Year '1918' ('
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[1]
of the 13-day-slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1918
January
★
January 12 -
Finland enacts "Mosaic Confessors" law granting Finnish Jews civil rights.
★
January 25 - The
Ukrainian people declare independence from
Bolshevik Russia.
★
January 27 - Breakout of the
Finnish Civil War.
February
★
February 1 -
Russia switches from the
Julian calendar to the
Gregorian calendar, date skips to February 14.
★
February 16 - The
Council of Lithuania adopts the
Act of Independence of Lithuania, declaring
Lithuania's independence from the
Russian Empire.
★
February 24 - After 7 centuries of foreign rule,
Estonia declares its independence from the Russian Empire. The country is occupied by
Germany the next day.
Armenia,
Azerbaijan, and
Georgia also declare their independence from the
Russian Empire but as the
Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
March
★
March 1 - German submarine
U 19 sinks
HMS ''Calgarian'' off
Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland.
★
March 3 -
World War I: Germany,
Austria and
Bolshevist Russia sign the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in the war.
★
March 5 - The Soviet Russia moves its national capital from
Petrograd to
Moscow
★
March 6 -
Finnish Air Force founded. The blue
swastika is adopted as its symbol as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator
Eric von Rosen who donated the first plane. Von Rosen had painted the Buddhist symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia.
★
March 7 - World War I:
Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
★
March 12 –
Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia.
★
March 19 - The
U.S. Congress establishes
time zones and approves
daylight saving time (DST went into effect on
March 31).
★
March 21 - World War I:
Second Battle of the Somme begins.
★
March 23
★
★ The giant German cannon, the so-called
Paris Gun begins to shell Paris from 114 km (75 miles) away.
★
★ In London at the
Wood Green Empire,
Chung Ling Soo (William E Robinson, US-born magician) dies during his trick where he was supposed to "catch" two separate bullets – one of them perforates his lung. He dies the following morning in hospital.
★
★ The
Social Revolutionary Party declares
Belarus independent;
Bolshevik armies soon crush them.
★
March 25 - for the first time
Belarus declares independence.
April
★
April 1 - The
Royal Flying Corps and the
Royal Naval Air Service are merged to form the
Royal Air Force.
★
April 9 - The battle for
Vimy Ridge begins.
★
April 12 -
Vimy Ridge is captured.
May
★
May 1 - German troops enter
Don province; they take
Rostov May 6.
★
May 2 -
General Motors acquires the
Chevrolet Motor Company of
Delaware.
★
11 May - The
Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was officially established.
★
May 15 - The Post Office Department (later renamed the
USPS) begins the first regular
airmail service in the world (between
New York City,
Philadelphia and
Washington, DC).
★
May 16 - The
Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by US Congress.
★
May 26 - The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic is abolished. Georgia declares its independence as the
Democratic Republic of Georgia.
★
May 28 -
Armenia and
Azerbaijan declare their independence as the
Democratic Republic of Armenia and the
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic respectively.
June
★
June 1 - World War I:
Battle for Belleau Wood begins.
July
★
July 3- The
Siberian Expedition is launched to extract the Czechoslovak Legion from the Russian civil war.
★
July 4 - Change of
emperor of the
Ottoman Empire from
Mehmed V (Resad) (
1909-1918) to
Mehmed VI (Vahdettin) (1918-
1922).
★
July 9 -
Great train wreck of 1918: In
Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101.
★
July 13 - The National Czechoslovak Committee was established.
★
July 15 - World War I:
Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the
River Marne with a German attack.
★
July 17 - By order of the
Bolshevik Party and carried out by
Cheka,
Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the
Ipatiev House in
Ekaterinburg, Russia.
August
★ 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.
★
August 8 - World War I:
Battle of Amiens -
Canadian troops, backed by
Australians, 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.
September
★
September 11 - The
Boston Red Sox defeat the
Chicago Cubs for the
1918 World Series championship, their last World Series win until
2004.
★
September 29 -
Bulgaria requests an armistice in World War I.
October
★
October 3 -
Kaiser makes
Max von Baden German chancellor.
★
October 3 - Abdication of King
Ferdinand of
Bulgaria in the wake of the collapse of the Bulgarian military position in World War I. He is succeeded by his son,
Boris III.
★
October 8 - World War I - In the
Argonne Forest in
France, US Corporal
Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
★
October 15 - The great spiritual teacher Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi attained his MAHASAMADHI
★
October 18
★
★ The city of
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico was nearly destroyed by an earthquake and a tsunami.
★
★ Washington Declaration proclaimed the independent Czechoslovak Republic.
★
October 25 - The
Princess Sophia sinks on
Vanderbilt Reef near
Juneau, Alaska, 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
★
October 28
★
★
Czechoslovakia declares its independence on
Austria-Hungary.
★
★ New Polish government in Western
Galicia (Central Europe)
★
October 30
★
★ The Martin Declaration is published, embodying
Slovakia into the forming Czecho-Slovak state.
★
★
Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen declares independence from the
Ottoman Empire.
★
October -
Mammy Lou becomes the oldest person to ever star in a
film, at age
114.
November
★
November 1
★
★
Malbone Street Wreck: the worst
rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.
★
★
Ruthenia in eastern
Czechoslovakia declares brief
independence
★
November 3
★
★ World War I: Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the
Allies.
★
★
Poland declares its independence from Russia.
★
November 4
★
★ World War I:
Austria-Hungary surrenders to
Italy.
★
★ Mutiny in the German fleet at
Kiel begin the
German Revolution.
★
November 6 - A new Polish government is proclaimed in
Lublin.
★
November 8 - German army withdraws its support of the Kaiser
★
November 9
★
★ Kaiser
Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the
Netherlands.
★
★ Provisional National Council Minister-President
Kurt Eisner declares
Bavaria to be a
republic.
★
November 11
★
★
World War I ends: Germany signs
an armistice agreement with the Allies in a
railroad car outside of
Compiègne in
France.
★
★ Poland regains independence after 123 years of
partitions.
Józef Piłsudski is appointed
Commander-in-Chief.
★
★ Emperor
Charles I of Austria gives up his absolute power but does not abdicate.
★
November 12 -
Austria becomes a
republic.
★
November 14
★
★
Czechoslovakia becomes a
republic.
★
★
Józef Piłsudski is appointed
head of state of
Poland
★
November 16
★
★
Hungary declares independence from
Austria
★
★
Hungarian People's Republic declared
★
November 18 -
Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
★
November 22
★
★
Spartacist League founds German Communist Party
★
★
Belgian royal family returns to
Brussels after the war
★
November 26 - the
Podgorica Assembly voted for "union of the people", declaring a joining into the Kingdom of
Serbia
★
November 28 -
Estonian Freedom War:
Bolshevist Russia invades
Estonia, beginning of the war. A
socialist republic is established in
Narva the next day.
December
★
December 1
★
★
Iceland becomes a self-governing kingdom, yet remains in personal union with the king of Denmark who also becomes king of the Kingdom of Iceland.
★
★ New voting laws in
Sweden: votes no longer dependent on taxable assets; one person, one vote.
★
★ Proclamation of Union of
Alba Iulia. Following the
March 27 incorporation of
Bessarabia and
Bucovina,
Transylvania unites with
Romania.
★
★ The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
★
December 4 - US President
Woodrow Wilson sails for the
Paris Peace Conference, becoming the first US president to travel to
Europe while in office.
★
December 20 -
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk returned to the Czechoslovak Republic.
★
December 27 - Beginning of
Great Poland Uprising, the Poles in
Greater Poland (or
Grand Duchy of Poznań} rise against the Germans.
★
December 28 -
Constance Markiewicz becomes the first woman elected to the
British House of Commons.
Undated
★
Habsburg Empire ceases to exist.
★
Grand Duchy of Baden ceases to exist.
★ British occupy
Palestine
★
Native American Church is founded.
★
Ernest Ansermet founds the
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
★
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founded to promote
repeal of prohibition in U.S.
★
United Business Media founded in London (as United Newspapers Ltd.)
Ongoing
★
Finnish Civil War between the Reds and the Whites, from January - April.
★
Katla erupts in
Iceland, from
12 October -
4 November.
Births
January - March
★
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 - June
★
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)
★
June 4 -
Johnny Klein, American drummer (d.
1997)
★
June 6 -
Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
June 8 -
Robert Preston, American Actor in
The Music Man (d.
1987)
★
June 18
★
★
Jerome Karle, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
★
Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2003)
July - September
★
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
★
August 3 -
Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d.
1999)
★
August 5 -
Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (d.
2004)
★
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 26 -
Hutton Gibson,
Mel Gibson's father; a writer on religion
★
August 30 -
Ted Williams, American baseball player (d.
2002)
★
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 - December
★
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)
Deaths
January - June
★
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 - December
★
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)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
★
Chemistry -
Fritz Haber
★
Medicine - not awarded
★
Literature - not awarded
★
Peace - not awarded
See also
★
20th century
Notes
1. "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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