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• Aart Adrianus Kyvon, Rotterdam
• Aletta Verdoold, Moordrecht, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1917)
• Anna Sophia Celsing, Biby, Lista, Södermanland, Zweden († 1989)
• Alma Albert Jones († 1998)
• Abraham Goemaat († 1994)
• Arie van der HAK, Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H) († 1916)
• Aaltje Oudekerk, Midwolda, Groningen, Netherlands († 2004)
• Antonius Maria Gerardus Zwitserlood, Venray († 1997)
• Antoon Joseph Schlösser, Kerkrade (L († 1991)
• Antonia de Graaf, Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland, Nederland († 1962)

• Alida Laan (71), Hoorn
• Allegonda Gezina Felleger (46), Appingedam
• Adriaan Ariaan Horsten (74), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltjen Jansen (61), Veghel
• Adriaan Horsten (74), Tilburg (Nl)
• Adriaan Verduijn (71), Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriaan Horsten (74), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ambrosina Boekhoudt Ras (84), Aruba
• Aaltje Laan (71), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Steenks (1), Naaldwijk

• 1911 » Hugues Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1982)
• 1911 » Jean Harlow, American actress († 1937)
• 1913 » Harold J. Stone, American actor († 2005)
• 1913 » Margaret Bonds, American pianist and composer († 1972)
• 1914 » Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor († 1973)
• 1916 » Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician († 2006)
• 1917 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic († 1952)
• 1918 » Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)
• 1920 » James Doohan, Canadian-American actor and soldier († 2005)
• 1920 » Julius Boros, American golfer and accountant († 1994)

• 1894 » Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1901 » George Gilman, American businessman, founded The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (b. 1830)
• 1927 » J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer (b. 1884)
• 1927 » Mikhail Artsybashev, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Katharine Wright, American educator (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (b. 1864)
• 1943 » George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
• 1961 » Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist (b. 1887)

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 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
• August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
• 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.
• August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.

The temperature on March 3, 1915 was between 0.9 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.