Year (''' 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
"Calendar in year 1915 (Russia)" (Julian calendar), webpage:
Julian-1915 (Romania used Julian in 1919, when Russia adopted Gregorian).
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- 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.
- January 1 - Sinking of the battleship HMS ''Formidable'' , off Lyme Regis , Dorset , England , by a German U-Boat .
- January 12
- ---The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress .
- --- United States House Of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
- January 13 – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano , Italy : more than 12,000 dead.
- January 19
- --- Georges Claude patents the Neon discharge tube for use in Advertising .
- ---German Zeppelin s bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20.
- January 21 - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan .
- January 28 - An act of the U.S. Congress designates the United States Coast Guard , begun in 1790 , as a military branch.
- uses Poison Gas against Russia ns.
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The following are references to year 1915 in fiction: (unknown).
- January 2 - John Hope Franklin , American historian
- January 3 - Sid Hudson , baseball player
- January 5 - Arthur H. Robinson , American geographer and cartographer (d. 2004 )
- January 6 - Don Edwards , American politician
- January 11 - Robert Blair Mayne , British soldier and co-founder of the Special Air Service (d. 1955 )
- January 14 - Mark Goodson , American television game show producer (d. 1992 )
- January 18 - Santiago Carrillo , Spanish politician
- January 20 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan , President Of Pakistan (d. 2006 )
- January 23 - Arthur Lewis , British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
- January 24 - Robert Motherwell , American painter (d. 1991 )
- January 29 - John Serry, Sr. , American musician, composer, arranger (d. 2003 )
- January 30 - Joachim Peiper , German SS officer (d. 1976 )
- January 30 - John Profumo , British cabinet minister (d. 2006 )
- January 31 - Alan Lomax , American folklorist and musicologist (d. 2002 )
- January 31 - Thomas Merton , American monk and author (d. 1968 )
- February 1 - Artur London , Czech statesman (d. 1986 )
- February 1 - Sir Stanley Matthews , English footballer (d. 2000 )
- February 1 - Alicia Rhett , American actress and painter
- February 2 - Khushwant Singh , Indian writer
- February 4 - Sir Norman Wisdom , English comedian, singer, and actor
- February 5 - Robert Hofstadter , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 )
- February 7 - Teoctist Arăpaşu , Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (d. 2007 )
- February 11 - Patrick Leigh Fermor , British author and soldier
- February 14 - Ray Evans , American composer (d. 2007 )
- February 16 - Jim O'Hora , American college football coach (d. 2005 )
- February 16 - Elisabeth Eybers , South African poet
- February 19 - John Freeman , British politician
- February 23 - Paul Tibbets , American pilot
- February 26 - Preacher Roe , baseball player
- February 28 - Zero Mostel , American film and stage actor (d. 1977 )
- February 28 - Peter Medawar , Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1987 )
- March 3 - Wally Cassell , American actor
- March 4 - Carlos Surinach , Spanish composer (d. 1997 )
- March 9 - John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson , English pilot (d. 2001 )
- March 10 - Harry Bertoia , Italian artist and designer (d. 1978 )
- March 11 - Vijay Hazare , Indian cricketer (d. 2004 )
- March 14 - Alexander Brott , Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005 )
- March 17 - Bill Roycroft , Australian equestrian
- March 19 - Patricia Morison , American actress
- March 20 - Sviatoslav Richter , Ukrainian pianist (d. 1997 )
- March 23 - Vasily Zaitsev , Soviet sniper (d. 1991 )
- March 27 - Robert Lockwood Jr. , American musician (d. 2006 )
- March 30
- --- Arsenio Erico , Paraguayan footballer (d. 1977 )
- --- Pietro Ingrao , Italian politician
- March 31 - Albert Hourani , English historian (d. 1993 )
- April 3 - Piet De Jong , Prime Minister Of The Netherlands
- April 4 - Muddy Waters , American musician (d. 1983 )
- April 7
- --- Albert O. Hirschman , German-born economist
- --- Billie Holiday , American singer (d. 1959 )
- April 8 - Ivan Supek , Croatian physicist, author, and human rights activist
- April 10 - Harry Morgan , American actor
- April 12 - Július Tomin , Czech writer
- April 15 - Elizabeth Catlett , American-born artist
- April 21 - Anthony Quinn , Mexican actor (d. 2001 )
- April 30 - Elio Toaff , Italian rabbi
- May 1
- --- Krystyna Skarbek , Polish-born heroine of World War II (d. 1952 )
- --- Archie Williams , American athlete (d. 1993 )
- May 2 - Doris Fisher , American singer and songwriter (d. 2003 )
- May 5 - Alice Faye , American entertainer (d. 1998 )
- May 6
- --- Orson Welles , American film director (d. 1985 )
- --- George Perle , American composer
- May 8 - Milton Meltzer , American author
- May 12 - Frère Roger , Swiss founder of the Taizé Community (d. 2005 )
- May 15
- --- Hilda Bernstein , English-born author, artist, and activist (d. 2006 )
- --- Mario Monicelli , Italian film director
- --- Paul Samuelson , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- May 20
- --- Moshe Dayan , Israeli military leader and politician (d. 1981 )
- --- Peter Copley , English actor
- May 26 - Sam Edwards , American actor (d. 2004 )
- May 27 - Herman Wouk , American author
- May 29 - Karl Münchinger , German conductor (d. 1990 )
- June 1 - John Randolph , American actor (d. 2004 )
- June 9 - Les Paul , American inventor and musician
- June 10
- --- Saul Bellow , Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005 )
- --- Peride Celal , Turkish author
- June 12 - David Rockefeller , American banker and philanthropist
- June 15 - Thomas Huckle Weller , American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- June 17
- --- Karl Targownik , Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. 1996 )
- --- Mario Echandi Jiménez , President Of Costa Rica
- June 20 - Paul Castellano , American gangster (d. 1985 )
- June 24 - Sir Fred Hoyle , British astronomer (d. 2001 )
- June 26 - Charlotte Zolotow , American author
- June 27 - Grace Lee Boggs , American feminist and author
- June 28 - David Honeyboy Edwards , American musician
- July 5 - John Woodruff , American athlete
- July 15 - Albert Ghiorso , American nuclear scientist
- July 26 - Pattabhi Jois , Indian yogi
- July 28
- --- Charles Townes , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- --- Frankie Yankovic , American accordion player (d. 1998 )
- August 3
- --- Pete Newell , Canadian-born basketball coach
- --- Frank Arthur Calder , Canadian politician (d. 2006 )
- August 19 - Ring Lardner Jr. , American film screenwriter (d. 2000 )
- August 22 - Hugh Paddick , British actor (d. 2000 )
- August 25 - Walter Trampler , American violist (d. 1997 )
- August 27 - Norman F. Ramsey , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 28
- --- Tasha Tudor , American illustrator
- --- Max Robertson , British sports commentator
- August 29 - Ingrid Bergman , Swedish actress (d. 1982 )
- August 30
- --- Princess Lilian, Duchess Of Halland
- --- Robert Strassburg , American composer (d. 2003 )
- September 2 - Meinhardt Raabe , American actor
- September 3 - Knut Nystedt , Norwegian composer
- September 8 - Frank Cady , American actor
- September 12 - Frank McGee , American television personality (d. 1974 )
- September 14 - John Dobson , American astronomer
- September 17
- --- M F Husain , Indian artist
- --- Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez , Spanish-born philosopher
- September 23
- --- Julius Baker , American flautist (d. 2003 )
- --- Clifford Shull , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001 )
- September 30 - Lester Maddox , Governor of Georgia (d. 2003 )
- October 9 - Clifford M. Hardin , U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
- October 13 - Terry Frost , English artist (d. 2003 )
- October 15
- --- Nellie Lutcher , American singer
- --- Yitzhak Shamir Israeli politician
- October 17 - Arthur Miller , American playwright (d. 2005 )
- October 24
- --- Bob Kane , American comic book creator (d. 1998 )
- --- Tito Gobbi , Italian baritone (d. 1984 )
- October 28 - Dody Goodman , American actress and dancer
- October 29 - William Berenberg , American physician (d. 2005 )
- November 4 - Wee Kim Wee , 4th President Of Singapore
- November 9
- --- André François , French cartoonist (d. 2005 )
- --- Sargent Shriver , American politician
- November 11 - William Proxmire , U.S. Senator (d. 2005 )
- November 12 - Roland Barthes , French philosopher and literary critic (d. 1980 )
- November 14 - Martha Tilton , British actress (d. 2006 )
- November 19 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. , American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974 )
- November 25 - Augusto Pinochet , President Of Chile (d. 2006 )
- November 28 - Evald Okas , Estonian painter
- November 30
- --- Brownie McGhee , American musician (d. 1996 )
- --- Henry Taube , Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005 )
- December 7 - Eli Wallach , American actor
- December 8 - Ernest Lehman American screenwriter (d. 2005 )
- December 9 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , German-born soprano (d. 2006 )
- December 12 - Frank Sinatra , American entertainer (d. 1998 )
- December 13 - Ross Macdonald , American-Canadian writer (d. 1983 )
- December 17 - Robert A. Dahl , American political scientist
- December 19 - Édith Piaf , French singer (d. 1963 )
- December 22 - Barbara Billingsley , American actress
- December 27 - Gyula Zsengellér , Hungarian footballer (d. 1999 )
- January 6 - Alexander Scriabin , Russian composer (b. 1872 )
- January 14 - Richard Meux Benson , English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. 1824 )
- January 15 - Mary Slessor , Scottish Christian missionary (b. 1848 )
- February 5 - Ross Barnes , baseball player (b. 1850 )
- March 4 - William Willett , English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856 )
- March 9 - François Faber , Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1887 )
- March 15 - George Llewelyn-Davies , one of the 'Lost Boys' for the Peter Pan book (b. 1893 )
- March 31 - Wyndham Halswelle , Scottish runner (b. 1882 )
- April 16 - Nelson W. Aldrich , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841 )
- April 23
- --- Rupert Brooke , English poet (b. 1887 )
- --- Frederick Fisher , Canadian VC recipient (killed in battle) (b. 1894 )
- May 24 - Private John Condon , the youngest British soldier to die during the First World War {b. c. 1901)
- May 26 - Julian Grenfell , poet (killed in battle) (b. 1888 )
- July 2 - Porfirio Díaz , President Of Mexico (b. 1830 )
- July 16 - Ellen G. White , American prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism (b. 1827 )
- August 20 - Paul Ehrlich , German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1854 )
- August 26 - John Bunny American silent film comedian (b. 1863 )
- August 31 - Adolphe Pegoud , aviator (killed in action) (b. 1889 )
- September 9 - Albert Spalding , baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850 )
- September 13 - Andrew L. Harris , American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835 )
- September 27 - Fergus Bowes-Lyon , brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (killed in battle) (b. 1889 )
- October 12
- --- Edith Cavell , nurse and war heroine (shot) (b. 1865 )
- --- Charles Sorley , British poet (killed in battle) (b. 1895 )
- October 30 - Charles Tupper , Prime Minister Of Canada (b. 1821 )
- November 15 - Booker T. Washington , American educator (b. 1856 )
- November 28 - Mubarak Al-Sabah , Emir Of Kuwait (b. 1896 )
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