About the day » Sunday September 1, 1918Calender converter

• Albert George "Freck" Bailey, Los Angeles, California, United States († 1971)
• Antonius Geurts, Haastrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• Chester Thomas Czajkowski, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1989)
• Cornelia Catharina van de Ende († 1993)
• Catharina Franssen, Maastricht († 1974)
• Arnoldus Corinus Smit, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1921)
• Bertranda Josephina Smet, Hulst († 1918)
• Anna de Boer, Hollum Ameland Nederland († 2011)
• Barbara Brown Patterson [Wd], St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona († 2001)
• Cornelia Anna Duckitt († 1974)

• Arie Ouwehand (51), op zee
• Anna Margaretha Huck (76), Wixhausen, Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hessen
• Alexander H Buckley (27), Perrone, France
• Abraham Lincoln Kirby (55), Clovis, Fresno, California, United States
• Veenhof (0)
• Andries Farla (78), Zevenbergen
• Akke Gerbens Koopmans (76), Holwerd, gem. Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Helena Hölscher (67), Emmen
• Anna Maria Teeler (73), Benthuizen, Rijnwoude, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriaan Alexander Fredriksz (56), Djombang, Jawa Timur (Djawa Timur), Indonesië

• 1914 » John H. Adams, American jockey († 1995)
• 1916 » Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player († 2014)
• 1919 » Hilda Hänchen, German physicist and academic († 2013)
• 1919 » Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer († 2008)
• 1920 » Eduardo J. Corso, Uruguayan lawyer and journalist († 2012)
• 1920 » Liz Carpenter, American journalist, author, and activist († 2010)
• 1920 » Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman († 2000)
• 1921 » Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet, and playwright († 1995)
• 1922 » Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter († 2000)
• 1922 » Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer († 2007)

• 1868 » Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (b. 1799)
• 1922 » Samu Pecz, Hungarian architect and academic (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1878)
• 1943 » Charles Atangana, Cameroonian ruler (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (b. 1861)
• 1953 » Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1866)
• 1967 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1970 » François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Alan Brown, English soldier (b. 1909)

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. Helena
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• 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.
• February 6 » British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.
• March 3 » Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, agreeing to withdraw from World War I, and conceding German control of the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. It also conceded Turkish control of Ardahan, Kars and Batumi.
• July 12 » The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
• October 31 » World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty.
• November 11 » Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
• November 25 » Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.

The temperature on September 1, 1918 was between 9.1 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.