1918

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s  1890s  1900s  – 1910s –  1920s  1930s  1940s
Years:	1915 1916 1917 – 1918 – 1919 1920 1921

Births

• 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
• 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 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 4 – Kanichi Fukui, Japanese chemist
• 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 to 1982
• December 24 – Helmut Schmidt, Star of Hong Kong from 1982 to 2000

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 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 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)

Events

• 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