About the day » Sunday December 1, 1918Calender converter

• Antonius Johannes Neijenhuis, Duiven († 1957)
• Alex Petrus Blonk, 's-Gravenhage († 2010)
• Albert Hendrik Burghgraef, Zwolle (OV NL) († 1919)
• Aimé Van den Meersschaut, Meilegem († 2004)
• Antoon Berends, De Slegge († 1998)
• Allegonda Aarle, Schijndel († 1996)
• alberta Geertruida TIMMERS, Den haag († 1983)
• Arthur Dean Owen, Wawawai (Whitman County) (Washington) († 1998)
• Alberto Bribiesca Estrada, Orizaba, Veracruz, México († 1977)
• Alcide J. Bourgeois, St Albert, Ontario, Canada († 1992)

• Adrianus Jacobus Kortekaas (21), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (74), Cellemuiden (Westenholte), Overijssel, Nederland
• Aagje Otter (35), Wognum
• Adrianus Jacobus Kortekaas (21), Loosduinen
• Alberdina Guurtje Johanna Nieuwenhuijzen (34), 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltje van Wijk (2), Ooststellingwerf
• Adriana Flipse (70), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Albert Brinkhuis (89), Wijhe
• Adriaan van Opstal (77), Gilze
• ADRIANA van OEVEREN (3), WOLPHAARTSDIJK

• 1912 » Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center († 1986)
• 1913 » Mary Martin, American actress and singer († 1990)
• 1916 » Wan Li, Chinese educator and politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China († 2015)
• 1917 » Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager († 2011)
• 1917 » Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor († 1995)
• 1920 » Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha († 2014)
• 1921 » Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient († 2013)
• 1922 » Vsevolod Bobrov, Russian ice hockey player, footballer, and manager († 1979)
• 1923 » Dick Shawn, American actor († 1987)
• 1923 » Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence († 2018)

• 1913 » Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)
• 1914 » Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
• 1916 » Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
• 1934 » Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1935 » Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)

• 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.
• March 27 » The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
• October 29 » The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
• November 10 » The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
• December 4 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
• December 14 » Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
• December 27 » The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.

The temperature on December 1, 1918 was between -0.2 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.