About the day » Thursday December 9, 1915Calender converter

• Arend Post, Genemuiden
• * Gijsbertus Rudolf Terpstra, Pijnacker († 1987)
• Bastiaan Kraaijeveld, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Anna Stefens, Papenburg († 1992)
• Belva Worley, Worley, Madison, North Carolina, United States († 1978)
• Anna Elsiena Reukema, Ulrum ( De Marne ) († 1998)
• Anthonia de Ruiter, Lexmond († 2001)
• (Stillborn) VAN STEINVOORN, Ruischerbrug (Noorddijk) Groningen Netherlands († 1915)
• Aaltje Bekendam, Utrecht {UT} († 2009)
• Albert Kuyken, Lommel, Limburg, België († 2000)

• Albert Jans Nijholt (46), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Arthur Thomas Devlin (9), Drayton, Pembina, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Cornelisdr Bakker (81), den Helder, Nederland
• Albert Stevens (5), Nieuweroord
• Albertje Potze (66), Vlagtwedde Westerwolde Groningen Nederland
• (..kus) Marcus Fischbein (29), Bremen, Germany
• Aalt Arentsen (83), Apeldoorn(Wormen)
• August Carl Leetge (59), Indianapolis
• Aaltje van Beelen (0), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan van der Werff (60), Almelo, Overijssel, Netherlands

• 1914 » Frances Reid, American actress († 2010)
• 1914 » Ljubica Sokić, Serbian painter and illustrator († 2009)
• 1914 » Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant († 1996)
• 1915 » Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress († 2006)
• 1915 » Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author († 2000)
• 1916 » Colin McCool, Australian cricketer († 1986)
• 1916 » Jerome Beatty Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author († 2002)
• 1916 » Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer († 2020)
• 1917 » James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent († 1987)
• 1917 » James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)

• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)

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.
• February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 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.
• 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.
• May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
• June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
• October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.

The temperature on December 9, 1915 was between -0.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.