page_title: 2018 in the United States
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in the United States / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Schriftsteller Tome Wolfe auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 1988
context_page_description: This is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States.
context_section_description: May 1
  Arthur Barnard, American sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1929)
  Dennis Claridge, American football player (b. 1942)
  Ninalee Craig, American-born Canadian teacher (b. 1928)
  Carl W. Duckworth, American politician (b. 1955)
  Raymond D. Dzendzel, American politician (b. 1922)
  Phil Gowan, American historian (b. 1953)
  Robert B. Kennedy, American politician (b. 1940)
  Chuck Missler, American evangelist and author (b. 1935)
  John "Jabo" Starks, American drummer (b. 1937)
  Betty Workman, American politician (b. 1925)
  May 2
  Dick Edell, American lacrosse coach (b. 1944)
  James Thorp, American electrical engineer (b. 1937)
  Chris Walsh, American politician (b. 1952)
  May 3
  Jim Argue, American politician (b. 1952)
  Davida Coady, American pediatrician (b. 1938)
  Dan Grimm, American football player (b. 1941)
  David Pines, American physicist (b. 1925)
  Bob Prewitt, American college basketball coach (b. 1925)
  Junior Rodriguez, American politician (b. 1936)
  Joe Scannella, American football coach (b. 1929)
  May 4
  Steve Coy, British-English musician (Dead or Alive), (b. 1962)
  Paul Bloodgood, American artist (b. 1960)
  Edwin G. Burrows, American historian and professor (b. 1944)
  Bobbie Louise Hawkins, American poet and author (b. 1931)
  Larry Hunter, American college basketball coach (b. 1949)
  May 5
  Frederic H. Dustin, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1930)
  Stanley Falkow, American microbiologist (b. 1934)
  Wilson Frost, American politician (b. 1926)
  Aaron D. Panken, American rabbi (b. 1965)
  Dick Williams, American singer (b. 1926)
  Roy Wright, American baseball player (b. 1934)
  May 6
  Sam Aanestad, American politician (b. 1947)
  Raymond Book, American politician (b. 1925)
  Dick Casull, American gunsmith (b. 1931)
  Daniel Cohen, American writer (b. 1936)
  Charles W. Steger, American academic (b. 1948)
  Brad Steiger, American author and paranormal researcher (b. 1936)
  Ray Szmanda, American radio personality (b. 1927)
  May 7
  Crosbie E. Saint, American military officer (b. 1937)
  Gayle Shepherd, American singer (Shepherd Sisters), (b. 1936)
  Scott Wilson, American bodybuilder (b. 1950)
  May 8
  Anne V. Coates, British film editor (b. 1925)
  George Deukmejian, politician; Governor of California (1983–1991) (b. 1928)
  May 9
  Poldine Carlo, American writer (b. 1921)
  Tom Dooley, American football referee (b. 1935)
  Tom Fletcher, American baseball player (b. 1943)
  Richard Haag, American landscape architect (b. 1924)
  May 12
  Billy Brewer, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
  Nick Drahos, American football player (b. 1919)
  Geoffrey Hendricks, American artist (b. 1932)
  Chuck Knox, American football coach (b. 1932)
  Donald Gary Young, American business executive (b. 1949)
  May 13 – Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress and activist (b. 1948)
  May 14 – Tom Wolfe, author and journalist (b. 1930)
  May 15 – Joseph G. Clemons, American soldier (b. 1928)
  May 16
  Joseph Campanella, American actor (b. 1924)
  Hugh Dane, American actor (b. 1942)
  May 17
  Skip Finn, American Ojibwe politician (b. 1949)
  Craig Harbison, American art historian (b. 1944)
  Lawrence Jegen, American legal scholar (b. 1935)
  Anthony Michael Milone, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
  Jon Sholle, American musician (b. 1948)
  Tom Von Ruden, American athlete (b. 1945)
  May 19 – Robert Indiana, American artist (b. 1928)
  May 20 – Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915)
  May 21
  Dovey Johnson Roundtree, civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney (b. 1914)
  Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1926)
  Clint Walker, American actor (b. 1927)
  May 22 – Philip Roth, American writer (b. 1933)
  May 24 – Jerry Maren, American actor (b. 1920)
  May 25 – Bill Mallory, American football player and coach (Indiana Hoosiers, Miami RedHawks, Colorado Buffaloes), (b. 1935)
  May 26
  Alan Bean, astronaut (b. 1932)
  Ted Dabney, electrical engineer and co-founder of Atari, Inc (b. 1937)
  May 27
  John DiFronzo, American mobster (b. 1929)
  Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer and editor (b. 1948)
  Connie Kurtz, American LGBT rights activist (b. 1937)
  Russell Nype, American ac
caption: Tom Wolfe
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