* 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

* January 28 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter ( b. 1918 )

* 28 January – Markey Robinson, artist ( b. 1918 ).

* 28 January – Markey Robinson, Irish painter ( born 1918 )

* Died: Enid Markey, 87, American film actress who originated the role of " Jane " in the 1918 silent Tarzan of the Apes ; and Khawar Rizvi, 43, Pakistani poet

Trombonist Edwards was drafted for World War I in 1918 and replaced by Emile Christian, and pianist Henry Ragas died of influenza in the Spanish flu pandemic the following year and he was replaced by pianist and composer J. Russel Robinson.

* Bill Robinson ( 1918 – 2007 ), sailor and author about sailing.

Robinson was re-elected to the Senate in 1918, 1924, 1930, and 1936.

| 1918 || ||| Joseph Taylor Robinson || || || Unopposed || ||

| 1918 || ||| Joseph Taylor Robinson || || || Unopposed || ||

In 1918 and 1919, EE took over Dick, Kerr & Co., Willans & Robinson of Rugby and the Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company of Bradford.

* November 11 – United States Marine Corps Second Lieutenant Ralph Talbot and Gunnery Sergeant Robert Guy Robinson become the first U. S. Marine Corps aviators to receive the Medal of Honor, for an action in an Airco DH. 4 against German fighters over Belgium on October 14, 1918.

Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of the American magician William Ellsworth Robinson ( April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918 ) who is mostly remembered today for his tragic death after a bullet catch trick went wrong.

* Robinson ( DD-88 ), a destroyer in commission from 1918 to 1922

* October 21-Albert Alonzo Robinson, vice president and general manager of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is born ( d. 1918 ).

* William Leefe Robinson ( 1895 – 1918 ), British aviator

* William Ellsworth Robinson ( 1861 – 1918 ), American magician who used the stage name Chung Ling Soo

* Bill Robinson ( author ) ( 1918 – 2007 ), American nautical author

Albert Alonzo Robinson ( October 21, 1844 – 1918 ), sometimes referred to as Albert A. Robinson or A.

William Leefe Robinson VC ( 14 July 1895 – 31 December 1918 ) was the first British pilot to shoot down a German airship over Britain during the First World War.

Robinson died on 31 December 1918 at the Stanmore home of his sister, the Baroness Heyking, from the effects of the Spanish flu pandemic to which his imprisonment had left him particularly susceptible.