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* [[February 6]] – [[Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom]]: [[Representation of the People Act 1918|Representation of the People Act]] gives most women over 30 the vote. * [[February 6]] – [[Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom]]: [[Representation of the People Act 1918|Representation of the People Act]] gives most women over 30 the vote.
* [[March 26]] – Dr. [[Marie Stopes]] publishes her influential book ''[[Married Love]]'' in the U.K. * [[March 26]] – Dr. [[Marie Stopes]] publishes her influential book ''[[Married Love]]'' in the U.K.
-* [[July 17]] – [[Execution of the Romanov family]]: By order of the [[Bolshevik Party]] and carried out by the [[Cheka]], former emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]], his wife [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Alexandra Feodorovna]], their children, [[Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia|Olga]], [[Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia|Tatiana]], [[Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899–1918)|Maria]], [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Anastasia]], and [[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia|Alexei]], and retainers are shot at the [[Ipatiev House]] in [[Yekaterinburg|Ekaterinburg, Russia]].+* [[July 17]] – [[Execution of the Romanov family]] by order of the [[Bolshevik Party]]
* [[August 30]] - In response to the [[October Revolution]] in Russia, [[Vladimir Lenin]] is shot and wounded by [[Fanny Kaplan]] in Moscow, but survives. * [[August 30]] - In response to the [[October Revolution]] in Russia, [[Vladimir Lenin]] is shot and wounded by [[Fanny Kaplan]] in Moscow, but survives.
-* [[November 11]] - End of [[World War I|WWI]] and [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)]]: Germany signs an [[armistice]] agreement with the Allies between 5:12 AM and 5:20 AM in Marshal [[Ferdinand Foch|Foch]]'s railroad car in [[Compiègne Forest]] in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.+* [[November 11]] - End of [[World War I|WWI]] and [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)]]
 +== Art and culture ==
 +*End of [[World War I]]
 +*Start of [[Weimar Republic]]
 +*[[March 23]] - [[Dada Manifesto (1918) by Tristan Tzara|Dada Manifesto]] by Tristan Tzara
 +*In February 1918, [[Richard Huelsenbeck]] gave his first Dada speech in Berlin, and produced a [[Dada manifesto]] later in the year
 + 
 +==Film==
 +*''[[Es werde Licht!]]'' by Richard Oswald
 +== Literature ==
 +===Fiction===
 +*''[[Casanova's Homecoming]]'' by Arthur Schnitzler
 +===Poetry===
 +*''[[Twenty-Five Poems]]'' by Tzara
 +*''[[Calligrammes]]'' by Guillaume Apollinaire
 +===Non-fiction===
 +*''[[The Decline of the West]]'' by Oswald Spengler, first volume published
 + 
 +== Visual arts ==
 +*First version of ''[[L.H.O.O.Q.]]''
 +*[[Red and Blue Chair]] by Gerrit Rietveld
 +*''[[White on White]]'' by Kazimir Malevich
== Births == == Births ==
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* [[April 16]] – [[Spike Milligan]], Irish comedian (d. [[2002]]) * [[April 16]] – [[Spike Milligan]], Irish comedian (d. [[2002]])
* [[April 18]] - [[Gabriel Axel]], Danish film director (d. [[2014]]) * [[April 18]] - [[Gabriel Axel]], Danish film director (d. [[2014]])
 +* April 18 – [[André Bazin]], French film critic and theorist (d. 1958)
 +* [[April 23]] – [[James Kirkup]], a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer (d. 2009)
* [[July 14]] - [[Ingmar Bergman]], Swedish film director (d. [[2007]]) * [[July 14]] - [[Ingmar Bergman]], Swedish film director (d. [[2007]])
 +* [[August 9]] – [[Robert Aldrich]], American film director (d. 1983)
* [[August 25]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]], American composer and conductor (d. [[1990]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]], American composer and conductor (d. [[1990]])
 +* [[September 24]] – [[Richard Hoggart]], British academic (d. 2004)
* [[October 16]] – [[Louis Althusser]], French philosopher (d. [[1990]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Louis Althusser]], French philosopher (d. [[1990]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Rita Hayworth]], American actress (d. [[1987]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Rita Hayworth]], American actress (d. [[1987]])
- 
-** [[Konstantinos Mitsotakis]], former Greek Prime Minister (d. [[2017]]) 
-** [[Bobby Troup]], American singer-songwriter and actor (''Emergency!'') (d. [[1999]]) 
-* [[October 19]] – [[Robert S. Strauss]], Democratic National Committee Chairman (d. [[2014]]) 
-* [[October 23]] – [[Augusta Dabney]], American actress (d. [[2008]]) 
-* [[October 25]] – [[Milton Selzer]], American actor (d. [[2006]]) 
-* [[October 26]] – [[Marc Hodler]], Swiss lawyer (d. [[2006]]) 
-* [[October 27]] 
-** [[Mihkel Mathiesen]], Estonian statesman (d. [[2003]]) 
-** [[Teresa Wright]], American actress (d. [[2005]]) 
-* [[October 29]] – [[Diana Serra Cary]], American actress 
-* [[October 31]] – [[Ian Stevenson]], American parapsychologist (d. [[2007]]) 
- 
-=== November === 
-[[File:Billy Graham bw photo, April 11, 1966.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billy Graham]]]] 
-[[File:Spiro Agnew.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Spiro Agnew]]]] 
-[[File:Presidente Patricio Aylwin cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Patricio Aylwin]]]] 
-* [[November 2]] – [[Raimon Panikkar]], Spanish theologian (d. [[2010]]) 
-* [[November 3]] 
-** [[Bob Feller]], American baseball player (d. [[2010]]) 
-** [[Elizabeth P. Hoisington]], American Brigadier General (d. [[2007]]) 
-** [[Russell B. Long]], U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. [[2003]]) 
-** [[Dean Riesner]], American film and television screenwriter (d. [[2002]]) 
-* [[November 4]] 
-** [[Art Carney]], American actor, better known for his role in ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' (d. [[2003]]) 
-** [[Cameron Mitchell (actor)|Cameron Mitchell]], American actor, better known for his role in ''[[The High Chaparral]]'' (d. [[1994]]) 
-* [[November 7]] 
-** [[Paul Aussaresses]], French general (d. [[2013]]) 
-** [[Billy Graham]], American evangelist, spiritual adviser to several U.S. Presidents 
-** [[Fred Cusick]], American ice hockey broadcaster (d. [[2009]]) 
-* [[November 8]]  
-** [[Hermann Zapf]], German typeface designer (d. [[2015]]) 
-** [[Bob Schiller]], American screenwriter (d. [[2017]]) 
-* [[November 9]]  
-** [[Spiro Agnew]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|39th]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. [[1996]]) 
-** [[Choi Hong Hi]], South Korean general and martial artist (d. [[2002]]) 
-** [[Thomas Ferebee]], American colonel (d. [[2000]]) 
-* [[November 10]]  
-** [[Ernst Otto Fischer]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2007]]) 
-** [[John Henry Moss]], American baseball executive and politician (d. [[2009]]) 
-* [[November 14]] – [[John Bromwich]], Australian tennis player (d. [[1999]]) 
-* [[November 21]] – [[Dorothy Maguire|Dorothy Maguire Chapman]], American professional baseball player (d. [[1981]]) 
-* [[November 26]] – [[Patricio Aylwin]], 32nd President of Chile (d. [[2016]]) 
-* [[November 28]] – [[Jack H. Harris]], American film producer, distributor and actor (d. [[2017]]) 
-* [[November 29]] – [[Madeleine L'Engle]], American author (d. [[2007]]) 
-* [[November 30]] – [[Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.]], American actor (''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The FBI]]'') (d. [[2014]]) 
- 
-===December=== 
-[[File:Verteidigungsminister Helmut Schmidt.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Helmut Schmidt]]]] 
-[[File:Anwar Sadat cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anwar Sadat]]]] 
-* [[December 3]] – [[Abdul Haris Nasution]], Indonesian general (d. [[2000]]) 
-* [[December 7]] – [[Jórunn Viðar]], Icelandic pianist and composer (d. [[2017]]) 
-* [[December 8]] – [[Gérard Souzay]], French baritone (d. [[2004]]) 
* [[December 11]] – [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2008]]) * [[December 11]] – [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2008]])
-* [[December 12]] – [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]], American jazz singer (d. [[1999]])+==Deaths==
-* [[December 14]] – [[B. K. S. Iyengar]], Indian [[yoga]] teacher (d. [[2014]])+* [[March 25]] - [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (b. [[1862]])
-* [[December 15]] – [[Jeff Chandler (actor)|Jeff Chandler]], American actor (d. [[1961]])+
-* [[December 17]] – [[Dusty Anderson]], American actress and model+
-* [[December 20]] – [[Joseph Payne Brennan]], American poet and author (d. [[1990]])+
-* [[December 21]]+
-** [[Donald Regan]], American [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Treasury Secretary]] and [[White House Chief of Staff]] (d. [[2003]])+
-** [[Kurt Waldheim]], [[President of Austria]] and [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]] (d. [[2007]])+
-* [[December 23]]+
-** [[José Greco]], Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. [[2001]])+
-** [[Helmut Schmidt]], [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[2015]])+
-* [[December 25]]+
-** [[Bertie Mee]], English football player and manager (d. [[2001]])+
-** [[Anwar Sadat]], [[President of Egypt]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1981]])+
-* [[December 31]] – [[Al Lakeman]], American catcher in Major League Baseball (d. [[1976]])+
- +
-===Date Unknown===+
-* [[Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad]], 5th President of Bangladesh (d. [[1996]])+
-* [[Lou Dorfsman]], American graphic designer (d. [[2008]])+
-* [[Louis Wienholt]], Australian public servant (d. [[1973]])+
- +
-== Deaths ==+
- +
-=== January ===+
-[[File:Georg Cantor2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georg Cantor]]]]+
-[[File:Dolores sopeña pensativa.jpg|thumb|110px|[[María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña]]]]+
-* [[January 6]] – [[Georg Cantor]], German mathematician (b. [[1845]])+
-* [[January 8]]+
-** [[Johannes Pääsuke]], Estonian photographer and filmmaker (b. [[1892]])+
-** [[Ellis H. Roberts]], American politician (b. [[1827]])+
-* [[January 9]]+
-** [[Max Ritter von Müller]], German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1887]])+
-** [[Émile Reynaud]], French inventor (b. [[1844]])+
-* [[January 10]] – [[María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister and blessed (b. [[1848]])+
-* [[January 26]] – [[Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia]] (b. [[1850]])+
-* [[January 28]] – [[John McCrae]], Canadian soldier, surgeon and poet (b. [[1872]])+
- +
-=== February ===+
-[[File:Klimt.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Gustav Klimt]]]]+
-[[File:Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.jpg|thumb|120px|Sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]]]]+
-* [[February 2]] – [[John L. Sullivan]], American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (b. [[1858]])+
-* [[February 5]] – [[Leonard Monteagle Barlow]], British fighter pilot (accident) (b. [[1898]])+
-* [[February 6]] – [[Gustav Klimt]], Austrian painter (b. [[1862]])+
-* [[February 8]] – [[Louis Renault (jurist)|Louis Renault]], French jurist, educator and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1843]])+
-* [[February 10]] +
-** Sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]] of the Ottoman Empire (b. [[1842]])+
-** [[Ernesto Teodoro Moneta]], Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1833]])+
-* [[February 11]] – [[Alexey Kaledin]], Russian general (suicide) (b. [[1861]])+
-* [[February 15]] – [[Vernon Castle]], American dancer (b. [[1887]])+
-* [[February 16]] – [[Károly Khuen-Héderváry]], 2-Time [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1849]])+
-* [[February 23]] – [[Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (b. [[1882]])+
- +
-=== March ===+
-[[File:Claude Debussy ca 1908, foto av Félix Nadar.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Claude Debussy]]]]+
-[[File:Martin Sheridan.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Martin Sheridan]]]]+
-* [[March 2]] – [[Prince Mirko of Montenegro]] (b. [[1879]])+
-* [[March 9]] – [[Frank Wedekind]], German playwright (b. [[1864]])+
-* [[March 10]]+
-** [[Hans-Joachim Buddecke]], German flying ace (killed in action) (b. [[1890]])+
-**[[Jim McCormick (pitcher)|Jim McCormick]], Scottish-born American baseball player (b. [[1856]])+
-* [[March 13]] – [[César Cui]], Lithuanian composer (b. [[1835]])+
-* [[March 14]]+
-** [[Lucretia Garfield]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1832]])+
-** [[Gennaro Rubino]], Italian anarchist who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate King Leopold II of Belgium.+
-* [[March 15]] – [[Adolf Ritter von Tutschek]], German fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1891]])+
-* [[March 23]] – [[T. P. Cameron Wilson]], English poet and novelist (b. [[1888]])+
-* [[March 25]]+
-** [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (b. [[1862]])+
-** [[Walter Tull]], First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army (b. [[1888]])+
-* [[March 27]]+
-** [[Henry Adams]], American historian (b. [[1838]])+
-** [[Martin Sheridan]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1881]])+
- +
-=== April ===+
-[[File:George Tupou II of Tonga.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[George Tupou II of Tonga]]]]+
-[[File:Ferdinand Braun.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Karl Ferdinand Braun]]]]+
-[[File:Manfred von Richthofen.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Manfred von Richthofen]].]]+
-* [[April 1]]+
-**[[Paul von Rennenkampf]], Russian general (executed) (b. [[1854]])+
-**[[Isaac Rosenberg]], British war poet (killed in action) (b. [[1890]])+
-* [[April 4]] – [[Hermann Cohen]], German philosopher (b. [[1842]])+
-* [[April 5]] – King [[George Tupou II]] of Tonga (b. [[1874]])+
* [[April 18]] – [[Otto Wagner]], Austro-Hungarian architect and urban planner (b. [[1841]]) * [[April 18]] – [[Otto Wagner]], Austro-Hungarian architect and urban planner (b. [[1841]])
-* [[April 20]]  
-** [[Karl Ferdinand Braun]], German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1850]]) 
-** [[Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn]], Austrian statesman, former Prime Minister (b. [[1851]]) 
-* [[April 21]] 
-** [[Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt]] (b. [[1856]]) 
-** [[Manfred von Richthofen]], German fighter pilot, top-scoring ace of World War I (killed in action) (b. [[1892]]) 
-* [[April 27]] – [[Jacques Duchesne]], French general (b. [[1837]]) 
-* [[April 28]] – [[Gavrilo Princip]], Yugoslav assassin (b. [[1894]]) 
- 
-=== May === 
-[[File:Blandine Merten.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Maria Magdalena Merten]]]] 
-* [[May 2]] – [[Jüri Vilms]], Estonian politician (b. [[1889]]) 
-* [[May 14]] – [[James Gordon Bennett, Jr.]], American newspaper publisher (b. [[1841]]) 
-* [[May 17]] – [[William Drew Robeson]], American minister, father of singer and actor Paul Robeson (b. [[1844]]) 
-* [[May 18]] – [[Maria Magdalena Merten]], German [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed and blessed (b. [[1883]]) 
-* [[May 19]] – [[Raoul Lufbery]], Franco-American fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1885]]) 
-* [[May 23]] – [[Mariano Ponce]], Filipino diplomat, politician and writer (b. [[1863]]) 
-* [[May 24]] – [[József Kiss]], Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1896]]) 
-* [[May 30]] – [[Georgi Plekhanov]], Russian revolutionary and philosopher (b. [[1856]]) 
- 
-=== June === 
-[[File:Patriarch Kyrion II of Georgia.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Kyrion II of Georgia]]]] 
-* [[June 1]] – [[Roderic Dallas]], Australian fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1891]]) 
-* [[June 3]] – Count [[Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling]], Austrian noble and statesman, former Prime Minister (b. [[1863]]) 
-* [[June 4]] – [[Charles W. Fairbanks]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|26th]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1852]]) 
-* [[June 10]] – [[Arrigo Boito]], Italian poet and composer (b. [[1842]]) 
-* [[June 13]] – [[Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia|Grand Duke Michael Romanov]] (assassinated) (b. [[1878]]) 
-* [[June 19]] – [[Francesco Baracca]], Italian fighter pilot (air crash) (b. [[1888]]) 
-* [[June 25]] – [[Jake Beckley]], American baseball player and [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1867]]) 
-* [[June 26]] – [[Kyrion II of Georgia]], Georgian [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] religious leader and saint (b. [[1855]]) 
* [[June 27]] – [[Joséphin Péladan]], French occultist (b. [[1858]]) * [[June 27]] – [[Joséphin Péladan]], French occultist (b. [[1858]])
 +* [[September 28]] - [[Georg Simmel]], German sociologist and philosopher (b. [[1858]])
 +* [[October 31]] - [[Egon Schiele]], Austrian artist (b. [[1890]])
 +* [[November 9]] - [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], French poet (b. [[1880]])
-=== July === 
-[[File:Sultan_Mehmed_V_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_cropped.jpg|thumb|110px|Sultan [[Mehmed V]]]] 
-[[File:Quentin Roosevelt in Uniform 1917.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Quentin Roosevelt]]]] 
-[[File:Face Nicholas II.jpg|thumb|110px|Emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia]]]] 
-[[File:Henry Macintosh 1913.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Henry Macintosh]]]] 
-* [[July 3]] – Sultan [[Mehmed V]] of the Ottoman Empire (b. [[1844]]) 
-* [[July 9]] – [[James McCudden]], British fighter pilot (air crash) (b. [[1895]]) 
-* [[July 14]] – [[Quentin Roosevelt]], youngest son of President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], killed in action as fighter pilot (b. [[1897]]) 
-* [[July 17]] – Executed members of the Romanov family: 
-** Former Emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia]] (b. [[1868]]) 
-** Former Empress [[Alexandra of Hesse|Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia]] (b. [[1872]]) 
-** [[Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia]] (b. [[1895]]) 
-** [[Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia]] (b. [[1897]]) 
-** [[Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia]] (b. [[1899]]) 
-** [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia]] (b. [[1901]]) 
-** Former [[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia|Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia]] (b. [[1904]]) 
-* [[July 18]]  
-** [[Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia]] (b. [[1891]]) 
-** [[Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia]] (b. [[1894]]) 
-** [[Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia]] (b. [[1869]]) 
-* [[July 20]] – [[Francis Lupo]], American soldier (b. [[1895]]) 
-* [[July 22]]  
-** [[Indra Lal Roy]], Indian fighter pilot (b. [[1898]]) 
-** [[Manuel González Prada]], Peruvian politician and author (b. [[1844]]) 
-* [[July 26]] 
-** [[Henry Macintosh]], British Olympic athlete (killed in action) (b. [[1892]]) 
-** [[Edward Mannock]], British fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1887]]) 
-* [[July 29]] – [[Ernest William Christmas]], Australian painter (b. [[1863]]) 
-* [[July 30]] 
-**[[Joyce Kilmer]], American journalist and poet (killed in action) (b. [[1886]]) 
-**[[Frank Linke-Crawford]], Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1893]]) 
-* [[July 31]] – [[George McElroy]], British fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1893]]) 
- 
-=== August === 
-[[File:Mother Marianne Cope in her youth.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Marianne Cope]]]] 
-* [[August 1]] 
-** [[John Riley Banister]], American policeman and cowboy (b. [[1854]]) 
-** [[Gabriel Guérin]], French World War I fighter ace (air crash) (b. [[1892]]) 
-* [[August 6]] – [[Peter Strasser]], German naval officer and airship commander (killed in action) (b. [[1876]]) 
-* [[August 9]] – [[Marianne Cope]], German-born American [[Roman Catholic]] nun and saint (b. [[1838]]) 
-* [[August 10]] 
-** [[Jean Brillant]], Canadian soldier (b. [[1890]]) 
-** [[Erich Löwenhardt]], German World War I fighter ace (b. [[1897]]) 
-** [[Aleksander Uurits]], Estonian painter and graphic artist (b. [[1888]]) 
-* [[August 12]] – [[Anna Held]], French actress (b. [[1873]]) 
-* [[August 18]] – [[Henry Norwest]], Canadian sniper (b. [[1884]]) 
-* [[August 24]] – [[Louis Bennett Jr.]], American World War I flying ace (killed in action) (b. [[1894]]) 
-* [[August 30]] – [[William Duncan (missionary)|William Duncan]], British missionary in Canada and United States (b. [[1832]]) 
- 
-=== September === 
-[[File:George Reid cph.3c31684.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[George Reid (Australian politician)|George Reid]]]] 
-[[File:EduardDukeAnhalt.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Eduard, Duke of Anhalt]]]] 
-[[File:Eriksweden18894qr.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Prince Erik, Duke of Vastmanland]]]] 
-* [[September 5]] – [[Nikolay Maklakov]], Russian politician, former minister of the Interior (b. [[1871]]) 
-* [[September 6]] – [[Elizabeth Yates (mayor)]], New Zealand politician (b. [[1845]]) 
-* [[September 8]] – [[Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan]], German [[Roman Catholic]] priest and venerable (b. [[1848]]) 
-* [[September 12]] – [[George Reid (Australian politician)|George Reid]], Australian politician, 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]]) 
-* [[September 25]] – [[Mikhail Alekseyev]], Russian general (b. [[1857]]) 
-* [[September 27]] – [[Fritz Rumey]], German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1891]]) 
-* [[September 28]] 
-** [[True Boardman]], American actor (b. [[1882]]) 
-** [[Georg Simmel]], German sociologist and philosopher (b. [[1858]]) 
-** [[Freddie Stowers]], American soldier (b. [[1896]]) 
-* [[September 29]] – [[Frank Luke]], American fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1897]]) 
- 
-===October=== 
-* [[October 5]] 
-** [[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]], French fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1888]]) 
-** [[Robbie Ross]], British writer (b. [[1869]]) 
-* [[October 9]] – [[Raymond Duchamp-Villon]], French sculptor (b. [[1876]]) 
-* [[October 11]] – [[Wallace Lloyd Algie]], Canadian soldier (b. [[1891]]) 
-* [[October 14]] – [[Nikolai Skrydlov]], Russian admiral (executed) (b. [[1844]]) 
-* [[October 15]] – [[Sai Baba of Shirdi]], Indian guru and yogi (b. [[1838]]) 
-* [[October 16]] – [[Felix Arndt]], American pianist and composer (b. [[1889]]) 
-* [[October 18]] 
-** [[Radko Dimitriev]], Bulgarian and Russian general (executed) (b. [[1859]]) 
-** [[Uganda Martyrs|Daudo Okelo and Jildo Irwa]], Uganda [[Roman Catholic]] maryrs and saints (b. Uganda nationality) 
-* [[October 19]]  
-** [[Harold Lockwood]], American actor (b. [[1887]]) 
-** [[Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi]] (b. [[1889]]) 
-* [[October 22]] – [[Myrtle Gonzalez]], American actress (b. [[1891]]) 
-* [[October 24]] 
-** [[César Ritz]], Swiss hotelier (b. [[1850]]) 
-** [[Daniel Burley Woolfall]], English administrator, 2nd [[President of FIFA]] (b. [[1852]]) 
-* [[October 28]] – [[Michel Coiffard]], French World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1892]]) 
-* [[October 29]] – [[Rudolf Tobias]], Estonian composer (b. [[1873]]) 
-* [[October 31]] 
-** [[Egon Schiele]], Austrian artist (b. [[1890]]) 
-** [[István Tisza]], 2-time [[List of Prime Ministers of Hungary|Prime Minister of Hungary]] (assassinated) (b. [[1861]]) 
- 
-=== November=== 
-[[File:Wilfred Owen plate from Poems (1920).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Wilfred Owen]]]] 
-* [[November 2]] – [[Hugh Cairns (VC)|Hugh Cairns]], Canadian soldier (b. [[1896]]) 
-* [[November 4]] 
-** [[Wilfred Owen]], British poet and soldier (killed in action) (b. [[1893]]) 
-** [[Andrew Dickson White]], American academic, diplomat, and co-founder of [[Cornell University]] (b. [[1832]]) 
-* [[November 5]] 
-**[[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]], British occultist (b. [[1854]]) 
-**[[William Shea (actor)|William Shea]], British actor (b. [[1856]]) 
-* [[November 6]] – [[Alan Arnett McLeod]], Canadian soldier (b. [[1899]]) 
-* [[November 9]] 
-** [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], French poet (b. [[1880]]) 
-** [[Albert Ballin]], German-Jewish shipping magnate (b. [[1857]]) 
-** [[Peter Lumsden]], British general in Indian army (b. [[1829]]) 
-* [[November 11]] – [[George Lawrence Price]], Last Commonwealth soldier to die in WWI (b. [[1892]]) 
-* [[November 19]] – [[Joseph F. Smith|Joseph Fielding Smith]], American Mormon leader (b. [[1838]]) 
-* [[November 22]] – [[Rose Cleveland]], ''de facto'' [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1846]]) 
-* [[November 23]] – [[Fritz von Below]], German general (b. [[1853]]) 
-* [[November 30]] – [[Karl Petrovich Jessen]], Russian admiral (b. [[1852]]) 
- 
-=== December=== 
-[[File:Sidónio Pais.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[Sidónio Pais]]]] 
-[[File:Zanz-Ali II.jpg|thumb|120px|right|Sultan [[Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar]]]] 
-* [[December 2]] – [[Edmond Rostand]], French writer (b. [[1868]]) 
-* [[December 4]] – [[Princess Teriivaetua]] (b. [[1869]]) 
-* [[December 5]] – [[Schalk Willem Burger]], Boer military leader, lawyer, politician, and statesman, acting [[President of the South African Republic]] (1900-1902) (b. [[1852]]) 
-* [[December 11]] – [[Ivan Cankar]], Slovenian writer (b. [[1876]]) 
-* [[December 14]] – [[Sidónio Pais]], Portuguese politician, general and diplomat, 66th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] and 4th [[President of Portugal]] (b. [[1872]]) 
-* [[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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-== Nobel Prizes == 
-[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]] 
-* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Max Planck|Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck]] 
-* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Fritz Haber]] 
-* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – not awarded 
-* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – not awarded 
-* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – not awarded 
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-== References == 
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-===Primary sources and year books=== 
-* [https://archive.org/details/NewInternationalYearBookFor1918 ''New International Year Book 1918'' (1919)], Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 904 pp 
-* {{cite book|author=Wickware. Francis Graham. ed.|title=The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3qhRAAAAYAAJ|year=1919|publisher=T. Nelson & Sons}} 
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-== Art and culture == 
-*[[Jean Cocteau]] meets [[Raymond Radiguet]] 
-*End of [[World War I]] 
-*Start of [[Weimar Republic]]  
-== Literature == 
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-*''[[Twenty-Five Poems]]'' by Tzara  
-*''[[Calligrammes]]'' by Guillaume Apollinaire 
-*"[[What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?]]" 
-== Visual arts == 
-*First version of ''[[L.H.O.O.Q.]]'' 
-*[[Red and Blue Chair]] (1918) - [[Gerrit Rietveld]] 
-*''[[Suprematist Composition: White on White]]''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kazimir_Malevich_-_%27Suprematist_Composition-_White_on_White%27,_oil_on_canvas,_1918,_Museum_of_Modern_Art.jpg] (1918) by [[Malevich]]. 
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-== Births == 
-*[[André Bazin]] (1918 - 1958) 
-*[[Robert Aldrich]] (1918 - 1983) 
-*[[Richard Hoggart]] (1918 - 2004) 
-*[[Louis Althusser]] (1918 - 1990) 
-*[[Ingmar Bergman]] (1918 – 2007)  
-* [[James Kirkup]] (1918 – 2009) , a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer 
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-==Deaths == 
-*[[Georg Simmel]] (1858 – 1918) 
-*[[Egon Schiele]] (1890 - 1918) 
-*[[Gustav Klimt]] (1862 - 1918) 
-*[[Guillaume Apollinaire]] (1880 - 1918) 
-*[[Claude Debussy]] (1862 - 1918)  
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1918 (MCMXVIII) was the 918th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1910s decade.

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