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| * [[February 6]] – [[Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom]]: [[Representation of the People Act 1918|Representation of the People Act]] gives most women over 30 the vote. | * [[February 6]] – [[Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom]]: [[Representation of the People Act 1918|Representation of the People Act]] gives most women over 30 the vote. | ||
| * [[March 26]] – Dr. [[Marie Stopes]] publishes her influential book ''[[Married Love]]'' in the U.K. | * [[March 26]] – Dr. [[Marie Stopes]] publishes her influential book ''[[Married Love]]'' in the U.K. | ||
| - | * [[July 17]] – [[Execution of the Romanov family]]: By order of the [[Bolshevik Party]] and carried out by the [[Cheka]], former emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]], his wife [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Alexandra Feodorovna]], their children, [[Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia|Olga]], [[Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia|Tatiana]], [[Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899–1918)|Maria]], [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia|Anastasia]], and [[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia|Alexei]], and retainers are shot at the [[Ipatiev House]] in [[Yekaterinburg|Ekaterinburg, Russia]]. | + | * [[July 17]] – [[Execution of the Romanov family]] by order of the [[Bolshevik Party]] |
| * [[August 30]] - In response to the [[October Revolution]] in Russia, [[Vladimir Lenin]] is shot and wounded by [[Fanny Kaplan]] in Moscow, but survives. | * [[August 30]] - In response to the [[October Revolution]] in Russia, [[Vladimir Lenin]] is shot and wounded by [[Fanny Kaplan]] in Moscow, but survives. | ||
| - | * [[November 11]] - End of [[World War I|WWI]] and [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)]]: Germany signs an [[armistice]] agreement with the Allies between 5:12 AM and 5:20 AM in Marshal [[Ferdinand Foch|Foch]]'s railroad car in [[Compiègne Forest]] in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. | + | * [[November 11]] - End of [[World War I|WWI]] and [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)]] |
| + | == Art and culture == | ||
| + | *End of [[World War I]] | ||
| + | *Start of [[Weimar Republic]] | ||
| + | *[[March 23]] - [[Dada Manifesto (1918) by Tristan Tzara|Dada Manifesto]] by Tristan Tzara | ||
| + | *In February 1918, [[Richard Huelsenbeck]] gave his first Dada speech in Berlin, and produced a [[Dada manifesto]] later in the year | ||
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| + | ==Film== | ||
| + | *''[[Es werde Licht!]]'' by Richard Oswald | ||
| + | == Literature == | ||
| + | ===Fiction=== | ||
| + | *''[[Casanova's Homecoming]]'' by Arthur Schnitzler | ||
| + | ===Poetry=== | ||
| + | *''[[Twenty-Five Poems]]'' by Tzara | ||
| + | *''[[Calligrammes]]'' by Guillaume Apollinaire | ||
| + | ===Non-fiction=== | ||
| + | *''[[The Decline of the West]]'' by Oswald Spengler, first volume published | ||
| + | |||
| + | == Visual arts == | ||
| + | *First version of ''[[L.H.O.O.Q.]]'' | ||
| + | *[[Red and Blue Chair]] by Gerrit Rietveld | ||
| + | *''[[White on White]]'' by Kazimir Malevich | ||
| == Births == | == Births == | ||
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| * [[April 16]] – [[Spike Milligan]], Irish comedian (d. [[2002]]) | * [[April 16]] – [[Spike Milligan]], Irish comedian (d. [[2002]]) | ||
| * [[April 18]] - [[Gabriel Axel]], Danish film director (d. [[2014]]) | * [[April 18]] - [[Gabriel Axel]], Danish film director (d. [[2014]]) | ||
| + | * April 18 – [[André Bazin]], French film critic and theorist (d. 1958) | ||
| + | * [[April 23]] – [[James Kirkup]], a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer (d. 2009) | ||
| * [[July 14]] - [[Ingmar Bergman]], Swedish film director (d. [[2007]]) | * [[July 14]] - [[Ingmar Bergman]], Swedish film director (d. [[2007]]) | ||
| + | * [[August 9]] – [[Robert Aldrich]], American film director (d. 1983) | ||
| * [[August 25]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]], American composer and conductor (d. [[1990]]) | * [[August 25]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]], American composer and conductor (d. [[1990]]) | ||
| + | * [[September 24]] – [[Richard Hoggart]], British academic (d. 2004) | ||
| * [[October 16]] – [[Louis Althusser]], French philosopher (d. [[1990]]) | * [[October 16]] – [[Louis Althusser]], French philosopher (d. [[1990]]) | ||
| * [[October 17]] – [[Rita Hayworth]], American actress (d. [[1987]]) | * [[October 17]] – [[Rita Hayworth]], American actress (d. [[1987]]) | ||
| * [[December 11]] – [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2008]]) | * [[December 11]] – [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2008]]) | ||
| + | ==Deaths== | ||
| * [[March 25]] - [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (b. [[1862]]) | * [[March 25]] - [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (b. [[1862]]) | ||
| * [[April 18]] – [[Otto Wagner]], Austro-Hungarian architect and urban planner (b. [[1841]]) | * [[April 18]] – [[Otto Wagner]], Austro-Hungarian architect and urban planner (b. [[1841]]) | ||
| * [[June 27]] – [[Joséphin Péladan]], French occultist (b. [[1858]]) | * [[June 27]] – [[Joséphin Péladan]], French occultist (b. [[1858]]) | ||
| + | * [[September 28]] - [[Georg Simmel]], German sociologist and philosopher (b. [[1858]]) | ||
| + | * [[October 31]] - [[Egon Schiele]], Austrian artist (b. [[1890]]) | ||
| + | * [[November 9]] - [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], French poet (b. [[1880]]) | ||
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| - | === July === | ||
| - | [[File:Sultan_Mehmed_V_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_cropped.jpg|thumb|110px|Sultan [[Mehmed V]]]] | ||
| - | [[File:Quentin Roosevelt in Uniform 1917.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Quentin Roosevelt]]]] | ||
| - | [[File:Face Nicholas II.jpg|thumb|110px|Emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia]]]] | ||
| - | [[File:Henry Macintosh 1913.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Henry Macintosh]]]] | ||
| - | * [[July 3]] – Sultan [[Mehmed V]] of the Ottoman Empire (b. [[1844]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 9]] – [[James McCudden]], British fighter pilot (air crash) (b. [[1895]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 14]] – [[Quentin Roosevelt]], youngest son of President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], killed in action as fighter pilot (b. [[1897]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 17]] – Executed members of the Romanov family: | ||
| - | ** Former Emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia]] (b. [[1868]]) | ||
| - | ** Former Empress [[Alexandra of Hesse|Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia]] (b. [[1872]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia]] (b. [[1895]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia]] (b. [[1897]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia]] (b. [[1899]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia]] (b. [[1901]]) | ||
| - | ** Former [[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia|Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia]] (b. [[1904]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 18]] | ||
| - | ** [[Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia]] (b. [[1891]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia]] (b. [[1894]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia]] (b. [[1869]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 20]] – [[Francis Lupo]], American soldier (b. [[1895]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 22]] | ||
| - | ** [[Indra Lal Roy]], Indian fighter pilot (b. [[1898]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Manuel González Prada]], Peruvian politician and author (b. [[1844]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 26]] | ||
| - | ** [[Henry Macintosh]], British Olympic athlete (killed in action) (b. [[1892]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Edward Mannock]], British fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1887]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 29]] – [[Ernest William Christmas]], Australian painter (b. [[1863]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 30]] | ||
| - | **[[Joyce Kilmer]], American journalist and poet (killed in action) (b. [[1886]]) | ||
| - | **[[Frank Linke-Crawford]], Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1893]]) | ||
| - | * [[July 31]] – [[George McElroy]], British fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1893]]) | ||
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| - | === August === | ||
| - | [[File:Mother Marianne Cope in her youth.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Marianne Cope]]]] | ||
| - | * [[August 1]] | ||
| - | ** [[John Riley Banister]], American policeman and cowboy (b. [[1854]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Gabriel Guérin]], French World War I fighter ace (air crash) (b. [[1892]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 6]] – [[Peter Strasser]], German naval officer and airship commander (killed in action) (b. [[1876]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 9]] – [[Marianne Cope]], German-born American [[Roman Catholic]] nun and saint (b. [[1838]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 10]] | ||
| - | ** [[Jean Brillant]], Canadian soldier (b. [[1890]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Erich Löwenhardt]], German World War I fighter ace (b. [[1897]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Aleksander Uurits]], Estonian painter and graphic artist (b. [[1888]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 12]] – [[Anna Held]], French actress (b. [[1873]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 18]] – [[Henry Norwest]], Canadian sniper (b. [[1884]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 24]] – [[Louis Bennett Jr.]], American World War I flying ace (killed in action) (b. [[1894]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 30]] – [[William Duncan (missionary)|William Duncan]], British missionary in Canada and United States (b. [[1832]]) | ||
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| - | === September === | ||
| - | [[File:George Reid cph.3c31684.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[George Reid (Australian politician)|George Reid]]]] | ||
| - | [[File:EduardDukeAnhalt.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Eduard, Duke of Anhalt]]]] | ||
| - | [[File:Eriksweden18894qr.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Prince Erik, Duke of Vastmanland]]]] | ||
| - | * [[September 5]] – [[Nikolay Maklakov]], Russian politician, former minister of the Interior (b. [[1871]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 6]] – [[Elizabeth Yates (mayor)]], New Zealand politician (b. [[1845]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 8]] – [[Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan]], German [[Roman Catholic]] priest and venerable (b. [[1848]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 12]] – [[George Reid (Australian politician)|George Reid]], Australian politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1845]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 13]] – [[Eduard, Duke of Anhalt]] (b. [[1861]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 16]] – [[Maurice Boyau]], French World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1888]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 20]] – [[Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland]] (b. [[1889]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 25]] – [[Mikhail Alekseyev]], Russian general (b. [[1857]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 27]] – [[Fritz Rumey]], German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1891]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 28]] | ||
| - | ** [[True Boardman]], American actor (b. [[1882]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Georg Simmel]], German sociologist and philosopher (b. [[1858]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Freddie Stowers]], American soldier (b. [[1896]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 29]] – [[Frank Luke]], American fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1897]]) | ||
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| - | ===October=== | ||
| - | * [[October 5]] | ||
| - | ** [[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]], French fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. [[1888]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Robbie Ross]], British writer (b. [[1869]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 9]] – [[Raymond Duchamp-Villon]], French sculptor (b. [[1876]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 11]] – [[Wallace Lloyd Algie]], Canadian soldier (b. [[1891]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 14]] – [[Nikolai Skrydlov]], Russian admiral (executed) (b. [[1844]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 15]] – [[Sai Baba of Shirdi]], Indian guru and yogi (b. [[1838]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 16]] – [[Felix Arndt]], American pianist and composer (b. [[1889]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 18]] | ||
| - | ** [[Radko Dimitriev]], Bulgarian and Russian general (executed) (b. [[1859]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Uganda Martyrs|Daudo Okelo and Jildo Irwa]], Uganda [[Roman Catholic]] maryrs and saints (b. Uganda nationality) | ||
| - | * [[October 19]] | ||
| - | ** [[Harold Lockwood]], American actor (b. [[1887]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi]] (b. [[1889]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 22]] – [[Myrtle Gonzalez]], American actress (b. [[1891]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 24]] | ||
| - | ** [[César Ritz]], Swiss hotelier (b. [[1850]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Daniel Burley Woolfall]], English administrator, 2nd [[President of FIFA]] (b. [[1852]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 28]] – [[Michel Coiffard]], French World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1892]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 29]] – [[Rudolf Tobias]], Estonian composer (b. [[1873]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 31]] | ||
| - | ** [[Egon Schiele]], Austrian artist (b. [[1890]]) | ||
| - | ** [[István Tisza]], 2-time [[List of Prime Ministers of Hungary|Prime Minister of Hungary]] (assassinated) (b. [[1861]]) | ||
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| - | === November=== | ||
| - | [[File:Wilfred Owen plate from Poems (1920).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Wilfred Owen]]]] | ||
| - | * [[November 2]] – [[Hugh Cairns (VC)|Hugh Cairns]], Canadian soldier (b. [[1896]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 4]] | ||
| - | ** [[Wilfred Owen]], British poet and soldier (killed in action) (b. [[1893]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Andrew Dickson White]], American academic, diplomat, and co-founder of [[Cornell University]] (b. [[1832]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 5]] | ||
| - | **[[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]], British occultist (b. [[1854]]) | ||
| - | **[[William Shea (actor)|William Shea]], British actor (b. [[1856]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 6]] – [[Alan Arnett McLeod]], Canadian soldier (b. [[1899]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 9]] | ||
| - | ** [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], French poet (b. [[1880]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Albert Ballin]], German-Jewish shipping magnate (b. [[1857]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Peter Lumsden]], British general in Indian army (b. [[1829]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 11]] – [[George Lawrence Price]], Last Commonwealth soldier to die in WWI (b. [[1892]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 19]] – [[Joseph F. Smith|Joseph Fielding Smith]], American Mormon leader (b. [[1838]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 22]] – [[Rose Cleveland]], ''de facto'' [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1846]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 23]] – [[Fritz von Below]], German general (b. [[1853]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 30]] – [[Karl Petrovich Jessen]], Russian admiral (b. [[1852]]) | ||
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| - | === December=== | ||
| - | [[File:Sidónio Pais.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[Sidónio Pais]]]] | ||
| - | [[File:Zanz-Ali II.jpg|thumb|120px|right|Sultan [[Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar]]]] | ||
| - | * [[December 2]] – [[Edmond Rostand]], French writer (b. [[1868]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 4]] – [[Princess Teriivaetua]] (b. [[1869]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 5]] – [[Schalk Willem Burger]], Boer military leader, lawyer, politician, and statesman, acting [[President of the South African Republic]] (1900-1902) (b. [[1852]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 11]] – [[Ivan Cankar]], Slovenian writer (b. [[1876]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 14]] – [[Sidónio Pais]], Portuguese politician, general and diplomat, 66th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] and 4th [[President of Portugal]] (b. [[1872]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 20]] – Sultan [[Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar]] (b. [[1884]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 21]] – [[Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst]], Austrian statesman, former Prime Minister (b. [[1863]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 28]] – [[Olavo Bilac]], Brazilian poet (b. [[1865]]) | ||
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| - | == Nobel Prizes == | ||
| - | [[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]] | ||
| - | * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Max Planck|Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck]] | ||
| - | * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Fritz Haber]] | ||
| - | * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – not awarded | ||
| - | * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – not awarded | ||
| - | * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – not awarded | ||
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| - | == References == | ||
| - | {{Reflist|30em}} | ||
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| - | ===Primary sources and year books=== | ||
| - | * [https://archive.org/details/NewInternationalYearBookFor1918 ''New International Year Book 1918'' (1919)], Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 904 pp | ||
| - | * {{cite book|author=Wickware. Francis Graham. ed.|title=The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3qhRAAAAYAAJ|year=1919|publisher=T. Nelson & Sons}} | ||
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| - | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | *[[Jean Cocteau]] meets [[Raymond Radiguet]] | ||
| - | *End of [[World War I]] | ||
| - | *Start of [[Weimar Republic]] | ||
| - | == Literature == | ||
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| - | *''[[Twenty-Five Poems]]'' by Tzara | ||
| - | *''[[Calligrammes]]'' by Guillaume Apollinaire | ||
| - | *"[[What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?]]" | ||
| - | == Visual arts == | ||
| - | *First version of ''[[L.H.O.O.Q.]]'' | ||
| - | *[[Red and Blue Chair]] (1918) - [[Gerrit Rietveld]] | ||
| - | *''[[Suprematist Composition: White on White]]''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kazimir_Malevich_-_%27Suprematist_Composition-_White_on_White%27,_oil_on_canvas,_1918,_Museum_of_Modern_Art.jpg] (1918) by [[Malevich]]. | ||
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| - | == Births == | ||
| - | *[[André Bazin]] (1918 - 1958) | ||
| - | *[[Robert Aldrich]] (1918 - 1983) | ||
| - | *[[Richard Hoggart]] (1918 - 2004) | ||
| - | *[[Louis Althusser]] (1918 - 1990) | ||
| - | *[[Ingmar Bergman]] (1918 – 2007) | ||
| - | * [[James Kirkup]] (1918 – 2009) , a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer | ||
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| - | ==Deaths == | ||
| - | *[[Georg Simmel]] (1858 – 1918) | ||
| - | *[[Egon Schiele]] (1890 - 1918) | ||
| - | *[[Gustav Klimt]] (1862 - 1918) | ||
| - | *[[Guillaume Apollinaire]] (1880 - 1918) | ||
| - | *[[Claude Debussy]] (1862 - 1918) | ||
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1918 (MCMXVIII) was the 918th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1910s decade.
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Events
- February 6 – Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom: Representation of the People Act gives most women over 30 the vote.
- March 26 – Dr. Marie Stopes publishes her influential book Married Love in the U.K.
- July 17 – Execution of the Romanov family by order of the Bolshevik Party
- August 30 - In response to the October Revolution in Russia, Vladimir Lenin is shot and wounded by Fanny Kaplan in Moscow, but survives.
- November 11 - End of WWI and Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)
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Art and culture
- End of World War I
- Start of Weimar Republic
- March 23 - Dada Manifesto by Tristan Tzara
- In February 1918, Richard Huelsenbeck gave his first Dada speech in Berlin, and produced a Dada manifesto later in the year
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Film
- Es werde Licht! by Richard Oswald
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Literature
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Fiction
- Casanova's Homecoming by Arthur Schnitzler
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Poetry
- Twenty-Five Poems by Tzara
- Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire
[edit]
Non-fiction
- The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, first volume published
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Visual arts
- First version of L.H.O.O.Q.
- Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld
- White on White by Kazimir Malevich
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Births
- January 20 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
- January 26 - Philip José Farmer, American writer (d. 2009)
- February 2 – Hella Haasse, Dutch writer (d. 2011)
- February 15 – Allan Arbus, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2013)
- February 16 – Patty Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 2013)
- February 26 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
- March 9 - Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
- March 12 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
- April 16 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
- April 18 - Gabriel Axel, Danish film director (d. 2014)
- April 18 – André Bazin, French film critic and theorist (d. 1958)
- April 23 – James Kirkup, a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer (d. 2009)
- July 14 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (d. 2007)
- August 9 – Robert Aldrich, American film director (d. 1983)
- August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
- September 24 – Richard Hoggart, British academic (d. 2004)
- October 16 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher (d. 1990)
- October 17 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
- December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
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Deaths
- March 25 - Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
- April 18 – Otto Wagner, Austro-Hungarian architect and urban planner (b. 1841)
- June 27 – Joséphin Péladan, French occultist (b. 1858)
- September 28 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
- October 31 - Egon Schiele, Austrian artist (b. 1890)
- November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
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