About the day » Saturday June 5, 1915Calender converter

• Adrianus Kersbergen, Lisse († 1980)
• Antje Bernarda Johanna Antonia Sievers, Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland († 1993)
• Anna Maria Duivenvoorden, Gemeente Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Duivenvoorden, Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Jan Wiersema, Adorp (gem. Het Hogeland) († 2001)
• Anna Maria van Gelder, Beneden Leeuwen, GLD, Nederland († 1996)
• Adrianus Hoskam, Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1985)
• Adriana Bakker, Deventer († 1995)
• * Jacobus Louis Raucamp, Bussum († 1987)
• Adrianus Johannes van der Putte († 1994)

• Ann Mary Lovesey, Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina Croes (74), Aruba
• Aart van den Hoorn (74), Garderen
• Andrew Wright (82), Kingskettle, Fife, Scotland
• Radsma (21)
• Andries Gerrits Oost (59), Enschede
• Anna, Maria, Hubertina Smeets(Smidts) (21), Vaals
• Annie Klasina Averink (1), Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Albert B. Thornell (56), Van Wert Co.Ohio
• (Petrus) Mathijs van den Hombergh (58), Meerlo

• 1912 » Dean Amadon, American ornithologist and author († 2003)
• 1912 » Eric Hollies, English cricketer († 1981)
• 1913 » Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic († 2000)
• 1914 » Beatrice de Cardi, English archaeologist and academic († 2016)
• 1916 » Eddie Joost, American baseball player and manager († 2011)
• 1916 » Sid Barnes, Australian cricketer († 1973)
• 1919 » Richard Scarry, American-Swiss author and illustrator († 1994)
• 1920 » Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author († 1974)
• 1920 » Marion Motley, American football player and coach († 1999)
• 1922 » Paul Couvret, Dutch-Australian soldier, pilot, and politician († 2013)

• 1900 » Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1871)
• 1906 » Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (b. 1842)
• 1910 » O. Henry, American short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1913 » Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1916 » Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish-born British field marshal and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Rhoda Broughton, Welsh-English author (b. 1840)
• 1921 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• 1921 » Will Crooks, English trade unionist and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (b. 1880)
• 1930 » Pascin, Bulgarian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1885)

• 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 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
• February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
• June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
• September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
• October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

The temperature on June 5, 1915 was between 7.7 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.