page_title: 1918
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1918 / Births / July
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait photo of Paul Farnes.
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: July 1
  Ralph Young, American singer, actor (d. 2008)
  Ahmed Deedat, South African writer, public speaker (d. 2005)
  Pedro Yap, Filipino lawyer (d. 2003)
  July 2
  Athos Bulcão, Brazilian painter, sculptor (d. 2008)
  Indumati Bhattacharya, Indian politician
  July 3
  Shirley Adelson Siegel, American activist and lawyer
  Johnny Palmer, American golfer (d. 2006)
  Benjamin C. Thompson, American architect (d. 2002)
  Lorenzo Robledo, Spanish actor (d. 2006)
  July 4
  King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)
  Alec Bedser, English cricketer (d. 2010)
  Eric Bedser, English cricketer (d. 2006)
  Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)
  Joe Fortunato, American football, basketball, and baseball coach (d. 2004)
  Pauline Phillips, American advice columnist, popularly known as Abigail Van Buren (d. 2013)
  July 5
  Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian general, politician (d. 2012)
  Brian James, Australian actor (d. 2009)
  George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
  Miguel Ángel Sanz Bocos, Spanish fighter pilot (d. 2018)
  Nikos Papatakis, Greek Ethiopian-born naturalised French filmmaker (d. 2010)
  July 6
  Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
  J. Dewey Daane, American economist (d. 2017)
  Herm Fuetsch, American professional basketball player (d. 2010)
  Francisco Moncion, Dominican-American dancer, charter member of New York City Ballet (d. 1995)
  July 7
  Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d. 2016)
  Jing Shuping, Chinese businessman (d. 2009)
  July 8
  Edward B. Giller, U.S. major general (d. 2017)
  Julia Pirie, British spy working for MI5 (d. 2008)
  Oluf Reed-Olsen, Norwegian resistance member, pilot (d. 2002)
  Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
  Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
  July 9 – Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general (d. 1999)
  July 10
  Chuck Stevens, American major baseball (d. 2018)
  Frank L. Lambert, American professor emeritus of chemistry at Occidental College (d. 2018)
  July 11 – Venetia Burney, English woman known for being the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the planet in 1930 (d. 2009)
  July 12
  Doris Grumbach, American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist
  Mary Glen-Haig, British Olympic fencer (d. 2014)
  Alice Van-Springsteen, American stuntwoman, jockey (d. 2008)
  Vivian Mason, American actress (d. 2009)
  Paul Stenn, American football offensive tackle (d. 2003)
  July 13
  Ted Oldfield, English footballer (d. 2006)
  Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
  July 14
  T. M. Aluko, Nigerian writer (d. 2010)
  Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (d. 2007)
  Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer, systems scientist (d. 2016)
  July 15
  Paddy Bassett, New Zealand scientist (d. 2019)
  Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
  Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, British soldier, politician, television executive and writer (d. 2009)
  Arthur Dimmock, English writer, journalist and historian (d. 2007)
  Brenda Milner, Canadian neuropsychologist
  July 16
  Denis Edward Arnold, English soldier (d. 2015)
  Pituka de Foronda, Spanish actress (d. 1999)
  Paul Farnes, famed World War II Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot, one of "The Few" surviving pilots of the Battle of Britain (d. 2020)
  Samuel Victor Perry, British biochemist (d. 2009)
  Leonard T. Schroeder, American colonel (d. 2009)
  Jim Vickers-Willis, Australian journalist (d. 2008)
  July 17
  Chandler Robbins, American ornithologist (d. 2017)
  Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
  July 18
  Lia Dorana, Dutch comedian, actress (d. 2010)
  James Duesenberry, American economist (d. 2009)
  Warren Hair, American professional basketball player (d. 2006)
  Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2013)
  July 20
  Auður Laxness, Icelandic writer, craftsperson (d. 2012)
  Edward S. Little, American diplomat (d. 2004)
  Eric Longworth, British actor (d. 2008)
  Cindy Walker, American songwriter, country singer (d. 2006)
  July 21 – Elsa Kobberstad, Norwegian schoolteacher, politician (d. 2007)
  July 22
  Lila Zali, Georgian-born Am
caption: Paul Farnes
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