* 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 – 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

Noor Mohamed Hassanali, TC ( August 13, 1918 – August 25, 2006 ) was the second President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago ( 1987 to 1997 ).

* 1996 – Tran Van Tra, Vietnamese general and politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – George Rallis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 2006 )

* 1994 – Keith Joseph, English politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Jean Marchand, Canadian trade unionist and politician ( d. 1988 )

* 1980 – Yigal Allon, Israeli politician and soldier ( b. 1918 )

* 1977 – Anthony Crosland, British politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Otis Ray Bowen, American physician & politician

* 2012 – Pádraig Faulkner, Irish politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – K. Karunakaran, Indian politician ( d. 2010 )

A. Brackett, American politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – Keith Joseph, British politician ( d. 1994 )

* 1918 – George M. Leader, American politician and 36th Governor of Pennsylvania

* 2012 – Enrique Silva Cimma, Chilean politician, academic, and lawyer ( b. 1918 )

* 2003 – Richard Wainwright, English politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician ( d. 1979 )

* 1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African politician, President of South Africa and Nobel Prize laureate

* 1918 – Gladys Noon Spellman, American politician ( d. 1988 )

* 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, American politician, 26th United States Vice President ( d. 1918 )

* 2006 – Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Orville L. Freeman, American politician ( d. 2003 )

* 1918 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanan politician ( d. 1997 )

* 1918 – Patrick J. Lucey, American politician