* 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

Richard Steigmann-Gall says that the stab-in-the-back legend traces back to a sermon preached on February 3, 1918, by Protestant Court Chaplain Bruno Doehring, six months before the war had even ended.

* 1918 – Richard G. Butler, founder of Aryan Nations ( d. 2004 )

* 1985 – Richard Greene, English actor ( b. 1918 )

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

* 1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1988 )

* 1998 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1918 )

* Richard Girnt Butler ( 1918 – 2004 ), American founder of the Aryan Nations

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

* March 16 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1918 )

* February 15 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1918 )

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

* German — Gottowt, John: The Black Lottery Ticket, or Pierrot's Last Night on the Town ( 1913 ); Löwenbein, Richard: Marionettes ( 1918 ); Piel, Harry: The Black Pierrot ( 1913, 1926 ); Wich, Ludwig von: The Cuckolded Pierrot ( 1917 ; view The Cuckolded Pierrot ).

: Mon Ami Pierrot: Songs and Fantasies ( 1917 ; illustrated by Will Bradley ); Beswick, Katherine: Columbine Wonders and Other Poems ( c. 1920 ); Bodenheim, Maxwell: " Pierrot Objects " ( 1920 ); Breed, Ida Marian: Poems for Pierrot ( 1939 ); Burt, Maxwell Struthers: " Pierrot at War " ( 1916 ); Burton, Richard: " Here Lies Pierrot " ( 1913 ); Chaplin, Ralph: Maybe, Pierrot ... ( c. 1918 ); Crane, Hart: " The Moth That God Made Blind " ( c. 1918, pub.

* Fascism in Britain: A History, 1918 – 1985 by Richard C. Thurlow ( Olympic Marketing Corp, 1987, ISBN 0-631-13618-5 )

* Richard Gordon Smith ( 1858 – 1918 ), British traveler, sportsman and naturalist

He followed this triumph with Broadway successes in Peter Ibbetson ( 1917 ), a role his father Maurice had wanted to play, Tolstoy's Redemption ( 1918 ) and The Jest ( 1919 ), co-starring his brother Lionel, reaching what seemed to be the zenith of his stage career as Richard III in 1920.

Richard Marius Joseph Greene ( 25 August 1918 – 1 June 1985 ) was a noted English film and television actor.

* 1918 — Moved to William Richard house, outgrew the rooms

In the Battle of Kingsport ( December 13, 1864 ) during the American Civil War, a force of 300 Confederates under Colonel Richard Morgan ( 1836 – 1918 ) stopped a larger Union force for nearly two days.

* Richard Brookhiser, 2002 America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735 – 1918.

One of the most precise types of wet-dry bulb psychrometer was invented in the late 19th century by Adolph Richard Aßmann ( 1845 – 1918 ); in English-language references the device is usually spelled " Assmann psychrometer.

At the close of the war in 1918, the festival's revival was championed by five men now regarded as the founders: the poet and dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the composer Richard Strauss, the scenic designer Alfred Roller, the conductor Franz Schalk, and the director Max Reinhardt, then intendant of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, who had produced the first performance of Hofmannsthal's Jedermann at the Berlin Zirkus Schumann arena in 1911.

* Richard Feynman ( 1918 – 1988 ), physicist