About the day » Sunday May 23, 1915Calender converter

• AGNES ERIKSDATTER SKREDDERHUSET, HEDALEN († 1968)
• * Cornelia Maria Johanna Burgers, Tilburg
• Albertus Felix Paredis, Bree, Provincie Limburg, België († 1917)
• Abraham van Spier († 1991)
• Ad√®le Eleonore von Ende, Den Haag,Den Haag,Zuid Holland,Nederland
• Aartje van der Does, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hees, Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aafko van Loenen, Noorddijk-Ruischerbrug († 1997)
• Adrianus Grootenboer († 1932)
• Anna Maria Bouman († 1992)

• Anna Maria Vorst (75), Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan
• Barbara Jane Walker (38), Aberdeen Woodside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• Anne Schuil (73), Sneek
• Adamina Gerritdina de Vries (29), Groningen, Nederland
• Anton Alfred Van Der Kamp (31), Batavia
• Arendje Holtmeijer (73), Borger
• Alijda Fikkers (77), Oude-Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Fikkers (77), Oude Pekela
• Anna Adehleid Krallmann (85), Hilter, Lathen
• Anne Schuil (73), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland

• 1911 » Lou Brouillard, Canadian boxer († 1984)
• 1911 » Paul Augustin Mayer, German cardinal († 2010)
• 1912 » Jean Françaix, French pianist and composer († 1997)
• 1912 » John Payne, American actor († 1989)
• 1914 » Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson († 1981)
• 1914 » Celestine Sibley, American journalist and author († 1999)
• 1914 » Harold Hitchcock, English visionary landscape artist († 2009)
• 1915 » S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare († 2014)
• 1917 » Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist († 2008)
• 1918 » Denis Compton, English cricketer and sportscaster († 1997)

• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
• 1921 » August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872)
• 1934 » Bonnie Parker, American criminal (b. 1910)
• 1934 » Clyde Barrow, American criminal (b. 1909)
• 1934 » Mihkel Martna, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1860)
• 1937 » John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company and Rockefeller University (b. 1839)

• 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 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.
• April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
• 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.
• 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).
• September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

The temperature on May 23, 1915 was between 12.1 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.