* 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor ( b. 1918 )

* 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer ( b. 1918 )

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

* 2007 – René Rémond, French historian and political economist ( b. 1918 )

* 2008 – Tommy Holmes, American baseball player ( b. 1918 )

* 2009 – Maurice Druon, French novelist ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1850 )

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

* 1918 – Erich Löwenhardt, German pilot ( b. 1897 )

* 1932 – Rin Tin Tin, American acting dog ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot ( b. 1892 )

* 2004 – Mary McGrory, American journalist ( b. 1918 )

* 2012 – Mike Wallace, American journalist ( b. 1918 )

* 2009 – Oral Roberts, American television evangelist and author ( b. 1918 )

* 2010 – Bob Feller, American baseball player ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist ( b. 1868 )

* 1966 – Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish playwright ( b. 1918 )

* 1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager ( b. 1918 )

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

* 2009 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist ( b. 1918 )

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

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

* 1996 – Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur ( b. 1918 )

He was replaced by Helmut Schmidt ( b. 1918 ), of the SPD, who served as Chancellor in 1974 – 1982.

Armenia became independent from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic on 28 May 1918 as the Democratic Republic of Armenia ( DRA ).

However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.

The Ascanian dynasties in the two Saxon states became extinct in 1689 and in 1422, respectively, but Ascanians continued to rule in the smaller state of Anhalt and its various subdivisions until monarchy was abolished in 1918.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

Sometime in 1917 or 1918, as Chiang became close to Sun Yat-sen, he changed his name from Jiang Zhiqing to Jiang Zhongzheng ().

* 1918 – Constance Markievicz while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

" Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " became the official anthem of the emperor of the Austrian Empire and the subsequent Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of the Austrian monarchy in 1918.

The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.

The title of Emperor of Austria and the associated Empire were both abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918, when German Austria became a republic and the other kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council established their independence or adhesion to other states.

The Khanzhonkov company quickly became much the largest Russian film company, and remained so until 1918.

The use of a spotlight from high at the back onto the actors to rimlight them became more frequent, and around 1918 some American cameramen started to use spotlights to light the actors from the front.

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.

The passing of the Tokoi Senate bill, called the " Power Act ," in July 1917 became the first one of the three culminations of the power struggle between the Social Democrats and the conservatives during the political crisis from March 1917 to the end of January 1918.

In 1918, he started his own furniture factory, and changed the chair's colors after becoming influenced by the ' De Stijl ' movement, of which he became a member in 1919, the same year in which he became an architect.

The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).

Hamburg became a city-state within the North German Confederation ( 1866 – 71 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ) and during the period of the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 33 ).

In the 20th century the centre of the education system became more focused on Scotland, with the ministry of education partly moving north in 1918 and then finally having its headquarters relocated to Edinburgh in 1939.

Kenya became a military base for the British in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ), as efforts to subdue the German colony to the south were frustrated.

After the October Revolution ( 1917 ), Malevich became a member of the Collegium on the Arts of Narkompros, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments and the Museums Commission ( all from 1918 – 1919 ).

In 1918, when she was 16, she started dance and ballet classes at the Grimm-Reiter Dance School in Berlin, where she quickly became a star pupil.

After the third meeting in 1961 at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, a standard proposed primarily by Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ( 1918 – 2011 ), became known as the Wingspread Convention, which was adopted by a new organization, the Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes ( CIPEM ), affiliated in 1970 by the fifth colloquium with UNESCO.

In 1918, Bessarabia briefly became independent as the Moldavian Democratic Republic and united with Romania.