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Year '''1915''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Thursday]]<ref>
"Calendar in year 1915 (Russia)" (Julian calendar), webpage:
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==Events of 1915==
[[Image:HMS Formidable 1898.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 1]]: [[HMS Formidable (1898)|HMS ''Formidable'']]]]
===January===
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* [[January]] While working as a cook at New York's Sloan Hospital under an assumed name, "[[Typhoid Mary]]" infects 25 people, and is placed in [[quarantine]] for life.
* [[January 1]] - Sinking of the battleship [[HMS Formidable (1898)|HMS ''Formidable'']], off [[Lyme Regis]], [[Dorset]], [[England]], by a [[Germany|German]] [[U-Boat]].
* [[January 12]] - The [[Rocky Mountain National Park]] is established by an act of the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]].
* [[January 12]] - [[United States House of Representatives]] rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
* [[January 13]] - An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in [[Avezzano]], [[Italy]]: more than 29,000 dead.
* [[January 19]] - [[Georges Claude]] patents the [[neon]] discharge tube for use in [[advertising]].
* [[January 19]] - German [[zeppelin]]s bomb the cities of [[Great Yarmouth]] and [[King's Lynn]] in the [[United Kingdom]] for the first time, killing more than 20.
[[Image:Kiwanis-logo.gif|thumb|120px|left| [[January 21]]: [[Kiwanis International|Kiwanis]] founded.]]
* [[January 21]] - [[Kiwanis International]] is founded in [[Detroit, Michigan]].
* [[January 28]] - An act of the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] designates the [[United States Coast Guard]], begun in [[1790]], as a military branch.
* [[January 31]] - [[World War I]]: [[Germany]] uses [[poison gas]] against [[Russia]]ns.
[[Image:USCG S W.svg|thumb|120px|right|[[January 28]]: [[United States Coast Guard]] military branch.]]
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===February===
* [[February 8]] - The controversial film ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' by [[D.W. Griffith]] premieres ([[Los Angeles, California]]).
* [[February 12]] - In [[Washington, DC]] the first stone of the [[Lincoln Memorial]] is put into place.
* [[February 20]] - In [[San Francisco, CA]] the [[Panama-Pacific International Exposition]] is opened.
===March===
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* [[March]] to [[October]] - [[1915 locust plague]]
* [[March 3]] - [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]], the predecessor of [[NASA]], is founded.
* [[March 14]] - [[World War I]]: Off the coast of [[Chile]], the [[Royal Navy]] forces the German light cruiser [[SMS Dresden (1907)|SMS ''Dresden'']] to scuttle.
* [[March 14]] - [[United Kingdom|Britain]], [[France]] and [[Russia]] agree to give [[Constantinople]] and the [[Bosporus]] to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik revolution)
* [[March 18]] - World War I: [[United Kingdom|British]] attack on the [[Dardanelles]] fails.
* [[March 19]] - [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]] is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
* [[March 25]] - [[United States|US]] [[submarine]] F-4 sinks off [[Hawaii]]: 21 dead.
* [[March 28]] - The first [[Roman Catholic]] [[Liturgy]] is celebrated by [[Archbishop]] [[John Ireland (archbishop)|John Ireland]] at the newly consecrated [[Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota)|Cathedral of Saint Paul]] in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]], [[Minnesota]].
[[Image:SMS Dresden German Cruiser LOC 16727.jpg|thumb|250px|right| '''[[March 14]]''': ([[World War I]]) [[Royal Navy]] forced the German light cruiser [[SMS Dresden (1907)|SMS ''Dresden'']] to scuttle.]]
===April===
* [[April 13]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Pancho Villa]]'s attack against [[Alvaro Obregon]]'s troops in [[Celaya]]. Charge of Villa's troops is no match against Obregon's [[barbed wire]] and [[machine gun]]s
* [[April 22]] - [[World War I]]: [[Second Battle of Ypres]] - [[Germany|German]] troops introduce [[poison gas]] at [[Ypres]], [[Belgium]].
* [[April 24]] - The [[Ottoman Empire]] arrests hundreds of [[Armenians|Armenian]] intellectuals. Armenians mark this as the start of the [[Armenian Genocide]].
* [[April 25]] - The [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps|ANZAC]] tradition begins during [[World War I]] with a landing at [[Gallipoli]] on the [[Turkey|Turkish]] coast.
* [[April 25]] - The Great Fire of [[Reykjavík]], [[Iceland]]'s [[capital]].
* [[April 30]] - [[Australia]]n [[submarine]] [[AE2]] sunk in [[Sea of Marmara]].
===May===
[[Image:RMS Luisitania.jpg|thumb|250px|right| '''[[May 7]]''': ([[World War I]])
[[Germany|German]] [[U-boat]] sinks [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']].]]
* [[May 3]] - [[John McCrae]] writes ''[[In Flanders Fields]]''.
* [[May 5]] - [[World War I]]: [[Turkey|The Turks]] begin shelling [[Anzac Cove]] from a new position behind their lines.
* [[May 6]] - [[Babe Ruth]] hits his first career home run off of [[Jack Warhop]].
* [[May 7]] - World War I: The [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] is sunk by a [[Germany|German]] [[U-boat]] killing 1,198.
* [[May 9]] - World War I: [[Second Battle of Artois]] - [[Germany|German]] and [[France|French]] forces fight.
* [[May 17]] - The last purely [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] government in the United Kingdom ends when Prime Minister [[Herbert Henry Asquith]] forms an all party coalition.
* [[May 22]] - [[Quintinshill]] railway disaster, [[Scotland]], UK: 200 killed.
* [[May 23]] - [[World War I]]: [[Italy]] joins the [[Allies]] after they declare war on [[Austria-Hungary]].
* [[May 29]] - [[Teófilo Braga]] becomes president of [[Portugal]].
===June===
* [[June 3]] - Troops of Obregon and Villa clash at [[León, Guanajuato|León]]: Obregon loses his right arm in grenade attack but Villa is decisively defeated.
* [[June 9]] - U.S. Secretary of State [[William Jennings Bryan]] resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] sinking.
* [[June 16]] - Foundation of the [[British Women's Institute]]
===July===
* [[July 7]] - An extremely overloaded [[Great Gorge and International Railway]] [[tram|trolley]] with 157 passengers crashes near [[Queenston, Ontario]] resulting in 15 casualties.
* [[July 24]] - The steamer ''[[Eastland]]'' capsizes in central [[Chicago]], with the loss of 845 lives.
* [[July 28]] - [[United States occupation of Haiti (1915-1934)|United States occupation of Haiti]] begins
===August===
[[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|140px|right| [[January]]: [[National Geographic|Magazine]]]]
* [[August 5]]-[[August 23]] - Hurricane Two of the [[1915 Atlantic hurricane season]] over [[Galveston]] and [[New Orleans]]: 275 dead.
* [[August 6]] - World War I: [[Battle of Sari Bair]] begins - The [[Allies]] mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at [[Suvla Bay]].
* [[August 16]] - The Entente promises the [[Kingdom of Serbia]], should victory be achieved over [[Austro-Hungary]] and its allied [[Central Powers]], the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian part of the Dual Monarchy; Bosnia and Herzegovina; and eastern ? of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to Bar).
* [[August 17]] - [[Jew]]ish American [[Leo Frank]] is [[lynching|lynched]] for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].
* [[August 31]] - [[Jimmy Lavender]] of the [[Chicago Cubs]] pitches a [[no hitter]] against the [[San Francisco Giants|New York Giants]].
===September===
* [[September 6]] - The first prototype [[tank]] is tested for the [[British Army]] for the first time.
* [[September 7]] - Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
* [[September 11]] - The [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] begins electrified commuter rail service between [[Paoli, Pennsylvania|Paoli]] and [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], using overhead AC trolley wires for power. This type of system would later be used in long-distance passenger trains between [[New York City]], [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]].
===October===
* [[October 12]] - [[World War I]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] nurse [[Edith Cavell]] is executed by a [[Germany|German]] firing squad for helping [[Allies|Allied]] soldiers escape from [[Belgium]].
* [[October 15]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] invades [[Kingdom of Serbia]]. [[Bulgaria]] enters the war, invading [[Kingdom of Serbia]]. Retreat of the [[Serbian First Army]] towards [[Greece]] begins [[Serbian Campaign (World War I)]]
* [[October 19]] - US recognizes [[Mexico|Mexican]] government of [[Venustiano Carranza]] ''[[de facto]]'' (not ''[[de jure]]'' until [[1917]])
* [[October 27]] - [[Billy Hughes|William Morris Hughes]] becomes 7th [[Prime Minister of Australia]].
===November===
* [[November]] - [[Sykes-Picot Agreement]], a secret understanding between the governments of Britain and France to overtake Middle-Eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire (mostly Syria and Iraq) and establish their own zone of influence.
* [[November 14]] - Vision allegedly encountered by various military personnel in Europe at 22:30 hours, as recounted on the television series [[One Step Beyond (TV series)|One Step Beyond]].
* [[November 23]] - [[Triangle Film Corporation]] opens its new motion picture theater in [[Massillon, Ohio]].
* [[November 25]] - The theory of [[general relativity]] is formulated.
===December===
* [[December 12]] - Chinese president [[Yuan Shikai]] declares himself Emperor
* [[December 23]] - [[HMHS Britannic]], the largest individuale British loss in [[World War I]], departs [[Liverpool]] on her maiden voyage.
* [[December 25]] - British and German forces get out of the trenches in [[World War One]] and have a free-for-all kick-around [[football]] game in [[no-man's]] land.
* [[December 26]] - [[Irish Republican Brotherhood]] Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday [[1916]].
===Undated===
* [[Alfred Wegener]] proposes the [[theory]] of [[Pangaea]].
* Emory College is rechartered as [[Emory University]], and plans to move its main campus from [[Oxford, Georgia]] to [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]].
* [[William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook|Lord Beaverbrook]] buys the ''[[Daily Express]]''.
* Automobile speed record of 102.6 [[Miles per hour|m.p.h.]] set at [[Sheepshead Bay]], [[N.Y.]]. by [[Gil Anderson]] driving a [[Stutz]].
* The first [[stop sign]] appears in [[Detroit, Michigan]].
* [[Women's suffrage]] is introduced in [[Denmark]] and [[Iceland]].
* [[Franz Kafka]]'s short novel ''[[Die Verwandlung]]'' is first published in Germany.
===Ongoing===
* [[World War I]] ([[1914]]-[[1918]]).
==Births==
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===January-February===
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* [[January 2]] - [[John Hope Franklin]], American historian
* [[January 3]] - [[Sid Hudson]], baseball player
* [[January 5]] - [[Arthur H. Robinson]], American geographer and cartographer (d. [[2004]])
* [[January 6]] - [[Don Edwards]], American politician
* [[January 9]] - [[Anita Louise]], American actress (d. [[1970]])
* [[January 11]] - [[Robert Blair Mayne]], British soldier and co-founder of the Special Air Service (d. [[1955]])
* [[January 14]] - [[Mark Goodson]], American television game show producer (d. [[1992]])
* [[January 18]] - [[Santiago Carrillo]], Spanish politician
* [[January 20]] - [[Ghulam Ishaq Khan]], [[President of Pakistan]] (d. [[2006]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Arthur Lewis (economist)|Arthur Lewis]], British economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1991]])
* [[January 24]] - [[Robert Motherwell]], American painter (d. [[1991]])
* [[January 29]] - [[John Serry, Sr.]], American musician, composer, arranger (d. [[2003]])
* [[January 30]] - [[Joachim Peiper]], German SS officer (d. [[1976]])
* [[January 30]] - [[John Profumo]], British cabinet minister (d. [[2006]])
* [[January 31]] - [[Alan Lomax]], American folklorist and musicologist (d. [[2002]])
* [[January 31]] - [[Thomas Merton]], American monk and author (d. [[1968]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Artur London]], Czech statesman (d. [[1986]])
* [[February 1]] - Sir [[Stanley Matthews]], English footballer (d. [[2000]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Alicia Rhett]], American actress and painter
* [[February 2]] - [[Khushwant Singh]], Indian writer
* [[February 4]] - Sir [[Norman Wisdom]], English comedian, singer, and actor
* [[February 5]] - [[Robert Hofstadter]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1990]])
* [[February 7]] - [[Teoctist Arăpaşu]], Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 11]] - [[Patrick Leigh Fermor]], British author and soldier
* [[February 14]] - [[Ray Evans]], American composer (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 16]] - [[Jim O'Hora]], American college football coach (d. [[2005]])
* [[February 16]] - [[Elisabeth Eybers]], South African poet (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 19]] - [[John Freeman]], British politician
* [[February 23]] - [[Paul Tibbets]], American pilot (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 26]] - [[Preacher Roe]], baseball player
* [[February 28]] - [[Zero Mostel]], American film and stage actor (d. [[1977]])
* [[February 28]] - [[Peter Medawar]], Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1987]])
===March-April===
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* [[March 3]] - [[Wally Cassell]], American actor
* [[March 4]] - [[Carlos Surinach]], Spanish composer (d. [[1997]])
* [[March 9]] - [[Johnnie Johnson (pilot)|John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson]], English pilot (d. [[2001]])
* [[March 10]] - [[Harry Bertoia]], Italian artist and designer (d. [[1978]])
* [[March 11]] - [[Vijay Hazare]], Indian cricketer (d. [[2004]])
* [[March 14]] - [[Alexander Brott]], Canadian conductor and composer (d. [[2005]])
* [[March 17]] - [[Bill Roycroft]], Australian equestrian
* [[March 19]] - [[Patricia Morison]], American actress
* [[March 20]] - [[Sviatoslav Richter]], Ukrainian pianist (d. [[1997]])
* [[March 23]] - [[Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev|Vasily Zaitsev]], Soviet sniper (d. [[1991]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Robert Lockwood Jr.]], American musician (d. [[2006]])
* [[March 30]] - [[Arsenio Erico]], Paraguayan footballer (d. [[1977]])
* [[March 30]] - [[Pietro Ingrao]], Italian politician
* [[March 31]] - [[Albert Hourani]], English historian (d. [[1993]])
* [[April 3]] - [[Piet de Jong]], [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]]
* [[April 4]] - [[Muddy Waters]], American musician (d. [[1983]])
* [[April 7]] - [[Albert O. Hirschman]], German-born economist
* [[April 7]] - [[Billie Holiday]], American singer (d. [[1959]])
* [[April 8]] - [[Ivan Supek]], Croatian physicist, author, and human rights activist (d. [[2007]])
* [[April 10]] - [[Harry Morgan]], American actor
* [[April 12]] - [[Július Tomin]], Czech writer (d. [[2003]])
* [[April 15]] - [[Elizabeth Catlett]], American-born artist
* [[April 21]] - [[Anthony Quinn]], Mexican actor (d. [[2001]])
* [[April 29]] - [[Mills Brothers|Donald Mills]], lead tenor of The Mills Brothers (d. [[1999]])
* [[April 30]] - [[Elio Toaff]], Italian rabbi
===May-June===
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* [[May 1]] - [[Archie Williams]], American athlete (d. [[1993]])
* [[May 2]] - [[Doris Fisher (singer)|Doris Fisher]], American singer and songwriter (d. [[2003]])
* [[May 3]] - [[Stu Hart]], Canadian wrestling trainer (d. [[2003]])
* [[May 5]] - [[Alice Faye]], American entertainer (d. [[1998]])
* [[May 6]] - [[Orson Welles]], American film director (d. [[1985]])
* [[May 6]] - [[George Perle]], American composer
* [[May 8]] - [[Milton Meltzer]], American author
* [[May 12]] - [[Frère Roger]], Swiss founder of the Taizé Community (d. [[2005]])
* [[May 15]] - [[Hilda Bernstein]], English-born author, artist, and activist (d. [[2006]])
* [[May 15]] - [[Mario Monicelli]], Italian film director
* [[May 15]] - [[Paul Samuelson]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[May 20]] - [[Moshe Dayan]], Israeli military leader and politician (d. [[1981]])
* [[May 20]] - [[Peter Copley]], English actor
* [[May 26]] - [[Sam Edwards]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
* [[May 27]] - [[Herman Wouk]], American author
* [[May 29]] - [[Karl Münchinger]], German conductor (d. [[1990]])
* [[June 1]] - [[John Randolph (actor)|John Randolph]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
* [[June 9]] - [[Les Paul]], American inventor and musician
* [[June 10]] - [[Saul Bellow]], Canadian-born writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2005]])
* [[June 10]] - [[Peride Celal]], Turkish author
* [[June 12]] - [[David Rockefeller]], American banker and philanthropist
* [[June 15]] - [[Thomas Huckle Weller]], American virologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[June 17]] - [[Karl Targownik]], Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. [[1996]])
* [[June 17]] - [[Mario Echandi Jiménez]], [[President of Costa Rica]]
* [[June 20]] - [[Paul Castellano]], American gangster (d. [[1985]])
* [[June 24]] - Sir [[Fred Hoyle]], British astronomer (d. [[2001]])
* [[June 26]] - [[Charlotte Zolotow]], American author
* [[June 27]] - [[Grace Lee Boggs]], American feminist and author
* [[June 28]] - [[David Honeyboy Edwards]], American musician
===July-August===
* [[July 5]] - [[John Woodruff]], American athlete (d. [[2007]])
* [[July 15]] - [[Albert Ghiorso]], American nuclear scientist
* [[July 24]] - [[Enrique Fernando]], Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (d. [[2004]])
* [[July 26]] - [[Pattabhi Jois]], Indian yogi
* [[July 28]] - [[Charles Townes]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[July 28]] - [[Frankie Yankovic]], American accordion player (d. [[1998]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Pete Newell]], Canadian-born basketball coach
* [[August 3]] - [[Frank Arthur Calder]], Canadian politician (d. [[2006]])
* [[August 12]] - [[Michael Kidd]], American choreographer (d. [[2007]])
* [[August 19]] - [[Ring Lardner Jr.]], American film screenwriter (d. [[2000]])
* [[August 22]] - [[Hugh Paddick]], British actor (d. [[2000]])
* [[August 25]] - [[Walter Trampler]], American violist (d. [[1997]])
* [[August 27]] - [[Norman F. Ramsey]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[August 28]] - [[Tasha Tudor]], American illustrator
* [[August 28]] - [[Max Robertson]], British sports commentator
* [[August 29]] - [[Ingrid Bergman]], Swedish actress (d. [[1982]])
* [[August 30]] - [[Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland]]
* [[August 30]] - [[Robert Strassburg]], American composer (d. [[2003]])
===September-October===
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* [[September 2]] - [[Meinhardt Raabe]], American actor
* [[September 3]] - [[Knut Nystedt]], Norwegian composer
* [[September 8]] - [[Frank Cady]], American actor
* [[September 8]] - [[Frank Pullen]], English business person and racehorse owner (d. [[1992]])
* [[September 12]] - [[Frank McGee]], American television personality (d. [[1974]])
* [[September 14]] - [[John Dobson (astronomer)|John Dobson]], American astronomer
* [[September 17]] - [[M F Husain]], Indian artist
* [[September 17]] - [[Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez]], Spanish-born philosopher
* [[September 23]] - [[Julius Baker]], American flautist (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 23]] - [[Clifford Shull]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2001]])
* [[September 29]] - [[Vincent DeDomenico]], American entrepreneur (d. [[2007]])
* [[September 30]] - [[Lester Maddox]], Governor of Georgia (d. [[2003]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Clifford M. Hardin]], U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
* [[October 13]] - [[Terry Frost]], English artist (d. [[2003]])
* [[October 15]] - [[Nellie Lutcher]], American singer (d. [[2007]])
* [[October 15]] - [[Yitzhak Shamir]] Israeli politician
* [[October 17]] - [[Arthur Miller]], American playwright (d. [[2005]])
* [[October 19]] - [[Farid al-Atrash]], Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor (d. [[1974]])
* [[October 24]] - [[Bob Kane]], American comic book creator (d. [[1998]])
* [[October 24]] - [[Tito Gobbi]], Italian baritone (d. [[1984]])
* [[October 28]] - [[Dody Goodman]], American actress and dancer
* [[October 29]] - [[William Berenberg]], American physician (d. [[2005]])
===November-December===
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* [[November 4]] - [[Wee Kim Wee]], 4th [[president of Singapore]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[November 9]] - [[André François]], French cartoonist (d. [[2005]])
* [[November 9]] - [[Sargent Shriver]], American politician
* [[November 11]] - [[William Proxmire]], U.S. Senator (d. [[2005]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Roland Barthes]], French philosopher and literary critic (d. [[1980]])
* [[November 14]] - [[Martha Tilton]], British actress (d. [[2006]])
* [[November 17]] - [[David "Stringbean" Akeman]], American country music banjo player (d. [[1973]])
* [[November 19]] - [[Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.]], American physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]])
* [[November 25]] - [[Augusto Pinochet]], [[President of Chile]] (d. [[2006]])
* [[November 28]] - [[Evald Okas]], Estonian painter
* [[November 30]] - [[Brownie McGhee]], American musician (d. [[1996]])
* [[November 30]] - [[Henry Taube]], Canadian-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 7]] - [[Eli Wallach]], American actor
* [[December 8]] - [[Ernest Lehman]] American screenwriter (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 9]] - [[Elisabeth Schwarzkopf]], German-born soprano (d. [[2006]])
* [[December 12]] - [[Frank Sinatra]], American entertainer (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 13]] - [[Ross Macdonald]], American-Canadian writer (d. [[1983]])
* [[December 17]] - [[Robert A. Dahl]], American political scientist
* [[December 19]] - [[Édith Piaf]], French singer (d. [[1963]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Werner von Trapp]], member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. [[2007]])
* [[December 22]] - [[Barbara Billingsley]], American actress
* [[December 27]] - [[Gyula Zsengellér]], Hungarian footballer (d. [[1999]])
==Deaths==
===January - June===
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* [[January 14]] - [[Richard Meux Benson]], English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. [[1824]])
* [[January 15]] - [[Mary Slessor]], Scottish Christian missionary (b. [[1848]])
* [[February 5]] - [[Ross Barnes]], baseball player (b. [[1850]])
* [[March 4]] - [[William Willett]], English inventor of [[daylight saving time]] (b. [[1856]])
* [[March 9]] - [[François Faber]], Luxembourgian cyclist (b. [[1887]])
* [[March 15]] - [[George Llewelyn-Davies]], one of the 'Lost Boys' for the [[Peter Pan]] book (b. [[1893]])
* [[March 31]] - [[Wyndham Halswelle]], Scottish runner (b. [[1882]])
* [[April 16]] - [[Nelson W. Aldrich]], U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. [[1841]])
* [[April 23]] - [[Rupert Brooke]], English poet (b. [[1887]])
* [[April 23]] - [[Frederick Fisher]], Canadian VC recipient (killed in battle) (b. [[1894]])
* [[April 27]] - [[Alexander Scriabin]], Russian composer (b. [[1872]])
* [[May 24]] - [[Private John Condon]], the youngest British soldier to die during the First World War {b. c. 1901)
* [[May 26]] - [[Julian Grenfell]], poet (killed in battle) (b. [[1888]])
* [[May 31]] - [[Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey]], 18th [[Governor of New South Wales]] (b. [[1845]])
===July - December===
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* [[July 2]] - [[Porfirio Díaz]], [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1830]])
* [[July 16]] - [[Ellen G. White]], American prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism (b. [[1827]])
* [[August 20]] - [[Paul Ehrlich]], German scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1854]])
* [[August 26]] - [[John Bunny]] American silent film comedian (b. [[1863]])
* [[August 31]] - [[Adolphe Pegoud]], aviator (killed in action) (b. [[1889]])
* [[September 9]] - [[Albert Spalding]], baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. [[1850]])
* [[September 11]] - [[William Sprague (1830-1915)|William Sprague IV]], America politician from Rhode Island (b. [[1830]])
* [[September 13]] - [[Andrew L. Harris]], American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. [[1835]])
* [[September 27]] - [[Fergus Bowes-Lyon]], brother of [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]] (killed in battle) (b. [[1889]])
* [[October 12]] - [[Edith Cavell]], nurse and war heroine (shot) (b. [[1865]])
* [[October 12]] - [[Charles Sorley]], British poet (killed in battle) (b. [[1895]])
* [[October 23]] - [[W. G. Grace]], English cricketer (b. [[1948]])
* [[October 30]] - [[Charles Tupper]], [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1821]])
* [[November 15]] - [[Booker T. Washington]], American educator (b. [[1856]])
* [[November 28]] - [[Mubarak Al-Sabah]], [[Emir of Kuwait]] (b. [[1896]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Richard Willstätter]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Romain Rolland]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - not awarded
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - not awarded
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[William Henry Bragg]] and [[William Lawrence Bragg]]
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.coinpage.com/1915-pictures.html 1915 Coin Pictures]
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