* Fairbanks Fragments ( 1916 – 1918 ) also screenwriter

* 1914 – 1918, the First Battle of the Atlantic took place.

* Emperor Charles I. of Austria ( 1916 – 1918 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jMU9FFzez1A

* 1918 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president ( d. 1982 )

* 1868 – Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander ( d. 1918 )

* 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.

* 1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 2001 )

* 1918 – Norman Granz, American record producer ( d. 2001 )

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

* 1918 – Giles Cooper Irish playwright ( d. 1966 )

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and genocide claims for 1915 – 1918 events made impossible relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey, thus increased an isolation of the country.

* 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time.

* 1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG ( BMW ) established as a public company in Germany.

* 1918 – Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago ( d. 2006 )

* 1918 – Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.

* 1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.

* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

* 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor ( b. 1918 )

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – Larry Haines, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer ( b. 1918 )

* Josef Stanglmeier ( 1918 – 1999 ): builder and politician

* 1918 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player ( d. 2006 )

* From 1917 to 1918, silent film actor Billy West made more than 20 films as a comedian precisely imitating Chaplin's tramp character, makeup and costume.

* 1918 – Billy Graham, American evangelist

* 2004 – Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach ( b. 1918 )

Michael's son, Billy, was election agent for Éamon de Valera in 1918 in West Belfast but refused to follow de Valera into democratic and constitutional politics upon the formation of Fianna Fáil.

In Easter 1918 he was one of the speakers at the Third Inter-State Peace Conference, an event organised by the Australian Union of Democratic Control for the Avoidance of War, a group that was deeply opposed to the plans by Prime Minister Billy Hughes ( then the leader of the centre-right Nationalist Party of Australia ) to introduce conscription for Australian males.

A collection of Low's cartoons of Hughes entitled The Billy Book, which he published in 1918, brought Low to the notice of Henry Cadbury, part-owner of the London Star.

* The Billy Book ( 1918 )

* Unexplained / Alternative history: Alternative theories of history ( among them the theories that outlaws such as Billy the Kid and Butch Cassidy did not die as history recorded, that the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov survived the 1918 regicide that killed her entire family, that the assassination of Louisiana senator Huey Long may have been an accident, that the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr was in fact a conspiracy, and that Kurt Cobain may have been murdered ).

* Billy Graham ( born 1918 ), American evangelist

* Billy Graham: ( b. 1918 ), televangelist

The body met through 1917 and 1918 and consisted of, in addition to Lloyd George: Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada ; Louis Botha and General Jan Smuts, each successively Prime Minister of South Africa ; Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia ; Bill Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand ; and Sir James Meston, the Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

* Billy Patterson ( 1918 – 1998 ), American football player for the Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates

From 1918 to 1928, he served as sports editor of Newspaper Enterprise Association and produced a syndicated sports column titled, " Billy Evans Says ".

* Billy Johnson ( baseball ) ( 1918 – 2006 ), baseball player

Kathie Kay ( 20 November 1918 – 9 March 2005 ) was a singer from Lincolnshire, known for her radio and television appearances in the Billy Cotton Band Show during the 1950s and 1960s.

William Franklin " Billy " Talbert ( September 4, 1918 – February 28, 1999 ) was an American tennis player and administrator.

After making a partial recovery, he served in France as senior materiel officer under Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, attaining the temporary rank of major on 7 June 1918.

* Billy Wilson ( outlaw ) ( real name David Anderson, 1862 – 1918 ), American outlaw also known as Buffalo Billy

William Jefferson " Billy " Garland ( June 17, 1918 – March 16, 1960 ), was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

" K-K-K-Katy " was recorded by Billy Murray on March 8, 1918 and released on Victor 18455.

* Billy Morris ( footballer ) ( 1918 – 2002 ), Welsh international football player