About the day » Saturday August 7, 1915Calender converter

• Abraham de Winter, Rotterdam († 1972)
• Abraham de Winter, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1972)
• Wijting, Rijssen († 1915)
• Petrus (Piet) Baaten, Roosendaal en Nispen († 2009)
• Adriana Helena Jansen, Utrecht, Nederland († 2002)
• Anna Maria Johanna Janssen, Lommel, Provincie Limburg, België († 2000)
• Anna Cornelia Cornelissen († 1974)
• Akke Boschma, Wommels († 1994)
• Aaltje Bultje, Groningen († 1987)
• Anna Hubertina Ridderbeks, Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands († 1967)

• Aaltje Visser (55), Westernieland, Eenrum, Groningen, Nederland
• Annie Laura Robertson (35), Harrisonburg, Catahoula, Louisiana, United States
• Alida Jacoba van Maaren (1), 's-Gravenhage
• Antonius Raaijmakers (74), Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrana Nijsen (Neijsen)(Nijzen) (76), Woensel
• Auke van den BOGERT (2), Rotterdam (Z-H)
• Albert Arts (40), Beugen
• Antonie Bontje (8), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Sophia Kosse (0), Schuinesloot (Ambt Hardenberg)
• Aagje Brandwijk (84), Sliedrecht

• 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
• 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)
• 1911 » Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1913 » George Van Eps, American guitarist († 1998)
• 1916 » Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer († 2008)
• 1918 » C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator († 1985)
• 1918 » Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author († 2007)
• 1921 » Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor († 2016)
• 1921 » Manitas de Plata, French guitarist († 2014)

• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (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.
• July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
• July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
• 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.
• September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
• September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

The temperature on August 7, 1915 was between 14.2 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.