No doubt about it. 2018 was a year of multiple deaths in the entertainment industry. Whether it was natural causes, suicides, illnesses, or drug overdoses, the passing of these beautiful people left a dark hole in this world forever.

Close to 100 notables died in 2018, but we decided to post the twenty that touched our hearts the most.

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Aretha Franklin 

The Queen Of Soul, Aretha Franklin, passed away at her home on August 16th surrounded by family and friends. Franklin had been battling pancreatic cancer for some time. She was 76 years old.

Kim Porter

The most shocking death had to be model and longtime partner of P. Diddy, Kim Porter. According to TMZ, the 48 year old wasn’t feeling well and went to bed early on the night of November 14th, but the next morning the family couldn’t wake her, and they called the paramedics.  At the time of her death, Porter was taking saline and vitamins because she thought she had the flu or pneumonia, but authorities are looking into the possibility that she contracted a disease during a trip to Africa. Toxicology tests are pending too. She is survived by 4 children.

Joseph Jackson

The true founder and father of the Jackson family, Joseph Jackson,  was hospitalized on June 22nd in Las Vegas  in the final stages of terminal pancreatic cancer. He died at a hospice in Las Vegas on June 27, two days after the ninth anniversary of his son Michael’s death and less than a month before his 90th birthday. He was surrounded by his wife and his surviving children. 

XXXTentacion

The rapper (real name Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy) died on June 18th after being shot while shopping for motorcycles in South Florida. TMZ reported that the 20-year-old was leaving a dealership when he was shot at in a “possible drive-by.” XXXTentacion had barely left his house over the past few months, according to the Miami New Times, as he was on modified house arrest while awaiting trial for a number of criminal charges including domestic battery strangulation, false imprisonment and aggravated battery of his pregnant girlfriend.

Anthony Bourdain

The host of CNN’s Parts Unknown was found  On June 8th from an apparent suicide by hanging in his room at Le Chambard hotel in Kaysersberg, France. He was 17 days short of his 62nd birthday. Bourdain was traveling with his friend Eric Ripert, who became worried when Bourdain missed dinner and breakfast. Christian de Rocquigny du Fayel, the public prosecutor for Colmar, said that Bourdain’s body bore no signs of violence, that toxicology tests would determine whether drugs or medications were involved, but that the suicide appeared to be an “impulsive act”. Christian de Rocquigny later disclosed that Bourdain’s toxicology results were negative for narcotics, showing only a trace of a therapeutic nonnarcotic medication.

Margot Kidder

Margot was best known for playing Lois Lane in the wildly popular Superman movies. Kidder died on May 13, 2018, at her house in Livingston, Montana, at the age of 69. She was found unresponsive by a friend. The cause of death was initially not released; her agent stated that “she passed away peacefully in her sleep”, while, in the days following her death, her friend Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: “I’ve been struggling all week with the image of Margie lying helplessly on the floor of her house.”On August 8, 2018, it was reported that Kidder’s death had been ruled a suicide by overdose. The Park County, Montana, coroner said her death was “a result of a self-inflicted drug and alcohol overdose.”

Charlotte Rae

In 2009, The Facts Of Life Star was diagnosed and treated early for pancreatic cancer. However, at the age of 91, she was diagnosed with bone cancer. Rae died at her home in Los Angeles, California on August 5, 2018. She was 92 years old.

Du shon Monique Brown

Du Shon was an actress known for her performances as Nurse Katie Welch on the Fox series Prison Break and Connie in the NBC series Chicago Fire.Brown had one child: a daughter, Zoe. She had one brother and two sisters: Zachary Brown Jr., Zaire King, and Jamyra Siek. Brown checked herself into the hospital earlier in the week of her death, after experiencing chest pains, but was released after undergoing tests. She died at St. James Olympia Fields Hospital on March 23, 2018. The Cook County coroner scheduled an autopsy on March 24, 2018. On May 31, 2018, the Cook County medical examiner confirmed the death was the result of sepsis of an unknown etiology. Obesity and high blood pressure were also cited as the reason of sudden death.

Craig Mack

On March 22th, Craig Jamieson Mack died at the age of 47 from heart failure at a hospital near his home at Walterboro, South Carolina. According to DJ Scratch he was ill for some time before his passing and was prepared for a grim outcome. Mack was apparently suffering from heart failure, having developed shortness of breath from around six months before his death when, according to rapper Erick Sermon, he called his friends to bid farewell. Following Mack’s death, Sermon wrote on Twitter that he was finishing work on Craig Mack’s new album.

Reg E. Cathey

Cathey died at his home in New York City on February 9, 2018, at the age of 59. He was reported to have had lung cancer. He’s best known as portraying Norman Wilson on The Wire.

Nancy Wilson

Nancy died at the age of 81 on December 13th this year. In March 2008, she was hospitalized for lung complications, recovered, and claimed to be doing well. On December 13, 2018, Wilson died at her home in Pioneertown, California after a long battle with kidney cancer. She was 81 years old.

President George Bush And First Lady Barbara Bush

First Lady Barbara Bush passed away at the age of 92 after multiple recent hospital stays. Bush was diagnosed with Graves’ Disease in 1988. Later on, she suffered from congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Bush was a heavy smoker for 25 years, quitting in 1968 when a nurse condemned her smoking in her hospital room after surgery. President George Bush died 7 months after his wife at the age of 94. Bush lying in state in the Capitol rotunda. Bush suffered from vascular parkinsonism, a form of Parkinson’s Disease which had forced him to use a motorized scooter or wheelchair since at least 2012. George H.W. Bush died on November 30, 2018, at his home in Houston.

Dennis Edwards

The lead singer of the Temptations died back in February at the age of 74 at a Chicago hospital two days before his 75th birthday. Edwards  had been battling meningitis before his death. He is survived by a daughter who he shares with singer Ruth Pointer.

Penny Marshall

Penny Marshall, best known for her role as Laverne DeFazio on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley, died in Los Angeles from complications of diabetes on December 17, 2018, at the age of 75. Marshall is also known for directing a few blockbusters like Big, A League Of Their Own, Jumping Jack Flash, and The Preacher’s Wife.

Verne Troyer

Verne Troyer was best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series. He stood out because he was only 2 ft 8 as a result of cartilage-hair hypoplasiaVerne was listed as one of the shortest men in the world. OnApril 21, 2018, Troyer died at the age of 49. No cause was immediately released. His death was reported as a possible suicide to the coroner, who found very high alcohol levels in his body, suggesting and later confirming alcohol poisoning as the cause.

Mac Miller

Malcolm James McCormick  Miller died of a drug overdose in his Studio City home on September 7, 2018. He was found unresponsive around noon that day, after a friend called for an “immediate dispatch” for a man in cardiac arrest, according to a 911 call. Miller was pronounced dead at the scene. He was only 26. On November 5, 2018, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office determined that Miller died from an accidental drug overdose due to a “mixed drug toxicity” of fentanyl, alcohol, and cocaine.

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds was a living legend in Tinseltown. From the small screen to the big screen, that mustache made women drool from all over the world. Reynolds died from a heart attack at the Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Florida, on September 6, 2018, at the age of 82. He is survived by one son whom he shared with actress Loni Anderson.

Rev. Billy Graham

As a preacher, Rev. Billy Graham held large indoor and outdoor rallies with sermons broadcast on radio and television; some were still being re-broadcast into the 21st century. In his six decades of television, Graham hosted annual “Crusades”, evangelistic campaigns, which ran from 1947 until his retirement in 2005. Perhaps this is why he is so well known among the masses. The Rev. died of natural causes on February 21, 2018, at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, at the age of 99. Mrs. Graham died back in 2007.

Ensa Cosby

Bill Cosby’s daughter, Ensa Cosby, passed away back in February at the age of 44 in Massachusetts where the Cosby family has a large estate. Bill Cosby’s spokesman revealed that Ensa died from renal disease, with Ensa having suffered from kidney problems throughout her life. Both Ennis, Bill Cosby’s son who was murdered back in 1997, and Ensa are buried in a plot of land known as “Ennis’ Garden” on the Cosby estate in Massachusetts.

Winnie Mandela

Winnie Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela. She served as a Member Of Parliament from 1994 to 2003, and from 2009 until her death, and was a deputy minister of arts and culture from 1994 to 1996. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died at the Netcare Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg on 2 April 2018 at the age of 81. She suffered from diabetes and had recently undergone several major surgeries. She “had been in and out of hospital since the start of the year”.

REST IN PEACE TO ALL….