About the day » Tuesday December 21, 1915Calender converter

• Berend Profijt, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen
• Anna Stam, Heiloo, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Antje Onrust, Oostzaan († 1981)
• Schottert, lutten (overijssel)
• Aleida Maria Elisabeth Ooijkaas, Den Haag († 1916)
• Adriaan Schrier, 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Akkerman, Beesd West Betuwe (GL) († 1915)
• Albert Fix, Wilsum († 1987)
• Verhoeven, Westervoort
• Arie Bal, 's-Gravenhage

• Antonia Elisabeth Egberts (0), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arendina ter Haar (85), Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Geertruida WINKELMEIJER (74), Amsterdam
• Arendina Gezina Heutink (35), enschede
• Cornelis de Graaff (67), Rozenburg
• Arie Visser (0), Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Bijster (69), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Bartlett Alexander Crawford (75), Burnet, Burnet, Texas, United States
• Arendina ter Haar (85), Oudewater, Nederland
• Aaltje Geerts Smit (81), Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands

• 1911 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player († 1947)
• 1913 » Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter († 2010)
• 1914 » Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist and virologist († 2010)
• 1915 » Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer († 2007)
• 1917 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1918 » Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff († 2003)
• 1918 » Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel, war criminal, and politician; 9th President of Austria († 2007)
• 1919 » Doug Young, American voice actor († 2018)
• 1920 » Adele Goldstine, American computer programmer († 1964)
• 1920 » Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina and choreographer, founded the Cuban National Ballet († 2019)

• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
• 1940 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)

• 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
• January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.

The temperature on December 21, 1915 was between -4.2 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.