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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 Monday1 of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1918
January
February
February 5: The SS Tuscania (1914) is torpedoed off the Irish coast, it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
March
April
May
June
An Austro-Hungarian warship is sunk by an Italian powerboat in 1918 during the First World War
July
- 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.
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
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 17 – George M. Leader, American politician
- January 19 – John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
- January 20 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
- January 21
- January 22 – Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
- 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 (d. 2009)
- 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
- Ida Lupino, English actress, screenwriter, director/producer (d. 1995)
- 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
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)
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 10 – T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician
- 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 2 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller
- June 4 – Johnny Klein, American drummer (d. 1997)
- June 6 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009)
- June 8 – Robert Preston, American actor (The Music Man) (d. 1987)
- June 9 – John Hospers, American philosopher
- June 10 Patachou, French singer
- June 18
- June 27 – Willy Breinholst, Danish humorist and writer (d. 2009)
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)
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 10 – Abdelbasset Gemiey, Egyptian lawyer (d.1983)
- 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)
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)
Deaths
January–June
- January 6 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (born 1845)
- January 8
- 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 2 – Jüri Vilms, Estonian politician (born 1889)
- 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)
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 10 – Aleksander Uurits, Estonian painter and graphic artist (born 1888)
- 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 29 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian composer (born 1873)
- 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)
Nobel Prizes
Notes
- ^ "Calendar in year 1918 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage: Julian-1918 (Romania used Julian in 1919, when Russia adopted Gregorian).
- ^ Pitt, Barrie (2003). 1918: The Last Act. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 0850529743.
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