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1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar .
Events
January-February
March-April
May-July
August-October
November
December
Unknown dates
Births
January-February
January 15 - Gamal Abdal Nasser , President of Egypt (d. 1970 )
January 16 - Stirling Silliphant , American writer and producer (d. 1996 )
January 19 - John H. Johnson , American publisher, (d. 2005 )
January 20 - Esquivel , Mexican musician (d. 2002 )
January 25 - Ernie Harwell , American baseball sportscaster
January 26 - Nicolae Ceauşescu , Romanian dictator (d. 1989 )
January 26 - Philip José Farmer , American writer
January 27 - Skitch Henderson , American musician and bandleader
January 29 - John Forsythe , American actor
February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark , Scottish author
February 3 - Helen Stephens , American runner (d. 1994 )
February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim , German author
February 8 - Fred Blassie , American professional wrestler (d. 2003 )
February 12 - Julian Schwinger , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994 )
February 17 - William Bronk , American poet (d. 1999 )
February 22 - Robert Pershing Wadlow , American record-holder as the tallest man (d. 1940 )
February 25 - Barney Ewell , American athlete (d. 1996 )
February 25 - Bobby Riggs , American tennis player (d. 1995 )
February 26 - Theodore Sturgeon , American writer (d. 1985 )
March-April
March 1 - Roger Delgado , British actor (d. 1973 )
March 1 - João Goulart , President of Brazil (d. 1976 )
March 3 - Fritz Thiedemann , German equestrian (d. 2000 )
March 5 - James Tobin , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )
March 9 - George Lincoln Rockwell , American Nazi leader (d. 1967 )
March 9 - Mickey Spillane , American mystery writer
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 )
March 25 - Howard Cosell , American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995 )
March 29 - Pearl Bailey , American singer and actress (d. 1990 )
April 9 - Jørn Utzon , Danish architect
April 16 - Spike Milligan , Irish comedian (d. 2002 )
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-August
May 1 - Jack Paar , American television show host (d. 2004 )
May 9 - Mike Wallace , American journalist
May 9 - 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
May 16 - Wilf Mannion , English footballer (d. 2000 )
May 17 - Birgit Nilsson , Swedish soprano
June 18 - Jerome Karle , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 18 - Franco Modigliani , Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003 )
July 4 - Ann Landers , American advice columnist (d. 2002 )
July 4 - Abigail Van Buren , American advice columnist and twin sister to Ann Landers
July 5 - George Rochberg , American composer (d. 2005 )
July 13 - Alberto Ascari , Italian race car driver (d. 1955 )
July 14 - Ingmar Bergman Swedish film director
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 27 - Leonard Rose , American cellist (d. 1984 )
July 31 - Paul D. Boyer , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 3 - Sidney Gottlieb , American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999 )
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 30 - Ted Williams , American baseball player (d. 2002 )
September-December
September 4 - Paul Harvey , American radio broadcaster
September 8 - Derek Harold Richard Barton , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )
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 19 - Louis Althusser , French philosopher (d. 1990 )
October 31 - Ian Stevenson , American parapsychologist
November 3 - Russell B. Long , U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003 )
November 4 - Art Carney , American actor (d. 2003 )
November 10 - Ernst Otto Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 13 - Jack Elam , American actor (d. 2003 )
December 8 - Gérard Souzay , French baritone (d. 2004 )
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 )
December 21 - Kurt Waldheim , Secretary-General of the United Nations and President of Austria
December 23 - José Greco , Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001 )
December 25 - Anwar Sadat , President of Egypt , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1981 )
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 )
Nobel Prizes
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