About the day » Friday August 20, 1915Calender converter

• Bernhard Hermann Boks, Lastrup, Landkreis Cloppenburg, Duitsland († 1983)
• Carolina Albertina Maria Thomassen, Roermond († 2013)
• Aaltje Batterink, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland († 2004)
• Adriana Elisabeth Maria van der Salm, Zoeterwoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Anneke Hendrica Griffioen, Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Alvin Robert Lee, Kent, King, Washington, United States († 1986)
• Alyce Henderson, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
• Albert Emile Octave Holemans, Diest, Vlaams-Brabant, België († 1989)
• Anna Maria van Kimmenade, Weert (Limburg) († 1998)
• Albert Jan Jansen, Deventer, Nederland († 2003)

• Allegonda Gerharda Ninaber (55)
• Cornelis Gijsbertus Noordermeer (18), Naaldwijk
• Anna Catharina Sara gravin von Bylandt-Rheydt (55), Düsseldorf,Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf,North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany,huis Tannenhof
• Anna Maria Hendrica Slits (0), Beek en Donk, Laarbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Serné (77), haarlem
• Arij VERRIJP (65), Mijnsheerenland
• Christina Zelvius (62), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Markusse (76), 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Margareta Specken, Spekken (90), Den Ham (Overijssel)
• Anna Catharina Sara van Bylandt Rheijdt (53), Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland

• 1909 » Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player († 1978)
• 1909 » André Morell, English actor († 1978)
• 1910 » Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, designed the Gateway Arch († 1961)
• 1912 » John H. Michaelis, American general († 1985)
• 1913 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1916 » Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player and chemist († 1984)
• 1917 » Terry Sanford, 65th Governor of North Carolina († 1998)
• 1918 » Jacqueline Susann, American actress and author († 1974)
• 1919 » Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer, educator and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 2000)
• 1919 » Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and producer

• 1893 » Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1897 » Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (b. 1827)
• 1912 » William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1914 » Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
• 1915 » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1917 » Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)

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 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
• 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 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
• July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.

The temperature on August 20, 1915 was between 11.0 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.