page_title: 2018 in Switzerland
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in Switzerland / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: De Zwitserse zangeres Lys Assia op Schiphol 17 maart 1957
context_page_description: Events in the year 2018 in Switzerland.
context_section_description: 9 January – Kurt Thalmann, footballer (b. 1931)
  10 January – Urs Fankhauser, rower (b. 1943).
  16 January – Wilhelm Melliger, equestrian (b. 1953)
  1 March – Luigi Taveri, motorcycle road racer (b. 1929)
  19 March – Jürg Laederach, writer (b. 1945)
  24 March – Lys Assia, singer (b. 1924)
  4 May – Alexander Tschäppät, politician (b. 1952)
  19 May – Ernst Sieber, pastor (b. 1927)
  6 July – Gilbert Facchinetti, entrepreneur and football executive, President of Neuchâtel Xamax (b. 1936).
caption: Lys Assia in 1957
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