World Famous Personalities Who Died in JANUARY 2018
| January 1 | Manuel Olivencia
Spanish lawyer, economist and diplomat (born 1929) |
| January 2 | Thomas S. Monson
American religious leader and writer (born 1927) |
| January 3 | Colin Brumby
Australian composer (born 1933) |
| January 4 | Aharon Appelfeld
Ukrainian-Israeli writer (born 1932) |
| January 4 | Ray Thomas
English musician (born 1941) |
| January 5 | Antonio Angelillo
Italian-Argentine footballer (born 1937) |
| January 5 | Jerry Van Dyke
American actor (born 1931) |
| January 5 | John Young
American astronaut (born 1930) |
| January 6 | Horace Ashenfelter
American Olympic athlete (born 1923) |
| January 6 | Thomas Bopp
American astronomer (born 1949) |
| January 7 | France Gall
French singer (born 1947) |
| January 7 | Peter Sutherland
Irish businessman and politician (born 1946) |
| January 8 | Juan Carlos García
Honduran footballer (born 1988) |
| January 8 | George Maxwell Richards
4th President of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1931) |
| January 9 | Odvar Nordli
21st Prime Minister of Norway (born 1927) |
| January 9 | Mario Perniola
Italian philosopher (born 1941) |
| January 10 | Eddie Clarke
British musician (born 1950) |
| January 11 | Edgar Ray Killen
American criminal (born 1925) |
| January 14 | Dan Gurney
American racing driver (born 1931) |
| January 14 | Cyrille Regis
English footballer (born 1958) |
| January 14 | Hugh Wilson
American film director and television producer (born 1943) |
| January 15 | Edwin Hawkins
American musician (born 1943) |
| January 15 | Dolores O’Riordan
Irish musician (born 1971) |
| January 15 | Peter Wyngarde
British actor (born 1928) |
| January 16 | Bradford Dillman
American actor (born 1930) |
| January 16 | Oliver Ivanović
Serbian politician (born 1953) |
| January 16 | Jo Jo White
American basketball player (born 1946) |
| January 18 | Lucas Mangope
South African politician (born 1923) |
| January 18 | Peter Mayle
English author (born 1939) |
| January 18 | Stansfield Turner
American admiral and academic (born 1923) |
| January 19 | Dorothy Malone
American actress (born 1924) |
| January 20 | Paul Bocuse
French chef (born 1926) |
| January 20 | Graeme Langlands
Australian rugby player (born 1941) |
| January 20 | Naomi Parker Fraley
American naval machiner (born 1921)[64] |
| January 20 | Jim Rodford
English bass guitarist (born 1941) |
| January 21 | Yves Afonso
French actor (born 1944) |
| January 21 | Philippe Gondet
French footballer (born 1942) |
| January 21 | Tsukasa Hosaka
Japanese footballer (born 1937) |
| January 21 | Jens Okking
Danish actor and politician (born 1939) |
| January 21 | Connie Sawyer
American actress (born 1912) |
| January 22 | Jimmy Armfield
English footballer and manager (born 1935) |
| January 22 | Ursula K. Le Guin
American novelist (born 1929) |
| January 23 | Hugh Masekela
South African jazz musician (born 1939) |
| January 23 | Nicanor Parra
Chilean poet (born 1914) |
| January 24 | Jack Ketchum
American author (born 1946) |
| January 24 | Mark E. Smith
English singer-songwriter (born 1957) |
| January 25 | Claribel Alegría
Nicaraguan poet (born 1924) |
| January 25 | Neagu Djuvara
Romanian historian essayist and philosopher (born 1916) |
| January 26 | Elizabeth Hawley
American journalist (born 1923) |
| January 26 | Hiromu Nonaka
Japanese politician (born 1925) |
| January 27 | Ingvar Kamprad
Swedish businessman (born 1926) |
| January 27 | Mort Walker
American comic artist (born 1923) |
| January 28 | Gene Sharp
American political scientist (born 1928) |
| January 29 | Ion Ciubuc
7th Prime Minister of Moldova (born 1943) |
| January 30 | Mark Salling
American actor (born 1982) |
| January 30 | Clyde Scott
American football player (born 1924) |
| January 30 | Azeglio Vicini
Italian footballer and coach (born 1933) |
| January 30 | Louis Zorich
American actor (born 1924) |
| January 31 | Rasual Butler
American basketball player (born 1979) |
| January 31 | Leonid Kadeniuk
Ukrainian cosmonaut (born 1951) |