* 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 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.

* 1978 – James Daly, American actor ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.

* 1918 – Elmore James, American blues musician ( d. 1963 )

* 1918 – James Daly, American actor ( d. 1978 )

In episode 6 ( Hades ) of James Joyce's Ulysses ( 1918 ), the party on the way to Paddy Dignam's funeral in a horse-drawn carriage idly debates the merits of various tramway improvements:

* May 24 – Elmore James, American blues guitarist ( b. 1918 )

* July 3 – James Daly, American actor ( b. 1918 )

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

* March 11 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 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.

* 1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes

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

For 40 years ( 1878 – 1918 ) the Scottish brothers James and Findlay Muirhead published the English-language Baedekers.

Branson was born in Blackheath, London, the son and eldest child of barrister Edward James Branson ( 10 March 1918 – 19 March 2011 ) and Eve Huntley Branson ( née Flindt ).

* Ollie M. James ( July 27, 1871 – August 28, 1918 ), a Democrat, represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1913 and the United States Senate from 1913 to 1918.

* 1904 – 1918 James Allan Smith

* James M. Munyon ( 1848 – 1918 ), publisher and doctor ; born in Thompson

A statue of James Whitcomb Riley, which stands in front of the Hancock County Courthouse, was erected in 1918.

* Elmore James ( 1918 – 1963 ), blues singer, slide guitarist

* James Lide Coker ( 1837 – 1918 )

Elmore James ( January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963 ) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader.

Smith was elected Governor of New York in 1918 with the help of Murphy and James A. Farley, who brought Smith the upstate vote.