
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ==Events== ===January-February=== * January 8 - President of the United States Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. * January 24 - a decree of the Council of People's Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia since February 1, issued * January 28 - Vladimir Lenin decrees the establishment of the Red Army. * February 1 - Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar. * February 3 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service in San Francisco as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long). * February 8 - The Stars and Stripes newspaper * February 14 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (1 February according to the Julian calendar). As a consequence the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, previously October, now falls in November. * February 16 - Lithuania declares its independence from both Russia and Germany * February 24 - Estonia declares its independence from Russia * February 26 – Hong Kong Jockey Club burns – 604 dead ===March-April=== * March 1 - German submarine Unterseeboot 19 sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island, Nothern Ireland. * March 3 - World War I: Germany, Austria and Bolshevist Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in the war. * March 5 - The Soviet Russia moves its national capital from Petrograd to Moscow * March 6 - Finnish Air Force founded. The blue swastika is adopted as its symbol as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen who donated the first plane. Von Rosen had painted the Buddhist symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia. * March 7 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. * March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia * March 19 - The Congress of the United States establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST went into effect on March 31). * March 21 - World War I: Battle of the Somme (1918) begins * March 23 - The giant German cannon Big Bertha begins to shell Paris from 114 km (75 miles) away * March 23 - In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo (William E Robinson, US-born magician) dies during his trick where he was supposed to "catch" two separate bullets – one of them perforates his lung. He dies the following morning in hospital. * March 25 - for the first time Belarus declares independence. * April 1 - The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service are merged to form the Royal Air Force. ===May-July=== *May 2 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. * May 15 - The Post Office Department (later renamed the United States Postal Service) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC). * May 16 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by US Congress. * May 26 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established. * May 28 - Armenia gains independence from the Ottoman Empire * June 1 - World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins. * July - The Siberian Expedition is launched to extract the Czechoslovak Legion from the Russian civil war. * July 4 - Change of Ottoman Emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mehmed V (Resad) (1909-1918) to Mehmed VI (Vahdettin) (1918-1922) * July 9 - Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101. * July 15 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack. * July 16 - Russian Revolution: At Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family. ===August-October=== * August - "Spanish Flu" Influenza becomes pandemic; over twenty-five million people die in the following six months (three times as many as died during the war). * August 1 - British anti-Bolshevik forces occupy Archangel, Russia. August 10 commander is told to help White Russians * August 1 - Emma Susan Daugherty Banister becomes the first female sheriff in the United States following the death of her husband, John Riley Banister. * August 8 - World War I: Battle of Amiens - Canada troops, backed by Australians, begin a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines. German General Erich Ludendorff will later call this the "black day of the German army." * August 30 - Strike of 20,000 London policemen with demands of increased pay and union recognition. * [[August 30[[ - Fanya Kaplan tries to shoot Lenin. Petrograd head of Cheka is assassinated the same day. * September 11 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship. * October 3 - Wilhelm II of Germany makes Max von Baden a German chancellor. * October 3 - Poland declares independence. * October 8 - World War I - In the Argonne Forest in France, US Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132. * October 28 - Czechoslovakia gains its independence from Austria-Hungary. * October 28 - New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe) ===November=== * November 1 - Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 death. * November 3 - World War I: Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies. * November 3 - Poland declares its independence from Russia. * November 6 - A new Polish government is proclaimed in Lublin. * November 8 - German army withdraws its support of the Kaiser * November 9 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands. * November 9 - Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be a republic. * November 11 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. * November 11 - Poland's Jozef Pilsudski is offered the position of head of state by all existing governments. Independence Day. * November 11 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates. * November 12 - Austria becomes a republic. * November 14 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. * November 14 - Jozef Pilsudski becomes the head of state to Poland * November 16 - Hungary declares independence from Austria * November 18 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia. * November 22 - Spartacist League founds German Communist Party ===December=== * December 1 - Iceland becomes a self-governing kingdom, yet remains united with Denmark. * December 1 - New voting laws in Sweden. Votes no longer dependent on taxable assets. One person, one vote. * December 1 - Proclamation of Union of Alba Iulia. Following the March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina, Transylvania unites with Romania. * December 1 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. * December 4 - US President Woodrow Wilson sails for the Paris_Peace_Conference,_1919, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. *December 27 - Beginning of Great Poland Uprising, the Poles in Greater Poland (or Grand Duchy of Poznan rise against the Germans. *December 28 - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz becomes the first woman elected to the House of Commons. ===Unknown dates=== * Finnish Civil War between the Reds and the Whites, January - April. *Habsburg Empire ceases to exist. *Grand Duchy of Baden ceases to exist. * British occupy Palestine (region) * Katla erupts in Iceland. * Native American Church is founded. * Ernest Ansermet founds the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. * John Riley Banister becomes sherrif of Coleman County, Texas. * Clifton Hillegass, American author born (d. 2001) ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 15 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970) * January 16 - Stirling Silliphant, writer and producer (d. 1996) * January 20 - Esquivel, musician (d. 2002) * January 25 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster * January 26 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989) **Philip José Farmer, American science fiction writer * January 27 - Skitch Henderson, American musician and band leader * January 29 - John Forsythe, American actor * February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish author * February 3 - Helen Stephens, American sprinter (d. 1994) * February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author * February 8 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) * February 17 - William Bronk, American Poet (d. 1999) * February 22 - Robert Pershing Wadlow, American, the tallest recorded man in history (d. 1940) * February 25 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996) **Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995) * February 26 - Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (d. 1985) * February 27 - William Jefferson Blythe III, American, the father of President Bill Clinton (d. 1946) ===March-April=== * March 1 - Roger Delgado, British actor (d. 1973) **João Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976) * March 3 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000) * March 5 - James Tobin, American economist (d. 2002) * March 9 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967) **Mickey Spillane, American mystery writer * March 10 - Heywood Hale Broun, American sports journalist and commentator (d. 2001) * March 11 - Jack Coe, American evangelist (d. 1956) * March 12 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989) * March 16 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) * March 17 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004) * March 18 - Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (d. 1968) * March 25 - Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995) * March 29 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990) * April 9 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect * April 16 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002) * April 22 - Mickey Vernon, Major League Baseball player, 7-time All-Star * April 26 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004) ===May-August=== * May 9 - Mike Wallace (journalist), American journalist * May 9 - Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003) * May 11 - Richard Feynman, American physicist (d. 1988) * May 12 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, American born Soviet spy (d. 1953) * May 15 - Eddy Arnold, American singer * May 16 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (d. 2000) * May 17 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano * June 18 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist (d. 2003) * July 4 - Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002) * 4 July - Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist and twin sister to Ann Landers * July 5 - George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005) * July 13 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955) * July 14 - Ingmar Bergman Swedish film director * July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian scientist (d. 2003) * July 18 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa * July 24 - Ruggiero Ricci, Italian-born violinist * July 27 - Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984) * July 31 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate * August 3 - Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999) * August 8 - Brian Stonehouse, English painter and World War II spy (d. 1998) * August 13 - Frederick Sanger, English biochemist * August 25 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990) * August 30 - Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002) ===September-December=== * September 4 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster * September 22 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988) * October 8 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate * October 19 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (d. 1990) * November 4 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003) * December 8 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004) * December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer * December 12 - Joe Williams (jazz singer), American jazz singer (d. 1999) * December 15 - Jeff Chandler (actor), American actor (d. 1961) * December 21 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (d. 2003) **Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations and List of Federal Presidents of Austria * December 23 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001) * December 25 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt (d. 1981) ==Deaths== * January 6 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845) * January 9 - Émile Reynaud, French science teacher and maker of the first animated films (b. 1844) * January 28 - John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (b. 1872) * February 6 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862) * March 13 - César Cui, Lithuanian composer (b. 1835) * March 25 - Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862) * March 27 - Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838) * May 14 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841) * May 19 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (b. 1885) * June 4 - Russian Orthodox martyrs Archbishop Andronicus of Perm and Archbishop Basil of Chernigov * 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 12 - George Reid (Australian politician), fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845) * September 28 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858) * October 14 - Samuel Hamilton 'Hamby' Shore, hockey player (b. 1886) * November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880) * November 19 - Joseph Fielding Smith (1838-1918), president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838) ==Nobel Prizes== * Nobel Prize in Physics - Max Planck * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Fritz Haber * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - not awarded * Nobel Prize in literature - not awarded * Nobel Peace Prize - not awarded 1918 bs:1918 la:1918 nds:1918 os:1918 se:1918 sq:1918 scn:1918 simple:1918
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1915 1916 1917 - 1918 - 1919 1920 1921 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ==Events== ===January-February=== * January 8 - President of the United States Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. * January 24 - a decree of the Council of People's Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia since February 1, issued * January 28 - Vladimir Lenin decrees the establishment of the Red Army. * February 1 - Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar. * February 3 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service in San Francisco as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long). * February 8 - The Stars and Stripes newspaper * February 14 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (1 February according to the Julian calendar). As a consequence the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, previously October, now falls in November. * February 16 - Lithuania declares its independence from both Russia and Germany * February 24 - Estonia declares its independence from Russia * February 26 – Hong Kong Jockey Club burns – 604 dead ===March-April=== * March 1 - German submarine Unterseeboot 19 sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island, Nothern Ireland. * March 3 - World War I: Germany, Austria and Bolshevist Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in the war. * March 5 - The Soviet Russia moves its national capital from Petrograd to Moscow * March 6 - Finnish Air Force founded. The blue swastika is adopted as its symbol as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen who donated the first plane. Von Rosen had painted the Buddhist symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia. * March 7 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. * March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia * March 19 - The Congress of the United States establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST went into effect on March 31). * March 21 - World War I: Battle of the Somme (1918) begins * March 23 - The giant German cannon Big Bertha begins to shell Paris from 114 km (75 miles) away * March 23 - In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo (William E Robinson, US-born magician) dies during his trick where he was supposed to "catch" two separate bullets – one of them perforates his lung. He dies the following morning in hospital. * March 25 - for the first time Belarus declares independence. * April 1 - The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service are merged to form the Royal Air Force. ===May-July=== *May 2 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. * May 15 - The Post Office Department (later renamed the United States Postal Service) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC). * May 16 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by US Congress. * May 26 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established. * May 28 - Armenia gains independence from the Ottoman Empire * June 1 - World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins. * July - The Siberian Expedition is launched to extract the Czechoslovak Legion from the Russian civil war. * July 4 - Change of Ottoman Emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mehmed V (Resad) (1909-1918) to Mehmed VI (Vahdettin) (1918-1922) * July 9 - Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101. * July 15 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack. * July 16 - Russian Revolution: At Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family. ===August-October=== * August - "Spanish Flu" Influenza becomes pandemic; over twenty-five million people die in the following six months (three times as many as died during the war). * August 1 - British anti-Bolshevik forces occupy Archangel, Russia. August 10 commander is told to help White Russians * August 1 - Emma Susan Daugherty Banister becomes the first female sheriff in the United States following the death of her husband, John Riley Banister. * August 8 - World War I: Battle of Amiens - Canada troops, backed by Australians, begin a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines. German General Erich Ludendorff will later call this the "black day of the German army." * August 30 - Strike of 20,000 London policemen with demands of increased pay and union recognition. * [[August 30[[ - Fanya Kaplan tries to shoot Lenin. Petrograd head of Cheka is assassinated the same day. * September 11 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship. * October 3 - Wilhelm II of Germany makes Max von Baden a German chancellor. * October 3 - Poland declares independence. * October 8 - World War I - In the Argonne Forest in France, US Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132. * October 28 - Czechoslovakia gains its independence from Austria-Hungary. * October 28 - New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe) ===November=== * November 1 - Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 death. * November 3 - World War I: Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies. * November 3 - Poland declares its independence from Russia. * November 6 - A new Polish government is proclaimed in Lublin. * November 8 - German army withdraws its support of the Kaiser * November 9 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands. * November 9 - Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be a republic. * November 11 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. * November 11 - Poland's Jozef Pilsudski is offered the position of head of state by all existing governments. Independence Day. * November 11 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates. * November 12 - Austria becomes a republic. * November 14 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. * November 14 - Jozef Pilsudski becomes the head of state to Poland * November 16 - Hungary declares independence from Austria * November 18 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia. * November 22 - Spartacist League founds German Communist Party ===December=== * December 1 - Iceland becomes a self-governing kingdom, yet remains united with Denmark. * December 1 - New voting laws in Sweden. Votes no longer dependent on taxable assets. One person, one vote. * December 1 - Proclamation of Union of Alba Iulia. Following the March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina, Transylvania unites with Romania. * December 1 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. * December 4 - US President Woodrow Wilson sails for the Paris_Peace_Conference,_1919, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. *December 27 - Beginning of Great Poland Uprising, the Poles in Greater Poland (or Grand Duchy of Poznan rise against the Germans. *December 28 - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz becomes the first woman elected to the House of Commons. ===Unknown dates=== * Finnish Civil War between the Reds and the Whites, January - April. *Habsburg Empire ceases to exist. *Grand Duchy of Baden ceases to exist. * British occupy Palestine (region) * Katla erupts in Iceland. * Native American Church is founded. * Ernest Ansermet founds the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. * John Riley Banister becomes sherrif of Coleman County, Texas. * Clifton Hillegass, American author born (d. 2001) ==Births== ===January-February=== * January 15 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970) * January 16 - Stirling Silliphant, writer and producer (d. 1996) * January 20 - Esquivel, musician (d. 2002) * January 25 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster * January 26 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989) **Philip José Farmer, American science fiction writer * January 27 - Skitch Henderson, American musician and band leader * January 29 - John Forsythe, American actor * February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish author * February 3 - Helen Stephens, American sprinter (d. 1994) * February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author * February 8 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) * February 17 - William Bronk, American Poet (d. 1999) * February 22 - Robert Pershing Wadlow, American, the tallest recorded man in history (d. 1940) * February 25 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996) **Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995) * February 26 - Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (d. 1985) * February 27 - William Jefferson Blythe III, American, the father of President Bill Clinton (d. 1946) ===March-April=== * March 1 - Roger Delgado, British actor (d. 1973) **João Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976) * March 3 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000) * March 5 - James Tobin, American economist (d. 2002) * March 9 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967) **Mickey Spillane, American mystery writer * March 10 - Heywood Hale Broun, American sports journalist and commentator (d. 2001) * March 11 - Jack Coe, American evangelist (d. 1956) * March 12 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989) * March 16 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) * March 17 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004) * March 18 - Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (d. 1968) * March 25 - Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995) * March 29 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990) * April 9 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect * April 16 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002) * April 22 - Mickey Vernon, Major League Baseball player, 7-time All-Star * April 26 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004) ===May-August=== * May 9 - Mike Wallace (journalist), American journalist * May 9 - Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003) * May 11 - Richard Feynman, American physicist (d. 1988) * May 12 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, American born Soviet spy (d. 1953) * May 15 - Eddy Arnold, American singer * May 16 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (d. 2000) * May 17 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano * June 18 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist (d. 2003) * July 4 - Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002) * 4 July - Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist and twin sister to Ann Landers * July 5 - George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005) * July 13 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955) * July 14 - Ingmar Bergman Swedish film director * July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian scientist (d. 2003) * July 18 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa * July 24 - Ruggiero Ricci, Italian-born violinist * July 27 - Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984) * July 31 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate * August 3 - Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999) * August 8 - Brian Stonehouse, English painter and World War II spy (d. 1998) * August 13 - Frederick Sanger, English biochemist * August 25 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990) * August 30 - Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002) ===September-December=== * September 4 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster * September 22 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988) * October 8 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate * October 19 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (d. 1990) * November 4 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003) * December 8 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004) * December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer * December 12 - Joe Williams (jazz singer), American jazz singer (d. 1999) * December 15 - Jeff Chandler (actor), American actor (d. 1961) * December 21 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (d. 2003) **Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations and List of Federal Presidents of Austria * December 23 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001) * December 25 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt (d. 1981) ==Deaths== * January 6 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845) * January 9 - Émile Reynaud, French science teacher and maker of the first animated films (b. 1844) * January 28 - John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (b. 1872) * February 6 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862) * March 13 - César Cui, Lithuanian composer (b. 1835) * March 25 - Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862) * March 27 - Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838) * May 14 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841) * May 19 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (b. 1885) * June 4 - Russian Orthodox martyrs Archbishop Andronicus of Perm and Archbishop Basil of Chernigov * 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 12 - George Reid (Australian politician), fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845) * September 28 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858) * October 14 - Samuel Hamilton 'Hamby' Shore, hockey player (b. 1886) * November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880) * November 19 - Joseph Fielding Smith (1838-1918), president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838) ==Nobel Prizes== * Nobel Prize in Physics - Max Planck * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Fritz Haber * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - not awarded * Nobel Prize in literature - not awarded * Nobel Peace Prize - not awarded 1918 bs:1918 la:1918 nds:1918 os:1918 se:1918 sq:1918 scn:1918 simple:1918
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