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1918
1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January-February
March-April
May-July
August-October
November
December
Unknown dates
Births
January-February
- January 10 — Arthur Chung, President of Guyana
- January 15 — Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
- January 16 — Nel Benschop, Dutch poetess (d. 2005)
- January 16 — Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (d. 1996)
- January 19 — John H. Johnson, American publisher, (d. 2005)
- January 20 — Esquivel, Mexican musician (d. 2002)
- January 21 — Richard D. Winters, Major of 506th PIR and a suggested officer for the MOH of D-day 101st airborne
- January 23 — Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
- January 25 — Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
- January 26 — Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
- January 26 — Philip José Farmer, American writer
- January 27 — Skitch Henderson, English-born musician and bandleader (d. 2005)
- January 29 — John Forsythe, American actor
- February 1 — Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish author
- February 3 — Helen Stephens, American runner (d. 1994)
- February 6 — Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author
- February 7 — Markey Robinson, Northern Irish painter (d. 1999)
- February 8 — Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
- February 12 — Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- February 17 — William Bronk, American poet (d. 1999)
- February 22 — Robert Pershing Wadlow, American record-holder as the tallest man (d. 1940)
- February 25 — Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
- February 25 — Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
- February 26 — Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
March-April
- March 1 — Roger Delgado, British actor (d. 1973)
- March 1 — João Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
- March 3 — Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- March 3 — Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
- March 5 — James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
- March 9 — George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967)
- March 9 — Mickey Spillane, American mystery writer
- March 11 — Jack Coe, American evangelist (d. 1956)
- March 12 — Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
- March 16 — Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- March 17 — Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
- March 18 — Al Benton, baseball player (d. 1968)
- March 18 — Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
- March 22 — Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
- March 25 — Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995)
- March 29 — Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)
- April 9 — Jørn Utzon, Danish architect
- April 16 — Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
- April 17 — William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
- April 20 — Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 22 — Mickey Vernon, baseball player
- April 26 — Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
May-August
- May 1 — Jack Paar, American television show host (d. 2004)
- May 3 — Benjamin C. Thompson, American architect (d. 2002)
- May 9 — Mike Wallace, American journalist
- May 9 — Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
- May 11 — Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- May 12 — Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953)
- May 15 — Eddy Arnold, American singer
- May 16 — Wilf Mannion, English footballer (d. 2000)
- May 17 — Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005)
- May 20 — Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
- June 6 — Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- June 18 — Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 18 — Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- July 4 — Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)
- July 4 — Pauline Phillips (Abigail Van Buren), American advice columnist and twin sister to Ann Landers
- July 5 — George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
- July 13 — Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
- July 14 — Ingmar Bergman Swedish film director
- July 15 — Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- July 17 — Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
- July 18 — Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- July 24 — Ruggiero Ricci, Italian-born violinist
- July 27 — Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
- July 31 — Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 3 — Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999)
- August 5 — Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (d. 2004)
- August 8 — Brian Stonehouse, English painter and World War II spy (d. 1998)
- August 13 — Frederick Sanger, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 25 — Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
- August 30 — Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
September-December
- September 4 — Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster
- September 8 — Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- September 22 — Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
- September 27 — Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1984)
- October 4 — Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- October 5 — Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888)
- October 8 — Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 19 — Louis Althusser, French philosopher (d. 1990)
- October 27 – Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian statesman (d. 2003)
- October 31 — Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist
- November 3 — Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
- November 4 — Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
- November 10 — Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 13 — Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)
- December 8 — Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
- December 11 — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 12 — Joe Williams, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
- December 15 — Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
- December 21 — Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (d. 2003)
- December 21 — Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations and President of Austria
- December 23 — José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
- December 25 — Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1981)
Deaths
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