About the day » Thursday December 30, 1915Calender converter

• Anna van Zutphen, Den Haag
• Aart den Braven, Lexmond, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Albertine Johanna Roosenstein, Utrecht († 1969)
• Antonia Wilhelmina (Tonnie) Teuwsen, Nijmegen († 1992)
• Berendina Christina Arentsen († 1999)
• Auwina Talens, Assen († 2006)
• Arie Doves, Bandung, Java, Indonesia († 1979)
• Alice Bardoel, Izegem, België († 1947)
• Antonius Remmers, Tilburg († 1993)
• van Berkel, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Augusta Maria Poppe (43), Koewacht
• Antonius Johannes Cornelis Duquesnoij (1), Duisburg, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Adiana van Dijk (83), Made en Drimmelen
• Albertus Jan Leus (0), Denekamp (Nl)
• Antonie van der Linden (81), Vlijmen
• Carolina Maria Bregaro (79), Lisboa
• Carolina van der Does (0), Noordwijk
• Anna Maria Mouthaan (37), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnewoude Ndh. Nederland
• Adriaan van Campen (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Pluim (74), Olst

• 1910 » Paul Bowles, American composer and author († 1999)
• 1911 » Jeanette Nolan, American actress († 1998)
• 1913 » Elyne Mitchell, Australian author († 2002)
• 1913 » Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer († 1996)
• 1914 » Bert Parks, American actor, singer, television personality, and beauty pageant host († 1992)
• 1917 » Seymour Melman, American engineer and author († 2004)
• 1919 » David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor († 2015)
• 1919 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer († 1997)
• 1921 » Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon († 1987)
• 1922 » Jane Langton, American author and illustrator († 2018)

• 1896 » José Rizal, Filipino ophthalmologist, journalist, and author (b. 1861)
• 1906 » Josephine Butler, English feminist and social reformer (b. 1828)
• 1908 » Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869)
• 1928 » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 » Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1941 » El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 » Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)

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 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
• January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• 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.
• May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
• August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
• September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

The temperature on December 30, 1915 was between 3.2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.