* 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

Otis Ray Bowen ( born February 26, 1918 ) is a retired U. S. politician and physician.

Established in 1918, Otis College of Art and Design is L. A .' s first independent professional school of art.

Otis, long considered one of the major art institutions in California, began in 1918, when Los Angeles Times founder Harrison Gray Otis bequeathed his MacArthur Park property to start the first public, independent professional school of art in Southern California.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* Ray Long ( 1918 – 1931 )

Three great poets and prose writers, Kabibar Radhanath Ray ( 1849 – 1908 ), Fakir Mohan Senapati ( 1843 – 1918 ) and Madhusudan Rao ( 1853 – 1912 ) made Oriya their own.

In the by-election of 14 February 2002 he was elected to the parliamentary seat of Ogmore in the South Wales Valleys ( a Labour seat since 1918 ), after the death of MP and Government Whip Sir Ray Powell.

In the 19th century, Fakir Mohan Senapati ( 1843 – 1918 ), Gouri Shankar Ray, Gopal Chandra Praharaj, Pandit Nilmani Vidyaratna, Kabibar Radhanath Ray were prominent figure in prose and poetry writinga of Oriya Literature.

He married Ethel Ray Dugan, an American artist and painter, in 1918, and they had a son, also called Dhan Gopal.

Ray Huang (; June 25, 1918 – January 8, 2000 ) was a Chinese historian and philosopher.

Ray Huang was born in Changsha, Hunan Province, in 1918.

In Harlem, New York, 1918, Sugar Ray ( Richard Pryor ) has a dice game going in the back of his candy store.

* Ray Chapman ( 84, 1918 )

* Ray Chapman ( 84, 1918 )

Ray Charles ( born Charles Raymond Offenberg, September 13, 1918, Chicago, Illinois, United States ) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who is best-known as organizer and leader of The Ray Charles Singers.

* Ray Charles ( 1918 – 2004 )

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