About the day » Saturday August 21, 1915Calender converter

• Adriana Hoogesteger, Kapelle († 1979)
• Alice May LUIKENS, Kalamazoo Kalamazoo County Michigan U.S.A († 1970)
• Anna Serlet († 1956)
• Antonius Goossens, Woensdrecht, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1994)
• Adam Breur, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1915)
• Adam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1915)
• Aleida Johanna Geerts, Gendringen, Nederland († 1970)
• Albert, DONNAY, Wandre, Liège, Wallonie, BELGIQUE († 1975)
• Anna Elisa De Houwer, Zonhoven († 2001)
• Alice H. Ferguson, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas († 1981)

• Antonius Franciscus van Eijck (71), Rotterdam
• Assueer Jacob, Baron Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oije (80), Paramaribo, N-Srnm, Dutch Guiana
• Assueer Jacob, baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oije (80), Paramaribo
• Anna de Blieck (54), Utrecht, Nederland
• Bernardus Gijzen (60), Breda
• Asueer Jacob Schimmelpenninck van der Oije (80), .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Antonetta Johanna Giessen (0), Nieuwkuijk
• Assueer Jacob Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (80), Paramaribo
• Asueer Jacob baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (80), Paramaribo,,Paramaribo,Suriname
• * Maria Briejer (34), Leiden

• 1907 » P. Jeevanandham, Indian lawyer and politician († 1963)
• 1909 » Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician and physicist († 1992)
• 1912 » Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1995)
• 1914 » Doug Wright, English cricketer and coach († 1998)
• 1916 » Bill Lee, American actor and singer († 1980)
• 1916 » Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter († 2005)
• 1917 » Leonid Hurwicz, Russian economist and mathematician († 2008)
• 1918 » Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach († 2004)
• 1921 » Reuven Feuerstein, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic († 2014)
• 1922 » Albert Irvin, English soldier and painter († 2015)

• 1888 » James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)
• 1905 » Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)
• 1910 » Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
• 1935 » John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
• 1940 » Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1940 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Albert
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Jacob
13. Antonius
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Neeltje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
• January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
• January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
• April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
• May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
• July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.

The temperature on August 21, 1915 was between 9.9 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.