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A. C. Lyles
Andrew Craddock Lyles (born May 17, 1918) is an American movie producer for Paramount Pictures who produced westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, and has been a major player in Hollywood for the past 78 years.
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Abraham Pais
Abraham (Bram) Pais (May 19, 1918, Amsterdam, Netherlands — July 28, 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II. When the Nazis began the forced relocation of Dutch Jews, he went into hiding, but was later arrested and saved only by the end of the war. He then served as an assistant to Niels Bohr in Denmark and was later a colleague of Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Pais wrote books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics. He was a physics professor at Rockefeller University until his retirement.
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Albert Ballin
Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German businessman. He was born into a modest Jewish family of Hamburg with origins in Denmark.
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Alberto Ascari
Alberto Ascari (July 13, 1918 – May 26, 1955) was an Italian racing driver and twice Formula One World Champion. He is one of only two Italian Formula One World Champions in the history of the sport, and the only one winning his two championships in a Ferrari.
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Alfred Burke
Alfred Burke (born 28 February 1918) is a British actor, best known for his portrayal of Frank Marker in the drama series Public Eye, which ran for ten years.
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Alix of Hesse
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Allan Arbus
Allan Arbus (born February 15, 1918) is an American actor notable for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.
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Allan Ekelund
Allan Ekelund (16 January 1918 – 4 September 2009) was a Swedish film producer. He produced 50 films between 1947 and 1964.
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Alvin C. York
Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964) was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others. This action occurred during the U.S.-led portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, which was part of a broader Allied offensive masterminded by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to breach the Hindenburg line and ultimately force the opposing German forces to capitulate.
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Angel Labruna
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Ann Landers
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Anwar Sadat
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Arnold Stang
Arnold Stang (September 28, 1918 – December 20, 2009) was an American comic actor who played a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type.
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Arrigo Boito
Arrigo Boito (24 February 184210 June 1918), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.
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Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)" together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Laboratories Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, as well as National Medal of Science in 1979.
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Augusta Dabney
Augusta Dabney (October 23, 1918 – February 4, 2008) was an American actress known for her role as Isabelle Alden on the daytime series Loving. She played the role from 1983-87, 1988-91, and again from 1994-95.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Bayani Casimiro
Bayani Casimiro, Sr. (July 16, 1918 – January 27, 1989) was a Filipino dancer who was among the leading stars of bodabil (vaudeville) in the 1930s and 1940s. He also appeared in musical films and later in life, in comedic roles. A tap dancer, he was frequently dubbed as the "Fred Astaire of the Philippines".
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Betty Ford
Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford (born April 8, 1918), better known as Betty Ford is the widow of former United States President Gerald R. Ford and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. As first lady, Ford was active in social policy and shattered precedents as a politically active presidential wife (Time considered her "the most since Eleanor Roosevelt"). In the opinion of several historians, Ford had more impact upon history and culture than her husband.
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Betty Oliphant
Nancy Elizabeth "Betty" Oliphant, CC, O.Ont (August 5, 1918 – July 12, 2004) was a co-founder of the National Ballet School of Canada.
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Billy Graham
William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. KBE (born November 7, 1918) is an American evangelical Christian evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, he has been a spiritual adviser to twelve United States presidents going back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. He is a Southern Baptist. He rose to celebrity status as his sermons were broadcast on radio and television.
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Birgit Nilsson
Birgit Nilsson (May 17, 1918 – December 25, 2005) was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano who specialized in operatic and symphonic works. Her voice was noted for its overwhelming force, bountiful reserves of power and the gleaming brilliance and clarity in the upper register.
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Bob Broeg
Robert William Patrick Broeg (March 18, 1918 – October 28, 2005) was an American sportswriter.
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Bob Feller
Robert William Andrew "Bob" Feller (born November 3, 1918 in Van Meter, Iowa), nicknamed the "Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob" and "Rapid Robert", is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, and is currently the longest tenured living Hall of Famer.
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Bobby Riggs
Robert Larimore "Bobby" Riggs (February 25, 1918 – October 25, 1995) was a 1930s–40s tennis player who was the World No. 1 or the co-World No. 1 player for three years, first as an amateur in 1941, then as a professional in 1946 and 1947. He played his first professional tennis match on December 26, 1941.
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Bobby Troup
Robert William "Bobby" Troup Jr. (October 18, 1918 - February 7, 1999) was an American actor, jazz pianist and songwriter. He is best known for writing the popular standard "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66", and for his role as Dr. Joe Early, in the 1970s US TV series
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Brian Stonehouse
Brian Julian Stonehouse MBE (8 August 1918 – 2 December 1998) was a British painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.
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Bruria Kaufman
Bruria Kaufman (August 21, 1918 – January 7, 2010) was an Israeli theoretical physicist. She contributed to Albert Einstein's Theory of general relativity and to statistical physics. She is well-known for her studies of derivation using spinor analysis of the exact result of Lars Onsager on the partition function of the two-dimensional Ising Model. She collaborated with John von Neumann and Harry Lipkin on the Mössbauer effect.
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Chaim Herzog
Chaim Herzog (, 17 September 1918 – 17 April 1997) served as the sixth President of Israel (1983–1993), following a distinguished career in both the British Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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Charles I of Austria
:"Karl I" redirects here. For the Prince of Liechtenstein, see Karl I of Liechtenstein.
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Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States.
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Charlie Finley
Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918–February 19, 1996), nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American businessman who is best remembered for his tenure as the owner of the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team. Finley purchased the franchise while it was located in Kansas City, moving it to Oakland in 1968. He is buried in Merrillville, Indiana's Calumet Park Cemetery.
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Cheddi Jagan
Cheddi Bharat Jagan (March 22, 1918 – March 6, 1997) was a Guyanese politician who was first elected Chief Minister in 1953 and later Premier of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964, prior to independence. He later served as President of Guyana from 1992 to 1997.
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Chichay
Chichay (born Amparo C. Robles; January 21, 1918 – March 31, 1993) was a Filipino comedian. Her short and stocky stature, scratchy voice and prematurely aged appearance allowed her to portray grandmothers while only in her thirties.
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Chung Ling Soo
Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of American stage magician William Ellsworth Robinson (1861–1918). He is famous for dying when his bullet catch trick went wrong.
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Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy () (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. Debussy is among the most important of all French composers, and a central figure in European music of the turn of the 20th century. He was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1903.
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Claudia Bryar
Claudia Bryar (born 1918) was a TV actress who played small parts in many well-known TV series, mostly Westerns, such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and The Guns of Will Sonnett, comical shows such as The Bob Newhart Show and The Andy Griffith Show, fantasy TV series such as The Twilight Zone, ' etc. She also appeared in small roles in the big screen in cult movies, such as I Was A Teenage Frankenstein, Bad Company and in uncredited parts in the films Giant and The Houston Story.
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César Cui
César Antonovich Cui (, ''Tsezar' Antonovič Kjui'') (13 March 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five, the group of Russian composers under the leadership of Mily Balakirev dedicated to the production of a specifically Russian type of music.
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Dean Riesner
Dean Riesner (November 3, 1918, New York – August 18, 2002, Encino, California) was a prolific American film and television writer.
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Don Pardo
Dominick George "Don" Pardo (born February 22, 1918) is an American radio and television announcer. He is noted for his long association with NBC, and in particular with Saturday Night Live, for which he has been the announcer for all but one of its seasons, and continues today as the program's announcer, several years after his official retirement from NBC.
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Donald Regan
Donald Thomas Regan (; December 21, 1918 – June 10, 2003) was the 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury, from 1981 to 1985, and Chief of Staff from 1985 to 1987 in the Ronald Reagan Administration, where he advocated "Reaganomics" and tax cuts to create jobs and stimulate production. Regan was criticized for his Prime Ministerial style of working, for his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair, and for his frequent disagreements with Ronald Reagan's wife, First Lady Nancy Reagan.
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E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American author and intelligence officer. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers" — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks." Hunt, along with Liddy, engineered the first Watergate burglary and in the ensuing Watergate Scandal, was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.
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Eddy Arnold
Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918–May 8, 2008), known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He created the Nashville sound in the late 1950s, and had 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. Eddy Arnold transcended different musical tastes in country. He served as a role model for future musicians with both his music and his scrupulously moral personal life. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (from 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (since 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."
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Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques, was adapted to the musical comedy, The Fantasticks.
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Edward B. Lewis
Edward B. Lewis (May 20, 1918 – July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Edwin G. Krebs
Edwin Gerhard Krebs (June 6, 1918 – December 21, 2009) was an American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman winner of Nobel Prize in medicine in 1994 and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. Edwin Krebs is not to be confused with Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), who was also a Nobel Prize winning biochemist and who discovered the citric acid cycle, which is also known as the Krebs cycle.
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Edwin O'Connor
'''Edwin O'Connor' (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American radio personality, journalist, and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for The Edge of Sadness'' (1961). His novels focused on the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests.
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Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele (, approximately SHEE-leh; June 12, 1890 October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.
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Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning (March 12, 1918- February 1, 1989) was an Abstract Expressionist, Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era and editorial associate for the Art News magazine. On December 9, 1943, she married artist Willem de Kooning, who was a highly influential artist in the Abstract Expressionism movement.
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Ellis H. Roberts
Ellis Henry Roberts (September 30, 1827 - January 8, 1918) was a United States Representative from New York and 20th Treasurer of the United States.
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Eric von Rosen
Count Carl Gustaf Bloomfield Eric von Rosen (born June 2, 1879 in Stockholm, died April 25, 1948 Skeppsholmen, Stockholm) was a Swedish Honorary doctor, patron, explorer and ethnographer.
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Erich Ludendorff
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (sometimes given incorrectly as von Ludendorff) (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German military officer, victor of Liège, and, with Paul von Hindenburg, one of the victors of the battle of Tannenberg. From August 1916 his appointment as Generalquartiermeister made him joint head (with von Hindenburg) of Germany's war effort. From this point on he ran Germany's war effort in World War I until his resignation in October 1918.
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Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Alexandre Ansermet (11 November 1883, Vevey, Vaud – 20 February 1969) was a Swiss conductor.
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Ernie Harwell
William Earnest "Ernie" Harwell (January 25, 1918 – May 4, 2010) was an American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. For 55 years, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell called the action on radio and/or television. In January 2009, the American Sportscasters Association ranked Harwell 16th on its list of Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time.
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Ernst Otto Fischer
Ernst Otto Fischer (November 10, 1918 – July 23, 2007) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.
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Fanny Blankers-Koen
Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen ( – ) was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a 30 year old mother of two, during a time when many disregarded women's athletics. Her background and performances earned her the nickname "the Flying Housefrau."
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Fanya Kaplan
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Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch (pronounced "Fosh") OM GCB (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French soldier, military theorist, and writer credited with possessing "the most original and subtle mind in the French army" in the early 20th century. He served as general in the French army during World War I and was made Marshal of France in its final year: 1918. Shortly after the start of the Spring Offensive, Germany's final attempt to win the war, Foch was chosen as supreme commander of the Allied armies, a position that he held until 11 November 1918, when he accepted the German request for an armistice. In 1923 he was made Marshal of Poland.
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Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War (; ) was a part of the national and social turmoil caused by World War I (1914–1918) in Europe. The civil war was fought in Finland from 27 January to 15 May 1918 between the forces of the Social Democrats led by the People's Deputation of Finland, commonly called the "Reds" (punaiset), and the forces of the nonsocialist, conservative-led Senate, commonly called the "Whites" (valkoiset). The Reds were supported by the Russian Soviet Republic, while the Whites received military assistance from the German Empire.
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Francis Lupo
Private Francis Lupo, United States Army (February 24, 1895—July 20, 1918) is the U.S. service member who was, possibly, missing in action for the longest known period, his remains being recovered in 2003 and repatriated. He was killed in action near Soissons, France during the Army's first large-scale offensive operation of the First World War.
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Franco Modigliani
Franco Modigliani (June 18, 1918 – September 25, 2003) was an Italian American economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.
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Francois Tombalbaye
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Frank Mancuso
Frank Octavius Mancuso (May 23, 1918 - August 4, 2007) was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played for two teams between 1944 and 1947. Listed at 6' 0", 195 lb., Mancuso batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Houston, Texas. His older brother, Gus Mancuso, also was a major league catcher. Following his 18-year baseball career, Mancuso almost certainly had the longest continuous tenure of any elected city official in Houston history.
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Fred Blassie
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Freddie Stowers
Freddie Stowers (1896–September 28, 1918) was a Corporal in the United States Army, (Buffalo Soldiers), who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War I while serving in an American unit under French command.
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Frederick Reines
Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment, and may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties".
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Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS (born 13 August 1918) is an English biochemist and twice a Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is the fourth (and only living) person to have been awarded two Nobel Prizes.
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Fritz Thiedemann
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Gabriel Axel
Gabriel Axel (born 18 April 1918) is an Oscar winning Danish director, actor, writer and producer, best known for the Oscar-winning ''Babette's Feast'' (1987), which he wrote and directed.
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Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, ; – ) was a Bosnian Serb who was a Yugoslav nationalist associated with the movement Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia). Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, succeeding where one of his co-conspirators had just failed. Princip and his accomplices were arrested and implicated a number of members of the Serbian military, leading Austria-Hungary to issue a démarche to Serbia known as the July Ultimatum. This set off a chain of events that led to World War I.
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Georg Cantor
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( ; ; – January 6, 1918) was a mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are "more numerous" than the natural numbers. In fact, Cantor's theorem implies the existence of an "infinity of infinities". He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers and their arithmetic. Cantor's work is of great philosophical interest, a fact of which he was well aware.
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Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was a major German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.
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George M. Leader
George Michael Leader (born January 17, 1918) served as the 36th Governor of Pennsylvania from January 18, 1955 until January 20, 1959. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a native of York County, Pennsylvania. Currently he is the only person from that county ever to be elected governor of the state.
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George McElroy
Captain George Edward Henry McElroy MC and Two Bars, DFC and Bar (14 May 1893 - 31 July 1918) was a leading ace fighter pilot of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during World War I. He was credited with 47 aerial victories.
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Georgi Plekhanov
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (Геoргий Валенитнович Плеханов) (1857-1918) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the Social-Democratic movement in Russia and was one of the first Russians to identify themselves as "Marxist." Facing political persecution, Plekhanov emigrated to Switzerland in 1880, where he continued in his political activity attempting to overthrow the Tsarist regime in Russia. During World War I Plekhanov rallied to the cause of the Entente powers against Germany and he returned home to Russia following the 1917 February Revolution. Plekhanov was hostile to the Bolshevik party headed by V.I. Lenin, however, and was an opponent of the Soviet regime which came to power in the fall of 1917. He died the following year. Despite his vigorous and outspoken opposition to Lenin's political party in 1917, Plekhanov was held in high esteem by the Russian Communist Party following his death as a founding father of Russian Marxism and a philosophical thinker.
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Gerald Wilson
Gerald Stanley Wilson is an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer/arranger, and educator. He has been based in Los Angeles since the early 1940s.
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Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Working alone as well as with George H. Hitchings, Elion developed a multitude of new drugs, using innovative research methods that would later lead to the development of the AIDS drug AZT.
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Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism—nowhere is this more apparent than in his numerous drawings in pencil (see Mulher sentada, below).
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Gérard Souzay
Gérard Souzay (December 8, 1918 – August 17, 2004) was a French baritone singer, regarded as one of the best interpreters of mélodie (French art song) since Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac.
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Günther Rall
Lieutenant-General Günther Rall (10 March 1918 – 4 October 2009) was the third most successful fighter ace in history. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. He achieved a total of 275 victories during World War II: 272 on the Eastern Front, of which 241 were against Soviet fighters. He flew a total of 621 combat missions, was shot down 8 times and was wounded 3 times. He fought in the invasion of France, the Battle of Britain, in the Balkan Campaign and over Crete. He began the conflict as a young Second Lieutenant, and was a Major and Kommodore of JG 300 at the surrender.
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Hank Jones
Henry "Hank" Jones (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award. He was also honored in 2003 with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Jazz Living Legend Award. In 2008, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. On April 13, 2009, the University of Hartford presented Jones with a Doctorate Degree for his musical accomplishments.
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Harold Lockwood
Harold A. Lockwood (April 12, 1887 – October 19, 1918) was one of the most popular original silent film actors and matinee idols of the early film period during the 1910s.
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Helen Stephens
Helen Herring Stephens (February 3, 1918 – January 17, 1994) was an American athlete, a double Olympic champion in 1936.
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Helen Wagner
Helen Wagner (September 3, 1918 – May 1, 2010) was an American actress. Born in Lubbock, Texas, she is best known for her long running role as Nancy Hughes McClosky on the soap opera As the World Turns. Wagner also played the role of Trudy Bauer during the initial TV years of Guiding Light in the early 1950s. She also appeared on the early soap Valiant Lady, as well as on 1950s primetime programs including The World of Mr. Sweeney, Mister Peepers, Inner Sanctum, and the Philco-Goodyear Playhouse. Wagner died on May 1, 2010, at the age of 91. The cause of her death was cancer.
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Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; born 23 December 1918) is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting Foreign Minister. He is the oldest surviving German Chancellor and the last surviving person to have been solely Chancellor of West Germany (Helmut Kohl was Chancellor of both West Germany and reunified Germany). He also is the oldest Federal German Minister surviving after the death of his Interior Minister Werner Maihofer.
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Henry Brooks Adams
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Henry Norwest
Henry Norwest MM & Bar (May 1, 1884, in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta – August 18, 1918, at Fouquescourt, Somme, France) was a distinguished Canadian sniper in World War I.
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Henryk Szeryng
Henryk Szeryng (22 September 19188 March 1988) was a Polish violin virtuoso.
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Howard Cosell
Howard William Cosell (; born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am." In its obituary for Cosell, the New York Times described Cosell's impact on American sports coverage: "He entered sports broadcasting in the mid-1950s, when the predominant style was unabashed adulation, [and] offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it became the dominant note of sports broadcasting."
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Hugh Cairns (VC)
Hugh Cairns VC DCM (December 4, 1896 – November 2, 1918) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born in Ashington, Northumberland, England.
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Hutton Gibson
Hutton Peter Gibson (born August 26, 1918) is an American writer on Traditional Catholicism, the 1968 Jeopardy! grand champion and the father of 11 children, one of whom is the actor and director Mel Gibson.
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Ian Stevenson
Ian Pretyman Stevenson, MD, (October 31, 1918–February 8, 2007) was a Canadian biochemist and professor of psychiatry. Until his retirement in 2002, he was head of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, which investigates the paranormal.
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Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-American film actress and director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others. She also appeared in serial television programmes fifty-eight times and directed fifty other episodes. In addition, she contributed as a writer to five films and four TV episodes.
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Indra Lal Roy
Indra Lal ("Laddie") Roy (), DFC (2 December 1898 – 22 July 1918) was an Indian flying ace. He served in the First World War with the Royal Flying Corps and its successor, the Royal Air Force. He claimed 5 aircraft destroyed (including 1 shared), and 5 'down out of control' wins (including another shared) in just over 170 hours flying time.
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Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (; 14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. His influential body of work dealt with bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential film directors of all time. However, despite critical acclaim, his films rarely earned large grosses or gained wide audiences, perhaps because their dialogues were spoken for the most part in Swedish and the films were shown in most places with subtitles in a format many audiences found difficult to follow. Similarly, Bergman's films were almost always about families, relationships, and the eternal verities; very little "action" ever took place over the course of his films. Yet Bergman explored the landscape of human emotions as no director had ever dared attempt.
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Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg (25 November 1890 – 1 April 1918) was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War.
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Ivan Cankar
Ivan Cankar () (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the Slovene language, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.
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Jack Coe
Jack Coe (March 11, 1918 – December 17, 1956) was one of the first faith healers with a touring tent ministry after the Second World War in the United States. Coe was ordained in the Assemblies of God in 1944, and began to preach while still serving in World War II. In the following twelve years, travelled the U.S. organizing tent revivals to spread his message. Coe was hospitalized and died from bulbar polio in December 1956.
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Jack Paar
Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American radio and television comedian and talk show host, best known for his stint as host of The Tonight Show.
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James Garfield
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James McCudden
James Thomas Byford McCudden VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM (28 March 1895–9 July 1918) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. McCudden was the most highly decorated British Empire pilot of the First World War and one of the longest serving, having joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1913. McCudden's story is all the more remarkable as he rose though the RFC ranks (from Air Mechanic to Major) during the war to become one of the most decorated soldiers of the conflict. At his death he had amassed 57 victories, making him the seventh highest scoring ace of World War I.
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James Tobin
James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who, in his lifetime, served on the Council of Economic Advisors and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention to stabilize output and avoid recessions. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy and financial markets. He also proposed an econometric model for censored endogenous variables, the well known "Tobit model". Tobin received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1981.
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Jane Frank
Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank) the American artist, was born Jane Babette Schenthal on July 25, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Baltimore on May 31, 1986. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist. Her landscape-like, mixed-media abstract paintings are included in some important public collections, including those of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Jarl Wahlström
Jarl Holger Wahlström (July 9, 1918 - December 3, 1999) was the 12th General of The Salvation Army (1981–1986).
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Jean Brillant
Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant, VC, MC (1890 – 1918) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Jelle Zijlstra
Jelle Zijlstra (; August 27, 1918 – December 23, 2001) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti Revolutionary Party (ARP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from November 22, 1966 until April 5, 1967. A successful economist he later served as president of De Nederlandsche Bank from May 1, 1967 until January 1, 1982. He was widely respected for his expertise and integrity.
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Jens Christian Skou
Jens Christian Skou (; born October 8, 1918) is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate.
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Jerome Beatty, Jr.
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Jerome Karle
Jerome Karle, born Jerome Karfunkel (born June 18, 1918) is an American Jewish physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.
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Joao Figueiredo
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Johannes Pääsuke
Johannes Pääsuke (30 March 1892 in Tartu, Estonia – 8 January 1918 in Orsha, Belarus) was an Estonian photographer and filmmaker.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John Forsythe
John Forsythe (born Jacob Lincoln Freund; January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010) was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father (1957–1962); as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the 1970s crime drama ''Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), and as patriarch Blake Carrington on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty (1981–1989). He hosted World of Survival'' (1971–1977).
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John H. Johnson
John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was an American businessman and publisher. He was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, and in 1982, the first African-American to appear on the Forbes 400.
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John Hospers
John Hospers (born 9 June 1918) is an American philosopher. He was the first presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party, running in the 1972 presidential election.
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John L. Rice
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John L. Sullivan
John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918), also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was recognized as the first heavyweight champion of gloved boxing from February 7, 1881 to 1892, and is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring rules. He was the first American sports hero to become a national celebrity and the first American athlete to earn over one million dollars.
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John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".
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Johnny Klein
John A. Klein, Jr. (June 4, 1918 – January 31, 1997) was an American-born musician who played drums for the Lawrence Welk orchestra from 1951 to 1976 and on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1976. He was also Welk's second cousin.
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Joseph Payne Brennan
Joseph Payne Brennan (December 20, 1918 – January 28, 1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Brennan's first professional sale came in December 1940 with the publication of the poem, "When Snow Is Hung", which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor Home Forum, and he continued writing poetry up until the time of his death.
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José Greco
José Greco (December 23, 1918 – December 31, 2000) was a flamenco dancer and choreographer.
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Joséphin Péladan
Joséphin Péladan (28 March 1858, Lyon – 1918) was a French novelist and Martinist. His father was a journalist who had written on prophecies, and professed a philosophic-occult Catholicism.
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Joyce Kilmer
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a short poem entitled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. While most of his works are unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. Several critics, both Kilmer's contemporaries and modern scholars, disparaged Kilmer's work as being too simple, overly sentimental, and suggested that his style was far too traditional, even archaic.
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João Goulart
João Belchior Marques Goulart (March 1, 1919 — December 6, 1976) was a Brazilian politician and the 24th President of Brazil until a military coup d'état deposed him on April 1, 1964. He is considered to have been the last left-wing President of the country until Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in 2003.
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Juan García Esquivel
Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002) often simply known as Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films. He is recognized today as one of the foremost exponents of a sophisticated style of largely instrumental music that combines elements of lounge music and jazz with Latin flavors. Esquivel is sometimes called "The King of Space Age Pop" and "The Busby Berkley of Cocktail Music." Esquivel is considered one of the foremost exponents of a style of late 1950s-early 1960s quirky instrumental pop that became known (in retrospect) as "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music".
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Julian Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order.
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Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (, 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was Chief of State (1918–22), "First Marshal" (from 1920) and (1926–35) the authoritarian leader of the Second Polish Republic. From mid-World War I he had a major influence in Poland's politics, and was an important figure on the European political scene. He is considered largely responsible for Poland's regaining its independence in 1918, after 123 years of partitions. Piłsudski successfully annexed Vilnius from Lithuania following Żeligowski's Mutiny but was unable to incorporate most of his Lithuanian homeland into the newly resurrected Polish State.
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Jørn Utzon
Jørn Oberg Utzon, AC (9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) was a Danish architect most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When the Sydney Opera House was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, he became only the second person to have his work recognised as a World Heritage Site while he was still alive.
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Jüri Vilms
Jüri Vilms (, Kabala, now in Türi Parish, Järva County, Estonia - May 2, 1918, Hauho near Hämeenlinna, Finland) was a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee and the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia. Empowered by Maapäev the Salvation Committee issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence on February 24, 1918 in the middle of a political power vacuum created by the retreating Russian and advancing German troops during World War I. The German forces taking over the country didn't recognize the independence of Estonia. The Salvation Committee went underground, Jüri Vilms volunteered to go to Finland to take funds and instructions to the Estonian missions working to get diplomatic recognition for the newly sovereign nation. According to official version, he was captured on reaching the Finnish coast and executed by German troops in Helsinki. Estonia gained its independence after the German troops were withdrawn from Estonia due to the German Revolution and following Estonian War of Independence ended with Peace Treaty of Tartu.
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Kai Siegbahn
Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (20 April 1918 – 20 July 2007) was a Swedish physicist.
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Karl Ferdinand Braun
Karl Ferdinand Braun (6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of the radio and TV technology: he shared with Guglielmo Marconi the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Karl Muck
Karl Muck (October 22, 1859 – March 3, 1940) was a German-born conductor of classical music. He based his activities principally in Europe and mostly in opera. His American career comprised two stints at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He endured a public outcry in 1917 that questioned whether his loyalties lay with Germany or the United States during World War I. Though he was a Swiss citizen, he was arrested and interned in a camp in Georgia from March 1918 until August 1919. His later career included notable engagements in Hamburg and at the Bayreuth Festival.
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Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui (福井 謙一 ''Fukui Ken'ichi'', October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist.
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Kurt Eisner
Kurt Eisner (14 May 1867 in Berlin – 21 February 1919 in Munich) was a Bavarian politician and journalist. As a German socialist journalist and statesman, he organized the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918.
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Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim (; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992. While running for President in Austria in 1985, his service as an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II raised international controversy.
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Károly Doncsecz
Károly Doncsecz () was a Slovene potter in Hungary and in 1984 he received the award Master of folk art for his work. Doncsecz was born in Orfalu, (Vas country).
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (, ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He was probably best known to the public as the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, for conducting concerts by many of the world's leading orchestras, and for writing the music for West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town, and On the Town. Bernstein was the first classical music conductor to make numerous television appearances between 1954 and 1989. He had a formidable piano technique and as a composer also wrote symphonies and other concert music. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
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Leonard Rose
Leonard Rose (July 27, 1918 – November 16, 1984) was an American cellist and pedagogue.
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Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser (; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
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Lucretia Garfield
Lucretia Rudolph-Garfield (April 19, 1832 – March 14, 1918), wife of James A. Garfield, was First Lady of the United States in 1881.
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Madeleine L'Engle
'''Madeleine L'Engle' (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time''. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science.
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Mammy Lou
Mammy Lou (born c. 1804 - died after 1918) was apparently the oldest person to appear in a film. In 1918, she appeared in the silent film The Glorious Adventure, playing the part of The Mansion's Servant, the mansion being the [http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/smartfun/hermitage/house/manor.html Hermitage Plantation] in Savannah, Georgia. Mammy Lou was a slave in Savannah, Georgia until Lincoln abolished slavery.
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Marjorie Lord
Marjorie Lord (born Marjorie F. Wollenberg; July 26, 1918) is an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" Williams opposite Danny Thomas on Make Room for Daddy and later Make Room for Granddaddy.
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Markey Robinson
Markey Robinson (, in Belfast, Northern Ireland – , Belfast) was a prolific Irish artist with a distinctive naïve expressionist style. His main passion was painting, but he also produced sculptures, and designed some stained glass panels.
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Martin Ryle
Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 – 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 Ryle and Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths, although it is claimed that Joseph Pawsey from the University of Sydney had actually made interferometric measurements earlier in the same year. With improved equipment, Ryle observed the most distant known galaxies in the universe at that time. He was the first Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, and founding director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. He was Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982.
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Martin Sheridan
Martin John Sheridan (March 28, 1881 – March 27, 1918) was "one of the greatest athletes this country has ever known" according to his obituary in the New York Times. He was born in Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland and died in St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, New York, the day before his 37th birthday, a very early casualty of the 1918 flu pandemic. He's buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York. He was part of a group of Irish-American athletes known as the "Irish Whales."
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Mary Glen-Haig
Dame Mary Alison Glen-Haig DBE (born July 12, 1918) is a British fencer who competed in four Olympic games in 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960. She was born in London, the daughter of William James, a fencer at the 1908 London Olympics. She began competing professionally in 1937 and continued until 1960, during which time she won two gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and competed in four Olympics in the women's individual foil events. She was the first female member of the International Olympic Committee and was knighted in 1993. Since London's successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics in 2005, she has been active as the host nation's ambassador to the games.
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Max Planck
Max Planck (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947) was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the quantum theory, and thus one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
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Mehmed V
Mehmed V Reshad (Ottoman Turkish: محمد خامس Meḥmed-i ẖâmis, or ) (2/3 November 1844 – 3/4 July 1918) was the 35th Ottoman Sultan. He was the son of Sultan Abdülmecid I. His Mother was Valide Sultan Gülcemal, (Caucasus, 1826 - Constantinople, Ortaköy, Ortaköy Palace, 16 November 1851), originally named Sofiya, an Albanian.
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Mehmed VI
Mehmed VI Wahid ed-din (Ottoman Turkish: محمد سادس Meḥmed-i sâdis, or ) (14 January/2 February 1861 – 15/16 May 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1918 to 1922. The brother of Mehmed V, he succeeded to the throne as the eldest male member of the House of Osman after the 1916 suicide of Abdülaziz's son Yusuf Izzettin Efendi, the heir to the throne. He was girded with the Sword of Osman on July 4, 1918, as the thirty-sixth padishah. His father was sultan Abdülmecid I and mother was Gülüstü, (1831 - May 1861), originally named Henriet, a Circassian.
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Mel Gibson
Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.
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Mercedes McCambridge
Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress."
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Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was a U.S. author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. In 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time best-selling fiction titles in the U.S.
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Mihkel Mathiesen
Mihkel Mathiesen (27 October 1918 – 28 November 2003) was an Estonian statesman.
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Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Spark, DBE (1 February 1918 in Edinburgh – 13 April 2006 in Florence) was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark to its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Myrtle Gonzalez
Myrtle Gonzalez (September 28, 1891 – October 22, 1918) was an American actress. She starred in at least 78 silent era motion pictures from 1913 to 1917, of which 66 were one and two-reel shorts. She is regarded as Hollywood's first Latin and Hispanic movie star actress.
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Nel Benschop
Nelly Anna "Nel" Benschop (16 January 1918 – 31 January 2005) was a Dutch poetess. She was the best selling poet in the Netherlands.
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Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Nevin Stewart Scrimshaw (born January 20, 1918) is a food scientist and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scrimshaw was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His revolutionary accomplishments over six decades in fighting protein, iodine, and iron deficiencies, developing nutritional supplements, educating generations of experts, and building support for continued advances in food quality have made substantial improvements in the lives of millions throughout the world. For this work he won the 1991 World Food Prize. He also won the Bolton S. Corson Medal in 1976.
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Nicolae Ceauşescu
Nicolae Ceauşescu (; 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician and dictator who was the Secretary General of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, President of the Council of State from 1967, and President of Romania from 1974 to 1989.
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Nipsey Russell
Julius "Nipsey" Russell (October 13, 1924 – October 2, 2005) was an American comedian, best known today for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth and Pyramid. His appearances were distinguished in part by the short, humorous poems he would recite during the broadcast. These lyrics became so closely associated with Russell that Dick Clark, Bill Cullen, Betty White, and others regularly referred to him as "the poet laureate of television." He also had a leading role in the film version of The Wiz. Russell was also a frequent guest on Dean Martin's Celebrity Roasts.
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Olavo Bilac
Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac (December 16, 1865 — December 28, 1918) was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad". Elected the "Prince of Brazilian Poets" in 1907 by the magazine Fon-Fon, he is famous for writing the lyrics of the Brazilian Flag Anthem.
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Oral Roberts
Granville Oral Roberts (January 24, 1918 – December 15, 2009) was an American Pentecostal televangelist and a Christian charismatic. He founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University.
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Orville L. Freeman
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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (; born September 9, 1918), Italian politician and magistrate, was the ninth President of the Italian Republic from 1992 to 1999, and is currently a senator for life. Formerly a member of Christian Democracy, he currently belongs to the centre-left Democratic party.
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Otis R. Bowen
Otis Ray Bowen, M.D. (born February 26, 1918) is a retired U.S. politician and physician. He served as the 44th Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1985 to 1989.
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Ottoman Empire
The Sublime Ottoman State (Ottoman Turkish, Persian: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye, Modern Turkish: Yüce Osmanlı Devleti or Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) was an empire that lasted from 1299 to 1923.
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Paul D. Boyer
Paul Delos Boyer (born July 31, 1918) is an American biochemist and analytical chemist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (ATP synthase) with John E. Walker; the remainder of the Prize in that year was awarded to Danish chemist Jens Christian Skou for his discovery of the Na+/K+-ATPase.
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Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009), better known as Paul Harvey, was an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. His listening audience was estimated, at its peak, at 24 million people a week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations and 300 newspapers. His broadcasts and newspaper columns have been reprinted in the Congressional Record more than those of any other commentator.
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Pauline Phillips
Pauline Phillips (born July 4, 1918) is a American advice columnist and radio show host who began the "Dear Abby" column in 1956. Married to Morton Phillips, the couple has two children, a son, Edward Jay Phillips, and a daughter, Jeanne Phillips.
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Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
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Peter Hobbs (actor)
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Peter Lumsden
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Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.
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Quentin Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt (November 19, 1897 – July 14, 1918) was the youngest and favorite son of President Theodore Roosevelt. Family and friends agreed that Quentin had many of his father's positive qualities and few of the negative ones. Encouraged by his father, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a fighter pilot during World War I. Extremely popular with his fellow pilots and known for being daring, he was killed in aerial combat over France.
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Raimon Panikkar
Raimon Panikkar (November 3, 1918 – August 26, 2010) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and proponent of inter-religious dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative religion.
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Raoul Lufbery
Gervais Raoul Lufbery (March 14, 1885 – May 19, 1918) was a
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Richard D. Winters
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Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (, May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world.
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Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American film actress and dancer who attained fame during the 1940s not only as one of the era's top stars, but also as a great sex symbol, most notably in Gilda (1946). She appeared in 61 films over 37 years and is listed as one of the American Film Institute's Greatest Stars of All Time.
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Robbie Ross
Robert Baldwin "Robbie" Ross (May 25, 1869 – October 5, 1918) was a Canadian journalist and art critic. He is best known as the executor of the estate of Oscar Wilde, with whom he had been a lifelong friend. He was also responsible for bringing together several great literary figures, such as Siegfried Sassoon and acting as their mentor. His open homosexuality in a time when homosexual acts were illegal brought him many hardships.
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Robert S. Strauss
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Roderic Dallas
Roderic Stanley (Stan) Dallas DSO, DSC & Bar (30 July 1891 – 1 June 1918) was an Australian fighter ace of World War I. His score of aerial victories is generally regarded as the second-highest by an Australian, after Robert Little; however there is considerable dispute over Dallas's exact total. While his official score is commonly given as 39, claim-by-claim analyses list as few as 32, and other research credits him with over 50, compared to Little's official tally of 47. Like Little, Dallas flew with British units, rather than the nascent Australian Flying Corps. Beyond his personal triumphs in combat, Dallas achieved success as a squadron leader, both in the air and on the ground. He was also an influential tactician and test pilot who trialled the latest British aeroplanes and flying equipment. His service spanned almost the entirety of World War I fighter aviation.
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Roger Delgado
Roger Delgado (1 March 1918 – 18 June 1973) was an English actor, best known for his role as the first Master in Doctor Who.
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Rosemary Kennedy
Rose Marie "Rosemary" Kennedy (September 13, 1918 – January 7, 2005) was the third child and first daughter of Rose Elizabeth Kennedy née Fitzgerald and Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr., born less than two years after her brother, future U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She underwent a lobotomy at age 23, which left her permanently incapacitated.
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Rudolf Tobias
Rudolf Tobias (29 May 1873 Käina Parish, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 29 October 1918 Berlin) was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among others piano works, string quartets and an oratorio, Des Jona Sendung (Jonah's Mission) (1908, revised and premiered 1909, later reconstructed by Vardo Rumessen).
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Ruggiero Ricci
Ruggiero Ricci (born July 24, 1918) is an Italian-American violin virtuoso who has become famous in particular for his performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. He was born in San Bruno, California. Ricci's brother was cellist George Ricci (1923-2010).
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Russell B. Long
Russell Billiu Long (November 3, 1918 – May 9, 2003) was an American Democratic politician and Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987.
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Sai Baba of Shirdi
Sai Baba of Shirdi (September 28 1838 – October 15, 1918), also known as Shirdi Sai Baba (), was an Indian guru, yogi and fakir who is regarded by his Hindu and Muslim devotees as a saint. Some Hindu followers have recently claimed that he was an incarnation of Shiva or Dattatreya, which has helped them to accommodate him in traditional Hindu worship. Many devotees believe that he was a Sadguru. There are many stories and eyewitness accounts of miracles he performed. He is a well-known figure in many parts of the world, but especially in India, where he is much revered.
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Said Mohamed Djohar
Said Mohammed Djohar (22 August 1918 – 23 February 2006) was a Comorian politician who served as President of the Comoros during the early and mid-90's.
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Sam Walton
Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was a businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.
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Shinobu Hashimoto
Shinobu Hashimoto (, Hashimoto Shinobu) (born April 18, 1918) is a Japanese screenwriter, director, producer, and was a frequent collaborator with Akira Kurosawa.
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Shirley Jameson
Shirley Jameson (March 29, 1918 - December 29, 1993) was a female center fielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 4' 10¾" (1.49 m), 104 lb. (47 k), Jameson batted right-handed and threw left-handed. She was born in Maywood, Illinois.
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Shlomo Goren
Shlomo Goren (Hebrew: שלמה גורן) (born 3 February 1917, died 29 October 1994), was an Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel who founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983.
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Shlomo Lorincz
Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz (, born 5 March 1918, died 19 October 2009) was a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael from 1951 until 1984, and a close confident of many gedolim.
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Sidney Gottlieb
Sidney Gottlieb (August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist probably best-known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's mind control program MKULTRA.
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Sidónio Pais
Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais (; Caminha, Caminha, 1 May 1872–Lisbon, 14 December 1918) was a Portuguese politician and diplomat, the fourth President in 1918. He was known as the President-King.
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Skitch Henderson
Lyle Russell Cedric “Skitch” Henderson (January 27, 1918November 1, 2005) was a pianist, conductor, and composer. His nickname ("Skitch") reportedly derived from his ability to quickly "re-sketch" a song in a different key.
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Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor; the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles.
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Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew (, Spiros Theódoros Agkniou) (; November 9, 1918September 17, 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland. He was also the first Greek American to hold these offices.
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T. P. Cameron Wilson
Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson (April 25, 1888 - March 23, 1918), was an English poet and novelist of World War I, best known for his poem Magpies in Picardy.
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Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
Tāufaāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, KStJ (4 July 1918 – 10 September 2006) son of Queen Sālote Tupou III and her consort Prince Viliami Tungī Mailefihi, was the king of Tonga from the death of his mother in 1965 until his own death in 2006. He was married to Queen Halaevalu Mataaho Ahomee, born in 1926, and the couple had four children:
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Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball. He played 21 seasons with the Boston Red Sox, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot. Nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame, and The Thumper, he is widely considered one of the greatest hitters ever.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) His last name is, according to Roosevelt himself, "pronounced as if it was spelled 'Rosavelt.' That is in three syllables. The first syllable as if it was 'Rose.'" ; An [http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/record.cfm?recordid=509 Audio recording] in which Roosevelt pronounces his own last name distinctly. To listen at the correct speed, slow the recording down by 20%. Retrieved on July 12, 2007. ) was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President (1901–1909) he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
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Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (26 February 1918 — 8 May 1985) was an American science fiction author.
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Tomáš Masaryk
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True Boardman
True Boardman (21 April 1882 – 28 September 1918) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 137 films between 1911 and 1919.
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Vernon Castle
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Vito Scotti
Vito Scotti (January 26, 1918 – June 5, 1996) was a veteran character actor who played many roles, primarily from the late-1940s to the mid-1990s. He was known as a man of a thousand faces, for his ability to assume so many divergent roles in more than 200 screen roles, in a nearly 50 year career. He was known for his resourceful portrayals of various ethnic types. Born of Italian heritage, he was seen playing everything from a Mexican bandit and Russian doctor, to a Japanese sailor.
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Vladmir Lenin
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Wallace Lloyd Algie
Wallace Lloyd Algie, VC (1891 – 1918) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Wilf Mannion
Wilfred ("Wilf") James Mannion (16 May 1918 - 14 April 2000) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward, making over 350 senior appearances for Middlesbrough. He also played international football for England. With his blond hair, he was nickamed "The Golden Boy".
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Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was a British poet and soldier in the first world war, and one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works—most of which were published posthumously—include "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "" and "". His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially "War, and the pity of War", and "the Poetry is in the pity".
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William Jay Smith
William Jay Smith (born 22 April 1918) is an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.
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William McIntyre
William Rogers McIntyre, CC (March 15, 1918 – June 14, 2009) was a Canadian Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Willy Breinholst
Willy Breinholst (27 June 1918 – 19 September 2009) was a Danish author, screenwriter, and humorist born in Fredensborg, Denmark.
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leader of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.
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World War I
World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
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Émile Reynaud
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Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia (, , , Ottoman ) is a city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania with a population of 66,747, located on the Mureş River. The city is since the High Middle Ages seat of the Transylvanian Catholic Bisophric. Between 1541 and 1690 it was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania. Alba Iulia is historically important for Romanians, Hungarians and Transylvanian Saxons.
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Argonne Forest
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Armenia
Armenia (, transliterated : Hayastan, ), officially the Republic of Armenia (, Hayastani Hanrapetut’yun, ), is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south.
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Australian
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan ( ; ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (), is one of the six independent Turkic states in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south.
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Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria (, ; ; ), is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of the country. With an area of , it is by far the largest German state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany. Bavaria is Germany's second most populous state (after North Rhine Westphalia) with almost 12.5 million inhabitants, more than any of the three sovereign states on its borders. Bavaria's capital is Munich.
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Belarus
Belarus, ( ; , ), officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno (Hrodna), Gomel (Homiel), Mogilev (Mahilyow) and Vitebsk (Viciebsk). Forty percent of its is forested, and its strongest economic sectors are agriculture and manufacturing.
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Benin
Benin (), officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located. The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo, but the seat of government is located in the country's largest city of Cotonou. Benin covers an area of approximately 110,000 square kilometers (42,000 sq mi), with a population of approximately 8.8 million. Benin is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation, highly dependent on agriculture, with substantial employment and income arising from subsistence farming.
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Bessarabia
:For other uses, see Bessarabia (disambiguation).
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with approximately 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area.
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Brussels
Brussels (, pronounced ; , pronounced ), officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region (, Dutch: ), is the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU) and the largest urban area in Belgium. It comprises 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels proper, which is the constitutional capital of Belgium, the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Cheka
The Cheka (ЧК - чрезвыча́йная коми́ссия Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya, Extraordinary Commission ) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations. It was created by a decree issued on December 20, 1917, by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by aristocrat turned communist Felix Dzerzhinsky. After 1922, the Cheka underwent a series of reorganizations into bodies whose members continued to be referred to as "Chekisty" (Chekists) into the late 1980s.
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Chillicothe, Ohio
Chillicothe ( CHILL-uh-KAW-thee) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Ross County.
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Cloquet, Minnesota
Cloquet () is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, located at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. A portion of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and also serves as one of three administrative centers for the Indian Reservation. The population was 11,201 at the 2000 census.
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Codell, Kansas
Codell is an unincorporated community in Township 12, Rooks County, Kansas, United States. It lies in the middle of the township, south of the city of Stockton (the county seat of Rooks County) and near the southeastern corner of Rooks County. The community lies along the banks of Paradise Creek and an abandoned railroad line. The nearest city, Plainville, lies approximately away to the northwest by road; the community is connected via 24 Road to a state highway, K-18, which lies approximately to the north.
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Compiègne Forest
The Compiègne Forest is a forest in the historic region of Picardie, France, near the town of Compiègne. The area of the forest is .
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Constantinople
Constantinople (, , Turkish: Istanbul) was the imperial capital of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire, the Latin Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.
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Cornell University
Cornell University (, {{respell|kor-) is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It is a private land-grant university which receives funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions.
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. From 1939 to 1945 the state did not have de facto existence, due to its forced division and partial incorporation into Nazi Germany, but the Czechoslovak government-in-exile nevertheless continued to exist during this period. In 1945 the eastern part of Carpathian Ruthenia was taken over by the Soviet Union. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom (what is now called) Cape Henlopen was originally named.
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Don River, Russia
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Finland
Finland (pronounced ), officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden on the west, Norway on the north and Russia on the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.
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France
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Georgia (country)
Georgia (, sak’art’velo ; ) is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 km² and its population is more than 4.6 million. Georgia's constitution is that of a representative democracy, organized as a unitary, semi-presidential republic. It is currently a member of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization, the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Community of Democratic Choice, the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, and the Asian Development Bank. The country aspires to join NATO and the European Union.
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden () was a historical state in the southwest of Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918.
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Honshu
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Hungary
Hungary ( ), officially the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság ), is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Visegrád Group, and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe, being part of the Finno-Ugric family.
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Iceland
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Ipatiev House
Ipatiev House (Russian: Дом Ипатьева) was a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his family and members of his household were executed following the Bolshevik Revolution. Coincidentally, its name is identical with that of the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, from where the Romanovs came to the throne.
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Ireland
Ireland (,; , ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland is Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people. Just under 4.5 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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Israel
Israel (, ''Yisrā'el; , Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , Medīnat Yisrā'el; , Dawlat Isrā'īl''), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Japan
Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
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Juneau, Alaska
The City and Borough of Juneau () is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-Alaska Territory was moved from Sitka. The municipality unified in 1970 when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding borough to form the current home rule municipality.
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Kingdom of Hungary
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Civil War 1918 1/4
When Finland was declared independent on December 6th 1917, it already had a senate and the infrastructure of an independent country. The one thing it lacked was an army. The only military presens on Finnish soil were the Russian troops that the last czar had put there in case of an uprising in Finland. The radical elements of the workers movement seized the moment and formed their own army, the Red Guards. The conservatives on the other hand formed the White Guards. The nationalist movement also had the Jaeger troops (Jääkärit), young men who had been training in Germany for 3 years, ready to form the core of a future Finnish army. Part 1 of 4 videos with old pictures and interviews, both with experts and with people who lived at the time and experience those events firsthand. This is a shortened and somewhat re-edited version of a documentary by YLE2.
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Tarzan of the Apes First ever film 1918 Gordon Griffith
The very first Tarzan movie shot in 1918. Some scenes Of Tarzan of the Apes staring The child actor Gordon Griffith as the boy Tarzan. aged 10. These are a few clips cut short to fit the 10 minute limit. Its a very pixilated copy of a historically important silent film. The whole movie is now public domain and can be found in many Internet movie sites. A full clear version can be easily downloaded. This was the movie that brought Tarzan to the masses and set the ball rolling. Only those that had read the book knew of the ape man prior to this film. Even today every one knows of Tarzan but how many have read the book? Gordon Griffith (1907-1958) was big in his day and had been acting in short films for children. Griffith was already an experienced actor when, at age seven, he got his first acting role as a regular character in the Little Billy serials. Mack Sennett of Keystone Studios cast Griffith in many of his slapstick features, where he eventually earned supporting roles in Charlie Chaplin films, including Tillie's Punctured Romance. His big break came with the role of young Tarzan, in the 1918 film Tarzan of the Apes. He was required to do his own stunts, such as climbing trees, swinging from vines, and interacting closely with a chimpanzee. Griffith also has several nude scenes in the first half of the film, making him one of the first pre-teens to appear on screen naked. Griffith appears before the actor portraying the adult Tarzan—Elmo Lincoln—making him the first <b>...</b>
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Raja 1918 - Teaser Trailer
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- Duration: 1:28
- Published: 03 Aug 2007
- Uploaded: 14 Jan 2012
- Author: Border1918
Finnish premiere 30.11.2007
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20th Century Battlefields: Ep 1 "1918 Western Front" (2/6)
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- Duration: 10:05
- Published: 08 Sep 2009
- Uploaded: 18 Jan 2012
- Author: TheNemeziss200
Dan and Peter Snow visit the scenes of some of the 20th century's greatest battles. Combining state-of-the-art computer graphics and real-life experience of what it must have been like to fight, they uncover the story behind these world-defining conflicts. Episode 1: 1918 Western Front Peter and Dan travel to the Western Front in France to investigate the battle that gave Britain and its allies decisive victory in World War One - Amiens.
http://wn.com/20th_Century_Battlefields_Ep_1_1918_Western_Front_2/6
Ghost of Slumber Mountain, 1918 (part 2 of 2)
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- Duration: 8:55
- Published: 16 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 15 Jan 2012
- Author: willisobrien
In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters. en.wikipedia.org
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Hospitals "Full-Up": The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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- Duration: 8:23
- Published: 09 Nov 2006
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- Author: upmcbiosecurity
A documentary comparing the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic with modern-day health capabilities, in the event of an act of bioterrorism or any large-scale infectious disease outbreak.
http://wn.com/Hospitals_Full-Up_The_1918_Influenza_Pandemic
Klimt 1918 - Ghost of a Tape Listener
Videoclip to "Gost of a Tape Listener" from the album "Just in case we'll never meet again".
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Marion Harris - After You've Gone (1918)
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- Published: 10 Jul 2008
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- Author: edmundusrex
Marion Harris (1896 - April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer around 1920. She was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs. Born Mary Ellen Harrison, probably in Indiana, she first played vaudeville and movie theatres in Chicago around 1914. She was spotted by dancer Vernon Castle, who enabled her entrance into the New York theatre scene where she debuted in a 1915 Irving Berlin revue titled Stop! Look! Listen!. In 1916 she began recording for Victor Records, singing a variety of songs such as "Everybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy", "After You've Gone", "When I Hear that Jazz Band Play", her biggest success "I Ain't Got Nobody", and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", later recorded by Bessie Smith. In 1920, after the Victor label would not allow her to record WC Handy's "St. Louis Blues", she joined Columbia Records where she recorded the song successfully. Sometimes billed as "The Queen of the Blues", she tended to record blues- or jazz-flavoured tunes throughout her career. Handy wrote of Harris that "she sang blues so well that people hearing her records sometimes thought that the singer was colored". She herself said:"..you usually do best what comes naturally [and] so I just naturally started singing Southern dialect songs and the modern blues songs.." In 1922 she moved to the Brunswick label. She also continued to appear in Broadway theatres throughout the 1920s. She regularly played the Palace Theatre, appeared in <b>...</b>
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Cannibals of the South Seas, 1918
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- Duration: 4:03
- Published: 12 Nov 2008
- Uploaded: 11 Jan 2012
- Author: travelfilmarchive
Customs of the inhabitants of Toman Island(?) in the south seas in the 1920s, probably extracted from Martin Johnson's film Among The Cannibal Islaes of the South Pacific (1918). Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.travelfilmarchive.com
http://wn.com/Cannibals_of_the_South_Seas,_1918
Winsor McCay's Sinking of the Lusitania
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- Duration: 9:47
- Published: 04 Jan 2007
- Uploaded: 17 Jan 2012
- Author: ShakesTheMighty
The sinking of the ship Lusitania as drawn by Winsor McCay
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Pandemic 1918
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 14 Dec 2006
- Uploaded: 11 Jan 2012
- Author: SusieBirds
A short slideshow about the influenza pandemic of 1918 created to use as a lesson opener for middle school and high school history classes. Created with iMoive.
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1918 Gnome rotary engine running
November 7, 2009, finally got the engine running right. It has an ignition selector switch that allows it to run at 1/2 power, 1/4 power, and 1/8 power. This engine will be used in a replica 1918 Nieuport 28.
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918): "La cathédrale engloutie"
The composer Claude Debussy needs little introduction. As a pianist, he was noted for his avoidance of the crisp, dry and articulated style which typified French pianism of the nineteenth century. His style of playing was simple, highly tone-conscious and completely uncluttered by over-expressive angst. This piece is number ten in the first book of Préludes. The recording is a piano roll recording made by Debussy for Welte in 1913 (just three years after the work was composed). The piano rolls for Welte are amongst the most accurate we have, conveying the original performed dynamics, attack and pedalling rather faithfully, and when a good roll is played on a properly conditioned piano, the problems of dubious rhythmic bumpiness which infect many roll playbacks can vanish. This rendition seems as fine as we could hope for. Debussy makes important changes to the music here, doubling the tempo when bars are notated in 3/2 (the prevailing tempo being 6/4).
http://wn.com/Claude_Debussy_1862-1918_La_cathédrale_engloutie
Journal TV - Almanac Newsreels - 1918 armistice, treaty of Versailles, Munich agreement and more
A collection of over 200 historical newsreels. Each newsreel runs approximately 3 minutes and covers the most important events of the first half of the 20th century. --- The Munich Pact (Czech: Mnichovská dohoda; Slovak: Mníchovská dohoda; German: Münchner Abkommen; French: Accords de Munich; Italian: Accordi di Monaco) was an agreement permitting Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Nazi Germany.
http://wn.com/Journal_TV__Almanac_Newsreels__1918_armistice,_treaty_of_Versailles,_Munich_agreement_and_more
20th Century Battlefields: Ep 1 "1918 Western Front" (1/6)
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 08 Sep 2009
- Uploaded: 15 Jan 2012
- Author: TheNemeziss200
Dan and Peter Snow visit the scenes of some of the 20th century's greatest battles. Combining state-of-the-art computer graphics and real-life experience of what it must have been like to fight, they uncover the story behind these world-defining conflicts. Episode 1: 1918 Western Front Peter and Dan travel to the Western Front in France to investigate the battle that gave Britain and its allies decisive victory in World War One - Amiens.
http://wn.com/20th_Century_Battlefields_Ep_1_1918_Western_Front_1/6
Chaplin - How To Make Movies - Part 1/2
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- Duration: 9:39
- Published: 31 Mar 2008
- Uploaded: 17 Jan 2012
- Author: Nordenwald
"How to make movies", by Charlie Chaplin, 1918.
http://wn.com/Chaplin__How_To_Make_Movies__Part_1/2
Gulag - An Archipelago of Memory (1918-1989)
A video made in the memory of those who dared to say 'No', the men and women humiliated, slaughtered and murdered in the communist labor camps and prisons, our fathers, brothers and sons. Images from the Russian and Romanian Gulags.
http://wn.com/Gulag__An_Archipelago_of_Memory_1918-1989
Sampolit Film - In Memory - 1918 Riga 1940
ORDER A HIGH-QUALITY COPY! The first episode will show the viewer the old Latvian Riga. Various pictures and historical video footages showing the everyday life in the old republic of Latvia from her birth till her death caused by the Soviet annexation in 1940.
http://wn.com/Sampolit_Film__In_Memory__1918_Riga_1940
WW1 Combat in Colour 1914-1918
a video showing WW1 warfare in and arround the trenches, rare colour film world war 1
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100 Jahre - Der Countdown 13 - 1918 - Es lebe die Republik!
Grabenkrieg - 1918 - Es lebe die Republik! 9. November 1918: "Schamloser Verrat", tobt Deutschlands Kaiser Wilhelm II. im belgischen Spa. Die Nachricht über das Ende seiner Herrschaft ereilt ihn im deutschen Hauptquartier hinter der Front. "Die Monarchie ist zusammengebrochen. Es lebe die Republik!", ruft der SPD-Abgeordnete Philipp Scheidemann wenig später vom Berliner Reichstag herab. Der Umsturz entstand aus der Niederlage: Im August war das deutsche Heer geschlagen, der Erste Weltkrieg verloren. Es ist der Anfang der deutschen Demokratie - doch ihr stehen schwere Zeiten bevor: Reparationszahlungen an die Sieger, Hyperinflation, aber auch Umsturzversuche von rechts und von links. Wirklich begeistern kann sich kaum jemand für diese erste deutsche Republik: "Weimar" gilt im Rückblick als "Demokratie ohne Demokraten". (Quelle: www.phoenix.de)
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TARZAN OF THE APES (1918) 1/6
Silent classic TARZAN OF THE APES starring Elmo Lincoln.
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1918 WWI Mess kit
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- Duration: 6:09
- Published: 10 Feb 2010
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- Author: wildernessoutfitters
The 1918 WWI Mess Kit, and 1917 Untensils
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A H1N1 virus(swine flu) caused the 1918 pandemic,brought back in a laboratory.
This swine virus is the A H1N1: www.cdc.gov & From the WHO website www.who.int Influenza-like illness in the United States, Mexico 26 April 2009 -- WHO is coordinating the global response to human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) and monitoring the corresponding threat of an influenza pandemic. It's the same one that caused the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918: en.wikipedia.org A virus brought back in a laboratory. Watch this PBS video of 2006, it explains how it was brought back!: www.pbs.org Update read this BBC news Q&A: news.bbc.co.uk
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Long after Jerry and Betty Ford settled into a comfortable retirement out West, the former First Lady was asked why her husband kept smacking his head on helicopter doors and tripping down stairs during their White House years. A motor-skill problem, perhaps? It was odd, after all, because he was a...
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__NOTOC__
Year 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar.
January 8 – Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech.
January 12 – Finland enacts a "Mosaic Confessors" law, granting Finnish Jews civil rights.
January 18 – Constituent Assembly meet in Russia.
January 19 – Russian Constituent Assembly proclaims Russian Democratic Federative Republic, but was dissolved by Bolshevik government on same day.
January 25 – The Ukrainian people declare independence from Bolshevik Russia.
January 27 – The Finnish Civil War begins.
February 5 – The SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the Irish coast, it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
February 14 – Russia switches from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; the date skips from February 1 to February 14.
February 16 – The Council of Lithuania adopts the Act of Independence of Lithuania, declaring Lithuania's independence from the Russian Empire.
February 21 – The last captive Carolina Parakeet (the last breed of parrot native to North America) dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
February 24 – After 7 centuries of foreign rule, Estonia declares its independence from the Russian Empire. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia also declare their independence from the Russian Empire but as the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
March 1 – The German submarine ''U-19'' sinks the HMS ''Calgarian'' off Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland.
March 3 – WWI: Germany, Austria and Bolshevist Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending Russia's involvement in the war.
March 4 – A soldier at Camp Fuston, Kansas falls sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish flu.
March 5 – Soviet Russia moves its national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
March 6 – The Finnish Air Force is founded. The blue swastika is adopted as its symbol as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen, who donated the first plane. Von Rosen had painted the Buddhist symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia.
March 7 – WWI: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia.
March 19 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31).
March 21 – WWI: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
March 23
* The giant German cannon, the so-called Paris Gun, begins to shell Paris from 114 km (75 miles) 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 "catch" two separate bullets – but one of them perforates his lung. He dies the following morning in a hospital.
* The Social Revolutionary Party declares Belarus independent; Bolshevik armies soon crush them.
March 25
* Belarus 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 27 – Bessarabia votes to become part of Romania.
April 1 – The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service are merged to form the Royal Air Force.
April 5 – Sālote succeeds as Queen of Tonga; she will remain on the throne until her death in 1965.
April 21 – Manfred Von Richthofen, "The Red Baron", WWI's most successful fighter pilot, dies in combat at Morlancourt Ridge near the Somme River.
May 1 – German troops enter Don province; they take Rostov May 6.
May 2 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
May 11 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
May 15
* The United States Post Office Department (later renamed the United States Postal Service) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC).
* End of the Finnish Civil War.
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 by a tornado. Coincidentally, all three tornadoes hit on May 20, 1916, 1917, and 1918 respectively.
May 21 – Army Aviation Section separated from Signal Corps and divided into the Division of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production.
May 26 – The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic is abolished. Georgia declares its independence as the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
May 27 – The Third Battle of the Aisne commences.
May 28 – Armenia and Azerbaijan declare their independence as the Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic respectively.
June 1 – WWI: The Battle for Belleau Wood begins.
June 10 – Austro-Hungarian warship is sunk by an Italian powerboat.
June 12 – Grand Duke Michael Romanov is murdered, thereby becoming the first of the Romanovs to be murdered by the Bolsheviks.
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.
July 3 – The Siberian Expedition is launched to extract the Czechoslovak Legion from the Russian Civil War.
July 4 – Mehmed VI (1918–1922) succeeds Mehmed V (Resad) (1909–1918) as Ottoman Emperor.
July 9 – Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101.
July 12 – , The Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship ''Kawachi'' blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan killing at least 621.
July 13 – The National Czechoslovak Committee is established.
July 15 – WWI – Second Battle of the Marne: The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
July 17
* By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by the Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, and retainers are executed at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
WWI: is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland by German submarine U-55; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.
August – The ''Spanish Flu'' (influenza) becomes pandemic; over 30 million people die in the following 6 months (almost twice as many as died during the war).
August 1 – British anti-Bolshevik forces occupy Archangel, Russia.
August 8 – WWI – Battle of Amiens: Canadian and Australian troops, begin a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines. German General Erich Ludendorff later calls this the "black day of the German Army."
August 10 – Russian Revolution: The British commander in Archangel is told to help the White Russians.
August 30
* 20,000 London policemen strike for increased pay and union recognition.
* Russian Revolution: Vladmir Lenin is shot by Fanya Kaplan, but he survives. Moisei Uritsky, the Petrograd head of the Cheka, is assassinated the same day.
September – British armies and their Arab allies roll into Syria.
September 11 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship, their last World Series win until 2004.
September 29 – Bulgaria requests an armistice in WWI.
October – Mammy Lou becomes the oldest person to ever star in a film, at age 114.
October 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany makes Max von Baden German chancellor.
October 3 – King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicates in the wake of the Bulgarian military collapse in WWI. He is succeeded by his son, Boris III.
October 4 – Wilhelm II of Germany forms a new more liberal government to sue for peace.
October 8 – WWI: In the Argonne Forest in France, U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
October 11 – Puerto Rico earthquake: The city of Mayagüez and adjacent towns are nearly destroyed by a 7.5 earthquake and a tsunami.
October 12 – Cloquet Fire: The city of Cloquet, Minnesota and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.
October 18 – The Washington Declaration proclaims the independent Czechoslovak Republic.
October 25 – The steamer ''Princess Sophia'' sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska; 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
October 28
* Czechoslovakia declares its independence from Austria-Hungary.
* A new Polish government is declared in Western Galicia (Central Europe).
October 29 – Wilhelmshaven mutiny of the German High Fleet.
October 30
* The Martin Declaration is published, including Slovakia in the formation of the Czecho-Slovak state.
* The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen is granted independence from the Ottoman Empire by the Armistice of Mudros.
October 31 – The Hungarian government terminates the personal union with Austria, officially dissolving the Austro-Hungarian empire.
November – The Allied fleet enters Constantinople.
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.
* Ruthenia in eastern Czechoslovakia declares a brief independence.
November 3
* WWI: Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies.
* Poland declares its independence from Russia.
* German Revolution: Sailors in the German fleet at Kiel mutiny and throughout northern Germany soldiers and workers begin to establish revolutionary councils on the Russian soviet model.
November 4 – WWI: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
November 6 – A new Polish government is proclaimed in Lublin.
November 7 – King Ludwig of Bavaria flees his country.
November 8 – The German army withdraws its support of the Kaiser.
November 9
* Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands.
* Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be a republic.
* British battleship HMS ''Britannia'' is sunk by German submarine ''U-50'' off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.
November 11
WWI ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies between 5:12 AM and 5:20 AM in Marshal Foch’s railroad car in Compiègne Forest in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
* Poland regains independence after 123 years of partitions. Józef Piłsudski is appointed Commander-in-Chief.
* Emperor Charles I of Austria gives up his absolute power but does not abdicate.
November 12 – Austria becomes a republic.
November 14
* Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
* Józef Piłsudski is appointed head of state of Poland.
November 16
* Hungary declares independence from Austria.
* The Hungarian Democratic Republic is declared.
November 18 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
November 22
* The Spartacist League founds the German Communist Party.
* The Belgian royal family returns to Brussels after the war.
November 26 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring its union with the Kingdom of Serbia.
November 28 – Estonian Freedom War: Bolshevist Russia invades Estonia, beginning the war. A socialist republic is established in Narva the next day.
November 30 – Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the ''Orchestre de la Suisse Romande''.
December 1
* Iceland regains independence, yet remains in personal union with the King of Denmark, who also becomes the King of Iceland until 1944.
* New voting laws in Sweden makes votes no longer dependent on taxable assets, each adult having one vote.
* The Union of Alba Iulia is proclaimed: Following the March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina, Transylvania unites with Romania.
* The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (which later became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
December 4 – President Woodrow Wilson departs by ship to the Paris Peace Conference, becoming the first United States President to travel to any foreign country while holding office.
December 5 – The British light cruiser HMS ''Cassandra'' strikes a mine and sinks in the Gulf of Finland while aiding Estonia against the Bolsheviks, with eleven sailors killed.
December 20 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk returns to the Czechoslovak Republic.
December 27 – Great Poland Uprising: The Poles in Greater Poland (or Grand Duchy of Poznań) rise up against the Germans.
December 28 – Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons. She did not take her seat, along with the other Sinn Féin TDs members.
December 31 – A British-brokered ceasefire ends two weeks of fighting between Armenians and Georgians.
The Grand Duchy of Baden ceases to exist.
The British occupy Palestine.
The Native American Church is formally founded.
The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is founded to promote repeal of prohibition in the U.S.
''United Business Media'' is founded in London (as ''United Newspapers Ltd.'')
January 1 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 2000)
January 8 – Alma Ziegler, American female professional baseball player (d. 2005)
January 10 – Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
January 15
* Gamal Abdal Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (d. 1970)
* Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, former President of Brazil (d. 1999)
January 16
* Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
* Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (d. 1996)
* Allan Ekelund, Swedish film producer (d. 2009)
January 17 – George M. Leader, American politician
January 19
* John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
* Peter Hobbs, American actor (d. 2011)
January 20
* Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
* Nevin S. Scrimshaw, American clinical
January 21
* Richard D. Winters, U.S. Army officer (d. 2011)
* Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
January 22 – Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
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 – Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster (d. 2010)
January 26
* Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
* Philip José Farmer, American writer (d. 2009)
* Vito Scotti, American character actor (d. 1996)
January 27
* Skitch Henderson, English-born musician and bandleader (d. 2005)
* Elmore James, American musician (d. 1963)
January 29 – John Forsythe, American actor (''Dynasty'') (d. 2010)
February 1 – Muriel Spark, Scottish author (d. 2006)
February 2 – Hella Haasse, Dutch writer
February 3
* Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the ''Rat Pack'' (d. 2007)
* Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (d. 1994)
* Helen Stephens, American runner (d. 1994)
February 4 – Ida Lupino, English actress, screenwriter, director/producer (d. 1995)
February 6 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
February 7 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (d. 1999)
February 8 – Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler and novelty singer (''Pencil Neck Geek'') (d. 2003)
February 12 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
February 15 – Allan Arbus, American actor (''M*A*S*H'')
February 16 – Patty Andrews, American singer (''The Andrews Sisters'')
February 17 – William Bronk, American poet (d. 1999)
February 22
* Don Pardo, American TV announcer (''Saturday Night Live'')
* Robert Pershing Wadlow, American tallest man record-holder (d. 1940)
* Charlie Finley, American owner of the Oakland A's 1960–80 (d. 1996)
February 25
* Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
* Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
February 26
* Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
* Otis R. Bowen, American politician
February 28 – Alfred Burke, British actor d. 2011
March 1
* Roger Delgado, British actor (d. 1973)
* João Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
March 3
* 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, former American female tennis player
March 5
* Shlomo Lorincz, member of Israeli Knesset for Agudat Yisrael (d. 2009)
* James Tobin, American economist, Nobel 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 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
March 15 – William McIntyre, Canadian Puisne Justice (d. 2009)
March 16 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
March 17 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
March 18 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
March 20 – Jack Barry, American television game show host and producer (d. 1984)
March 22 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
March 23 – Émile Derlin Zinsou, President of Benin
March 25 – Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995)
March 29
* Pearl Bailey, African-American singer and actress (d. 1990)
* Shirley Jameson, American female baseball player (d. 1993)
* Sam Walton, founder of ''Wal-Mart'' (d. 1992)
March 30 – Joseph Allen Jr., American actor (d. 1962)
April 8 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
April 9 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (d. 2008)
April 16 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
April 17 – William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
April 18
* Clifton Hillegass, American author, founder of ''CliffsNotes'' (d. 2001)
* Gabriel Axel, Danish film director
* Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter
April 20 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
April 22
* Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008)
* William Jay Smith, American poet
April 26 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
April 27 – John L. Rice, American baseball umpire (d. 2011)
May 1 – Jack Paar, American television show host (''The Tonight Show'') (d. 2004)
May 3 – Benjamin C. Thompson, American architect (d. 2002)
May 4 – Kakuei Tanaka, former Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)
May 9
* Mike Wallace, American journalist (''60 Minutes'')
* Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
May 10 – T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician
May 11 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, 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)
* A. C. Lyles, American film producer
May 18 – Claudia Bryar, American actress (d. 2011)
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 and politician (d. 2007)
May 27 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime Minister of Japan
May 30 – Károly Doncsecz, Slovenian potter, ''Master of folk art'' (d. 2002)
June 2 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller
June 4 – Johnny Klein, American drummer (d. 1997)
June 6 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009)
June 8 – Robert Preston, American actor (''The Music Man'') (d. 1987)
June 9 – John Hospers, American philosopher (d. 2011)
June 10 – Patachou, French singer
June 15 – Francois Tombalbaye, former President of Chad (d. 1975)
June 18
* Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
June 27 – Willy Breinholst, Danish humorist and writer (d. 2009)
July 4
* Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)
* Pauline Phillips, American advice columnist, popularly known as Abigail Van Buren
* Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (d. 2006)
July 5 – George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
July 6 – Sebastian Cabot, American actor (''Family Affair'') (d. 1977)
July 9 – Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army General (d. 1999)
July 12 – Mary Glen-Haig, British Olympic fencer
July 13 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
July 14 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (d. 2007)
July 15 – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
July 16 – Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
July 17 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
July 18 – Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
July 24 – Ruggiero Ricci, Italian-born violinist
July 25 – Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
July 26 – Marjorie Lord, American actress
July 27 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
July 29 – Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
July 31
* Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Hank Jones, American pianist (d. 2010)
August 3 – Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999)
August 5 – Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (d. 2004)
August 8 – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and WWII spy (d. 1998)
August 13 – Frederick Sanger, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 22
* Bruria Kaufman, American-born Israeli physicist (d. 2010)
* Said Mohamed Djohar, former President of the Comoros (d. 2006)
August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
August 26 – Hutton Gibson, religion writer and father of actor Mel Gibson
August 27 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1966 until 1967 (d. 2001)
August 30 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
September 3 – Helen Wagner, American actress/soap opera star (d. 2010)
September 4
* Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
* Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter
September 8 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
September 9 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic
September 13 – Rosemary Kennedy, sister of President of the United States John F. Kennedy (d. 2005)
September 15 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
September 17 – Chaim Herzog, 6th President of Israel 1983–93 (d. 1997)
September 21 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007)
September 22 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
September 27 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1984)
September 28
* Angel Labruna, Argentine soccer player and manager (d. 1983)
* Arnold Stang, American comic actor (d. 2009)
October 4 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, 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 laureate
October 9 – E. Howard Hunt, Watergate break-in coordinator (d. 2007)
October 17 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
October 18
* Constantine Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister
* Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter and actor (''Emergency!'') (d. 1999)
October 19
* Louis Althusser, French philosopher (d. 1990)
* Robert S. Strauss, Democratic National Committee Chairman
October 23 – Augusta Dabney, American actress (d. 2008)
October 27
* Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian statesman (d. 2003)
* Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
October 31 – Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)
November 3
* Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
* Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
* Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
* Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
* Dean Riesner, American film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
November 4
* Art Carney, American actor (''The Honeymooners'') (d. 2003)
* Cameron Mitchell, American actor (''The High Chapparal'') (d. 1994)
November 7 – Billy Graham, American evangelist, spiritual adviser to several U.S. Presidents
November 9 – Spiro Agnew, American Vice President (d. 1996)
November 10 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
November 13 – Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)
November 21 – Dorothy Maguire Chapman, American professional baseball player (d. 1981)
November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author (d. 2007)
November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (''The FBI'')
December 8 – Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
December 9 – Jerome Beatty, Jr., author of children's literature (d. 2002)
December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
December 12 – Joe Williams, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
December 15 – Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet/author (d. 1990)
December 21
* Donald Regan, American Treasury Secretary and White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
* Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria and Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2007)
December 23
* José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
* Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
December 25
* Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1981)
* Bertie Mee, English football player and manager (d. 2001)
January 6 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
January 8
* Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer and filmmaker (b. 1892)
* Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
January 9 – Émile Reynaud, French inventor (b. 1844)
January 28 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier, surgeon and poet (b. 1872)
February 2 – John L. Sullivan, American boxer (b. 1858)
February 5 – Leonard Monteagle Barlow, British fighter pilot (b. 1898)
February 6 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
February 10 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
February 15 – Vernon Castle, American dancer (b. 1887)
February 23 – Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
March 9 – Frank Wedekind, German playwright (b. 1864)
March 10 – Jim McCormick, Scottish-born American baseball player (b. 1856)
March 13 – César Cui, Lithuanian composer (b. 1835)
March 14 – Lucretia Garfield, Wife of President James Garfield (b. 1832)
March 23 – T. P. Cameron Wilson, English poet and novelist (b. 1888)
March 25
* Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
* Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army (b. 1888)
March 27
* Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
* Martin Sheridan, Irish athlete (b. 1881)
April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, British war poet (b. 1890)
April 5 – King George Tupou II of Tonga (b. 1874)
April 20 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German phyicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
April 21 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (b. 1892)
April 28 – Gavrilo Princip, Yugoslav assassin (b. 1894)
May 2 – Jüri Vilms, Estonian politician (b. 1889)
May 14 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
May 19 – Raoul Lufbery, Franco-American fighter pilot (b. 1885)
May 30 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1856)
June 1 – Roderic Dallas, Australian fighter pilot (b. 1891)
June 4 – Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President of the U.S. (b. 1852)
June 10 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (b. 1842)
June 12 – Grand Duke Michael Romanov (b. 1878)
June 27 – Joséphin Péladan, French occultist (b. 1858)
July 3 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
July 9 – James McCudden, British fighter pilot (b. 1895)
July 14 – Quentin Roosevelt, Youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, killed in action in WWI (b. 1897)
July 17
* Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)
* Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (b. 1872)
* Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1895)
* Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1897)
* Grand Duchess Mashka Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899)
* Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1901)
* Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (b. 1904)
July 20 – Francis Lupo, American soldier (b. 1895)
July 22 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian fighter pilot (b. 1898)
July 26 – Edward Mannock, British fighter pilot (b. 1887)
July 29 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
July 30 – Joyce Kilmer, American journalist and poet (b. 1886)
July 31 – George McElroy, British fighter pilot (b. 1893)
August 1 – John Riley Banister, American policeman and cowboy (b. 1854)
August 10
* Jean Brillant, Canadian soldier (b. 1890)
* Aleksander Uurits, Estonian painter and graphic artist (b. 1888)
August 12 – Anna Held, French actress (b. 1873)
August 18 – Henry Norwest, Canadian sniper (b. 1884)
September 12 – George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
September 28
* Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
* True Boardman, American actor (b. 1882)
* Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
October 5
* Roland Garros, French fighter pilot (b. 1888)
* Robbie Ross, British writer (b. 1869)
October 9 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French sculptor (b. 1876)
October 11 – Wallace Lloyd Algie, Canadian soldier (b. 1891)
October 15 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and yogi (b. 1838)
October 19 – Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (b. 1891)
October 29 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian composer (b. 1873)
October 31 – Egon Schiele, Austrian artist (b. 1890)
November 2 – Hugh Cairns, Canadian soldier (b. 1896)
November 4
* Wilfred Owen, British poet and soldier (b. 1893)
* Andrew Dickson White, American academic, diplomat, and co-founder of Cornell University (b. 1832)
November 9
* Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
* Albert Ballin, German-Jewish shipping magnate (b. 1857)
* Peter Lumsden, British general in Indian army (b. 1829)
November 11 – George Lawrence Price, Last Commonwealth soldier to die in WWI (b. 1892)
November 19 – Joseph Fielding Smith, American Mormon leader (b. 1838)
December 2 – Edmond Rostand, French writer (b. 1868)
December 11 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876)
December 14 – Sidónio Pais, 4th President of Portugal (b. 1872)
December 28 – Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)
Physics – Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Chemistry – Fritz Haber
Medicine – not awarded
Literature – not awarded
Peace – not awarded
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Gordon S. Griffith (July 4, 1907, Chicago – October 12, 1958) was an American assistant director, film producer, and one of the first child actors in the American movie industry. Griffith worked in the film industry for five decades, acting in over 60 films, and surviving the transition from silent films to talkies—films with sound. During his acting career, he worked with Charlie Chaplin, and was the first actor to portray both Tom Sawyer and Tarzan on film.
''Little Billy's Triumph'' (1914)
''Little Billy's Strategy'' (1914)
''Little Billy's City Cousin'' (1914)
''Chicken Chaser'' (1914)
''Those Country Kids'' (1914)
''Tillie's Punctured Romance'' (1914)
''Kid Auto Races at Venice'' (1914)
''Little Sunset'' (1915)
''Billy's Cupidity'' (1915)
''If My Country Should Call'' (1916)
''Tarzan of the Apes'' (1918)
''The Romance of Tarzan'' (1918)
''Cupid Forecloses'' (1919)
''The Son of Tarzan'' (1920)
''Huckleberry Finn'' (1920)
''The Adventures of Tarzan'' (1921)
''Penrod'' (1922)
''The Village Blacksmith'' (1922)
''Little Annie Rooney'' (1925)
''The Cat's Pajamas'' (1926)
''Bars of Hate'' (1935)
''Gun Play'' (1935)
''Blazing Justice'' (1936)
''Outlaws of the Range'' (1936)
Picture of Gordon Griffith without heavy makeup in the Young Hollywood Hall of Fame
Film actor
Griffith was born on July 4, 1907 in Chicago, Illinois to actors Harry Sutherland Griffith and Katherine Kiemar Griffith. He had two siblings, an older sister Gertrude, and a younger brother Graham—also an actor. Griffith was already an experienced actor when, at age seven, he got his first acting role as a regular character in the Little Billy series of films. Mack Sennett of Keystone Studios cast Griffith in many of his slapstick features, where he eventually earned supporting roles in Charlie Chaplin films, including ''Tillie's Punctured Romance''.His big break came with the role of young Tarzan, in the 1918 film ''Tarzan of the Apes''. He was required to do his own stunts, such as climbing trees, swinging from vines, and interacting closely with a chimpanzee. Griffith also has several nude scenes in the first half of the film. Griffith appears before the actor portraying the adult Tarzan—Elmo Lincoln—making him the first actor to portray Tarzan in film. After seeing the movie, a critic described Griffith as "a youthful actor of uncommon gifts."
Griffith received the role of Tom Sawyer in ''Huckleberry Finn''. Later he was again cast in the first Tarzan serial as Tarzan's son, Korak, a role that has been described as "anticipating John Sheffield's 'Boy' roles [in later Tarzan films]." Both of his parents died in the 1920s—his mother in 1921 and his father in 1926. At the time of the 1930 census, he and his brother were living with his sister and her family in Pasadena, California.
Other film work
Although his career survived the transition from silent films to sound, Griffith received smaller and smaller roles—occasionally not even being credited for his performances. As his acting career cooled, Griffith moved into other areas of the film industry. At the age of twenty-three he got his first job as an assistant director. His final acting credit came six years later in 1936's ''Outlaws of the Range''. Griffith continued to work in the film industry until his death. Between 1931 and 1940 he worked as Second Unit Director or Assistant Director in over 20 films, including those at Monogram Pictures.Between 1937 and 1956 he produced five films. He was an associate producer under Robert Sherwood, and a director and then an associate producer for Gregory Ratoff Productions. In 1941, Griffith became production manager at Columbia Pictures, and later served as an associate producer for RKO, eventually becoming executive producer for films such as 1956's ''Alexander the Great''.
In 1958, Griffith died of a heart attack in Hollywood. He was survived by his sister.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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| Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
|---|---|
| name | Klimt 1918 |
| background | group_or_band |
| origin | Rome, |
| genre | Gothic metal (early material) Alternative rock Indie rock |
| years active | 1999 – present |
| label | Prophecy Productions, My Kingdom Music |
| website | www.klimt1918.com |
| current members | Marco SoellnerDavide PesolaPaolo SoellnerFrancesco Conte |
| notable instruments | }} |
Klimt 1918 is an indie/alternative rock band from Rome, Italy.
Biography
Klimt 1918 was started in 1999 by brothers Marco and Paolo Soellner, after the split of their former band, Another Day (a death metal act). Marco's newly discovered love for bands like The Cure, Bauhaus and Joy Division, led him to incorporate new influences in his songwriting. The next year, after completing the line-up with bass player Davide Pesola and lead guitarist Francesco Tumbarello, the band released its first effort, ''Secession Makes Post-Modern Music'', which was recorded by Novembre's drummer, Giuseppe Orlando, a close friend of the band. The demo received good reviews from specialized press and caught the attention of My Kingdom Music, a newborn Italian independent label, with which the band signed a deal for two releases. Their debut full-length, ''Undressed Momento'', came out in 2003; during the recording sessions, guitar player Francesco Tumbarello left the band, being replaced by Alessandro Pace, a well-known name in Rome's underground metal scene and a long time friend of the band. ''Undressed Momento'' marked an evolution in Klimt 1918's sound, which became more melodic and emotional, losing part of its metal heritage; the album received critical praise from reviewers all over Europe, and reached the first place in Orkus' Top Chart. One year later, the band signed a new contract with German cult label, Prophecy Productions, and began working on a new full-length. ''Dopoguerra'' was released in 2005 and featured a more mature and personal sound; the album was once again praised by both critics and press, and was supported by a European tour, the first for the band. The band said the album "was recorded during the hot summer 2004, with sound man/producer Giuseppe Orlando. The one-month session was long and difficult, but worked out better than anyone could have hoped."Between September and October 2006, guitarist Alessandro Pace left the band and was replaced by Francesco Conte, who made his live debut with the band on October 21, at Prophecy Productions' 10 years festival.
The long-delayed follow-up to ''Dopoguerra'', called ''Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack For The Cassette Generation)'', was first released in Germany on June 20, 2008, being subsequently released worldwide on June 23 and in the U.S.A. on June 24.
In April 2009 the band released its first videoclip Ghost Of A Tape Listener, followed by a vinyl release of Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack For The Cassette Generation) and a Ghost Of A Tape Listener EP featuring a previously unreleased track, "Blackeberg 1981".
Style
Klimt 1918's sound can be described as alternative rock with roots in avant-garde metal, featuring consistent darkwave and post-rock influences. The resulting blend is a melodic and melancholic guitar-based rock, combining thick shoegaze-like rhythm-guitar riffs with post-rock-esque atmospheres. Their recent output has consistently shifted towards indie rock, featuring more emphasis on shoegaze and post-rock traits while abandoning entirely their former metal influences.
Name
The name "Klimt 1918" is a reference to Gustav Klimt and his year of death, 1918, which also saw the end of the First World War. According to Marco Soellner, Klimt 1918's music features the same qualities of de-contextualization, secession and post-modernism found in Klimt's art. Year 1918 itself, in Marco's words, represents the definitive collapse of "belle epoque" values and a full transition to 20th century.The name may also be a tribute to Bauhaus, which was originally named "Bauhaus 1919".
Members
Marco Soellner - vocals, guitar Francesco Conte - guitar Davide Pesola - bass Paolo Soellner - drums
Former members
Discography
Notes
References
External links
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| Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
|---|---|
| name | Marion Harris |
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | Mary Ellen Harrison |
| born | April 04, 1896Indiana, United States |
| died | New York City, New York |
| genre | Jazz, blues, pop |
| occupation | Singer |
| years active | 1914—1930s |
| label | Victor, Columbia, Brunswick |
| notable instruments | }} |
Born Mary Ellen Harrison, probably in Indiana, she first played vaudeville and movie theaters in Chicago around 1914. Dancer Vernon Castle introduced her to the theater community in New York where she debuted in a 1915 Irving Berlin revue, ''Stop! Look! Listen!''
Recordings
In 1916, she began recording for Victor Records, singing a variety of songs, such as "Everybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy", "After You've Gone", "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (later recorded by Bessie Smith), "When I Hear that Jazz Band Play" and her biggest success, "I Ain't Got Nobody".In 1920, after the Victor label would not allow her to record W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues", she joined Columbia Records where she recorded the song successfully. Sometimes billed as "The Queen of the Blues," she tended to record blues- or jazz-flavored tunes throughout her career. Handy wrote of Harris that "she sang blues so well that people hearing her records sometimes thought that the singer was colored." Harris commented, "You usually do best what comes naturally, so I just naturally started singing Southern dialect songs and the modern blues songs."
In 1922 she moved to the Brunswick label. She continued to appear in Broadway theatres throughout the 1920s. She regularly played the Palace Theatre, appeared in Florenz Ziegfeld's ''Midnight Frolic'' and toured the country with vaudeville shows. After a marriage which produced two children, and her subsequent divorce, she returned in 1927 to New York theater, made more recordings with Victor and appeared in an eight-minute promotional film, ''Marion Harris, Songbird of Jazz''. After a Hollywood movie, the early musical ''Devil-May-Care'' (1929) with Ramon Navarro, she temporarily withdrew from performing because of an undisclosed illness.
Radio
Between 1931 and 1933, when she performed on such NBC radio shows as ''The Ipana Troubadors'' and Rudy Vallee's ''The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour'', she was billed by NBC as "The Little Girl with the Big Voice."In early 1931 she performed in London, returning for long engagements at the Café de Paris. In London she appeared in the musical ''Ever Green'' and broadcast on BBC radio. She also recorded in England in the early 1930s but retired soon afterwards and married an English theatrical agent. Their house was destroyed in a German rocket attack in 1941, and in 1944 she travelled to New York to seek treatment for a neurological disorder. Although she was discharged two months later, she died soon afterwards in a hotel fire that started when she fell asleep while smoking in bed.
References and notes
External links
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Winsor McCay (September 26, 1869(?) – July 26, 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator.
''Tales of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle'' (1903)
''Little Sammy Sneeze'' (1904 to 1906)
''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'' (1904–13)
''The Story of Hungry Henrietta'' (1905)
''A Pilgrim's Progress'' (1905 to 1910)
''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' (1905 to 1914)
''Poor Jake'' (1909 to 1911)
''Little Nemo'' (1911) also titled ''Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics''
''How a Mosquito Operates'' (1912) also titled ''The Story Of A Mosquito''
''Gertie the Dinosaur'' (1914)
''The Sinking of the Lusitania'' (1918)
''Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville'' (1921)
''Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet'' (1921)
''Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House'' (1921)
''The Centaurs'' (1921)
''Gertie on Tour'' (1921)
''Flip's Circus'' (1921)
''The Barnyard Performance'' (1922-27?) also called '' Performing Animals'' and The Midsummer's Nightmare
''Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend'' Dover, ISBN 0-486-21347-1
''Little Nemo in the Palace of Ice and Further Adventures'' Dover, ISBN 0-486-23234-4
''The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. I: 1905-1907'' Fantagraphics ISBN 0-930193-63-6
''The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. II: 1907-1908'' Fantagraphics ISBN 0-930193-64-4
''The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. III: 1908-1910'' Fantagraphics ISBN 1-56097-025-1
''The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. IV: 1910-1911'' Fantagraphics ISBN 1-56097-045-6
''The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. V: In the Land of Wonderful Dreams, Part 1: 1911-12'' Fantagraphics ISBN 0-924359-35-8
''The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. VI: In the Land of Wonderful Dreams, Part 2: 1913-14'' Fantagraphics ISBN 1-56097-130-4
''Little Nemo 1905-1914'' Taschen, ISBN 3-8228-6300-9
''The Best of Little Nemo in Slumberland'' Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, ISBN 1-55670-647-2
''Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays'' Sunday Press ISBN 0-9768885-0-5
''Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays'' Sunday Press ISBN 0-9768885-5-6
''Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 1'' Checker, ISBN 0-9741664-0-5 (“Tales of the Rarebit Fiend” and “Little Sammy Sneeze”)
''Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 2'' Checker, ISBN 0-9741664-7-2 (More “Tales of the Rarebit Fiend” and “Little Sammy Sneeze,” “Centaurs,” “Hungry Henrietta,” and editorial illustrations.)
''Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 3'' Checker, ISBN 0-9741664-9-9 (More “Tales of the Rarebit Fiend” (1907), “Little Sammy Sneeze,” “A Pilgrim’s Progress,” (1907) and editorial illustrations from New York period.)
''Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 4'' Checker, ISBN 0-9753808-1-8 (more Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (early 1908), A Pilgrim’s Progress (early 1908), various Little Sammy Sneezes, and New York American editorial cartoons.)
''Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 5'' Checker, ISBN 0-9753808-2-6 (Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (late 1908), A Pilgrim’s Progress (late 1908), Phoolish Phillip (all), Hungry Henrietta (all), and New York American editorial cartoons.)
''Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 6'' Checker, ISBN 1-933160-05-5 (“Mr Goodenough”, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (late 1908), A Pilgrim’s Progress (late 1908), and New York American editorial cartoons.)
''Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 7'' Checker, ISBN 1-933160-05-5 (illustrations from New York editorial period, and collection of comic strips.)
''Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 8'' Checker, ISBN 1-933160-06-3
''Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 9'' Checker, ISBN 978-1-933160-07-8
''Daydreams and Nightmares'' Fantagraphics, ISBN 1-56097-569-5
''Little Sammy Sneeze'' Sunday Press ISBN 0-97688-854-8
Spring Lake District Library "The Talented Winsor McCay"
The Fales Library of NYU's guide to the David C. Bohnett Collection of Winsor McCay Drawings
Meeting McCay
on Internet Movie Database
Little Nemo in Slumberland Anniversary Special
Winsor McCay's ''The Centaurs''.
Comic Strip Library has a complete collection of out-of-copyright Little Nemo pages
A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades. His two best-known creations are the newspaper comic strip ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'', which ran from 1905–1914 and 1924–1927, and the animated cartoon ''Gertie the Dinosaur'', which he created in 1914.
His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as William Joyce, André LeBlanc, Moebius, Maurice Sendak, Chris Ware and Bill Watterson.
Early life
McCay was the son of Robert McKay (later changed to McCay) and Janet Murray McKay; Robert at various times worked as a teamster, a grocer, and a real estate agent. Winsor's exact place and year of birth are uncertain — he claimed to have been born in Spring Lake, Michigan in 1871, but his gravestone says 1869, and census reports state that he was born in Canada in 1867. He was originally named Zenas Winsor McKay, in honor of his father's employer, Zenas G. Winsor. He later dropped the name Zenas.In 1886, McCay's parents sent him to Cleary's Business College in Ypsilanti, Michigan to learn to be a businessman. While in Ypsilanti, he also received his only formal art training, from John Goodison of Michigan State Normal College (now known as Eastern Michigan University). Goodison taught him the strict application of the fundamentals of perspective, which he put to significant use later in his career. Goodison, formerly a glass stainer, also influenced McCay's bold use of color.
Career
In 1889, McCay moved to Chicago, intending to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, but due to lack of money had to find employment instead. He worked for the National Printing and Engraving Company, producing woodcuts for circus and theatrical posters. Two years later, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and went to work as an artist for Kohl and Middleton's Vine Street Dime Museum. While in Cincinnati he married Maude Leonore Dufour. McCay began doing vaudeville chalk talks in 1906. In his ''The Seven Ages of Man'' vaudeville act, he drew two faces and progressively aged them.McCay's first major comic strip series was ''Tales of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle''. Forty-three installments were published from January to November 1903, in the ''Cincinnati Enquirer''. The strip was based on poems by George Randolph Chester, then a reporter and editor at the ''Enquirer''. The stories concerned jungle creatures and the ways that they adapted to a hostile world, with individual titles such as ''How the Elephant Got His Trunk'' and ''How the Ostrich Got So Tall''.
His strips ''Little Nemo'' and ''Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend'' were both set in the dreams of their characters and featured fantasy art that attempted to capture the look and feel of dreams. McCay's cartoons were never overwhelmingly popular, but always had a strong following because of his expressive graphic style. Newspaper pages were physically much larger in that time and McCay usually had a half a page to work with. For fantasy art in comics, his only rival was Lyonel Feininger, who went on to have a career in the fine arts after his comics days were over.
McCay also created a number of animated short films, in which every single frame of each cartoon (with each film requiring thousands of frames) was hand-drawn by McCay and occasionally his assistants. McCay went on vaudeville tours with his films. He presented lectures and did drawings; then he interacted with his animated films, performing such tricks as holding his hand out to "pet" his animated creations. The star of McCay's groundbreaking animated film ''Gertie the Dinosaur'' is classified by film and animation historians as the first cartoon character created especially for film to display a unique, realistic personality. In the film, Gertie causes trouble and cries when she is scolded, and finally she gives McCay himself a ride on her back as he steps into the movie picture.
In addition to a series of cartoons based on his popular "rarebit" gags, McCay also created ''The Sinking of the Lusitania'', a depiction of the attack on the maritime ship. The cartoon contained a message that was meant to inspire America into joining World War I.
Death and legacy
McCay died in 1934 and was buried at the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn.Woody Gelman discovered many of the original Little Nemo strips at a cartoon studio where Bob McCay, Winsor's son, had worked in 1966. Many of the original drawings that Gelman recovered were displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art under the direction of curator A. Hyatt Mayor. In 1973, Gelman would publish a collection of Little Nemo strips in Italy.
Comic strips
Filmography
Books and collections
References
Sources
External links
Category:1934 deaths Category:American animators Category:Artists from Cincinnati, Ohio Category:Burials at the Cemetery of the Evergreens Category:Cleary University alumni Category:Comic strip cartoonists Category:Eastern Michigan University alumni Category:People from Chicago, Illinois Category:People from Ypsilanti, Michigan Category:Vaudeville performers Category:Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame inductees
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