1918 (AD 1918) Historical Timeline & Archive

Explore biographies of historical figures born or commemorated in 1918 (AD 1918) from the 2Day Chrono-Wiki encyclopedia.

Notable Figures in 1918 (AD 1918) (21)

  • Abraham Pais (Born: 1918-05-19) — Pioneering physicist and acclaimed science historian of modern physics.
  • Adolfo Pedernera (Born: 1918-11-15) — Argentine football legend, nicknamed 'El Maestro,' pivotal in the 1940s.
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Born: 1918-12-11) — Dissident author who exposed Soviet repression, notably the Gulag system.
  • Anwar Sadat (Born: 1918-12-25) — Egyptian President who spearheaded economic reform and the peace treaty with Israel.
  • Billy Graham (Born: 1918-11-07) — Influential American evangelist known for global crusades and ministry.
  • Claude Debussy (Died: 1918-03-25) — Pioneering French composer, blurring lines between classical structure and evocative color.
  • Fanny Blankers-Koen (Born: 1918-04-26) — Olympic legend, Fanny Blankers-Koen, dominated track and field across decades.
  • Frederick Sanger (Born: 1918-08-13) — Pioneering biochemist known for sequencing insulin and developing DNA sequencing techniques.
  • Frederick Trump (Died: 1918-05-30) — German and American businessman who built the Trump family fortune through real estate and the Klondike Gold Rush.
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser (Born: 1918-01-15) — Egyptian revolutionary and President who championed pan-Arabism and socialism.
  • Georg Cantor (Died: 1918-01-06) — Pioneering set theory, Cantor proved the existence of different sizes of infinity.
  • Gustav Klimt (Died: 1918-02-06) — Austrian Symbolist master, defining Art Nouveau with eroticism and gold leaf.
  • Ida Lupino (Born: 1918-02-04) — Pioneering actress and director known for social-message films in the 1950s.
  • Ingmar Bergman (Born: 1918-07-14) — Master of profound cinematic meditations on the struggles of the human psyche and soul.
  • Leonard Bernstein (Born: 1918-08-25) — Master conductor and composer whose works spanned opera, ballet, and Broadway.
  • Nelson Mandela (Born: 1918-07-18) — Iconic anti-apartheid revolutionary who became South Africa's first black president.
  • Nicholas II (Died: 1918-07-17) — Last Emperor of Russia, whose reign ended with the 1917 Revolution.
  • Nicolae Ceaușescu (Born: 1918-01-26) — Authoritarian leader of Communist Romania, overthrew and executed in 1989.
  • Richard Feynman (Born: 1918-05-11) — Pioneering theoretical physicist known for Feynman diagrams and QED.
  • Rita Hayworth (Born: 1918-10-17) — Golden Age Hollywood star, nicknamed "The Love Goddess," known for her dramatic roles.
  • Sam Walton (Born: 1918-03-29) — Co-founder of Walmart, transforming retail through aggressive expansion and efficiency.