Editing 1918 (section)

=== January ===
[[File:Figueiredo (colour).jpg|thumb|100px|[[João Figueiredo]]]]
[[File:President Nasser, 1962.jpg|thumb|130x130px|[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]]]
[[File:Gertrude Elion.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gertrude B. Elion]]]]
[[File:Nicolae Ceaușescu.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nicolae Ceaușescu]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Patrick Anthony Porteous]], Scottish recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]] (d. [[2000]])
* [[January 2]] – [[Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse]], German typographer, calligrapher and book-binder (d. [[2019]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Arthur Chung]], 1st [[President of Guyana]] (d. [[2008]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Kassim Al-Rimawi]], Prime Minister of Jordan (d. [[1982]])
* [[January 15]]
** [[João Figueiredo]], 30th [[President of Brazil]] (d. [[1999]])
** [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], 2nd [[President of Egypt]] (d. [[1970]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Stirling Silliphant]], American writer, producer (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{cite news| author-link= Mel Gussow| last= Gussow| first= Mel| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/27/arts/stirling-silliphant-78-writer-won-heat-of-the-night-oscar.html |title= Stirling Silliphant, 78, Writer; Won 'Heat of the Night' Oscar| work= [[The New York Times]]| date= April 27, 1996}}</ref>
* [[January 17]]
** [[Kamal Amrohi]], Indian director, screenwriter (d. [[1993]])
** [[George M. Leader]], American politician (d. [[2013]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Juan García Esquivel]], Mexican bandleader (d. [[2002]])
* [[January 21]]
** [[Chicháy]], Filipino actress (d. [[1993]])
** [[Richard Winters]], U.S. Army officer (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/10/AR2011011006268.html |title=Obituary: Richard 'Dick' Winters, courageous WWII officer portrayed in 'Band of Brothers' |author=Shapiro, T. Rees |newspaper=Washington Post |date=January 10, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2018}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – [[Elmer Lach]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2015]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Gertrude B. Elion]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite journal|last=Avery|first=Mary Ellen|author-link = Mary Ellen Avery| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2007.0051 | title = Gertrude Belle Elion. 23 January 1918 – 21 February 1999 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 54 | pages = 161–168 | year = 2008| doi-access =  }}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – [[Oral Roberts]], American neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. [[2009]])
* [[January 26]]
** [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]], Romanian communist politician and leader (d. [[1989]])
** [[Philip José Farmer]], American writer (d. [[2009]])
* [[January 27]]
** [[Skitch Henderson]], English-born musician, bandleader (d. [[2005]])
** [[Elmore James]], American musician (d. [[1963]])
* [[January 29]]
** [[Luis Aguilar (actor)|Luis Aguilar]], Mexican actor, and singer (d. [[1997]])
** [[John Forsythe]], American actor (d. [[2010]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Millie Dunn Veasey]], African-American civil rights activist (d. [[2018]])