* 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 – Ted Williams, American baseball player ( d. 2002 )

Theodore Samuel " Ted " Williams ( August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002 ) was an American professional baseball player and manager.

** Ted Williams, American baseball player ( b. 1918 )

* Ted Williams ( 1918 – 2002 ), Major League Baseball player

* Ted Williams: ( 1918 – 2002 ), famous baseball player for Boston Red Sox, fought in World War II and Korean War

Edric Thornton " Ted " Bates MBE ( 3 May 1918 – 28 November 2003 ) was a former Southampton F. C.

* Ted Williams ( 1918 – 2002 ), American baseball hall-of-famer

During the 1918 General Election the aims of the UULA were set out by R. Dawson Bates.

* Arlo Bates ( 1850 – 1918 ), American author, educator and newspaperman.

Bohemian immigrant youth at the Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House in 1918 in East St. Louis, Illinois

* 1918 – Dick Gibson, English race car driver ( d. 2010 )

* 1918 – Guy Gibson, English aviator, Victoria Cross recipient ( d. 1944 )

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

* 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English pilot ( d. 1918 )

* 2000 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer ( b. 1918 )

The Anglican Church of Canada developed its first Book of Common Prayer separately from the English version in 1918, which received final authorization from General Synod in 1922.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.

* Jones, D .( 1918 ), " An Outline of English Phonetics ", Leipzig: Teubner ; rpt in Jones ( 2002 ).

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

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

This handbook of grammatical and stylistic guidance for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell.

* 1848 – Hubert Parry, English composer ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – Patrick Cargill, English actor ( d. 1996 )

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

* 1918 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor ( d. 1977 )

* 1918 – Venetia Burney, English girl who named of the dwarf planet Pluto ( d. 2009 )

* 2005 – Cicely Saunders, English nurse, physician, and writer ( b. 1918 )

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

* 1918 – Les Bennett, English footballer ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – Roger Delgado, English actor ( d. 1973 )