1915
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Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1915
January
- January While working as a cook at New York's Sloan Hospital under an assumed name, " Typhoid Mary" infects 25 people, and is placed in quarantine for life.
- 1 January - Sinking of the battleship HMS Formidable, off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by a German U-Boat.
- 12 January - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
- 12 January - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
- 13 January - An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Italy: more than 29,000 dead.
- 19 January - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- 19 January - German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20.
- 21 January - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- 28 January - An act of the U.S. Congress designates the United States Coast Guard, begun in 1790, as a military branch.
- 31 January - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.
February
- 8 February - The controversial film The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith premieres (Los Angeles, California).
- 12 February - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
- 20 February - In San Francisco, CA the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is opened.
March
- March to October - 1915 locust plague
- 3 March - NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
- 14 March - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy forces the German light cruiser SMS Dresden to scuttle.
- 14 March - Britain, France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik revolution)
- 18 March - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.
- 19 March - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
- 25 March - US submarine F-4 sinks off Hawaii: 21 dead.
- 28 March - The first Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
April
- 13 April - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa's attack against Alvaro Obregon's troops in Celaya. Charge of Villa's troops is no match against Obregon's barbed wire and machine guns
- 22 April - World War I: Second Battle of Ypres - German troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium.
- 24 April - The Ottoman Empire arrests hundreds of Armenian intellectuals. Armenians mark this as the start of the Armenian Genocide.
- 25 April - The ANZAC tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
- 25 April - The Great Fire of Reykjavík, Iceland's capital.
- 30 April - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmara.
May
- 3 May - John McCrae writes In Flanders Fields.
- 5 May - World War I: The Turks begin shelling Anzac Cove from a new position behind their lines.
- 6 May - Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop.
- 7 May - World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.
- 9 May - World War I: Second Battle of Artois - German and French forces fight.
- 17 May - The last purely Liberal government in the United Kingdom ends when Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith forms an all party coalition.
- 22 May - Quintinshill railway disaster, Scotland, UK: 200 killed.
- 23 May - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
- 29 May - Teófilo Braga becomes president of Portugal.
June
- 3 June - Troops of Obregon and Villa clash at León: Obregon loses his right arm in grenade attack but Villa is decisively defeated.
- 9 June - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
- 16 June - Foundation of the British Women's Institute
July
- 7 July - An extremely overloaded Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario resulting in 15 casualties.
- 24 July - The steamer Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 845 lives.
- 28 July - United States occupation of Haiti begins
August
- 5 August- 23 August - Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season over Galveston and New Orleans: 275 dead.
- 6 August - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
- 16 August - The Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia, should victory be achieved over Austro-Hungary and its allied Central Powers, the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian part of the Dual Monarchy; Bosnia and Herzegovina; and eastern ? of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to Bar).
- 17 August - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 31 August - Jimmy Lavender of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no hitter against the New York Giants.
September
- 6 September - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
- 7 September - Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
- 11 September - The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for power. This type of system would later be used in long-distance passenger trains between New York City, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
October
- 12 October - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
- 15 October - World War I: Austria-Hungary invades Kingdom of Serbia. Bulgaria enters the war, invading Kingdom of Serbia. Retreat of the Serbian First Army towards Greece begins Serbian Campaign (World War I)
- 19 October - US recognizes Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza de facto (not de jure until 1917)
- 27 October - William Morris Hughes becomes 7th Prime Minister of Australia.
November
- November - Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret understanding between the governments of Britain and France to overtake Middle-Eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire (mostly Syria and Iraq) and establish their own zone of influence.
- 14 November - Vision allegedly encountered by various military personnel in Europe at 22:30 hours, as recounted on the television series One Step Beyond.
- 23 November - Triangle Film Corporation opens its new motion picture theatre in Massillon, Ohio.
- 25 November - The theory of general relativity is formulated.
December
- 12 December - Chinese president Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor
- 23 December - HMHS Britannic, the largest individual British loss in World War I, departs Liverpool on her maiden voyage.
- 25 December - British and German forces get out of the trenches in World War One and have a free-for-all kick-around football game in no-man's land.
- 26 December - Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday 1916.
Undated
- Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of Pangaea.
- Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta.
- Lord Beaverbrook buys the Daily Express.
- Automobile speed record of 102.6 m.p.h. set at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y.. by Gil Anderson driving a Stutz.
- The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan.
- Women's suffrage is introduced in Denmark and Iceland.
- Franz Kafka's short novel Die Verwandlung is first published in Germany.
Ongoing
- World War I (1914-1918).
Births
Gregorian calendar | 1915 MCMXV |
Ab urbe condita | 2668 |
Armenian calendar | 1364 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԴ |
Bahá'í calendar | 71 – 72 |
Berber calendar | 2865 |
Buddhist calendar | 2459 |
Burmese calendar | 1277 |
Byzantine calendar | 7423 – 7424 |
Chinese calendar | 甲寅年十一月十六日 (4551/4611-11-16) — to — 乙卯年十一月廿五日(4552/4612-11-25) |
Coptic calendar | 1631 – 1632 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1907 – 1908 |
Hebrew calendar | 5675 – 5676 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1970 – 1971 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1837 – 1838 |
- Kali Yuga | 5016 – 5017 |
Holocene calendar | 11915 |
Iranian calendar | 1293 – 1294 |
Islamic calendar | 1333 – 1334 |
Japanese calendar | Taishō 4 (大正4年) |
Korean calendar | 4248 |
Thai solar calendar | 2458 |
January-February
- 2 January - John Hope Franklin, American historian
- 3 January - Sid Hudson, baseball player
- 5 January - Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer and cartographer (d. 2004)
- 6 January - Don Edwards, American politician
- 9 January - Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970)
- 11 January - Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier and co-founder of the Special Air Service (d. 1955)
- 14 January - Mark Goodson, American television game show producer (d. 1992)
- 18 January - Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician
- 20 January - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
- 23 January - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- 24 January - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
- 29 January - John Serry, Sr., American musician, composer, arranger (d. 2003)
- 30 January - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)
- 30 January - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
- 31 January - Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist (d. 2002)
- 31 January - Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968)
- 1 February - Artur London, Czech statesman (d. 1986)
- 1 February - Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d. 2000)
- 1 February - Alicia Rhett, American actress and painter
- 2 February - Khushwant Singh, Indian writer
- 4 February - Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer, and actor
- 5 February - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
- 7 February - Teoctist Arăpaşu, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (d. 2007)
- 11 February - Patrick Leigh Fermor, British author and soldier
- 14 February - Ray Evans, American composer (d. 2007)
- 16 February - Jim O'Hora, American college football coach (d. 2005)
- 16 February - Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet (d. 2007)
- 19 February - John Freeman, British politician
- 23 February - Paul Tibbets, American pilot (d. 2007)
- 26 February - Preacher Roe, baseball player
- 28 February - Zero Mostel, American film and stage actor (d. 1977)
- 28 February - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1987)
March-April
- 3 March - Wally Cassell, American actor
- 4 March - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
- 9 March - John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, English pilot (d. 2001)
- 10 March - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (d. 1978)
- 11 March - Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
- 14 March - Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
- 17 March - Bill Roycroft, Australian equestrian
- 19 March - Patricia Morison, American actress
- 20 March - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1997)
- 23 March - Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet sniper (d. 1991)
- 27 March - Robert Lockwood Jr., American musician (d. 2006)
- 30 March - Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer (d. 1977)
- 30 March - Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician
- 31 March - Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
- 3 April - Piet de Jong, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- 4 April - Muddy Waters, American musician (d. 1983)
- 7 April - Albert O. Hirschman, German-born economist
- 7 April - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
- 8 April - Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, author, and human rights activist (d. 2007)
- 10 April - Harry Morgan, American actor
- 12 April - Július Tomin, Czech writer (d. 2003)
- 15 April - Elizabeth Catlett, American-born artist
- 21 April - Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (d. 2001)
- 29 April - Donald Mills, lead tenor of The Mills Brothers (d. 1999)
- 30 April - Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi
May-June
- 1 May - Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
- 2 May - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
- 3 May - Stu Hart, Canadian wrestling trainer (d. 2003)
- 5 May - Alice Faye, American entertainer (d. 1998)
- 6 May - Orson Welles, American film director (d. 1985)
- 6 May - George Perle, American composer
- 8 May - Milton Meltzer, American author
- 12 May - Frère Roger, Swiss founder of the Taizé Community (d. 2005)
- 15 May - Hilda Bernstein, English-born author, artist, and activist (d. 2006)
- 15 May - Mario Monicelli, Italian film director
- 15 May - Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 20 May - Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader and politician (d. 1981)
- 20 May - Peter Copley, English actor
- 26 May - Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)
- 27 May - Herman Wouk, American author
- 29 May - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
- 1 June - John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
- 9 June - Les Paul, American inventor and musician
- 10 June - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- 10 June - Peride Celal, Turkish author
- 12 June - David Rockefeller, American banker and philanthropist
- 15 June - Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 17 June - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. 1996)
- 17 June - Mario Echandi Jiménez, President of Costa Rica
- 20 June - Paul Castellano, American gangster (d. 1985)
- 24 June - Sir Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001)
- 26 June - Charlotte Zolotow, American author
- 27 June - Grace Lee Boggs, American feminist and author
- 28 June - David Honeyboy Edwards, American musician
July-August
- 5 July - John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
- 15 July - Albert Ghiorso, American nuclear scientist
- 24 July - Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (d. 2004)
- 26 July - Pattabhi Jois, Indian yogi
- 28 July - Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 28 July - Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (d. 1998)
- 3 August - Pete Newell, Canadian-born basketball coach
- 3 August - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (d. 2006)
- 12 August - Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)
- 19 August - Ring Lardner Jr., American film screenwriter (d. 2000)
- 22 August - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
- 25 August - Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
- 27 August - Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 28 August - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator
- 28 August - Max Robertson, British sports commentator
- 29 August - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- 30 August - Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
- 30 August - Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
September-October
- 2 September - Meinhardt Raabe, American actor
- 3 September - Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer
- 8 September - Frank Cady, American actor
- 8 September - Frank Pullen, English business person and racehorse owner (d. 1992)
- 12 September - Frank McGee, American television personality (d. 1974)
- 14 September - John Dobson, American astronomer
- 15 September - Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
- 17 September - M F Husain, Indian artist
- 17 September - Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, Spanish-born philosopher
- 23 September - Julius Baker, American flautist (d. 2003)
- 23 September - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
- 29 September - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
- 30 September - Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
- 9 October - Clifford M. Hardin, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
- 13 October - Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
- 15 October - Nellie Lutcher, American singer (d. 2007)
- 15 October - Yitzhak Shamir Israeli politician
- 17 October - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
- 19 October - Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor (d. 1974)
- 24 October - Bob Kane, American comic book creator (d. 1998)
- 24 October - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
- 28 October - Dody Goodman, American actress and dancer
- 29 October - William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005)
November-December
- 4 November - Wee Kim Wee, 4th president of Singapore (d. 2005)
- 9 November - André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
- 9 November - Sargent Shriver, American politician
- 11 November - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator (d. 2005)
- 12 November - Roland Barthes, French philosopher and literary critic (d. 1980)
- 14 November - Martha Tilton, British actress (d. 2006)
- 17 November - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American country music banjo player (d. 1973)
- 19 November - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 25 November - Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile (d. 2006)
- 28 November - Evald Okas, Estonian painter
- 30 November - Brownie McGhee, American musician (d. 1996)
- 30 November - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- 7 December - Eli Wallach, American actor
- 8 December - Ernest Lehman American screenwriter (d. 2005)
- 9 December - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)
- 12 December - Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (d. 1998)
- 13 December - Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (d. 1983)
- 17 December - Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist
- 19 December - Édith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963)
- 21 December - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
- 22 December - Barbara Billingsley, American actress
- 27 December - Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999)
Deaths
January - June
- 14 January - Richard Meux Benson, English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
- 15 January - Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary (b. 1848)
- 5 February - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
- 4 March - William Willett, English inventor of daylight saving time (b. 1856)
- 9 March - François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1887)
- 15 March - George Llewelyn-Davies, one of the 'Lost Boys' for the Peter Pan book (b. 1893)
- 31 March - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (b. 1882)
- 16 April - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
- 23 April - Rupert Brooke, English poet (b. 1887)
- 23 April - Frederick Fisher, Canadian VC recipient (killed in battle) (b. 1894)
- 27 April - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
- 24 May - Private John Condon, the youngest British soldier to die during the First World War {b. c. 1901)
- 26 May - Julian Grenfell, poet (killed in battle) (b. 1888)
- 31 May - Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, 18th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1845)
July - December
- 2 July - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
- 16 July - Ellen G. White, American prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism, most translated American author (b. 1827)
- 20 August - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)
- 26 August - John Bunny American silent film comedian (b. 1863)
- 31 August - Adolphe Pegoud, aviator (killed in action) (b. 1889)
- 9 September - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
- 11 September - William Sprague IV, America politician from Rhode Island (b. 1830)
- 13 September - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
- 27 September - Fergus Bowes-Lyon, brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (killed in battle) (b. 1889)
- 12 October - Edith Cavell, nurse and war heroine (shot) (b. 1865)
- 12 October - Charles Sorley, British poet (killed in battle) (b. 1895)
- 23 October - W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1948)
- 30 October - Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 15 November - Booker T. Washington, American educator (b. 1856)
- 28 November - Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
Nobel prizes
- Chemistry - Richard Willstätter
- Literature - Romain Rolland
- Medicine - not awarded
- Peace - not awarded
- Physics - William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg
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