title: 2018 in the Czech Republic
text: # 2018 in the Czech Republic
  
  Events in the year 2018 in the Czech Republic.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President – Miloš Zeman
  * Prime Minister – Andrej Babiš
  
  ## Events
  
  * January – In the Czech presidential election, 2018, Miloš Zeman defeated Jiří Drahoš and was reelected for a second term in office.
  
  ### Sports
  
  * 9 to 25 February – Czech Republic participated at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, with 93 competitors in 13 sports
  * 9 to 18 March – Czech Republic participated at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1 January – Jakub Zedníček [cs], actor, tap dancer and presenter (b. 1990)
  * 2 January – Rudolf Anděl [cs], historian and academic (b. 1924).
  * 2 January – Karel Makonj [cs], puppet theatre director and theorist (b. 1947)
  * 8 January – Vojtěch Lindaur, journalist and record producer (b. 1957).
  * 2 March – Ota Filip, novelist and journalist (b. 1930)
  * 16 March – Otomar Kvěch, composer (b. 1950).
  * 17 March – Zdeněk Mahler, writer, musicologist, pedagogue and screenwriter (b. 1928)
  * 22 March – Jan Kantůrek, translator (b. 1948)
  * 22 March – Dagmar Lieblová [de], Holocaust survivor, Germanist and translator, Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk recipient (b. 1929).
  * 24 March – Karel Stretti [cs], art restorer (b. 1943).
  * 13 April – Miloš Forman, film director (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt), Oscar winner (1975, 1984) (b. 1932).
  * 20 April – Pavel Šrut, poet (b. 1940)
  * 1 May – Pavel Pergl, footballer (b. 1977).
  * 20 May – Jaroslav Brabec, shot putter (b. 1949)
  * 24 June – Pavel Vranský, brigadier general, World War II veteran (b. 1921).
  * 11 July – Václav Glazar, actor (b. 1952).
  