1918
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1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar, and a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s |
Years: | 1915 1916 1917 – 1918 – 1919 1920 1921 |
Births[change | change source]
- January 2 – Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, German type designer and educator
- January 15 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (d. 1970)
- February 22 – Robert Wadlow, American record holder, world's tallest man (d. 1940)
- February 26 – Otis R. Bowen, American politician, Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 (d. 2013)
- March 5 – James Tobin, American economist (d. 2002)
- March 29 – Sam Walton, American businessman, Wal-Mart (d. 1992)
- April 8 – Betty Ford, American First Lady, wife of Gerald Ford (d. 2011)
- May 25 – Edith Massey, American actress (d. 1984)
- July 4 – Ann Landers, American writer and advice columnist (d. 2002)
- July 14 – Ingmar Bergman Swedish movie director
- July 18 – Nelson Mandela, South African prisoner of conscience and president (d. 2013)
- August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
- September 4 – Paul Harvey, American radio host
- October 4 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist
- October 17 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
- November 7 – Billy Graham, American religious leader (d. 2018)
- November 9 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
- November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (d. 2007)
- November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)
- December 21 – Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2007)
- December 23 – Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982 (d. 2015)
Deaths[change | change source]
- January 6 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
- January 9 – Émile Reynaud, French science teacher and maker of the first animated movies (b. 1844)
- January 28 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (b. 1872)
- February 6 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
- February 10 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
- March 13 – César Cui, Lithuanian composer (b. 1835)
- March 25 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
- March 27 – Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
- April 20 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
- April 21 – Manfred von Richthofen, "Red Baron", German World War I pilot (b. 1892)
- May 14 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
- May 19 – Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (b. 1885)
- June 10 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (b. 1842)
- July 3 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
- July 17 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868) and his family (executed)
- August 1 – John Riley Banister, law officer, cowboy, and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
- August 18 – Henry Norwest, Canadian World War I sniper (b. 1884)
- September 3 - Fanya Kaplan, attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin (b. 1890)
- September 12 – George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
- September 28 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
- October 15 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. 1838)
- October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American stage and screen actress (b. 1891)
- November 4 – Wilfred Owen, English poet (killed in action) (b. 1893)
- November 9 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
- November 19 – Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
Events[change | change source]
- November 11 – The Armistice ends World War I
- Fire Brigades Union founded in London
- Çanakkale Conquest
- End of German Empire
- End of Austria-Hungary
- End of German colonial Empire
- Foundation of Royal Air Force