page_title: 1918
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1918 / Births / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Press photo of Jeff Chandler
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: December 3 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000)
  December 6
  Tauba Biterman, Polish Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)
  Nick Drahos, American football player (d. 2018)
  December 7
  Jórunn Viðar, Icelandic pianist, composer (d. 2017)
  Liu Yichang, Hong Kong writer and novelist (d. 2018)
  December 8 – Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
  December 10 – Fergus Anckorn, British magician (d. 2018)
  December 11
  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
  John W. Reed, American legal scholar (d. 2018)
  December 12 – Joe Williams, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
  December 14 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga teacher (d. 2014)
  December 15 – Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
  December 17
  Dusty Anderson, American actress, model
  Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg, German royal (d. 2019)
  December 18 – Joyce Reynolds, English author
  December 19 – Georgina Cookson, British actress (d. 2011)
  December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet, author (d. 1990)
  December 21
  Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias, Peruvian philosopher (d. 2019)
  Fred Gloden, American football player (d. 2019)
  Donald Regan, American Treasury Secretary, White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
  Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2007)
  December 23
  José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
  Kumar Pallana, Indian actor (d. 2013)
  Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (d. 2015)
  December 24 – Dave Bartholomew, American musician, songwriter and music producer (d. 2019)
  December 25
  Bertie Mee, English football player, manager (d. 2001)
  Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1981)
  George S. Vest, American diplomat
  December 26 – Butch Ballard, American jazz drummer (d. 2011)
  December 29 – Leo J. Dulacki, American general (d. 2019)
  December 31
  Al Lakeman, American Major League Baseball catcher (d. 1976)
  Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, Russian-American author (d. 2018)
caption: Jeff Chandler
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