* 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

The building, built in 1918 for Evander Childs High School, had been successively occupied by Walton High School ( 1930 ) and by an annex of DeWitt Clinton High School ( 1935 ).

After the college outgrew its original Brooklyn facilities at 286 Washington Avenue, it moved to its present site at 245 Clinton Avenue in 1918.

The training center suffered an early setback in March 1918, as the Clinton River flooded the entire site and all personnel were evacuated to schools and churches in nearby Mount Clemens.

* 1838 – Henry Adams, American historian and novelist ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – Henry Adams, American historian ( b. 1838 )

* February 16 – Henry Brooks Adams, American historian ( d. 1918 )

Adams made many attempts to respond to the criticism of his formulation from his scientific colleagues, but the work remained incomplete at Adams ' death in 1918.

* Henry Brooks Adams, ( 1838 – 1918 ), US 1800-1816

Henry Brooks Adams ( February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918 ; normally called Henry Adams ) was an American journalist, historian, academic and novelist.

Adams made many attempts to respond to the criticism of his formulation from his scientific colleagues, but the work remained incomplete at Adams's death in 1918.

* Henry Brooks Adams ( February 16, 1838-March 27, 1918 )

* John Adams ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1918 – 2008 ), British rear admiral

**** Henry Brooks Adams ( 1838 – 1918 ): author

While Adams was mainly associated with the plays of Barrie from 1897 until her retirement in 1918, she also made appearances in other works during that period.

After her retirement in 1918, Adams was on occasion pursued for roles in film.

**** Henry Brooks Adams ( 1838 – 1918 ), a prominent author and political commentator, married Marian Hooper Adams ( née Hooper ) ( 1843 – 1885 )

Adams ' Education of Henry Adams ( 1918 ) includes descriptions of his friendship with Crowninshield.

* Thomas Adams ( organist ) ( 1857 – 1918 ), English organist and composer

The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams ( 1838 – 1918 ), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth.

* James Barton Adams ( 1843 – 1918 ), cowboy poet

* Henry Adams ( 1838 – 1918 ), American writer, descendant of two U. S. Presidents.

During World War I, Adams served as a major in the Judge Advocate General's department in 1918 and 1919.