* 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

Some see the beginnings of true Anglo-Welsh poetry in the work of poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 – 89 ), Edward Thomas ( 1878 – 1917 ), and Wilfred Owen ( 1893 – 1918 ).

At Oxford, Bridges became friends with Gerard Manley Hopkins, who is now considered a superior poet but who owes his present fame to Bridges ' efforts in arranging the posthumous publication ( 1918 ) of his verse.

* Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1918 ), edited with notes by R. B.

** Edmond William Claude Gerard de Vere Pery, Viscount Glentworth ( 1894 – 1918 )

* Robert William Frederick Alwyn Gerard, 4th Baron Gerard ( 1918 – 1992 )

Gerard Philip Montagu Napier Sturt ( 1893 – 1918 ), died on Armistice Day 1918, from wounds received in action, unmarried.

A hyperboloid cooling tower was patented by Frederik van Iterson and Gerard Kuypers in 1918.

Well known composers of the Netherlands Antilles are Jan Gerard Palm ( 1831 – 1906 ), Chris Ulder ( 1843 – 1895 ), Joseph Sickman Corsen ( 1853 – 1911 ), Paul de Lima ( 1861 – 1926 ), Jacobo Conrad ( 1879 – 1918 ), Rudolph Palm ( 1880 – 1950 ), Charles Maduro ( 1883 – 1947 ), John Palm ( 1885 – 1925 ), Toni Palm ( 1885 – 1963 ), Jacobo Palm ( 1887 – 1982 ) Albert Palm ( 1903 – 1958 ), Edgar Palm ( 1905 – 1998 ), Wim Statius Muller ( 1930 ), Robert Rojer ( 1939 ) and Randal Corsen ( b 1972 ).

* In the poem " Pied Beauty " ( 1918 ), by Gerard Manley Hopkins, the concept occurs in the opening, where he states " Glory be to God for dappled things / For skies of couple color as a brindled cow ; / For rosemoles all in stipple upon trout that swim ...".

Gerard was player-coach of the Senators from 1916 until 1918.

Robert Browning ( 1812-89 ) and Alfred Tennyson ( 1809-92 ) were Victorian England's most famous poets, though more recent taste has tended to prefer the poetry of Thomas Hardy, who, though he wrote poetry throughout his life, did not publish a collection until 1898, as well of that of Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844-89 ), whose poetry was published posthumously in 1918.

From the only daughter of Camille, Jeanne Pissarro, other painters include Henri Bonin-Pissarro also known as BOPI ( 1918 – 2003 ) and Claude Bonin-Pissarro ( born 1921 ), who is the father of Abstract artist Frédéric Bonin-Pissarro ( born 1964 ).

* August 6 – Henri Chantavoine, French writer ( d. 1918 )

Wider views of Cubism include artists who were later associated with the ‘ Salle 41 ’ artists, e. g., Francis Picabia ; the brothers Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, who from late 1911 formed the core of the Section d ' Or ( or the Puteaux Group ); the sculptors Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky and Ossip Zadkine as well as Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens ; and painters such as Louis Marcoussis, Roger de La Fresnaye, František Kupka, Diego Rivera, Léopold Survage, Auguste Herbin, André Lhote, Gino Severini ( after 1916 ), María Blanchard ( after 1916 ) and Georges Valmier ( after 1918 ).

It is known to have been applied to semi-automatic firearms in 1918 ( 6. 5 mm French Faucon-Meunier semi-automatic rifle developed by Lt. Col. Armand-Frédéric Faucon ), then in 1936 a bullpup machine pistol was patented by the Frenchman Henri Delacre.

In 1918, her portrait was painted by Robert Henri, the artist who was known for the style of Ashcan School.

At the end of the Dada episode, Janco also took his growing interest in primitivism to the level of academia: in his 1918 speech at the Zurich Institute, he declared that African, Etruscan, Byzantine and Romanesque arts were more genuine and " spiritual " than the Renaissance and its derivatives, while also issuing special praise for the modern spirituality of Derain, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse ; his lecture rated all Cubists above all Impressionists.

Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs ( 25 April 1918 – 7 October 1995 ) was a French astronomer.

edited by Camille Jordan, Henri Poincaré, Charles Émile Picard with assistance from Ernest Vessiot, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1924, Gauthier-Villars

Henri Chantavoine ( 6 August 1850 – 25 August 1918 ) was a French writer.

Between 1910 and 1918, Henri expanded the Selmer line to include bassoons and oboes.

* Henri Rieunier ( 1833 – 1918 )

* Service by Henri Lavedan, translated by William C. Taylor, New York ( 1918 )

They were cleaned first by Jean Commaille in 1908, then by Henri Marchal from 1918 to 1920.