Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928
Events
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 7 - Pinkas Braun[?], actor and film director
- January 5 - Sam Phillips, county music[?] producer
- January 6 - Jacobo Timerman, writer (+ 1999)
- January 10 - Ingeborg Drewitz[?], writer (+ 1986)
- January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan[?], French actress
- January 19 - Jean Stapleton[?], actress
- January 26 - Anne Jeffreys[?], actress
- January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky[?], writer (+ 1981)
- January 31 - Norman Mailer, writer and journalist
- February 2 - James Dickey, poet, author (+ 1997)
- February 2 - Liz Smith[?], gossip columnist
- February 9 - Brendan Behan[?], author (+ 1964)
- February 11 - Ronald Arculus[?], British diplomat.
- February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, italian director
- February 13 - Chuck Yeager, pilot
- February 27 - Dexter Gordon, jazz saxophone player (+ 1990)
- March 6 - Ed McMahon[?], television personality
- March 6 - Jürgen von Manger[?], cabaretist (+ 1994)
- March 8 - Walter Jens[?], writer
- March 9 - Walter Kohn[?], physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1998)
- March 12 - Wally Schirra[?], astronaut
- March 22 - Marcel Marceau, mime[?]
- March 24 - Kermit Schafer[?], humorist (+ 1979)
- March 26 - Bob Elliott, comedian
- March 27 - Louis Simpson[?], poet
- March 30 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
- April 22 - Bettie Page, pinup model
- April 22 - Aaron Spelling[?], television producer, writer
- May 1 - Joseph Heller, novelist (+ 1999)
- May 7 - Anne Baxter, actress (+ 1985)
- May 13 - Bea Arthur, actress
- May 21 - Ara Parseghian[?], American football coach
- May 27 -Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973
- May 28 - György Ligeti, composer
- September 6 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia
- December 14 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
- December 23 - James Stockdale, United States Navy admiral
Deaths
Nobel Prizes