles|last=McGrath|work=The New York Times|date=May 23, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • May 24 – Jerry Maren, American actor (b. 1920){{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/06/06/jerry-maren-last-surviving-munchkin-wizard-oz-dies-98/677479002/|title=Jerry Maren, last surviving Munchkin from 'Wizard of Oz,' dies at 98|website=USA Today|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • May 25 – Bill Mallory, American football player and coach (Indiana Hoosiers, Miami RedHawks, Colorado Buffaloes), (b. 1935){{cite news|title=Bill Mallory, Coach Who Lifted Indiana Football, Is Dead at 82|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/obituaries/bill-mallory-coach-who-lifted-indiana-football-is-dead-at-82.html|work=The New York Times|date=May 25, 2018}}
  • May 26
  • Alan Bean, astronaut (b. 1932){{cite news|last1=Goldstein|first1=Richard|title=Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/obituaries/alan-bean-astronaut-dies.html|work=The New York Times|date=May 26, 2018}}
  • Ted Dabney, electrical engineer and co-founder of Atari, Inc (b. 1937){{cite web|last1=Good|first1=Owen S.|title=Ted Dabney, video gaming pioneer, dies at 80|url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/26/17398682/ted-dabney-atari-co-founder-obituary|website=Polygon|date=May 26, 2018}}
  • May 27
  • John DiFronzo, American mobster (b. 1929)
  • Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer and editor (b. 1948)
  • Connie Kurtz, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1937)
  • Russell Nype, American actor and singer (b. 1920)
  • Donald H. Peterson, American astronaut (b. 1933)
  • Russ Regan, American music business executive (b. 1929)
  • May 28
  • Rachel Rockwell, American actress and choreographer (b. 1969)
  • Chuck Stevens, American baseball player (b. 1919)
  • Dick Tuck, American political prankster (b. 1924)
  • Cliff Tucker, American basketball player (b. 1989)
  • Scott R. White, American materials scientist (b. 1963)
  • May 29
  • Ray Barker, American baseball player (b. 1936)
  • James Schaefer, American politician (b. 1939)
  • René Yañez, Mexican-born American artist (b. 1943)
  • May 30
  • Baruch Brody, American bioethicist (b. 1943)
  • Mel Weinberg, American con artist and police informant (b. 1925)
  • May 31
  • Ella Brennan, American restaurateur (b. 1926)
  • Steven Pitt, American forensic psychiatrist (b. 1959)
  • Joe E. White, American educator (b. 1938)

=June=

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  • June 1
  • Eddy Clearwater, American musician and singer (b. 1935){{cite web|url=https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/eddy-clearwater-dies-legendary-blues-musician-484351081.html/|title=Legendary Blues Musician Eddy Clearwater Dies at 83|access-date=January 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329074400/https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/eddy-clearwater-dies-legendary-blues-musician-484351081.html|archive-date=March 29, 2019|url-status=dead}}
  • Bob Clotworthy, American Hall of Fame diver (b. 1931)
  • Andrew Massey, British-born American conductor (b. 1946)
  • Sam Moore, American Bible publisher (b. 1929)
  • William Edward Phipps, American actor (b. 1922)
  • Rockin' Rebel, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
  • Fred Van Dusen, American baseball player (b. 1937)
  • June 2
  • Mary Baumgartner, American baseball player (b. 1930)
  • Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist (b. 1918){{Cite web|url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-memoriam:-paul-boyer-99-nobel-laureate-in-chemistry|title=In memoriam: Paul Boyer, 99, Nobel laureate in chemistry|website=UCLA|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Bruce Kison, American baseball player (b. 1950)
  • Nick Meglin, American magazine editor (b. 1935)
  • Irving Sandler, American art critic (b. 1925)
  • William Simmons, American anthropologist (b. 1938)
  • C. C. Torbert Jr., American jurist (b. 1929)
  • Bernard E. Trainor, American journalist and Marine Corps general (b. 1928)
  • June 3
  • Clarence Fountain, American singer, founder of The Blind Boys of Alabama (b. 1929)
  • Frank Carlucci, American politician (b. 1930)
  • Jerry Hopkins, American journalist (b. 1936)
  • Johnnie Keyes, American pornographic actor (b. 1940)
  • Kent McCray, American television producer (b. 1929)
  • June 4
  • Dwight Clark, American football player (b. 1957){{Cite web|url=https://abc7news.com/dwight-clark-dies-dead-49ers-als/3561108/|title=49ers great Dwight Clark dies at 61 after battle with ALS|website=ABC7 San Francisco|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jeffrey Coy, American politician (b. 1951)
  • Norman Edge, American jazz double-bassist (b. 1934)
  • Mary Jane Fonder, 75, American convicted murderer (b. 1942)
  • Georgann Johnson, American actress (b. 1926)
  • Steve Kline, American baseball player (b. 1947)
  • C. M. Newton, American college basketball coach and administrator (b. 1930)
  • Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, American poet and musician (b. 1944)
  • June 5 – Kate Spade, fashion designer (b. 1962){{cite web|title=Kate Spade Dead at 55 Suicide by Hanging ... Coroner Removes Body|url=https://www.tmz.com/2018/06/05/kate-spade-dead-dies|website=TMZ|date=June 5, 2018}}
  • June 8 – Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, author and television personality (b. 1956).{{cite news|title=Anthony Bourdain: Celebrity chef dies in apparent suicide aged 61|url=https://news.sky.com/story/celebrity-chef-anthony-bourdain-dies-aged-61-cnn-11398499|publisher=Sky News|date=June 8, 2018}}
  • June 9
  • Joan Bernard Armstrong, American judge (b. 1941)
  • Richard H. Bube, American physicist (b. 1928)
  • Kristine Ciesinski, American opera singer (b. 1953)
  • Murray Fromson, American journalist and professor (b. 1930)
  • Crawford Gates, American composer and conductor (b. 1922)
  • Lorraine Gordon, American jazz club owner (b. 1923)
  • John Wesley Hanes III, American civil servant (b. 1925)
  • Kenyatta Jones, American football player (b. 1979)
  • Clemens Kalischer, American photojournalist (b. 1921)
  • June 10
  • Neal E. Boyd, American Opera singer and winner of "America's Got Talent" (b. 1975){{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/06/neal-e-boyd-dies-americas-got-talent-winner-1202407838/|title=Neal E. Boyd Dies: Former "America's Got Talent" Winner Was 42|first1=Patrick|last1=Hipes|date=June 11, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Dorothy Cotton, American civil rights activist (b. 1930){{Cite web|url=https://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2018/06/11/dorothy-cotton-civil-rights-leader-dies-ithaca/689890002/|title=Civil-rights icon Dorothy Cotton, 88, remembered as 'regal giant of social justice'|first=Matt|last=Steecker|website=The Ithaca Journal|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Harold L. Dibble, American archaeologist (b. 1952)
  • James Gips, American technologist (b. 1946)
  • Tom McEwen, American drag racer (b. 1937)
  • Edward Sadlowski, American labor activist (b. 1939)
  • Christopher Stasheff, American author (b. 1944)
  • June 11
  • Wayne Dockery, American jazz double bassist (b. 1942)
  • Larry Thomas, American political advisor (b. 1948)
  • June 12
  • Robert Alan Browne, American actor (b. 1932)
  • Keith Fahnhorst, American football player (b. 1952)
  • Jack Laxer, American photographer (b. 1927)
  • Al Meltzer, American sportscaster (b. 1929)
  • June 13
  • Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1962)
  • D. J. Fontana, American musician (b. 1931){{Cite web|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/06/14/elvis-presley-drummer-d-j-fontana-dies-87-jailhouse-rock-heartbreak-hotel/700860002/|title=D.J. Fontana, Elvis Presley's drummer, dead at 87|first=Juli|last=Thanki|website=The Tennessean|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Tom Gear, American politician (b. 1949)
  • J. Alex Haller, American pediatric surgeon (b. 1927)
  • Ronald I. Meshbesher, American lawyer (b. 1933)
  • Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (b. 1933)
  • June 14
  • Ed Roebuck, American baseball player (b. 1932)
  • Mary K. Shell, American journalist and politician (b. 1927)
  • Marta Weigle, American folklorist and anthropologist (b. 1944)
  • June 15 – Matt "Guitar" Murphy, American blues guitarist (b. 1929)[https://deadline.com/2018/06/matt-guitar-murphy-dies-blues-brothers-guitarist-and-noted-sideman-was-88-1202411826/ Matt "Guitar" Murphy Dies: Blues Brothers Guitarist And Noted Sideman Was 88]
  • June 16 – Martin Bregman, American film producer (b. 1926)
  • June 17
  • Elizabeth Brackett, American television journalist (b. 1942)
  • O. Timothy O'Meara, American mathematician (b. 1928)
  • Rebecca Parris, American jazz singer (b. 1952)
  • Aihud Pevsner, American physicist (b. 1926)
  • Dutch Rennert, American baseball umpire (b. 1930)
  • Stephen E. Robinson, American religious scholar (b. 1948)
  • June 18
  • Walter Bahr, American Hall of Fame soccer player (b. 1927)
  • Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler and football player (b. 1955){{Cite web|url=https://canoe.com/category/sports/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206141403/http://canoe.com/category/sports|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 6, 2017|title=Canoe.Com|website=canoe|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Billy Connors, American baseball player (b. 1941)
  • Barry McDaniel, American opera singer (b. 1930)
  • Claude Ramsey, American politician (b. 1943)
  • Billy Sammeth, American talent manager (b. 1951)
  • Lawrence A. Skantze, 89, American military officer (b. 1928)
  • Jimmy Wopo, 21, American rapper (b. 1997)
  • XXXTentacion, rapper, singer and songwriter, gunshot wound (b. 1998){{cite news|title=XXXTentacion: Controversial rapper shot dead in Florida aged 20|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44529367|publisher=BBC News|date=June 19, 2018}}
  • June 19
  • Hubert Green, American Hall of Fame golfer (b. 1947)
  • Stefan Kanfer, American journalist (b. 1933)
  • Bill Kenville, American basketball player (b. 1931)
  • Chuck Klingbeil, American football player (b. 1966)
  • Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1971){{cite news|title=Koko: Gorilla who mastered sign language dies in California|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44559261|publisher=BBC News|date=June 21, 2018}}
  • Don Mason, American baseball player (b. 1945)
  • Ian Orme, British-American microbiologist (b. 1953)
  • Jane Cronin Scanlon, American mathematician (b. 1923)
  • Lowrell Simon, American soul singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
  • Jack Stallings, American baseball coach (b. 1931)
  • Antwon Rose Jr., African-American man shot and killed by white police officer Michael Rosfeld in Pittsburgh (b. 2000)
  • June 20
  • David Bianco, American record producer, engineer and mixer (b. 1954)
  • Dick Danehe, American football player (b. 1921)
  • Brian Donovan, American journalist (b. 1941)
  • Robert Gilpin, American political scientist (b. 1931)
  • Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, murder victim (b. 2002)
  • Bill Hendon, American politician (b. 1945)
  • Willie Lee Rose, American historian (b. 1927)
  • John Ward, sportscaster (Vol Network) (b. 1930){{cite web|title=Former 'Voice of the Vols' John Ward dies|work=WKRN News 2 |url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/former-voice-of-the-vols-john-ward-dies/1252428839|publisher=WKRN|date=June 20, 2018}}
  • June 21
  • William Acker, American judge (b. 1928)
  • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., American philosopher (b. 1941)
  • Charles Krauthammer, columnist and political commentator (b. 1950)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-krauthammer-pulitzer-prize-winning-columnist-and-intellectual-provocateur-dies-at-68/2018/06/21/b71ee41a-759e-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and intellectual provocateur, dies at 68]
  • George Lindemann, American businessman (b. 1937)
  • John Mack, American civic leader (b. 1937)
  • Bill Thompson, American politician (b. 1937)
  • June 22
  • Deanna Lund, American actress (b. 1937){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/deanna-lund-dead-land-giants-actress-was-81-1122920/|title=Deanna Lund, Actress on 'Land of the Giants,' Dies at 81|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=June 25, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Vinnie Paul, American drummer (b. 1964){{Cite web|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/entertainment-columns/kats/former-pantera-drummer-vinnie-paul-dies-in-las-vegas-at-54/|title=Former Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul dies in Las Vegas at 54|date=June 23, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • June 23
  • Fred Chalenor, American bassist (b. 1956)
  • Donald Hall, American poet (b. 1929)
  • June 24 – Stanley Anderson, American actor (b. 1939){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stanley-anderson-spider-man-seinfeld-actor-dies-at-78-1123838/|title=Stanley Anderson, 'Spider-Man' and 'Seinfeld' Actor, Dies at 78|first1=Ryan|last1=Parker|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=June 28, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • June 25 – Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television personality (b. 1941){{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/richard-old-man-harrison-of-pawn-stars-dead-at-77|title=Richard 'Old Man' Harrison of 'Pawn Stars' dead at 77|first=Sasha|last=Savitsky|date=June 25, 2018|publisher=Fox News|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • June 27 – Joe Jackson, American talent manager (b. 1928){{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/27/michael-jacksons-father-joe-jackson-dies-aged-89-following-cancer-battle-7653062/|title=Joe Jackson dies aged 89 following cancer battle|date=June 27, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • June 28 – Harlan Ellison, American writer (b. 1934){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/obituaries/harlan-ellison-intensely-prolific-science-fiction-writer-dies-at-84.html|title=Harlan Ellison Dies at 84; Prolific, Irascible (Science) Fiction Writer|first=Richard|last=Sandomir|work=The New York Times|date=June 29, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • June 29
  • Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler (b. 1979)
  • Bill Hamel, American composer and record producer (b. 1973)
  • Derrick O'Connor, Irish actor (b. 1941){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/derrick-oconnor-dead-lethal-weapon-2-villain-actor-terry-gilliam-films-was-77-1124791/|title=Derrick O'Connor, Villain in 'Lethal Weapon 2,' Dies at 77|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 3, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Eugene Pitt, American singer (b. 1938)
  • Steve Ditko, comics artist and writer (Marvel Comics) (b. 1927){{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-ditko-dead-today-spider-man-co-creator-2018-07-06/|title=Steve Ditko, artist who co-created Spider-Man, dead at 90|publisher=CBS News|date=July 6, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • June 30
  • John E. Casida, American entomologist and toxicologist (b. 1930)
  • Mike Heideman, American basketball coach (b. 1948)
  • Billy Kinard, American football player (b. 1934)
  • Timothy Murphy, American poet (b. 1951)

=July=

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= August =

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  • August 1
  • Mary Carlisle, American actress (b. 1914)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mary-carlisle-a-perpetual-ingenue-in-dozens-of-1930s-films-dies-at-104/2018/08/01/6c875ea6-95b9-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html Mary Carlisle, a perpetual ingenue in dozens of 1930s films, dies at 104]
  • David I. Cleland, American engineer and writer (b. 1926)
  • Fakir Musafar, American performance artist (b. 1930)
  • Nancy Tuckerman, American secretary (b. 1929)
  • Rolf Valtin, American soccer player (b. 1925)
  • Taylor Whitley, American football player (b. 1979)
  • August 2
  • Neil Argo, American composer (b. 1947)
  • Bill Wattenburg, American engineer, author, and radio talk show host (b. 1936)
  • August 3 – Joseph C. Burke, American educator and academic (b. 1932)
  • August 4 – Lorrie Collins, American country singer (b. 1942){{Cite web|url=https://bestclassicbands.com/lorrie-collins-obituary-8-5-188/|title=Lorrie Collins, Rockabilly Singer (Collins Kids), Dies at 76|website=Best Classic Bands|date=June 13, 2015|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • August 5 – Charlotte Rae, American actress (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/08/charlotte-rae-dies-house-mother-on-the-facts-of-life-was-92-1202440561/|title=Charlotte Rae Dies: House Mother On 'The Facts of Life' Was 92|first1=Bruce|last1=Haring|date=August 6, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • August 6
  • Patricia Benoit, television actress and film director, (b. 1927){{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/patricia-benoit-dead-wally-cox-sweetheart-mister-peepers-was-91-1134164|title=Patricia Benoit, Wally Cox's Sweetheart on 'Mister Peepers,' Dies at 91|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=August 13, 2018}}
  • Margaret Heckler, American politician and diplomat (b. 1931)
  • Paul Laxalt, American politician (b. 1922)
  • Leonard Lewinsohn, American Islamic scholar (b. 1953)
  • Robert A. Plane, American chemist, vintner and academic administrator (b. 1928)
  • William E. Schluter, American politician (b. 1928)
  • Anya Krugovoy Silver, American poet (b. 1969)
  • August 7
  • Andrew Coburn, American author (b. 1932)
  • Arvonne Fraser, American women's rights activist (b. 1926)
  • Richard H. Kline, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
  • Stan Mikita, Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1940)
  • Joel H. Silbey, American historian (b. 1934)
  • Gerald Weinberg, American computer scientist (b. 1934)
  • Robley Wilson, American writer (b. 1930)
  • August 8
  • Katie Cannon, American theologian (b. 1950)
  • Wendell Erickson, American politician (b. 1925)
  • Robert Hugh Ferrell, American historian and author (b. 1921)
  • John Glines, American theatre producer (b. 1933)
  • Richard Sipe, American sociologist (b. 1932)
  • August 9
  • Donald F. Holcomb, American physicist (b. 1926)
  • Billy Ray Irick, American convicted murderer (b. 1959)
  • John Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1941)
  • Carol Springer, American politician (b. 1937)
  • August 10
  • Peter Berck, American economist (b. 1950)
  • William Corbett, American poet (b. 1943)
  • Dawn Mabalon, American academic (b. 1973)
  • Katherine Nelson, American psychologist (b. 1930)
  • A. R. Schwartz, American politician (b. 1926)
  • August 11
  • Terry A. Davis, American computer programmer (b. 1969){{Cite web|url=http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2018/sep/07/man-killed-train-had-tech-following/|title=Man killed by train had tech following|access-date=January 19, 2019|archive-date=October 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018005118/http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2018/sep/07/man-killed-train-had-tech-following/|url-status=dead}}{{subscription required}}
  • Morris G. Hallock, American politician (b. 1926)
  • Stanley Keleman, American writer and chiropractor (b. 1932)
  • Manch Wheeler, American football player (b. 1939)
  • August 12
  • Richard Lloyd Anderson, American historian (b. 1926)
  • Thomas J. Moran, American executive and humanitarian (b. 1953)
  • Steven T. Ross, American military historian (b. 1937)
  • August 13
  • Mark Baker, 71, American actor (b. 1947)
  • John Carter, American film editor (b. 1922){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/john-carter-dead-pioneering-african-american-film-editor-was-95-1137275/|title=John Carter, Pioneering African-American Film Editor, Dies at 95|first1=Rhett|last1=Bartlett|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 24, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Don Garrison, American politician (b. 1925)
  • Powell A. Moore, American government official (b. 1938)
  • Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
  • August 14
  • Charles Victor Grahmann, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
  • Mela Hudson, American actress (b. 1987)
  • Jill Janus, American rock singer (Huntress) (b. 1976)
  • August 15
  • Kenneth Bowles, American computer scientist (b. 1929)
  • Robert Everett, American computer scientist (b. 1921)
  • Sterling Stuckey, American historian (b. 1932)
  • August 16
  • Glen Chin, Chinese-American actor (b. 1948){{Cite web|url=https://www.cherokeememorial.com/services-obituaries/2018/8/23/glen-chin|title=Glen Chin|website=Cherokee Memorial Park & Funeral Home|date=August 16, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Aretha Franklin, R&B singer and songwriter (b. 1942){{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45169609|title=Aretha Franklin, 'Queen of Soul', dies aged 76|publisher=BBC News|date=August 16, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • August 17
  • Bob Bass, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1929)
  • Leonard Boswell, American politician (b. 1934)
  • Linton Freeman, American sociologist (b. 1927)
  • Bunky Henry, American golfer (b. 1944)
  • Charles D. Lancaster Jr., American politician (b. 1944)
  • David McReynolds, American pacifist and magazine editor (b. 1930)
  • Paul Naumoff, American football player (b. 1945)
  • Danny Pearson, American R&B singer (b. 1953)
  • Kurt Walker, American ice hockey player (b. 1954)
  • August 18
  • Tom Clark, American poet and biographer (b. 1941)
  • Jack Costanzo, American percussionist (b. 1920)
  • Costas Kondylis, American architect (b. 1940)
  • John E. McCarthy, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
  • Robert Todd, American filmmaker (b. 1963)
  • August 19
  • Vaughn Beals, American businessman (b. 1928)
  • Louis Gambaccini, American civil servant, commissioner, founding chairman of NJ Transit (b. 1931)
  • Darrow Hooper, American shot-putter (b. 1932)
  • Joe Landrum, American baseball player (b. 1929)
  • Rod Saddler, American football player (b. 1966)
  • August 20
  • Brian Murray, South African actor and director (b. 1937)
  • Eddie Willis, American musician (b. 1936){{Cite web|url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2018/08/20/eddie-willis-dead-funk-brothers/1044428002/|title=Motown's Eddie Willis, one of last remaining Funk Brothers, dies at 82|first=Brian|last=McCollum|website=Detroit Free Press|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • August 21 – Barbara Harris, American actress (b. 1935){{cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/barbara-harris-dies-second-city-actress-freaky-friday-nashville/|title=Actress Barbara Harris dies; Second City alum became toast of Broadway, movies|access-date=January 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821221225/https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/barbara-harris-dies-second-city-actress-freaky-friday-nashville/|archive-date=August 21, 2018|url-status=dead}}
  • August 22 – Ed King, American musician (b. 1949)[https://eu.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/08/23/former-lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-ed-king-dead-68/1072400002/ Former Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King dead at 68]
  • August 24 – Robin Leach, English television personality (b. 1941)[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-leach-dead-lifestyles-rich-famous-host-dies-1137244 Robin Leach, 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' Host, Dies at 76]
  • August 25
  • John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona, Republican presidential nominee (2008) (b. 1936){{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sen-john-mccain-independent-voice-gop-establishment-dies-81-n790971|title=Sen. John McCain, independent voice of the GOP establishment, dies at 81|publisher=NBC News|access-date=August 25, 2018}}
  • Kyle Pavone, American metalcore singer, co-frontman for We Came as Romans (b. 1990){{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/we-came-as-romans-singer-kyle-pavone-dead-at-28|publisher=Fox News|title='We Came As Romans' singer Kyle Pavone dead at 28|author=Nicole Darras|date=August 25, 2018}}
  • August 26 – Neil Simon, American playwright (b. 1927){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/obituaries/neil-simon-dead.html|title=Neil Simon, Broadway Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 91|first=Charles|last=Isherwood|work=The New York Times|date=August 26, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • August 27
  • Dale M. Cochran, American politician (b. 1929)
  • Henry McNamara, American politician (b. 1935)
  • Bobby Walden, American football player (b. 1938)
  • Fredd Wayne, American actor (b. 1925)
  • August 29
  • Samuel Conti, American judge (b. 1922)
  • Gary Friedrich, American comic book writer (b. 1943)
  • Joseph P. Graw, American politician (b. 1915)
  • Marie Severin, American comics artist and colorist (b. 1929)
  • Paul Spudis, American geologist and planetary scientist (b. 1952)
  • David Sugarbaker, American physician (b. 1953)
  • Paul Taylor, American choreographer (b. 1930)
  • August 30
  • Peter Frame, American ballet dancer (b. 1957)
  • Ray Kubala, American football player (b. 1943)
  • Vanessa Marquez, American actress (b. 1968){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/er-actress-vanessa-marquez-shot-killed-by-la-authorities-1138965/|title='ER' Actress Vanessa Marquez Shot and Killed By L.A. Authorities|first1=Ryan|last1=Parker|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 31, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • August 31
  • Susan Brown, American actress (b. 1932){{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/09/susan-brown-dead-general-hospital-gail-adamson-baldwin-1202455963/|title=Susan Brown Dies: Emmy Nominated 'General Hospital' Actress Was 86|first1=Dino-Ray|last1=Ramos|date=September 1, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (b. 1926){{Cite web|url=https://extratv.com/2018/09/03/gloria-jean-30s-and-40s-singer-and-actress-dead-at-92/|title=Gloria Jean, '30s and '40s Singer and Actress, Dead at 92|website=Extra|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Carole Shelley, English actress (b. 1939){{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-award-award-winner-carole-shelley-dies-at-79|title=Tony Award Award Winner Carole Shelley Dies at 79 | Playbill|access-date=November 24, 2022}}

= September =

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  • September 1
  • Irving Petlin, artist, liver cancer (b. 1934){{cite news|last1=Sandomir|first1=Richard|title=Irvin Petlin, Artist Who Recorded Injustice, Dies at 83|work=The New York Times|date=September 7, 2018}}
  • Randy Weston, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1926){{cite news|last1=Russonello|first1=Giovanni|title=Randy Weston, Pianist Who Traced Roots of Jazz to Africa, Dies at 92|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/randy-weston-dead.html|work=The New York Times|date=September 1, 2018}}
  • September 2
  • Claire Wineland, cystic fibrosis assistance advocate, stroke (b. 1997){{cite news|last1=Ravitz|first1=Jessica|title=Claire Wineland, inspirational speaker and social media star, dies one week after lung transplant|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/03/health/claire-wineland-obit/index.html|publisher=CNN|date=September 4, 2018}}
  • Fred Zamberletti, athletic trainer (Minnesota Vikings) (b. 1932){{cite web|title=Minnesota Vikings Statement on Fred Zamberletti|url=https://www.vikings.com/news/minnesota-vikings-statements-on-fred-zamberletti|website=Vikings|date=September 2, 2018}}
  • September 3
  • Lydia Clarke, actress (The Atomic City) and photographer, complications from pneumonia (b. 1923){{cite web|last1=Barnes|first1=Mike|title=Lydia Clarke Heston, Actress and Wife of Charlton Heston, Dies at 95|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lydia-clarke-heston-dead-actress-wife-charlton-heston-was-95-1140095|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=September 5, 2018}}
  • Thomas Rickman, screenwriter (Coal Miner's Daughter, Hooper, Truman), cancer (b. 1940){{cite web|last1=Shanley|first1=Patrick|title=Tom Rickman, Screenwriter on 'Hooper' and 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' Dies at 78|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-rickman-dead-screenwriter-hooper-coal-miners-daughter-was-78-1140204|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=September 5, 2018}}
  • September 4
  • Bill Daily, American actor (b. 1927)
  • Christopher Lawford, American actor, author and activist (b. 1955)
  • September 5
  • Minor J. Coon, American biochemist (b. 1921)
  • Erik Hauri, American geochemist (b. 1966)
  • Arthur Lawrence Hellyer Jr., American radio and television broadcaster (b. 1923)
  • Mike Hogewood, American sportscaster and professional wrestling commentator (b. 1955)
  • Dick Lane, American baseball player (b. 1927)
  • Madeleine Yayodele Nelson, American musician (b. 1949)
  • Vince Phason, American football player (b. 1953)
  • Rudolph Edward Torrini, American sculptor (b. 1923)
  • September 6
  • Richard DeVos, salesman and billionaire, co-founder of Amway, complications from infection (b. 1926){{cite news|last1=Schneider|first1=Keith|title=Richard M. DeVos, Amway Co-Founder and G.O.P. Stalwart, Dies at 92|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/obituaries/richard-devos-dead-amway.html|work=The New York Times|date=September 6, 2018}}
  • Botham Jean, murder victim (b. 1991)
  • Burt Reynolds, actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Boogie Nights, Deliverance), Emmy winner (1991), heart attack (b. 1936){{cite news|title=Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds dies from heart attack aged 82|url=https://news.sky.com/story/burt-reynolds-dies-at-82-us-media-reports-11492048|publisher=Sky News|date=September 7, 2018}}
  • September 7
  • Samuel Bodman, politician (b. 1938)
  • Mac Miller, rapper, singer and producer, drug overdose (b. 1992){{cite news|title=Mac Miller: Stars pay tribute to US rapper 'found dead' aged 26|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45459887|publisher=BBC News|date=September 8, 2018}}
  • September 8 – Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (b. 1973)
  • September 9
  • Frank Davis, American politician (b. 1936)
  • Adrian C. Louis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1946)
  • Paul Stuffel, American baseball player (b. 1927)
  • Wallace Tripp, American illustrator (b. 1940)
  • September 10
  • Chris Buttars, American politician (b. 1942)
  • Adam Clymer, American journalist (b. 1937)
  • Warrington Colescott, American artist (b. 1921)
  • Peter Donat, Canadian-American actor (b. 1928)
  • Albin F. Irzyk, American military officer (b. 1917)
  • Roy Wagner, American anthropologist (b. 1939)
  • September 11
  • Richard Newbold Adams, American anthropologist (b. 1924)
  • Peter J. Barnes Jr., American politician (b. 1929)
  • Thomas Aquinas Higgins, American judge (b. 1932)
  • Jim Houston, American football player (b. 1938)
  • Siegfried Linkwitz, American audio engineer (b. 1936)
  • Don Newman, American basketball coach and football player (b. 1958)
  • Don Panoz, American executive (b. 1935)
  • September 13 – Marin Mazzie, American actress and singer (b. 1960)
  • September 14
  • Alan Abel, American prankster and writer (b. 1924)
  • Max Bennett, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
  • Beverly Bentley, American actress (b. 1930)
  • Phil Clark, American baseball player (b. 1932)
  • September 16
  • Big Jay McNeely, American rhythm and blues saxophonist (b. 1927)
  • Frank Parker, American actor (b. 1939)
  • September 17
  • Annette Michelson, American film and art critic (b. 1923)
  • Daniel N. Robinson, American philosopher (b. 1937)
  • September 18
  • David DiChiera, American composer and founding general director of Michigan Opera Theatre (b. 1935)
  • Richard M. Pollack, American mathematician (b. 1935)
  • Robert Venturi, American architect (b. 1925)
  • September 19 – Arthur Mitchell, American ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1934)
  • September 20
  • K-Run's Park Me in First, American beagle show dog (b. 2005){{Cite news|url=https://www.pressherald.com/2018/09/21/westminsters-top-dog-uno-the-beagle-dies/|title=Westminster's top dog Uno the beagle dies|first=Ben|last=Walker|agency=Associated Press|date=September 22, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Lou Karras, American football player (b. 1927)
  • Laurie Mitchell, American actress (b. 1928)
  • William Ward, American astronomer (b. 1944)
  • Henry Wessel Jr., American photographer (b. 1942)
  • September 21
  • Katherine Hoover, American composer and flutist (b. 1938)
  • David Laro, American judge (b. 1942)
  • Howard Michaels, American businessman (b. 1956)
  • Lee Stange, American baseball player (b. 1937)
  • September 23
  • Jane Fortune, American author, journalist and historian (b. 1942)
  • Gary Kurtz, American film producer (b. 1940)
  • Mark Livolsi, American film editor (b. 1962)
  • John Anthony Nevin, American psychologist (b. 1933)
  • David Wolkowsky, American property developer (b. 1919)
  • September 24
  • Norm Breyfogle, American comic book artist (b. 1960)
  • Arnold Krammer, American historian (b. 1941)
  • Tommy McDonald, American football player (b. 1934){{Cite web|url=https://www.profootballhof.com/news/2018/09/tommy-mcdonald-1934-2018|title=Tommy McDonald, 1934-2018 | Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site|website=pfhof|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Michael O'Gorman, American coxswain (b. 1965)
  • September 25
  • Charles Berger, American communication theorist (b. 1939)
  • Marie Colton, American politician (b. 1923)
  • Jack McKinney, American basketball coach (b. 1935)
  • Ronnie Shelton, American convicted serial rapist (b. 1961)
  • Jerry Thorpe, American director and producer (b. 1926)
  • September 27 – Marty Balin, American singer and musician (b. 1942)
  • September 29 – Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1934)
  • September 30
  • Michael J. Bennane, American politician (b. 1945)
  • Walter Laqueur, German-born American historian and journalist (b. 1921)
  • John J. McDermott, American philosopher (b. 1932)
  • Robert M. O'Neil, American educator (b. 1935)
  • William Proffit, American orthodontist (b. 1936)

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= November=

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  • November 1
  • Terry Musser, American politician (b. 1948)
  • Dave Pickerell, American distiller (b. 1956)
  • Ken Swofford, American actor (b. 1933)
  • Edmund Zagorski, American convicted double murderer (b. 1954)
  • Paul Zimmerman, American sportswriter (b. 1932)
  • November 2
  • Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1969)
  • Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman and racer (b. 1946)
  • November 3
  • Joe Clayton, American business executive (b. 1949)
  • Eddie Foy III, American casting director (b. 1935)
  • Mari Hulman George, chairperson of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (b. 1934)
  • Sondra Locke, American actress (b. 1944)
  • John Marttila, American political strategist (b. 1940)
  • Ramona Ripston, American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
  • Eric Schiller, American chess player and author (b. 1955)
  • Brent R. Taylor, American military officer (b. 1979)
  • J. Willard Thompson, American racehorse trainer (b. 1935)
  • November 4
  • Donna Axum, American model and beauty pageant winner (b. 1942)
  • Bill Brown, American football player (b. 1938)
  • Jack Gargan, American politician (b. 1930)
  • Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, American Zen Buddhist monk (b. 2939)
  • Katherine Herring, American baseball player (b. 1933)
  • Harris Hines, American judge (b. 1950)
  • Vince Manuwai, American football player (b. 1980)
  • Grant R. Osborne, American theologian (b. 1942)
  • Mike Parker, American news reporter (b. 1943)
  • Douglas Turner, American Olympic rower (b. 1932)
  • November 5
  • Keith Christiansen, Canadian-born American ice hockey player (b. 1944)
  • Rick Reinert, American animator (b. 1925)
  • Hugh Wilson, American botanist (b. 1943)
  • November 6
  • Frances M. López-Morillas, American translator of Spanish literature (b. 1918)
  • Hartman Rector Jr., American general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1924)
  • Robert Stinnett, American sailor, photographer and author (b. 1924)
  • November 7
  • Robert Anthony Brucato, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
  • Walt Kowalczyk, American football player (b. 1935)
  • Bob Patterson, American college basketball player (b. 1932)
  • November 8
  • Bonnie Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1935)
  • Bill Godbout, American computer scientist (b. 1939)
  • Chin Yang Lee, Chinese-born American author (b. 1916)
  • Riccardo Levi-Setti, Italian-born American physicist and professor (b. 1927)
  • Ron Negray, American baseball player (b. 1930)
  • Raymond Plank, American businessman (b. 1922)
  • Wallace Triplett, American football player (b. 1926)
  • Marvin Zuckerman, American psychologist (b. 1928)
  • November 9
  • Dorothy Cheney, American scientist (b. 1950)
  • Richard Paul Conaboy, American judge (b. 1925)
  • James Greene, American actor (b. 1927)
  • Ken Howell, American baseball player (b. 1961)
  • Roger W. Hunt, American politician (b. 1938)
  • Barre Toelken, American folklorist (b. 1935)
  • November 10
  • Ron Johnson, American football player (b. 1947)
  • Herbert London, American political activist and commentator (b. 1939)
  • Liz J. Patterson, American politician (b. 1940)
  • John Rogers, Canadian-born American businessman (b. 1961)
  • November 11
  • Dominic Carmon, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
  • Jerry Gant, American visual artist and poet (b. 1962)
  • Shakti Gawain, American author (b. 1948)
  • Wayne Maunder, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1938)
  • Donald McCaig, American writer (b. 1940)
  • Frankie Schneider, American racing driver (b. 1926)
  • November 12
  • Stan Lee, comics artist and writer (Marvel Comics) (b. 1922){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/stan-lee-dead.html|title=Stan Lee dead at 95|work=The New York Times|last=Candell|first=Jonathan|date=November 12, 2018}}
  • David Pearson, American race car driver (b. 1934){{Cite web|url=https://newsok.com/article/feed/7142093/david-pearson-nascars-silver-fox-has-died-at-83|title=David Pearson, NASCAR's Silver Fox, has died at 83|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • November 13 – Katherine MacGregor, American actress (b. 1925){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/katherine-macgregor-dead-harriet-oleson-little-house-prairie-was-93-1161142/|title=Katherine MacGregor, the Meddlesome Harriet Oleson on 'Little House on the Prairie,' Dies at 93|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 14, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • November 15
  • John Allen Chau, American missionary (b. 1991)
  • Roy Clark, American country singer (b. 1933)[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roy-clark-dead-country-star-hee-haw-host-was-85-1161612 Country Star Roy Clark Dies at 85]
  • November 16
  • William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1931){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/william-goldman-dead-dies-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-1203030474/|title=William Goldman, Oscar-Winning Writer of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' Dies at 87|first1=Richard Natale,Brent|last1=Lang|first2=Richard|last2=Natale|first3=Brent|last3=Lang|date=November 16, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Jane Maas, American advertising executive and author (b. 1932){{cite news|last1=Roberts|first1=Sam|title=Jane Maas, a Pioneer for Women in Advertising, Dies at 86|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/obituaries/jane-maas-dead.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=July 8, 2019|date=November 21, 2018}}
  • November 17
  • Les Beasley, American southern gospel singer (b. 1928)
  • Gene Berce, American basketball player (b. 1927)
  • Kayo Dottley, American football player (b. 1928)
  • Jerry Frankel, American theater and film producer (b. 1930)
  • Cyril Pahinui, American slack-key guitarist and singer (b. 1950)
  • Mary Kay Stearns, American actress (b. 1925)
  • November 18
  • Ethel Ayler, American actress (b. 1930)
  • Eddie Reeves, American songwriter (b. 1939)
  • November 19
  • Larry Pierce, American country singer and comedian (b. 1950)
  • Shiao Yi, Taiwanese-American wuxia novelist (b. 1935)
  • November 20
  • James H. Billington, American academic (b. 1929)
  • Eddie C. Campbell, American blues musician (b. 1939)
  • Mac Collins, American politician (b. 1944)
  • Henry Metzger, German-born American immunologist (b. 1932)
  • Wayne Stayskal, American cartoonist (b. 1932)
  • November 21
  • Michele Carey, American actress (b. 1943)
  • Angelica Cob-Baehler, American music industry executive (b. 1971)
  • Dean Gitter, American entrepreneur and real estate developer (b. 1935)
  • Olivia Hooker, American civil rights figure (b. 1915)
  • Jose Peralta, American politician (b. 1971)
  • Emma Walker, American high school student and murder victim (b. 2000)
  • November 22
  • Gerald Berenson, American cardiologist (b. 1922)
  • Willie Naulls, American basketball player (b. 1934){{Cite web|url=https://www.12up.com/posts/6231737-celtics-and-knicks-legend-willie-naulls-passes-away-at-84|title=Celtics and Knicks Legend Willie Naulls Passes Away at 84|date=November 25, 2018|website=12up.com|access-date=November 24, 2022|archive-date=November 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126051603/https://www.12up.com/posts/6231737-celtics-and-knicks-legend-willie-naulls-passes-away-at-84|url-status=dead}}
  • Albert Ritzenberg, American tennis player and coach (b. 1918)
  • November 23
  • Betty Bumpers, American childhood immunizations activist (b. 1925)
  • Bob McNair, 81 American businessman and sports club owner (b. 1937)
  • Shawn O'Hara, American politician (b. 1958)
  • November 24 – Ricky Jay, American magician and actor (b. 1946){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ricky-jay-dead-dies-magician-boogie-nights-1203035879/|title=Ricky Jay, Master Magician and Actor in 'Deadwood,' 'Boogie Nights,' Dies at 72|first1=Pat|last1=Saperstein|date=November 25, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • November 25
  • Randolph L. Braham, 95, Romanian-born American historian and political scientist (b. 1923)
  • Tony Hanson, American basketball player (b. 1955)
  • Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1942){{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/gloria-katz-dead-american-graffiti-writer-star-wars-script-doctor-was-76-1164737/|title=Gloria Katz, 'American Graffiti' Writer and 'Star Wars' Script Doctor, Dies at 76|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 28, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Wright King, American actor (b. 1923){{Cite web|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries|title=Find Obituaries & Funeral Services|website=Dignity Memorial|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • Larry Matysik, American professional wrestling commentator and author (b. 1946)
  • Shep Shepherd, American jazz musician (b. 1917)
  • November 26 – Stephen Hillenburg, marine biologist, cartoonist (SpongeBob SquarePants) (b. 1961){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/spongebob-squarepants-creator-dead-dies-stephen-hillenburg-1203037362/|title='SpongeBob Squarepants' Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies at 57|first1=Joe|last1=Otterson|date=November 27, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • November 27
  • Johnny Maddox, American pianist (b. 1927)
  • Ed Pastor, U.S. Representative from Arizona (b. 1943)
  • November 28 – Robert Morris, American sculptor (b. 1931)
  • November 30 – George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st president of the United States (b. 1924)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-hw-bush-41st-president-of-the-united-states-dies-at-94/2018/11/30/42fa2ea2-61e2-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dies at 94]

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  • December 1 – Ken Berry, American actor (b. 1933)
  • December 2
  • Martin B. Dickman, American biologist (b. 1953)
  • Wilmer Clemont Fields, American Southern Baptist minister and newspaper editor (b. 1922)
  • Al Frazier, American football player (b. 1935)
  • Perry Robinson, American jazz musician (b. 1938)
  • Michael James Snyder, American business executive (b. 1950)
  • December 3
  • Philip Bosco, American actor (b. 1930)
  • Fred Greenstein, American political scientist (b. 1930)
  • Mervin E. Muller, American computer scientist and statistician (b. 1928)
  • Alex Wizbicki, American football player (b. 1921)
  • December 4
  • Lester Kinsolving, American political radio host (b. 1928)
  • Sam Nover, American sportscaster (b. 1941)
  • December 5
  • Jim House, American politician (b. 1948)
  • Jim Jamieson, American professional golfer (b. 1943)
  • Gary McPherson, American college basketball coach (b. 1936)
  • Lynn Schindler, American politician (b. 1944)
  • Harry W. Shlaudeman, American diplomat (b. 1926)
  • Julia Vinograd, American poet (b. 1944)
  • December 6
  • Ace Cannon, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
  • Al Gallagher, American baseball player (b. 1945)
  • Larry Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
  • Jim Meehan, American poker player (b. 1952)
  • Murray Murphey, American historian (b. 1928)
  • Isiah Robertson, American football player (b. 1949)
  • Frank Joseph Rodimer, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1927)
  • Tim Rossovich, American football player (b. 1946)
  • December 7
  • Reby Cary, American politician (b. 1920)
  • Paul Henderson, American journalist (b. 1939)
  • The Mascara Snake, American artist and musician (b. 1948)
  • December 8
  • Evelyn Berezin, American computer designer (b. 1925){{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46539934|title=Word processor pioneer Evelyn Berezin dies aged 93|publisher=BBC News|date=December 12, 2018|access-date=December 13, 2018}}
  • Rosanell Eaton, American civil rights activist (b. 1921)
  • Walter J. Floss Jr., American politician (b. 1923)
  • Rod Jones, American football player (b. 1964)
  • December 9
  • Robert Bergland, American politician (b. 1928)
  • William Blum, American author and historian (b. 1933)
  • Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born American Nobel astrophysicist (b. 1931)
  • December 10 – Bob and John, American racehorse (b. 2003)
  • December 11
  • Harold L. Kahn, American historian (b. 1930)
  • Eleanor Maccoby, American psychologist (b. 1917)
  • Bill Siegel, American documentary producer and director (b. 1963)
  • December 13 – Nancy Wilson, American jazz singer (b. 1937)
  • December 14 – Joe Osborn, American bass guitarist (b. 1937){{Cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2026510/wrecking-crew-bassist-joe-osborn-dead-at-81/news/|title=Wrecking Crew Bassist Joe Osborn Dead at 81|date=December 17, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • December 15 – Jerry Chesnut, American songwriter (b. 1931){{Cite web|url=https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Harlan-County-native-Hall-of-Fame-songwriter-dies-in-Nashville-502937441.html|title=Harlan County native, Hall of Fame songwriter dies in Nashville|website=wymt.com|date=December 17, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2022}}
  • December 17
  • Penny Marshall, actress, director, and producer (b. 1943){{cite web|first=Dennis|last=McClellan|title=Penny Marshall, who played feisty Laverne in 'Laverne & Shirley' before directing movies, dies at 75|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-penny-marshall-dies-at-75-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 18, 2018|access-date=December 26, 2018}}
  • Raven Wilkinson, American dancer (b. 1935)[https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/wilkinson-anne-raven-1935/ Anne Raven Wilkinson (1935-2018)]
  • December 18
  • Steve Daskewisz, American actor and stuntman (b. 1944)
  • Paul Frazier, American football player (b. 1967)
  • Peter Masterson, American writer (b. 1934)
  • December 19- Audrey Geisel second wife of Dr.Seuss and CEO of Dr. Seuss Enterprises ( b. 1921)
  • December 20
  • Pascal F. Calogero Jr., American judge (b. 1931)
  • Donald Moffat, English-American actor (b. 1930)
  • December 21 – Forrest Fezler, American golfer and golf course designer (b. 1949)
  • December 22 – Jimmy Work, American country singer (b. 1924)
  • December 23
  • Eileen Battersby, American-born Irish literary critic (b. 1958)
  • Barbara Kloka Hackett, American judge (b. 1928)
  • Liza Redfield, American conductor and pianist (b. 1924)
  • Elias M. Stein, American mathematician (b. 1931)
  • December 27 – Richard Arvin Overton, war veteran (b. 1906){{cite news|date=December 28, 2018|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680643715/oldest-american-world-war-ii-veteran-dies-at-112|title=Oldest American World War II Veteran Dies at 112}}
  • December 30
  • Cameron M. Alexander, 86, American Baptist minister
  • Larry Austin, 88, American composer
  • Seymour S. Cohen, American biochemist (b. 1917)
  • Marc Hauser, American photographer (b. 1952)
  • Jack Kahl, American businessman (b. 1940)
  • Don Lusk, American animator and director (b. 1913)
  • Warren Plunkett, American football player (b. 1920)
  • December 31 – Ray Sawyer, Country music singer (b. 1937)

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