* 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

* 1885 – Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient ( d. 1918 )

As Mitchell was about to graduate from the Washington Seminary in 1918, she met and fell in love with another Harvard student, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was chief bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until the time he set sail for France on July 17.

* 1918 – Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer ( d. 2007 )

In 1918, Gordon played Lola Pratt in the Broadway adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen opposite actor Gregory Kelly, who later acted with her in North American tours of Frank Craven's The First Year and Tarkington's Clarence and Tweedles.

* May 10 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher ( d. 1918 )

According to Stanley's account, he asked James Gordon Bennett, Jr. ( 1841 – 1918 ), who had succeeded to the paper's management after his father's retirement in 1867, how much he could spend.

* Richard Gordon Smith ( 1858 – 1918 ), British traveler, sportsman and naturalist

* James Gordon Bennett, Jr. ( 1848 – 1918 ), American newspaper publisher, sportsman

In 1918 the town was delivered by the 5th Batallion of the Gordon Highlanders from four years of military occupation during the First World War.

* James Gordon Bennett, Jr. ( 1841 – 1918 ), US newspaper publisher ( and putative origin of eponymous expletive ).

* John Gordon Drummond Campbell ( 1864 – 1935 ), British Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Thames, 1918 – 1922

James Gordon Bennett, Jr. ( May 10, 1841 – May 14, 1918 ) was publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett, Sr., who emigrated from Scotland.

* 1 / 5th ( Buchan and Formartine ) Bn, the Gordon Highlanders ( until February 1918 )

* 1 / 7th ( Deeside Highland ) Bn, the Gordon Highlanders ( until October 1918 )

* 8 / 10th ( Service ) Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders ( from May 1916 until June 1918 )

* 1 / 5th ( Buchan and Formartine ) Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders ( from June 1918 )

***** Gordon Forbes ( b 1883-d 1918 ) m. Frances Wilson ( Frances m. 2nd Arthur Ogilvy )

****** Gordon Forbes ( b 1918 Mass-d 2009 ) m. 1st to Catherine May Griffin ( b 1918 Chicago-d 2003 ) ( 3 Children )

Gordon Muriel Flowerdew ( 2 January 1885 – 31 March 1918 ) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, received for his actions at the Battle of Moreuil Wood.

Poignantly, St. Symphorien cemetery also contains the graves of the two soldiers believed to be the first ( Private John Parr, 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regt., 21 August 1914 ) and the last ( Private Gordon Price, Canadian Infantry, 11 November 1918 ) Commonwealth soldiers to be killed during the First World War.

* James Gordon Bennett, Jr. ( 1841 – 1918 ), his son, newspaper publisher and sports enthusiast

Named in 1883 by Frederick Schwatka, US Army officer and explorer, after James Gordon Bennett Jr ( 1841 – 1918 ), editor of the New York Herald, who was sponsor of Schwatchka's search for the remains of the Franklin Expedition, 1878-81.