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• Aloysius Franciscus Gerardus Wiegant, Woensel
• Alfons Eduard Albert (Albert) Smeets, Wimmertingen, België († 1989)
• "kind van mannelijk" Zwartveld, Velsen († 1915)
• Anthonius Johannes Geesink, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius van Laarhoven, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)
• Anna Johanna Witte, de hoeve 'Bloemwijk', Gerritslanderdijkje 20, Everstekoog (Texel) († 1923)
• - Lanting († 1915)
• Anna Geertruida van Maurik, Waardenburg (GE NL) († 1988)
• Anna Lucia VAN HOYDONCK, Wuustwezel, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 2002)
• Afra van der Gulik, Grootebroek († 1916)

• Anna Maria Elisabeth Janssen (72), Aalst, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Dekkers (77), Eindhoven
• Anna Maria Coolegem (85), Hulst
• Alijda Stenvers (80), Rotterdam
• Barbara Eleanor Robinson (60), Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States
• Barend Beket (58), Amsterdam
• Anna Draaisma (0), Franeker, Nederland
• adriana DONKER (85), utrecht
• Barbara van de Mierde (86), Oisterwijk
• Gösling (0), Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1907 » Harald Andersson, American-Swedish discus thrower († 1985)
• 1908 » Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer († 2003)
• 1910 » Chico Xavier, Brazilian spiritual medium († 2002)
• 1910 » Paul Triquet, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient († 1980)
• 1914 » Alec Guinness, English actor († 2000)
• 1919 » Delfo Cabrera, Argentinian runner and soldier († 1981)
• 1920 » Gerald Bouey, Canadian lieutenant and civil servant († 2004)
• 1920 » Jack Stokes, English animator and director († 2013)
• 1920 » Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1982)
• 1922 » John C. Whitehead, American banker and politician, 9th United States Deputy Secretary of State († 2015)

• 1891 » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)

• 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 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.
• January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
• February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
• 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 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).

The temperature on April 2, 1915 was between -3.5 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.