About the day » Monday September 20, 1915Calender converter

• Anna Hendrika van Herpen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adriaan Henri Bruinvis, Amsterdam Noord-Holland Nederland
• Aaltje ter Wal, Dwingelo († 1956)
• Adriana Elizabeth van Strien, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna van den Heuvel, Rotterdam († 1992)
• Adriaan Jan Aarnoudse, Oud-Vossemeer, NL-ZE († 1998)
• Anna Maria Schoenmeijer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Hendrika Johanna Bleekemolen, Amsterdam († 2006)
• Adriana Johanna van den Heuvel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• van de Pol, Kesteren († 1915)

• Catharina Margaretha Steemers (79), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Margarete Christine Kahlen (27), Oldenburg, Nedersaksen, Duitsland
• POELMAN (0), Bonnerveen (Gieten), Drenthe, Nederland
• Antje Verweij (33), Waarder
• Calla Stidham (1)
• Arendina Jannetje Koops (2), Amersfoort
• Abraham van der Weijden (75), Nieuw-Beijerland
• Anna Maria Holtkamp (58), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries Schreur (19), Harlingen
• Aaltjen Agterhof (64), Gendringen, Nederland

• 1911 » Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher and activist († 1991)
• 1913 » Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic († 2001)
• 1914 » Kenneth More, English actor († 1982)
• 1915 » Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan († 2003)
• 1917 » Clarice Taylor, American actress († 2011)
• 1917 » Fernando Rey, Spanish actor († 1994)
• 1917 » Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer († 1996)
• 1917 » Olga Dahl, Swedish genealogist († 2009)
• 1917 » Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach († 2006)
• 1918 » Horace Gould, English race car driver († 1968)

• 1898 » Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1906 » Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1834)
• 1908 » Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
• 1927 » George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
• 1930 » Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (b. 1873)
• 1932 » Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (b. 1870)
• 1933 » Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (b. 1847)
• 1939 » Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (b. 1855)
• 1945 » Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
• 1945 » William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (b. 1884)

• 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.
• May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
• May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
• 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 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
• September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
• September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

The temperature on September 20, 1915 was between 2.9 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.