List of events article
Events from the year 1918 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] January–March [ edit ] April–June [ edit ] July–September [ edit ] 1918 flu pandemic October–December [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Ongoing [ edit ] January [ edit ] 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 , food scientist (d. 2013 ) January 21 – Richard Winters , World War II soldier (d. 2011 )[4] January 23 – Gertrude B. Elion , pharmacologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 (d. 1999 )[5] January 24 – Oral Roberts , neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. 2009 ) January 25 – Ernie Harwell , baseball sportscaster (d. 2010 ) January 26 January 27 – Elmore James , musician (d. 1963 ) January 29 – John Forsythe , actor (Dynasty ) (d. 2010 ) January 31 – Millie Dunn Veasey , African-American civil rights activist and World War II soldier (d. 2018 ) February [ edit ] Joey Bishop Julian Schwinger Fay McKenzie 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 )[6] 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 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 )[9] 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 ) Mike Wallace Richard Feynman Eddy Arnold May 1 – Jack Paar , American television show host (The Tonight Show ) (d. 2004 )[10] 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 , country singer (d. 2008 ) May 17 – A. C. Lyles , film producer (d. 2013 ) May 18 May 20 – Edward B. Lewis , geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004 ) May 21 – Lloyd Hartman Elliott , educator, president of George Washington University (d. 2013 ) May 23 Robert Preston Jerome Karle June 2 – Kathryn Tucker Windham , writer, storyteller (d. 2011 ) June 4 – Johnny Klein , 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 , songwriter (d. 2015 ) June 26 – Raleigh Rhodes , combat fighter pilot (d. 2007 ) June 27 – Adolph Kiefer , Olympic champion swimmer (d. 2017 )[15] June 28 – Marshall Brown , professional basketball player (d. 2008 ) June 29 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 , colonel (d. 2009 ) July 17 – Chandler Robbins , ornithologist (d. 2017 ) July 18 July 20 July 22 – Stanley Lebergott , government economist (d. 2009 ) July 23 July 24 – Irving London , hematologist and geneticist (d. 2018 ) July 25 – Jane Frank , artist (d. 1986 ) July 26 – Marjorie Lord , actress (d. 2015 ) July 27 – Leonard Rose , cellist (d. 1984 ) July 29 – Edwin O'Connor , novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968 ) July 30 July 31 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 [ edit ] Paul Harvey October [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] 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 )[19] 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. 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