List of Famous people who died in 1918
Percy Clive
Percy Archer Clive, DL was a British army officer and Liberal Unionist Party politician.
Georg Klebs
Georg Albrecht Klebs was a German botanist from Neidenburg (Nidzica), Prussia. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs.
Bernhard Tollens
Bernhard Christian Gottfried Tollens was a German chemist.
Arthur Cravan
Arthur Cravan was a Swiss writer, poet, artist and boxer. He was the second son of Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara St. Clair. His brother Otho Lloyd was a painter and photographer married to the Russian émigré artist Olga Sacharoff. His father's sister, Constance Mary Lloyd, was married to Irish poet Oscar Wilde. He changed his name to Cravan in 1912 in honour of his fiancée Renée Bouchet, who was born in the small village of Cravans in the department of Charente-Maritime in western France.
John Winnington
John Francis Sartorius Winnington DSO was an English first-class cricketer who played in one match for Worcestershire against Oxford University at The University Parks in 1908. He scored 0 and 20 in Worcestershire's crushing 332-run victory. He was born in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, later Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. She was also a maternal great-aunt of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
William FitzRoy, Viscount Ipswich
Arakaki Seishō
Arakaki Seishō was a prominent Okinawan martial arts master who influenced the development of several major karate styles. He was known by many other names, including Aragaki Tsuji Pechin Seisho.
Antoine Guillemet
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guillemet was a French renowned landscape painter and longtime Jury member of the Salon des Artistes Francais. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Bronisław Piłsudski
Bronisław Piotr Piłsudski was a Polish cultural anthropologist who conducted research on the Ainu, Orork and Nivkh indigenous people of Sakhalin Island.