About the day » Sunday September 8, 1918Calender converter

• Agnes Huer († 2011)
• Albert Slot, Bruchterveld, Ambt Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1991)
• Anna Diepstraten, Gilze en Rijen († 2010)
• Alida Johanna Moos, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 2010)
• Albert Slot, Bruchterveld, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1991)
• Adriana van den Berg, Etten,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1974)
• Anje van der Tuuk- († 1973)
• Andreas Johannes SCHOKKER, Steenwijkerwold († 1982)
• ter Maat, Rijssen († 1918)
• Andreas Johannes Schokker, Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1982)

• Cornelis Hubertus Laenen (3), Rotterdam
• Bartholomeus Johannis Wijland (87), Delft
• Apolonia GABRIELSE (67), Westkapelle,Zeeland,NEDERLAND
• Catharina Johanna Sondorp (54)
• Henriëtte Mathilde Buziau (52), 's-Gravenhage
• Clementia Lucia Baetes (54), Vlissingen (NL)
• Anna Petri (34), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland
• Christofforus Johannes Hendrikus Wolf (0), Overschie
• Anna Andersdotter (82), Västra Vram, Kristianstad, Sweden
• Antonius Hendrikus Bernardus Beumer (15)

• 1914 » Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre († 2001)
• 1914 » Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople († 1991)
• 1915 » N. V. M. Gonzalez, Filipino novelist, poet, and writer († 1999)
• 1917 » Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator († 2009)
• 1918 » Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1919 » Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author († 1992)
• 1919 » Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter and academic († 2014)
• 1921 » Dinko Šakić, Croatian concentration camp commander († 2008)
• 1921 » Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor († 2001)
• 1922 » Sid Caesar, American comic actor and writer († 2014)

• 1894 » Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1909 » Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (b. 1853)
• 1916 » Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1836)
• 1933 » Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1935 » Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906)
• 1940 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (b. 1903)
• 1944 » Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b. 1881)
• 1949 » Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (b. 1864)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Albert
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Aaltje
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Grietje
16. Margaretha

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
• January 9 » Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
• June 8 » A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
• June 24 » First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• October 8 » World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
• November 11 » Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
• November 13 » World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

The temperature on September 8, 1918 was between 10.8 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 25.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.