As we embark on 2019, here’s a brief list of notable people we lost in 2018:
January
Bradford Dillman, 87, American actor (“The Way We Were,” “The Enforcer”)
Dolores O’Riordan, 46, Irish singer (The Cranberries)
Peter Mayle, 78, British author (“A Year in Provence”)
Dorothy Malone, 93, American actress (“Written on the Wind”)
Ursula K. Le Guin, 88, American science fiction writer (“The Dispossessed”)
Hugh Masekela, 78, South African jazz trumpeter (“Grazing in the Grass”)
Mort Walker, 94, American comics artist (“Beetle Bailey”)
February
John Mahoney, 77, English-American actor (“Frasier”)
Marty Allen, 95, American actor and comedian (Allen & Rossi)
Billy Graham, 99, American evangelist and Southern Baptist minister
Nanette Fabray, 97, American actress and singer, Emmy, Tony winner (“One Day at a Time”)
March
David Ogden Stiers, 75, American actor (“M*A*S*H”)
Hubert de Givenchy, 91, French fashion designer
Stephen Hawking, 76, English theoretical physicist
April
Steven Bochco, 74, American TV producer and writer (“Hill Street Blues”), 10-time Emmy winner
Susan Anspach, 75, American actress (“Five Easy Pieces”)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 81, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician
Cecil Taylor, 89, American jazz pianist and poet.
Mitzi Shore, 87, American comedy club owner
Gerald Nachman, 80, American journalist and author
Harry Anderson, 65, American actor (“Night Court”) and magician
Miloš Forman, 86, Czech-American film director (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”), Oscar winner
Barbara Bush, 92, American political matriarch, First Lady (1989–1993) and Second Lady (1981–1989)
Verne Jay Troyer, 49,American actor, comedian, stunt performer (“Austin Powers”)
Larry Harvey, 70, American artist, philanthropist, activist and Burning Man co-founder
David Wiegand, 70, American journalist
May
Margot Kidder, 69, Canadian-American actress (“Superman”)
Tom Wolfe, 88, American author (“The Bonfire of the Vanities”) and journalist.
Philip Roth, 85, American writer (“Goodbye, Columbus”), Pulitzer Prize winner
Alan Bean, 86, American astronaut, fourth person to walk on the moon
June
Dwight Clark, 61, American football player (San Francisco 49ers)
Kate Spade, 55, American fashion designer
Anthony Bourdain, 61, American chef, author and TV host, Emmy winner
Joe Jackson, 89, American band manager (The Jackson 5), patriarch of the Jackson family
July
Alan Longmuir, 70, Scottish bass guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
Bill Watrous, 79, American jazz trombonist
Richard Swift, 41, American singer-songwriter, producer and musician (The Shins)
Tab Hunter, 86, American actor and singer (“Young Love”)
Jonathan Gold, 57, American food critic, Pulitzer Prize winner
Ron Dellums, 82, American politician, congressman and Oakland mayor
August
Aretha Franklin, 76, Hall of Fame singer, (“Respect”), pianist and songwriter, 18-time Grammy winner
Kofi Atta Annan, 80, Ghanaian diplomat, Secretary General of the United Nations
Barbara Harris, 83, American actress (“Nashville”),co-founder of The Second City
Robin Leach, 76, British writer and TV host (“Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”)
John McCain, 81, American politician and Navy officer, congressman
Neil Simon, 91, American playwright (“The Odd Couple”)
Ed King, 68, American musician, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Marie Severin, 89, comic book artist (“Thor,” “Iron Man”)
Paul Taylor, 88, American choreographer
September
Bill Daily, 91, American actor (“I Dream of Jeannie”), game show panelist
Burt Reynolds, 82, American actor (“Smokey and the Bandit”)
Mac Miller, 26, American rapper, producer
Marty Balin, 76, American Hall of Fame rock singer and musician (Jefferson Airplane)
October
Charles Aznavour, 94, French-Armenian singer (“She”), lyricist and actor
Audrey Wells, 58, American film director and screenwriter (“Under the Tuscan Sun”)
Scott Wilson, 76, American actor (“The Walking Dead”)
Mel Ramos, 83, American artist
Paul Allen, 65, American business magnate (Microsoft co-founder)
Danny Leiner, 57, American film director (“Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle”)
Hank Greenwald, 83, American sportscaster (San Francisco Giants)
Willie McCovey, 80, American Hall of Fame baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics)
November
Roy Hargrove, 49, American jazz trumpeter, Grammy winner
Sondra Locke, 74, American actress (“The Outlaw Josey Wales”)
Francis Lai, 86, French film score composer (“Love Story”)
Stan Lee, 95, American comic book writer and publisher (Marvel Comics)
Katherine MacGregor, 93, American actress (“Little House on the Prairie”)
Roy Clark, 85, American Hall of Fame country singer and TV host (“Hee Haw”)
William Goldman, 87, American author (“The Princess Bride”) and screenwriter, Oscar winner
Nicolas Roeg, 90, English film director (“The Man Who Fell to Earth”)
Bernardo Bertolucci, 77, Italian film director (“Last Tango in Paris”)
Stephen Hillenburg, 57, American animator, cartoonist (“SpongeBob SquarePants”)
George H. W. Bush, 94, American president, vice president, CIA director
December
Ken Berry, 85, American actor (“Mayberry R.F.D.)
Julia Vinograd, 74, American poet (The Bubble Lady)
Nancy Wilson, 81, American jazz singer, Grammy winner
Penny Marshall, 75, American actress (“Laverne & Shirley”), director (“Big”)
Amos Oz, 79, Israeli author (“My Michael”) and journalist
