Birthdays In History 1918

1918 Patrick Anthony Porteous Scottish colonel Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)

1918 Willy den Ouden Dutch swimmer (d. 1997)

1918 Willi Graf German physician and activist (d. 1943)

1918 Alma Ziegler American baseball player and golfer (d. 2005)

1918 Les Bennett English footballer and manager (d. 1999)

1918 Arthur Chung Guyanese lawyer and politician 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008)

1918 Robert C. O'Brien American author and journalist (d. 1973)

1918 Spencer Walklate Australian rugby league player and soldier (d. 1945)

1918 João Figueiredo Brazilian general and politician 30th President of Brazil (d. 1999)

1918 Édouard Gagnon Canadian cardinal (d. 2007)

1918 Nel Benschop Dutch poet and educator (d. 2005)

1918 Allan Ekelund Swedish director producer and production manager (d. 2009)

1918 Clem Jones Australian surveyor and politician eighth Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)

1918 Stirling Silliphant American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)

1918 Keith Joseph English lawyer and politician Secretary of State for Education (d. 1994)

1918 George M. Leader American soldier and politician 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013)

1918 Gustave Gingras Canadian-English physician and educator (d. 1996)

1918 John H. Johnson American publisher founded the Johnson Publishing Company (d. 2005)

1918 Juan García Esquivel Mexican pianist composer and bandleader (d. 2002)

1918 Nevin Scrimshaw American scientist (d. 2013)

1918 Jimmy Hagan English footballer (d. 1998)

1918 Richard Winters American soldier (d. 2011)

1918 Antonio Janigro Italian cellist and conductor (d. 1989)

1918 Elmer Lach Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)

1918 Florence Rush American social worker and theorist (d. 2008)

1918 Gottfried von Einem Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1996)

1918 Oral Roberts American evangelist founded Oral Roberts University and Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (d. 2009)

1918 Philip José Farmer American author (d. 2009)

1918 John Forsythe American actor (d. 2010)

1918 David Opatoshu American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)

1918 Hella Haasse Indonesian-Dutch author (d. 2011)

1918 Joey Bishop American actor and producer (d. 2007)

1918 Helen Stephens American runner baseball player and manager (d. 1994)

1918 Ida Lupino English-American actress and director (d. 1995)

1918 Luigi Pareyson Italian philosopher and author (d. 1991)

1918 Freddie Blassie American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)

1918 Lloyd Noel Ferguson American chemist (d. 2011)

1918 Allan Arbus American actor and photographer (d. 2013)

1918 Hank Locklin American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)

1918 William Bronk American poet and academic (d. 1999)

1918 Jacqueline Ferrand French mathematician (d. 2014)

1918 Fay McKenzie American actress (d. 2019)

1918 Leonore Annenberg American businesswoman and diplomat (d. 2009)

1918 Sid Abel Canadian-American ice hockey player coach and manager (d. 2000)

1918 Don Pardo American radio and television announcer (d. 2014)

1918 Robert Wadlow American man the tallest person in recorded history (d. 1940)

1918 João Goulart Brazilian lawyer and politician 24th President of Brazil (d. 1976)

1918 Gladys Spellman American educator and politician (d. 1988)

1918 Arthur Kornberg American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)

1918 Kurt Dahlmann German pilot lawyer and journalist (d. 2017)

1918 Margaret Osborne duPont American tennis player (d. 2012)

1918 Milt Schmidt Canadian ice hockey player coach and manager (d. 2017)

1918 Red Storey Canadian football player referee and sportscaster (d. 2006)

1918 James Tobin American economist and academic (d. 2002)

1918 Eileen Herlie Scottish-American actress (d. 2008)

1918 George Lincoln Rockwell American sailor and politician founded the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)

1918 Mickey Spillane American crime novelist (d. 2006)

1918 Günther Rall German general and pilot (d. 2009)

1918 Pádraig Faulkner Irish Fianna Fáil politician (d. 2012)

1918 Elaine de Kooning American painter and academic (d. 1989)

1918 Zoia Horn American librarian (d. 2014)

1918 Richard Ellmann American author and critic (d. 1987)

1918 Punch Imlach Canadian ice hockey player coach and manager (d. 1987)

1918 Aldo van Eyck Dutch architect (d. 1999)

1918 Frederick Reines American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

1918 Jack Barry American game show host and producer co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (d. 1984)

1918 Donald Featherstone English soldier and author (d. 2013)

1918 Marian McPartland English-American pianist and composer (d. 2013)

1918 Bernd Alois Zimmermann German composer (d. 1970)

1918 Patrick Lucey American captain and politician 38th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 2014)

1918 Charles Thompson American pianist and composer (d. 2016)

1918 Cheddi Jagan Guyanese politician 4th President of Guyana (d. 1997)

1918 Stanley Armour Dunham American sergeant (d. 1992)

1918 Helene Hale American politician (d. 2013)

1918 Naoki Kazu Japanese football player (d.1940s)

1918 Howard Cosell American soldier journalist and author (d. 1995)

1918 Pearl Bailey American actress and singer (d. 1990)

1918 Lê Văn Thiêm Vietnamese mathematician and academic (d. 1991)

1918 Ted Post American director (d. 2013)

1918 Mary Anderson American actress (d. 2014)

1918 Louis Applebaum Canadian composer and conductor (d. 2000)

1918 George Jellicoe 2nd Earl Jellicoe English soldier and politician Leader of the House of Lords (d. 2007)

1918 Alfredo Ovando Candía Bolivian general and politician 56th President of Bolivia (d. 1982)

1918 Glendon Swarthout American author and academic (d. 1992)

1918 Jørn Utzon Danish architect designed the Sydney Opera House (d. 2008)

1918 Richard Wainwright English soldier and politician (d. 2003)

1918 Dick Gibson English racing driver (d. 2010)

1918 Hsuan Hua Chinese-American monk and author (d. 1995)

1918 Juozas Kazickas Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)

1918 Gabriel Axel Danish-French actor director and producer (d. 2014)

1918 André Bazin French critic and theorist (d. 1958)

1918 Shinobu Hashimoto Japanese director producer and screenwriter (d. 2018)

1918 Clifton Hillegass American publisher founded CliffsNotes (d. 2001)

1918 Tony Mottola American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)

1918 Eddy Christiani Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)

1918 William Jay Smith American poet and academic (d. 2015)

1918 Mickey Vernon American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)

1918 Maurice Druon French author and screenwriter (d. 2009)

1918 Graham Payn South African-born English actor and singer (d. 2005)

1918 Gérard de Vaucouleurs French-American astronomer and academic (d. 1995)

1918 Astrid Varnay Swedish-American soprano and actress (d. 2006)

1918 Fanny Blankers-Koen Dutch sprinter and long jumper (d. 2004)

1918 Sten Rudholm Swedish lawyer and jurist (d. 2008)

1918 George Allen American football player and coach (d. 1990)

1918 Gersh Budker Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (d. 1977)

1918 Dimitri Papadimos Greek photographer (d. 1994)

1918 Ted Bates English footballer and manager (d. 2003)

1918 Tom Mead Australian journalist and politician (d. 2004)

1918 Kakuei Tanaka Japanese soldier and politician 64th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)

1918 Egidio Galea Maltese Roman Catholic priest (d. 2005)

1918 T. Berry Brazelton American pediatrician and author (d. 2018)

1918 Desmond MacNamara Irish painter sculptor and author (d. 2008)

1918 Richard Feynman American physicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

1918 Mary Kay Ash American businesswoman founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)

1918 Balasaraswati Indian dancer and instructor (d. 1984)

1918 Gwyn Howells Australian public servant (d. 1997)

1918 Eddy Arnold American singer-songwriter guitarist and actor (d. 2008)

1918 Arthur Jackson American lieutenant and target shooter (d. 2015)

1918 Joseph Wiseman Canadian-American actor (d. 2009)

1918 Wilf Mannion English footballer and manager (d. 2000)

1918 Joan Benham English actress (d. 1981)

1918 Birgit Nilsson Swedish operatic soprano (d. 2005)

1918 Abraham Pais Dutch-American physicist historian and academic (d. 2000)

1918 Alexandra Boyko Russian tank commander (d. 1996)

1918 Edward B. Lewis American biologist geneticist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

1918 Denis Compton English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1997)

1918 Coleman Young American politician 66th Mayor of Detroit (d. 1997)

1918 Yasuhiro Nakasone Japanese commander and politician 45th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2019)

1918 Johnny Wayne Canadian comedian (d. 1990)

1918 Pita Amor Mexican poet and author (d. 2000)

1918 Bob Evans American businessman founded Bob Evans Restaurants (d. 2007)

1918 Robert Osterloh American actor (d. 2001)

1918 Lloyd Quarterman African American chemist (d. 1982)

1918 Ruth Atkinson Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1997)

1918 Kathryn Tucker Windham American journalist and author (d. 2011)

1918 Patrick Cargill English actor and producer (d. 1996)

1918 Lili St. Cyr American burlesque dancer (d. 1999)

1918 Kenneth Connor English comedy actor (d. 1993)

1918 Edwin G. Krebs American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)

1918 George Edward Hughes Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (d. 1994)

1918 Robert Preston American actor and singer (d. 1987)

1918 John D. Roberts American chemist and academic (d. 2016)

1918 John Hospers American philosopher and politician (d. 2011)

1918 Patachou French singer and actress (d. 2015)

1918 Barry Morse English-Canadian actor and director (d. 2008)

1918 Ruth Aarons American table tennis player and manager (d. 1980)

1918 Samuel Z. Arkoff American film producer (d. 2001)

1918 Georgia Louise Harris Brown American architect (d. 1999)

1918 Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (d. 2001)

1918 Ben Johnson American actor and stuntman (d. 1996)

1918 Helmut Lent German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)

1918 Percy Rodriguez Canadian-American actor (d. 2007)

1918 Ajahn Chah Thai monk and educator (d. 1992)

1918 Alf Francis West Prussia-born English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor (d. 1983)

1918 Jerome Karle American chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)

1918 Franco Modigliani Italian-American economist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)

1918 George Lynch American race car driver (d. 1997)

1918 Zoltán Sztáray Hungarian-American author (d. 2011)

1918 Robert A. Boyd Canadian engineer (d. 2006)

1918 James Joll English historian author and academic (d. 1994)

1918 Eddie Lopat American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1992)

1918 Dee Molenaar American mountaineer (d. 2020)

1918 Robert Roosa American economist and banker (d. 1993)

1918 Tibor Szele Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1955)

1918 Josephine Webb American engineer

1918 Yeoh Ghim Seng Singaporean politician acting President of Singapore (d. 1993)

1918 Mildred Ladner Thompson American journalist and author (d. 2013)

1918 Yong Nyuk Lin Singaporean businessman and politician Singaporean Minister for Education (d. 2012)

1918 P. H. Newby English soldier and author (d. 1997)

1918 Leo Rosner Polish-born Austrian Jewish musician (d. 2008)

1918 Raleigh Rhodes American combat fighter pilot (d. 2007)

1918 J. B. Fuqua American entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2006)

1918 Adolph Kiefer American swimmer (d. 2017)

1918 William Whitelaw 1st Viscount Whitelaw Scottish-English politician Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1999)

1918 Heini Lohrer Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2011)

1918 Gene La Rocque U.S admiral (d. 2016)

1918 Francis W. Nye United States Air Force major general (d. 2019)

1918 Ralph Young American singer and actor (d. 2008)

1918 Ahmed Deedat South African writer and public speaker (d. 2005)

1918 Pedro Yap Filipino lawyer (d. 2003)

1918 Athos Bulcão Brazilian painter and sculptor (d. 2008)

1918 Indumati Bhattacharya Indian politician (d. 1990)

1918 S. V. Ranga Rao Indian actor director and producer (d. 1974)

1918 Johnny Palmer American golfer (d. 2006)

1918 Eppie Lederer American journalist and radio host (d. 2002)

1918 Johnnie Parsons American race car driver (d. 1984)

1918 King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)

1918 Eric Bedser English cricketer (d. 2006)

1918 Pauline Phillips American journalist and radio host created Dear Abby (d. 2013)

1918 K. Karunakaran Indian lawyer and politician 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 2010)

1918 Brian James Australian actor (d. 2009)

1918 Zakaria Mohieddin Egyptian general and politician 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)

1918 George Rochberg American composer and educator (d. 2005)

1918 Sebastian Cabot English-Canadian actor (d. 1977)

1918 Herm Fuetsch American professional basketball player (d. 2010)

1918 Francisco Moncion Dominican-American ballet dancer charter member of the New York City Ballet (d.1995)

1918 Bob Vanatta American head basketball coach (d. 2016)

1918 Jing Shuping Chinese businessman (d. 2009)

1918 Paul B. Fay American businessman soldier and diplomat 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)

1918 Irwin Hasen American illustrator (d. 2015)

1918 Oluf Reed-Olsen Norwegian resistance member and pilot (d. 2002)

1918 Julia Pirie British spy working for MI5 (d. 2008)

1918 Edward B. Giller American Major General (d. 2017)

1918 Craig Stevens American actor (d. 2000)

1918 Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 2012)

1918 Jarl Wahlström Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1999)

1918 James Aldridge Australian-English journalist and author (d. 2015)

1918 Chuck Stevens American baseball player (d. 2018)

1918 Frank L. Lambert Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College (d. 2018)

1918 Fred Wacker American race driver and engineer (d. 1998)

1918 Venetia Burney English educator who named Pluto (d. 2009)

1918 Ronald Bladen American painter and sculptor (d. 1988)

1918 Marcia Brown American author and illustrator (d. 2015)

1918 Fred Baur American chemist and founder of Pringles (d. 2008)

1918 Arthur Laurents American director screenwriter and playwright (d. 2011)

1918 Jay Wright Forrester American computer engineer and systems scientist (d. 2016)

1918 Bertram Brockhouse Canadian physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)

1918 Brenda Milner English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic

1918 Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio Guatemalan soldier and politician President of Guatemala (d. 2003)

1918 Red Sovine American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)

1918 Cindy Walker American singer-songwriter and dancer (d. 2006)

1918 Abraham Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)

1918 Ruth Duccini American actress (d. 2014)

1918 Pee Wee Reese American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1999)

1918 Ruggiero Ricci American violinist and educator (d. 2012)

1918 Jane Frank American painter and sculptor (d. 1986)

1918 Marjorie Lord American actress (d. 2015)

1918 Leonard Rose American cellist and educator (d. 1984)

1918 Don Ingalls American writer and producer (d. 2014)

1918 Edwin O'Connor American journalist and author (d. 1968)

1918 Mary Lee Settle American novelist essayist and memoirist (d. 2005)

1918 Paul D. Boyer American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)

1918 Hank Jones American pianist composer and bandleader (d. 2010)

1918 Frank Renouf New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998)

1918 T. J. Jemison American minister and activist (d. 2013)

1918 James MacGregor Burns American historian political scientist and author (d. 2014)

1918 Sidney Gottlieb American chemist and theorist (d. 1999)

1918 Larry Haines American actor (d. 2008)

1918 Eddie Jefferson American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)

1918 Brian Crozier Australian-English historian and journalist (d. 2012)

1918 Tom Drake American actor and singer (d. 1982)

1918 Betty Oliphant English-Canadian ballerina co-founded Canada's National Ballet School (d. 2004)

1918 Norman Granz American-Swiss record producer and manager (d. 2001)

1918 C. Buddingh' Dutch poet and translator (d. 1985)

1918 Gordon Zahn American sociologist and author (d. 2007)

1918 Kermit Beahan American colonel (d. 1989)

1918 Giles Cooper Irish soldier and playwright (d. 1966)

1918 Albert Seedman American police officer (d. 2013)

1918 Eugene P. Wilkinson American admiral (d. 2013)

1918 Sid Bernstein American record producer (d. 2013)

1918 Noor Hassanali Trinidadian lawyer and politician 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2006)

1918 Frederick Sanger English biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)

1918 Evelyn Ankers British-American actress (d. 1985)

1918 Ike Quebec American saxophonist and pianist (d. 1963)

1918 Michael John Wise English geographer and academic (d. 2015)

1918 Cisco Houston American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1961)

1918 Jimmy Rowles American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1996)

1918 Billy Reay Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2004)

1918 Mary McGrory American journalist and author (d. 2004)

1918 Sikander Bakht Indian field hockey player and politician Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2004)

1918 Richard Greene English actor (d. 1985)

1918 Katherine Johnson American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020)

1918 Jelle Zijlstra Dutch economist and politician Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2001)

1918 L. B. Cole American illustrator and publisher (d. 1995)

1918 Harold Atcherley English businessman (d. 2017)

1918 Billy Johnson American baseball player (d. 2006)

1918 Allen Drury American journalist and author (d. 1998)

1918 Helen Wagner American actress (d. 2010)

1918 Gerald Wilson American trumpet player and composer (d. 2014)

1918 Luis Alcoriza Mexican actor director and screenwriter (d. 1992)

1918 Bob Katter Sr. Australian captain and politician (d. 1990)

1918 Fred McCarthy American cartoonist and monk (d. 2009)

1918 Harold Amos American microbiologist and academic (d. 2003)

1918 Derek Barton English-American chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

1918 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Italian lawyer and politician 9th President of Italy (d. 2012)

1918 Ray Charles American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2015)

1918 Dick Haymes Argentinian actor and singer (d. 1980)

1918 Georges Berger Belgian race car driver (d. 1967)

1918 Cachao López Cuban-American bassist and composer (d. 2008)

1918 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. American historian and academic (d. 2007)

1918 Phil Lamason New Zealand soldier and pilot (d. 2012)

1918 Margot Loyola Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)

1918 Nipsey Russell American comedian and actor (d. 2005)

1918 Władysław Kędra Polish pianist (d. 1968)

1918 Lea Gottlieb Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer founded the Gottex Company (d. 2012)

1918 Chaim Herzog Irish-born Israeli general and politician 6th President of Israel (d. 1997)

1918 Johnny Mantz American race car driver (d. 1972)

1918 Pablita Velarde Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) painter (d. 2006)

1918 John Gofman American physicist chemist and biologist (d. 2007)

1918 Karl Slover American actor (d. 2011)

1918 Juan José Arreola Mexican writer and academic (d. 2001)

1918 Hans Scholl German activist (d. 1943)

1918 Henryk Szeryng Mexican violinist and educator (d. 1988)

1918 Michael J. S. Dewar Indian-born American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model (d. 1997)

1918 Audra Lindley American actress (d. 1997)

1918 Eric Morley English businessman and television host founded the Miss World (d. 2000)

1918 Martin Ryle English astronomer and author Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)

1918 Malcolm Shepherd 2nd Baron Shepherd (d. 2001)

1918 Konstantin Gerchik Soviet military leader (d. 2001)

1918 Ángel Labruna Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1983)

1918 Arnold Stang American actor (d. 2009)

1918 Billy Bevis English footballer (d. 1994)

1918 Lewis Nixon U.S. Army captain (d. 1995)

1918 René Rémond French historian and economist (d. 2007)

1918 Kenichi Fukui Japanese chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

1918 Goh Keng Swee Singaporean soldier and politician 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)

1918 André Pilette French-Belgian race car driver (d. 1993)

1918 Harry V. Jaffa American historian philosopher and academic (d. 2015)

1918 Halfdan Hegtun Norwegian radio host and politician (d. 2012)

1918 Jens Christian Skou Danish chemist and physiologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)

1918 E. Howard Hunt American CIA officer and author (d. 2007)

1918 Charles Read Australian air marshal (d. 2014)

1918 Bebo Valdés Cuban-Swedish pianist composer and bandleader (d. 2013)

1918 Fred Bodsworth Canadian journalist and author (d. 2012)

1918 Robert Walker American actor (d. 1951)

1918 Marcel Chaput Canadian biochemist journalist and politician (d. 1991)

1918 Thelma Coyne Long Australian tennis player and captain (d. 2015)

1918 Doug Ring Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2003)

1918 Louis Althusser Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1990)

1918 Abraham Nemeth American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)

1918 Tony Rolt English race car driver and engineer (d. 2008)

1918 Ralph Wilson American businessman founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014)

1918 Luis Alberto Solari Uruguayan artist (d. 1993)

1918 Molly Geertsema Dutch lawyer and politician Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1991)

1918 Konstantinos Mitsotakis Greek lawyer and politician 178th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2017)

1918 Bobby Troup American singer-songwriter pianist and actor (d. 1999)

1918 Charles Evans English-Welsh mountaineer surgeon and educator (d. 1995)

1918 Russell Kirk American theorist and author (d. 1994)

1918 Robert Schwarz Strauss American lawyer and diplomat United States Ambassador to Russia (d. 2014)

1918 Martin Drewes German soldier and pilot (d. 2013)

1918 Robert Lochner American-German soldier and journalist (d. 2003)

1918 Milton Himmelfarb American sociologist and author (d. 2006)

1918 Albertina Sisulu South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2011)

1918 Lou Klein American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1976)

1918 Augusta Dabney American actress (d. 2008)

1918 James Daly American actor (d. 1978)

1918 Paul Rudolph American architect and academic designed the Lippo Centre (d. 1997)

1918 Doreen Tovey English author (d. 2008)

1918 Mihkel Mathiesen Estonian engineer and politician (d. 2003)

1918 Teresa Wright American actress and singer (d. 2005)

1918 Bernard Gordon American screenwriter and producer (d. 2007)

1918 Diana Serra Cary American actress and author (d. 2020)

1918 Ian Stevenson American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2007)

1918 Ken Miles English-American race car driver (d. 1966)

1918 Alexander Vraciu American commander and pilot of Romanian descent (d. 2015)

1918 Claude Barma French director producer and screenwriter (d. 1992)

1918 Elizabeth P. Hoisington American general (d. 2007)

1918 Russell B. Long American lieutenant lawyer and politician (d. 2003)

1918 Cameron Mitchell American actor (d. 1994)

1918 Paul Aussaresses French general (d. 2013)

1918 Maria Teresa de Noronha Portuguese singer (d. 1993)

1918 Kazuo Sakamaki Japanese soldier (d. 1999)

1918 Hermann Zapf German typographer and calligrapher (d. 2015)

1918 Florence Chadwick American swimmer (d. 1995)

1918 Thomas Ferebee American colonel (d. 2000)

1918 Choi Hong Hi South Korean general and martial artist co-founded taekwondo (d. 2002)

1918 Ernst Otto Fischer German chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)

1918 Stubby Kaye American entertainer (d. 1997)

1918 George Grant Canadian philosopher and academic (d. 1988)

1918 İlhan Berk Turkish poet and author (d. 2008)

1918 Tasker Watkins Welsh soldier judge and politician Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2007)

1918 Corita Kent American nun illustrator and educator (d. 1986)

1918 Dora Ratjen German high jumper (d. 2008)

1918 Claiborne Pell American captain and politician (d. 2009)

1918 Patricio Aylwin Chilean lawyer and politician 31st President of Chile (d. 2016)

1918 Stephen Elliott American actor (d. 2005)

1918 Madeleine L'Engle American author and poet (d. 2007)

1918 Efrem Zimbalist Jr. American actor (d. 2014)

1918 Abdul Haris Nasution Indonesian general and politician 12th Indonesian Minister of Defence (d. 2000)

1918 Tauba Biterman Polish Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)

1918 Anne Gwynne American actress (d. 2003)

1918 Anatoli Tarasov Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)

1918 Clinton Adams American painter and historian (d. 2002)

1918 Joe Williams American singer and pianist (d. 1999)

1918 James T. Aubrey American broadcaster (d. 1994)

1918 Radu Beligan Romanian actor and director (d. 2016)

1918 B. K. S. Iyengar Indian yoga instructor and author founded Iyengar Yoga (d. 2014)

1918 Jeff Chandler American actor (d. 1961)

1918 Chihiro Iwasaki Japanese painter and illustrator (d. 1974)

1918 Professor Longhair American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1980)

1918 Lee Rich American producer and production manager (d. 2012)

1918 Jean Marchand Canadian trade union leader and politician 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1988)

1918 Donald Regan American colonel and politician 11th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)

1918 José Greco Italian-American dancer and choreographer (d. 2000)

1918 Helmut Schmidt German soldier economist and politician 5th Chancellor of Germany (d. 2015)

1918 Dave Bartholomew American bandleader composer and arranger (d. 2019)

1918 Olga Lopes-Seale Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host (d. 2011)

1918 Georgios Rallis Greek lieutenant and politician 173rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)

1918 John Celardo American captain and illustrator (d. 2012)

1918 Ray Graves American football player and coach (d. 2015)

1918 Skitch Henderson American pianist composer and conductor (d. 2005)

1918 Elmore James American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)

1918 William Seawell American general (d. 2005)

1918 Harry Corbett English puppeteer actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)

1918 Trevor Skeet New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (d. 2004)

1918 Ignacy Tokarczuk Polish archbishop (d. 2012)

1918 Lothar-Günther Buchheim German author and painter (d. 2007)

1918 Norman Farberow American psychologist and academic (d. 2015)

1918 Julian Schwinger American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)

1918 Otis Bowen American physician and politician 44th Governor of Indiana (d. 2013)

1918 Pyotr Masherov Leader of Soviet Belarus (d. 1980)

1918 Theodore Sturgeon American author and critic (d. 1985)

1918 Howard McGhee American trumpeter (d. 1987)

1918 Mary Glen-Haig English fencer (d. 2014)

1918 Vivian Mason American actress (d. 2009)

1918 Doris Grumbach American novelist memoirist biographer literary critic and essayist (d. 2022)

1918 Rusty Dedrick American swing and bebop jazz trumpeter (d. 2009)

1918 Denis Edward Arnold English soldier (d. 2015)

1918 Paul Farnes British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot (d. 2020)

1918 Samuel Victor Perry English biochemist and rugby player (d. 2009)

1918 Moisis Michail Bourlas Greek soldier and educator (d. 2011)

1918 Orville Freeman American soldier and politician 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2003)

1918 Kai Siegbahn Swedish physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)

1918 Hans Billian German film director screenwriter and actor (d. 2007)

1918 Mary Healy American actress and singer (d. 2015)

1918 Bill Vukovich American

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