1918 (MCMXVIII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar , the 1918th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 918th year of the 2nd millennium , the 18th year of the 20th century , and the 9th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1918, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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The ceasefire that effectively ended the First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
In Russia, this year runs with only 352 days. As the result of Julian to Gregorian calendar switch, 13 days needed to be skipped. Wednesday, January 31
(Julian Calendar) was immediately followed by Thursday, February 14 (Gregorian Calendar) .
World War I will be abbreviated as “WWI”
February 16 : The Act of Independence of Lithuania
March
March 1 – WWI: German submarine U-19 sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island , Northern Ireland.
March 3 – WWI: The Central Powers and Bolshevist Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk , ending Russia's involvement in the war.
March 6
March 7 – WWI: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
March 8 – WWI: The Battle of Tell 'Asur is launched by units of the British Army 's Egyptian Expeditionary Force against Ottoman defences from the Mediterranean Sea , across the Judaean Mountains to the edge of the Jordan Valley; it ends on March 12 , with the move of much of the front line north into Ottoman territory.
March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia.
March 15 – Finnish Civil War : The battle of Tampere begins.[6]
March 19 – The United States Congress establishes time zones , and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31 ).
March 21 –July 18 – WWI: The Spring Offensive by the German Army along the Western Front fails to make a breakthrough, despite large losses on each side, including nearly 20,000 British Army dead on the first day, Operation Michael , on the Somme.
March 21 – WWI: The First Transjordan attack on Amman by units of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins, with the passage of the Jordan River.
March 23
WWI: The giant German cannon, the 'Paris Gun ' (Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz ), begins to shell Paris from 114 km (71 mi) away.
In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, U.S.-born magician) dies during his trick, where he is supposed to "catch " two separate bullets (but one of them perforates his lung). He dies the following morning in a hospital.
March 25
March 26 – Marie Stopes publishes her influential book Married Love in the U.K.
March 27 – WWI: The First Battle of Amman is launched by units of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, during the First Transjordan attack on Amman; it ends with their withdrawal on 31 March , back to the Jordan Valley.
March 30 – March Days : Bolshevik and Armenian Revolutionary Federation forces suppress a Muslim revolt in Baku , Azerbaijan , resulting in up to 30,000 deaths.
April
Styles of Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon , as presented in a vaudeville circuit pantomime and sketched by Marguerite Martyn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in April 1918
April 1 – The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in Britain are merged to form the Royal Air Force , the first autonomous Air Force in the world.
April 5 – Sālote succeeds as Queen of Tonga ; she will remain on the throne until her death in 1965 .
April 6 – Finnish Civil War : The battle of Tampere ends.[6]
April 8 – Operations against the Marri and Khetran tribes in Balochistan end with surrender to the British authorities.
April 9 – Union of Bessarabia with Romania : Bessarabia votes to become part of the Kingdom of Romania .
April 21 – WWI: Manfred von Richthofen , "The Red Baron", the war's most successful fighter pilot, dies in combat at Morlancourt Ridge near the Somme River.
April 22 – Armenia , Azerbaijan , and Georgia declare their independence from Russia as the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic .
April 23 – WWI:
April 28 – WWI: Gavrilo Princip , assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria , dies in Terezin , Austria-Hungary , after three years in prison.
April 30 – WWI: The Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt , launched by units of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, ends on 4 May , with their withdrawal back to the Jordan Valley.
May
May 1 – WWI: German troops enter Don Host Oblast ; they capture Rostov-on-Don on May 8 .
May 2 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware .
May 7 – WWI: The British capture Kirkuk .
May 9 – WWI – Second Ostend Raid : The British Royal Navy unsuccessfully attempts, for a second time, to seal off the German U-boat base here.
May 11 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
May 14 – The Three Minute Pause, initiated by the daily firing of the Noon Gun on Signal Hill , is instituted by Cape Town Mayor Sir Harry Hands . It will inspire the introduction of the two-minute silence in November 1919 .[8]
May 15
May 16 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by the U.S. Congress.
May 20 – The small town of Codell, Kansas is hit for the third year in a row, on the same date, by a tornado .
May 21 – The United States Army Aviation Section is separated from the Signal Corps , and divided into the Division of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production.
May 24 – Women in Canada, excluding residents of Quebec , are granted the right to vote in federal elections.[10]
May 26 – The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic is abolished; Georgia declares its independence as the Democratic Republic of Georgia .
May 27 – WWI: The Third Battle of the Aisne commences.
May 28 – Armenia and Azerbaijan declare their independence as the First Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic respectively.
May 29 – WWI: The week-long Battle of Sardarabad concludes with defending Armenian forces victorious over the Ottomans.
May 29 –30 – WWI: Battle of Skra di Legen – The Greek National Defence Army Corps defeats the Bulgarians.
June
June 10 : Austro-Hungarian battleship Szent István sunk by Italian torpedo boats
Szent István
June –August – The "Spanish flu " becomes pandemic .[11] Over 30 million people die in the following 6 months.
June 1 – WWI: The Battle of Belleau Wood begins.
June 4 – RMS Kenilworth Castle , one of the Union-Castle Line steamships, collides with her escort destroyer HMS Rival while trying to avoid her other escort, the cruiser HMS Kent .
June 8 – V603 Aquilae , the brightest nova observed since Kepler's of 1604 , is discovered.
June 10 – WWI: The Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship SMS Szent István is sunk by two Italian MAS motor torpedo boats off the Dalmatian coast.
June 12
Grand Duke Michael of Russia is murdered, thereby becoming the first of the Romanovs to be killed by the Bolsheviks.
WWI: The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit in France is carried out.
June 16 – The Declaration to the Seven , a British government response to a memorandum issued anonymously by seven Syrian notables, is published.
June 22 – Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn .
June 29 – Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries opens in New York; Brazil is the only international exhibitor and the exposition closes at the end of the season.[12]
July
July 3 – Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War : The Siberian Intervention is launched by the Allies , to extract the Czechoslovak Legion from the Russian Civil War .
July 4 – Mehmed VI succeeds as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire on the death of his half-brother Mehmed V (Reşâd, who has reigned since 1909 ), himself reigning until the Sultanate is abolished in 1922 .
July 12 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up off Tokuyama, Yamaguchi , western Honshu , Japan, killing at least 621.
July 13 – The National Czechoslovak Committee is established.
July 14 – The film The Glorious Adventure is released in the United States, featuring Mammy Lou , who becomes one of the oldest people ever to star in a film, at a claimed age of 114.
July 15 – WWI: Second Battle of the Marne : The battle begins near the River Marne , with a German attack.
July 17 : Execution of the Romanov family
July 17
WWI: RMS Carpathia (famed for rescuing survivors of the RMS Titanic ) is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland, by Imperial German Navy submarine U-55 ; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.[13]
Execution of the Romanov family : By order of the Bolshevik Party , and carried out by the Cheka , former emperor Nicholas II , his wife Alexandra Feodorovna , their children, Olga , Tatiana , Maria , Anastasia , Alexei and retainers are shot at the Ipatiev House , in Ekaterinburg, Russia .
July 21 – WWI: Attack on Orleans – Imperial German submarine SM U-156 surfaces and fires on a small convoy of barges and defending flying boats off the Cape Cod town of Orleans, Massachusetts.[14]
August
August 30 : Attempted assassination of Lenin , depicted by Vladimir Pchelin
October
October 1 – WWI: The Desert Mounted Corps captures Damascus .
October 2 – WWI: The Charge at Khan Ayash is begun north of Damascus, by the 3rd Light Horse Brigade .
October 3
October 4
October 7 – The Regency Council (Poland) declares Polish independence from the German Empire , and demands that Germany cede the Polish provinces of Poznań , Upper Silesia and Polish Pomerania .
October 8 –10 – WWI: Second Battle of Cambrai : British and Canadian troops take Cambrai from the Germans and the First and Third British Armies break through the Hindenburg Line.
October 8 – WWI: In the Forest of Argonne in France, U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
October 9 – Landgrave Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse is elected King of Finland .
October 11 – The magnitude (Mw ) 7.1 San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributes to the damage and loss of life.
October 12 – Cloquet Fire : The city of Cloquet, Minnesota , and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.
October 16 – Emperor Karl IV of Austria publishes the Völkermanifest manifesto, declaring the Cisleithanian part of the empire will be federalized on the basis of national councils
October 18 – The Washington Declaration proclaims the independent Czechoslovak Republic .
October 21 – German representatives of the Reichsrat in Austria-Hungary form the Provisional National Assembly for German-Austria
October 24 – WWI: The Battle of Vittorio Veneto opens.
October 25
October 26 – WWI – Charge at Haritan : Units of the Desert Mounted Corps battle with Ottoman forces for the last time in WWI.
October 28
October 29
October 30
October 31 – The Hungarian government terminates the personal union with Austria, officially dissolving the Austro-Hungarian Empire .
December
Flag of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
December 4 – President Woodrow Wilson departs by ship to the Paris Peace Conference , becoming the first United States President to travel to Europe while holding office.
December 5 – Estonian War of Independence : The British light cruiser HMS Cassandra strikes a mine and sinks near Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea , killing 11 sailors.[26]
December 6 – A magnitude (Mw ) 7.2 earthquake shakes British Columbia .
December 14
December 16 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , a puppet state created by the Russian SFSR to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War .
December 17 – Darwin Rebellion in Australia: Disaffected workers march on Government House, Darwin , demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory , John A. Gilruth .
December 20 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk returns to the Czechoslovak Republic.
December 21 – Estonian War of Independence : The Red Army captures Tartu , Estonia .
December 25 – Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten , is formed in Germany as a nationalist veterans ' organization.
December 27 – Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19) : Poles in Greater Poland (the former Grand Duchy of Posen ) rise up against the Germans, ignited by a patriotic speech made in Poznań by pianist and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski .
December 28 – Sinn Féin enjoys a landslide victory in Irish seats in the Irish general election (part of the 1918 United Kingdom general election ), following the counting of votes, winning 73 of the 105 seats in Ireland. In accordance with their manifesto , Sinn Féin members will not take their seats in the Palace of Westminster but will form the First Dáil in Dublin . Countess Constance Markievicz , while detained in Holloway Prison (London), becomes the first woman elected to (but does not take her seat in) the British House of Commons .[29]
December 31 – A British-brokered ceasefire ends the two weeks of fighting in the Georgian–Armenian War .
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January
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Nicolae Ceaușescu
January 1 – Patrick Anthony Porteous , Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 2000 )
January 2 – Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse , German typographer, calligrapher and book-binder (d. 2019 )
January 10 – Arthur Chung , 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008 )
January 11 – Kassim Al-Rimawi , Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1982 )
January 15
January 16 – Stirling Silliphant , American writer, producer (d. 1996 )[30]
January 17
January 20 – Juan García Esquivel , Mexican bandleader (d. 2002 )
January 21
January 22 – Elmer Lach , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015 )
January 23 – Gertrude B. Elion , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999 )[32]
January 24 – Oral Roberts , American neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. 2009 )
January 26
January 27
January 29
January 31 – Millie Dunn Veasey , African-American civil rights activist (d. 2018 )
February
Joey Bishop
Julian Schwinger
February 1
February 2 – Hella Haasse , Dutch writer (d. 2011 )
February 3
February 4 – Ida Lupino , Anglo-American actress, screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1995 )
February 6 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim , German author (d. 2007 )
February 7 – Marguerite Narbel , Swiss biologist and politician (died 2010 )
February 8 – Fred Blassie , American professional wrestler, novelty singer (Pencil Neck Geek ) (d. 2003 )
February 12 – Julian Schwinger , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994 )
February 14 – William L. Snyder , American film producer (d. 1998 )
February 15 – Smilja Avramov , Serbian academic, authority and educator in international law (d. 2018 )
February 19 – Fay McKenzie , American silent film actress (d. 2019 )
February 22
February 25
February 26
February 28 – Alfred Burke , English actor (d. 2011 )
March
João Goulart
James Tobin
Elaine de Kooning
Frederick Reines
Pearl Bailey
March 1
March 3
March 4 – Margaret Osborne duPont , American female tennis player (d. 2012 )
March 5 – James Tobin , American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize laureate (d. 2002 )[34]
March 9
March 10 – Günther Rall , German ace fighter pilot (d. 2009 )
March 12 – Elaine de Kooning , American artist (d. 1989 )[36]
March 16 – Frederick Reines , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )[37]
March 17 – Viviane Gauthier , Haitian dancer (d. 2017 )
March 22 – Cheddi Jagan , 4th President of Guyana (d. 1997 )
March 23
March 28 – Gonzalo Facio Segreda , Costa Rican lawyer, politician, and diplomat (d. 2018 )
March 29
April
William Holden
Kai Siegbahn
Fanny Blankers-Koen
April 1 – Diarmuid Larkin , Irish artist and art educationist (d. 1989 )
April 6
April 7 – Bobby Doerr , American baseball player (d. 2017 )
April 8 – Betty Ford , First Lady of the United States (d. 2011 )
April 9 – Jørn Utzon , Danish architect (d. 2008 )
April 10 – H. S. Doreswamy , Indian activist, journalist (d. 2021 )
April 11 – Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber , French journalist, politician (d. 2018 )
April 14 – Mary Healy , American actress, variety entertainer and singer (d. 2015 )[38]
April 16 – Spike Milligan , Irish comedian (d. 2002 )
April 17
April 18
April 20 – Kai Siegbahn , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007 )[39]
April 26 – Fanny Blankers-Koen , Dutch athlete (d. 2004 )
April 28
April 29 – Nils Östensson , Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1949 )
May
Mike Wallace
Richard Feynman
Eddy Arnold
Birgit Nilsson
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Martin Lundstrom
May 1
May 4
May 6
May 9
May 11 – Richard Feynman , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988 )[41]
May 12 – Julius Rosenberg , American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953 )
May 15
May 16 – Wilf Mannion , English footballer (d. 2000 )[43]
May 17 – Birgit Nilsson , Swedish soprano (d. 2005 )[44]
May 19 – Abraham Pais , Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000 )
May 20 – Edward B. Lewis , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004 )
May 23
May 27 – Yasuhiro Nakasone , 45th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2019 )
May 28
May 30 – Martin Lundström , Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2016 )
May 31 – Margaret Todd , Canadian female golfer (d. 2019 )
June
Franco Modigliani
June 2 – Kathryn Tucker Windham , American writer, storyteller (d. 2011 )
June 6 – Edwin G. Krebs , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009 )
June 8 – Robert Preston , American actor (The Music Man ) (d. 1987 )
June 9 – John Hospers , American philosopher (d. 2011 )
June 10 – Patachou , French singer (d. 2015 )
June 11 – Hugo Scheltema , Dutch diplomat (d. 1996 )
June 15 – François Tombalbaye , 1st President of Chad (d. 1975 )
June 17
June 18
June 21
June 22
June 24
June 26
June 27
June 29 – Heini Lohrer , Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2011 )
June 30 – Jackie Roberts , Welsh footballer (d. 2001 )
July
Ingmar Bergman
Bertram Brockhouse
Nelson Mandela
Paul D. Boyer
July 1
July 2
July 3 – Lorenzo Robledo , Spanish actor (d. 2006 )
July 4
July 5
July 6
July 7 – Jing Shuping , Chinese businessman (d. 2009 )
July 8
July 9 – Jarl Wahlström , Salvation Army general (d. 1999 )
July 12 – Mary Glen-Haig , British Olympic fencer (d. 2014 )
July 13
July 14
July 15
July 16
July 17 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio , 35th President of Guatemala (d. 2003 )
July 18
July 20 – Auður Laxness , Icelandic writer, craftsperson (d. 2012 )
July 21 – Elsa Kobberstad , Norwegian schoolteacher, politician (d. 2007 )
July 22 – Lila Zali , Georgian-born American prima ballerina (d. 2003 )
July 24
July 27 – Leonard Rose , American cellist (d. 1984 )
July 28 – Penaia Ganilau , 1st President of Fiji (d. 1993 )
July 29 – Edwin O'Connor , American novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968 )
July 31
August
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Frederick Sanger
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Leonard Bernstein
Katherine Johnson
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse
August 1
August 2 – Dada Vaswani , Indian spiritual leader (d. 2018 )
August 3 – Cheng Kaijia , Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer (d. 2018 )
August 4 – Noel Willman , Irish actor (d. 1988 )
August 5
August 13
August 19 – Shankar Dayal Sharma , 9th President of India (d. 1999 )
August 20 – Crystal Bennett , British archaeologist, pioneering researcher on Jordan (d. 1987 )
August 21 – Bruria Kaufman , American-born Israeli physicist (d. 2010 )
August 22
August 23 – Bernard Fisher , American surgeon (d. 2019 )
August 25 – Leonard Bernstein , American composer, conductor (d. 1990 )
August 26
August 27
August 28 – Alejandro Agustín Lanusse , 37th President of Argentina (d. 1996 )
August 29 – Clemens C. J. Roothaan , Dutch physicist (d. 2019 )
August 30 – Ted Williams , American baseball player (d. 2002 )
August 31 – Alan Jay Lerner , American lyricist, librettist (d. 1986 )
September
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September 1 – Phyllis Wallbank , English educationalist (d. 2020 )
September 3 – Helen Wagner , American soap opera actress (d. 2010 )
September 4 – Gerald Wilson , American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014 )
September 6 – Ludwig Hörmann , German cyclist (d. 2001 )
September 8 – Derek Barton , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )
September 9 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro , 9th President of Italy (d. 2012 )
September 13 – Ray Charles , American musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2015 )
September 14 – James George , Canadian diplomat (d. 2020 )
September 15 – Nipsey Russell , American comedian, poet, and dancer (d. 2005 )
September 16 – Ismail Mohamed Ali , Malaysian politician (d. 1998 )
September 17 – Chaim Herzog , 6th President of Israel 1983–1993 (d. 1997 )
September 19 – Joseph Zeller , American politician (d. 2018 )
September 22 – Henryk Szeryng , Polish-born violinist (d. 1988 )
September 24 – Emerante Morse , Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist (d. 2018 )
September 26 – Peng Chang-kuei , Taiwanese chef (d. 2016 )
September 27 – Martin Ryle , English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1984 )
September 28
September 30
October
Jens Christian Skou
Robert Walker
Rita Hayworth
Thelma Coyne Long
October 4 – Kenichi Fukui , Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )
October 6 – Goh Keng Swee , former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010 )
October 8 – Jens Christian Skou , Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018 )
October 9
October 10 – Gaston Mialaret , French pedagogist and professor (d. 2016 )
October 13
October 14 – Thelma Coyne Long , Australian tennis player (d. 2015 )
October 16
October 17 – Rita Hayworth , American actress (d. 1987 )
October 18
October 19 – Robert S. Strauss , American politician, Democratic National Committee Chairman (d. 2014 )
October 22 – René de Obaldia , French playwright and poet (d. 2022 )
October 23 – Augusta Dabney , American actress (d. 2008 )
October 25
October 26 – Marc Hodler , Swiss lawyer (d. 2006 )
October 27
October 29 – Diana Serra Cary , American actress (d. 2020 )
October 31 – Ian Stevenson , American parapsychologist (d. 2007 )
November
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November 1 – Ken Miles , British sports car racing engineer and driver (d. 1966 )
November 2 – Raimon Panikkar , Spanish theologian (d. 2010 )
November 3 – Russell B. Long , United States Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003 )
November 4
November 7
November 8
November 9
November 10 – Ernst Otto Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007 )
November 14 – John Bromwich , Australian tennis player (d. 1999 )
November 15 – Vittore Bocchetta , Italian sculptor, painter and academic (d. 2021 )
November 18 – Nicolás Kingman Riofrío , Ecuadorian journalist, writer and politician (d. 2018 )
November 26 – Patricio Aylwin , 32nd President of Chile (d. 2016 )
November 27 – Borys Paton , Ukrainian scientist (d. 2020 )
November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle , American author (d. 2007 )
November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr. , American actor (d. 2014 )[53]
December
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Kurt Waldheim
Helmut Schmidt
Anwar Sadat
December 3 – Abdul Haris Nasution , Indonesian general (d. 2000 )
December 7
December 8 – Gérard Souzay , French baritone (d. 2004 )
December 10 – Anatoly Tarasov , Russian ice-hockey player and coach (d. 1995 )
December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008 )
December 12 – Joe Williams , American jazz singer (d. 1999 )
December 13 – Rosalia Lombardo , Italian child known as The Sleeping Beauty (d. 1920 )[54]
December 14 – B. K. S. Iyengar , Indian yoga teacher (d. 2014 )
December 15 – Jeff Chandler , American actor (d. 1961 )
December 17
December 18 – Joyce Reynolds , English classicist and academic (d. 2022 )
December 21
December 23
December 24 – Dave Bartholomew , American musician, songwriter and music producer (d. 2019 )
December 25
December 26 – Georgios Rallis , Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006 )
December 30 – W. Eugene Smith , American photojournalist (d. 1978 )
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February 1 – Princess Leonilla Bariatinskaya , Russian aristocrat (b. 1816 )
February 2 – John L. Sullivan , American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (b. 1858 )
February 4 – Akiyama Saneyuki , Japanese admiral (b. 1868 )
February 6 – Gustav Klimt , Austrian painter (b. 1862 ), Spanish flu
February 8 – Louis Renault , French jurist, educator and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843 )
February 10
February 11 – Alexey Kaledin , Russian general (suicide) (b. 1861 )
February 14 – Sir Cecil Spring Rice , British diplomat (b. 1859 )
February 15 – Vernon Castle , British-born American dancer (b. 1887 )
February 16 – Károly Khuen-Héderváry , 2-time Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1849 )
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June
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June 1 – Roderic Dallas , Australian fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1891 )
June 3 – Count Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling , Austrian noble, statesman and former Prime Minister (b. 1863 )
June 4 – Charles W. Fairbanks , 26th Vice President of the United States (b. 1852 )
June 10 – Arrigo Boito , Italian poet, composer (b. 1842 )
June 13 – Grand Duke Michael Romanov (assassinated) (b. 1878 )
June 15 – Frank Miles Day , American architect (b. 1861 )
June 16 – Bazil Assan , Romanian engineer and explorer (b. 1860 )
June 19 – Francesco Baracca , Italian fighter pilot (air crash) (b. 1888 )
June 26 – Kyrion II of Georgia , Georgian Orthodox patriarch , Saint (b. 1855 )
June 27 – Joséphin Péladan , French occultist (b. 1858 )
September
George Reid
Eduard, Duke of Anhalt
Prince Erik, Duke of Vastmanland
Mudbir al-Far'un , Arab chieftain, leader of 1913 Euphrates rebellion
September 2 – Sir John Forrest , Australian explorer and politician, 1st Premier of Western Australia (b. 1847 )
September 5 – Nikolay Maklakov , Russian politician, former minister of the Interior (b. 1871 )
September 6 – Elizabeth Yates , New Zealand politician (b. 1845 )
September 8
September 12 – Sir George Reid , 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845 )
September 13 – Eduard, Duke of Anhalt (b. 1861 )
September 16 – Maurice Boyau , French World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1888 )
September 20 – Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (b. 1889 ), Spanish flu
September 27 – Fritz Rumey , German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1891 )
September 28
September 29 – Frank Luke , American fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1897 )
October
October 4 – Nikolai Skrydlov , Russian admiral (b. 1844 )
October 5
October 6 – Arthur O'Hara Wood , Australian tennis champion and fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1890 )
October 7 – Sir Hubert Parry , British composer (b. 1848 ), Spanish flu
October 8 – Mikhail Alekseyev , Russian general (b. 1857 )
October 9 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon , French sculptor (b. 1876 )
October 11 – Wallace Lloyd Algie , Canadian soldier (killed in action) (b. 1891 )
October 15 – Sai Baba of Shirdi , Indian guru, yogi and National saint of India (b. 1838 )
October 16 – Felix Arndt , American pianist, composer (b. 1889 ), Spanish flu
October 18
October 19
October 24
October 25 – Amadeo de Souza Cardoso , Portuguese painter (b. 1887 ), Spanish flu
October 29
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November
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November 1 – Vladimir Vasilyevich Smirnov , Russian general (executed) (b. 1849 )
November 2 – Hugh Cairns , Canadian soldier (b. 1896 )
November 4
November 5
November 6 – Alan Arnett McLeod , Canadian soldier (b. 1899 ), Spanish flu
November 9
November 11
November 12 – Aleksei Evert , Russian general (executed) (b. 1857 ; may have died in 1926 )
November 14 – Matti Lonkainen , Finnish politician (b. 1874 )[62]
November 15 – Sir Robert Anderson , British police officer (b. 1841 ), Spanish flu
November 19 – Joseph F. Smith , 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838 )
November 20 – John Bauer , Swedish painter (b. 1882 )
November 22 – Rose Cleveland , de facto First Lady of the United States (b. 1846 ), Spanish flu
November 23 – Fritz von Below , German general (b. 1853 )
November 30 – Karl Petrovich Jessen , Russian admiral (b. 1852 )
December
Sidónio Pais
Sultan Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar
December 2 – Edmond Rostand , French writer (b. 1868 ), Spanish flu
December 4 – Princess Teriivaetua of Tahiti (b. 1869 ), Spanish flu
December 5 – Schalk Willem Burger , Boer military leader, lawyer, politician, statesman, and acting President of the South African Republic (1900-1902) (b. 1852 )
December 9 – Samuel Swett Green , American library pioneer (b. 1837 )
December 11 – Ivan Cankar , Slovenian writer (b. 1876 ), Spanish flu
December 14 – Sidónio Pais , Portuguese politician, general, diplomat, 66th Prime Minister of Portugal and 4th President of Portugal (b. 1872 ), assassinated
December 16 – Frederic W. Tilton , American educator and 7th Principal of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (b. 1839 )
December 20 – Sultan Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar (b. 1884 )
December 21 – Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst , Austrian statesman, former Prime Minister (b. 1863 )
December 28 – Olavo Bilac , Brazilian poet (b. 1865 )
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