This year is noted for the end of the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events of
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
have the "WWI" prefix.
January
*
January
January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is also the first of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the ...
–
1918 flu pandemic
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
: The "Spanish flu" (
influenza
Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses. Symptoms range from mild to severe and often include fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pain, headache, coughing, and fatigue. These symptoms ...
) is first observed in
Haskell County, Kansas
Haskell County (county code HS) is a U.S. county, county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the county population was 3,780. Its county seat and most populous city is Sublette, Kansas, Sublette ...
.
*
January 4
Events Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
* 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1601–1900
*1649 – Engli ...
– The
Finnish Declaration of Independence
The Finnish Declaration of Independence ( fi, Suomen itsenäisyysjulistus; sv, Finlands självständighetsförklaring; russian: Провозглашение независимости Финляндии) was adopted by the Parliament of Finl ...
is recognized by
Soviet Russia
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
and
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
.
*
January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
–
Battle of Bear Valley
The Battle of Bear Valley was a small engagement fought in 1918 between a band of Yaquis and a detachment of United States Army soldiers. On January 9, 1918, elements of the American 10th Cavalry Regiment detected about thirty armed Yaquis in Be ...
: U.S. troops engage
Yaqui
The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are a Native American people of the southwest, who speak a Uto-Aztecan language. Their homelands include the Río Yaqui valley in Sonora, Mexico, and the area below the Gila River in Arizona, Southwestern United Stat ...
Native American warriors in a minor skirmish in Arizona, and one of the last battles of the
American Indian Wars
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, were fought by European governments and colonists in North America, and later by the United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settle ...
between the United States and Native Americans.
*
January 15
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
* 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
** The
keel
The keel is the bottom-most longitudinal structural element on a vessel. On some sailboats, it may have a hydrodynamic and counterbalancing purpose, as well. As the laying down of the keel is the initial step in the construction of a ship, in Br ...
of is laid in Britain, the first purpose-designed
aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...
to be laid down.
** The
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
(The Workers and Peasants Red Army) is formed in the
Russian SFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
and
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
.
*
January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
* 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chi ...
- The Historic Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers is held at the
Konzerthaus, Vienna
The Konzerthaus is a concert hall located in Vienna, Austria, which opened in 1913. It is situated in the third district just at the edge of the first district in Vienna. Since it was founded it has always tried to emphasise both traditional and ...
.
*
January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender ...
– The Russian Constituent Assembly proclaims the
Russian Democratic Federative Republic
The Russian Republic,. referred to as the Russian Democratic Federal Republic. in the 1918 Constitution, was a short-lived state which controlled, ''de jure'', the territory of the former Russian Empire after its proclamation by the Russi ...
but is dissolved by the Bolshevik government on the same day.
*
January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– The
Ukrainian People's Republic
The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR), or Ukrainian National Republic (UNR), was a country in Eastern Europe that existed between 1917 and 1920. It was declared following the February Revolution in Russia by the First Universal. In March 1 ...
declares independence from
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
.
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
– The
Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebellion and Revolution, . According to 1,005 interviews done by the newspaper ''Aamulehti'', the most popular names were as follows: Civil W ...
begins with the
Battle of Kämärä
The Battle of Kämärä was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle fought at the Kämärä (now Gavrilovo, Leningrad oblast, Russia) railway station on 27 January 1918 between the Whites and the Reds. The battle began as a White Guard battalion from V ...
.
*
January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
–
Porvenir massacre:
Texas Rangers, U.S. Cavalry soldiers and local ranchers kill 15 unarmed Mexican villagers, both men and boys.
February
*
February 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
* 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
–
Cattaro Mutiny: Austrian sailors in the Gulf of Cattaro (Kotor), led by two Czech Socialists, mutiny.
*
February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– The is torpedoed off the Irish coast; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
![Declaration of Estonian independence in Pärnu](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Declaration_of_Estonian_independence_in_P%C3%A4rnu.jpg)
*
February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
–
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
A movement to fight for women's right to vote in the United Kingdom finally succeeded through acts of Parliament in 1918 and 1928. It became a national movement in the Victorian era. Women were not explicitly banned from voting in Great Britai ...
:
Representation of the People Act
Representation of the People Act is a stock short title used in Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Mauritius, Pakistan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, the ...
gives most women over 30 the vote.
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
– A
magnitude (Mw) 7.2 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of
Shantou
Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative ...
leaving 1,000 dead and causing a moderate tsunami.
*
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
–
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
switches from the
Julian calendar
The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr ...
to the
Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years dif ...
; the date skips from
January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
* 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the t ...
to
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
.
*
February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Kar ...
– The
Council of Lithuania
The Council of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Taryba, german: Litauischer Staatsrat, pl, Rada Litewska), after July 11, 1918 the State Council of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Valstybės Taryba) was convened at the Vilnius Conference that took place betwe ...
adopts the
Act of Independence of Lithuania, declaring Lithuania's independence from Germany, Russia or any other state.
*
February 18
Events Pre-1600
* 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
* 1268 &ndas ...
–
Operations against the Marri and Khetran tribes
Operations against the Marri and Khetran tribes (also known as the Marri Punitive Expedition) was the British name for a punitive expedition carried out against the Marri (tribe), Marri and Khetran tribes of Balochistan, British India between Febr ...
in
Balochistan
Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...
by British authorities begin.
*
February 19
Events Pre-1600
* 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
* 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...
– WWI: The
Capture of Jericho
The Capture of Jericho occurred between 19 and 21 February 1918 to the east of Jerusalem beginning the Occupation of the Jordan Valley during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. Fighting took place in an area bordered by the ...
by the
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
begins the
British occupation of the Jordan Valley
The occupation of the Jordan Valley by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) began in February 1918 during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. After the Capture of Jericho in February the Auckland Mounted Rifle Regiment began pat ...
.
*
February 19
Events Pre-1600
* 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
* 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...
–
25 – WWI: The
Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy () operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from a ...
evacuates
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...
through thick ice, over the
Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland ( fi, Suomenlahti; et, Soome laht; rus, Фи́нский зали́в, r=Finskiy zaliv, p=ˈfʲinskʲɪj zɐˈlʲif; sv, Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and E ...
.
*
February 21
Events Pre-1600
* 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
* 1440 – The Prus ...
– The last
Carolina parakeet (the last breed of
parrot native to the eastern United States) dies in captivity at the
Cincinnati Zoo
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is the sixth oldest zoo in the United States, founded in 1873 and officially opening in 1875. It is located in the Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. It originally began with in the middle of the c ...
.
*
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
–
Estonian Declaration of Independence from
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
, after seven centuries of foreign rule; German forces capture
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...
the following day.
March
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
– WWI: German submarine sinks off
Rathlin Island
Rathlin Island ( ga, Reachlainn, ; Local Irish dialect: ''Reachraidh'', ; Scots: ''Racherie'') is an island and civil parish off the coast of County Antrim (of which it is part) in Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's northernmost point. ...
, Northern Ireland.
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
– WWI: The
Central Powers
The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires,german: Mittelmächte; hu, Központi hatalmak; tr, İttifak Devletleri / ; bg, Централни сили, translit=Tsentralni sili was one of the two main coalitions that fought in ...
and
Bolshevist Russia
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
sign the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Treaty of Brest in Russia) was a separate peace, separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Russian SFSR, Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Kingdom of ...
, ending Russia's involvement in the war.
*
March 6
** The Finnish Army Corps of Aviation is founded as a forerunner of the
Finnish Air Force
The Finnish Air Force (FAF or FiAF; fi, Ilmavoimat, , Air forces; sv, Flygvapnet, , Air weapon) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. Its peacetime tasks are airspace surveillance, identification flights, and production of Finnis ...
(established on 4 May
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...
). The blue
swastika
The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly in various Eurasian, as well as some African and American cultures, now also widely recognized for its appropriation by the Nazi Party and by neo-Nazis. It ...
is adopted as its symbol, as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator
Eric von Rosen
Count Carl Gustaf Bloomfield Eric von Rosen (2 June 1879 in Stockholm – 25 April 1948 Skeppsholmen, Stockholm) was a Swedish honorary doctor, patron, explorer, ethnographer, prominent figure in the Swedish upper class and a leading figure in S ...
, who donated the first plane. Von Rosen had painted the Viking symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia.
** The first pilotless drone, the
Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane developed by
Elmer Ambrose Sperry and
Peter Cooper Hewitt, is test-flown in
Long Island, New York
Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the 18th ...
, but development is scrapped in
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
, after its guidance system proves unreliable.
*
March 7
Events Pre-1600
* 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
* 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
- WWI:
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
forms an alliance with Germany.
*
March 8 – WWI: The
Battle of Tell 'Asur
The Battle of Tell 'Asur, also known as the actions of Tel Asur or the Battle of Turmus 'Aya, took place 8–12 March 1918, after the decisive victory at the Battle of Jerusalem and the Capture of Jericho during the Sinai and Palestine Campaig ...
is launched by units of the
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...
's
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
against Ottoman defences from the
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...
, across the
Judaean Mountains
The Judaean Mountains, or Judaean Hills ( he, הרי יהודה, translit=Harei Yehuda) or the Hebron Mountains ( ar, تلال الخليل, translit=Tilal al-Khalīl, links=, lit=Hebron Mountains), is a mountain range in Palestine and Israel wh ...
to the edge of the Jordan Valley; it ends on
March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
, with the move of much of the front line north into Ottoman territory.
*
March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
–
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
becomes the capital of Soviet Russia.
*
March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
*44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 – Odoa ...
–
Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebellion and Revolution, . According to 1,005 interviews done by the newspaper ''Aamulehti'', the most popular names were as follows: Civil W ...
: The
battle of Tampere began.
[100 years ago today: Reds take Tampere, Finnish Civil War begins](_blank)
– ''Yle News
Yleisradio Oy (Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadcast Ltd."; abbr. Yle ; sv, Rundradion Ab, italics=no), translated to English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founde ...
'', January 27, 2018. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
*
March 19 – The
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washing ...
establishes time zones, and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31).
* March 21–July 18 – WWI: The German spring offensive, Spring Offensive by the German Empire, German Army along the Western Front (World War I), Western Front fails to make a breakthrough, despite large losses on each side, including nearly 20,000 British Army dead on the first day, Operation Michael, on the Somme.
* March 21 – WWI: The First Transjordan attack on Amman by units of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins, with the passage of the Jordan River.
* March 23
** WWI: The giant German cannon, the 'Paris Gun' (''Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz''), begins to shell Paris from away.
** In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, U.S.-born magician) dies during his trick, where he is supposed to "Bullet catch, catch" two separate bullets (but one of them perforates his lung). He dies the following morning in a hospital.
* March 25
** The Belarusian People's Republic declares independence.
** Dr. Karl Muck, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is arrested under the Alien Enemies Act, and imprisoned for the duration of WWI.
* March 26 – Dr. Marie Stopes publishes her influential book ''Married Love'' in the U.K.
* March 27 – WWI: The First Battle of Amman is launched by units of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, during the First Transjordan attack on Amman; it ends with their withdrawal on 31 March, back to the Jordan Valley.
* March 30 – March Days:
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
and Armenian Revolutionary Federation forces suppress a Muslim revolt in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in up to 30,000 deaths.
April
![Lady_Duff_Gordon_styles_sketched_by_Marguerite_Martyn,_1918](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Lady_Duff_Gordon_styles_sketched_by_Marguerite_Martyn%2C_1918.jpg)
* April 1 – The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in Britain are merged to form the Royal Air Force, the first autonomous Air Force in the world.
* April 5 – Sālote Tupou III, Sālote succeeds as Queen of Tonga; she will remain on the throne until her death in 1965.
* April 6 –
Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebellion and Revolution, . According to 1,005 interviews done by the newspaper ''Aamulehti'', the most popular names were as follows: Civil W ...
: The
battle of Tampere ends.
* April 8 –
Operations against the Marri and Khetran tribes
Operations against the Marri and Khetran tribes (also known as the Marri Punitive Expedition) was the British name for a punitive expedition carried out against the Marri (tribe), Marri and Khetran tribes of Balochistan, British India between Febr ...
in
Balochistan
Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...
end with surrender to the British authorities.
* April 9 – Union of Bessarabia with Romania: Bessarabia votes to become part of the Kingdom of Romania.
* April 21 – WWI: Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron", the war's most successful fighter pilot, dies in combat at Morlancourt Ridge near the Somme River.
* April 22 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia (country), Georgia declare their independence from Russia as the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
* April 23 – WWI:
** Conscription Crisis of 1918 in Ireland: A general strike is held here against conscription.
** Zeebrugge Raid: The British Royal Navy attempts to seal off the German U-boat base here.
** First Ostend Raid: The British Royal Navy unsuccessfully attempts to seal off the German U-boat base here.
* April 28 – WWI: Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, dies in Terezin, Austria-Hungary, after three years in prison.
* April 30 – WWI: The Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt, launched by units of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, ends on 4 May, with their withdrawal back to the Jordan Valley.
May
* May 1 – WWI: German troops enter Don Host Oblast; they capture Rostov-on-Don on May 8.
* May 2 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
* May 7 – WWI: The British capture Kirkuk.
* May 9 – WWI – Second Ostend Raid: The British Royal Navy unsuccessfully attempts, for a second time, to seal off the German U-boat base here.
* May 11 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
* May 14 – The Three Minute Pause, initiated by the daily firing of the Noon Gun on Signal Hill (Cape Town), Signal Hill, is instituted by Cape Town Mayor Sir Harry Hands. It will inspire the introduction of the two-minute silence in November 1919.
* May 15
** The
Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebellion and Revolution, . According to 1,005 interviews done by the newspaper ''Aamulehti'', the most popular names were as follows: Civil W ...
ends.
** The United States Postal Service, United States Post Office Department begins the world's third regular airmail service, between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
* May 16 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by the U.S. Congress.
* May 20 – The small town of Codell, Kansas is hit for the third year in a row, on the same date, by a tornado.
* May 21 – The United States Army Aviation Section is separated from the Signal Corps (United States Army), Signal Corps, and divided into the Division of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production.
* May 24 – Women in Canada, excluding residents of Quebec, are Women's suffrage in Canada, granted the right to vote in federal elections.
* May 26 – The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic is abolished; Georgia declares its independence as the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
* May 27 – WWI: The Third Battle of the Aisne commences.
* May 28 – Armenia and Azerbaijan declare their independence as the First Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic respectively.
* May 29 – WWI: The week-long Battle of Sardarabad concludes with defending Armenian forces victorious over the Ottomans.
* May 29–May 30, 30 – WWI: Battle of Skra-di-Legen, Battle of Skra di Legen – The Greek National Defence Army Corps defeats the Bulgarians.
June
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* June–August – The "
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
" becomes pandemic. Over 30 million people die in the following 6 months.
* June 1 – WWI: The Battle of Belleau Wood begins.
* June 4 – RMS ''Kenilworth Castle'', one of the Union-Castle Line steamships, collides with her escort destroyer Yarrow M class destroyer, HMS ''Rival'' while trying to avoid her other escort, the cruiser HMS Kent (1901), HMS ''Kent''.
* June 5 – The ''Afrikaner Broederbond'', a confidential cultural organisation, is founded in Johannesburg.
* June 8 – V603 Aquilae, the brightest nova observed since Kepler's Supernova, Kepler's of 1604, is discovered.
* June 10 – WWI: The Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship SMS Szent István, SMS ''Szent István'' is sunk by two Italian MAS (boat), MAS motor torpedo boats off the Dalmatian coast.
* June 12
** Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Grand Duke Michael of Russia is murdered, thereby becoming the first of the Romanovs to be killed by the Bolsheviks.
** WWI: The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit in France is carried out.
* June 16 – The Declaration to the Seven, a United Kingdom, British government response to a memorandum issued anonymously by seven Syrian notables, is published.
* June 22 – Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn (drugs), Mickey Finn.
* June 29 – Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries opens in New York; Brazil is the only international exhibitor and the exposition closes at the end of the season.
July
* July 3 – Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War: The Siberian Intervention is launched by the Allies of World War I, Allies, to extract the Czechoslovak Legion from the Russian Civil War.
* July 4 – Mehmed VI succeeds as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire on the death of his half-brother Mehmed V (Reşâd, who has reigned since 1909), himself reigning until the Sultanate is abolished in 1922.
* July 12 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship ''Japanese battleship Kawachi, Kawachi'' blows up off Tokuyama, Yamaguchi, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
* July 13 – The National Czechoslovak Committee is established.
* July 14 – The film ''The Glorious Adventure (1918 film), The Glorious Adventure'' is released in the United States, featuring Mammy Lou, who becomes one of the oldest people ever to star in a film, at a claimed age of 114.
* July 15 – WWI: Second Battle of the Marne: The battle begins near the River Marne, with a German attack.
![Family in 1913](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Family_in_1913.jpg)
* July 17
** WWI: (famed for rescuing survivors of the ) is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland, by Imperial German Navy submarine ''SM U-55, U-55''; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.
** 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, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, Alexei and retainers are shot at the Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
* July 21 – WWI: Attack on Orleans – Imperial German submarine ''SM U-156'' surfaces and fires on a small convoy of barges and defending flying boats off the Cape Cod town of Orleans, Massachusetts.
August
* August 2 – North Russia Intervention: British anti-Bolshevik forces occupy Arkhangelsk.
* August 3 – WWI: Australian hospital ship is torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel on passage from Le Havre to Southampton by German submarine with the loss of 123 of the 801 people on board.
* August 8 – WWI: Battle of Amiens (1918), Battle of Amiens – British, Canadian and Australian troops begin a string of almost continuous victories, the 'Hundred Days Offensive', with an 8-mile push through the German front lines, taking 12,000 prisoners. German General Erich Ludendorff later calls this the "black day of the German Army".
* August 10 – October Revolution, Russian Revolution: The British commander in Archangel is told to help the White movement, White Russians.
* August 16 – The Battle of Lake Baikal is fought by the Czechoslovak legion, against the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
.
* August 21 – WWI: The Second Battle of the Somme (1918), Second Battle of the Somme begins.
* August 23 – The Bessarabian Peasants' Party is created.
* August 27 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German Military advisor, advisors at Nogales, Arizona, in the only battle of WWI fought on United States soil.
* August 30
** 20,000 British police strikes in 1918 and 1919, London policemen strike for increased pay and union recognition.
** In response to the October Revolution in Russia, Vladimir Lenin is shot and wounded by Fanny Kaplan in Moscow, but survives.
** Moisei Uritsky, the Petrograd head of the Cheka, is assassinated.
September
* September – WWI: British armies and their Arab allies roll into Syria.
* September 3 – The
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
government of Russia publishes the first official announcement of the Red Terror, a period of repression against political opponents, as an "Appeal to the Working Class" in the newspaper ''Izvestia''.
* September 4 – WWI: Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin concludes with the Australian Corps breaking the German line.
* September 5 – Russian Civil War: The Kazan Operation begins. The event continues for 5 days, and solidifies the Red Army's power in Russia over the White Army.
* September 12 – WWI: Battle of Havrincourt – British take a German salient.
* September 12–September 15, 15 – WWI: Battle of Saint-Mihiel – Americans take a German salient.
* September 14 – WWI: The Balkan front offensive by the Serbian Army begins.
* September 15–September 18, 18 – WWI: Battle of Dobro Pole in the Vardar Offensive of the Balkans Campaign (World War I), Balkans Campaign: The Allied Army of the Orient defeats Kingdom of Bulgaria, Bulgarian defenders.
* September 18 – WWI: Battle of Épehy – British approach the Hindenburg Line along the St Quentin Canal.
* September 19 – WWI:
** The
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...
's
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...
launches the Battle of Megiddo (1918), Battle of Megiddo, incorporating the Battle of Sharon, and the Battle of Nablus (1918), Battle of Nablus, an attack in the
Judaean Mountains
The Judaean Mountains, or Judaean Hills ( he, הרי יהודה, translit=Harei Yehuda) or the Hebron Mountains ( ar, تلال الخليل, translit=Tilal al-Khalīl, links=, lit=Hebron Mountains), is a mountain range in Palestine and Israel wh ...
. This day are fought the Battle of Tulkarm, and the Battle of Arara, which break the Ottoman front line stretching from the Mediterranean coast to the Judaean Mountains, while the Battle of Tabsor extends into September 20.
** The Third Transjordan attack in the Jordan Valley begins.
* September 20 – WWI: The British Army's Desert Mounted Corps launches the
** Battle of Nazareth by 5th Cavalry Division (British Indian Army);
** Capture of Afulah and Beisan by the 4th Cavalry Division (British Indian Army);
** Capture of Jenin by the Australian Mounted Division, almost encircling the Yildirim Army Group still in the Judaean Mountains.
* September 25 – WWI:
** The Battle of Megiddo ends with the Battle of Haifa (1918), Battle of Haifa, Battle of Samakh, and Capture of Tiberias.
** The Third Transjordan attack ends with ANZAC Mounted Division victory at the Second Battle of Amman, with the subsequent capture at Ziza of the Ottoman II Corps, and more than 10,000 Ottoman and German prisoners.
* September 26 – WWI:
** The Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins, the largest and bloodiest operation of the war for the American Expeditionary Forces.
** The Capture of Damascus (1918), Capture of Damascus begins, with the Charge at Irbid by the 4th Cavalry Division.
* September 27 – WWI:
** The Battle of the Canal du Nord, launched by British and Empire forces, continues the advance towards the Hindenburg Line.
** The Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub, launched by the Australian Mounted Division, continues the advance towards Damascus.
* September 29 – WWI:
** Battle of St Quentin Canal begins; Allied forces advance towards the Hindenburg Line.
** Bulgaria requests an armistice.
* September 30 – WWI:
** The Charge at Kaukab is begun by units of the Australian Mounted Division.
** The Charge at Kiswe is begun by 4th Cavalry Division, continuing the Desert Mounted Corps' advance to Damascus.
October
* October 1 – WWI: The Desert Mounted Corps Capture of Damascus (1918), captures Damascus.
* October 2 – WWI: The Charge at Khan Ayash is begun north of Damascus, by the 3rd Light Horse Brigade.
* October 3
** Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany appoints Max von Baden Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of Germany.
** King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicates in the wake of the Bulgarian military collapse in WWI. He is succeeded by his son, Boris III of Bulgaria, Boris III.
** WWI: The Pursuit to Haritan by the Desert Mounted Corps begins.
* October 4
** Wilhelm II of Germany forms a new, liberal government to sue for peace.
** The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in New Jersey kills 100+, and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months.
* October 7 – The Regency Council (Poland) declares Polish independence from the German Empire, and demands that Germany cede the Polish provinces of Poznań, Upper Silesia and Polish Corridor, Polish Pomerania.
* October 8–October 10, 10 – WWI: Battle of Cambrai (1918), Second Battle of Cambrai: British and Canadian troops take Cambrai from the Germans and the First and Third British Armies break through the Hindenburg Line.
* October 8 – WWI: In the Forest of Argonne in France, U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
* October 9 – Landgrave Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse is elected Kingdom of Finland (1918), King of Finland.
* October 11 – The magnitude (M
w) 7.1 1918 San Fermín earthquake, San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributes to the damage and loss of life.
* October 12 – 1918 Cloquet Fire, Cloquet Fire: The city of Cloquet, Minnesota, and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.
* October 18 – The Czechoslovak declaration of independence, Washington Declaration proclaims the independent First Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovak Republic.
* October 24 – WWI: The Battle of Vittorio Veneto opens.
* October 25
** WWI: Battle of Aleppo (1918), Aleppo is captured, by Faisal I of Iraq, Prince Feisal's Sheifial Forces.
** The steamer ''SS Princess Sophia, Princess Sophia'' sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska; 353 people die, in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
* October 26 – WWI – Charge at Haritan: Units of the Desert Mounted Corps battle with Ottoman forces for the last time in WWI.
* October 28
** Czechoslovakia declares its independence from Austria-Hungary.
** A new Polish government is declared in Western Galicia (Eastern Europe).
* October 29
** The Wilhelmshaven mutiny of the German High Seas Fleet breaks out.
** The State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs declares its independence from Austria-Hungary.
* October 30
** The Martin Declaration is published, including Slovakia in the formation of the Czecho-Slovak state.
** The Armistice of Mudros ends conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I, and grants independence to the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
* October 31 – The Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian government terminates the personal union with Austria, officially dissolving the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
November
* November 1
** The Polish–Ukrainian War is inaugurated, by the proclamation of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia, with a capital at Lviv, Lwów.
** Serbian forces recapture Belgrade.
** Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.
* November 3
** WWI: Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies of WWI, Allies, at the Villa Giusti in Padua.
** Poland declares its independence from Russia.
** German Revolution of 1918–1919, German Revolution: In Kiel, sailors in the German fleet Kiel mutiny, mutiny, and throughout northern
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
soldiers and workers begin to establish revolutionary councils, on the Russian Soviet (council), soviet model.
* November 4 – WWI: The Armistice of Villa Giusti ends warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary, on the Italian Front.
* November 6 – A new Polish government is proclaimed in Lublin.
* November 7 – King Ludwig III of Bavaria, Ludwig of Bavaria flees his country.
* November 8 – The German army withdraws its support of the Kaiser. The German Armistice delegation arrives at the Forest of Compiègne in France.
![Ausrufung Republik Scheidemann](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Ausrufung_Republik_Scheidemann.jpg)
* November 9
** Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands.
** The Proclamation of the republic in Germany, German Republic is proclaimed by Philipp Scheidemann in Berlin, on the Reichstag building, Reichstag balcony.
** Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be a republic.
** British Pre-dreadnought battleship, battleship is sunk by a German submarine off Cape Trafalgar, Trafalgar, with the loss of around fifty lives (the last major naval engagement of WWI).
![Armisticetrain](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Armisticetrain.jpg)
* November 11
** End of World War I, WWI: Armistice of 11 November 1918 – Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies, between 5:12 AM and 5:20 AM, in the "Compiègne Wagon", Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Foch's railroad car, in the Forest of Compiègne in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. At 10:59 U.S. soldier Henry Gunther becomes (probably) the last killed in action.
** Poland regains independence, after 123 years of Partitions of Poland, partitions. Józef Piłsudski is appointed Commander-in-Chief.
** Emperor Charles I of Austria gives up his absolute power, but does not abdicate.
** Loppem Coup: Start of a series of political meetings between Albert I of Belgium, King Albert I and Belgian liberals and socialists.
** Red Week (Netherlands), Red Week: Pieter Jelles Troelstra gives a speech calling for socialist revolution in the Netherlands.
* November 12 – Republic of German-Austria, Austria becomes a republic.
* November 13
** The Allied Occupation of Constantinople begins.
** Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, relinquishes all governing duties.
* November 14
** Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
** The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed with Józef Piłsudski as head of state.
** The provisional government of Baden proclaims the "Free People's Republic of Baden" (''Freie Volksrepublik Baden'').
** Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, is forced from his throne, leading to the establishment of the People's State of Hesse.
** Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin abdicates his throne, leading to the establishment of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
** Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, announces he is ceasing to rule Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, leading to the establishment of the Free State of Coburg.
** German East African troops are informed of the November 11 armistice.
* November 16 – The Hungarian Democratic Republic is declared, marking Hungary's independence from Austria.
* November 18 – Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic, Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
* November 20 – U-boats start to rendezvous off Harwich, to begin the surrender of the High Seas Fleet to the British Royal Navy; in the following week the German warships are escorted to internment in Scapa Flow.
* November 21 – Lwów pogrom (1918), Lwów pogrom: Second Polish Republic, Polish troops, volunteers and freed criminals massacre at least 320 Ukrainian Christians and History of the Jews in Poland, Jews in Lviv, Lwów, Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia.
* November 22
** The Spartacist League founds the German Communist Party.
** The Monarchy of Belgium, Belgian royal family returns to Brussels after the war, King Albert I of Belgium, Albert I having commanded the Allies of World War I, Allied army group in the September–October Battle of Courtrai (1918), Courtrai offensive, which liberated his country.
** Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, abdicates; the Grand Duchy of Baden gives way to the Republic of Baden.
* November 23 – British military government of Palestine (region), Palestine begins.
* November 25 – General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German commander in German East Africa, signs a ceasefire at Mbala, Zambia, Abercorn in Northern Rhodesia.
* November 26 – The Podgorica Assembly ('Great National Assembly of the Serb People in Montenegro') votes for a "union of the people" between the kingdoms of Kingdom of Montenegro, Montenegro and Kingdom of Serbia, Serbia and for deposition of the exiled King Nicholas I of Montenegro.
* November 28 – Estonian War of Independence: The
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
invades Estonia, starting the war. The Commune of the Working People of Estonia is established as a Soviet puppet state in Narva on the next day.
* November 29 – Kingdom of Serbia, Serbia annexes Kingdom of Montenegro, Montenegro, suspending the latter's existence as a sovereign state for nearly the entirety of the following 88 years.
* November 30 – Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the ''Orchestre de la Suisse Romande''.
December
* December 1
** By the Danish–Icelandic Act of Union, Kingdom of Iceland, Iceland regains independence, but remains in personal union with the King of Denmark, who also becomes the King of Iceland.
** New voting laws in
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
makes votes no longer dependent on taxable assets, each adult having one vote.
** The Union of Transylvania with Romania, Union of Alba Iulia is proclaimed: Following the March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina, Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania.
** The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (which later becomes the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed, in particular ending Serbia's existence as a sovereign state for the next 87 years (it would not regain its sovereignty until 2006).
![Flag of Yugoslavia (1918–1943)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Flag_of_Yugoslavia_%281918%E2%80%931941%29.svg)
* December 4 – President Woodrow Wilson departs by ship to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Paris Peace Conference, becoming the first United States President to travel to Europe while holding office.
* December 5 – Estonian War of Independence: The British light cruiser strikes a naval mine, mine and sinks near Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea, killing 11 sailors.
* December 6: A 1918 Vancouver Island earthquake, magnitude (M
w) 7.2 earthquake shakes British Columbia.
* December 14
** Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse renounces the Finnish throne.
** Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
** Giacomo Puccini's comic opera ''Gianni Schicchi'' premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
* December 16 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1918–19), Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.
* December 17 – Darwin Rebellion in Australia: Disaffected workers march on Government House, Darwin, demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth.
* December 20 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk returns to the Czechoslovak Republic.
* December 21 – Estonian War of Independence: The
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
captures Tartu, Estonia.
* December 25 – ''Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten'', is formed in Germany as a German nationalism, nationalist veterans' organization.
* December 27 – Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19): Poles in Greater Poland (the former Grand Duchy of Posen) rise up against the Germans, ignited by a patriotic speech made in Poznań by pianist and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
* December 28 – Sinn Féin enjoys a landslide victory in Irish seats in the 1918 Irish general election, Irish general election (part of the 1918 United Kingdom general election), following the counting of votes, winning 73 of the 105 seats in Ireland. In accordance with their Sinn Féin Manifesto 1918, manifesto, Sinn Féin members will not take their seats in the Palace of Westminster but will form the First Dáil in Dublin. Countess Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway Prison (London), becomes the first woman elected to (but does not take her seat in) the British House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons.
* December 31 – A British-brokered ceasefire ends the two weeks of fighting in the Georgian–Armenian War.
Date unknown
* The Native American Church is formally founded in Oklahoma.
* The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is founded to promote repeal of Prohibition in the United States.
* United Business Media is founded in London, as United Newspapers Ltd.
* Around 1,000 pilot whales are Cetacean stranding, stranded in the Chatham Islands.
Births
January
![John Forsythe - 1958](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/John_Forsythe_-_1957.jpg)
* January 1
** Nat Jaffe, American swing jazz pianist (d. 1945)
** Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 2000)
* January 2 – Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, German typographer, calligrapher and book-binder (d. 2019)
*
January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
– Alma Ziegler, American female professional baseball player (d. 2005)
* January 10 – Arthur Chung, 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008)
* January 11 – Kassim Al-Rimawi, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1982)
* January 12 – Mike Laffin, Canadian politician, dentist (d. 2019)
* January 14 – Dimitri Tsafendas, South African criminal (d. 1999)
*
January 15
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
* 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
** João Figueiredo, 30th President of Brazil (d. 1999)
** Ira B. Harkey Jr., American newspaper editor (d. 2006)
** Gamal Abdel Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (d. 1970)
** Deryck Stapleton, British Royal Air Force officer (d. 2018)
* January 16
** Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
** Allan Ekelund, Swedish film producer (d. 2009)
** Stirling Silliphant, American writer, producer (d. 1996)
* January 17
** Kamal Amrohi, Indian director, screenwriter (d. 1993)
** George M. Leader, American politician (d. 2013)
*
January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender ...
** Peter Hobbs (actor), Peter Hobbs, American actor (d. 2011)
** John H. Johnson, African-American publisher, founder of ''Ebony (magazine), Ebony'' (d. 2005)
* January 20
** Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
** Nevin S. Scrimshaw, American food scientist (d. 2013)
* January 21
** Chicháy, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
** Richard Winters, U.S. Army officer (d. 2011)
* January 22 – Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
* January 23 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
* January 24 – Oral Roberts, American neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. 2009)
*
January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster (d. 2010)
* January 26
** Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian communist politician and leader (d. 1989)
** Philip José Farmer, American writer (d. 2009)
** Vito Scotti, American character actor (d. 1996)
*
January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
** Skitch Henderson, English-born musician, bandleader (d. 2005)
** Elmore James, American musician (d. 1963)
* January 29
** Luis Aguilar (actor), Luis Aguilar, Mexican actor, and singer (d. 1997)
** John Forsythe, American actor (''Dynasty'') (d. 2010)
* January 30 – Bazilije Pandžić, Croatian historian, archivist and orientalist (d. 2019)
*
January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
* 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the t ...
– Millie Dunn Veasey, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2018)
February
![Schwinger](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Schwinger.jpg)
*
February 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
* 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
** Carlos Fayt, Argentine lawyer, politician and academic (d. 2016)
** Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish author (d. 2006)
* February 2 – Hella Haasse, Dutch writer (d. 2011)
* February 3
** Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the "Rat Pack" (d. 2007)
** Martin Greenberg (poet), Martin Greenberg, American poet and translator (d. 2021)
** Helen Stephens, American runner (d. 1994)
* February 4
** Clive Bossom, British politician (d. 2017)
** Ida Lupino, Anglo-American actress, screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1995)
*
February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
– Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
* February 7 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (d. 1999)
* February 8
** Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler, novelty singer (''Pencil Neck Geek'') (d. 2003)
** Walter Newton Read, American lawyer, second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (d. 2001)
* February 12 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
*
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
– William L. Snyder, American film producer (d. 1998)
* February 15
** Allan Arbus, American actor (''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'') (d. 2013)
** Smilja Avramov, Serbian academic, authority and educator in international law (d. 2018)
** William T. Young, American businessman (d. 2004)
*
February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Kar ...
– Patty Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 2013)
* February 17 – William Bronk, American poet (d. 1999)
*
February 19
Events Pre-1600
* 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
* 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...
– Fay McKenzie, American silent film actress (d. 2019)
*
February 21
Events Pre-1600
* 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
* 1440 – The Prus ...
– Robert E. Thacker, American aviator and test pilot (d. 2020)
* February 22
** Charlie Finley, American owner of the Oakland A's (1960–80) (d. 1996)
** Don Pardo, American television announcer (''Saturday Night Live'') (d. 2014)
** Robert Pershing Wadlow, American tallest man record-holder (d. 1940)
* February 25
** Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
** Miguel Gallastegui, Spanish pelotari (d. 2019)
** Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
* February 26
** Herbert Blaize, 6th Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1989)
** Lloyd Geering, New Zealand theologian
** Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
* February 28 – Alfred Burke, English actor (d. 2011)
March
![Pearl Bailey - publicity](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Pearl_Bailey_-_publicity.jpg)
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
** Franz Becker, German footballer (d. 1965)
** Roger Delgado, British actor (d. 1973)
** João Goulart, 24th President of Brazil (d. 1976)
** James N. Morgan, American economist (d. 2018)
* March 2 – Martin Flannery, British politician (d. 2006)
*
March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
** Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2007)
** Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
* March 4 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American female tennis player (d. 2012)
* March 5
** Shlomo Lorincz, member of Israeli Knesset for Agudat Yisrael (d. 2009)
** James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Memorial Prize laureate (d. 2002)
* March 9
** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967)
** Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
* March 10 – Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot (d. 2009)
* March 11 – Jack Coe, American evangelist (d. 1956)
*
March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
– Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
* March 13 – Eddie Pellagrini, American baseball player, coach (d. 2006)
* March 14 – John McCallum (actor), John McCallum, Australian actor (d. 2010)
*
March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
*44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 – Odoa ...
– William McIntyre (judge), William McIntyre, Canadian Puisne Justice (d. 2009)
* March 16 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
* March 17 – Viviane Gauthier, Haitian dancer (d. 2017)
* March 18 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
* March 20 – Jack Barry (game show host), Jack Barry, American television game show host, producer (d. 1984)
* March 22 – Cheddi Jagan, 4th President of Guyana (d. 1997)
* March 23
** Kazu Naoki, Japanese soccer player (d. 1940s)
** Stick McGhee, American jump blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter (d. 1961)
** Émile Derlin Zinsou, President of Benin (d. 2016)
* March 25 – Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995)
* March 26 – Lloyd McCuiston, American politician (d. 2021)
* March 28 – Gonzalo Facio Segreda, Costa Rican lawyer, politician, and diplomat (d. 2018)
* March 29
** Pearl Bailey, African-American singer, actress (d. 1990)
** Shirley Jameson, American female baseball player (d. 1993)
** Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart (d. 1992)
April
![WILLIAMHolden](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/WILLIAMHolden.jpg)
* April 1 – Milt Earnhart, American politician (d. 2020)
* April 6
** Alfredo Ovando Candía, 48th President of Bolivia (d. 1982)
** George Corones, Australian Masters swimmer (d. 2020)
* April 7 – Bobby Doerr, American baseball player (d. 2017)
* April 8
** Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
** Charles P. Roland, American historian (d. 2022)
* April 9 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (d. 2008)
* April 10 – H. S. Doreswamy, Indian activist, journalist (d. 2021)
* April 11 – Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, French journalist, politician (d. 2018)
* April 14 – Mary Healy (entertainer), Mary Healy, American actress, variety entertainer and singer (d. 2015)
* April 15 – Edmund Jones, American politician (d. 2019)
* April 16
** Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
** Murray Westgate, Canadian actor (d. 2018)
* April 17
** William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
** Frank Popper, French historian (d. 2020)
** Anne Shirley (actress), Anne Shirley, American actress (d. 1993)
* April 18
** Gabriel Axel, Danish film director (d. 2014)
** Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter (d. 2018)
** Clifton Hillegass, American author, founder of ''CliffsNotes'' (d. 2001)
** Claudio Teehankee, Filipino lawyer (d. 1989)
* April 20
**Edward L. Beach Jr., American naval officer, author (d. 2002)
**Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
* April 22
** William Jay Smith, American poet (d. 2015)
** Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008)
* April 24 – Lou Dorfsman, American graphic designer (d. 2008)
* April 26 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
* April 27 – John Rice (umpire), John Rice, American baseball umpire (d. 2011)
* April 28
** Mildred Persinger, American feminist (d. 2018)
** Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, East German journalist, host of the television show ''Der schwarze Kanal'' (d. 2001)
** Rodger Wilton Young, United States Army soldier, remembered in the song "The Ballad of Rodger Young" (d. 1943)
* April 29
** George Allen (American football coach), George Allen, American football coach (d. 1990)
** Nils Östensson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1949)
May
![Mike Wallace Interviews 1957 (4)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Mike_Wallace_Interviews_1957_%284%29.jpg)
* May 1
** Jack Paar, American television show host (''The Tonight Show'') (d. 2004)
** Li Yaowen, Chinese politician, general and diplomat (d. 2018)
* May 3 – Richard Dudman, American reporter, editorial writer (''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'') (d. 2017)
* May 4
** Kakuei Tanaka, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)
** Ana Enriqueta Terán, Venezuelan poet (d. 2017)
* May 5 – Egidio Galea, Maltese Roman Catholic priest (d. 2005)
* May 6
** Henrietta Boggs, Costa Rican-American author, journalist and activist (d. 2020)
** Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st President of the United Arab Emirates (d. 2004)
* May 9
** Russell M. Carneal, American politician, judge (d. 1998)
** Orville Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
** Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
* May 10
** T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician (d. 2018)
** George Welch (pilot), George Welch, American aviator (d. 1954)
* May 11 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
* May 12 – Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953)
* May 15
** Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (d. 2008)
** Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (d. 2009)
* May 16 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer (d. 2000)
* May 17 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005)
* May 18
** Claudia Bryar, American actress (d. 2011)
** Joe and Beth Krush, Joe Krush, American illustrator (d. 2022)
* May 19 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
* May 20 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
* May 23
** Frank Mancuso, American major league baseball player, politician (d. 2007)
** Naomi Replansky, American poet
* May 27 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2019)
* May 28
** Norbert Franck, Luxembourgian swimmer (d. 2006)
** Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (d. 1990)
* May 30
** Károly Doncsecz, Slovenian potter (d. 2002)
** Martin Lundström, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2016)
* May 31 – Margaret Todd (golfer), Margaret Todd, Canadian female golfer (d. 2019)
June
* June 2 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer, storyteller (d. 2011)
* June 4
**Ray Steiner Cline, American government official (d. 1996)
**Johnny Klein, American drummer (d. 1997)
* June 6
** Kenneth Connor, English comedy stage, radio, film and television actor (d. 1993)
** Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009)
* June 8 – Robert Preston (actor), Robert Preston, American actor (''The Music Man'') (d. 1987)
* June 9 – John Hospers, American philosopher (d. 2011)
* June 10
** Wood Moy, American actor (d. 2017)
** Patachou, French singer (d. 2015)
* June 11 – Hugo Scheltema, Dutch diplomat (d. 1996)
* June 12 – Jerry A. Moore Jr., American politician (d. 2017)
* June 15 – François Tombalbaye, 1st President of Chad (d. 1975)
* June 17
** Derek Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, British life peer (d. 2017)
** Ajahn Chah Subaddho, Buddhist teacher (d. 1992)
** Raúl Padilla (alias ''El Chato''), Mexican actor (d. 1994)
* June 18
** Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
** Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Memorial Prize laureate (d. 2003)
** Angel Martín Taboas, Puerto Rican-American politician
** Elisabeth Waldo, American violinist, composer
* June 21
** Allan Lindberg, Swedish pole vaulter (d. 2004)
** Dee Molenaar, American mountaineer, author and artist (d. 2020)
** Adriana Sivieri, Argentine-born Italian film actress
** Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1955)
** Josephine Webb, American engineer
* June 22
** Cicely Saunders, English Anglican nurse, social worker, physician and writer (d. 2005)
** Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (d. 1993)
* June 23 – Paul Ashbee, British archaeologist (d. 2009)
* June 24
** Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Ukrainian Catholic bishop (d. 2000)
** Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean politician (d. 2012)
* June 25
** Lady Cynthia Postan, English horticulturist (d. 2017)
** Sid Tepper, American songwriter (d. 2015)
* June 26
** Ellen Liiger, Estonian actress (d. 1987)
** Raleigh Rhodes, American combat fighter pilot (d. 2007)
** Leo Rosner, Polish-born Austrian Jewish musician (d. 2008)
* June 27
** Willy Breinholst, Danish humorist, writer (d. 2009)
** Adolph Kiefer, American former competition swimmer (d. 2017)
* June 28 – Marshall Brown (basketball, born 1918), Marshall Brown, American professional basketball player (d. 2008)
* June 29
** Gene La Rocque, U.S. admiral (d. 2016)
** Heini Lohrer, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2011)
* June 30 – Jackie Roberts, Welsh footballer (d. 2001)
July
![Paul D](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Paul_D._Boyer.jpg)
* July 1
** Ahmed Deedat, South African writer, public speaker (d. 2005)
** Pedro Yap, Filipino lawyer (d. 2003)
** Ralph Young (singer), Ralph Young, American singer, actor (d. 2008)
* July 2
** Athos Bulcão, Brazilian painter, sculptor (d. 2008)
** Indumati Bhattacharya, Indian politician (d. 1990)
* July 3
** Shirley Adelson Siegel, American activist and lawyer (d. 2020)
** Johnny Palmer, American golfer (d. 2006)
** Benjamin C. Thompson, American architect (d. 2002)
** Lorenzo Robledo, Spanish actor (d. 2006)
* July 4
** King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)
** Alec Bedser, English cricketer (d. 2010)
** Eric Bedser, English cricketer (d. 2006)
** Eppie Lederer, Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)
** Joe Fortunato (coach), Joe Fortunato, American football, basketball, and baseball coach (d. 2004)
** Pauline Phillips, American advice columnist, popularly known as Abigail Van Buren (d. 2013)
* July 5
** Brian James (actor), Brian James, Australian actor (d. 2009)
** Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian general, politician (d. 2012)
** Nikos Papatakis, Greek Ethiopian-born naturalised French filmmaker (d. 2010)
** George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
** Miguel Ángel Sanz Bocos, Spanish fighter pilot (d. 2018)
* July 6
** Sebastian Cabot (actor), Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
** J. Dewey Daane, American economist (d. 2017)
** Herm Fuetsch, American professional basketball player (d. 2010)
** Francisco Moncion, Dominican-American dancer, charter member of New York City Ballet (d. 1995)
* July 7
** Jing Shuping, Chinese businessman (d. 2009)
** Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d. 2016)
* July 8
** Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
** Edward B. Giller, U.S. major general (d. 2017)
** Julia Pirie, British spy working for MI5 (d. 2008)
** Oluf Reed-Olsen, Norwegian resistance member, pilot (d. 2002)
** Craig Stevens (actor), Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
* July 9 – Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general (d. 1999)
* July 10
** Frank L. Lambert, American professor emeritus of chemistry at Occidental College (d. 2018)
** Chuck Stevens, American major baseball (d. 2018)
* July 11 – Venetia Burney, English woman known for being the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the planet in 1930 (d. 2009)
* July 12
** Mary Glen-Haig, British Olympic fencer (d. 2014)
** Doris Grumbach, American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist (d. 2022)
** Vivian Mason, American actress (d. 2009)
** Paul Stenn, American football offensive tackle (d. 2003)
** Alice Van-Springsteen, American stuntwoman, jockey (d. 2008)
* July 13
** Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
** Ted Oldfield, English footballer (d. 2006)
* July 14
** T. M. Aluko, Nigerian writer (d. 2010)
** Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (d. 2007)
** Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer, systems scientist (d. 2016)
* July 15
** Paddy Bassett, New Zealand scientist (d. 2019)
** Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
** Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, British soldier, politician, television executive and writer (d. 2009)
** Arthur Dimmock, English writer, journalist and historian (d. 2007)
** Brenda Milner, Canadian neuropsychologist
* July 16
** Denis Edward Arnold, English soldier (d. 2015)
** Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
** Pituka de Foronda, Spanish actress (d. 1999)
** John Frost (SAAF officer), John Everitt Frost Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom), DFC medal bar, & Bar, World War II South African Air Force, SAAF fighter aviator, pilot (Missing in action, MIA 16 June 1942)
** Samuel Victor Perry, British biochemist (d. 2009)
** Leonard T. Schroeder, American colonel (d. 2009)
** Jim Vickers-Willis, Australian journalist (d. 2008)
* July 17
** Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
** Chandler Robbins, American ornithologist (d. 2017)
* July 18
** Lia Dorana, Dutch comedian, actress (d. 2010)
** James Duesenberry, American economist (d. 2009)
** Warren Hair, American professional basketball player (d. 2006)
** Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2013)
* July 20
** Auður Laxness, Icelandic writer, craftsperson (d. 2012)
** Edward S. Little, American diplomat (d. 2004)
** Eric Longworth, British actor (d. 2008)
** Cindy Walker, American songwriter, country singer (d. 2006)
* July 21 – Elsa Kobberstad, Norwegian schoolteacher, politician (d. 2007)
* July 22
** Stanley Lebergott, American government economist (d. 2009)
** Lila Zali, Georgian-born American prima ballerina (d. 2003)
* July 23
** Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian, actor (d. 2005)
** Carl T. Langford, American politician (d. 2011)
** Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
* July 24
** Antonio Candido, Brazilian literary critic, sociologist (d. 2017)
** Irving London, American hematologist and geneticist (d. 2018)
** Ruggiero Ricci, Italian-born violinist (d. 2012)
* July 25
** Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
** Alexander McKee (author), Alexander McKee, British journalist, military historian and diver, discoverer of the ''Mary Rose'' (d. 1992)
* July 27 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
* July 28 – Penaia Ganilau, 1st President of Fiji (d. 1993)
* July 29
** Frank Miller (singer), Frank Miller, American singer (d. 2015)
** Edwin O'Connor, American novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
* July 30
** John L. Cason, American actor (d. 1961)
** Jimmy Robinson (actor), Jimmy Robinson, American actor (d. 1967)
* July 31
** Vicente Almeida d'Eça, Portuguese colonial administrator (d. 2018)
** Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
** Hank Jones, American pianist (d. 2010)
August
![Alejandro Agust%C3%ADn Lanusse](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Alejandro_Agust%C3%ADn_Lanusse.jpg)
* August 1
** Artur Brauner, German film producer and entrepreneur (d. 2019)
** Zhou Xuan, Chinese singer, actress (d. 1957)
* August 2 – Dada Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2018)
* August 3
** Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999)
** Cheng Kaijia, Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer (d. 2018)
* August 4 – Noel Willman, Irish actor (d. 1988)
* August 5
** Kondapalli Koteswaramma, Indian communist leader, feminist, revolutionary and writer (d. 2018)
** Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (d. 2004)
* August 6 – Charles Coulston Gillispie, American historian (d. 2015)
* August 11 – Thomas A. Bird, British WWII army officer, architect (d. 2017)
* August 12 – Roy C. Bennett, American songwriter (d. 2015)
* August 13
** Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2006)
** Tao Porchon-Lynch, American yoga master and author (d. 2020)
** Frederick Sanger, English biochemist, two time Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
* August 19 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, 9th President of India (d. 1999)
* August 20 – Crystal Bennett, British archaeologist, pioneering researcher on Jordan (d. 1987)
* August 21 – Bruria Kaufman, American-born Israeli physicist (d. 2010)
* August 22
** Said Mohamed Djohar, President of the Comoros (d. 2006)
** Martin Pope, American physical chemist (d. 2022)
* August 23 – Bernard Fisher (scientist), Bernard Fisher, American surgeon (d. 2019)
* August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor (d. 1990)
* August 26
** Hutton Gibson, American religion writer, father of actor Mel Gibson (d. 2020)
** Katherine Johnson, African-American physicist, space scientist and mathematician (d. 2020)
** Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz, Brazilian sociologist (d. 2018)
* August 27
** Simeon Booker, American journalist (d. 2017)
** Chang Yun Chung, Chinese-born billionaire shipping magnate (d. 2020)
** Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1966 to 1967 (d. 2001)
* August 28 – Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 37th President of Argentina (d. 1996)
* August 29
** Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Dutch physicist (d. 2019)
** Brian Stonehouse, English painter, WWII spy (d. 1998)
* August 30 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
* August 31
** Griffin Bell, American politician (d. 2009)
** Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist, librettist (d. 1986)
** Kenny Washington (American football), Kenny Washington, African-American football player (d. 1971)
September
* September 1
** James D. Martin, American politician (d. 2017)
** Phyllis Wallbank, English educationalist (d. 2020)
* September 3 – Helen Wagner, American soap opera actress (d. 2010)
* September 4
** John Carrick (Australian politician), John Carrick, Australian politician (d. 2018)
** Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
** Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014)
* September 5 - Fred McCarthy (cartoonist), Fred McCarthy, American cartoonist (d. 2009)
* September 6
** Hugh Gillis, American politician (d. 2013)
** Ludwig Hörmann, German cyclist (d. 2001)
* September 8 – Derek Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
* September 9 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of Italy (d. 2012)
* September 13
** Ray Charles (musician, born 1918), Ray Charles, American musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
** Rosemary Kennedy, sister of John F. Kennedy (d. 2005)
** Eric McClintock, Australian businessman, public servant (d. 2018)
* September 14 – James George (diplomat), James George, Canadian diplomat (d. 2020)
* September 15 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian, poet, and dancer (d. 2005)
* September 16 – Ismail Mohamed Ali, Malaysian politician (d. 1998)
* September 17 – Chaim Herzog, 6th President of Israel 1983–1993 (d. 1997)
* September 19 – Joseph Zeller, American politician (d. 2018)
* September 21 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist, advocate (d. 2007)
* September 22 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
* September 24 – Emerante Morse, Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist (d. 2018)
* September 26
** Peng Chang-kuei, Taiwanese chef (d. 2016)
** Harry Yee, American bartender
** John Zacherle, American television and radio host, singer, and voice actor (d. 2016)
* September 27
** Sotero Laurel, Filipino politician and educator (d. 2009)
** Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1984)
* September 28
** Ángel Labruna, Argentine soccer player, manager (d. 1983)
** Ida Schuster, Scottish actress (d. 2020)
** Arnold Stang, American comic actor (d. 2009)
* September 30
** Giovanni Canestri, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
** Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American cellist and educator (d. 2018)
October
![Hayworth-Gilda-1946-Color](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Hayworth-Gilda-1946-Color.jpg)
* October 4 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
* October 6 – Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)
* October 8 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
* October 9
** E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate scandal, Watergate break-in coordinator (d. 2007)
** Bebo Valdés, Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 2013)
* October 13
** Jack MacGowran, Irish film actor (d. 1973)
** Robert Walker (actor, born 1918), Robert Walker, American actor (d. 1951)
* October 14 – Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player (d. 2015)
* October 16
** Louis Althusser, French philosopher (d. 1990)
** Géori Boué, French operatic singer (d. 2017)
** Henri Vernes, Belgian author (d. 2021)
* October 17 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
* October 18
** Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister (d. 2017)
** Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter and actor, known for his role in ''Emergency!'' (d. 1999)
* October 19 – Robert S. Strauss, American politician, Democratic National Committee Chairman (d. 2014)
* October 22
** Fred Caligiuri, American baseball player (d. 2018)
** René de Obaldia, French playwright and poet (d. 2022)
* October 23 – Augusta Dabney, American actress (d. 2008)
* October 25
** Francisco Griéguez, Spanish WWII soldier (d. 2018)
** Milton Selzer, American actor (d. 2006)
* October 26 – Marc Hodler, Swiss lawyer (d. 2006)
* October 27
** Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian statesman (d. 2003)
** Gérard Tremblay (bishop), Gérard Tremblay, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2019)
** Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
* October 29 – Diana Serra Cary, American actress (d. 2020)
* October 31 – Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)
November
![Spiro Agnew](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Spiro_Agnew.jpg)
*November 1 – Ken Miles, British sports car racing engineer and driver (d. 1966)
*November 2 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
* November 3
** Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
** Ann Hutchinson Guest, American movement, dance researcher (d. 2022)
** Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
** Russell B. Long, United States Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
** Dean Riesner, American film, television screenwriter (d. 2002)
* November 4
** Art Carney, American actor, best known for his role in ''The Honeymooners'' (d. 2003)
** Cameron Mitchell (actor), Cameron Mitchell, American actor, best known for his role in ''The High Chaparral'' (d. 1994)
* November 7
** Paul Aussaresses, French general (d. 2013)
** Fred Cusick, American ice hockey broadcaster (d. 2009)
** Billy Graham, American evangelist, spiritual adviser to several U.S. Presidents (d. 2018)
* November 8
** Bob Schiller, American screenwriter (d. 2017)
** Teoh Seng Khoon, Malaysian badminton player (d. 2018)
** Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (d. 2015)
* November 9
** Spiro Agnew, List of Vice Presidents of the United States, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
** Su Beng, Taiwanese dissident and political activist (d. 2019)
** Thomas Ferebee, United States Air Force colonel (d. 2000)
** Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general, martial artist (d. 2002)
* November 10
** Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
** John Henry Moss, American baseball executive, politician (d. 2009)
* November 11 – Louise Tobin, American singer (d. 2022)
* November 14 – John Bromwich, Australian tennis player (d. 1999)
* November 15 – Vittore Bocchetta, Italian sculptor, painter and academic (d. 2021)
* November 18 – Nicolás Kingman Riofrío, Ecuadorian journalist, writer and politician (d. 2018)
* November 21 – Dorothy Maguire, Dorothy Maguire Chapman, American professional baseball player (d. 1981)
* November 26 – Patricio Aylwin, 32nd President of Chile (d. 2016)
* November 27 – Borys Paton, Ukrainian scientist (d. 2020)
* 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
![Anwar Sadat cropped](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Anwar_Sadat_cropped.jpg)
* December 3 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000)
* December 6
** Tauba Biterman, Polish Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)
** Nick Drahos, American football player (d. 2018)
* December 7
** Jórunn Viðar, Icelandic pianist, composer (d. 2017)
** Liu Yichang, Hong Kong writer and novelist (d. 2018)
* December 8 – Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
* December 10
** Fergus Anckorn, British magician (d. 2018)
** Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice-hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
* December 11
** John W. Reed, American legal scholar (d. 2018)
** 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)
* December 13 – Rosalia Lombardo, known as ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (d. 1920)
* December 14 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga teacher (d. 2014)
* December 15 – Jeff Chandler (actor), Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
* December 17
** Dusty Anderson, American actress and model (d. 2007)
** Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg, German royal (d. 2019)
* December 18 – Joyce Reynolds (classicist), Joyce Reynolds, English classicist and academic (d. 2022)
* December 19 – Georgina Cookson, British actress (d. 2011)
* December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet, author (d. 1990)
* December 21
** Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias, Peruvian philosopher (d. 2019)
** Fred Gloden, American football player (d. 2019)
** Donald Regan, American United States Secretary of the Treasury, Treasury Secretary, White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
** Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2007)
* December 23
** José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
** Kumar Pallana, Indian actor (d. 2013)
** Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Chancellor of Germany (d. 2015)
* December 24 – Dave Bartholomew, American musician, songwriter and music producer (d. 2019)
* December 25
** Bertie Mee, English football player, manager (d. 2001)
** Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1981)
* December 26
** Butch Ballard, American jazz drummer (d. 2011)
** Georgios Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
* December 29 – Leo J. Dulacki, American general (d. 2019)
* December 30 – W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (d. 1978)
*December 31
** Al Lakeman, American Major League Baseball catcher (d. 1976)
** Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, Russian-American author (d. 2018)
Date unknown
* Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 5th President of Bangladesh (d. 1996)
* Abd an-Nabi Abd al-Qadir Mursal, Sudanese poet and politician (d. 1962)
* Louis Wienholt, Australian public servant (d. 1973)
Deaths
January
![Dolores sopeña pensativa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Dolores_sope%C3%B1a_pensativa.jpg)
* January 2 – Katharine A. O'Keeffe O'Mahoney, Irish-born American teacher and writer (b. 1855)
* January 6 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
* January 8
** Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer, filmmaker (b. 1892)
** Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
*
January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
** Max Ritter von Müller, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1887)
** Charles-Émile Reynaud, French inventor (b. 1844)
* January 10 – María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña, Spanish Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (b. 1848)
* January 21 – Emil Jellinek, German automobile entrepreneur (b. 1853)
* January 26 – Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia (b. 1850)
*
January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
– John McCrae, Canadian soldier, surgeon and poet (b. 1872)
*
January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
* 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the t ...
– Ivan Puluj, Ukrainian physicist and inventor (b. 1845)
February
![Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Sultan_Abdul_Hamid_II_of_the_Ottoman_Empire.jpg)
*
February 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
* 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
– Princess Leonilla Bariatinskaya, Russian aristocrat (b. 1816)
* February 2 – John L. Sullivan, American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (b. 1858)
* February 4
** Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese admiral (b. 1868)
** Jeannette Walworth, American journalist and novelist (b. 1835)
*
February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– Leonard Monteagle Barlow, British fighter pilot (accident) (b. 1898)
*
February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
– Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862),
Spanish flu
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* 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 Peace Prize, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
* February 11 – Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (suicide) (b. 1861)
*
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
– Cecil Spring Rice, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British diplomat (b. 1859)
* February 15 – Vernon Castle, American dancer (b. 1887)
*
February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Kar ...
– Károly Khuen-Héderváry, 2-time Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1849)
*
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
** Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
**Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, British politician and colonial administrator (b. 1836)
March
![Martin Sheridan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Martin_Sheridan.jpg)
* 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 (b. 1859)
*
March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
*44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 – Odoa ...
– Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, German fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1891)
* March 23 – T. P. Cameron Wilson, English poet, 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),
Spanish flu
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April
![Gavrilloprincip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Gavrilloprincip.jpg)
* April 1
**Isaac Rosenberg, British war poet (killed in action) (b. 1890)
**Paul von Rennenkampf, Russian general (executed) (b. 1854)
* April 4 – Hermann Cohen, German philosopher (b. 1842)
* April 5 – King George Tupou II of Tonga (b. 1874),
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* April 11 – Otto Wagner, Austro-Hungarian architect, urban planner (b. 1841)
* April 19 – William Hope Hodgson, English author (b. 1877)
* April 20
** Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
** Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn, Austrian statesman, 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
![Blandine Merten](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Blandine_Merten.jpg)
* May 2
** Ernie Parker, Australian tennis champion (killed in action) (b. 1883)
** Jüri Vilms, Estonian politician (b. 1889)
* May 14 – James Gordon Bennett Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
* May 17 – William Drew Robeson I, African-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
** Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (b. 1853)
** 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, philosopher (b. 1856)
June
![Patriarch Kyrion II of Georgia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Patriarch_Kyrion_II_of_Georgia.jpg)
* June 1 – Roderic Dallas, Australian fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1891)
* June 3 – Count Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling, Austrian noble, statesman and 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, composer (b. 1842)
* June 13 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Grand Duke Michael Romanov (assassinated) (b. 1878)
* June 15 – Frank Miles Day, American architect (b. 1861)
* June 16 – Bazil Assan, Romanian engineer and explorer (b. 1860)
* June 19 – Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (air crash) (b. 1888)
* June 25 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1867)
* June 26 – Kyrion II of Georgia, Georgian Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox religious leader, saint (b. 1855)
* June 27 – Joséphin Péladan, French occultist (b. 1858)
July
![Henry Macintosh 1913](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Henry_Macintosh_1913.jpg)
* 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 United States President Theodore Roosevelt, fighter pilot (killed in action) (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 (executed) (b. 1891)
** Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (executed) (b. 1894)
** Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia (executed) (b. 1869)
** Grand Duchess Elisabeth of Russia (Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine) (executed) (b. 1864)
* July 20 – Francis Lupo, American soldier (b. 1895)
* July 22
** Manuel González Prada, Peruvian politician, author (b. 1844)
** Indra Lal Roy, Indian fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1898)
** Alexey Schastny, Russian naval officer (executed) (b. 1881)
* 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
**Hermann von Eichhorn, German field marshal (assassinated) (b. 1848)
**Joyce Kilmer, American journalist, 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
![Mother Marianne Cope in her youth](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Mother_Marianne_Cope_in_her_youth.jpg)
* August 1
** John Riley Banister, American policeman, cowboy (b. 1854)
** Gabriel Guérin, French World War I fighter ace (air crash) (b. 1892)
* August 5 – Peter Strasser, German naval officer, airship commander (killed in action) (b. 1876)
* August 9
** Marianne Cope, German-born American Roman Catholic nun and saint (b. 1838)
** František Plesnivý, Austro-Hungarian architect (b. 1845)
* August 10
** Jean Brillant, Canadian soldier (b. 1890)
** Erich Löwenhardt, German World War I fighter ace (b. 1897)
** Aleksander Uurits, Estonian painter, graphic artist (b. 1888)
* August 12 – Anna Held, French actress (b. 1872)
* August 22 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
* 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 the United States (b. 1832)
September
![George Reid cph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/George_Reid_cph.3c31684.jpg)
* Mudbir al-Far'un, Arab chieftain, leader of 1913 Euphrates rebellion
* September 2 – John Forrest, Sir John Forrest, Australian explorer and politician, 1st Premier of Western Australia (b. 1847)
* September 5 – Nikolay Maklakov, Russian politician, former minister of the Interior (b. 1871)
* September 6 – Elizabeth Yates (mayor), Elizabeth Yates, New Zealand politician (b. 1845)
* September 8
** Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, German Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1848)
** Mikael of Wollo, Ethiopian army commander and Ras of Wollo (b. 1850)
* September 12 – George Reid (Australian politician), Sir George Reid, 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),
Spanish flu
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* September 27 – Fritz Rumey, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1891)
* September 28
** True Boardman, American actor (b. 1882),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
** Georg Simmel, German sociologist, philosopher (b. 1858)
** Freddie Stowers, American soldier (killed in action) (b. 1896)
* September 29 – Frank Luke, American fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1897)
October
* October 4 – Nikolai Skrydlov, Russian admiral (b. 1844)
* October 5
** Roland Garros (aviator), Roland Garros, French fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1888)
** Robbie Ross, British writer (b. 1869)
* October 6 – Arthur O'Hara Wood, Australian tennis champion and fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1890)
* October 7 – Hubert Parry, Sir Hubert Parry, British composer (b. 1848),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* October 8 – Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857)
* October 9 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French sculptor (b. 1876)
* October 11 – Wallace Lloyd Algie, Canadian soldier (b. 1891)
* October 15 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru, yogi and National saint of India (b. 1838)
* October 16 – Felix Arndt, American pianist, composer (b. 1889),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* October 18
** Radko Dimitriev, Bulgarian, Russian general (executed) (b. 1859)
** Uganda Martyrs, Jildo Irwa, Ugandan Roman Catholic martyr and saint (executed) (b. 1906)
** Uganda Martyrs, Daudo Okelo, Ugandan Roman Catholic martyr and saint (executed) (b. ca. 1900)
** Nikolai Ruzsky, Russian general (executed) (b. 1854)
* October 19
** Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
** Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi (b. 1889),
Spanish flu
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* October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (b. 1891),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* October 24
** César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (b. 1850)
** Daniel Burley Woolfall, English administrator, 2nd President of FIFA (b. 1852)
* October 25 – Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Portuguese painter (b. 1887),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* 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),
Spanish flu
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** István Tisza, 2-time List of Prime Ministers of Hungary, Prime Minister of Hungary (assassinated) (b. 1861)
November
![Wilfred Owen plate from Poems (1920)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Wilfred_Owen_plate_from_Poems_%281920%29.jpg)
* November 1 – Vladimir Vasilyevich Smirnov, Russian general (executed) (b. 1849)
* November 2 – Hugh Cairns (VC), Hugh Cairns, Canadian soldier (b. 1896)
* November 4
** Wilfred Owen, British poet, soldier (killed in action) (b. 1893)
** Andrew Dickson White, American academic and diplomat, co-founder of Cornell University (b. 1832)
* November 5
**Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, British occultist (b. 1854),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
**William Shea (actor), William Shea, British actor (b. 1856)
* November 6 – Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian soldier (b. 1899),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* November 9
** Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
** Albert Ballin, German shipping magnate (b. 1857)
** Peter Lumsden, Sir Peter Lumsden, British general in the Indian Army (b. 1829)
* November 11
** Victor Adler, Austrian politician (b. 1852)
** George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth soldier to die in WWI (b. 1892)
* November 12 – Aleksei Evert, Russian general (executed) (b. 1857; may have died in 1926)
* November 15 – Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official), Sir Robert Anderson, British police officer (b. 1841),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* November 19 – Joseph F. Smith, 6th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
* November 20 – John Bauer (illustrator), John Bauer, Swedish painter (b. 1882)
* November 22 – Rose Cleveland, ''de facto'' First Lady of the United States (b. 1846),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* November 23 – Fritz von Below, German general (b. 1853)
* November 30 – Karl Petrovich Jessen, Russian admiral (b. 1852)
December
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* December 2 – Edmond Rostand, French writer (b. 1868),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* December 4 – Princess Teriivaetua of Tahiti (b. 1869),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* December 5 – Schalk Willem Burger, Boer military leader, lawyer, politician, statesman, and acting President of the South African Republic (1900-1902) (b. 1852)
* December 9 – Samuel Swett Green, American library pioneer (b. 1837)
* December 11 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876),
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
* December 14 – Sidónio Pais, Portuguese politician, general, diplomat, 66th Prime Minister of Portugal and 4th President of Portugal (b. 1872), assassinated
* December 16 – Frederic W. Tilton, American educator and 7th List of Phillips Academy Heads of School, Principal of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (b. 1839)
* 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)
Date unknown
* Spring – Vyacheslav Troyanov, Russian general (b. 1875)
* Yakov Zhilinsky, Russian general (b. 1853)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Max 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
References
Further reading
* Chandra, Siddharth, Julia Christensen, and Shimon Likhtman. "Connectivity and seasonality: the 1918 influenza and COVID-19 pandemics in global perspective." ''Journal of Global History'' 15.3 (2020): 408–420.
* Phillips, Howard. "’17,’18,’19: religion and science in three pandemics, 1817, 1918, and 2019." ''Journal of Global History'' 15.3 (2020): 434–443.
* Williams, John. ''The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918'' (1972) pp 243–92.
Primary sources and year books
''New International Year Book 1918'' (1919) Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 904 pp
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