1918: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Horse 🐎 · Born in 1918 turn 108 in 2026

The year in numbers

US president

Woodrow Wilson

In the news: World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic kills millions

What happened in 1918

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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Born in 1918

101 people in our data · most viewed first

Gamal Abdel Nasser

1918–1970 · January 15

President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918–2008 · December 11

Soviet-Russian author and dissident

Betty Ford

1918–2011 · April 8

First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977

Art Carney

1918–2003 · November 4

American actor and comedian

Ida Lupino

1918–1995 · February 4

British actress and filmmaker

Bobby Riggs

1918–1995 · February 25

American tennis player

Cameron Mitchell (actor)

1918–1994 · November 4

American actor

Chaim Herzog

1918–1997 · September 17

President of Israel from 1983 to 1993

Bobby Troup

1918–1999 · October 18

American actor and musician

Alberto Ascari

1918–1955 · July 13

Italian racing driver

Allan Arbus

1918–2013 · February 15

American actor and photographer

Jack Paar

1918–2004 · May 1

American writer and comedian

Bob Feller

1918–2010 · November 3

American baseball pitcher

Anne Gwynne

1918–2003 · December 10

American actress

Don Pardo

1918–2014 · February 22

American announcer

Barry Morse

1918–2008 · June 10

British-Canadian actor

Ahmed Deedat

1918–2005 · July 1

South African–Indian Islamic orator and author

B. K. S. Iyengar

1918–2014 · December 14

Indian yoga teacher and author

Alan Jay Lerner

1918–1986 · August 31

American lyricist and librettist

Arnold Stang

1918–2009 · September 28

American actor

Elmore James

1918–1963 · January 27

American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader

Arthur Laurents

1918–2011 · July 14

American playwright, theatre director and screenwriter

Cheddi Jagan

1918–1997 · March 22

President of Guyana from 1992 to 1997

Bob Katter Sr.

1918–1990 · September 5

Australian politician

Died in 1918

Manfred von Richthofen1892–1918 · German World War I flying ace
Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)1872–1918 · Empress of Russia from 1894 to 1917
Abdul Hamid II1842–1918 · Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1909
Claude Debussy1862–1918 · French classical composer
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia1904–1918 · Heir to the Russian throne
Georg Cantor1845–1918 · Mathematician
Anna Held1872–1918 · Broadway stage performer
Charles W. Fairbanks1852–1918 · Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909
César Ritz1850–1918 · Swiss hotelier
Edmond Rostand1868–1918 · French poet and dramatist
Hubert Parry1848–1918 · British composer, teacher and historian
César Cui1835–1918 · Russian composer and army officer