1918 in the United States

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1918
in
the United States

Decades:
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Events from the year 1918 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

1918 flu pandemic

October–December

Undated

Ongoing

Births

January

Gertrude B. Elion
John Forsythe

February

Joey Bishop
Julian Schwinger
Fay McKenzie

March

Howard Cosell
Pearl Bailey

April

Betty Ford
William Holden

May

Mike Wallace
Richard Feynman
Eddy Arnold

June

Robert Preston
Jerome Karle

July

Craig Stevens
Pee Wee Reese
Paul D. Boyer
Hank Jones

August

Leonard Bernstein
Katherine Johnson

September

Paul Harvey

October

Rita Hayworth

November

Art Carney
Billy Graham
Spiro Agnew

December

Jeff Chandler

Undated

Deaths

  • January 8 – Ellis H. Roberts, politician (born 1827)
  • February 2 – John L. Sullivan, boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (born 1858)
  • February 4 – Jeannette Walworth, American journalist and novelist (born 1835)[10]
  • February 7 – Effie Hoffman Rogers, educator, editor and journalist (born 1835/37)
  • February 9E. J. Richmond, litterateur and author (born 1825)<ref">"Obituary, Mrs. E. J. Richmond. Died in Mount Upton, New York, 9 Feb 1918". Press and Sun-Bulletin. 14 February 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 6 January 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.</ref>
  • February 15 – Vernon Castle, ballroom dancer (born 1887)
  • March 10 – Jim McCormick, baseball pitcher (born 1856 in Scotland)
  • March 14 – Lucretia Garfield, First Lady of the United States (born 1832)
  • March 16 – Prosper P. Parker, civil engineer, Union Army officer and politician (born 1835 in Canada)
  • March 27Henry Adams, historian (born 1838)
  • April 14 – James E. Ware, architect who devised the "dumbbell plan" for New York City tenements (born 1846)
  • May 1 – Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist (born 1843)
  • May 5 – Bertha Palmer, businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (born 1849)
  • May 14 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., newspaper publisher (born 1841)
  • May 17 – William Drew Robeson, African American Presbyterian minister, escaped slave and father of Paul Robeson (born 1844)
  • May 19 – Raoul Lufbery, fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1885 in France)
  • May 27 – Frederick Trump, German American businessman, paternal grandfather of Donald Trump (born 1869)
  • June 4 – Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909 and U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 (born 1852)
  • June 18 – Lizzie Halliday, serial killer (born c.1859)
  • June 25 – Jake Beckley, baseball player (born 1867)
  • June 27 – George Mary Searle, astronomer (born 1839)
  • June 28 – Albert Henry Munsell, inventor of the Munsell color system (born 1858)
  • July 20 – Francis Lupo, U.S. Army soldier (killed in action; born 1895)
  • July 22 – Roy Earl Parrish, American politician (killed in action; born 1888)
  • July 27 – Gustav Kobbé, music critic and author (sailing accident; born 1857)
  • July 30 – Joyce Kilmer, poet (killed in action; born 1886)
  • August 1 – John Riley Banister, policeman and cowboy (born 1854)
  • August 10 – William Pitt Kellogg, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1872 and from 1877 to 1883 (born 1830)
  • August 12 – Anna Held, singer (born 1872 in Poland)
  • August 14 – Anna Morton, Second Lady of the United States (born 1846)
  • August 24 – Louis Bennett Jr., World War I flying ace (killed in action) (b. 1894)
  • September 12 – Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1885 to 1897 and from 1901 to 1907 (born 1838)
  • September 28
  • September 29Frank Luke, fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1897)
  • October 8 – James B. McCreary, 27th and 37th Governor of Kentucky from 1875 to 1879 and from 1911 to 1915, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1903 to 1909 (born 1838)
  • October 16 – Felix Arndt, pianist and composer (born 1889)
  • October 19 – Harold Lockwood, silent film actor (born 1887)
  • October 21
  • October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, silent film actress (born 1891)
  • October 28 – Edward Bouchet, physicist (born 1852)
  • November 4 – Andrew Dickson White, diplomat, academic and author (born 1832)
  • November 19 – Joseph F. Smith, Mormon leader (born 1838)
  • December – Sarah Jim Mayo, Washoe basket weaver (born 1858)
  • December 17 – John Green Brady, 5th Governor of the District of Alaska from 1897 to 1906 (born 1847)
  • December 26 – William Hampton Patton, entomologist (born 1853)

See also

References

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