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1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1918th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 918th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1918, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Births

January

• January 2 – Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, German type designer and educator
• January 15 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (d. 1970)
• January 15 – João Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999)
• January 26 – Nicolae Ceausescu, President of Romania (d. 1989)

February

• February 4 – Ida Lupino, British actress (d. 1995)
• 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 (d. 2013)

March

• March 1 – João Goulart, 24th President of Brazil (d. 1976)
• March 5 – James Tobin, American economist (d. 2002)
• March 29 – Sam Walton, American businessman, Wal-Mart (d. 1992)

April

• April 8 – Betty Ford, American First Lady, wife of Gerald Ford (d. 2011)
• April 17 – William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)

July

• July 4 – Ann Landers, American writer and advice columnist (d. 2002)
• July 14 – Ingmar Bergman Swedish movie director (d. 2007)
• July 18 – Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa (d. 2013)
• July 30 – Rabab Al-Kadhimi, Iraqi physician and poet. (d. 1998)
• July 31 – Pa,ul D. Boyer, American biochemist (d. 2018)

August

• August 19 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (d. 1999)
• August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
• August 28 – Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, President of Argentina (d. 1996)

October

• October 4 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist
• October 8 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist (d. 2018)
• October 17 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
• October 18 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch liberal politician, former leader of the VVD party (d. 1992)

November

• November 7 – Billy Graham, American religious leader (d. 2018)
• November 9 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
• November 26 – Patricio Aylwin, 31st President of Chile (d. 2016)
• November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (d. 2007)
• November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)

December

• 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 (d. 2015)

Deaths

• January 6 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
• January 9 – Émile Reynaud, French science teacher and maker of the first animated movies (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 | Nicholas II Alix of Hesse 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 3 - Fanya Kaplan, attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin (b. 1890)
• September 12 – George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
• September 28 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
• October 15 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. 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, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)

Events

• September 11 – The Boston Red Sox win the 1918 World Series in six games over the Chicago Cubs. This was the Red Sox last championship until 2004. The 1918 World Series was the only one to be played in September. The season ended early due to World War I.
• 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
• The Influenza pandemic of 1918 affected the United States, then lead to the world, which result to 100 million of people dead. The economic could have dropped half of the percent in the world.