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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. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5Notes Events[edit] January 1: HMS Formidable,
sunk by a German U-boat. Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI"
prefix. January[edit] Main article: January 1915 ·
WWI:
The Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable is
sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. ·
Battle of Broken
Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill,
New South Wales, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to
be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together
with 4 civilians. ·
Harry Houdini performs a straitjacket escape performance.[1][2] ·
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. ·
The United
States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give
women the right to vote. ·
A Fool There
Was premières in
the United States, starring Theda Bara as a femme fatale; she quickly becomes one of
early cinema's most sensational stars. ·
January 13 – The 6.7 Mw Avezzano
earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in
Italy, with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of XI (Extreme). Various agencies estimate
the number of people killed to be 29,978–32,610. ·
January 17 – WWI: Caucasus Campaign
– Battle of Sarikamish:
Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey. ·
January 18 – Twenty-One Demands from Japan to China are
made. ·
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.[3] ·
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. ·
Emory
College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main
campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta. ·
WWI:
The Ottoman Army begins
the Raid on the Suez
Canal. ·
The Rocky
Mountain National Park is established by an act of the United States
Congress. ·
January 27 – WWI: Military casualties
begin arriving at the Hôpital
Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, established earlier in the month. ·
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.[4] January 28: United States
Coast Guard military branch February[edit] Main article: February 1915 ·
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. March[edit] Main article: March 1915 ·
March – The 1915
Palestine locust infestation breaks out in Palestine;
it continues until October. ·
March 3 – The National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA,
is founded in the United States. ·
March 10–13 – 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: ·
Battle of Más a
Tierra: Off the coast of Chile, the British Royal Navy forces the Imperial German
Navy light cruiser SMS Dresden (last
survivor of the German East Asia Squadron) to scuttle. ·
Constantinople
Agreement: Britain, France and
the Russian Empire agree
to give Constantinople and
the Bosphorus to Russia, in case of victory
(the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik Revolution). ·
March 18 ·
WWI:
A British 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 19 – Pluto is photographed for the first
time, but is not classified as a planet. ·
March 25 – The U.S. submarine F-4 sinks off
Hawaii; 21 are killed. ·
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 is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at
the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul, in Saint Paul,
Minnesota. March 14: WWI: SMS Dresden,
forced to scuttle by the Royal Navy. April[edit] Main article: April 1915 ·
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 11 – Charlie Chaplin's film The Tramp is released. ·
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 – The Armenian Genocide begins,
with the deportation of Armenian notables from Istanbul. ·
April 25 – WWI – Start of the Gallipoli Campaign (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. ·
April 26 – Treaty of London:
Italy secretly agrees to leave the Triple Alliance with
Germany and Austria-Hungary,
and join with the Triple Entente,
in exchange for certain territories of Austria-Hungary on its borders. May[edit] Main article: May 1915 ·
May 1 – WWI: General Louis Botha, Prime
Minister of South Africa, leads the army in the occupation
of German South
West Africa. ·
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 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. ·
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 24 – WWI: Italy joins the Allies,
after declaring war on Austria-Hungary. ·
May 25 – China agrees
to the Twenty-One Demands of
the Japanese. ·
May 29 – Teófilo Braga becomes president
of Portugal. June[edit] Main article: June 1915 ·
June 3 – Mexican Revolution:
Troops of Obregón and Villa clash at León; Obregón
loses his right arm in a grenade attack, but Villa is decisively defeated. ·
June 5 – Women's suffrage is
introduced in Denmark and Iceland. ·
June 9 – U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings
Bryan resigns, over a disagreement regarding his nation's
handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking. ·
June 16 – The British Women's
Institute is founded. ·
June 19 – Iceland gets their own flag,
the same day that women over the age of 40 get the right to vote. July[edit] Main article: July 1915 ·
July –
WWI – South West
Africa Campaign: The Union of South
Africa occupies German South
West Africa with assistance from Canada, the United Kingdom,
the Portuguese Republic and Portuguese Angola.
South Africa will occupy South West Africa until
March 1990. ·
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 &ndash: 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 revoltagainst
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 to.[6] ·
July 22 – WWI: The "Great Retreat"
is ordered on the Eastern Front; Russian forces pull back out of Poland (then
part of Russia), taking machinery and equipment with them. ·
July 24 – The steamer Eastland capsizes in central
Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives. ·
July 28 – The American
occupation of Haiti (1915–34) begins. August[edit] Main article: August 1915 August: Destruction by the 1915 Galveston
hurricane. ·
August 5–23 – Hurricane Two of the 1915
Atlantic hurricane season over Galveston and New Orleans leaves 275 dead. ·
August 6 – WWI – Battle of Sari Bair:
The Allies mount
a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of
reinforcements at Suvla Bay. ·
August 16 – WWI: The Entente promises
the Kingdom of Serbia,
should victory be achieved over Austria-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 Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to Bar). ·
August 17 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched, for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old
girl in Atlanta. ·
August 31 – Jimmy Lavender of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no-hitter, against the New York Giants. September[edit] Main article: September 1915 ·
September 5 – The Zimmerwald
Conference begins in Switzerland. ·
September 6 – The prototype military tank is
first tested by the British Army. ·
September 7 – Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for
his Raggedy Ann doll. ·
September 8 – WWI: A Zeppelin raid destroys No. 61 Farringdon Road, London; it is rebuilt
in 1917, and called The Zeppelin Building. ·
September 11 – The Pennsylvania
Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service
between Paoli and Philadelphia, using overhead AC trolley
wires for power. This type of system is later used in long-distance passenger
trains between New York City, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. ·
September 12 – French soldiers rescue
over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors
stranded on Musa Dagh, a mountain in the Hatay province of Turkey. ·
September 25–October 14 – WWI – Battle of Loos: British forces take
the French town
of Loos, but with
substantial casualties, and are unable to press their advantage. This is the
first time the British use poison gas in
World War I, and also their first large-scale use of 'New'
(or Kitchener's Army)
units. ·
September 30 – WWI: Serbian Army private Radoje Ljutovac became the first
soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft, with ground-to-air fire. October[edit] Main article: October 1915 ·
October – Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis (Die
Verwandlung) is first published in Germany.[7] ·
October 10 – Albert Cashier dies at age 71. ·
October 12 – WWI: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad, for helping Allied soldiers
escape from Belgium. ·
October 15 – WWI – Serbian
Campaign: Austria-Hungary invades the Kingdom of Serbia. Bulgaria enters
the war, also invading Serbia. The Serbian First Armyretreats
towards Greece. ·
October 16 – WWI: France declares war
on Bulgaria. ·
WWI: Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria. ·
Mexican Revolution:
The U.S. recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza de facto (not de jure until 1917). ·
October 21 The United
Daughters of the Confederacy holds its first annual meeting
outside the South, in San Francisco. Historian General Mildred Rutherfordaddress
the gathering on the "Historical Sins of Omission &
Commission", of Yankee historians. ·
October 23 – WWI: The torpedoing
of armored cruiser SMS Prinz
Adalbert (1901) results in only 3 men being rescued
from a crew of 675, the greatest single loss of life for the Imperial German Navy in
the Baltic Sea during the war. ·
October 25 – Lyda Conley, the first American
Indian woman to appear before the Supreme
Court of the United States as a lawyer, is admitted to practice
there.[8] ·
October 27 – William Morris "Billy" Hughes becomes
the 7th Prime
Minister of Australia. ·
October 28 – St. Johns School
fire: Fire at St. John's School in Peabody,
Massachusetts, claims the lives of 21 girls between the ages of 7
and 17. November[edit] Main article: November 1915 ·
November 18 – The U.S. silent film Inspiration,
the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude, is released. ·
November 21 – British polar exploration
ship Endurance finally
breaks apart from pressure of ice around it and sinks into the Weddell Sea, stranding Ernest Shackleton's Imperial
Trans-Antarctic Expedition party in the Antarctic.[9][10] ·
November 23 – The Triangle Film
Corporation opens its new motion picture theater in Massillon, Ohio. ·
November 24 – William J. Simmons revives
the American Civil War era Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia. ·
November 25 – Albert Einstein presents part of his
theory of general relativity to
the Prussian
Academy of Sciences.[11] December[edit] Main article: December 1915 ·
December 10 – The 1 millionth Ford car
rolls off the assembly line, at the River Rouge Plant in Detroit, Michigan. ·
December 12 – President
of the Republic of China Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor. ·
December 18 – United States President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith B. Galt,
in Washington, D.C. ·
December 23 – HMHS Britannic, which will be
the largest British ship lost in WWI (though with only 30 fatalities),
departs Liverpool on her
maiden voyage as a hospital ship. ·
December 26 – The Irish
Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage
an Easter Rising in
1916. Date unknown[edit] ·
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. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Branko
Ćopić, Yugoslav writer (d. 1984) ·
Tom Godwin, American science fiction author
(d. 1980) ·
Fazlollah Reza, Iranian university
professor, electrical engineer ·
January 2 – John Hope Franklin,
African-American historian (d. 2009) ·
Sid Hudson, American baseball player
(d. 2008) ·
Mady Rahl, German stage, film actress
(d. 2009) ·
Meg Mundy, English-born American actress
(d. 2016) ·
Adolf Opálka, Czechoslovak soldier (d. 1942) ·
Arthur H. Robinson,
American geographer, cartographer (d. 2004) ·
Humberto Teixeira,
Brazilian flautist (d. 1979) ·
Don Edwards, American politician (d. 2015) ·
Alan Watts, British philosopher (d. 1973) ·
Franz Bartl, Austrian field handball player
(d. 1941) ·
Helen Mussallem, Canadian nursing
administrator (d. 2012) ·
Fernando Lamas, Argentine-born actor
(d. 1982) ·
Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970) ·
January 11 – Robert Blair Mayne,
British soldier, co-founder of the Special Air Service (d. 1955) ·
January 14 – Mark Goodson, American television game show
producer (d. 1992) ·
January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-born Canadian artist,
sculptor (d. 2009) ·
Susan Ahn Cuddy, United States Navy gunnery
officer (d. 2015) ·
Leslie H. Martinson,
American film director (d. 2016) ·
January 17 – Sammy Angott, American boxer (d. 1980) ·
January 18 – Santiago Carrillo,
Spanish politician (d. 2012) ·
Ghulam Ishaq Khan,
Pakistani civil servant, 7th President of
Pakistan (d. 2006) ·
Edward
Stewart, American set decorator (d. 1999) ·
W. Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1991) ·
Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1985) ·
January 24 – Robert Motherwell,
American painter (d. 1991) ·
January 25 – Ewan MacColl, English folk singer,
songwriter, and poet (d. 1989) ·
January 28 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-born American writer
(d. 2009) ·
Albert Henderson,
American actor (d. 2004) ·
V. V. Sadagopan, Indian film actor, music
teacher, performer and composer ·
John Serry, Sr., American musician,
composer, and arranger (d. 2003) ·
Ed Keats, American rear admiral ·
Joachim Peiper, German Waffen-SS officer
(d. 1976) ·
John Profumo, British politician (d. 2006) ·
Alan Lomax, American folklorist,
musicologist (d. 2002) ·
Thomas Merton, American monk, author
(d. 1968) February[edit] ·
Alicia Rhett, American actress (d. 2014) ·
Artur London, Czech statesman (d. 1986) ·
Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer
(d. 2000) ·
Abba Eban, South African-born Israeli
foreign affairs minister (d. 2002) ·
Khushwant Singh, Indian writer (d. 2014) ·
Ray Evans, American composer (d. 2007) ·
Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer, and
actor (d. 2010) ·
Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet
(d. 2000) ·
February 5 – Robert Hofstadter,
American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1990) ·
February 6 – Danuta Szaflarska,
Polish screen, stage actress (d. 2017) ·
Teoctist
Arăpașu, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (d. 2007) ·
Georges-André
Chevallaz, 78th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2002) ·
Liu Jie, Chinese politician (d. 2018) ·
February 10 – Karl Winsch, American professional baseball
player, manager (d. 2001) ·
Patrick Leigh Fermor,
British author, soldier (d. 2011) ·
Harry Walker,
English rugby union player (d. 2018) ·
Richard Hamming, American mathematician (d. 1998) ·
Richard G. Colbert,
American admiral (d. 1973) ·
Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (d. 1987) ·
Olivia Hooker, American civil rights figure
(d. 2018) ·
February 13 – Aung San, Burmese national leader (d. 1947) ·
Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet
(d. 2007) ·
Jim O'Hora, American college football coach
(d. 2005) ·
Fred Freiberger, American screenwriter,
television producer (d. 2003) ·
John
Freeman, British politician (d. 2014) ·
February 20 – Danuta Szaflarska Polish
screen, stage actress (d. 2017) ·
Ann Sheridan, American film actress
(d. 1967) ·
Anton Vratuša, 8th Prime Minister of
Slovenia (d. 2017) ·
Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979) ·
Paul Tibbets, American World War II bomber
pilot (Enola Gay) (d. 2007) ·
February 27 – Dick Crockett, American actor, stunt
performer (d. 1979) ·
Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1987) ·
Zero Mostel, American film, stage actor
(d. 1977) March[edit] ·
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 ·
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 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian artist, designer
(d. 1978) ·
March 11 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004) ·
March 14 – Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor,
composer (d. 2005) ·
March 15 – Carl Emil Schorske,
American cultural historian (d. 2015) ·
March 17 ·
Ray Ellington, British singer, bandleader
(d. 1985) ·
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) ·
Marie M. Runyon, American politician,
activist (d. 2018) ·
Sister Rosetta
Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973) ·
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[edit] ·
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 collaborator with the
Nazis in Occupied France during World War II, first Frenchman convicted of
crimes against humanity (d. 1996) ·
April 6 ·
Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage
designer and theatre director (d. 1990) ·
Thelma McKenzie, Australian cricketer ·
April 7 ·
Stanley Adams,
American actor, screenwriter (d. 1977) ·
Albert O. Hirschman,
German-born economist (d. 2012) ·
Billie Holiday, African-American singer
(d. 1959) ·
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, founder of Azad
Kashmir, who led the revolt against Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir (d. 2003) ·
Harry Morgan, American actor, director
(d. 2011) ·
Wynona Mulcaster, Canadian painter and
teacher (d. 2016) ·
April 12 ·
George Hogan,
American professional basketball player (d. 1965) ·
Hound Dog Taylor, American guitarist, singer
(d. 1975) ·
Július Tomin,
Czech writer known for promoting Interlingua (d. 2003) ·
April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett,
African-American artist (d. 2012) ·
April 17 – William Pachner, Czech painter (d. 2017) ·
April 19 – Vonda Phelps, American actress (d. 2004) ·
April 20 – Zita Szeleczky, Hungarian actress (d. 1999) ·
April 21 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (d. 2001) ·
April 24 ·
Salvador Borrego, Mexican journalist,
historical revisionist and neo-nazi writer (d. 2018) ·
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[edit] ·
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) ·
Ben Wright,
English actor (d. 1989) ·
May 6 ·
Sydney Carter, British musician, poet and
songwriter (d. 2004) ·
Orson Welles, American actor and director
(d. 1985) ·
May 8 ·
John Archer,
(d. 1999) ·
Milton Meltzer, American author (d. 2009) ·
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 ·
Hilda Bernstein, English-born author,
artist, and activist (d. 2006) ·
Ida Keeling, American track and field
athlete ·
Evelyn Owen, Australian gun designer
(d. 1949) ·
Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2009) ·
May 16 – Mario Monicelli, Italian film director
(d. 2010) ·
May 19 – Renée Asherson,
British actress (d. 2014) ·
May 20 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader and
politician (d. 1981) ·
May 25 – Aarne Kainlauri, Finnish athlete ·
May 26 – Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004) ·
May 27 ·
Ester Soré, Chilean musician (d. 1996) ·
Herman Wouk, American author ·
May 29 – Karl Münchinger,
German conductor (d. 1990) ·
May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American painter June[edit] ·
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 4 – Modibo Keïta, former 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) ·
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) ·
June 12 ·
William MacVane, American surgeon and
politician (d. 2010) ·
David Rockefeller,
American banker and philanthropist (d. 2017) ·
June 14 ·
Loke Wan Tho, Singaporean business magnate,
ornithologist, and photographer (d. 1964) ·
Zoe Dell Nutter, American dancer, model,
promoter, pilot and philanthropist ·
June 15 ·
Kaiser Matanzima, President of the Transkei
bantustan (d. 2003) ·
Nini Theilade, Danish ballet dancer,
choreographer and teacher (d. 2018) ·
Thomas Huckle Weller,
American virologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008) ·
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 ·
David
"Stringbean" Akeman, American country music banjo player
(d. 1973) ·
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 19 – Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994) ·
June 20 – Terence Young,
British film director and screenwriter (d. 1994) ·
June 21 ·
Jesús Arango Cano,
Colombian economist, diplomat, anthropologist, archaeologist and writer
(d. 2015) ·
Karol Miklosz, Polish-Soviet footballer,
Soviet referee and Soviet-Ukrainian football administrator (d. 2003) ·
June 22 ·
Duncan Clark,
Scottish athlete (d. 2003) ·
Thomas Quinn Curtiss,
American writer, and film and theatre critic (d. 2000) ·
Randolph Hokanson,
American pianist (d. 2018) ·
Hatsuko Morioka, Japanese freestyle swimmer ·
Cornelius Warmerdam,
American track & field athlete (d. 2001) ·
June 23 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor
(d. 2016) ·
June 24 ·
Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001) ·
Bill Radovich, American football guard
(d. 2002) ·
June 25 – Floyd Boring, American Secret Service agent
(d. 2008) ·
June 26 ·
George Haigh, English professional footballer ·
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 ·
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[edit] ·
July 1 ·
A. F. M.
Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 9th President of Bangladesh (d. 2001) ·
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 2 ·
Peggy Hubicki, English composer and teacher
(d. 2006) ·
Valerian
Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington (d. 2014) ·
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 ·
Billy Mure, American guitarist (d. 2013) ·
Terry O'Sullivan,
American actor (d. 2006) ·
Margaret Walker, American poet and writer (d. 1998) ·
July 8 ·
Malvina Cheek, British artist (d. 2016) ·
Lowell English, United States Marine Corps
general (d. 2005) ·
Karin Hellman, Finnish artist and painter
(d. 2004) ·
Neil D. Van Sickle,
American Air Force major general ·
July 9 ·
Giovanni De
Stefanis, Italian road cyclist (d. 2006) ·
Joan Tompkins, American actress (d. 2005) ·
July 10 – Kevin Barrett,
Australian rules footballer (d. 1984) ·
July 11 ·
Leonard Goodwin, British protozoologist
(d. 2008) ·
Erkki Kansanaho,
Finnish bishop (d. 2003) ·
Milena Penovich,
Italian actress ·
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) ·
Edith Pfau, American painter, sculptor and
art educator (d. 2001) ·
Judith Révész,
Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (d. 2018) ·
Kashmir Singh Katoch,
Indian military advisor ·
David Tree, English actor (d. 2009) ·
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) ·
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) ·
Åke Hellman, Finnish painter (d. 2017) ·
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 ·
Audrey Callaghan, Spouse of the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005) ·
Helena
Dunicz-Niwińska, Polish violinist, translator and author
(d. 2018) ·
Dick Sprang, American comic book artist during the golden age of comics, explorer (d. 2000) ·
Charles Hard Townes,
American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2015) ·
Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player
(d. 1998) August[edit] ·
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) ·
Donald Pellmann, American masters athlete ·
Michael Kidd, American choreographer
(d. 2007) ·
August 13 – Muhammad Ibrahim
Joyo, Pakistani teacher, writer, scholar, and Sindhi nationalist
(d. 2017) ·
Irene Hickson, American professional
baseball player (d. 1995) ·
Vincent Foy, Canadian Roman Catholic cleric,
theologian (d. 2017) ·
August 18 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah,
2nd President of Ghana (d. 1992) ·
August 19 – Ring Lardner Jr., American film screenwriter
(d. 2000) ·
August 21 – Arnold
Goodman, Baron Goodman, British lawyer, political adviser
(d. 1995) ·
August 22 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000) ·
Dave McCoy, American founder of the Mammoth
Mountain Ski Area ·
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) ·
Tol Avery, American actor (d. 1973) ·
Simon Oakland, American actor (d. 1983) ·
Max Robertson, British sports commentator
(d. 2009) ·
Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008) ·
Jack Agazarian, English World War II spy
(d. 1945) ·
Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982) ·
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[edit] ·
September 2 – Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010) ·
September 3 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer (d. 2014) ·
September 6 – Franz Josef Strauss,
German politician (d. 1988) ·
Frank Cady, American actor (d. 2012) ·
Benoît Lacroix,
Canadian theologian and philosopher (d. 2016) ·
Frank Pullen, English business person,
racehorse owner (d. 1992) ·
September 9 – Richard Webb,
American actor (d. 1993) ·
Viva Leroy Nash, American murderer, oldest
death row inmate (d. 2010) ·
Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985) ·
Robert Sparr, American film director and
screenwriter (d. 1969) ·
September 11 – Raúl Alberto Lastiri,
39th President of Argentina (d. 1978) ·
John
Dobson, American astronomer (d. 2014) ·
Douglas Kennedy,
American actor (d. 1973) ·
Helmut Schön, German football player,
manager (d. 1996) ·
Albert Whitlock, British-born matte artist (d. 1999) ·
September 16 – Eddie Filgate, Irish politician (d. 2017) ·
M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011) ·
Adolfo Sánchez
Vázquez, Spanish-born philosopher (d. 2011) ·
September 19 – Duffy Ayers, English portrait painter
(d. 2017) ·
September 20 – Malik Meraj Khalid,
Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003) ·
September 21 – Gertrude Poe, American journalist (d. 2017) ·
September 22 – Bernardino Piñera,
Chilean Roman Catholic bishop ·
Julius Baker, American flautist (d. 2003) ·
Zdenko
Blažeković, Croatian politician (d. 1947) ·
Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2001) ·
September 24 – Joseph Montoya, American politician
(d. 1978) ·
September 27 – Ira Colitz, American politician (d. 1998) ·
Kay Mander, British film director, shooting
continuity specialist (d. 2013) ·
Wee Chong Jin, Singaporean judge (d. 2005) ·
Vincent DeDomenico,
American entrepreneur (d. 2007) ·
Brenda Marshall, American actress (d. 1992) ·
Nadezhda Fedutenko,
Soviet red army officer (d. 1978) ·
Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003) October[edit] ·
Jerome Bruner, American psychologist
(d. 2016) ·
Talat Tunçalp, Turkish Olympian cyclist
(d. 2017) ·
October 2 – Chuck Williams,
American businessman (d. 2015) ·
October 6 – Neus Català, Spanish political activist ·
October 7 – Walter Keane, American plagiarist (d. 2000) ·
October 11 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author, poet (d. 2009) ·
Tony Rafty, Australian caricaturist
(d. 2015) ·
José Bragato, Italian-born Argentine
cellist, composer, conductor and arranger (d. 2017) ·
Frederick Rosier, British Royal Air Force
commander (d. 1998) ·
Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003) ·
October 14 – Loris Francesco
Capovilla, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2016) ·
H. Basil S. Cooke,
Canadian geologist, palaeontologist (d. 2018) ·
Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005) ·
Victor
Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
(d. 2018) ·
John J. McKetta, American chemical engineer ·
October 18 – Thomas Round, English opera singer, actor
(d. 2016) ·
October 19 – Andreas Peter
Cornelius Sol, Dutch prelate (d. 2016) ·
October 21 – Aleksandr Ezhevsky,
Soviet engineer, statesman (d. 2017) ·
October 22 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician (d. 2012) ·
October 23 – Shin Hyun-joon,
South Korean general (d. 2007) ·
October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist/writer,
creator of Batman (d. 1998) ·
October 27 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian theatre, film
producer (d. 1994) ·
October 28 – Dody Goodman, American actress, dancer
(d. 2008) ·
October 29 – William Berenberg,
American physician (d. 2005) ·
October 30 – Jane Randolph, American actress (d. 2009) November[edit] ·
Marion Eugene Carl,
U.S. Marine Corps World War II fighter ace, test pilot (d. 1998) ·
Frances Hesselbein,
American President, CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute ·
Eva Macapagal, 9th First Lady of the
Philippines (d. 1999) ·
November 2 – Kay Armen, American Armenian singer
(d. 2011) ·
Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of
Singapore (d. 2005) ·
Ismail Abdul Rahman,
Malaysian politician (d. 1973) ·
Philip Morrison, American physicist,
astrophysicist and professor (d. 2005) ·
Jiao Ruoyu, Chinese Communist Party
politician ·
November 8 – Richard Luyt, 1st Governor General of Guyana
(d. 1994) ·
André François,
French cartoonist (d. 2005) ·
Sargent Shriver, American politician
(d. 2011) ·
William Proxmire, United States Senator
(d. 2005) ·
Anna Schwartz, American economist (d. 2012) ·
November 12 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher, literary
critic (d. 1980) ·
November 13 – Clara Marangoni, Italian gymnast (d. 2018) ·
November 16 – Jean Fritz, American children's writer
(d. 2017) ·
November 17 – Albert Malbois, French prelate (d. 2017) ·
November 18 – James Whittico Jr.,
American physician (d. 2018) ·
November 19 – Earl Wilbur
Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1974) ·
November 20 – Bill Daniel, American politician (d. 2006) ·
John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992) ·
Julio César
Méndez Montenegro, President of Guatemala (d. 1996) ·
Augusto Pinochet, 31st President of Chile (d. 2006) ·
Armando Villanueva,
leader of the Peruvian American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (d. 2013) ·
November 26 – Emilio D'Amore, Italian writer, journalist,
and politician (d. 2017) ·
November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011) ·
November 29 – Eugene Polley, American engineer (d. 2012) ·
Brownie McGhee, American musician (d. 1996) ·
Emmanuel Pelaez, 6th Vice President of the
Philippines (d. 2003) ·
Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2005) December[edit] ·
Prince Takahito
of Mikasa, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito (d. 2016) ·
Marais Viljoen, former President of
South Africa (d. 2007) ·
December 4 – Virginia deGravelles,
American politician (d. 2017) ·
December 5 – Ren Xinmin, Chinese aerospace engineer
(d. 2017) ·
Nilawan Pintong, Thai writer (d. 2017) ·
Alan Sayers, New Zealand journalist,
photographer and athlete (d. 2017) ·
December 7 – Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014) ·
December 8 – Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter
(d. 2005) ·
December 9 – Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006) ·
Felicity Hill, British Royal Air Force
officer ·
Frank Sinatra, American singer, actor
(d. 1998) ·
Curd Juergens, Austrian-German film actor
(d. 1982) ·
Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer
(d. 1983) ·
B. J. Vorster, South African politician,
Prime Minister and State President (d. 1983) ·
December 14 – Dan Dailey, American actor, dancer (d. 1978) ·
Kenshiro Abbe, Japanese master of judo,
aikido, and kendo (d. 1985) ·
Charles F. Wheeler,
American cinematographer (d. 2004) ·
December 17 – Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist
(d. 2014) ·
December 18 – Bill Zuckert, American actor (d. 1997) ·
December 19 – Édith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963) ·
December 21 – Werner von Trapp, member of the Austrian
Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007) ·
December 22 – Barbara Billingsley,
American actress (d. 2010) ·
Mary Kornman, American child actress
(d. 1973) ·
Gyula Zsengellér,
Hungarian footballer (d. 1999) ·
December 31 – Davuldena
Gnanissara Thero, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk (d. 2017) Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 9 – Yang Shoujing, Chinese historical geographer
and calligrapher (b. 1839) ·
January 13 – Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary
(b. 1848) ·
January 14 – Richard Meux Benson,
English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. 1824) ·
January 23 – Anne Whitney, American sculptor, poet
(b. 1821) February[edit] ·
February 3 – Bosnian Serb conspirators
(executed for their part in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Austria): ·
Veljko
Čubrilović (b. 1886) ·
Danilo Ilić (b. 1891) ·
February 5 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player
(b. 1850) ·
Frank James, American outlaw (b. 1843) ·
Francisco
Giner de los Ríos, Spanish philosopher, educator (b. 1839) ·
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[edit] ·
March 4 – William Willett, English promoter of daylight saving time (b. 1856) ·
March 13 – Sergei Witte, Russian aristocrat, statesman
and former Prime Minister (b. 1849) ·
March 14 – Lincoln J. Beachey,
American pilot (b. 1887) ·
March 15 – George Llewelyn
Davies, English soldier, inspiration for the "Lost Boys"
of Peter Pan (killed in action)
(b. 1893) ·
March 21 – Frederick
Winslow Taylor, American engineer, economist (b. 1856) ·
March 31 ·
Wyndham Halswelle,
Scottish runner (killed in action) (b. 1882) ·
Nathan
Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, British banker and politician
(b. 1840) April[edit] ·
April 9 – Friedrich Loeffler,
German bacteriologist (b. 1852) ·
April 16 – Nelson W. Aldrich,
U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841) ·
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 26 – John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863) ·
April 27 ·
William
Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, English airman, first aviator awarded
Victoria Cross (b. 1887) ·
Alexander Scriabin,
Russian composer (b. 1872) May[edit] ·
May 7 – Sinking of
the RMS Lusitania: ·
Justus Miles Forman,
American writer (b. 1875) ·
Charles Frohman, American theater producer
(b. 1856) ·
Elbert Hubbard, American writer, philosopher
(b. 1856) ·
Alice Moore Hubbard,
American wife of Elbert Hubbard (b. 1861) ·
Charles Klein, American playwright (b. 1867) ·
Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt I, American sportsman (b. 1877) ·
May 9 ·
François Faber,
Luxembourgian cyclist (killed in battle) (b. 1887) ·
Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player
(killed in battle) (b. 1883) ·
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 – Julian Grenfell, English poet (killed in
battle) (b. 1888) ·
May 31 – Victor
Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, 18th Governor of
New South Wales (b. 1845) June[edit] ·
June 5 – Henri
Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist, sculptor (killed in battle)
(b. 1891) ·
June 7 – Charles Reed Bishop,
American businessman, philanthropist in Hawaii (b. 1822) ·
June 19 – Benjamin F.
Isherwood, American admiral, United States Navy Engineer-in-Chief
(b. 1822) ·
June 25 – Tok Janggut, Malayan rebel leader (killed in
battle) (b. 1853) July[edit] ·
July 2 – Porfirio Díaz, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830) ·
July 16 – Ellen G. White, American prophetess,
co-founder of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church, most translated American author (b. 1827) ·
July 21 – Jean Prévost,
Canadian politician (b. 1870) ·
July 22 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and
inventor (b. 1827) ·
July 25 – Virginie
Amélie Avegno Gautreau, French socialite, model for the
painting Portrait of Madame X (b. 1859) August[edit] ·
August 10 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (killed in
action) (b. 1887) ·
August 16 – Kálmán Széll,
13th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1843) ·
August 17 – Leo Frank, Jewish-American factory
superintendent who was falsely convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan
(b. 1884) ·
Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of
the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854) ·
Carlos Finlay, Cuban pathologist (b. 1833) ·
August 26 – John Bunny, American silent film comedian
(b. 1863) ·
August 30 – Antonio Flores Jijón,
13th President of Ecuador (b. 1833) ·
August 31 – Adolphe Pégoud,
French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1889) September[edit] ·
September 1 – August Stramm, German poet, playwright
(killed in battle) (b. 1874) ·
Antonín Petrof,
Czech piano maker (b. 1839) ·
Albert Spalding, American baseball player,
sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850) ·
September 11 – William Sprague IV,
American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1830) ·
September 13 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero,
Governor of Ohio (b. 1835) ·
September 21 – Anthony Comstock, American anti-indecency
reformer (b. 1844) ·
September 26 – Keir Hardie, British labour leader (b. 1856) ·
September 27 – Fergus Bowes-Lyon,
brother of Queen
Elizabeth The Queen Mother (killed in battle) (b. 1889) October[edit] ·
October 4 – Karl Staaff, 11th Prime Minister of Sweden
(b. 1860) ·
October 12 – Edith Cavell, British nurse, war heroine
(shot) (b. 1865) ·
October 13 – Charles Sorley, British poet (killed in
action) (b. 1895) ·
October 15 – Theodor Boveri, German biologist (b. 1862) ·
October 22 – Wilhelm Windelband,
German philosopher (b. 1848) ·
October 23 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848) ·
October 26 – August Bungert, German composer, poet
(b. 1845) ·
October 30 – Sir Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1821) November[edit] ·
Félix de Blochausen,
6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1834) ·
Booker T. Washington,
American educator (b. 1856) ·
November 21 – Dixie Haygood, American magician (b. 1861) ·
November 28 – Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1837) December[edit] ·
December 19 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist,
neuropathologist (b. 1864) ·
December 22 – Rose Talbot Bullard,
American medical doctor, professor (b. 1864) ·
December 31 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian actor (b. 1829) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Chemistry – Richard Willstätter ·
Medicine –
not awarded ·
Peace –
not awarded ·
Physics – William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence
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^ Einstein, Albert (1915-11-25). "Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation". Sitzungsberichte
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Retrieved 2018-08-27. Further reading[edit] ·
Williams,
John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and
Germany 1914-1918 (1972) pp 43–108. Primary sources and
year books[edit] ·
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 External links[edit] ·
Pictures
of the 1915 Galveston Hurricane at the University of Houston Digital Library |
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