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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Art and culture
- Jean Cocteau meets Raymond Radiguet
- End of World War I
- Start of Weimar Republic
Literature
- 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[1] (1918) by Malevich.
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
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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