Year (''' 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 "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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- August - " Spanish Flu " Influenza becomes Pandemic ; over twenty-five million people die in the following six months (almost two 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 .
- ---Emma Susan Daugherty Banister becomes the first female sheriff in the United States following the death of her husband, John Riley Banister .
- - Canadian troops, backed by Australia ns, 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.
- --- Fanya Kaplan tries to shoot Lenin . Petrograd head of Cheka is assassinated the same day.
- January 1 - Patrick Anthony Porteous , Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 2000 )
- January 10 - Arthur Chung , President Of Guyana
- January 15 - Gamal Abdal Nasser , 2nd President Of Egypt (d. 1970 )
- January 16
- --- Nel Benschop , Dutch poet (d. 2005 )
- --- Stirling Silliphant , American writer and producer (d. 1996 )
- January 19 - John H. Johnson , American publisher (d. 2005 )
- January 20 - Juan García Esquivel , Mexican bandleader (d. 2002 )
- January 21 - Richard D. Winters , U.S. Army officer
- 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
- --- Nicolae Ceauşescu , Romanian dictator (d. 1989 )
- --- Philip José Farmer , American writer
- January 27
- --- Skitch Henderson , English-born musician and bandleader (d. 2005 )
- --- Elmore James , American musician (d. 1963 )
- January 29 - John Forsythe , American actor
- February 1 - Muriel Spark , Scottish author (d. 2006 )
- February 2 - Hella Haasse , Dutch writer
- February 3
- --- Helen Stephens , American runner (d. 1994 )
- --- Joey Bishop , Television Talk Show host & co-host
- February 4 - Janet Waldo , American Actress & Voice Artist, (voice of Judy Jetson on The Jetsons )
- February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim , German author (d. 2007 )
- February 7 - Markey Robinson , Irish painter (d. 1999 )
- February 8 - Fred Blassie , American professional wrestler (d. 2003 )
- February 12 - Julian Schwinger , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994 )
- February 15 - Allan Arbus , Dr. Sidney Freedman on '' 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.
- February 22
- --- Don Pardo , '' Saturday Night Live '' Announcer
- --- Robert Pershing Wadlow , American tallest man record-holder (d. 1940 )
- --- Charlie Finley , Owner of the Oakland A's 1960-80 (d. 1996 )
- February 25
- --- Barney Ewell , American athlete (d. 1996 )
- --- Bobby Riggs , American tennis player (d. 1995 )
- February 26 - Theodore Sturgeon , American writer (d. 1985 )
- March 1
- --- Roger Delgado , British actor (d. 1973 )
- --- João Goulart , President Of Brazil (d. 1976 )
- March 3
- --- Arthur Kornberg , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- --- Fritz Thiedemann , German equestrian (d. 2000 )
- March 4 - Margaret Osborne DuPont , former American female tennis player
- March 5 - James Tobin , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )
- March 8 - Alan Hale, Jr , The Skipper on Gilligan's Island (d. 1990 )
- March 9
- --- George Lincoln Rockwell , American Nazi leader (d. 1967 )
- --- Mickey Spillane , American writer (d. 2006 )
- 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 , baseball player (d. 1968 )
- --- Bob Broeg , American sports writer (d. 2005 )
- March 22 - Cheddi Jagan , President Of Guyana (d. 1997 )
- March 25 - Howard Cosell , American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995 )
- March 29
- --- Pearl Bailey , American singer and actress (d. 1990 )
- --- Sam Walton , founder of Wal-Mart (d. 1992 )
- April 8 - Betty Ford , First Lady Of The United States
- April 9 - Jørn Utzon , Danish architect
- 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 20 - Kai Siegbahn , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 22 - Mickey Vernon , baseball player
- April 26 - Fanny Blankers-Koen , Dutch athlete (d. 2004 )
- May 1 - Jack Paar , American television show host (d. 2004 )
- May 3 - Benjamin C. Thompson , American architect (d. 2002 )
- May 9
- --- Mike Wallace , American journalist
- --- Orville L. Freeman , American politician (d. 2003 )
- May 11 - Richard Feynman , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988 )
- May 12 - Julius Rosenberg , American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953 )
- May 15
- --- Eddy Arnold , American singer
- --- Joseph Wiseman , Canadian actor
- 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 , major league baseball player and politician (d. 2007 )
- May 27 - Yasuhiro Nakasone , Prime Minister of Japan , 1982-87
- May 30 (towards) - Károly Doncsecz , Slovenian potter, ''Master of folk art'' (d. 2002 )
- July 4
- --- Ann Landers , American advice columnist (d. 2002 )
- --- Abigail Van Buren , American advice columnist and twin sister to Ann Landers
- --- Taufa'ahau Tupou IV , King of Tonga (d. 2006 )
- July 5 - George Rochberg , American composer (d. 2005 )
- July 6 - Sebastian Cabot , American Actor (d. 1977 )
- July 9 - Jarl Wahlström , Salvation Army General (d. 1999 )
- 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 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
- September 3 - Helen Wagner , American actress/Soap opera star
- September 4 - Paul Harvey , American radio broadcaster
- September 8 - Derek Harold Richard Barton , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )
- September 13 - Rosemary Kennedy , President JFK 's lobotomized sister (d. 2005 )
- September 17 - Chaim Herzog , 6th President of Israel 1983–93 (d. 1997 )
- September 19 - Robert S. Strauss , Democratic National Committee Chairman, Jimmy Carter 's Presidential Campaign Chairman.
- 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 )
- 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 , Coordinated Watergate break-in (d. 2007 )
- October 17 - Rita Hayworth , American actress (d. 1987 )
- October 18 - Constantine Mitsotakis , former Greek Prime Minister
- October 19 - Louis Althusser , French philosopher (d. 1990 )
- October 27
- --- Mihkel Mathiesen , Estonian statesman (d. 2003 )
- --- Teresa Wright , American actress (d. 2005 )
- October 31 - Ian Stevenson , American parapsychologist
- November 3
- --- Bob Feller , baseball player
- --- Elizabeth P. Hoisington , American Brigadier General (d. 2007 )
- --- Russell B. Long , U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003 )
- --- Dean Riesner , film and television screenwriter (d. 2002 )
- November 4 - Art Carney , American actor (d. 2003 )
- November 7 - Billy Graham , American Evangelist, Spiritual Adviser to Multiple U.S. Presidents
- November 9 - Spiro Agnew , American Vice President (d. 1996 )
- November 10 - Ernst Otto Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 13 - Jack Elam , American actor (d. 2003 )
- November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle , American author
- November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr , American Actor ~ Voice Reading the Audio Bible
- 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
- December 12 - Joe Williams , American jazz singer (d. 1999 )
- December 15 - Jeff Chandler , American actor (d. 1961 )
- December 21
- --- Donald Regan , Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (d. 2003 )
- --- Kurt Waldheim , President Of Austria and Secretary-General Of The United Nations (d. 2007 )
- December 23
- --- José Greco , Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001 )
- --- Helmut Schmidt Head Of State ~ Chancellor Of Germany 1974-82
- December 25 - Anwar Sadat , President Of Egypt , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1981 )
- January 6 - Georg Cantor , German mathematician (b. 1845 )
- January 8 - Ellis H. Roberts , American politician (b. 1827 )
- 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 10 - Jim McCormick , baseball player (b. 1856 )
- March 13 - César Cui , Lithuanian composer (b. 1835 )
- March 23 - T. P. Cameron Wilson , poet and novelist (killed in action) (b. 1888 )
- 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 )
- April 28 - Gavrilo Princip , assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1894 )
- May 14 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr. , American newspaper publisher (b. 1841 )
- May 19 - Raoul Lufbery , American World War I pilot (b. 1885 )
- June 1 - Roderic Dallas , Australian air ace (killed in action) (b. 1891 )
- June 10 - Arrigo Boito , Italian poet and composer (b. 1842 )
- July 3 - Sultan Mehmed V Of The Ottoman Empire (b. 1844 )
- July 17 ( N.S. ) - Family of Tsar Nicholas II Of Russia (b. 1868 )
- --- Tsarina Alexandra Of Russia (b. 1872 )
- --- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Of Russia (b. 1895 )
- --- Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Of Russia (b. 1897 )
- --- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Of Russia (b. 1899 )
- --- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Of Russia (b. 1901 )
- --- Tsarevich Alexei Of Russia (b. 1904 )
- July 22 - Indra Lal Roy , Indian World War I pilot (killed in combat) (b. 1898 )
- August 1 - John Riley Banister , American law officer, cowboy, and Texas Ranger (b. 1854 )
- August 10 - Jean Brillant , Canadian VC recipient (killed in action) (b. 1890 )
- August 18 - Henry Norwest , Canadian World War I sniper (b. 1884 )
- September 7 - Hector Sanchez , early wrestler in the Lucha Libre style (b. 1884 )
- September 12 - George Reid , fourth Prime Minister Of Australia (b. 1845 )
- September 28 - Georg Simmel , German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858 )
- October 5 - Roland Garros , French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888 )
- October 11 - Wallace Lloyd Algie , Canadian VC recipient (killed in action) (b. 1891 )
- October 15 - Shirdi Sai Baba , Indian Guru and Fakir (b. circa 1838 )
- 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 , tenth president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838 )
- December 11 - Ivan Cankar , Slovenian writer (b. 1876 )
- December 28 - Olavo Bilac , Brazilian poet (b. 1865 )
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