* 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

Clifton K. Hillegass ( 18 April 1918, Rising City, Nebraska – 5 May 2001, Lincoln, Nebraska ) was the creator and publisher of

In mid-September 1918, the influenza-pneumonia pandemic swept through every American military camp ; ;

* 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, pacifist, and author ( d. 2007 )

* Adrian Kantrowitz ( 1918 – 2008 ), American cardiac surgeon

* 1918 – Jimmy Rowles, American pianist ( d. 1996 )

* 1918 – Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, pianist, and composer ( d. 1990 )

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

* 1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player ( d. 2002 )

* 1918 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist ( d. 2004 )

* 1918 – Mary Healy, American actress

* 2008 – Tommy Holmes, American baseball player ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – William Holden, American actor ( d. 1981 )

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

* 1932 – Rin Tin Tin, American acting dog ( b. 1918 )

* 1867 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – Iceberg Slim, American author ( d. 1992 )

* 2004 – Mary McGrory, American journalist ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Bobby Doerr, American baseball player

* 2012 – Mike Wallace, American journalist ( b. 1918 )