1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1918 [edit] January [edit] February  An Austro-Hungarian warship is sunk by an Italian powerboat in 1918 during the First World War - July 3- The Siberian Expedition is launched to extract the Czechoslovak Legion from the Russian Civil War.
- July 4 – Mehmed VI (1918–1922) succeeds Mehmed V (Resad) (1909–1918) as Ottoman Emperor.
- July 9 – Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101.
- July 12 – , The Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan killing at least 621.
- July 13 – The National Czechoslovak Committee is established.
- July 15 – World War I – Second Battle of the Marne: The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
- July 17 – By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by the Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family, and retainers are executed at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
- July 17 – The RMS Carpathia, rescue ship of the RMS Titanic, is sunk off the coast of Ireland by the German submarine U-55, with 5 lives lost.
[edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November [edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 1 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 2000)
- January 10 – Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
- January 15 – Gamal Abdal Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (d. 1970)
- January 16
- January 19 – John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
- January 20 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
- January 21
- January 23 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
- January 24 – Oral Roberts, American neo-Pentecostal televangelist
- January 25 – Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
- January 26
- January 27
- January 29 – John Forsythe, American actor (Dynasty)
- February 1 – Muriel Spark, Scottish author (d. 2006)
- February 2 – Hella Haasse, Dutch writer
- February 3
- February 4
- February 6 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
- February 7 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (d. 1999)
- February 8 – Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler and novelty singer (Pencil Neck Geek) (d. 2003)
- February 12 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- February 15 – Allan Arbus, American actor (M*A*S*H)
- February 16 – Patty Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters)
- February 17 – William Bronk, American poet (d. 1999)
- February 20 – Ben Klassen, founder of the Creativity racist sect (d. 1993)
- February 22
- February 25
- February 26 – Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
- February 28 – Alfred Burke, British actor
[edit] March–April - March 1
- March 3
- March 4 – Margaret Osborne duPont, former American female tennis player
- March 5 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
- March 9
- March 10 – Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot (d. 2009)
- March 11 – Jack Coe, American evangelist (d. 1956)
- March 12 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
- March 15 – William McIntyre, Canadian Puisne Justice (d. 2009)
- March 16 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- March 17 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
- March 18 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
- March 20 – Jack Barry, American television game show host and producer (d. 1984)
- March 22 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
- March 23 – Émile Derlin Zinsou, President of Benin
- March 25 – Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995)
- March 29
- March 30 – Joseph Allen Jr., American actor (d. 1962)
- April 8 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States
- April 9 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (d. 2008)
- April 16 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
- April 17 – William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
- April 18 – Clifton Hillegass, American author, founder of CliffsNotes (d. 2001)
- April 18 – Gabriel Axel, Danish film director
- April 20 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
- April 22 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008)
- April 22 – William Jay Smith, American poet
- April 26 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
[edit] May–June - May 1 – Jack Paar, American television show host (The Tonight Show) (d. 2004)
- May 3 – Benjamin C. Thompson, American architect (d. 2002)
- May 9
- May 11 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- May 12 – Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953)
- May 15
- May 16 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer (d. 2000)
- May 17 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005)
- May 19 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
- May 20 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
- May 23 – Frank Mancuso, American major league baseball player and politician (d. 2007)
- May 27 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime Minister of Japan
- May 30 – Károly Doncsecz, Slovenian potter, Master of folk art (d. 2002)
- June 4 – Johnny Klein, American drummer (d. 1997)
- June 6 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- June 8 – Robert Preston, American actor (The Music Man) (d. 1987)
- June 18
- June 27 – Willy Breinholst, Danish humorist and writer (d. 2009)
[edit] July–August - July 4
- July 5 – George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
- July 6 – Sebastian Cabot, American actor (Family Affair) (d. 1977)
- July 9 – Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army General (d. 1999)
- July 12 – Mary Glen-Haig, British Olympic fencer
- July 13 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
- July 14 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (d. 2007)
- July 15 – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- July 16 – Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
- July 17 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
- July 18 – Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- July 24 – Ruggiero Ricci, Italian-born violinist
- July 25 – Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
- July 27 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
- July 29 – Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
- July 31 – Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 3 – Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999)
- August 5 – Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (d. 2004)
- August 8 – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and World War II spy (d. 1998)
- August 13 – Frederick Sanger, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
- August 26 – Hutton Gibson, religion writer and father of actor Mel Gibson
- August 30 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
[edit] September–October - September 3 – Helen Wagner, American actress/soap opera star
- September 4 – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
- September 8 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- September 9 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic
- September 13 – Rosemary Kennedy, sister of President of the United States John F. Kennedy (d. 2005)
- September 17 – Chaim Herzog, 6th President of Israel 1983–93 (d. 1997)
- September 21 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007)
- September 22 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
- September 27 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1984)
- September 28 – Angel Labruna, Argentine soccer player and manager (d. 1983)
- October 4 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- October 8 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 9 – E. Howard Hunt, Watergate break-in coordinator (d. 2007)
- October 17 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
- October 18 – Constantine Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister
- October 19
- October 23 – Augusta Dabney, American actress (d. 2008)
- October 27
- October 31 – Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)
[edit] November–December - November 3
- November 4 – Art Carney, American actor (The Honeymooners) (d. 2003)
- November 7 – Billy Graham, American evangelist, spiritual adviser to several U.S. Presidents
- November 9 – Spiro Agnew, American Vice President (d. 1996)
- November 10 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
- November 13 – Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)
- November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author (d. 2007)
- November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (The FBI)
- December 8 – Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
- December 9 – Jerome Beatty, Jr., author of children's literature (d. 2002)
- December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
- December 12 – Joe Williams, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
- December 15 – Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
- December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet/author (d. 1990)
- December 21
- December 23
- December 25 – Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1981)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 6 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (born 1845)
- January 8 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (born 1827)
- January 9 – Émile Reynaud, French inventor (born 1844)
- January 28 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (born 1872)
- February 2 – John L. Sullivan, American boxer (born 1858)
- February 5 – Leonard Monteagle Barlow, British fighter pilot (born 1898)
- February 6 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (born 1862)
- February 10 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1833)
- February 15 – Vernon Castle, American dancer (born 1887)
- February 23 – Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1882)
- March 9 – Frank Wedekind, German playwright (born 1864)
- March 10 – Jim McCormick, Scottish-born American baseball player (born 1856)
- March 13 – César Cui, Lithuanian composer (born 1835)
- March 14 – Lucretia Garfield, Wife of President James Garfield (born 1832)
- March 23 – T. P. Cameron Wilson, English poet and novelist (born 1888)
- March 25 – Claude Debussy, French composer (born 1862)
- March 27
- April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, British war poet (born 1890)
- April 5 – King George Tupou II of Tonga (born 1874)
- April 20 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German phyicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1850)
- April 21 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (born 1892)
- April 28 – Gavrilo Princip, Yugoslav assassin (born 1894)
- May 14 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (born 1841)
- May 19 – Raoul Lufbery, Franco-American fighter pilot (born 1885)
- May 30 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and philosopher (born 1856)
- June 1 – Roderic Dallas, Australian fighter pilot (born 1891)
- June 4 – Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President of the U.S. (born 1852)
- June 10 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (born 1842)
- June 12 – Grand Duke Michael Romanov (born 1878)
[edit] July–December - July 3 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (born 1844)
- July 9 – James McCudden, British fighter pilot (born 1895)
- July 14 – Quentin Roosevelt, Youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, killed in action in World War I (born 1897)
- July 17 (N.S.) – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (born 1868)
- July 17 – Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (born 1872)
- July 17 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (born 1895)
- July 17 – Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (born 1897)
- July 17 – Grand Duchess Mashka Nikolaevna of Russia (born 1899)
- July 17 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (born 1901)
- July 17 – Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (born 1904)
- July 20 – Francis Lupo, American soldier (born 1895)
- July 22 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian fighter pilot (born 1898)
- July 26 – Edward Mannock, British fighter pilot (born 1887)
- July 29 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (born 1863)
- July 30 – Joyce Kilmer, American journalist and poet (born 1886)
- July 31 – George McElroy, British fighter pilot (born 1893)
- August 1 – John Riley Banister, American policeman and cowboy (born 1854)
- August 10 – Jean Brillant, Canadian soldier (born 1890)
- August 12 – Anna Held, French actress (b. 1873)
- August 18 – Henry Norwest, Canadian sniper (born 1884)
- September 12 – George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1845)
- September 28 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1858)
- September 28
- October 5 – Roland Garros, French fighter pilot (born 1888)
- October 5 – Robbie Ross, British writer (born 1869)
- October 9 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French sculptor (born 1876)
- October 11 – Wallace Lloyd Algie, Canadian soldier (born 1891)
- October 15 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and yogi (born 1838)
- October 19 – Harold Lockwood, American actor (born 1887)
- October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (born 1891)
- October 31 – Egon Schiele, Austrian artist (born 1890)
- November 2 – Hugh Cairns, Canadian soldier (born 1896)
- November 4
- November 9 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (born 1880)
- November 11 – George Lawrence Price, Last Commonwealth soldier to die in World War I (born 1892)
- November 19 – Joseph Fielding Smith, American Mormon leader (born 1838)
- December 2 – Edmond Rostand, French writer (born 1868)
- December 11 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (born 1876)
- December 14 – Sidónio Pais, 4th President of Portugal (born 1872)
- December 28 – Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (born 1865)
[edit] Nobel Prizes - ^ "Calendar in year 1918 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage: Julian-1918 (Romania used Julian in 1919, when Russia adopted Gregorian).
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