In the year 1918, the Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden, Germany and France (Jan 4), the Finnish Civil War, lasting till May, begins (Jan 27), the first ever drone is test flown (Mar 6), Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia (Mar 12), the German fighter pilot Red Baron dies in combat (Apr 21), Spanish Flu becomes pandemic, killing millions in the ensuing months (June), Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line (Sep 29), with the failed test flight of another drone - the Kettering Bug - the use of drones in WW1 is abandoned (Oct 2), Czechoslovakia declares its independence from Austria-Hungary (Oct 28), the Red Army invades Estonia (Nov 28), the Second World War rages on - and all these fine people were born:

1918-xxxx Vaino Jack Vehko* aircraft engineer/of Finnish descent - Detroit, MI USA (1999/ca 80) 1918-01xx 1918-0101 1918-0104 Mauritz Bränström* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Norsjö, Sweden (2006/88) 1918-0105 1918-0108 Ilmari Koppinen* WW2 veteran/veteran athlete - Rauma, Finland **** 1918-0109 Alma Ziegler* pro baseball player - Chicago, IL USA (2005/87) 1918-0110 Arthur Chung* politician/1st President of Guyana - Windsor Forest, Demerara, British Guiana (2008/90) 1918-0114 Matti Wasama* hockey player /father of Jarmo Wasama - Tampere, Finland (1970/52) 1918-0115 Gamal Abdel Nasser* politician - Alexandria, Egypt (1970/52) 1918-0116 Allan Ekelund* film director - Örebro, Sweden (2009/91) 1918-0118 Gösta Andersson* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Umeå, Sweden (1979/61) 1918-0121 Richard D Winters* US Army officer - New Holland, PA USA (2011/92) 1918-0122 Elmer Lach* hockey player (NHL 100)/coach/salesperson - Nokomis, SK Canada (2015/97) 1918-0124 1918-0126 Vito Scotti* (b Scozzari) actor /amateur cook - San Francisco, CA USA (1996/78) 1918-0129 John Forsythe* actor - Penn´s Grove, NJ USA (2010/92) 1918-0131 1918-0203 Joey Bishop* entertainer/ talk show host - The Bronx, NY USA (2007/89) 1918-0204 Ida Lupino* actress/ director/producer - Herne Hill, London, England (1995/77) 1918-0206 Osmo Ikola* linguist - Joensuu, Finland (2016/98) 1918-0207 Markey Robinson* painter/ sculptor - Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (1999/80) 1918-0216 Patricia “Patty” Andrews* singer (the Andrews Sisters) - Minneapolis, MN USA (2013/94) 1918-0222 Sid Abel* hockey player (NHL 100)/coach/GM - Melville, SK Canada (2000/81) 1918-0228 Alfred Burke* actor -  Peckham, London, England (2011/92) 1918-0301 1918-0305 Milt Schmidt* hockey player (NHL 100)/coach/GM - Kitchener, ON Canada (2017/98) 1918-0309 George Lincoln Rockwell* naval aviator/founder of the American Nazi party - Bloomington, IL USA (1967/49) 1918-0309 Mickey Spillane* crime novelist - Brooklyn, NY USA (2006/88) 1918-0325 Howard Cosell* (b Cohen) sports journalist/author - Winston-Salem, NC USA (1995/77) 1918-0329 Sam Walton* entrepreneur/ founder of Walmart - Kingfisher, OK USA (1992/74) 1918-0401 1918-0406 Amando de Ossorio* film director/artist - Coruña, Galicia, Spain (2001/82) 1918-0408 Betty Ford* (b Bloomer) activist/1st Lady - Chigaco, IL USA (2011/93) 1918-0408 Grethe Meyer* architect/designer - Svendborg, Denmark (2008/90) 1918-0409 Jørn Utzon* architect/designer of Sydney Opera House - Copenhagen, Denmark (2008/90) 1918-0417 William Holden* actor - O´Fallon, IL USA (1981/63) 1918-0418 Shinobu Hashimoto* screenwriter/director/ producer - Hyogo Prefecture, Japan (2018/100) 1918-0420 Kai Siegbahn* physicist/N - Lund, Sweden (2007/89) 1918-0429 Nils Östensson*cross-country skier/OG - Transtrand, Dalarna, Sweden (1949/31) 1918-0509 Mike Wallace* journalist/media personality - Brookline, MA USA (2012/93) 1918-0511 Richard Feynman* theoretical physicist - Queens, NY USA (1988/69) 1918-0512 Julius Rosenberg* convicted of espionage - Manhattan, NY USA (1953/35) 1918-0517 Birgit Nilsson* opera singer - Västra Karup, Skåne, Sweden (2005/87) 1918-0530 Martin Lundström* cross-country skier/OG - Norsjö, Sweden (2016/98) 1918-0602 Kathryn Tucker Windham* storyteller/ photographer/ journalist - Selma, AL USA (2011/93) 1918-0608 Robert Preston* actor/singer - Newton, MA USA (1987/68) 1918-0613 Helmut Lent* WW2 night-fighter ace - Pyrehne, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1944/26) 1918-0621 Allan Lindberg* athlete (pole vault/EG) - Fagersta, Sweden (2004/85) 1918-0621 Dee Molenaar* mountaineer/author/ artist - Los Angeles, CA USA (2020/101) 1918-0623 Peter Shaw* (b Pullen) actor/producer/ married to Angela Lansbury - Reading, Berkshire, England (2003/84) 1918-0625 Vilho Huovinen* convicted killer/spokesman for parolees - Lapinlahti, Finland (1985/66) 1918-0628 Eira Käär* (b Virtanen) ceramist - Tampere, Finland (2015/96) 1910-0701 1918-0704 Eppie Lederer* (b Friedman) advice columnist (as Ann Landers)/nationwide media celebrity/twin of Pauline - Sioux City, IA USA (2002/83) 1918-0704 Johnnie Parsons* race car driver - Los Angeles, CA USA (1984/66) 1918-0704 Pauline Phillips* (b Friedman) advice columnist (as Abigail van Buren)/radio show host - Sioux City, IA USA (2013/94) 1918-0704 Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV* King of Tonga - Royal Palace, Nukuʻalofa, Tonga (2006/88) 1910-0710 1918-0713 Alberto Ascari* racing driver/WG - Milan, Italy (1955/36) 1918-0713 Marcia Brown* writer and illustrator of children’s books - Rochester, NY USA (2015/96) NYT obituary 1918-0714 Ingmar Bergman* film director - Uppsala, Sweden (2007/89) 1918-0717 Carlos Arana Osorio* politician/P - Barberena, Santa Rosa, Guatemala (2003/85) 1918-0718 Nelson Mandela* politician/P - Mvezo, Union of South Africa (2013/95) 1918-0720 1918-0723 Anders Franzén* marine technician/archaeologist/ located the 1628 wreck of Vasa - Stockholm, Sweden (1993/75) 1918-0731 1918-0801 1918-0803 Sidney Gottlieb* chemist/spymaster (Project MKUltra) - New York City, NY USA (1999/80) 1918-0813 Frederick Sanger* biochemist/2N - Rendcomb, Gloucestershire, England (2013/95) 1918-0820 1918-0825 Leonard Bernstein* composer/conductor/ pianist - Lawrence, MA USA (1990/72) 1918-0826 Katherine Johnson* mathematician/physicist/ space flight orb calculator - White Sulphur Springs, WV USA (2020/101) 1918-0828 Joseph Eugene “Joe” Sullivan* Seaman Second Class/one of the Sullivan quintet whose deaths led way to the Sole Survivor Policy – Waterloo, IA USA (1942/24) 1918-0829 John Jacob “Jakie” Astor VII* politician/son of Waldorf Astor /named after his relative John Jacob Astor IV who perished on the Titanic - Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, England (2000/82) 1918-0831 1918-0901 1918-0902 Frances Campbell-Preston* (b Grenfell) courtier/author/lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - England (2022/104) 1918-0903 Helen Wagner* actress - Lubbock, TX USA (2010/91) 1918-0904 Paul Harvey* radio broadcaster - Tulsa, OK USA (2009/90) 1918-0910 1918-0916 Branka Veselinović* actress/a UNICEF ambassador - Stari Bečej, Serbia (2023/104) 1918-0920 1918-0926 Eric Morley* television host/the founder of the Miss World pageant - Holborn, London, England (2000/82) 1918-0927 Martin Ryle* radio astronomer/N - Brighton, England (1984/66) 1918-0930 Lewis Nixon* US Army officer - New York City, NY USA (1995/76) 1918-1009 E. Howard Hunt* intelligence officer/author - Hamburg, NY USA (2007/88) 1918-1009 Bebo Valdés* pianist/bandleader/composer - Quivicán,Cuba (2013/94) 1918-1013 Robert Walker* actor - Salt Lake City, UT USA (1951/32) 1918-1017 Rita Hayworth* actress - Brooklyn, NY USA (1987/68) 1918-1017 Ralph Wilson* sports executive/founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills - Columbus, OH USA (2014/95) 1918-1029 Diana Serra Cary* child actress/author/historian - San Diego, CA USA (2020/101) 1918-1101 1918-1107 Mario Fiorentini* WW2 partisan/ spy/mathematician - Rome, Kingdom of Italy (2022/103) 1918-1107 Billy Graham* evangelist - Charlotte, NC USA (2018/99) 1918-1108 Silvana Lattmann* (b Abruzzese) Italian-Swiss biologist/poet/author - Naples, Kingdom of Italy (2023/104) 1918-1109 Spiro Agnew* politician - Baltimore, MD USA (1996/77) 1918-1110 1918-1118 Willie McKnight* WW2 fighter pilot - Edmonton, AB Canada (1941/22) 1918-1120 1918-1130 1918-1201 1918-1207 Jórunn Viðar* pianist/composer - Reykjavik, Iceland (2017/98) 1918-1215 Andrey Titenko* Soviet soldier/food processing plant director - Zhykhove, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2022/103) 1918-1218 Joyce Reynolds* classicist/specialist in Roman historical epigraphy - Highams Park, London, England (2022/103) 1918-1221 Kurt Waldheim* diplomat/ politician/UN Secretary-General - Sankt Andrä-Wördern, German-Austria (2007/88) 1918-1223 Helmut Schmidt* politician - Hamburg, Weimar Republic (2015/96) 1918-1225 Anwar Sadat* politician - Mit Abu al-Kum, Monufia, Egypt (1981/62) 1918-1231 1918-0 1918-0 1918-0 Updated 2025-0122 Helsinki-Stockholm Search for another year here