About the day » Monday August 9, 1915Calender converter

• Carolina van Leerdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Annie Marie Richardson, Vanoss († 1998)
• Adriaan Boone, Koudekerke, Zeeland, NL († 1915)
• Anna Elisabeth van Egmond-, Wijk aan Zee en Duin, Nederland († 1915)
• Antonia van der Sluis, Gemeente Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Afra Maria Roozendaal, Wervershoof († 2001)
• Albertus Moors, Grote Brogel (B) († 2002)
• Abeltje Wietske Kroes († 1988)
• Kracke, Wellington N.S.W († 1915)
• Antoon Johan (Bob) Messchaert, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1989)

• Aart de Geus (63), Heinenoord, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van Niftrik (0), Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adolphus Richardus Van Craeynest (0), Oostende
• Cornelis Jacobsz De RAAT (75)
• Adriana Ras (91), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Speelman (78), Overschie, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart de Geus (63), Heinenoord, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna van den Biggelaar (0), Made en Drimmelen,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Barbara Jacoba Kuitems (58), schoten
• Kracke (0), Wellington N.S.W

• 1911 » Eddie Futch, American boxer and trainer († 2001)
• 1911 » William Alfred Fowler, American astronomer and astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate († 1996)
• 1913 » Wilbur Norman Christiansen, Australian astronomer and engineer († 2007)
• 1914 » Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and director († 1963)
• 1914 » Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager († 1990)
• 1914 » Tove Jansson, Finnish author and illustrator († 2001)
• 1915 » Mareta West, American astronomer and geologist († 1998)
• 1918 » Albert Seedman, American police officer († 2013)
• 1918 » Giles Cooper, Irish soldier and playwright († 1966)
• 1918 » Kermit Beahan, American colonel († 1989)

• 1886 » Samuel Ferguson, Irish lawyer and poet (b. 1810)
• 1910 » Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist, co-founded the Chin Woo Athletic Association (b. 1868)
• 1919 » Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer and educator (b. 1857)
• 1920 » Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (b. 1845)
• 1932 » John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Edith Stein, German nun and saint (b. 1891)
• 1943 » Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter and educator (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Harry Hillman, American runner and coach (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
• 1946 » Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)

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. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
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 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
• January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
• May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
• July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
• July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
• October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

The temperature on August 9, 1915 was between 12.3 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.