List of Famous people who born in 1918
Jacques Monod
Jacques Monod was a French actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1947 to 1985.
Athos Bulcão
Athos Bulcão was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He was born in Rio de Janeiro.
Bazilije Pandžić
Bazilije Stjepan Pandžić was a historian, archivist and orientalist. He entered the Franciscan Order in 1935 and was ordained for a priest in 1941. From 1947 to 1985 he was the general archivist and analyst of the Franciscan Order in Rome. In 1958 he was elected vice-president of the International Association of Church Archives. He turned 100 in January 2018, and in April 2019, died at the age of 101.
Willem Sassen
Wilhelmus Antonius Sassen was a Dutch collaborator, Nazi journalist and a member of the Waffen-SS. He became widely known around 1960 as the interviewer of Adolf Eichmann.
Rafael Iriondo
Rafael Iriondo Aurtenetxea was a Spanish football forward and manager.
Anne Spoerry
Anne Spoerry was a French-born physician, based for most of her career in Kenya as a "flying doctor" affiliated with Amref Health Africa.
Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs. This new method focused on understanding the target of the drug rather than simply using trial-and-error. Her work led to the creation of the AIDS drug AZT. Her well known works also include the development of the first immunosuppressive drug, azathioprine, used to fight rejection in organ transplants, and the first successful antiviral drug, acyclovir (ACV), used in the treatment of herpes infection.
Marie-Luise Jahn
Marie-Luise Jahn was a German physician and a member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose.
César Dávila Andrade
César Dávila Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet and writer.
Werner Braun
Werner Braun was an Israeli photographer, considered a founder of photojournalism in Israel.