1918
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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 |
[change] Births
- January 15 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (d. 1970)
- February 22 - Robert Wadlow, American record holder, Worlds tallest man (d. 1940)
- February 26 - Otis R. Bowen, American politician, Governor of Indiana from 1973-1981
- 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.
- May 25 - Edith Massey, American actress (d. 1984)
- July 4 - Ann Landers, American writer and advice columnist (d. 2002)
- July 14 - Ingmar Bergman Swedish film director
- July 18 - Nelson Mandela, South African prisoner of conscience and president
- August 25 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
- September 4 - Paul Harvey, American radio host
- October 17 - Rita Hayworth, American actress(d. 1987)
- November 7 - Billy Graham, American religious leader
- November 9 - Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
- November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (d. 2007)
- December 21 - Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2007)
- December 23 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany from 1974 - 1982
[change] 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)
- 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 phyicist, 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 12 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
- September 28 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
- 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)
[change] Events
- November 11 - The Armistice ends World War I
- Fire Brigades Union founded in London
- Çanakkale Conquest
