About the day » Sunday November 15, 1908Calender converter

• Andreas Harbers, Borger († 1909)
• Alphons Louis Chrétien Theophile Kuijken, Bergeijk
• Aleida Seinen, Zwolle
• Aart van de Heg, Lunteren (Gem. Ede) (GLD) Nederland († 1979)
• Aart Schuit, Putten Veenhuizerveld († 1989)
• Aaltje Drenthen, Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland († 1909)
• Adolf Alfons de Kind, Sint-Jansteen
• Anna Lena 't Hart, Piershil
• Aart Schuit, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1989)
• Aaltje Zeevat, Ermelo († 1981)

• Anna Catharina Scherpenisse (57), Zierikzee
• Anna Maria Compen (0), Valkenswaard
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Moorman (74), Erica, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Moorman (72), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agnes Heimbach (27), Essen-Borbeck, Dld
• Anna Hinken (77), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan van Weert (73), Berkel-Enschot
• Baukje Andries de Walle (70), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Barbara De Meuleneere (76), Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Maria Cornelia Dohmen (37), Heel en Panheel

• 1903 » Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach († 1974)
• 1905 » Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer († 1980)
• 1906 » Curtis LeMay, American general and politician († 1990)
• 1907 » Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel († 1944)
• 1908 » Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth († 1979)
• 1912 » Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic († 2010)
• 1912 » Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel († 1945)
• 1913 » Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet († 2005)
• 1913 » Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach († 2003)
• 1914 » V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge († 2014)

• 1897 » Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1810)
• 1908 » Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)
• 1910 » Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)
• 1916 » Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1917 » Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1919 » Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (b. 1862)
• 1919 » Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (b. 1868)
• 1922 » Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)
• 1922 » Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)

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

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

• 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
• April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
• June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
• July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
• October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
• October 14 » The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

The temperature on November 15, 1908 was between -0.8 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.