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Events from the year 1918 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
1918 flu pandemic
October–December
October 4 – 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 8 –
World War I : In the
Forest of Argonne in
France , U.S. Corporal
Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
October 11 – The 7.1 Mw
San Fermín earthquake shakes
Puerto Rico with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributed to the damage and loss of life.
October 12 –
1918 Cloquet Fire : The city of
Cloquet, Minnesota and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.
October 25 – The
SS Princess Sophia sinks on
Vanderbilt Reef near
Juneau, Alaska ; 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the
Pacific Northwest .
November 1 –
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 11 –
World War I ends.
December 4 – President of the U.S.
Woodrow Wilson sails for the
Paris Peace Conference , becoming the first U.S. president to travel to
Europe while in office.
December 19 –
Ripley's Believe It or Not! first appears as a cartoon under the title Champs and Chumps in
The New York Globe .
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
Gertrude B. Elion
John Forsythe
January 1 –
Ed Price , American soldier, pilot, and politician (d.
2012 )
January 9 –
Alma Ziegler , professional baseball player (d.
2005 )
January 15 –
Ira B. Harkey Jr. , newspaper editor (d.
2006 )
January 16 –
Stirling Silliphant , screenwriter and producer (d.
1996 )
[3]
January 17 –
George M. Leader , politician (d.
2013 )
January 19
January 20 –
Nevin S. Scrimshaw , American food scientist (d.
2013 )
January 21 –
Richard Winters , American
World War II soldier (d.
2011 )
[4]
January 23 –
Gertrude B. Elion , American pharmacologist, winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 (d.
1999 )
January 24 –
Oral Roberts , American neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d.
2009 )
January 25 –
Ernie Harwell , American baseball sportscaster (d.
2010 )
January 26
January 27 –
Elmore James , American musician (d.
1963 )
January 29 –
John Forsythe , American actor (Dynasty ) (d.
2010 )
January 31 –
Millie Dunn Veasey , African-American civil rights activist and World War II soldier (d.
2018 )
February
Joey Bishop
Julian Schwinger
Fay McKenzie
March
Howard Cosell
Pearl Bailey
March 1 –
James N. Morgan , economist (d.
2018 )
March 3 –
Arthur Kornberg , biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2007 )
March 4 –
Margaret Osborne duPont , American female tennis player (d.
2012 )
March 5 –
James Tobin , American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2002 )
March 8 –
Mendel L. Peterson , American underwater archaeologist (d.
2003 )
March 9
March 11 –
Jack Coe , American evangelist (d.
1956 )
March 12 –
Elaine de Kooning , American artist (d.
1989 )
March 13 –
Eddie Pellagrini , American baseball player, coach (d.
2006 )
March 15 –
Richard Ellmann , American
literary biographer (d.
1987 )
March 16 –
Frederick Reines , American physicist, winner of
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 (d.
1998 )
[5]
March 17 –
Ross Bass , American politician (d.
1993 )
March 18 –
Bob Broeg , American sports writer (d.
2005 )
March 20 –
Jack Barry , American television game show host, producer (d.
1984 )
March 23
March 25 –
Howard Cosell , American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d.
1995 )
March 26 –
Lloyd McCuiston , American politician
March 28 -
Alberto Valdés , American artist (d. 1998)
March 29
April
Betty Ford
William Holden
April 1 –
Milt Earnhart , American politician (d.
2020 )
April 4 –
Joseph Ashbrook , American astronomer (d.
1980 )
April 7 –
Bobby Doerr , American baseball player (d.
2017 )
April 8
April 14 –
Mary Healy , American actress, variety entertainer and singer (d.
2015 )
April 15
April 17
April 18 –
Clifton Hillegass , author, founder of
CliffsNotes (d.
2001 )
April 20 –
Edward L. Beach Jr. , naval captain and author (d.
2002 )
April 22
April 24 –
Lou Dorfsman , graphic designer (d.
2008 )
April 27 –
John Rice , baseball umpire (d.
2011 )
April 28
April 29 –
George Allen , American football coach (d.
1990 )
May
Mike Wallace
Richard Feynman
Eddy Arnold
May 1 –
Jack Paar , American television show host (The Tonight Show ) (d.
2004 )
May 3 –
Richard Dudman , American reporter, editorial writer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch ) (d.
2017 )
May 9
May 10
May 11
May 12 –
Julius Rosenberg , American-born Soviet spy (d.
1953 )
May 15 –
Eddy Arnold , American country music singer (d.
2008 )
May 17 –
A. C. Lyles , American film producer (d.
2013 )
May 18
May 20 –
Edward B. Lewis , American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2004 )
May 21 –
Lloyd Hartman Elliott , American educator, president of
George Washington University (d.
2013 )
May 23
June
Robert Preston
Jerome Karle
June 2 –
Kathryn Tucker Windham , American writer, storyteller (d.
2011 )
June 4 –
Johnny Klein , American drummer (d.
1997 )
June 6 –
Edwin G. Krebs , American biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 (d.
2009 )
June 8
1918 –
John D. Roberts , American chemist and academic (d.
2016 )
1918 –
John H. Ross , American captain and pilot (d.
2013 )
June 9 –
John Hospers , American philosopher (d.
2011 )
June 10 –
Wood Moy , American actor (d.
2017 )
June 12 –
Jerry A. Moore Jr. , American politician (d.
2017 )
June 18
June 21
June 25 –
Sid Tepper , American songwriter (d.
2015 )
June 26 –
Raleigh Rhodes , American combat fighter pilot (d.
2007 )
June 27 –
Adolph Kiefer , American former competition swimmer (d.
2017 )
June 28 –
Marshall Brown , American professional basketball player (d.
2008 )
June 29
July
Craig Stevens
Pee Wee Reese
Paul D. Boyer
Hank Jones
July 1 –
Ralph Young , American singer, actor (d.
2008 )
July 3
July 4
July 5 –
George Rochberg , American composer (d.
2005 )
July 6
July 7 –
Bob Vanatta , American head basketball coach (d.
2016 )
July 8
July 10
July 12
July 14
July 16 –
Leonard T. Schroeder , American colonel (d.
2009 )
July 17 –
Chandler Robbins , American ornithologist (d.
2017 )
July 18
July 20
July 22 –
Stanley Lebergott , American government economist (d.
2009 )
July 23
July 24 –
Irving London , American hematologist and geneticist (d.
2018 )
July 25 –
Jane Frank , American artist (d.
1986 )
July 26 –
Marjorie Lord , American actress (d.
2015 )
July 27 –
Leonard Rose , American cellist (d.
1984 )
July 29 –
Edwin O'Connor , American novelist,
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d.
1968 )
July 30
July 31
August
Leonard Bernstein
Katherine Johnson
August 3 –
Sidney Gottlieb , American Central Intelligence Agency official (d.
1999 )
August 6 –
Charles Coulston Gillispie , American historian (d.
2015 )
August 9 –
Robert Aldrich , American writer and filmmaker (d.
1983 )
August 12 –
Roy C. Bennett , American songwriter (d.
2015 )
August 13 –
Tao Porchon-Lynch , American yoga master and author (d.
2020 )
August 19 –
Oliver Brown , African-American plaintiff (d.
1961 )
August 20 –
Jacqueline Susann , American novelist (d.
1974 )
August 21 –
Bruria Kaufman , American-born Israeli physicist (d.
2010 in Israel )
August 22 –
Martin Pope , American physical chemist
August 23 –
Bernard Fisher , American surgeon (d. 2019)
August 25 –
Leonard Bernstein , American composer and conductor (d.
1990 )
August 26
August 27 –
Simeon Booker , American journalist (d.
2017 )
August 30 –
Ted Williams , American baseball player (d.
2002 )
August 31
September
Paul Harvey
October
Rita Hayworth
October 4 –
Adrian Kantrowitz , American cardiac surgeon (d.
2008 )
October 9 –
E. Howard Hunt , American
Watergate break-in coordinator (d.
2007 )
October 13 –
Robert Walker , American actor (d.
1951 )
October 17 –
Rita Hayworth , American actress (d.
1987 )
October 18 –
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 )
October 23
October 25 –
Milton Selzer , American actor (d.
2006 )
October 27 –
Teresa Wright , American actress (d.
2005 )
October 29 –
Diana Serra Cary , born Peggy-Jean Montgomery ("Baby Peggy"), American silent film child actress (d.
2020 )
October 31 –
Ian Stevenson , American parapsychologist (d.
2007 )
November
Art Carney
Billy Graham
Spiro Agnew
November 3
November 4
November 7
November 8 –
Bob Schiller , American screenwriter (d.
2017 )
November 9
November 10 –
John Henry Moss , American baseball executive, politician (d.
2009 )
November 11 –
Louise Tobin , American singer (d.
2022 )
November 21 –
Dorothy Maguire , American professional baseball player (d.
1981 )
November 28 –
Jack H. Harris , American film producer, distributor and actor (d.
2017 )
November 29 –
Madeleine L'Engle , children's fiction writer (d.
2007 )
November 30 –
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. , American actor (d.
2014 )
December
Jeff Chandler
December 6 –
Nick Drahos , American football player (d.
2018 )
December 10 –
Anne Gwynne , American actress (d.
2003 )
December 11 –
John W. Reed , American legal scholar (d.
2018 )
December 12 –
Joe Williams , American jazz singer (d.
1999 )
December 14 –
Jack Cole , American cartoonist (d.
1958 )
December 15 –
Jeff Chandler , American actor (d.
1961 )
December 17 –
Dusty Anderson , American actress and model (d.
2007 )
December 18 –
Hal Kanter , American comedy writer, producer and director (d.
2011 )
December 20 –
Joseph Payne Brennan , poet and author (d.
1990 in the United States1990 )
December 21
December 24 –
Dave Bartholomew , American musician, bandleader, composer and arranger (d.
2019 )
December 25
December 26 –
Butch Ballard , American jazz drummer (d.
2011 )
December 29 –
Leo J. Dulacki , American general (d.
2019 )
December 31
Undated
Deaths
January 8 –
Ellis H. Roberts , politician (born
1827 )
February 2 –
John L. Sullivan , boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (born
1858 )
February 4 –
Jeannette Walworth , American journalist and novelist (born
1835 )
[10]
February 7 –
Effie Hoffman Rogers , educator, editor and journalist (born
1835 /
37 )
February 9 –
E. J. Richmond , litterateur and author (born
1825 )<ref">
"Obituary, Mrs. E. J. Richmond. Died in Mount Upton, New York, 9 Feb 1918" . Press and Sun-Bulletin . 14 February 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 6 January 2023 . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
public domain .</ref>
February 15 –
Vernon Castle , ballroom dancer (born
1887 )
March 10 –
Jim McCormick , baseball pitcher (born
1856 in Scotland )
March 14 –
Lucretia Garfield ,
First Lady of the United States (born
1832 )
March 16 –
Prosper P. Parker , civil engineer, Union Army officer and politician (born
1835 in Canada )
March 27 –
Henry Adams , historian (born
1838 )
April 14 –
James E. Ware , architect who devised the "dumbbell plan" for New York City tenements (born
1846 )
May 1 –
Grove Karl Gilbert , geologist (born
1843 )
May 5 –
Bertha Palmer , businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (born
1849 )
May 14 –
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. , newspaper publisher (born
1841 )
May 17 –
William Drew Robeson , African American Presbyterian minister, escaped slave and father of Paul Robeson (born
1844 )
May 19 –
Raoul Lufbery , fighter pilot (killed in action; born
1885 in France )
May 27 –
Frederick Trump , German American businessman, paternal grandfather of
Donald Trump (born
1869 )
June 4 –
Charles W. Fairbanks , 26th
vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909 and U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 (born
1852 )
June 18 –
Lizzie Halliday , serial killer (born c.1859)
June 25 –
Jake Beckley , baseball player (born
1867 )
June 27 –
George Mary Searle , astronomer (born
1839 )
June 28 –
Albert Henry Munsell , inventor of the
Munsell color system (born
1858 )
July 20 –
Francis Lupo , U.S. Army soldier (killed in action; born
1895 )
July 22 –
Roy Earl Parrish , American politician (killed in action; born
1888 )
July 27 –
Gustav Kobbé , music critic and author (sailing accident; born
1857 )
July 30 –
Joyce Kilmer , poet (killed in action; born
1886 )
August 1 –
John Riley Banister , policeman and cowboy (born
1854 )
August 10 –
William Pitt Kellogg , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1872 and from 1877 to 1883 (born
1830 )
August 12 –
Anna Held , singer (born 1872 in Poland)
August 14 –
Anna Morton ,
Second Lady of the United States (born
1846 )
August 24 –
Louis Bennett Jr. , World War I flying ace (killed in action) (b.
1894 )
September 12 –
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1885 to 1897 and from 1901 to 1907 (born
1838 )
September 28
September 29 –
Frank Luke , fighter pilot (killed in action; born
1897 )
October 8 –
James B. McCreary , 27th and 37th
Governor of Kentucky from 1875 to 1879 and from 1911 to 1915, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1903 to 1909 (born
1838 )
October 16 –
Felix Arndt , pianist and composer (born
1889 )
October 19 –
Harold Lockwood , silent film actor (born
1887 )
October 21
October 22 –
Myrtle Gonzalez , silent film actress (born
1891 )
October 28 –
Edward Bouchet , physicist (born
1852 )
November 4 –
Andrew Dickson White , diplomat, academic and author (born
1832 )
November 19 –
Joseph F. Smith , Mormon leader (born
1838 )
December –
Sarah Jim Mayo , Washoe basket weaver (born
1858 )
December 17 –
John Green Brady , 5th Governor of the District of Alaska from 1897 to 1906 (born
1847 )
December 26 –
William Hampton Patton , entomologist (born
1853 )
See also
References
^ House of Lords (U.K.), Science and Technology Committee (2005-12-16),
Pandemic Influenza (PDF) , London: The Stationery Office, archived from
the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16, retrieved 2009-05-06
^
"The long legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti" . Washington Post . Retrieved 19 August 2022 .
^
Gussow, Mel (April 27, 1996).
"Stirling Silliphant, 78, Writer; Won 'Heat of the Night' Oscar" .
The New York Times .
^ Shapiro, T. Rees (January 10, 2011).
"Obituary: Richard 'Dick' Winters, courageous WWII officer portrayed in 'Band of Brothers' " . Washington Post . Retrieved January 7, 2018 .
^ Wilford, John Noble (28 August 1998).
"Frederick Reines Dies at 80; Nobelist Discovered Neutrino" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 24 October 2021 .
^ Barbee-Wooten, Daphne (2 August 2013).
"Helene H. Hale (1918-2013)" . blackpast.org . Retrieved 15 April 2020 .
^
"Pearl Bailey | American entertainer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 4 June 2020 .
^ 60 Years of Recorded Jazz, 1917-1977: I-J . W. Bruyninckx. 1979. p. J96.
^
"Sol Malkoff papers" . aaa.si.edu . Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2023 .
^ Kaser, James A. (29 July 2014).
The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide . Scarecrow Press. p. 204.
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