page_title: 2018
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Van Khai at the ceremony of awarding the Gold Star Medal in Hanoi, January 5, 2008 Tiếng Việt: Thủ tướng Việt Nam Phan Văn Khải trong buổi lễ trao tặng Huân chương Sao vàng tại Hà Nội, ngày 5 tháng 1 năm 2008
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: March 1
  Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
  María Rubio, Mexican actress (b. 1934)
  Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle racer (b. 1929)
  March 2
  Jesús López Cobos, Spanish conductor (b. 1940)
  Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher (b. 1910)
  Carlo Ripa di Meana, Italian politician (b. 1929)
  March 3
  Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete (b. 1929)
  David Ogden Stiers, American actor (b. 1942)
  March 4 – Davide Astori, Italian footballer (b. 1987)
  March 5
  Trevor Baylis, English inventor (b. 1937)
  Hayden White, American historian (b. 1928)
  March 6 – John Sulston, British Nobel biologist and academic (b. 1942)
  March 7
  Reynaldo Bignone,  President of Argentina (b. 1928)
  Marian Schmidt, Polish art photographer and mathematician (b. 1945)
  March 8
  Milko Kelemen, Croatian composer (b. 1924)
  Kate Wilhelm, American author (b. 1928)
  March 9
  Oskar Gröning, German war criminal (b. 1921)
  Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (b. 1927)
  Jung Jae-sung, South Korean badminton player (b. 1982)
  Ralf Waldmann, German motorcycle racer (b. 1966)
  March 11
  Ken Dodd, English comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor (b. 1927)
  Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (b. 1936)
  March 12
  Ken Flach, American tennis player (b. 1963)
  Craig Mack, American rapper (b. 1970)
  Oleg Tabakov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1935)
  March 14
  Alfred W. Crosby, American ecological historian (b. 1931)
  Marielle Franco, Brazilian activist and politician (b. 1979)
  Rubén Galván, Argentine footballer (b. 1952)
  Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b. 1942)
  Adrian Lamo, Colombian-American computer hacker (b. 1981)
  Liam O'Flynn, Irish uilleann piper (b. 1945)
  March 16 – Louise Slaughter, American politician (b. 1929)
  March 17 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1933)
  March 18
  Barkat Gourad Hamadou, 4th Prime Minister of Djibouti (b. 1930)
  Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese writer and politician (b. 1935)
  Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, English politician (b. 1932)
  March 19
  Irina Beglyakova, Russian athlete (b. 1933)
  Keith O'Brien, Scottish cardinal (b. 1938)
  Kedarnath Singh, Indian poet (b. 1934)
  March 20
  Katie Boyle, Italian-English actress (b. 1926)
  Peter George Peterson, American banker (b. 1926)
  William Smith, American Olympic wrestler (b. 1928)
  March 22
  René Houseman, Argentine footballer (b. 1953)
  Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, author, and academic (b. 1911)
  Morgana King, American jazz singer and actress (b. 1930)
  March 23
  DuShon Monique Brown, American actress (b. 1968)
  Debbie Lee Carrington, American actress (b. 1959)
  Philip Kerr, English author (b. 1956)
  Zell Miller, American politician (b. 1932)
  March 24
  José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan conductor and politician (b. 1939)
  Lys Assia, Swiss singer (b. 1924)
  Rim Banna, Palestinian singer and activist (b. 1966)
  March 26 – Sergei Mavrodi, Russian criminal and politician (b. 1955)
  March 27 – Stéphane Audran, French actress (b. 1932)
  March 30
  Aureliano Bolognesi, Italian Olympic boxer (b. 1930)
  Sabahudin Kurt, Bosnian singer (b. 1935)
  André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 9th Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1934)
  Bill Maynard, English comedian and actor (b. 1928)
caption: Phan Văn Khải
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