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Born in 1918

949 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Nelson Mandela

    lawyer, politician

    1918–2013 · aged 95

    July 18 · 1918

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  2. Richard Feynman

    politician, quantum physicist

    1918–1988 · aged 69

    May 11 · 1918

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  3. Rita Hayworth

    actor, television actor

    1918–1987 · aged 68

    October 17 · 1918

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  4. Nicolae Ceaușescu

    politician, president of Romania

    1918–1989 · aged 71

    January 26 · 1918

    Source: SNAC

  5. Robert Wadlow

    circus performer

    1918–1940 · aged 22

    February 22 · 1918

    Source: GeneaStar

  6. Gamal Abdel Nasser

    military leader, president

    1918–1970 · aged 52

    January 15 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  7. Ingmar Bergman

    film director, theatre director

    1918–2007 · aged 89

    July 14 · 1918

    Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)

  8. Katherine Johnson

    mathematician, computer scientist

    1918–2020 · aged 101

    August 26 · 1918

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  9. Billy Graham

    autobiographer, evangelist

    1918–2018 · aged 99

    November 7 · 1918

    Source: Records of persons of interest

  10. Anwar Sadat

    vice president, opinion journalist

    1918–1981 · aged 62

    December 25 · 1918

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  11. Ken Miles

    racing automobile driver, Formula One driver

    1918–1966 · aged 47

    November 1 · 1918

    Source: MAK

  12. William Holden

    television actor, military officer

    1918–1981

    April 17 · 1918

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  13. Rosemary Kennedy

    1918–2005 · aged 86

    September 13 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  14. Spiro Agnew

    jurist, politician

    1918–1996 · aged 77

    November 9 · 1918

    Source: SNAC

  15. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    militant, historian

    1918–2008 · aged 89

    December 11 · 1918

    Source: Russian literature of the 20th century. Volume 3, 2005

  16. Leonard Bernstein

    musicographer, teacher

    1918–1990 · aged 72

    August 25 · 1918

    Source: Archivio Storico Ricordi

  17. Richard Winters

    army officer

    1918–2011 · aged 92

    January 21 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  18. Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

    poet, politician

    1918–2004 · aged 86

    May 6 · 1918

    No external source identified

  19. Sam Walton

    entrepreneur, businessperson

    1918–1992 · aged 74

    March 29 · 1918

    Source: Open Library

  20. George Lincoln Rockwell

    graphic designer, journalist

    1918–1967 · aged 49

    March 9 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  21. Ted Williams

    military officer, baseball player

    1918–2002 · aged 83

    August 30 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  22. Ida Lupino

    director, actor

    1918–1995 · aged 77

    February 4 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  23. Betty Ford

    model, autobiographer

    1918–2011 · aged 93

    April 8 · 1918

    Source: SNAC

  24. Ben Johnson

    stunt performer, film actor

    1918–1996 · aged 77

    June 13 · 1918

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  25. Art Carney

    comedian, actor

    1918–2003 · aged 85

    November 4 · 1918

    Source: Discogs

  26. John Forsythe

    philanthropist, producer

    1918–2010 · aged 92

    January 29 · 1918

    Source: filmportal.de

  27. Helmut Schmidt

    political economist, writer

    1918–2015 · aged 96

    December 23 · 1918

    Source: filmportal.de

  28. Kurt Waldheim

    politician, university teacher

    1918–2007 · aged 88

    December 21 · 1918

    Source: filmportal.de

  29. Spike Milligan

    screenwriter, television actor

    1918–2002 · aged 83

    April 16 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  30. Teresa Wright

    actor, television actor

    1918–2005 · aged 86

    October 27 · 1918

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  31. Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

    television actor, voice actor

    1918–2014 · aged 95

    November 30 · 1918

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  32. Chaim Herzog

    lawyer, writer

    1918–1997 · aged 78

    September 17 · 1918

    Source: knesset.gov.il

  33. Mike Wallace

    announcer, actor

    1918–2012 · aged 93

    May 9 · 1918

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  34. Louis Althusser

    editor, politician

    1918–1990 · aged 72

    October 16 · 1918

    Source: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural

  35. Jeff Chandler

    singer, television actor

    1918–1961 · aged 42

    December 15 · 1918

    Source: SNAC

  36. Sebastian Cabot

    voice actor, stage actor

    1918–1977 · aged 59

    July 6 · 1918

    Source: IMDb

  37. Robert Preston

    film actor, singer

    1918–1987 · aged 68

    June 8 · 1918

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  38. Robert Walker

    director, screenwriter

    1918–1951 · aged 32

    October 13 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  39. Bobby Troup

    television actor, actor

    1918–1999 · aged 80

    October 18 · 1918

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  40. Bobby Riggs

    tennis player

    1918–1995 · aged 77

    February 25 · 1918

    Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website

  41. Lewis Nixon III

    military officer

    1918–1995 · aged 76

    September 30 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  42. Pearl Bailey

    film actor, comedian

    1918–1990 · aged 72

    March 29 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  43. Mutsuhiro Watanabe

    soldier, military personnel

    1918–2003 · aged 85

    January 1 · 1918

    No external source identified

  44. Cameron Mitchell

    film actor, actor

    1918–1994

    November 4 · 1918

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  45. Shankar Dayal Sharma

    politician, lawyer

    1918–1999 · aged 81

    August 19 · 1918

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  46. Joey Bishop

    screenwriter, comedian

    1918–2007 · aged 89

    February 3 · 1918

    Source: filmportal.de

  47. Madeleine L'Engle

    writer, actor

    1918–2007 · aged 88

    November 29 · 1918

    Source: Vegetti Catalog of Fantastic Literature

  48. João Goulart

    lawyer, politician

    1918–1976 · aged 58

    March 1 · 1918

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  49. Nipsey Russell*

    actor, comedian

    Date disputed

    September 15 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  50. Muriel Spark

    novelist, playwright

    1918–2006 · aged 88

    February 1 · 1918

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  51. Audra Lindley

    television actor, stage actor

    1918–1997 · aged 79

    September 24 · 1918

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  52. E. Howard Hunt

    writer, novelist

    1918–2007 · aged 88

    October 9 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  53. Jerome Robbins

    theatre maker, theater artist

    1918–1998 · aged 79

    October 11 · 1918

    Source: IMDb

  54. Rosalia Lombardo

    1918–1920 · aged 1

    December 13 · 1918

    No external source identified

  55. Alberto Ascari

    motorcycle racer, Formula One driver

    1918–1955 · aged 36

    July 13 · 1918

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  56. Paul Harvey

    radio personality, aircraft pilot

    1918–2009 · aged 90

    September 4 · 1918

    Source: GeneaStar

  57. Howard Cosell

    sports commentator, lawyer

    1918–1995 · aged 77

    March 25 · 1918

    Source: SNAC

  58. Mickey Spillane

    prose writer, novelist

    1918–2006 · aged 88

    March 9 · 1918

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  59. James Daly

    stage actor, singer

    1918–1978 · aged 59

    October 23 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  60. Allan Arbus

    television actor, film actor

    1918–2013 · aged 95

    February 15 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  61. Robert Aldrich

    film producer, film director

    1918–1983 · aged 65

    August 9 · 1918

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  62. Joseph Wiseman

    actor, stage actor

    1918–2009 · aged 91

    May 15 · 1918

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  63. Hutton Gibson

    writer

    1918–2020 · aged 101

    August 26 · 1918

    No external source identified

  64. Oral Roberts

    televangelist

    1918–2009 · aged 91

    January 24 · 1918

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  65. Jørn Utzon

    architect

    1918–2008 · aged 90

    April 9 · 1918

    Source: danishfamilysearch.dk

  66. Frederick Sanger

    chemist, conscientious objector

    1918–2013 · aged 95

    August 13 · 1918

    Source: IMDb

  67. B. K. S. Iyengar

    yogi, writer

    1918–2014 · aged 95

    December 14 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  68. Gunnar Sønsteby

    soldier, SOE agent

    1918–2012 · aged 94

    January 11 · 1918

    Source: arkivverket.no

  69. Kamal Amrohi

    film director, screenwriter

    1918–1993 · aged 75

    January 17 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  70. Jack Paar

    television presenter, comedian

    1918–2004 · aged 85

    May 1 · 1918

    Source: Paar, Jack (01 May 1918–27 January 2004), television talk show host

  71. Yigal Allon

    military personnel, politician

    1918–1980 · aged 61

    October 10 · 1918

    Source: knesset.gov.il

  72. Jean-Marie Loret

    soldier, entrepreneur

    1918–1985 · aged 66

    March 25 · 1918

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  73. Ahmed Deedat

    debater, missionary

    1918–2005 · aged 87

    July 1 · 1918

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  74. Iceberg Slim

    novelist, writer

    1918–1992 · aged 73

    August 4 · 1918

    Source: Babelio

  75. Anne Shirley

    actor, film actor

    1918–1993 · aged 75

    April 17 · 1918

    Source: SNAC

  76. Julian Seymour Schwinger

    physicist, university teacher

    1918–1994 · aged 76

    February 12 · 1918

    Source: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

  77. Bruno Mussolini

    aircraft pilot, military officer

    1918–1941 · aged 23

    April 22 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  78. Gertrude B. Elion

    biochemist, university teacher

    1918–1999 · aged 81

    January 23 · 1918

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  79. Kenneth Connor

    stage actor, television actor

    1918–1993 · aged 75

    June 6 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  80. Dick Haymes*

    composer, actor

    Date disputed

    September 13 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  81. Yasuhiro Nakasone

    politician

    1918–2019 · aged 101

    May 27 · 1918

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  82. Pee Wee Reese

    baseball player

    1918–1999 · aged 81

    July 23 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  83. Anne Gwynne

    stage actor, actor

    1918–2003 · aged 84

    December 10 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  84. Kakuei Tanaka

    head of government, politician

    1918–1993 · aged 75

    May 4 · 1918

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  85. Charity Adams Earley

    military officer

    1918–2002 · aged 83

    December 5 · 1918

    No external source identified

  86. Patricio Aylwin

    university teacher, politician

    1918–2016 · aged 97

    November 26 · 1918

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  87. Mrinalini Sarabhai*

    writer, choreographer

    Date disputed

    May 11 · 1918

    Source: The International Who's Who of Women 2006

  88. Vito Scotti

    television actor, film actor

    1918–1996 · aged 78

    January 26 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  89. Charu Majumdar

    politician, revolutionary

    1918–1972 · aged 54

    March 12 · 1918

    No external source identified

  90. Ian Stevenson

    parapsychologist, university teacher

    1918–2007 · aged 88

    October 31 · 1918

    Source: Babelio

  91. Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga

    king

    1918–2006 · aged 88

    July 4 · 1918

    Source: SNAC

  92. João Figueiredo

    military officer, military personnel

    1918–1999 · aged 81

    January 15 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  93. Bob Feller

    baseball player

    1918–2010 · aged 92

    November 3 · 1918

    Source: TracesOfWar

  94. Martha Mitchell

    politician

    1918–1976 · aged 57

    September 2 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  95. Stubby Kaye

    comedian, television actor

    1918–1997 · aged 79

    November 11 · 1918

    Source: SNAC

  96. Russell Kirk

    peace activist, historian

    1918–1994 · aged 75

    October 19 · 1918

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  97. Eddy Arnold

    musician, singer

    1918–2008 · aged 89

    May 15 · 1918

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  98. Jacqueline Susann

    film actor, stage actor

    1918–1974 · aged 56

    August 20 · 1918

    Source: NooSFere

  99. John Dall

    television actor, actor

    1918–1971 · aged 52

    May 26 · 1918

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  100. Theodore Sturgeon

    autobiographer, writer

    1918–1985 · aged 67

    February 26 · 1918

    Source: NooSFere

  101. Richard Greene

    film actor, actor

    1918–1985 · aged 66

    August 25 · 1918

    Source: Library of Congress Authorities

  102. Emilio Daddario

    politician, lawyer

    1918–2010 · aged 91

    September 24 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  103. Mary Kay Ash

    entrepreneur, businessperson

    1918–2001 · aged 83

    May 12 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  104. Hans Scholl

    soldier, pacifist

    1918–1943 · aged 24

    September 22 · 1918

    Source: Babelio

  105. Craig Stevens

    television actor, actor

    1918–2000 · aged 81

    July 8 · 1918

    Source: SNAC

  106. Marjorie Lord

    television actor, actor

    1918–2015 · aged 97

    July 26 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  107. Alan Jay Lerner

    playwright, film producer

    1918–1986 · aged 67

    August 31 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  108. Guy Gibson

    writer, military personnel

    1918–1944 · aged 26

    August 12 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  109. Freddie Blassie

    manager, actor

    1918–2003 · aged 85

    February 8 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  110. Fanny Blankers-Koen

    high jumper, athletics competitor

    1918–2004 · aged 85

    April 26 · 1918

    Source: Discogs

  111. David Ferrie*

    aircraft pilot

    Date disputed

    March 28 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  112. Elmore James

    singer-songwriter, guitarist

    1918–1963 · aged 45

    January 27 · 1918

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  113. U. G. Krishnamurti

    writer, philosopher

    1918–2007 · aged 88

    July 9 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  114. Barry Morse

    actor, film director

    1918–2008 · aged 89

    June 10 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  115. Cheddi Jagan

    dentist, politician

    1918–1997 · aged 78

    March 22 · 1918

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  116. Kazuo Sakamaki

    soldier

    1918–1999 · aged 81

    November 8 · 1918

    No external source identified

  117. Goh Keng Swee

    politician

    1918–2010 · aged 91

    October 6 · 1918

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  118. Don Pardo

    voice actor, actor

    1918–2014 · aged 96

    February 22 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  119. Arnold Stang

    television actor, film actor

    1918–2009 · aged 91

    September 28 · 1918

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  120. Donald Regan

    businessperson, military officer

    1918–2003 · aged 84

    December 21 · 1918

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  121. Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad

    politician

    1918–1996

    1918

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  122. Russell B. Long

    lawyer, jurist

    1918–2003 · aged 84

    November 3 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  123. Philip José Farmer

    writer, novelist

    1918–2009 · aged 91

    January 26 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  124. Konstantinos Mitsotakis

    lawyer, resistance fighter

    1918–2017 · aged 98

    October 18 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  125. Birgit Nilsson

    opera singer

    1918–2005 · aged 87

    May 17 · 1918

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  126. Carmen Amaya

    actor, singer

    1918–1963 · aged 45

    November 2 · 1918

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  127. Willie Whitelaw

    politician

    1918–1999

    June 28 · 1918

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  128. Poon Lim

    sailor

    1918–1991 · aged 72

    March 8 · 1918

    No external source identified

  129. Evelyn Ankers

    film actor, actor

    1918–1985 · aged 67

    August 17 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  130. Jack MacGowran

    stage actor, actor

    1918–1973

    October 13 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  131. Abba Kovner

    soldier, poet

    1918–1987 · aged 69

    March 14 · 1918

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  132. Tom Drake

    musician, actor

    1918–1982 · aged 64

    August 5 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  133. Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

    politician, lawyer

    1918–2012 · aged 93

    September 9 · 1918

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  134. M. A. G. Osmani

    politician, military personnel

    1918–1984 · aged 65

    September 1 · 1918

    No external source identified

  135. Pavlik Morozov

    1918–1932 · aged 13

    November 14 · 1918

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  136. W. Eugene Smith

    photographer, journalist

    1918–1978 · aged 59

    December 30 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  137. Roger Delgado

    television actor, film actor

    1918–1973 · aged 55

    March 1 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  138. Venetia Burney

    teacher

    1918–2009 · aged 90

    July 11 · 1918

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  139. Jin Youzhi

    historian, politician

    1918–2015 · aged 96

    August 17 · 1918

    No external source identified

  140. Kumar Pallana

    actor

    1918–2013 · aged 94

    December 23 · 1918

    No external source identified

  141. Arthur Chung

    politician, judge

    1918–2008 · aged 90

    January 10 · 1918

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  142. Edith Massey

    actor, singer

    1918–1984 · aged 66

    May 28 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

  143. Dimitri Tsafendas

    political activist, assassin

    1918–1999 · aged 81

    January 14 · 1918

    No external source identified

  144. E. K. Nayanar

    politician, autobiographer

    1918–2004 · aged 85

    December 9 · 1918

    No external source identified

  145. Stafford Repp

    film actor, television actor

    1918–1974 · aged 56

    April 26 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  146. Diana Serra Cary

    writer, film actor

    1918–2020 · aged 101

    October 29 · 1918

    No external source identified

  147. Professor Longhair

    street artist, musician

    1918–1980 · aged 61

    December 19 · 1918

    Source: Find a Grave

  148. Ben Klassen

    politician, author

    1918–1993 · aged 75

    February 20 · 1918

    No external source identified

  149. Stephen Elliott

    television actor, actor

    1918–2005 · aged 86

    November 27 · 1918

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  150. André Bazin*

    journalist, film director

    Date disputed

    April 18 · 1918

    Source: BnF authorities

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