page_title: 1918
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1918 / Births / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Leonard Bernstein
context_page_description: 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1918th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 918th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1918, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
  This year is famous for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic, that killed 50-100 million people worldwide.
context_section_description: August 1
  Artur Brauner, German film producer and entrepreneur (d. 2019)
  Zhou Xuan, Chinese singer, actress (d. 1957)
  August 2 – Dada Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2018)
  August 3
  Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999)
  Cheng Kaijia, Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer (d. 2018)
  August 4 – Noel Willman, Irish actor (d. 1988)
  August 5
  Kondapalli Koteswaramma, Indian communist leader, feminist, revolutionary, and writer (d. 2018)
  Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (d. 2004)
  August 6 – Charles Coulston Gillispie, American historian (d. 2015)
  August 11 – Thomas A. Bird, British WWII army officer, architect (d. 2017)
  August 12 – Roy C. Bennett, American songwriter (d. 2015)
  August 13
  Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2006)
  Tao Porchon-Lynch, American yoga master and author (d. 2020)
  Frederick Sanger, English biochemist, two time Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
  August 19 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, 9th President of India (d. 1999)
  August 20 – Crystal Bennett, British archaeologist, pioneering researcher on Jordan (d. 1987)
  August 21 – Bruria Kaufman, American-born Israeli physicist (d. 2010)
  August 22
  Said Mohamed Djohar, former President of the Comoros (d. 2006)
  Martin Pope, American physical chemist
  August 23 – Bernard Fisher, American surgeon (d. 2019)
  August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor (d. 1990)
  August 26
  Hutton Gibson, American religion writer, father of actor Mel Gibson
  Katherine Johnson, African-American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician (d. 2020)
  Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz, Brazilian sociologist (d. 2018)
  August 27
  Simeon Booker, American journalist (d. 2017)
  Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1966-1967 (d. 2001)
  August 28 – Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 37th President of Argentina (d. 1996)
  August 29
  Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Dutch physicist (d. 2019)
  Brian Stonehouse, English painter, WWII spy (d. 1998)
  August 30 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
  August 31
  Kenny Washington, African-American football player (d. 1971)
  Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist, librettist (d. 1986)
  Griffin Bell, American politician (d. 2009)
caption: Leonard Bernstein
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