* 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 – 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

* December 23 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1966 until 1967 ( b. 1918 )

Jelle Zijlstra (; August 27, 1918 – December 23, 2001 ) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti Revolutionary Party ( ARP ) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ).

Jelle Zijlstra was born in Oosterbierum on August 27, 1918.

* 1918 – C. Buddingh ', Dutch poet, TV-presenter, translator ( d. 1985 )

* 1918 – Eddy Christiani, Dutch singer, composer, and guitarist

* 1918 – Hella S. Haasse, Dutch writer ( d. 2011 )

* 1918 – Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician ( d. 2012 )

* 1918 – Nel Benschop, Dutch poet ( d. 2005 )

* 1918 – Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor ( d. 2005 )

* June 27 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch liberal politician, former leader of the VVD party ( b. 1918 )

** Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete ( b. 1918 )

In 1918 the Battle of the Lys and the Fifth Battle of Ypres, were fought before the Allies occupied the Belgian coast and reached the Dutch frontier.

* Fokker D. X, a 1918 Dutch fighter aircraft

* Dutch — Nijhoff, Martinus: Pierrot at the Lamppost ( 1918 ).

* British — Becker, Charlotte: " Pierrot Goes " ( 1918 ); Christie, Agatha: " Pierrot Grown Old " ( 1925 ); Drinkwater, John: " Pierrot " ( c. 1910 ); Foss, Kenelm: The Dead Pierrot ( 1920 ); Rodker, John: " The Dutch Dolls " ( 1915 ).

In 1918, the council of Dutch Reformed Church asked the town council to end the public events surrounding the Bissing for moral reasons.

* The “ Trench of Death ” ( Dodengang in Dutch ), about 1. 5 km from the center of the city, preserves the trench setting where Belgian soldiers fought under the most perilous conditions until the final offensive of September 28, 1918.

Rag dolls have featured in a number of children's stories, like the 19th century character Golliwogg in The Adventures of two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg by Bertha Upton and Florence K. Upton and Raggedy Ann in the books by Johnny Gruelle, first published in 1918.

British women over 30 had the vote in 1918, Dutch women in 1919, and American women won the vote August 26, 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

* Dutch premiere: May 2, 1918, Amsterdam, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Willem Mengelberg

Sneevliet lived in the Dutch East Indies ( roughly equal to present day Indonesia ) from 1913 until 1918 and he soon became active in the struggle against Dutch rule.

Sneevliet was therefore forced to leave the Dutch East Indies in 1918.

Hendrik Christoffel " Henk " van de Hulst ForMemRS ( Utrecht, November 19, 1918 – Leiden, July 31, 2000 ) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician.

* Dutch election results, national results since 1918, by province.