About the day » Wednesday April 14, 1915Calender converter

• Aldegonda Theodora Boogers, Stratum
• Albert Jérôme Arthur MERCIER, Oxelaëre... Hauts de France († 1968)
• Aaltje│Alie den Ouden, BerkelRodenrijs († 1998)
• Alphonsius (Alfons) Mels, Stekene († 1994)
• AEbele Teitsma († 1934)
• Aart Adrianus Schouten, Wijk aan Zee en Duin
• Andries Cornelis Gehoel, Dommelen
• Albertus Josephus Van Duyse, Sint-Niklaas († 1917)
• Aaltje Boerhaven, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 1998)
• Anna Bertha Kamps, Krefeld (D) († 1950)

• Arij Oosthoek (72), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Vermeulen (64), Princenhage, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Ann Goodall ***** (67), Hennepin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Franciscus Machiels (23)
• Bert Todd (29), Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, Verenigde Staten
• de Jong (0), Rhenen
• Berendina Johanna Magendans (88), Goor, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alida van der Malen (71), Nieuw-Vossemeer
• Alida van der Male (71), Nieuw-Vossemeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Anna Maria de Groot (64), Vlijmen

• 1912 » Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer († 1978)
• 1912 » Robert Doisneau, French photographer and journalist († 1994)
• 1913 » Jean Fournet, French conductor († 2008)
• 1916 » Don Willesee, Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs († 2003)
• 1917 » Marvin Miller, American baseball executive († 2012)
• 1917 » Valerie Hobson, English actress († 1998)
• 1918 » Mary Healy, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1919 » K. Saraswathi Amma, Indian author and playwright († 1975)
• 1919 » Shamshad Begum, Pakistani-Indian singer († 2013)
• 1920 » Ivor Forbes Guest, English lawyer, historian, and author († 2018)

• 1910 » Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1856)
• 1911 » Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1880)
• 1911 » Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
• 1912 » Henri Brisson, French politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Hubert Bland, English activist, co-founded the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
• 1916 » Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and women's rights activist (b. 1847)
• 1917 » L. L. Zamenhof, Polish physician and linguist, created Esperanto (b. 1859)
• 1919 » Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1837)
• 1925 » John Singer Sargent, American painter (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Vladimir Mayakovsky, Georgian-Russian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1893)

• 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 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.
• 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.
• April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
• 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 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.
• May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.

The temperature on April 14, 1915 was between 1.3 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.