1918

1918 in othercalendars
Gregorian calendar	1918; MCMXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2671
Armenian calendar	1367; ԹՎ ՌՅԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6668
Bahá'í calendar	74–75
Balinese saka calendar	1839–1840
Bengali calendar	1325
Berber calendar	2868
British Regnal year	8Geo. 5– 9Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2462
Burmese calendar	1280
Byzantine calendar	7426–7427
Chinese calendar	Đinh tịNiên(FireSnake); 4614 or 4554; — to —; Mậu ngọ niên(EarthHorse); 4615 or 4555
Coptic calendar	1634–1635
Discordian calendar	3084
Ethiopian calendar	1910–1911
Hebrew calendar	5678–5679
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	1974–1975
-Shaka Samvat	1839–1840
-Kali Yuga	5018–5019
Holocene calendar	11918
Igbo calendar	918–919
Iranian calendar	1296–1297
Islamic calendar	1336–1337
Japanese calendar	Taishō7; ( đại chính ７ niên )
Javanese calendar	1848–1849
Juche calendar	7
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4251
Minguo calendar	ROC7; Dân quốc 7 niên
Nanakshahi calendar	450
Thai solar calendar	2460–2461
Tibetan calendar	Âm hỏa xà niên; (female Fire-Snake); 2044 or 1663 or 891; — to —; Dương thổ mã niên; (male Earth-Horse); 2045 or 1664 or 892

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century–20th century–21st century
Decades:	1880s1890s1900s–1910s–1920s1930s1940s
Years:	191519161917–1918–191919201921

1918(MCMXVIII) was acommon year starting on Tuesdayin theGregorian calendarand acommon year starting on Mondayin theJulian calendar.

Births

January

January 2–Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse,German type designer and educator
January 15–Gamal Abdel Nasser,2ndPresidentofEgypt(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 Indianafrom 1973 to 1981 (d.2013)

March

March 1–João Goulart,24thPresident 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,AmericanFirst Lady,wife ofGerald Ford(d.2011)
April 17–William Holden,American actor (d.1981)

May

May 25–Edith Massey,American actress (d.1984)

June

July

July 4–Ann Landers,American writerand advice columnist (d.2002)
July 14–Ingmar BergmanSwedish 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)

September

September 4–Paul Harvey,American radio host (d.2009)

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,39thVice President of the United States(d.1996)
November 26–Patricio Aylwin,31stPresident 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 ofAustria,Secretary-Generalof theUnited Nations(d.2007)
December 23–Helmut Schmidt,Chancellor of Germanyfrom 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 theNobel 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 Prizelaureate (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– SultanMehmed V of the Ottoman Empire(b.1844)
July 17–Tsar Nicholas II| Nicholas IIAlix 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 ofVladimir Lenin(b.1890)
September 12–George Reid,fourthPrime 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 ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints(b.1838)

Events

September 11– TheBoston Red Soxwin the 1918 World Series in six games over theChicago 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 toWorld War I.
November 11– TheArmisticeends World War I.
Fire Brigades Unionfounded inLondon
Çanakkale Conquest
End ofGerman Empire
End ofAustria-Hungary
End ofGerman colonial Empire
Foundation ofRoyal Air Force
TheInfluenza pandemic of 1918affected the United States, then lead to the world, which result to 100 million of people dead. Theeconomiccould have dropped half of thepercentin the world.