* 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 – President of Portugal Sidónio Pais is assassinated.

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

* 1918 – João Figueiredo, President of Brazil ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt ( d. 1970 )

* 1918 – Nicolae Ceauşescu, 1st President of Romania ( d. 1989 )

* 1918 – Arthur Chung, President of Guyana ( d. 2008 )

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

* 1918 – João Goulart, President of Brazil ( d. 1976 )

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

He opposed both the leftist German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, a principled position that defied the political alignments in Germany at that time and which may have prevented Friedrich Ebert, the new social-democratic President of Germany, from appointing Weber as minister or ambassador.

* 1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1996 )

* 1897 – Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt ( d. 1918 )

On January 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson of the United States proclaimed his famous Fourteen Points which centered around the concept of national self-determination.

The American presence is remembered today by the Woodrow Wilson bridge over the Loire, which was officially opened in July 1918 and bears the name of the man who was President of the USA from 1912 to 1920.

In 1918, when Theodore Roosevelt was entertaining plans ( later abandoned ) to reprise his presidency, he considered Harding had strong potential to run and serve as Vice President, and discussed with Harry Daugherty the desirability of having Harding on his ticket.

** Joao Figueiredo, former President of Brazil ( b. 1918 )

* September 17 – Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1918 )

* December 6 – João Goulart, President of Brazil ( b. 1918 )

* February 8 – Stanley Armour Dunham, Grandfather of US President Barack Obama ( b. 1918 )

* October 6 – Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1918 )

** Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator, Communist Party head and President of the Republic ( executed ) ( b. 1918 )

** Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates ( b. 1918 )

Former President Theodore Roosevelt had been the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, but his health collapsed in 1918.