1915 34689 222539084 2008-06-29T21:57:06Z Zorrobot 7218328 robot Modifying: [[lt:1915 m.]] {{year nav|1915}} {{C20YearInTopicX}} 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: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1915&country=19 Julian-1915]<!-- --> (Romania used Julian in 1919, when Russia adopted Gregorian). </ref> of the 13-day-slower [[Julian calendar]]). <!-- 13-day span=Mon-Sun,Tue-Mon,Wed-Tue,Thu-Wed,Fr-Th,Sa-Fr --> {{C20YearTOC}} ==Events of 1915== [[Image:HMS Formidable 1898.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 1]]: [[HMS Formidable (1898)|HMS ''Formidable'']]]] ===January=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[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.]] <br style="clear: left" /> ===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=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[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== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Taisho]] 4}} ===January-February=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[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=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[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=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[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=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[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=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[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=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[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=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. House style is to repeat dates, not use second-level bullet points. --> * [[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== <references/> {{commonscat}} ==External links== *[http://www.coinpage.com/1915-pictures.html 1915 Coin Pictures] ==Table of Contents== __TOC__ <br> [[Category:1915| ]]<!--years 19xx are blank-category--> [[af:1915]] [[am:1915 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ar:1915]] [[an:1915]] [[frp:1915]] [[ast:1915]] [[av:1915]] [[az:1915]] [[bn:১৯১৫]] [[map-bms:1915]] [[be:1915]] [[be-x-old:1915]] [[bh:१९१५]] [[bs:1915]] [[br:1915]] [[bg:1915]] [[ca:1915]] [[cv:1915]] [[cs:1915]] [[co:1915]] [[cy:1915]] [[da:1915]] [[de:1915]] [[et:1915]] [[el:1915]] [[es:1915]] [[eo:1915]] [[eu:1915]] [[fa:۱۹۱۵ (میلادی)]] [[fo:1915]] [[hif:1915]] [[fr:1915]] [[fy:1915]] [[fur:1915]] [[ga:1915]] [[gan:1915年]] [[gv:1915]] [[gd:1915]] [[gl:1915]] [[ko:1915년]] [[hy:1915]] [[hi:1915]] [[hr:1915.]] [[io:1915]] [[ilo:1915]] [[bpy:মারি ১৯১৫]] [[id:1915]] [[ia:1915]] [[os:1915]] [[is:1915]] [[it:1915]] [[he:1915]] [[jv:1915]] [[pam:1915]] [[kn:೧೯೧೫]] [[ka:1915]] [[csb:1915]] [[kk:1915]] [[kw:1915]] [[sw:1915]] [[ht:1915 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[ku:1915]] [[la:1915]] [[lb:1915]] [[lt:1915 m.]] [[lij:1915]] [[lmo:1915]] [[hu:1915]] [[mk:1915]] [[mi:1915]] [[mr:इ.स. १९१५]] [[ms:1915]] [[nah:1915]] [[nl:1915]] [[new:ई सं १९१५]] [[ja:1915年]] [[nap:1915]] [[no:1915]] [[nn:1915]] [[nrm:1915]] [[nov:1915]] [[oc:1915]] [[uz:1915]] [[pi:१९१५]] [[nds:1915]] [[pl:1915]] [[pt:1915]] [[ty:1915]] [[ksh:Joohr 1915]] [[ro:1915]] [[ru:1915 год]] [[se:1915]] [[sq:1915]] [[scn:1915]] [[simple:1915]] [[sk:1915]] [[sl:1915]] [[sr:1915]] [[sh:1915]] [[su:1915]] [[fi:1915]] [[sv:1915]] [[tl:1915]] [[ta:1915]] [[tt:1915]] [[te:1915]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2458]] [[vi:1915]] [[tg:1915]] [[tr:1915]] [[uk:1915]] [[vec:1915]] [[wa:1915]] [[vls:1915]] [[yo:1915]] [[zh-yue:1915年]] [[cbk-zam:1915]] [[bat-smg:1915]] [[zh:1915年]]