1915

1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1915th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 915th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1915, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1915 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1915
MCMXV
Ab urbe condita2668
Armenian calendar1364
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԴ
Assyrian calendar6665
Baháʼí calendar71–72
Balinese saka calendar1836–1837
Bengali calendar1322
Berber calendar2865
British Regnal year5 Geo. 5  6 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2459
Burmese calendar1277
Byzantine calendar7423–7424
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
4611 or 4551
     to 
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4612 or 4552
Coptic calendar1631–1632
Discordian calendar3081
Ethiopian calendar1907–1908
Hebrew calendar5675–5676
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1971–1972
 - Shaka Samvat1836–1837
 - Kali Yuga5015–5016
Holocene calendar11915
Igbo calendar915–916
Iranian calendar1293–1294
Islamic calendar1333–1334
Japanese calendarTaishō 4
(大正4年)
Javanese calendar1845–1846
Juche calendar4
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4248
Minguo calendarROC 4
民國4年
Nanakshahi calendar447
Thai solar calendar2457–2458
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
2041 or 1660 or 888
     to 
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
2042 or 1661 or 889

Events

Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.

January 1: HMS Formidable, sunk by a German U-boat.

January

  • January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".[1]
  • January 1
  • January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of 11,690 feet (3,560 m), carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft.
  • January 12
  • January 17 – WWI: Caucasus Campaign – Battle of Sarikamish: Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey.
  • January 18 – Twenty-One Demands from Japan to China are made.
  • January 19
    • Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
    • WWI: German Zeppelins bomb the coastal towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in England for the first time, killing more than 20.
  • January 21 – Kiwanis is founded in Detroit, Michigan, as The Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order Brothers.
  • January 23 – Chilembwe uprising: Baptist minister John Chilembwe initiates an ultimately unsuccessful uprising against British colonial rule in Nyasaland (modern-day Malawi).
  • January 24 – WWI: Battle of Dogger Bank: The British Grand Fleet defeats the German High Seas Fleet, sinking the armoured cruiser SMS Blücher.[2]
  • January 25 - The first United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call is facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by Alexander Graham Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, California.
  • January 26
  • January 27 – WWI: French military casualties begin arriving at the Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, established earlier in the month by British volunteers.
  • January 28 – An act of the United States Congress designates the United States Coast Guard, began in 1790, as a military branch.
  • January 31 – WWI: Battle of Bolimów – Germany's first large-scale use of poison gas as a weapon occurs, when 18,000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas are fired on the Imperial Russian Army, on the Rawka River west of Warsaw; however, freezing temperatures prevent it being effective.[3]

February

  • February – While working as a cook at New York's Sloane Hospital for Women under an assumed name, "Typhoid Mary" (an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever) infects 25 people, and is placed in quarantine for life on March 27.
  • February 4 – The Maritz Rebellion of disaffected Boers against the government of the Union of South Africa ends with the surrender of the remaining rebels.
  • February 8 – The controversial film The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles. It will be the highest-grossing film for around 25 years.
  • February 18 – WWI: Germany regards the waters around the British Isles to be a war zone from this date, as part of its U-boat Campaign.
  • February 20 – In San Francisco, the Panama–Pacific International Exposition is opened.
  • February 25Armenian genocide: The Ottoman Empire transfers Armenians from its armed forces to unarmed Ottoman labour battalions.

March

  • March – The 1915 Palestine locust infestation breaks out in Palestine; it continues until October.
  • March 1 - The first issue of the La Boheme Magazine was published in Russia.
  • March 2Armenian genocide: Earliest recorded deportations.[4]
  • March 3 – The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA, is founded in the United States.
  • March 8 - New York City Fire Department Rescue Company 1 is put in Service by the New York City Fire Department.
  • March 1013 – WWI: Battle of Neuve Chapelle – In the first deliberately planned British offensive of the war, British Indian troops overrun German positions in France, but are unable to sustain the advance.
  • March 11 – WWI: British armed merchantman HMS Bayano (1913) is sunk in the North Channel off the coast of Scotland by Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-27. Around 200 crew are lost, a number of bodies being washed up on the Isle of Man, with only 26 saved.[5]
  • March 14 – WWI:
  • March 18 – WWI:
    • Gallipoli campaign: A Franco-British naval attack on the Dardanelles fails.
    • British Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought (1906) sinks German submarine U-29 with all hands in the Pentland Firth off the coast of Scotland by ramming her, the only time this tactic is known to have been successfully used by a battleship.
  • March 19Pluto is photographed for the first time, but is not classified as a planet.
  • March 26 – The Vancouver Millionaires win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey over the Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 0.
  • March 28 – The first Roman Catholic liturgy at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul, Minnesota, is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland.
March 14: WWI: SMS Dresden, forced to scuttle by the Royal Navy.

April

  • April 5 – Boxer Jess Willard, the latest "Great White Hope", defeats Jack Johnson with a 26th-round knockout in sweltering heat, at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans, for "bringing back the championship to the white race".
  • April 11Charlie Chaplin's film The Tramp is released in the United States.
  • April 19 – The Armenian genocide begins at scale with the defense of Van, continuing to May 17, during which time 55,000 civilians from the Ottoman Armenian population of Van Vilayet will be massacred by Turkish Ottoman forces.
  • April 22 – WWI: Start of Second Battle of Ypres – Germany makes its first large scale use of poison gas on the Western Front.
  • April 24 – Armenian genocide: deportation of Armenian notables from Istanbul begins.
  • April 25 – WWI: Start of the Gallipoli Campaign by land forces (lasting until January 1916) – A landing at Anzac Cove is conducted by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, and a landing at Cape Helles by British and French troops, to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.
May 7: WWI: RMS Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat.

May

  • May 1 – WWI:
    • General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa, leads the army in the occupation of German South West Africa.
    • The Battle of Gorlice begins. It is one of the bloodiest battles of World War I.
  • May 3 – Canadian soldier John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields".
  • May 5 – WWI: Forces of the Ottoman Empire begin shelling ANZAC Cove from a new position behind their lines.
  • May 6 – Baseball player Babe Ruth hits his first career home run (off Jack Warhop), for the Boston Red Sox.
  • May 6 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: The SY Aurora broke loose from its anchorage during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal.[6]
  • May 7 – WWI: Sinking of the RMS Lusitania: RMS Titanic's main rival, the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, is sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat U-20 off the south-west coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 civilians en route from New York City to Liverpool. The best-known of the celebrities on board was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. American sportsman (b. 1877)
  • May 9 – WWI – Second Battle of Artois: German and French forces fight to a standstill; German forces defeat the British at the Battle of Aubers Ridge.
  • May 17 – The last purely Liberal government in the United Kingdom ends, when the prime minister H. H. Asquith forms an all-party coalition government, the Asquith coalition ministry, effective May 25.
  • May 19 – WWI: The third attack on Anzac Cove by Ottoman forces is repelled by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
  • May 22
    • Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland: The collision and fire kill 226, mostly troops, the largest number of fatalities in a rail accident in the United Kingdom.
    • Lassen Peak, one of the Cascade Volcanoes in California, erupts, sending an ash plume 30,000 feet in the air, and devastating the nearby area with pyroclastic flows and lahars. It is the only volcano to erupt in the contiguous United States this century, until the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
  • May 23 – WWI: Italy joins the Allies after declaring war on Austria-Hungary.
  • May 25 – China agrees to the Twenty-One Demands of the Japanese.
  • May 27Armenian genocide: The Tehcir Law is promulgated by the Turkish Ottoman Empire authorizing deportation of the Ottoman Armenian population to Deir ez-Zor in the Syrian desert, leading to the deaths of anywhere between 800,000 and over 1,500,000 civilians and confiscation of their property.
  • May 28 – International Congress of Women meet at the Hague as a major peace initiative.[7]
  • May 29 – Teófilo Braga becomes president of Portugal.

June

July

  • July
  • July 1 – WWI: In aerial warfare, German fighter pilot Kurt Wintgens becomes the first person to shoot down another plane, using a machine gun equipped with synchronization gear.
  • July 7
    • An extremely overloaded International Railway (New York–Ontario) trolleycar with 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, resulting in 15 casualties.
    • Sinhalese militia captain Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for inciting race riots, a charge later proved false; he becomes a hero of the Sri Lankan independence movement.
  • July 9 – WWI: Theodore Seitz, governor of German South West Africa, surrenders to General Louis Botha, between Otavi and Tsumeb.
  • July 11 – WWI: Battle of Rufiji Delta – German cruiser SMS Königsberg (1905) is forced to scuttle in the Rufiji River, German East Africa (present-day Tanzania).
  • July 14 – The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Henry McMahon concerning the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire begins; in exchange for assistance against the Ottomans, the British offer bin Ali their recognition of an independent Arab kingdom, although clear terms are never agreed.[12]
  • July 22 – WWI: The "Great Retreat" is ordered on the Eastern Front; Russian forces pull back out of Poland (at this time part of the Russian Empire), taking machinery and equipment with them.
  • July 24 – Steamer Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.
  • July 28 – The American occupation of Haiti (1915–34) begins.

August

August: Destruction by the 1915 Galveston hurricane.

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

  • Alfred Wegener publishes his theory of Pangaea.
  • The first stop sign appears in Detroit.
  • The Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis is founded in the United States.
  • Carrier Engineering, predecessor of Carrier Global, a global air conditioning brand, is founded in New Jersey, United States.[19]

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Fernando Lamas
Santiago Carrillo

February

Teoctist Arăpașu
Lorne Greene
Ann Sheridan

March

László Csatáry
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
  • March 1 – Elizabeth Peet McIntosh, American spy (d. 2015)
  • March 4
    • László Csizsik-Csatáry, Hungarian convicted Nazi war criminal (d. 2013)
    • Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
  • March 5 – Sydney Sturgess, British-Canadian actress (d. 1999)
  • March 6
    • Mary Ward, Australian actress (d. 2021)
    • Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Community (d. 2014)
  • March 7 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
  • March 8 – Drue Heinz, American literary publisher (d. 2018)
  • March 9 – John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, English pilot (d. 2001)
  • March 11 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
  • March 15 – Carl Emil Schorske, American cultural historian (d. 2015)
  • March 17 – Bill Roycroft, Australian equestrian (d. 2011)
  • March 19 – Patricia Morison, American actress (d. 2018)
  • March 20
    • Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian politician, 8th President of Austria (d. 2000)
    • Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1997)[26]
    • Marie M. Runyon, American politician, activist (d. 2018)
    • Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)[27]
  • March 23 – Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper (d. 1991)
  • March 27 – Robert Lockwood Jr., American musician (d. 2006)
  • March 28 – Jeremy Hutchinson, British lawyer, peer (d. 2017)
  • March 30
    • Brockway McMillan, American government official and scientist (d. 2016)
    • Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer (d. 1977)
    • Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (d. 2015)
  • March 31 – Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)

April

Piet de Jong
Harry Morgan
  • April 1 – O. W. Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
  • April 3
    • Axel Axgil, Danish LGBT rights activist (d. 2011)
    • Piet de Jong, Dutch politician, naval officer, Minister of Defence (1963–1967), and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1967–1971) (d. 2016)
    • İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish physician, academic (d. 2010)
    • Paul Touvier, French Nazi collaborator (d. 1996)
  • April 4 – Dorothy Fay, American actress (d. 2003)
  • April 6
    • Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage designer and theatre director (d. 1990)[28]
    • Thelma McKenzie, Australian cricketer
  • April 7
    • Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1977)
    • Albert O. Hirschman, German-born economist (d. 2012)
    • Billie Holiday, African-American singer (d. 1959)[29]
  • April 8
    • Sir Alan Dawtry, British local government official (d. 2018)
    • Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, author, and human rights activist (d. 2007)
  • April 10
    • Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Kashmiri guerrilla leader (d. 2003)
    • Harry Morgan, American actor and director (d. 2011)[30]
  • April 12
    • George Hogan, American professional basketball player (d. 1965)
    • Hound Dog Taylor, American guitarist, singer (d. 1975)
  • April 19 – Vonda Phelps, American actress (d. 2004)
  • April 20
    • Aurora Miranda, Brazilian singer and actress (d. 2005)
    • Zita Szeleczky, Hungarian actress (d. 1999)
  • April 21Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (d. 2001)
  • April 24 – Sam Burston, Australian farmer (d. 2015)
  • April 29 – Donald Mills, lead tenor of the Mills Brothers (d. 1999)
  • April 30 – Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi (d. 2015)

May

Mario Monicelli
  • May 1 – Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
  • May 2
    • Van Alexander, American bandleader, arranger and composer (d. 2015)
    • Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
  • May 3
    • Michele Cozzoli, Italian composer, conductor and arranger (d. 1961)
    • Stu Hart, Canadian wrestling trainer (d. 2003)
  • May 5 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (d. 1998)[31]
  • May 6
    • Sydney Carter, British musician, poet and songwriter (d. 2004)
    • Orson Welles, American actor and director (d. 1985)
  • May 8 – John Archer, American actor (d. 1999)
  • May 10
    • Beyers Naudé, South African cleric, theologian and activist (d. 2004)
    • Sir Denis Thatcher, British businessman, husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
  • May 12
    • Brother Roger, Swiss founder of the Taizé Community (d. 2005)
    • Tadashi Sasaki, Japanese engineer (d. 2018)
  • May 15
  • May 16 – Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (d. 2010)
  • May 19 – Renée Asherson, British actress (d. 2014)
  • May 20Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader and politician (d. 1981)
  • May 25 – Aarne Kainlauri, Finnish athlete (d. 2020)
  • May 27
    • Ester Soré, Chilean musician (d. 1996)
    • Herman Wouk, American author (d. 2019)[33]
  • May 29 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
  • May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American painter (d. 2022)[34]

June

Mariano Rumor
  • June 1
    • Johnny Bond, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1978)
    • John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
  • June 2
    • Jason Lee, American politician and judge (d. 1980)
    • Tapio Wirkkala, Finnish designer (d. 1985)
  • June 3 – Milton Cato, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (d. 1997)
  • June 4Modibo Keïta, 1st President of Mali (d. 1977)
  • June 9
    • Ken Feltscheer, Australian rules footballer (d. 2017)
    • Les Paul, American inventor and musician (d. 2009)
  • June 10
    • Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)[35]
    • Peride Celal, Turkish author (d. 2013)
    • Inia Te Wiata, New Zealand Māori bass-baritone opera singer, film actor, whakairo (carver) and artist (d. 1971)
  • June 11
    • Buddy Baer, American boxer and actor (d. 1986)
    • Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (d. 1997)
  • June 12
  • June 14
    • Loke Wan Tho, Singaporean business magnate, ornithologist, and photographer (d. 1964)
    • Zoe Dell Nutter, American dancer, model, promoter, pilot and philanthropist (d. 2020)
  • June 15
  • June 16 – Mariano Rumor, Italian politician and Prime Minister of Italy from 1968 to 1970 and again from 1973 to 1974 (d. 1990)
  • June 17
    • Mario Echandi Jiménez, President of Costa Rica (d. 2011)
    • Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. 1996)
    • Walter J. Zable, American founder and CEO of Cubic Corporation (d. 2012)
  • June 20 – Terence Young, British film director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
  • June 21 – Karol Miklosz, Polish-Soviet footballer, Soviet referee and Soviet-Ukrainian football administrator (d. 2003)
  • June 22
    • Duncan Clark, Scottish athlete (d. 2003)
    • Randolph Hokanson, American pianist (d. 2018)
    • Hatsuko Morioka, Japanese freestyle swimmer
    • Cornelius Warmerdam, American track & field athlete (d. 2001)[36]
  • June 24
  • June 25 – Floyd Boring, American Secret Service agent (d. 2008)
  • June 26
    • George Haigh, English professional footballer (d. 2019)
    • Charlotte Zolotow, American author (d. 2013)
  • June 27
    • Grace Lee Boggs, American author, social activist, and philosopher (d. 2015)
    • Graham Botting, New Zealand cricketer and hockey (d. 2007)
    • Marie Clarke, American activist and labor leader (d. 2020)
    • Aideu Handique, Indian actress (d. 2002)
    • John Alexander Moore, American zoology professor emeritus (d. 2002)
  • June 28
    • David "Honeyboy" Edwards, American musician (d. 2011)
    • Muzz Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1998)
    • Carmen Vidal, Spanish cosmetologist and businesswoman (d. 2003)
  • June 29 – John Charles Cutler, American surgeon (d. 2003)
  • June 30
    • Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German officer (d. 2014)
    • Robert E. Hopkins, president of the Optical Society of America in 1973 (d. 2009)

July

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
  • July 1
    • A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 9th President of Bangladesh (d. 2001)
    • Willie Dixon, American blues musician (d. 1992)
    • Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, British peer (d. 2000)
    • Rudolf Pernický, Czechoslovak soldier and paratrooper (d. 2005)
    • Boots Poffenberger, American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1999)
    • Oscar Valicelli, Argentine actor (d. 1999)
  • July 3
    • Ralph Chapin, American businessman (d. 2000)
    • Marta Grandi, Italian entomologist (d. 2005)
  • July 4 – Timmie Rogers, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
  • July 5
    • Yu Guangyuan, Chinese economist (d. 2013)
    • Al Timothy, Trinidadian musician (d. 2000)
    • John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
  • July 6
    • Leonard Birchall, Royal Canadian Air Force (d. 2004)
    • Javare Gowda, Indian language author (d. 2016)
  • July 7
    • Reynaldo Guerra Garza, American judge (d. 2004)
    • Adalbert Gurath Sr., Romanian fencer (d. 1990)
    • Billy Mure, American guitarist (d. 2013)
    • Terry O'Sullivan, American actor (d. 2006)
  • July 8
    • Lowell English, United States Marine Corps general (d. 2005)
    • Neil D. Van Sickle, American Air Force major general (d. 2019)
  • July 9
    • Joan Tompkins, American actress (d. 2005)
  • July 10 – Kevin Barrett, Australian rules footballer (d. 1984)
  • July 11 – Leonard Goodwin, British protozoologist (d. 2008)
  • July 12
    • Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (d. 2007)
    • Emanuel Papper, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author (d. 2002)
  • July 13
    • Tex Hill, Korean-American fighter pilot and flying ace (d. 2007)
    • Paul Williams, African American jazz and blues saxophonist, bandleader and songwriter (d. 2002)
  • July 14 – Harold Pupkewitz, Namibian entrepreneur (d. 2012)
  • July 15
    • William O. Baker, former president of Bell Labs (d. 2005)
    • Alicia Zubasnabar de De la Cuadra, Argentine human rights activist (d. 2008)
    • A. A. Englander, British television cinematographer (d. 2004)
    • Albert Ghiorso, American nuclear scientist (d. 2010)
    • Kashmir Singh Katoch, Indian military advisor (d. 2007)
    • Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Moldovan activist (d. 2003)
  • July 16 – Elaine Barrie, American actress (d. 2003)
  • July 17
    • Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and brother of comedian Lucille Ball (d. 2007)
    • Arthur Rothstein, American photographer (d. 1985)
  • July 18
    • Roxana Cannon Arsht, American judge (d. 2003)
    • Carequinha, Brazilian clown, actor (d. 2006)
    • Louis Le Bailly, British Royal Navy officer (d. 2010)
  • July 19
    • Rita Childers, First Lady of Ireland (1973–1974) (d. 2010)
    • Katherine Sanford, American biologist (d. 2005)
  • July 20
    • Matest M. Agrest, Russian-Jewish mathematician (d. 2005)
    • Gene Hasson, American Major League Baseball infielder (d. 2003)
  • July 22 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani female politician, diplomat and author (d. 2000)
  • July 24 – Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (d. 2004)
  • July 25
    • S. U. Ethirmanasingham, Sri Lankan businessman and politician
    • Julio Iglesias, Sr., Spanish gynecologist, father of Julio Iglesias (d. 2005)
    • Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American fighter pilot, brother of John F. Kennedy (d. 1944)
  • July 26 – K. Pattabhi Jois, Indian yogi (d. 2009)
  • July 28
    • Red Barrett, American baseball player (d. 1990)
    • Helena Dunicz-Niwińska, Polish violinist, translator and author (d. 2018)
    • Charles Hard Townes, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
    • Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (d. 1998)

August

Princess Lilian
  • August 2
    • Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
    • Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram, British army officer (d. 2017)
  • August 3
    • Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (d. 2006)
    • Pete Newell, Canadian-born basketball coach (d. 2008)
  • August 4 – William Keene, American actor (d. 1992)
  • August 8
    • Alex Schoenbaum, American collegiate football player and businessman (d. 1996)
    • María Rostworowski, Peruvian historian (d. 2016)
    • Joseph P. Graw, American businessman and politician (d. 2018)
  • August 9 – George W. BonDurant, American preacher (d. 2017)
  • August 12
    • Donald Pellmann, American masters athlete (d. 2020)
    • Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)
  • August 14
    • Vincent Foy, Canadian Roman Catholic cleric, theologian (d. 2017)
    • Irene Hickson, American professional baseball player (d. 1995)
  • August 16 – Herbert Greenwald, American real estate developer (d. 1959)
  • August 18 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah, 2nd President of Ghana (d. 1992)
  • August 19 – Ring Lardner Jr., American film screenwriter (d. 2000)[38]
  • August 21 – Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, British lawyer, political adviser (d. 1995)
  • August 24
    • Dave McCoy, American founder of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area (d. 2020)
    • Wynonie Harris, African-American blues, rhythm and blues singer (d. 1969)
  • August 25 – Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
  • August 27 – Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
  • August 28
    • Tol Avery, American actor (d. 1973)
    • Simon Oakland, American actor (d. 1983)
    • Max Robertson, British sports commentator (d. 2009)
  • August 29Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
  • August 30
    • Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British-born Swedish princess (d. 2013)
    • Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
  • August 31 – Víctor Pey, Spanish-Chilean engineer (d. 2018)

September

Germán Valdés

October

November

December

Curd Juergens

Deaths

January

Wyndham Halswelle
  • January 9 – Yang Shoujing, Chinese historical geographer and calligrapher (b. 1839)
  • January 10 – Marshall Pinckney Wilder, American actor, humorist, comedian and monologist (b. 1859)
  • January 13 – Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary (b. 1848)
  • January 14 – Richard Meux Benson, English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
  • January 18 – Anatoly Stessel, Russian baron and general (b. 1848)
  • January 19 – Anna Leonowens (Anna of The King and I) (b. 1831)
  • January 22 – James M. Spangler, American inventor (b. 1848)

February

  • February 3 – Bosnian Serb conspirators (executed for their part in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria):
  • February 5 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player (b. 1850)
  • February 18
    • Francisco Giner de los Ríos, Spanish philosopher, educator (b. 1839)
    • Frank James, American outlaw (b. 1843)
  • February 22 – Sir John Gough, British general, Victoria Cross recipient (killed in action) (b. 1871)
  • February 26 –Edward Richardson, New Zealand engineer and politician (b. 1831)

March

Friedrich Loeffler

April

  • April 4 – Andrew Stoddart, English sportsman (b. 1863)
  • April 9 – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (b. 1852)
  • April 16 – Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
  • April 20 – Daniel Webster Jones, American Latter-day Saint pioneer (b. 1830)
  • April 23
    • Rupert Brooke, English poet (sepsis from an infected mosquito bite on active service) (b. 1887)
    • Frederick Fisher, Canadian recipient of Victoria Cross (killed in action) (b. 1894)
  • April 25 – Frederick W. Seward, American politician (b. 1830)
  • April 26 – John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
  • April 27
  • April 30 - Edward D. Easton, founder and president of Columbia Phonograph Company[43]

May

  • May 7 – Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, American sportsman (b. 1877; died in the Sinking of the RMS Lusitania)
  • May 9
    • François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (killed in action) (b. 1887)
    • Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (killed in action) (b. 1883)
  • May 18 – Sir William Bridges, Australian army general (b. 1861)
  • May 24 – John Condon, Irish private soldier in British Army, claimed as youngest British soldier to die in WWI (killed in action) (b. 1896)
  • May 26
    • Emil Lask, German philosopher (killed in action) (b. 1875)
    • Julian Grenfell, English poet (killed in action) (b. 1888)[44]
  • May 30 – Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, 3-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1832)
  • May 31 – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, 18th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1845)

June

  • June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891)[45]
  • June 7 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman, philanthropist in Hawaii (b. 1822)
  • June 10 – Ignatius Maloyan, Armenian Eastern Catholic archbishop and blessed (b. 1869)[46]
  • June 13 – Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz, Polish military leader (killed in action) (b. 1882)
  • June 19 – Benjamin F. Isherwood, American admiral, United States Navy Engineer-in-Chief (b. 1822)
  • June 25 – Tok Janggut, Malayan rebel leader (killed in action) (b. 1853)

July

Alois Alzheimer

August

September

October

November

December

Nobel Prizes

Notes

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  8. Walker, Christopher J. "The End of Armenian Taron and Baghesh, 1914-1916". Armenian Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush. pp. 191–206.
  9. Simon, Hyacinthe (1991). Mardine la ville héroïque. Jounieh-Lebanon: Maison Naaman pour la culture.
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  32. Milton Friedman; Paul Anthony Samuelson (1980). Milton Friedman and Paul A. Samuelson Discuss the Economic Responsibility of Government. Center for Education and Research in Free Enterprise, Texas A&M University. p. 17.
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  34. Carmen Herrera; Alejandro Anreus; Carolina Ponce de León (1998). Carmen Herrera: The Black-and-white Paintings, 1951-1989. El Museo del Barrio. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-882454-07-5.
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  44. Nicholas Mosley (1976). Julian Grenfell, His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-03-017596-1.
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  47. "Biography of Porfirio Diaz, Ruler of Mexico for 35 Years". ThoughtCo. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  48. Pascual Orozco (in Spanish)
  49. Hasenöhrl, Friedrich (in German)
  50. "Blanche Walsh (1873-1915)".

Further reading

  • Williams, John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914–1918 (1972) pp 43–108.

Primary sources and year books

  • New International Year Book 1915, Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 791pp
  • Hazell's Annual for 1916 (1916), worldwide events of 1915; 640pp online; worldwide coverage of 1915 events; emphasis on Great Britain
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