About the day » Wednesday September 8, 1915Calender converter

• Bartholomeus Derksen, Erlecom, Gelderland, Nederland († 1915)
• Bob Gerstel, Morgan, Illinois, United States († 1975)
• Anna, Cornelia van Tiggelen, Wouw († 1982)
• Adrienne Marcella Maria van Delft, Hulst, Nederland († 1916)
• Anton Dresden, Hengelo († 2020)
• Anna Maria Hndrka Schaekens, Stendal († 2006)
• Catharina Krekt, Jubbega-Schurega, Schoterland,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland († 1969)
• Adriana van Beelen, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Antonia Antje Kuiper, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Duitsland († 1963)
• Bastiana van Musscher, Leiden († 1992)

• Antoon Holterman (39), Dalfsen
• Adalbjorg Jnsdttir (64), Kumlavik, Langanesi, N-Gingeyjarsssla, Šsland
• Adriana Van Der Wal (59), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Andries Bos (85), Terschelling, Friesland, Nederland
• Alberta Hoek (4), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Timmermans (74), Nijmegen
• Andries Andriesz Bos (85), Terschelling-Midsland
• Adrian van de Luijtgaarden (90), Standdaarbuiten
• Arie TIMMERMANS (74), Nijmegen,Gemeente Nijmegen,GELDERLAND,NETHERLANDS
• Abraham Jacobus Klaaijsen (64), Aardenburg

• 1909 » Józef Noji, Polish runner († 1943)
• 1910 » Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director († 1994)
• 1914 » Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre († 2001)
• 1914 » Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople († 1991)
• 1915 » N. V. M. Gonzalez, Filipino novelist, poet, and writer († 1999)
• 1917 » Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator († 2009)
• 1918 » Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1919 » Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author († 1992)
• 1919 » Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter and academic († 2014)
• 1921 » Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor († 2001)

• 1882 » Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1909 » Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (b. 1853)
• 1916 » Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1836)
• 1933 » Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1935 » Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906)
• 1940 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (b. 1903)
• 1944 » Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (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 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
• February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
• 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.
• July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
• August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
• September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

The temperature on September 8, 1915 was between 10.9 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.