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1918
1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-February
March-April
May-July
August-October
November
December
Unknown dates
Births
January-February
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January 15 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
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January 16 - Stirling Silliphant , writer, producer (d. 1996)
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January 20 - Esquivel, musician (d. 2002)
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January 25 - Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster
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January 26 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
- January 26 - Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer
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January 27 - Skitch Henderson, musician, band leader
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January 29 - John Forsythe, actor
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February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author
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February 3 - Helen Stephens, American sprinter (d. 1994)
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February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot
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February 8 - Fred Blassie, former professional wrestler (d. 2003)
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February 22 - Robert Pershing Wadlow, tallest man in the world (d. 1940)
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February 25 - Bobby Riggs, tennis player (d. 1995)
- February 25 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
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February 26 - Theodore Sturgeon, science fiction writer (d. 1985)
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February 27 - William Jefferson Blythe III, father of U.S. President Bill Clinton (d. 1946)
March-April
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March 1 - João Goulart, president of Brazil (1961-March 31, 1964) (d. 1976)
- March 1 - Roger Delgado, British actor (d. 1973)
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March 3 - Fritz Thiedemann, equestrian (d. 2000)
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March 5 - James Tobin, economist (d. 2002)
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March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer
- March 9 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967)
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March 10 - Heywood Hale Broun , sports journalist, commentator (d. 2001)
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March 11 - Jack Coe, Second Wave Healing Evangelist (d. 1956)
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March 16 - Frederick Reines, physicist (1995 Nobel Prize in Physics) (d. 1998)
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March 17 - Mercedes McCambridge, actress (d. 2004)
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March 18 - Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (d. 1968)
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March 25 - Howard Cosell, attorney, lecturer, sports journalist (d. 1995)
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March 29 - Pearl Bailey, singer, actress (d. 1990)
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April 9 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House
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April 16 - Spike Milligan, comedian (d. 2002)
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April 26 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
May-August
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May 9 - Mike Wallace, journalist
- May 9 - Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
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May 11 - Richard Feynman, physicist (d. 1988)
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May 12 - Julius Rosenberg, spy (d. 1953)
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May 15 - Eddy Arnold, singer
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May 16 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (d. 2000)
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May 17 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano
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June 18 - Franco Modigliani, economist (d. 2003)
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July 4 - Ann Landers, advice columnist (d. 2002)
- July 4 - Abigail Van Buren, advice columnist and twin sister to Ann Landers
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July 13 - Alberto Ascari, Italian F1 race car driver (d. 1955)
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July 14 - Ingmar Bergman Swedish film director
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July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian scientist (d. 2003)
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July 18 - Nelson Mandela, South African prisoner of conscience and president
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July 24 - Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist
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July 27 - Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
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August 8 - Brian Stonehouse, painter, SOE agent in WW II (d. 1998)
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August 13 - Frederick Sanger, molecular biologist
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August 25 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
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August 30 - Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
September-December
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September 4 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster
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September 22 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist (d. 1988)
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October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
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December 8 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
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December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
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December 12 - Joe Williams, jazz singer (d. 1999)
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December 15 - Jeff Chandler, actor (d. 1961)
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December 21 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (d. 2003)
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December 21 - Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations and Federal President of Austria
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December 23 - José Greco, flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
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December 25 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president (d. 1981)
Deaths
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January 6 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician
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January 9 - Émile Reynaud, French science teacher, responsible for the first animated films
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January 28 - John McCrae, Canadian soldier, poet
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February 6 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter
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March 25 - Claude Debussy, French composer
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March 27 - Henry Adams, American historian
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May 14 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., newspaper publisher
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May 19 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot
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July 3 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire
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June 10 - Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (b. 1842)
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July 17 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family
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August 18 - Henry Norwest, World War I sniper
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September 12 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia
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September 28 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher
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October 14 - Samuel Hamilton 'Hamby' Shore , hockey player (b. 1886)
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November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
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November 19 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
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