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• Adriana (Ad) Hoogenboezem, Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Andries Burema, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Angus M. Pederson, Canada († 2004)
• Ahrend Willem Westphal, Arnhem († 1990)
• Adriana Wagenaars, Boxtel (N.Br) († 2003)
• Aartje Kamphorst, Ermelo, Ov, The Netherlands († 1927)
• Adrianus Borsboom, 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Antonius Dam, 's Gravenhage († 1916)
• Huiberts, Kesteren, Nederland († 1915)
• Amanda Lucretia McArthur, Michigan († 2007)

• Barend Jacobus van Berkel (83), Leiden
• Augusto Osellieri (72), Adria, Rovigo, Veneto, Itália
• Albert Jansen (76), Haarlem (Noord-Holland)
• Anna Granneman (51)
• Antonetta Johanna Wilhelmina Manders (0), Helmond
• Antonia johanna Wilhelmina Manders (0), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriaan LOUWERSE (64), Middelburg
• Amata Maria Francisca Berckman (40)
• Adrianus Marinus Mulders
• Adriaan Maria Mijnlieff (50), Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel,,Netherlands

• 1913 » Henry Brant, Canadian-American composer and conductor († 2008)
• 1914 » Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author († 1999)
• 1914 » Creighton Abrams, American general († 1974)
• 1914 » Orhan Kemal, Turkish author († 1970)
• 1914 » Robert McCloskey, American author and illustrator († 2003)
• 1915 » Al Casey, American guitarist and composer († 2005)
• 1915 » Albert Whitlock, English-American special effects designer († 1999)
• 1915 » Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author († 1981)
• 1916 » Frederick C. Weyand, American general († 2010)
• 1916 » Margaret Lockwood, Pakistani-English actress († 1990)

• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1930 » Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)
• 1945 » André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (b. 1881)

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 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
• January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
• February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.

The temperature on September 15, 1915 was between 9.3 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.