About the day » Friday January 8, 1915Calender converter

• Aaltje Smit, 't Zandt, Zeerijp, Groningen, Nederland († 1921)
• Albert Edward Browne, Bayard, Grant County, West Virginia († 2002)
• TRUYMAN († 1996)
• Aartje Flach, Ridderkerk
• Anna Geertruida Jacoba Henriette BARTELS († 2010)
• Augustinus Hubertus Pennings, St-Michielsgestel († 1993)
• Anke Reinouts van Haga, Rheden, Gld, Nederland († 1985)
• Adrianus Rozenberg, Hellevoetsluis († 2003)
• Albert QUEANT († 1991)
• Aant ( Aart ? Aalt ? ) Boeve († 1915)

• Adriaan Snijders (81), Raamsdonk, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Antonie Philippus van Mildert (74), Utrecht
• Amanda A. Focht (71), Sidney Fremont Co.Iowa
• Anthonius Johannes Dongelmans (52), Gouda
• Arij Jacobus van der Mark (82), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angela Engelina Pelders (56), Oud Heusden
• Angelus Vanbrabant (26), Roesbrugge
• Arie Baars (20), Rhenen, Utrecht, NL
• Arnoldus Gerardus van Noort (0), Leiden
• Alida de Jong (37), Katwijk

• 1909 » Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet († 1995)
• 1909 » Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer († 1995)
• 1909 » Evelyn Wood, American author and educator († 1995)
• 1909 » Willy Millowitsch, German actor, director, and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1910 » Galina Ulanova, Russian actress and ballerina († 1998)
• 1911 » Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and author († 1970)
• 1912 » José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director († 1992)
• 1912 » Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General († 2014)
• 1915 » Walker Cooper, American baseball player and manager († 1991)
• 1917 » Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright († 1994)

• 1896 » William Rainey Marshall, American banker and politician, 5th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
• 1901 » John Barry, Irish soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873)
• 1912 » Friedrich Schrempf, German journalist and politician (b. 1858)
• 1914 » Simon Bolivar Buckner, American general and 30th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Ada Rehan, Irish-American actress (b. 1860)
• 1916 » Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1918 » Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1827)
• 1918 » Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer and director (b. 1892)
• 1920 » Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (b.1852)
• 1925 » George Bellows, American painter (b.1882)

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 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.
• February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
• July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
• October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
• November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

The temperature on January 8, 1915 was between 3.9 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.