About the day » Sunday December 5, 1915Calender converter

• Adolf Fredrik Braber, Rotterdam
• Willems, Vledderveen, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland († 1915)
• Adolf Fredrik Braber, Rotterdam
• Alida HOEIJENBOS, Utrecht († 1993)
• Abraham Johannes de Ridder, Axel († 1966)
• Mets, Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert De Smedt, Wieze, België († 2002)
• Anje van Dijk, Groningen († 1990)
• Albert BOONSTRA, Fulton Whiteside County Illinois U.S.A († 1970)
• Adriana Johanna (Naan) MULDERS, Sprundel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1993)

• Aaldert Beugels (69), Beilen
• Aafje Alberts Drok (76), Enschede
• Agatha Johanna van Hoewijk (18), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje van der Veen (76), Aarlanderveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hendrickx, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annetta Hubertina Jamin (0), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Knol (57), Weststellingwerf
• Adriana Oomen (64), Oud-Gastel
• Anna Troost (51), Spijkenisse
• Aafje Drok (76), Enschede

• 1911 » Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer († 2000)
• 1912 » Kate Simon, American travel writer († 1990)
• 1912 » Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player († 1965)
• 1913 » Esther Borja, Cuban soprano and actress († 2013)
• 1914 » Hans Hellmut Kirst, German lieutenant and author († 1989)
• 1916 » Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine († 2013)
• 1916 » Walt McPherson, American basketball player and coach († 2013)
• 1917 » Ken Downing, English race car driver († 2004)
• 1918 » Charity Adams Earley, Black American Army officer († 2002)
• 1919 » Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, English historian and politician († 2020)

• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
• 1942 » Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)

• 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 13 » The 6.7 M_w  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
• 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.
• June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
• September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
• September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

The temperature on December 5, 1915 was between 3.6 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.