2018: Year in Review

January 2 - Thomas S. Monson, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2008, dies at age 90 of natural causes.
January 4 - Aharon Appelfeld, an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor, dies at age 85.
January 4 – Ray Thomas, English musician, flautist, singer, founding member and composer in the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues, dies at age 76.
January 5 - John Young, American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer who became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, dies at age 87 of complications from pneumonia.
January 5 - Thomas Bopp, American amateur astronomer best known as the co-discoverer of comet Hale–Bopp (with Alan Hale) in 1995, dies at age 68 of liver failure.
January 6 - Elza Brandeisz, Hungarian dancer and teacher, dies at age 110.  She was considered a pioneer of expressionist dance in Hungary. During World War II, she hid several Jews in her family's summer home in Balatonalmádi, including the 14-year George Soros. In 1995 she was recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.
January 7 - Anna Mae Hays, American military officer and nurse, dies at age 97 of complications from a heart attack.   She served as the 13th chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. She was the first woman in the U.S. Armed Forces to be promoted to a General Officer rank; in 1970, she was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General.  Hays paved the way for equal treatment of women, countering occupational sexism, and made a number of recommendations, which were accepted into military policy.
January 8 - Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor, dies at age 80 of cancer.  He played Phillip Chancellor II on The Young and the Restless and  Doctor Cottle ("Doc") on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.
January 8 - George Maxwell Richards, Trinidadian politician, 4th President of Trinidad and Tobago, dies at age 86 of heart failure.  He was the first President of Trinidad and Tobago and head of state in the Anglophone Caribbean to have Amerindian ancestry.
January 9 - Odvar Nordli, 21st Prime Minister of Norway, dies at age 90 of prostate cancer.
January 10 - Eddie Clarke, British guitarist who was a member of heavy metal bands Fastway and Motörhead and was the last surviving member of Motörhead's classic lineup, dies at age 67 from pneumonia.
January 11 – Edgar Ray Killen, American criminal, dies at age 92.  He was a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964.  He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison.  In the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, the character of Lester Cowens was a fictionalized depiction of Edgar Ray Killen.
January 14 - Hugh Wilson, American film director and television producer, dies at age 74 after an illness.  He is best known as the creator of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place, and as the director of the film comedies Police Academy and The First Wives Club.
January 15 - Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician, singer and songwriter, and the vocalist for rock band The Cranberries, dies at age 46 from accidental drowning in a bathtub due to alcohol intoxication.
January 15 - Peter Wyngarde, British actor credited with inspiring the character Austin Powers, dies at age 90 from an illness.
January 16 - Jo Jo White, American basketball player, dies at age 71 from complications of dementia and pneumonia, after he had a benign brain tumor removed.  As an amateur, he played basketball at the University of Kansas and represented the U.S. men's basketball team during the 1968 Summer Olympics where they took the gold. As a professional, he is best known for his ten-year stint with the Boston Celtics of the NBA, where he led the team towards two NBA championships and set a franchise record of 488 consecutive games played.  White was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
January 17 – Simon Shelton, English actor, dies at age 52 from hypothermia.  He was best known for playing Dark Knight in the Incredible Games and Tinky Winky in the BBC children's show Teletubbies from 1997 to 2001.
January 20 – Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announces the beginning of a military offensive to capture a portion of northern Syria from Kurdish forces, amidst the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict.
January 20–22 – The United States government enters a federal government shutdown as a result of a dispute over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
January 20 - Naomi Parker Fraley, American naval machiner considered the most likely model for the iconic "We Can Do It!" poster, dies at age 96.
January 20 - Jim Rodford, English bass guitarist for the Kinks, dies at age 76 after he fell down stairs at his home.
January 21 - Connie Sawyer, American actress, dies at age 105 after a heart attack.  She had over 140 film and television credits to her name, but was best known for her appearances in Pineapple Express, Dumb and Dumber, and When Harry Met Sally...  At the time of her death, she was the oldest working actress in Hollywood, with a career spanning an impressive 85 years and was the oldest member of the Screen Actors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
January 22 - Ursula K. Le Guin, American novelist of fantasy and science fiction, dies at age 88 from a heart attack.
January 24 – Scientists in China report in the journal Cell the creation of the first monkey clones using somatic cell nuclear transfer, named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.
January 27 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman best known for founding IKEA, dies at age 91 of pneumonia.
January 27 - Mort Walker, American comic artist who created Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois, dies at age 94 from complications of pneumonia.
January 29 - Ion Ciubuc, 7th Prime Minister of Moldova, dies at age 74.
January 30 - Mark Salling, American actor, dies at age 35 from asphyxia caused by suicide by hanging.  He was known for his role as Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the television series Glee and also appeared in Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering.  In January 2013, Salling was accused of sexual battery but settled with his accuser out of court. In December 2015, he was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. Salling faced between four and seven years' imprisonment after pleading guilty, but he died by suicide prior to his sentencing.
January 31 – A total lunar eclipse takes place. The Moon appears as supermoon, with perigee being on January 30. It is also the first blue moon eclipse since 1983. It was also referred to as the super blue blood moon.
January 31 - Rasual Butler, American basketball player, dies at age 38 in a car accident.  In his 14-year National Basketball Association career, he played for 8 teams.  He was drafted in second round of the 2002 NBA draft by the Miami Heat.  Butler was close friends with fellow NBA player Lamar Odom and was seen in episodes of his television show Khloé & Lamar.
January 31 - Ann Gillis, American actress who performed the voice of the female fawn Faline in the 1942 Disney animated film Bambi, dies at age 90.
January 31 - Leonid Kadeniuk, the first astronaut of independent Ukraine, dies at age 67.  He flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87. Kadenyuk held the rank of Major General in the Ukrainian Air Force and was also a test pilot.

February 1 - Dennis Edwards, American singer best known as the frontman in The Temptations, dies at age 74 from meningitis.
February 4 - John Mahoney, British-American actor known for playing the blue-collar patriarch Martin Crane in the American sitcom Frasier, dies at age 77 of complications from throat cancer.
February 5 – Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist, dies at age 82.  He had a stroke in the months preceding his death, and never fully recovered.  He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centers, and that such black holes power quasars.
February 6 – SpaceX successfully conducts its maiden flight of its most powerful rocket to date, the Falcon Heavy, from LC39A at John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
February 6 - John Perry Barlow, American internet activist, writer and lyricist, dies at age 70.  He was a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
February 7 - Mickey Jones, American musician, dies at age 76 from complications of diabetes.  His career as a drummer had him backing up acts such as Kenny Rogers and Bob Dylan.  After the break-up of The First Edition in 1976, Jones concentrated on his career as a character actor, where he made many appearances on film and television.
February 9 - Reg E. Cathey, American actor, dies at age 59 from lung cancer.  He was best known for his role in The Wire, Oz, the 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four, and House of Cards.
February 9 - John Gavin, American actor and diplomat, dies at age 86 of complications from pneumonia.  He was the United States Ambassador to Mexico and the President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was best known for his performances in the films Imitation of Life, Spartacus, Psycho, and Thoroughly Modern Millie.
February 9 - Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic film composer, dies at age 48 from accidental overdose of cocaine combined with medication.  He worked on the music for several films: Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival, The Theory of Everything, Mother!, Mary Magdalene, and Mandy.
February 9–25 – The 2018 Winter Olympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
February 10 – Kay Goldsworthy becomes the first female archbishop in the Anglican Communion on her installation in the Anglican Diocese of Perth, Western Australia.
February 11 – Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes shortly after take-off from Moscow, killing 71 people on board.
February 12 – Leo Falcam, 5th President of the Federated States of Micronesia, dies at age 82.
February 13 - Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian ascetic and philanthropist, dies at age 103.  He was better known as Grandpa Dobri or Elder Dobri, or The Saint of Bailovo.  He was a Bulgarian ascetic who walked over 12 miles each day to sit or stand in front of the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky in Sofia to collect money for charitable causes. Dobrev donated all the money he collected to charities, orphanages, churches, and monasteries.  In Bulgarian, his name translates as "good" or "kind".  During World War II, a bomb fell near him and he lost almost all his hearing.  Dobrev was an Orthodox Christian and commonly talked about Jesus to others whether they donated or not. He was usually very thankful to those who donated.
February 13 - Prince Henrik, consort of Margrethe II of Denmark, dies at age 83 after a short illness.
February 14 - A school shooting occurs at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 17.
February 14 - Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, dies at age 78.
February 14 - Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, dies at age 65 from colorectal cancer.
February 15 – Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress, dies at age 97 of complications from influenza.  She was best known for her recurring appearances in the Our Gang films. Ahern was also known for her role as Little Harry in the 1927 silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin.
February 18 – Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Zagros Mountains, en route from Tehran to Yasuj. All 65 passengers and crew members perish.
February 21 - Billy Graham, American evangelist, dies age 99.
February 23 - Lewis Gilbert, British film director, producer, and screenwriter, dies at age 97.  He directed more than 40 films during six decades, including three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and Moonraker (1979).
February 24 - Bud Luckey, American actor and animator, dies at age 83 of a stroke.  He is best known for his work at Pixar, where he worked as a character designer on a number of films, including Toy Story, Boundin', Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars and Ratatouille. Luckey was also known as the voice of Rick Dicker in The Incredibles, Chuckles the Clown in Toy Story 3 and as Eeyore in the 2011 Winnie the Pooh film.  Incredibles 2 was dedicated in his memory.  His son Andy Luckey is best known as a producer of the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
February 26 – Benjamin Melniker, American film producer, dies at age 104.  He was an executive producer with Michael E. Uslan on the Batman film series and other DC Comics films. Melniker was also at one time a studio executive at MGM.

March 1 - Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess grandmaster, dies at age 86.
March 3 - Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete, dies at age 88.  He became the first athlete to finish the mile run in less than four minutes; he accomplished this feat on May 6, 1954.  Bannister's record lasted just 46 days.  Bannister went on to become a distinguished neurologist.
March 3 - David Ogden Stiers, American actor, dies at age 75 of bladder cancer.  He starred in  M*A*S*H and Perry Mason and voiced Disney characters in Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, and Lilo & Stitch.
March 4 – Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia are poisoned by the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England.  UK counter-terrorism police investigate amid speculation the Kremlin was behind the incident.
March 5 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor, dies at age 80 from Crohn's disease.  He is best known for the wind-up radio, which he invented in response to the need to communicate information about AIDS to the people of Africa.  He ran a company in his name dedicated to helping inventors to develop and protect their ideas and to find a route to market.  He was sexually abused at the age of 5 by a Church of England curate.
March 7 – Reynaldo Bignone, President of Argentina, dies at age 90 of congestive heart failure.  In 2010, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of persons suspected of opposing the government during the Dirty War.
March 9 – President of the United States Donald Trump accepts an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a meeting in May to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea.
March 9 - Princess Adrienne of Sweden, Duchess of Blekinge is born.  She is tenth in the line of succession to the Swedish throne.
March 9 - Oskar Gröning, German war criminal, dies at age 96.  He was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property of arriving prisoners.  In 2005, he decided to make his activities at Auschwitz public after learning about Holocaust denial.
March 9 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer, dies at age 91.  He was famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn and clothing for Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
March 11 – China's government approves a constitutional change that removes term limits for its leaders, granting Xi Jinping the status of "President for Life". Xi is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (paramount leader).
March 12 – Flight BS211 crashes in Nepal, killing 51 on board.
March 14 – In response to gun violence in the United States, and particularly triggered by the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, thousands of high school students across the country participate in an organized protest they called the National School Walkout.
March 14 - Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, dies at age 76 from "ALS" or Lou Gehrig's disease.  Even after the loss of his speech, he was still able to communicate through a speech-generating device, initially through use of a hand-held switch, and eventually by using a single cheek muscle.  His 1988 book A Brief History of Time has sold more than 10 million copies.  Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death and died on the 139th anniversary of Einstein's birth.  Following cremation, a service of thanksgiving was held at Westminster Abbey, after which his ashes were interred in the Abbey's nave, alongside the grave of Sir Isaac Newton and close to that of Charles Darwin.
March 14 - Adrian Lamo, Colombian-American computer hacker, dies at age 37.  Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.   Lamo was best known for reporting U.S. soldier Bradley Edward Manning to Army criminal investigators in 2010 for leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.  Lamo refused to give the United States government a blood sample, which they had demanded in order to record his DNA in their CODIS system.  According to his attorney at the time Lamo had a religious objection to giving blood but was willing to give his DNA in another form. On June 15, 2007, lawyers for Lamo filed a motion citing the Book of Genesis as one basis for Lamo's religious opposition to the giving of blood.  Lamo had been critical of media coverage of the hacker collective Anonymous, saying that media outlets have over-hyped and mythologized the group.  He also said that Anonymous is not the "invulnerable" group it is claimed to be, and he can see "no rational point in what they're doing."  For a period of time in March 2011, Lamo was allegedly "in hiding", claiming that his "life was under threat" after turning in Manning.  During this time, he struggled with substance abuse but later claimed that he was in recovery and that his security situation had improved.  The Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center reported that "Despite a complete autopsy and supplemental testing, no definitive cause of death was identified."
March 16 – Louise Slaughter, American politician, dies at age 88 after suffering a concussion in a fall at her home.  She served as a United States Representative from New York from 1987 until her death in 2018.
March 17 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam, dies at age 83.
March 18 – In the Russian presidential election, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth term.
March 18 - Barkat Gourad Hamadou, 4th Prime Minister of Djibouti, dies at age 88.
March 19 – The world's last male northern white rhinoceros dies in Kenya, making the subspecies functionally extinct.
March 20 - Peter George Peterson, American banker, dies at age 91.  He served as Secretary of Commerce under the Richard Nixon administration.  He was Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers and co-founded the private equity firm, The Blackstone Group.  Peterson was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations until retiring in 2007.  In 2008, Peterson was ranked 149th on the "Forbes 400 Richest Americans" with a net worth of $2.8 billion.  He was also known as founder and principal funder of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting fiscal sustainability.
March 22 - Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, author, and academic, dies at age 107.  In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of Amsterdam, he was instrumental in saving over 600 Jewish children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg who were destined for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. For his humanitarian actions he received the Yad Vashem distinction Righteous Among the Nations from the State of Israel in 1973.
March 23 – An Islamic terrorist attack in Carcassonne and Trèbes, France, kills five people, including the perpetrator.
March 23 - DuShon Monique Brown, American actress known for Prison Break and Chicago Fire, dies at age 49 from sepsis.
March 23 - Debbie Lee Carrington, American actress and stuntwoman known for her diminutive size due to dwarfism, dies at age 58.  She appeared in many films and TV shows.
March 23 - Zell Miller, American politician, dies at age 86 from complications of Parkinson's disease.  Miller was a conservative Democrat and served as lieutenant governor from 1975 to 1991, 79th Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as U.S. Senator from 2000 to 2005. In 2004, he supported Republican President George W. Bush against Democratic nominee John Kerry in the presidential election. Miller was a keynote speaker at both major American political parties' national conventions—Democratic in 1992 and Republican in 2004. Miller was also a Fox News contributor.
March 24 – In over 900 cities internationally, people participate in demonstrations against gun violence and mass shootings, calling for stronger gun control in the "March for Our Lives".
March 25 - Qantas launches direct non-stop Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights between Perth Airport and Heathrow Airport, making it the first commercially non-stop service between Australia and the United Kingdom.
March 25 - At least 64 people die in a fire at a shopping and entertainment complex in the Russian city of Kemerovo.
March 26 – More than 100 Russian diplomats are expelled by more than 20 countries in the wake of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
March 28 - North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un meets Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping, leaving the country for the first time since assuming office in 2011.
March 28 - At least 78 people die in a fire in the police headquarters of Valencia, Venezuela.
March 30 - Drue Heinz, American literary publisher, dies at age 103.  She was the publisher of the literary magazine The Paris Review and was married to H. J. Heinz II, president of Heinz, until his death in 1987.
March 30 - André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 9th Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, dies at age 83.

April 1 - Steven Bochco, American television producer, dies at age 74 from leukemia.  He developed a number of television series, including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Doogie Howser, M.D., and NYPD Blue.
April 1 - Efraín Ríos Montt, 26th President of Guatemala, dies at age 91 of a heart attack.  He was a dictator who took power as a result of a coup d'état in 1982.  He was overthrown by his defense minister, Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, in another coup d'état in 1983. In 2007 he returned to public office as a member of Congress, thereby gaining prosecutorial immunity. He was protected from a pair of long-running lawsuits alleging war crimes against him.  His immunity ended on January 14, 2012, with the end of his term in legislative office. On January 26, 2012, he appeared in court in Guatemala and was formally indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity.
April 2 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African activist and politician and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, dies at age 81 from diabetes.  In the mid-1980s Madikizela-Mandela exerted a "reign of terror", and was "at the centre of an orgy of violence” in Soweto, which led to condemnation by the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) established by Nelson Mandela's government to investigate human rights abuses found Madikizela-Mandela to have been "politically and morally accountable for the gross violations of human rights committed by the "Mandela United Football Club", her security detail.  Madikizela-Mandela was accused of endorsing the necklacing of alleged police informers and apartheid government collaborators, and her security detail carried out kidnapping, torture, and murder, most notoriously the killing of 14-year-old Stompie Sepei whose kidnapping she was convicted of.  As a senior ANC figure, she took part in the post-apartheid ANC government, although she was dismissed from her post amid allegations of corruption.  In 2003, she was convicted of theft and fraud.
April 4 - Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian hierarch, dies in Jerusalem at age 87.  He was patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syriac Catholic Church. He served as patriarch from 2001 to 2008, when he resigned and retired.
April 4 - Gertrude Jeannette, American actress, dies at age 103.  She is also known for being the first woman to work as a licensed taxi driver in New York City, which she began doing in 1942.  She acted into her 80s and retired from directing theater at the age of 98.
April 4 - Soon-Tek Oh, Korean-American actor, dies at age 85 after a long fight with Alzheimer's disease.  He is best known for the voice of Fa Zhou in Disney's Mulan and the direct-to-video sequel Mulan II.  He starred in many films, and also acted in television series, including Stargate SG-1, MacGyver, M*A*S*H, Charlie's Angels, Magnum, P.I., Hawaii Five-O, Zorro, and Touched by an Angel.
April 5 - Tim O'Connor, American actor, dies at age 90 of cancer.  He was known for his prolific work in television, including such shows as: Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Columbo, Wonder Woman, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Walker Texas Ranger.
April 5 - Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter, and producer who co-founded Studio Ghibli, dies at age 82 from lung cancer.
April 6 – A semi-truck collides with a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos ice hockey junior team in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 and injuring 13 people.
April 6 - Daniel Akaka, American educator and politician, dies at age 93 of organ failure.  He was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Akaka was the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry.  He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II.  Akaka was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1976 to represent Hawaii's Second Congressional District, and he served for 13 years. In 1990, he was appointed to the U.S. Senate to succeed the deceased Spark Matsunaga, subsequently winning the special election to complete Matsunaga's term.  After fellow U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye died on December 17, 2012, Akaka became the state's senior senator, and briefly remained so until he left office on January 3, 2013. He was succeeded by fellow Democrat Mazie Hirono.  Before entering politics, Akaka was a high school teacher and principal.
April 7 – Peter Grünberg, German Nobel physicist, dies at age 78.  He was known for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.
April 8 – Syrian Civil War: At least 70 people are reported to have died and hundreds suffering injuries after a sarin chemical attack in Douma, the last rebel-held town in Syria's Eastern Ghouta.
April 9 – Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff, German supercentenarian, dies at age 112.  He is the sixth oldest German ever known.
April 11 – 257 people are killed after an Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to the Algerian Air Force crashes near Algiers.
April 13 - Art Bell, American broadcaster and author, dies at age 72 from an accidental drug overdose.  He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM, which is syndicated on hundreds of radio stations in the United States and Canada.  He also created and hosted its companion show Dreamland.
April 13 - Miloš Forman, Czech and American film director, dies at age 86 after a short illness.  He was best known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hair, Amadeus, and The People vs. Larry Flynt.
April 14 – Syrian Civil War: The United States, the United Kingdom and France order the bombing of Syrian military bases in response to the sarin attack allegedly by the Bashar al-Assad regime on civilians in Ghouta.
April 14 - Hal Greer, American basketball player, dies at age 81.  He played for the Syracuse Nationals / Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1958 through 1973. A guard, Greer was a 10-time NBA All-Star and was named to the All-NBA Second Team seven times. He was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team and he had his uniform number retired by the 76ers.  He enrolled at Marshall University and played college basketball for the Marshall Thundering Herd's basketball team, becoming the first African American to play for a public college in West Virginia.
April 15 - R. Lee Ermey, American actor and Marine Corps drill instructor, dies at age 74 from complications related to pneumonia.  His films included: Full Metal Jacket, Mississippi Burning, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Se7en, and Toy Story.
April 16 - Harry Anderson, American actor and magician, dies at age 65 of a stroke due to influenza and heart disease.  He starred in Saturday Night Live, Cheers, Night Court, The Absent-Minded Professor, It, Tales from the Crypt, and other shows.
April 16 - Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress, dies at age 91 from kidney failure.  In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the U.S. embassy in Vienna in 1986.  They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.  They re-married in 1983 at Kim Jong-il’s recommendation.
April 17 - Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States, dies at age 92 after refusing further medical treatments.
April 17 - Karl Rawer, German physicist, dies at age 104.  He developed the analytical code to determine suitable frequency ranges for short wave communication by which German forces built-up their long distance communications during World War II.
April 18 - In Nicaragua, protests begin against announced reforms of Social Security which would decrease retirement pension benefits. An estimated number of 34 protesters are killed by police.
April 18 - Cinemas open in Saudi Arabia for the first time since 1983 with the American film Black Panther chosen as the first to be screened.
April 18 - NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is launched.
April 19 - Miguel Díaz-Canel is sworn in as President of Cuba, marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba has had a president other than Fidel or Raúl Castro.
April 19 - Swaziland changes its English name, officially becoming the Kingdom of Eswatini.
April 19 - Vladimir Lyakhov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, dies at age 76.  Lyakhov was the Commander on Soyuz 32, Soyuz T-9, and Soyuz TM-6, and spent 333 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes in space. He was married and had two children.
April 19 - Agnès-Marie Valois, French nun and World War II nurse, dies at age 103.  Also known as Sister Agnès-Marie, she was decorated by France and Canada for caring for Allied soldiers after the failed Dieppe Raid. A nun who became known as The “Angel of Dieppe,” for her heroic efforts in caring for WWII soldiers at the disastrous Battle of Dieppe. Sister Agnès-Marie Valois of Canada, an Augustinian nun, was trained as a surgical nurse before the war. She died at a monastery near Dieppe, France.
April 20 - James F. Sirmons, American broadcasting executive who worked for CBS from 1942-2000, dies at age 100.
April 21 - Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian, dies at age 117.  She is the oldest known Japanese person and third oldest in the world.
April 21 - Verne Troyer, American actor best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series, dies at age 49 from suicide by alcohol poisoning.
April 23 – A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
April 23 - Prince Louis of Cambridge is born.  He is fifth in the line of succession to the British throne.
April 25 - Michael Anderson, English film director, dies at age 98.  He is best known for directing the Second World War film The Dam Busters (1955), the epic Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and the dystopian sci-fi film Logan's Run (1976).
April 27 – Kim Jong-un crosses into South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in, becoming the first North Korean leader to cross the Demilitarized Zone since its creation in 1953.
April 27 - Álvaro Arzú, 32nd President of Guatemala, dies at age 72 from a heart attack.
April 27 - Paul Junger Witt, American producer, dies at age 77 of cancer.  He, with his partners Tony Thomas and Susan Harris (also his wife), produced such television shows as The Partridge Family and The Golden Girls.  Witt also produced the films Dead Poets Society, Three Kings, Insomnia, and the made-for-TV movie Brian's Song.
April 28 – Larry Harvey, American artist, philanthropist, and activist, dies at age 70 from a massive stroke.  He was the main co-founder of the Burning Man event, along with his friend Jerry James.
April 29 - Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician, dies at age 72 after a short illness.  On his election to the post of Speaker in 2000, he was the first Roman Catholic to serve in the role since the Reformation.  He resigned from the position in 2009 as a result of diminishing parliamentary and public confidence owing to his role in the expenses scandal.  He also stood down from the House of Commons on the following day.
April 29 - Luis García Meza, 68th President of Bolivia and a dictator, dies at age 88 of a heart attack.  García Meza left the country, but was tried and convicted in absentia for the serious human rights violations committed by his regime. In 1995, he was extradited to Bolivia from Brazil and was given a 30-year prison sentence, in the same penitentiary where he once kept his enemies.  García Meza had reportedly been living in considerable comfort whilst in prison, with a barbecue, a gym, and a telephone at his disposal, not to mention a sauna and the occupation of three cells. These privileges were later revoked in response to protests from human rights organizations and victims.
April 30 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Iran of not holding up its end of the Iran nuclear deal after presenting a cache of over 100,000 documents detailing the extent of Iran's nuclear program. Iran denounces Netanyahu's presentation as "propaganda".

May 3 - The separatist group ETA officially announces its final dissolution after 40 years of conflict and more than 800 deaths in Spain.
May 3 - The 2018 lower Puna eruption causes destruction of structures and forces many citizens of Hawaii to evacuate as lava floods the land.
May 3 - Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician, dies at age 65.  He was the leader of RENAMO, an anti-communist guerrilla movement that fought the FRELIMO government in the Mozambican Civil War before signing a peace agreement and becoming an opposition political party in the early 1990s.  According to the US State Department and some other sources, under Dhlakama's leadership RENAMO systematically committed crimes against humanity as part of its war effort. These included mass killing and mutilation of non-combatants during raids on villages and towns as well as systematically forcing civilians into RENAMO's employment, though FRELIMO had used similar methods during its fight against the Portuguese. What differed was the abduction of children to use them as child soldiers.  It is estimated that one third of RENAMO forces were under 18. Abducted people also had to serve RENAMO in administrative or public service functions in the areas it controlled. Refusing to work for RENAMO would be punished by heavy beating or even on-the-spot execution as were flight attempts, though this was also used by FRELIMO. One particularly gruesome practice was the mutilation and killing of children left behind by escaped parents.
May 5 – NASA's unmanned spaceprobe InSight is launched. It is expected to land on Mars in November and use a drill to conduct geological science.
May 8 – U.S. President Donald Trump announces his intention to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear agreement.  In a statement, former U.S. President Barack Obama calls the move "a serious mistake".
May 8–12 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 is held in Lisbon, Portugal, and is won by Israeli entrant Netta Barzilai with the song "Toy".
May 8 - Anne V. Coates, British film editor, dies at age 92.  Her works included: Lawrence of Arabia, The Elephant Man, and In the Line of Fire.  In an industry where women accounted for only 16 percent of all editors working on the top 250 films of 2004, and 80 percent of the films had absolutely no females on their editing teams at all, Coates thrived as a top film editor.
May 8 - George Deukmejian, American politician, dies at age 89.  He was the 35th Governor of California from 1983 to 1991 and Attorney General of California from 1979 to 1983. Deukmejian was the first and so far only governor of a U.S. state of Armenian descent.  His parents emigrated from the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s to escape the Armenian Genocide.
May 10 - David Goodall, English-Australian scientist, dies at age 104.  He was known as Australia's oldest working scientist, still editing ecology papers at age 103. Long an advocate of voluntary euthanasia legalisation, he ended his own life in Switzerland via physician-assisted suicide.  Carol O'Neill, a representative from Exit International, said Goodall's relocation in 2016 to a new office had affected him greatly. She explained that it came at a time when he was also forced to give up driving and performing in theatre. "He didn't get to see the same colleagues and friends any more at the old office. He just didn't have the same spirit and he was packing up all his books. It was the beginning of not being happy anymore." Moreover, Goodall's decision to end his life was hastened by a serious fall in his one-room apartment in April 2018 - he was only found by the cleaner two days later. Doctors called for around-the-clock care, or that he be moved to a nursing home.
May 12 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer, dies at age 72.  He had been taken to the hospital on May 10 after complaining of stomach pains; he later suffered a blood clot as a result of surgery complications.  He murdered at least 12 young men in a series of killings committed between 1978 and 1983 in London, England. Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years.  Nilsen committed the murders at two North London addresses. He lured his victims to these through guile and murdered them by strangulation, sometimes accompanied by drowning. Following the murders, Nilsen observed a ritual in which he bathed and dressed the victims' bodies, which he retained for extended periods of time, before dissecting and disposing of the remains by burning on a bonfire, or flushing down a lavatory.  Nilsen became known as the Muswell Hill Murderer as he committed his later murders in the Muswell Hill district of North London.
May 13 - Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress and activist, dies at age 69 from suicide by drug and alcohol poisoning.  Though she appeared in an array of films and television, Kidder is most widely known for her performance as Lois Lane in the Superman film series.
May 14 - Elaine Edwards, American politician, dies at age 89 from respiratory problems.  Edwards was a Democratic member of the United States Senate in 1972 for a few months and was appointed by her husband, Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, following the death of Allen Ellender. She was the First Lady of Louisiana for twelve non-consecutive years from 1972 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1988, making her the state's longest-serving First Lady. In her later years, she was a small fashion businesswoman and a low-profile soap opera actress based in New York City.
May 14 - Tom Wolfe, American author and journalist, dies at age 88 from an infection.  In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.   His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name directed by Brian De Palma.
May 16 - Joseph Campanella, American actor, dies at age 93 of complications from Parkinson's disease.  He acted in more than 200 television and film roles, including: Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and The Bold and the Beautiful.  He voiced The Lizard in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, and narrated the Discover science series on the Disney Channel from 1992 until 1994.
May 16 - Hugh Dane, American actor, dies at age 75 from pancreatic cancer.  He is best known for playing Hank the security guard on the television sitcom The Office from 2005 to 2013.  Dane played small roles in popular television series' such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Boy Meets World, Martin, Friends ("The One With The Baby On The Bus"), Sister, Sister, Monk, and Girl Meets World.
May 18 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes shortly after take-off near José Martí International Airport in Havana, killing 112 and leaving only one survivor.
May 19 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, England, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.
May 23 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban terrorist, dies at age 90 from throat cancer.  Born in Cienfuegos, Posada Carriles fled to the United States after a spell of anti-Castro activism as a student. He helped organize the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and after it failed, became an agent for the CIA.  He received training at Fort Benning, and from 1964 to 1967 was involved with a series of bombings and other covert activities against the Cuban government, before joining the Venezuelan intelligence service.  Along with Orlando Bosch, he was involved in founding the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, described by the FBI as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization".  Posada and CORU are widely considered responsible for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people.  Posada later admitted involvement in a string of bombings in 1997 targeting fashionable Cuban hotels and nightspots.  In addition, he was jailed under accusations related to an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro in Panama in 2000, although he was later pardoned by Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso in the final days of her term.  He denied involvement in the airline bombing and the alleged plot against Castro in Panama, but admitted to fighting to overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba.  In 2005, Posada was held by US authorities in Texas on the charge of being in the country illegally: the charges were later dismissed. A judge ruled he could not be deported because he faced the threat of torture in Venezuela.  The US government refused to repatriate Posada to Cuba, citing the same reason.  His release on bail in 2007 elicited angry reactions from the Cuban and Venezuelan governments. The US Justice Department had urged the court to keep him in jail because he was "an admitted mastermind of terrorist plots and attacks", a flight risk and a danger to the community.  He is considered "a heroic figure in the hardline anti-Castro exile community" in Miami.  Reporter Ann Louise Bardach called him "Fidel Castro's most persistent would-be assassin, while Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive has referred to him as "one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history" and the "godfather of Cuban exile violence."
May 24 – Foreign journalists report that tunnels in the Punggye-ri nuclear test site have been destroyed by the North Korean government in a move to reduce regional tensions.
May 24 - Gudrun Burwitz, German Neo-Nazi militant, dies at age 88.  She was the daughter of Heinrich Himmler. Her father, as Reichsführer-SS, was a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), and chief architect of the Final Solution.   After the Allied victory, she was arrested and made to testify at the Nuremberg trials. Never renouncing Nazi ideology, she consistently fought to defend her father's reputation and became closely involved in Neo-Nazi groups that give support to ex-members of the SS. She married Wulf Dieter Burwitz, an official of the extremist NPD.
May 24 - Jerry Maren, American actor, dies at age 98 from a combination of old age-related diseases including cachexia, heart failure and senile dementia.  Maren left no immediate survivors.  He played a Munchkin member of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. He became the last surviving Munchkin following the death of Ruth Duccini on January 16, 2014, and was also the last surviving cast member with a speaking or singing role.  At the time of filming he was in his late teens and stood just 3 feet 6 inches, but with hormone treatments he was able to grow to 4 feet 6 inches later in life.
May 25 - The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect, imposing strict privacy controls for European citizens worldwide.
May 25 - A constitutional referendum on whether to repeal the ban on abortion in Ireland takes place, with a landslide win of 66.4% to 33.6% for the repeal side.
May 26 - Alan Bean, American astronaut, dies at age 86 following the sudden onset of illness.  He was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.  After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, he pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo program astronauts. He was the last living crew member of Apollo 12.
May 26 - Ted Dabney, American engineer, dies at age 81 of esophageal cancer after deciding not to be treated.  He was the co-founder, alongside Nolan Bushnell, of Atari, Inc. He is recognized as developing the basics of video circuitry principles that were used for Computer Space and later Pong, one of the first and most successful arcade games.
May 27 - Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, 44th Prime Minister of Egypt, dies at age 82.
May 27 - Donald H. Peterson, American astronaut, dies at age 84 of Alzheimer's disease and bone cancer.  He was a mission specialist on STS-6 on board Challenger. During the mission Peterson performed a spacewalk to test the new airlock and space suits. He logged 120 hours in space. Peterson retired from NASA in 1984.
May 28 - Serge Dassault, French businessman and politician, dies at age 93 from heart failure.  He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Group and was a conservative member of the French Senate.  According to Forbes, Dassault's net worth was estimated in 2016 at $15 billion.
May 28 - Ola Ullsten, 28th Prime Minister of Sweden, dies at age 86.
May 31 – The U.S. announces that it will extend its tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminum (10%) to include the EU, Mexico and Canada, starting at midnight.

June 3 – At least 109 people are killed and hundreds wounded by the eruption of Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala's deadliest volcano for over a century.
June 3 - Frank Carlucci, American politician, dies at age 87 from complications of Parkinson's disease.  He served as the Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.  Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions, including Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Richard Nixon administration, Deputy Director of the CIA in the Jimmy Carter administration, and Deputy Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor in the Reagan administration.
June 3 - Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, Russian-born American author, dies at age 99.  She was also an actress and a sniper during World War II. A survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, she married an American diplomat and came to the United States, becoming the author of 14 books.
June 4 - Georg von Tiesenhausen, German-American rocket scientist, dies at age 104.  After being brought to the United States in 1953 as part of Operation Paperclip, he was part of Wernher von Braun's team at the United States Army, and later, NASA. He is credited with the first complete design of the Lunar Roving Vehicle and made a variety of other contributions to the space program. He was a member of Baltic German noble family of Tiesenhausen.
June 5 - Kate Spade, American fashion designer, dies at age 55 from suicide by hanging.  She was the founder and former co-owner of the designer brand Kate Spade New York.  After working in the accessories department at the fashion magazine Mademoiselle, Brosnahan and her husband, Andy Spade, identified a market for quality stylish handbags, and founded Kate Spade New York in 1993. The handbags Spade designed and produced quickly found popularity, owing to their sophistication and affordability, and have been described as a symbol of New York City in the 1990s.  The company expanded into other product lines. In 1999, Spade sold a 56-percent stake in her business to Neiman Marcus Group, and in 2006 sold the rest of her shares.  In 2016, Spade and her partners launched a new fashion brand, Frances Valentine.  Her brother-in-law is actor David Spade.
June 6 - Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dies at age 102 of a stroke.  Her husband Harold Wilson twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  She is the only prime ministerial spouse to become a centenarian.  Her husband died in 1995.  Their son Robin is an emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Open University in England.
June 8–9 – The 44th G7 summit is held in Canada. President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia). He also proposes the elimination of tariffs.
June 8 - Anthony Bourdain, American chef, writer, and television personality, dies at age 61 from suicide by hanging.  He hosted a show for CNN called Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.  Beyond his work of travelling and cooking, he also wrote both fiction and historical nonfiction.
June 8 - Eunice Gayson, English actress, dies at age 90.  She was best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's love interest in the first two Bond films (Dr. No and From Russia with Love) and is therefore considered to have been the first-ever "Bond girl".
June 8 - Danny Kirwan, British musician whose greatest success came with his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, dies at age 68 after contracting pneumonia earlier in the year.
June 9 - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander, dies at age 105.  During World War II he was the 24th-most-successful German submarine commander, credited with having sunk 22 ships. After the war, he spent a year and a half in British captivity before starting a successful oil trading business and serving as a member of Bremen's city council (the Bürgerschaft) for over 32 years.
June 11 - Oscar Furlong, Argentine basketball player, dies at age 90.  He was a FIBA World Cup champion in 1950, who also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, and at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games.  Furlong was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in September 2007.  The 1950 FIBA World Championship, also called the 1st World Basketball Championship – 1950, was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 22 to November 3, 1950. Ten nations participated in the inaugural tournament. All competition was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires. Argentina claimed the gold medal, by beating the United States 64–50.
June 12 - The 2018 North Korea–United States summit is held in Singapore. It is the first summit between a United States President and the North Korean leader.
June 12 - Greece and the Republic of Macedonia reach a deal to end a 27-year naming dispute between both countries, which would result in Macedonia being officially renamed the Republic of North Macedonia.
June 13 – FIFA awards hosting rights for the 2026 World Cup to a joint bid from Canada, Mexico and the United States.
June 13 - Anne Donovan, American basketball player, dies at age 56 of heart failure.  From 2013 to 2015, she was the head coach of the Connecticut Sun.  In her playing career, Donovan won a national championship with Old Dominion University, won two Olympic gold medals, and went to three Final Fours overall. She was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995, and became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015.  As a professional basketball coach, she guided the Seattle Storm to their first title in 2004, becoming the first woman to coach a WNBA Championship team (as well as the youngest person to coach a WNBA champion, at age 42). She is the only person to have both played for a national women's college title and coached a team to a professional title.  After coaching the Indiana Fever and the Charlotte Sting earlier in her career, Donovan joined the New York Liberty as an assistant coach in the spring of 2009, then took over as interim head coach of the Liberty on July 31, 2009. She then went back to college to Seton Hall for two seasons before resigning to take the Connecticut Sun head coaching job for two seasons. Donovan was also the coach of the Olympic gold medal-winning 2008 United States Women's Basketball team.
June 13 - D. J. Fontana, American musician best known as the drummer for Elvis Presley for 14 years, dies at age 87 from complications of a broken hip.
June 14 - Fazlullah, Pakistani terrorist, leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, dies at age 43 or 44 from an American drone strike in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
June 16 – Seventeen people die in Caracas, Venezuela following the El Paraíso stampede after a tear gas canister is detonated in a crowded club.
June 19 - The United States announces it will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
June 19 - Canada becomes the first major industrialized country to legalize cannabis for recreational use. The bill which legalizes cannabis took effect on October 17.
June 19 - Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Danish diplomat and cousin of Margarethe II of Denmark, dies at age 83.
June 19 - Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla, dies at age 46.  She was a western lowland gorilla known for having learned a large number of hand signs from a modified version of American Sign Language (ASL).  Koko gained public attention upon a report of her having adopted a kitten as a pet and creating a name for him.  Her instructor and caregiver, Francine Patterson, reported that Koko had an active vocabulary of more than 1,000 signs of what Patterson calls "Gorilla Sign Language" (GSL).  In contrast to other experiments attempting to teach sign language to non-human primates, Patterson simultaneously exposed Koko to spoken English from an early age. It was reported that Koko understood approximately 2,000 words of spoken English, in addition to the signs.  As with other great-ape language experiments, the extent to which Koko mastered and demonstrated language through the use of these signs is disputed.  It is generally accepted that she did not use syntax or grammar, and that her use of language did not exceed that of a young human child.  However, she scored between 70 and 90 on various IQ scales, and some experts, including Mary Lee Jensvold, claim that "Koko...[used] language the same way people do".
June 21 – Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator, dies at age 68 of small intestine cancer.  A conservative political pundit whose weekly column was syndicated to more than 400 publications worldwide.  While in his first year studying medicine at Harvard Medical School, Krauthammer became permanently paralyzed from the waist down after a diving board accident that severed his spinal cord at cervical spinal nerve 5.  After spending 14 months recovering in a hospital, he returned to medical school, graduating to become a psychiatrist involved in the creation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III in 1980.  He joined the Carter administration in 1978 as a director of psychiatric research, eventually becoming the speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale in 1980.  In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Krauthammer embarked on a career as a columnist and political commentator. In 1985, he began writing a weekly editorial for The Washington Post, which earned him the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his "witty and insightful columns on national issues."  He was a weekly panelist on the PBS news program Inside Washington from 1990 until it ceased production in December 2013. Krauthammer had been a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, a Fox News Channel contributor, and a nightly panelist on Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier.  Krauthammer received acclaim for his writing on foreign policy, among other matters. He was a leading neoconservative voice and proponent of United States military and political engagement on the global stage, coining the term Reagan Doctrine and advocating for the Gulf War and the Iraq War.
June 23 - Kim Jong-pil, 9th Prime Minister of South Korea, dies at age 92.
June 24 – Saudi Arabia allows women to drive.
June 26 - Henri Namphy, 35th President of Haiti, dies at age 85 from lung cancer.
June 27 - Joe Jackson, American talent manager and father of Michael and Janet, dies at age 89 from pancreatic cancer.
June 29 - Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist, dies at age 90 of a myocardial infarction, brought on by arteriosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease.  He is best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.
June 29 - Irena Szewińska, Polish Olympic sprinter, dies at age 72 from cancer.  She was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events.  She is the only athlete in history, male or female, to have held the world record in the 100m, the 200m and the 400m.

July 1 – Dame Gillian Lynne, British dancer and choreographer, dies at age 92 from pneumonia.  She was noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera.
July 5 - Lithuania becomes the 36th member of the OECD.
July 5 - The 2018 North American heat wave takes place, killing 33 people in the Canadian province of Quebec.
July 5 - Ed Schultz, American political commentator and television host, dies at age 64.
July 6 - Former Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara and six other main members of Aum Shinrikyo, who led the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, are executed by hanging.
July 6 - U.S. tariffs on US$ 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.
July 7 – Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player, dies at age 27 from suicide by a gunshot wound to the head after a shootout with police.  Honeycutt was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the second round of the 2011 NBA draft. He played with the Kings for two seasons and in 2013 moved to Europe, where he played for EuroLeague clubs Khimki and Anadolu Efes.
July 8 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball player, dies at age 86.  A 6-3 guard, he played his entire nine-year (1954–1964) NBA career with the Boston Celtics and played a major role in the early part of their dynasty, winning seven championships as part of the team. Ramsey was also a head coach for the Kentucky Colonels of the ABA during the 1970–1971 season.
July 9 – Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an end to their twenty-year conflict.
July 9 - Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, former Secretary General of NATO, dies at age 99.  He also served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, and chairman of British General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984.  He was the last surviving member of the 1951–55 government of Winston Churchill, the Eden government, and the Macmillan government, as well as of the cabinets of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath. Following the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, Carrington was created a life peer as Baron Carington of Upton.  Carrington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. He took full responsibility for the failure of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to foresee this and resigned. As NATO Secretary General, he helped prevent a war between Greece and Turkey during the 1987 Aegean crisis.
July 10 – Twelve boys and their football coach are successfully rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand, following a 17-day ordeal that gained worldwide attention.
July 14 – Theo-Ben Gurirab, 2nd Prime Minister of Namibia, dies at age 80.
July 17 – The EU–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement is signed, the world's largest bilateral free trade deal, creating an open trade zone covering nearly one-third of global GDP.
July 18 - Anne Olivier Bell, English literary editor and art scholar, dies at age 102.  She was part of the Bloomsbury Group and best known for editing the diaries of Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Monuments Men, she was responsible for the protection of cultural artifacts in Europe during the Second World War.
July 24 - Mary Ellis, British ferry pilot, dies at age 101.  She was one of the last surviving British women pilots from the Second World War.
July 24 - Jack P. Lewis, American Biblical scholar, dies at age 99.
July 25 – Scientists report the presence of a subglacial lake on Mars, 1.5 km (0.93 mi) below the southern polar ice cap and extending sideways about 20 km (12 mi), the first known body of water on the planet.
July 25 - Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian automotive executive, dies at age 66.  He was widely known for his turnarounds of the automakers Fiat and Chrysler, his business acumen and his outspoken and often frank approach, especially when dealing with unpalatable issues related to his companies and the automotive industry.
July 26 - Heavy wildfires in Greece leave 87 dead and more than a hundred buildings destroyed.
July 26 - The share price of Facebook drops by almost 20 percent after the company warns investors that user growth has slowed following the data leak scandal. Over $109 billion is wiped from its market value, the largest single day loss in corporate history.
July 26 - Robert Martin, a Tuskegee Airman active during World War II, dies at age 99 of pneumonia.
July 27 – The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurs, and Mars makes its closest approach to Earth since 2003.

August 1 – The 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It becomes the second-deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus on November 29, surpassed only by the 2013 West African Ebola virus epidemic.
August 2 – Apple Inc. becomes the world's first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion.
August 6 - Paul Laxalt, American politician, dies at age 96.  He was an attorney and Governor of Nevada from 1967 to 1971 and a United States Senator from 1974 to 1987. He was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics. After Reagan was elected President in 1980, many in the national press referred to Laxalt as "The First Friend." He was the older brother of Robert Laxalt, who was a noted and prolific writer. He was a member of the Republican Party.
August 7 – The United States reimposes sanctions on Iran.
August 10–20 – Heavy rainfall causes severe floods in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the worst flood to hit the state in a century.
August 11 - Terry A. Davis, American computer programmer, dies at age 48 after being struck by a Union Pacific train. Investigators could not determine if his death was suicide or accidental.  He created and designed an entire operating system, TempleOS, by himself. One computer engineer compared the achievement to a one-man-built skyscraper.  He often referred to himself as "the smartest programmer that's ever lived".  TempleOS is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system designed to be the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible. It was created by American programmer Terry A. Davis, who developed it alone over the course of a decade after a series of episodes that he later described as a revelation from God.
August 12 - The five littoral states – Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan – sign the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, ending the 20-year long dispute over the Caspian Sea's legal status.
August 12 - NASA launches the unmanned Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind.
August 14 – Part of the Morandi Bridge collapses after a violent storm in Genoa, Italy, causing 43 fatalities. Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and transport minister Danilo Toninelli blame private company Autostrade per l'Italia.
August 16 - Aretha Franklin, American singer and songwriter, dies at age 76 from a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET).
August 16 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 10th Prime Minister of India, dies at age 93 from a kidney infection.  During his tenure as prime minister, India carried out the Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, and India was involved in the 1999 Kargil War with Pakistan.
August 18 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, 7th United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel laureate, dies at age 80 after a short illness.
August 22 – Ed King, American musician, dies at age 68 from cancer.  He was a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and guitarist and bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1987 to 1996.
August 23 – Ecuador withdraws from ALBA.
August 25 – John McCain, American politician, dies at age 81 from glioblastoma.  He served as a United States Senator from Arizona from January 1987 until his death. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.  During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While on a bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. He experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early release. The wounds that he sustained during the war left him with lifelong physical disabilities.  While generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain also had a media reputation as a "maverick" for his willingness to break from his party on certain issues. His stances on gun control and LGBT issues were significantly more liberal than the party's base. After being investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as one of the Keating Five, he made campaign finance reform one of his signature concerns, which eventually resulted in passage of the McCain–Feingold Act in 2002. He was also known for his work in the 1990s to restore diplomatic relations with Vietnam, and for his belief that the Iraq War should have been fought to a successful conclusion. He chaired the Senate Commerce Committee and opposed pork barrel spending.
August 26 - Neil Simon, American playwright, dies at age 91 from a combination of renal failure, Alzheimer's disease, and pneumonia.  He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.
August 28 – Olive Evelyn Boar, British supercentenarian, dies at age 113.  She is the 10th oldest British person ever.
August 30 - Vanessa Marquez, American actress, dies at age 49 after being shot by the police while holding a BB gun.  She was primarily known for her recurring role on the first three seasons of ER as nurse Wendy Goldman, as well as her role as Ana Delgado in the 1988 teacher drama Stand and Deliver.
August 30 - Marie Severin, American comics artist and colorist, dies at age 89.  She was best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s' EC Comics. She was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2001.
August 31 - Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist rebel, dies at age 42 from a bomb.  He was the head of state and Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed state and a rebel group Donetsk People's Republic, which declared independence from Ukraine on May 11, 2014.  Zakharchenko was appointed Prime Minister in August 2014 after his predecessor, Alexander Borodai, resigned, and went on to win the early November 2014 election for the position.

September 2 – A fire destroys the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
September 3 - Lydia Clarke, American actress and photographer, dies at age 95 from complications due to pneumonia.  She was the wife of Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston.  Their marriage lasted for 64 years until his death in 2008.
September 3 - Jalaluddin Haqqani, Afghan Haqqani insurgent, dies at age 78 or 79 after a long illness.  He initially fought in guerilla warfare against US-led NATO forces, and the present government of Afghanistan they support. He distinguished himself as an internationally sponsored insurgent fighter in the 1980s during the Soviet–Afghan War, including Operation Magistral. By 2004, he was directing pro-Taliban militants to launch a holy war in Afghanistan. Jalaluddin retained considerable local popularity on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and he was the most experienced Islamist leader in the region.  Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars, claims that Haqqani introduced suicide bombing in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
September 6 – The Supreme Court of India decriminalizes homosexuality.
September 6 - Richard DeVos, American businessman, dies at age 92.  He was a billionaire and co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed him as the 60th-wealthiest person in the United States, and the 205th-richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion.  He served in the military in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps.  His daughter-in-law is Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.  Richard DeVos made it his mission to bring the Christian Reformed Church in North America and Reformed Church in America, which split in 1857 and divided his grandparents, back together.
September 6 - Burt Reynolds, American actor, dies at age 82 from a heart attack.  He starred in several television show and films including: Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966), Dan August (1970–1971), Navajo Joe (1966), Deliverance (1972), The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Semi-Tough (1977), Hooper (1978), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982).
September 7 - Samuel Bodman, American politician and United States Secretary of Energy, dies at age 79 from primary progressive aphasia.  He served during the George W. Bush administration and oversaw the security problems at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  In 1965, he completed his Doctor of Science in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
September 8 - Gennadi Gagulia, Prime Minister of Abkhazia, dies at age 70 in a car accident.
September 8 - Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner, dies at age 45 of liver cancer.  She was crowned Miss USA 1995 and Miss Universe 1995.  Smith was the third Miss USA of African-American origin, after Carole Gist (1990) and Kenya Moore (1993), in addition to being the first American woman to win Miss Universe since Shawn Weatherly was crowned Miss Universe 1980.  She was bi-racial with a black father and white mother.
September 10 - Albin F. Irzyk, American Brigadier General and oldest living veteran of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, dies at age 101.  He was the Commander of the 8th Tank Battalion of the 4th Armored Division of the United States Army during World War II, the Commander of the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment during the Berlin Crisis of 1961, and Assistant Commander of the 4th Infantry Division in South Vietnam.  Irzyk wrote multiple books, including an autobiographical book He Rode Up Front for Patton and Patton's Juggernaut.
September 11 - Kulsoom Nawaz, First Lady of Pakistan, dies at age 68 from lymphoma and cardiac arrest.
September 15 - Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, dies at age 96.  He was notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 in Rio Claro, São Paulo in the southeast of Brazil from hives operated by Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.
September 20 – The MV Nyerere capsizes on Lake Victoria, killing at least 228 passengers.
September 20 - Mohammed Karim Lamrani, 7th Prime Minister of Morocco, dies at age 99.
September 21 - Vitaliy Masol, 3rd Prime Minister of Ukraine, dies at age 89.
September 21 - Trần Đại Quang, 8th President of Vietnam, dies at age 61 from complications of a viral disease.
September 22 – An attack at a military parade kills at least 29 people in Ahvaz, Iran.
September 23 - Charles K. Kao, Hong-Kong-born British-American Nobel electrical engineer and physicist, dies at age 84 of dementia.  He pioneered the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications. In the 1960s, Kao created various methods to combine glass fibers with lasers in order to transmit digital data, which laid the groundwork for the evolution of the Internet. "Communication as we know it, including the Internet, would not exist without fiber optics," said William Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.  Known as the "Godfather of Broadband", the "Father of Fibre Optics", and the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", Kao was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication".
September 28 – A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 2,256 people and injures more than 10,679 others.
September 28 - Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, 8th Prime Minister of Swaziland, dies at age 76.

October 1 - Đỗ Mười, 3rd Prime Minister of Vietnam, dies at age 101.  He was the world's oldest living former head of state.
October 2 – Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, triggering a diplomatic crisis for Saudi Arabia.
October 8 – The IPCC releases its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC, warning that "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" are needed to ensure that global warming is kept below 1.5 °C.
October 9 - Alex Spanos, American billionaire and real estate developer, dies at age 95 of complications from dementia.  He was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL).
October 10 – Hurricane Michael makes landfall at Mexico Beach, Florida, with winds of 155 mph and a minimum pressure of 919 mbar. It is the most intense hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Camille in 1969.
October 15 - Paul Allen, American businessman, co-founder of Microsoft, dies at age 65 from Hodgkin's lymphoma and septic shock.  In March 2018, he was estimated to be the 44th-wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $21.7 billion, revised at the time of his death to $20.3 billion.  He owned two professional sports teams: the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association, and was part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, which joined Major League Soccer in 2009.
October 16 – Canada legalizes the sale and use of cannabis, becoming the second country in the world to do so, after Uruguay in 2013.
October 18 - Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 5th President of the Sudan, dies at age 84.
October 19 - At least 59 people are killed and at least 100 injured when a train runs through a crowd at a Hindu festival in Punjab, India.
October 19 - The European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo is launched on a seven-year journey to Mercury.
October 20 - 700,000 people march through central London demanding a second referendum on the final Brexit deal.  The event is the second most attended protest of the 21st century in the United Kingdom after the "Stop the War" anti-Iraq War march in 2003.
October 20 - President Trump announces that the US will "terminate" the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty over alleged Russian violations.
October 20 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician and Prime Minister, dies at age 80 of heart failure.
October 23 – The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, the world's longest sea crossing bridge, is opened by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
October 27 - 11 people are killed during the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue.
October 28 – The far-right Jair Bolsonaro is elected as the next President of Brazil, with 55% of the vote.
October 29 – Lion Air Flight 610 crashes off the coast of Java, with 189 passengers on board.
October 30 – NASA's Kepler mission ends after the spacecraft runs out of fuel.  It was launched in 2009 and observed 530,506 stars and detected 2,662 planets.
October 30 - Whitey Bulger, American mobster, dies at age 89 from a beating by other inmates.  Federal prosecutors indicted Bulger for 19 murders based on grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former associates. Bulger was the brother of William Bulger, former President of the Massachusetts Senate.  For 12 years, Bulger was second on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, behind Osama bin Laden.

November 1 – NASA's Dawn mission concludes after it runs out of hydrazine fuel.  It was launched in 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres.
November 4 – New Caledonia holds an independence referendum, with 56.4% voting against independence versus 43.6% in favour, meaning it will remain under the authority of France.
November 4 – Serhiy Tkach, Russian-Ukrainian serial killer, dies at age 66 of heart failure.  He was convicted for the killing of 37 women and girls in Ukraine from 1980 to 2005.
November 8 – The Camp Fire ignites in Butte County, California. It becomes California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire, with 88 deaths and 18,804 buildings destroyed.
November 11 – Many nations around the world, particularly ones in Europe and the Commonwealth, along with the United States, celebrate the ending of the World War I centenary with Armistice Day, Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day ceremonies, speeches, parades, and memorials.
November 11 - Douglas Rain, Canadian actor, dies at age 90.  Though primarily a stage actor, he provided the voice of the HAL 9000 computer for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).
November 12 - Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor and actor, dies at age 95 from cardiac arrest with respiratory failure and congestive heart failure and "aspiration pneumonia."
November 19 – Apisai Ielemia, 10th Prime Minister of Tuvalu, dies at age 63.
November 22 - Willie Naulls, American basketball player, dies at age 84 from respiratory failure due to Churg-Strauss syndrome.  He played for 10 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a four-time NBA All-Star with the New York Knicks and won three NBA championships with the Boston Celtics.
November 26 – NASA's InSight probe successfully lands on the surface of Mars.
November 27 – Ukrainian crisis: Ukraine declares martial law after an armed incident in which Russia seized three Ukrainian ships in the disputed Kerch Strait two days earlier.
November 28 – Chinese scientist He Jiankui, at a public conference in Hong Kong, announces that he has altered the DNA of twin human girls born earlier in the month to try to make them resistant to infection with the HIV virus; he also reveals the possible second pregnancy of another gene-modified baby.
November 30 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, dies at age 94 from vascular parkinsonism.  Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd vice president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.  Bush in 1988 defeated Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis, becoming the first incumbent vice president to be elected president in 152 years.  With George W. Bush's victory in the 2000 presidential election, Bush and his son became the second father–son pair to serve as President, following John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Bush was the longest-lived president in U.S. history.

December 1–8 – France experiences its worst civil unrest since the protests of 1968 due to the yellow vests movement. Protests in Paris morph into riots, with hundreds of people injured and thousands arrested; over 100 cars are burned, the Arc de Triomphe is vandalized and numerous other tourist sites are closed, both in the capital and elsewhere in the country.
December 3 – NASA reports the arrival of the OSIRIS-REx probe at Bennu, the agency's first sample-return mission to an asteroid.  It is expected to return with its sample to Earth in 2023.
December 7 – The U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union reports that, by the end of 2018, more than half – a full 51.2 percent – of the world's population are now using the Internet.
December 7 - Belisario Betancur, 26th President of Colombia, dies at age 95 due to a kidney infection.
December 8 - Evelyn Berezin, American computer designer of the first computer-driven word processor, dies at age 93 from cancer.  She also worked on computer-controlled systems for airline reservations.
December 15 – At the Katowice Climate Change Conference, nearly 200 nations agree rules on implementing the 2015 Paris agreement.
December 15 – Girma Wolde-Giorgis, 2nd President of Ethiopia, dies at age 93.
December 18 - Tulsi Giri, 23rd Prime Minister of Nepal, dies at age 92 from liver cancer.
December 21 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 22,445 after its worst week since 2008.
December 22 – A tsunami hits the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, killing at least 430 people and injuring nearly 1,500.
December 22 - Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal and politician, dies at age 87.  Formerly called The Red Prince, he was a senior member of the Saudi royal family. He was notable for his liberal stance, striving for a national Constitution, the full rule of law and equality before the law. He was also the leader of Free Princes Movement.
December 22 - Roberto Suazo Córdova, 29th President of Honduras, dies at age 91 following an ulcer surgical operation.
December 24 - Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian cleric and politician, dies at age 70 while in a coma.
December 26 - Lawrence Roberts, American computer scientist, dies at age 81 from a heart attack.  He was an engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet", and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002. As a program manager and office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies.  The ARPANET was a predecessor to the modern Internet.
December 27 - Richard Arvin Overton, American supercentenarian, dies at age 112 from pneumonia.  He was the oldest verified surviving U.S. World War II veteran and oldest man in the United States. He served in the United States Army. In 2013, he was honored by President Barack Obama.
December 28 - Abdelmalek Benhabyles, Acting President of Algeria, dies at age 97.
December 28 - Shehu Shagari, 6th President of Nigeria, dies at age 93 from a brief illness.

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