About the day » Monday August 23, 1915Calender converter

• Antje Ros, Amsterdam († 1994)
• Arie SPEKSNIJDER, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• de Looff, Rotterdam († 1915)
• Cornelia Maria Manni, Middelburg († 1937)
• Antje Van Hulzen, Vreeswijk Utrecht († 1998)
• "Johannes Josephus Ludovicus Maria" Jan Jan, Oirschot, NL († 1975)
• Cornelia Willemina van Wijngaarden, Houten († 2010)
• Arthur van Spronsen († 1990)
• Albert Daniel Dickinson, Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1975)
• Cornelia Willemina van Wijngaarden, Houten, Utrecht, Nederland († 2010)

• van de Velde (0), Axel
• Aart de Weerd (87), Epe
• Anna M. Monzel (43), Chicago, Cook, Illinois
• Berend Onstenk (56), Aalten
• Arie Marion, van (79), Ridderkerk
• Aalbartus Willem Voskuil (1), Ede, Gelderland, NL
• Anna Maria van Houdt (75), Overschie
• Arij Van MARION (79), Ridderkerk
• Berend Onstenk (56), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Martinus Hurenkamp (52), Epe

• 1909 » Syd Buller, English cricketer and umpire († 1970)
• 1910 » Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager († 1979)
• 1910 » Lonny Frey, American baseball player and soldier († 2009)
• 1911 » Betty Robinson, American sprinter († 1999)
• 1912 » Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1996)
• 1912 » Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and race car driver († 2008)
• 1913 » Bob Crosby, American swing singer and bandleader († 1993)
• 1917 » Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1985)
• 1919 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist († 1984)
• 1921 » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)

• 1892 » Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)

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.
• January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
• February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• 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 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
• May 7 » The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
• July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.

The temperature on August 23, 1915 was between 6.4 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.