page_title: 2018
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Margot Kidder in a publicity photo for Quackser Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970).
context_page_description: 2018 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium, the 18th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.
  2018 was designated as the third International Year of the Reef by the International Coral Reef Initiative.
context_section_description: May 1
  Elmar Altvater, German political scientist (b. 1938)
  Wanda Wiłkomirska, Polish violinist and teacher (b. 1929)
  May 2 – Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (b. 1924)
  May 3 – Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician (b. 1953)
  May 4 – Renate Dorrestein, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1954)
  May 5 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  May 7 – Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (b. 1960)
  May 8
  Anne V. Coates, British film editor (b. 1925)
  George Deukmejian, American politician (b. 1928)
  May 9 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938)
  May 10 – David Goodall, English-Australian scientist (b. 1914)
  May 11 – Gérard Genette, French literary theorist (b. 1930)
  May 12
  Tessa Jowell, British politician (b. 1947)
  Antonio Mercero, Spanish film and television director (b. 1936)
  Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (b. 1945)
  May 13
  Glenn Branca, American composer and musician (b. 1948)
  Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress and activist (b. 1948)
  May 14
  Elaine Edwards, American politician (b. 1929)
  E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (b. 1931)
  William Vance, Belgian comics artist (b. 1935)
  Tom Wolfe, American author and journalist (b. 1930)
  May 15
  José Lavat, Mexican voice actor (b. 1948)
  Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer (b. 1981)
  Ray Wilson, English footballer (b. 1934)
  May 16
  Joseph Campanella, American actor (b. 1924)
  Lucian Pintilie, Romanian film director (b. 1933)
  May 17
  Nicole Fontaine, French politician (b. 1942)
  Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic and historian (b. 1923)
  May 18 – Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Colombian cardinal (b. 1929)
  May 19
  Robert Indiana, American artist (b. 1928)
  Bernard Lewis, British-American historian (b. 1916)
  May 20 – Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915)
  May 21
  Anna Maria Ferrero, Italian actress (b. 1934)
  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)
  Daniela Samulski, German swimmer (b. 1984)
  May 23 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban terrorist (b. 1928)
  May 24
  Gudrun Burwitz, German Neo-Nazi militant (b. 1929)
  Jerry Maren, American actor (b. 1920)
  TotalBiscuit, British gaming commentator and critic (b. 1984)
  May 25 – Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
  May 26
  Alan Bean, American astronaut (b. 1932)
  Ted Dabney, American engineer (b. 1937)
  Roger Piantoni, French footballer (b. 1931)
  May 27
  Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer (b. 1947)
  Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, 44th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1935)
  Donald H. Peterson, American astronaut (b. 1933)
  May 28
  Serge Dassault, French businessman and politician (b. 1925)
  Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress (b. 1941)
  María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1924)
  Dick Quax, Dutch-New Zealand Olympic athlete (b. 1948)
  Jens Christian Skou, Danish medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
  Ola Ullsten, 28th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1931)
caption: Margot Kidder
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