About the day » Sunday August 15, 1915Calender converter

• Abraham Cruson, Cadzand, Zeeland, NL († 1994)
• Visser, Delft, Nederland († 1915)
• Bertus,1915 Hemert van,, Haaften († 1973)
• Bertus van HEMERT, haaften († 1973)
• Adriana, Jacoba Vrins, Zevenbergen († 1997)
• Agatha Maria Palmboom, Uitgeest († 1998)
• van Driel, Ridderkerk († 1915)
• Arthur Franciscus Van Den Berghe, Sint-Niklaas († 2006)
• Avriel Ann Wingfield-Stratford († 1943)
• Bertha Irene Nuss († 2003)

• Cornelia Petronella Maria Wildenberg (83), Maastricht (Limburg)
• Aaltje Mud (67), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Margaretha Cresentia Opgenoordt (77), Geleen
• Antoon Arnoldussen (69), Gennep, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Ludovica Ursula Torfs (4), Kessel
• Bauke Wybes Cnossen (0), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Siebers (0), Duisburg (Duitsland)
• Creelesje Louwen (63), Hengelo
• (1), Oudenburg, W. Vl., België
• Bernardus Josephus Nitert (59), Epe, Gld., Nederland

• 1912 » Julia Child, American chef and author († 2004)
• 1912 » Wendy Hiller, English actress († 2003)
• 1914 » Paul Rand, American graphic designer and art director († 1996)
• 1915 » Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress († 2002)
• 1916 » Aleks Çaçi, Albanian journalist and author († 1989)
• 1917 » Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop († 1980)
• 1917 » Jack Lynch, Irish footballer and politician, 5th Taoiseach of Ireland († 1999)
• 1919 » Benedict Kiely, Irish journalist and author († 2007)
• 1919 » Huntz Hall, American actor († 1999)
• 1920 » Judy Cassab, Austrian-Australian painter († 2008)

• 1907 » Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
• 1909 » Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866)
• 1917 » Thomas J. Higgins, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1831)
• 1925 » Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator (b. 1878)
• 1928 » Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist and academic, co-founded St Edmund's College, Cambridge (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Paul Signac, French painter and author (b. 1863)
• 1935 » Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
• 1935 » Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1936 » Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and author (b. 1892)

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.
• March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
• May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
• July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
• July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
• August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
• August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

The temperature on August 15, 1915 was between 10.3 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.