page_title: 2018 in the United States
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in the United States / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Leah LaBelle during a 2012 interview
context_page_description: This is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States.
context_section_description: January 1
  Robert Mann, violinist and composer (b. 1920)
  Milton P. Rice, politician (b. 1920)
  Jon Paul Steuer, actor and singer (b. 1984)
  Betty Willis,  soul singer (b. 1941)
  January 2
  Frank Buxton, actor, writer, author, and director (b. 1930)
  Emily Dole, professional wrestler (b. 1957)
  Rick Hall, record producer, songwriter, and music publisher (b. 1932)
  Thomas S. Monson, religious leader and writer (b. 1927)
  Betty Woodman, ceramic artist and sculptor (b. 1930)
  January 3
  Fred Bass, bookseller (Strand Bookstore) (b. 1928)
  Heriberto Hermes, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
  Rob Picciolo, baseball player and coach (b. 1953)(
  Alan Sagner, public servant and political fundraiser (b. 1920)
  January 4
  Dick Bestwick, football coach (b. 1930)
  Brendan Byrne, politician (b. 1924)
  Gerard Conley, politician (b. 1929)
  Carmen Cozza, baseball and football player, and coach (b. 1930)
  Bruce Halle, auto parts executive and philanthropist, founder of Discount Tire (b. 1930)
  Jack N. Merritt, army general (b. 1930)
  January 5
  Robert Q. Crane, politician (b. 1926)
  Carole Hart, television writer (b. 1943)
  Norman Lamb, politician (b. 1935)
  Jerry Van Dyke, actor (b. 1931)
  John Young, astronaut (b. 1930)
  January 6
  Horace Ashenfelter, Olympic athlete (b. 1923)
  Thomas Bopp, astronomer (b. 1949)
  Rita Crocker Clements, political organizer (b. 1931)
  Marjorie Holt, politician (b. 1920)
  Bob Jenson, politician (b. 1931)
  William R. Ojala, politician (b. 1925)
  Jimmy Robinson, recording engineer (b. 1950)
  Dave Toschi, police detective (Zodiac Killer) (b. 1931)
  Frank Varrichione, football player (b. 1932)
  January 7
  Will Gay Bottje, composer (b. 1925)
  Joe Ellis Brown, politician (b. 1933)
  Tom Dowling, football coach (b. 1940)
  Anna Mae Hays, military officer and nurse (b. 1920)
  Tom Netherton, singer (b. 1947)
  Dick Young, baseball player (b. 1927)
  Doug Young, voice actor (b. 1919)
  January 8
  Bruce Cole, humanist (b. 1938)
  Geoffrey G. Eichholz, German-born educational leader in health physics (b. 1920)
  Frank Kreith, Austrian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1922)
  Denise LaSalle, singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1939)
  George Lindbeck, Lutheran theologian (b. 1923)
  Kynaston McShine, curator (b. 1935)
  James N. Morgan, economist (b. 1918)
  Chuck Murphy, prelate (b. 1947)
  Myron Rush, Kremlinologist (b. 1921)
  Charles H. Turner, American attorney (b. 1935)
  January 9
  Terence Marsh, British production designer (b. 1931)
  Joseph Wayne Miller, actor (b. 1981)
  Milton J. Rosenberg, psychology professor and radio host (b. 1925)
  January 10
  Charles Davis, Olympic sports shooter (b. 1927)
  John Sherrill Houser, artist (b. 1935)
  William B. Keene, judge (b. 1925)
  Katherine Kellgren, narrator and actress (b. 1969)
  Tom Luken, politician (b. 1925)
  Doreen Tracey, British-born American performer (b. 1943)
  January 11
  Doug Barnard Jr., politician (b. 1922)
  Gene Cole, athlete (b. 1928)
  Stephane Gauger, Vietnamese-born film director and screenwriter (b. 1969)
  Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., lawyer (b. 1929)
  John W. Hennessey Jr, academic (b. 1925)
  Edgar Ray Killen, Ku Klux Klan leader and convicted murderer (b. 1925)
  January 12
  Lisa Chedekel, journalist (b. 1960)
  Frankie Muse Freeman, civil rights attorney (b. 1916)
  Robert W. Hamilton, legal scholar (b. 1931)
  Keith Jackson, sports commentator, journalist, author, and radio personality (b. 1928)
  John V. Tunney, politician (b. 1934)
  January 13
  Jean Porter, actress (b. 1922)
  Naomi Stevens, actress (b. 1925)
  January 14
  Barbara Cope, rock 'n' roll groupie (b. 1950)
  Paul Lustig Dunkel, American flutist and conductor (b. 1943)
  Dan Gurney, racing driver (b. 1931)
  Bill Hughes, jazz trombonist (b. 1930)
  Mario Martinez, weightlifter (b. 1957)
  Samuel A. Schreiner Jr., writer (b. 1921)
  Milton Shadur, federal judge (b. 1924)
  Marlene VerPlanck, jazz singer (b. 1933)
  Hugh Wilson, film director and television producer (b. 1943)
  January 15
  Romana Acosta Bañuelos, public servant (b. 1925)
  Bob Barton, baseball player (b. 1941)
  Anshel Brusilow, American violinist and conductor (b. 1928)
  Edwin Hawkins, musician (b. 1943)
  Dick King, American politician (b. 1934)
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caption: Leah LaBelle
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