Which other devastating event killed millions in 1918 besides combat?

trench suicides

starvation in Britain

the influenza pandemic

the San Francisco earthquake

The influenza pandemic.

The influenza pandemic from 1918 - 1920 affected hundreds of millions of people across the world, and while nobody knows the exact death toll, estimates of the numbers killed generally range between 50 and 100 million - around four percent of the world’s population.