About the day » Friday October 29, 1915Calender converter

• Albertina Beck Beck, 98700-000, Ijuí, RS, Brasil († 1989)
• Antonie Hoogendonk, Hoek van Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Aarts, Bladel en Netersel († 1990)
• Angenietje SOETEMAN Kdr, Goedereede, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH († 2002)
• Aaltje Braam, Onstwedde, Nederland († 1988)
• Apollonia van Beveren, Ossendrecht, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Antonius Johannes Brekelmans, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Postema, Noordwijk, gem. Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Van Weeren, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Postma († 2002)

• Cornelis Westdijk (75), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Lamme (64), Loosdrecht
• Anne Willems Postma (81), Irnsum
• David Johannes van SCHAIK (70), Amsterdam, 4458, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Baukje Heddema (1), Dragten
• Andreas Hubertus Ernest GADIOT (69), Beek (Limburg) (NL)
• Albertus Tetteroo (25), Den Haag, den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Daniel Beindorff (38), Rotterdam
• David Johannes van Schaik (70), Amsterdam
• Berend Lassche (0), Grafhorst

• 1910 » A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author († 1989)
• 1913 » Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee († 2014)
• 1914 » Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch († 2012)
• 1915 » William Berenberg, American physician and academic († 2005)
• 1918 » Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer († 2007)
• 1918 » Diana Serra Cary, American actress and author († 2020)
• 1920 » Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1921 » Baku Mahadeva, Sri Lankan civil servant and academic († 2013)
• 1921 » Baselios Thoma Didymos I, Indian metropolitan († 2014)
• 1921 » Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist († 2003)

• 1897 » Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (b. 1839)
• 1901 » Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (b. 1873)
• 1905 » Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (b. 1873)
• 1911 » Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (b. 1847)
• 1916 » John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (b. 1851)
• 1918 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (b. 1873)
• 1919 » Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (b. 1843)
• 1924 » Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (b. 1849)
• 1932 » Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1933 » Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1863)

• 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.
• February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• May 7 » The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
• May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
• May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
• 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.

The temperature on October 29, 1915 was between 3.7 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.