1915

June

July

• July
• WWI: South West Africa Campaign – The Union of South Africa occupies German South West Africa with assistance from Canada, the United Kingdom, the Portuguese Republic and Portuguese Angola. South Africa will occupy South West Africa until March 1990.
• Armenian genocide: 17,000 civilians from the Ottoman Armenian population of Trebizond are massacred by Ottoman Turks.
• July 1 – WWI: In aerial warfare, German fighter pilot Kurt Wintgens becomes the first person to shoot down another plane, using a machine gun equipped with synchronization gear.
• July 7
• An extremely overloaded International Railway (New York–Ontario) trolleycar with 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, resulting in 15 casualties.
• Sinhalese militia captain Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for inciting race riots, a charge later proved false; he becomes a hero of the Sri Lankan independence movement.
• July 9 – WWI: Theodore Seitz, governor of German South West Africa, surrenders to General Louis Botha, between Otavi and Tsumeb.
• July 11 – WWI: Battle of Rufiji Delta – German cruiser is forced to scuttle in the Rufiji River, German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania).
• July 14 – The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Henry McMahon concerning the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire begins; in exchange for assistance against the Ottomans, the British offer bin Ali their recognition of an independent Arab kingdom, although clear terms are never agreed.
• July 22 – WWI: The "Great Retreat" is ordered on the Eastern Front; Russian forces pull back out of Poland (at this time part of the Russian Empire), taking machinery and equipment with them.
• July 24 – Steamer capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.
• July 28 – The American occupation of Haiti (1915–34) begins.

August

• August 5–23 – Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season over Galveston and New Orleans leaves 275 dead.
• August 6 – WWI: Battle of Sari Bair (Gallipoli Campaign) – The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
• August 16 – WWI: The Allies promises the Kingdom of Serbia, should victory be achieved over Austria-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 Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to Bar).

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

Births

January

• January 1
• Branko Ćopić, Yugoslav writer (d. 1984)
• Fazlollah Reza, Iranian university professor, electrical engineer (d. 2019)
• January 3 – Mady Rahl, German stage, film actress (d. 2009)
• January 4 – Adolf Opálka, Czechoslovak soldier (d. 1942)
• January 5 – Humberto Teixeira, Brazilian flautist (d. 1979)
• January 6 – Alan Watts, British philosopher (d. 1973)
• January 7
• Franz Bartl, Austrian field handball player (d. 1941)
• Helen Mussallem, Canadian nursing administrator (d. 2012)
• January 9 – Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970)
• January 11 – Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder of the Special Air Service (d. 1955)
• January 16 – Susan Ahn Cuddy, United States Navy gunnery officer (d. 2015)
• January 17 – Sammy Angott, American boxer (d. 1980)
• January 18 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician (d. 2012)
• January 20 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani civil servant, 7th president of Pakistan (d. 2006)
• January 23
• W. Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1985)
• January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
• January 25 – Ewan MacColl, English folk singer, songwriter, and poet (d. 1989)
• January 29
• Albert Henderson, American actor (d. 2004)
• V. V. Sadagopan, Indian film actor, music teacher, performer and composer (d. unknown)
• January 30
• Joachim Peiper, German Waffen-SS officer (d. 1976)
• John Profumo, British politician (d. 2006)
• January 31 – Thomas Merton, American monk, author (d. 1968)

February

March

• March 1 – Elizabeth Peet McIntosh, American spy (d. 2015)
• March 4
• László Csizsik-Csatáry, Hungarian convicted Nazi war criminal (d. 2013)
• Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
• March 5 – Sydney Sturgess, British-Canadian actress (d. 1999)
• March 6
• Mary Ward, Australian actress (d. 2021)
• Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Community (d. 2014)
• March 7 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
• March 8 – Drue Heinz, American literary publisher (d. 2018)
• March 9 – John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, English pilot (d. 2001)
• March 11 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
• March 15 – Carl Emil Schorske, American cultural historian (d. 2015)
• March 17 – Bill Roycroft, Australian equestrian (d. 2011)
• March 19 – Patricia Morison, American actress (d. 2018)
• March 20
• Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian politician, 8th president of Austria (d. 2000)
• Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1997)
• Marie M. Runyon, American politician, activist (d. 2018)
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)
• March 23
• Tom Pashby, Canadian ophthalmologist and sport safety advocate (d. 2005)
• Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper (d. 1991)
• Jack Rollins (producer), American film and television producer (d. 2015)
• March 27 – Robert Lockwood Jr., American musician (d. 2006)
• March 30
• Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer (d. 1977)
• Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (d. 2015)
• March 31 – Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)

April

• April 1 – O. W. Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
• April 3
• Axel Axgil, Danish LGBT rights activist (d. 2011)
• Piet de Jong, Dutch politician, naval officer, Minister of Defence (1963–1967), and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1967–1971) (d. 2016)
• Paul Touvier, French Nazi collaborator (d. 1996)
• April 6
• Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage designer and theatre director (d. 1990)
• Thelma McKenzie, Australian cricketer (d. )
• April 7
• Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• Albert O. Hirschman, German-born economist (d. 2012)
• Billie Holiday, African-American singer (d. 1959)
• Bernadette Armiger, Catholic nun and president of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (d. 1979)
• April 8 – Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, author, and human rights activist (d. 2007)
• April 10
• Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Kashmiri guerrilla leader (d. 2003)
• Harry Morgan, American actor and director (d. 2011)
• April 12
• George Hogan, American professional basketball player (d. 1965)
• Hound Dog Taylor, American guitarist, singer (d. 1975)
• April 21 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (d. 2001)
• April 24 – Sam Burston, Australian farmer (d. 2015)
• April 29 – Donald Mills, lead tenor of the Mills Brothers (d. 1999)
• April 30 – Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi (d. 2015)

May

• May 2
• Van Alexander, American bandleader, arranger and composer (d. 2015)
• Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
• May 3
• Michele Cozzoli, Italian composer, conductor and arranger (d. 1961)
• Stu Hart, Canadian wrestling trainer (d. 2003)
• May 5 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (d. 1998)
• May 6
• Sydney Carter, British musician, poet and songwriter (d. 2004)
• Orson Welles, American actor and director (d. 1985)
• May 10
• Beyers Naudé, South African cleric, theologian and activist (d. 2004)
• Sir Denis Thatcher, British businessman, husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
• May 12
• Brother Roger, Swiss founder of the Taizé Community (d. 2005)
• Tadashi Sasaki, Japanese engineer (d. 2018)
• May 15
• Ida Keeling, American track and field athlete (d. 2021)
• Evelyn Owen, Australian gun designer (d. 1949)
• Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• May 16 – Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (d. 2010)
• May 19 – Renée Asherson, British actress (d. 2014)
• May 20 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader and politician (d. 1981)
• May 25 – Aarne Kainlauri, Finnish athlete (d. 2020)
• May 27
• Ester Soré, Chilean musician (d. 1996)
• Herman Wouk, American author (d. 2019)
• May 29 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
• May 31 – Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American painter (d. 2022)

June

• June 1 – John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
• June 2
• Jason Lee, American politician and judge (d. 1980)
• Tapio Wirkkala, Finnish designer (d. 1985)
• June 3 – Milton Cato, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (d. 1997)
• June 4 – Modibo Keïta, 1st president of Mali (d. 1977)
• June 9
• Ken Feltscheer, Australian rules footballer (d. 2017)
• Les Paul, American inventor and musician (d. 2009)
• June 10
• Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• Peride Celal, Turkish author (d. 2013)
• Inia Te Wiata, New Zealand Māori bass-baritone opera singer, film actor, whakairo (carver) and artist (d. 1971)
• June 11 – Buddy Baer, American boxer and actor (d. 1986)
• June 12
• William MacVane, American surgeon and politician (d. 2010)
• David Rockefeller, American banker and philanthropist (d. 2017)
• June 14 – Loke Wan Tho, Singaporean business magnate, ornithologist, and photographer (d. 1964)
• June 15
• Kaiser Matanzima, President of the Transkei bantustan (d. 2003)
• Nini Theilade, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher (d. 2018)
• Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
• June 16 – Mariano Rumor, Italian politician and Prime Minister of Italy from 1968 to 1970 and again from 1973 to 1974 (d. 1990)
• June 17
• Mario Echandi Jiménez, President of Costa Rica (d. 2011)
• Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. 1996)
• Walter J. Zable, American founder and CEO of Cubic Corporation (d. 2012)
• June 21 – Karol Miklosz, Polish-Soviet footballer, Soviet referee and Soviet-Ukrainian football administrator (d. 2003)
• June 22
• Duncan Clark, Scottish athlete (d. 2003)
• Randolph Hokanson, American pianist (d. 2018)
• Hatsuko Morioka, Japanese freestyle swimmer
• Cornelius Warmerdam, American track & field athlete (d. 2001)
• June 24
• Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001)
• Bill Radovich, American football guard (d. 2002)
• June 25 – Floyd Boring, American Secret Service agent (d. 2008)
• June 26
• George Haigh, English professional footballer (d. 2019)
• Charlotte Zolotow, American author (d. 2013)
• June 27
• Grace Lee Boggs, American author, social activist and philosopher (d. 2015)
• Graham Botting, New Zealand cricketer and hockey player (d. 2007)
• John Alexander Moore, American zoology professor (d. 2002)
• June 28
• David "Honeyboy" Edwards, American musician (d. 2011)
• Muzz Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1998)
• Carmen Vidal, Spanish cosmetologist and businesswoman (d. 2003)
• June 29 – John Charles Cutler, American surgeon (d. 2003)
• June 30
• Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German officer (d. 2014)
• Robert E. Hopkins, president of the Optical Society of America in 1973 (d. 2009)

July

• July 1
• A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 9th president of Bangladesh (d. 2001)
• Willie Dixon, American blues musician (d. 1992)
• Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, British peer (d. 2000)
• Rudolf Pernický, Czechoslovak soldier and paratrooper (d. 2005)
• July 3
• Ralph Chapin, American businessman (d. 2000)
• Marta Grandi, Italian entomologist (d. 2005)
• July 4 – Timmie Rogers, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
• July 5
• Yu Guangyuan, Chinese economist (d. 2013)
• Al Timothy, Trinidadian musician (d. 2000)
• John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
• July 6 – Javare Gowda, Indian language author (d. 2016)
• July 7
• Reynaldo Guerra Garza, American judge (d. 2004)
• Billy Mure, American guitarist (d. 2013)
• July 8
• Lowell English, United States Marine Corps general (d. 2005)
• Neil D. Van Sickle, American Air Force major general (d. 2019)
• July 9
• Joan Tompkins, American actress (d. 2005)
• July 10 – Kevin Barrett, Australian rules footballer (d. 1984)
• July 11 – Leonard Goodwin, British protozoologist (d. 2008)
• July 12
• Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia (d. 2007)
• Emanuel Papper, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author (d. 2002)
• July 13
• Tex Hill, Korean-American fighter pilot and flying ace (d. 2007)
• Paul Williams, African American jazz and blues saxophonist, bandleader and songwriter (d. 2002)
• July 14 – Harold Pupkewitz, Namibian entrepreneur (d. 2012)
• July 15
• William O. Baker, president of Bell Labs (d. 2005)
• Alicia Zubasnabar de De la Cuadra, Argentine human rights activist (d. 2008)
• A. A. Englander, British television cinematographer (d. 2004)
• Kashmir Singh Katoch, Indian military advisor (d. 2007)
• Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Moldovan activist (d. 2003)
• July 16 – Elaine Barrie, American actress (d. 2003)
• July 17 – Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and brother of comedian Lucille Ball (d. 2007)
• July 18
• Roxana Cannon Arsht, American judge (d. 2003)
• Carequinha, Brazilian clown, actor (d. 2006)
• Louis Le Bailly, British Royal Navy officer (d. 2010)
• July 19
• Rita Childers, First Lady of Ireland (1973–1974) (d. 2010)
• Katherine Sanford, American biologist (d. 2005)
• July 20
• Matest M. Agrest, Russian-Jewish mathematician (d. 2005)
• Gene Hasson, American Major League Baseball infielder (d. 2003)
• July 24 – Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (d. 2004)
• July 25
• S. U. Ethirmanasingham, Sri Lankan businessman and politician
• Julio Iglesias, Sr., Spanish gynecologist, father of Julio Iglesias (d. 2005)
• Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American fighter pilot, elder brother of John F. Kennedy (d. 1944)
• July 26 – K. Pattabhi Jois, Indian yogi (d. 2009)
• July 28
• Red Barrett, American baseball player (d. 1990)
• Charles Hard Townes, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
• Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (d. 1998)
• July 30
• Viliam Žingor, Slovak general and anti-fascist fighter (d. 1950)

August

• August 2
• Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
• Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram, British army officer (d. 2017)
• August 3
• Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (d. 2006)
• Pete Newell, Canadian-born basketball coach (d. 2008)
• August 4 – William Keene, American actor (d. 1992)
• August 8
• Alex Schoenbaum, American collegiate football player and businessman (d. 1996)
• María Rostworowski, Peruvian historian (d. 2016)
• Joseph P. Graw, American businessman and politician (d. 2018)
• August 9
• George W. BonDurant, American preacher (d. 2017)
• Louis Collard, Belgian fascist politician and Nazi collaborator (d. 1947)
• August 12
• Donald Pellmann, American masters athlete (d. 2020)
• Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)
• August 14
• Vincent Foy, Canadian Roman Catholic cleric, theologian (d. 2017)
• Irene Hickson, American professional baseball player (d. 1995)
• August 16 – Herbert Greenwald, American real estate developer (d. 1959)
• August 18 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah, 2nd president of Ghana (d. 1992)
• August 19 – Ring Lardner Jr., American film screenwriter (d. 2000)
• August 20 – Ivo Rojnica, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent (d. 2007)
• August 21 – Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, British lawyer, political adviser (d. 1995)
• August 24
• Dave McCoy, American founder of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area (d. 2020)
• Wynonie Harris, African-American blues, rhythm and blues singer (d. 1969)
• August 25 – Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
• August 27 – Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• August 28
• Tol Avery, American actor (d. 1973)
• Simon Oakland, American actor (d. 1983)
• Max Robertson, British sports commentator (d. 2009)
• August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
• August 30
• Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British-born Swedish princess (d. 2013)
• Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
• August 31 – Víctor Pey, Spanish-Chilean engineer (d. 2018)

September

• September 3 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer (d. 2014)
• September 6 – Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (d. 1988)
• September 8 – Frank Cady, American actor (d. 2012)
• September 9 – Richard Webb, American actor (d. 1993)
• September 10 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
• September 11 – Raúl Alberto Lastiri, 39th president of Argentina (d. 1978)
• September 14 – John Dobson, American astronomer (d. 2014)
• September 15 – Helmut Schön, German football player, manager (d. 1996)
• September 16 – Eddie Filgate, Irish politician (d. 2017)
• September 17 – M. F. Husain, Indian artist (d. 2011)
• September 19 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
• September 20 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003)
• September 22 – Bernardino Piñera, Chilean Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2020)
• September 23
• Julius Baker, American flautist (d. 2003)
• Zdenko Blažeković, Croatian politician (d. 1947)
• Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
• September 24 – Joseph Montoya, American politician (d. 1978)
• September 27 – Ira Colitz, American politician (d. 1998)
• September 28 – Kay Mander, British film director, shooting continuity specialist (d. 2013)
• September 29
• Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
• Brenda Marshall, American actress (d. 1992)
• September 30
• Nadezhda Fedutenko, Soviet red army officer (d. 1978)
• Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)

October

• October 1
• Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (d. 2016)
• Talat Tunçalp, Turkish Olympian cyclist (d. 2017)
• October 2 – Chuck Williams, American businessman (d. 2015)
• October 6 – Neus CatalÃÂ, Spanish political activist (d. 2019)
• October 7 – Walter Keane, American plagiarist (d. 2000)
• October 11 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author, poet (d. 2009)
• October 12
• José Bragato, Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor and arranger (d. 2017)
• Tony Rafty, Australian caricaturist (d. 2015)
• October 13 – Frederick Rosier, British Royal Air Force commander (d. 1998)
• October 14 – Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2016)
• October 17
• Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2018)
• H. Basil S. Cooke, Canadian geologist, palaeontologist (d. 2018)
• John J. McKetta, American chemical engineer (d. 2019)
• Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
• October 18 – Thomas Round, English opera singer, actor (d. 2016)
• October 19 – Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol, Dutch prelate (d. 2016)
• October 21 – Aleksandr Ezhevsky, Soviet engineer, statesman (d. 2017)
• October 22 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician (d. 2012)
• October 23 – Shin Hyun-joon, South Korean general (d. 2007)
• October 24 – Bob Kane, American comic book artist/writer, co-creator of Batman (d. 1998)
• October 27 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian theatre, film producer (d. 1994)
• October 28 – Dody Goodman, American actress, dancer (d. 2008)
• October 29 – William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005)

November

• November 1
• Marion Eugene Carl, U.S. Marine Corps World War II fighter ace, test pilot (d. 1998)
• Frances Hesselbein, President of the Girl Scouts of the USA, CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute (d. 2022)
• Eva Macapagal, 9th First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1999)
• November 2 – Kay Armen, American Armenian singer (d. 2011)
• November 4
• Wee Kim Wee, 4th president of Singapore (d. 2005)
• Ismail Abdul Rahman, Malaysian politician (d. 1973)
• November 7
• Philip Morrison, American physicist, astrophysicist and professor (d. 2005)
• Jiao Ruoyu, Chinese Communist Party politician (d. 2020)
• November 8 – Richard Luyt, 1st governor general of Guyana (d. 1994)
• November 9 – Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011)
• November 11
• William Proxmire, United States senator (d. 2005)
• Anna Schwartz, American economist (d. 2012)
• November 12 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher, literary critic (d. 1980)
• November 13 – Carla Marangoni, Italian gymnast (d. 2018)
• November 17 – Albert Malbois, French prelate (d. 2017)
• November 18 – James Whittico Jr., American physician (d. 2018)
• November 19 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
• November 20 – Bill Daniel, American politician (d. 2006)
• November 23
• John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
• Julio César Méndez Montenegro, President of Guatemala (d. 1996)
• November 25
• Augusto Pinochet, 31st president of Chile (d. 2006)
• Armando Villanueva, leader of the Peruvian American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (d. 2013)
• November 29
• Eugene Polley, American electronics engineer (d. 2012)
• Billy Strayhorn, American jazz pianist-composer (d. 1967)
• November 30
• Brownie McGhee, American musician (d. 1996)
• Emmanuel Pelaez, 6th vice president of the Philippines (d. 2003)
• Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)

December

• December 2
• Prince Takahito of Mikasa, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito (d. 2016)
• Marais Viljoen, President of South Africa (d. 2007)
• December 5 – Ren Xinmin, Chinese aerospace engineer (d. 2017)
• December 6 – Alan Sayers, New Zealand journalist, photographer and athlete (d. 2017)
• December 7 – Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014)
• December 8 – Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
• December 9 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)
• December 12
• Felicity Hill, British Royal Air Force officer (d. 2019)
• Frank Sinatra, American singer, actor (d. 1998)
• December 13
• Curd Juergens, Austrian-German film actor (d. 1982)
• B. J. Vorster, South African politician, Prime Minister and State President (d. 1983)
• December 14 – Dan Dailey, American actor, dancer (d. 1978)
• December 15
• Kenshiro Abbe, Japanese master of judo, aikido, and kendo (d. 1985)
• Charles F. Wheeler, American cinematographer (d. 2004)
• December 17 – Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist (d. 2014)
• December 18 – Bill Zuckert, American actor (d. 1997)
• December 19
• Ke Hua, Chinese diplomat (d. 2019)
• Édith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963)
• December 21 – Werner von Trapp, member of the Austrian Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
• December 22 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (d. 2010)
• December 27
• Mary Kornman, American child actress (d. 1973)
• Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999)
• December 31 – Davuldena Gnanissara Thero, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk (d. 2017)

Deaths

January

February

• February 3 – Bosnian Serb conspirators (executed for their part in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria):
• Veljko Čubrilović (b. 1886)
• Danilo Ilić (b. 1891)
• MiÅ¡ko Jovanović (b. 1878)
• February 5 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player (b. 1850)
• February 18
• Francisco Giner de los Ríos, Spanish philosopher, educator (b. 1839)
• Frank James, American outlaw (b. 1843)
• February 22 – Sir John Gough, British general, Victoria Cross recipient (killed in action) (b. 1871)
• February 26 –Edward Richardson, New Zealand engineer and politician (b. 1831)

March

• March 4 – William Willett, English promoter of daylight saving time (b. 1856)
• March 13 – Sergei Witte, Russian aristocrat, statesman and Prime Minister (b. 1849)
• March 14 – Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot (b. 1887)

April

• April 4 – Andrew Stoddart, English sportsman (b. 1863)
• April 9 – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (b. 1852)
• April 11 – Maria Swanenburg, Dutch serial killer (b. 1839)
• April 26 – Ida Hunt Udall, American Latter-day Saint diarist (b. 1858)
• April 16 – Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
• April 20 – Daniel Webster Jones, American Latter-day Saint pioneer (b. 1830)
• April 23
• Rupert Brooke, English poet (sepsis from an infected mosquito bite on active service) (b. 1887)
• Frederick Fisher, Canadian recipient of Victoria Cross (killed in action) (b. 1894)
• April 25 – Frederick W. Seward, American politician (b. 1830)
• April 26 – John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• April 27
• William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, English airman, first aviator awarded Victoria Cross (b. 1887)
• Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
• April 30 – Edward D. Easton, founder and president of Columbia Phonograph Company (b. 1856)

May

June

• June 5 – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. 1891)
• June 7 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman, philanthropist in Hawaii (b. 1822)
• June 10 – Ignatius Maloyan, Ottoman Armenian Eastern Catholic archbishop, martyr and saint (b. 1869)
• June 13 – Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz, Polish military leader (killed in action) (b. 1882)
• June 19 – Benjamin F. Isherwood, American admiral, United States Navy Engineer-in-Chief (b. 1822)
• June 25 – Tok Janggut, Malayan rebel leader (killed in action) (b. 1853)
• Stefano P. Israelian, Ottoman Armenian Catholic bishop, martyr (b. 1866)

July

August

• August 10 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (killed in action) (b. 1887)
• August 16 – Kálmán Széll, 13th prime minister of Hungary (b. 1843)
• August 17 – Leo Frank, Jewish-American factory superintendent who was lynched after the murder of Mary Phagan (b. 1884)
• August 20
• Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)
• Carlos Finlay, Cuban pathologist (b. 1833)
• August 21 – Josiah T. Settle, American lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• August 30
• Antonio Flores Jijón, 13th president of Ecuador (b. 1833)
• Pascual Orozco, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1882)
• August 31 – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1889)

September

• September 1 – August Stramm, German poet, playwright (killed in action) (b. 1874)
• September 9
• Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker (b. 1839)
• Albert Spalding, American baseball player, sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
• September 11 – William Sprague IV, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1830)
• September 13 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero, 44th governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
• September 21 – Anthony Comstock, American anti-indecency reformer (b. 1844)
• September 26 – Keir Hardie, British labour leader (b. 1856)
• September 27 – Fergus Bowes-Lyon, brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (killed in action) (b. 1889)

October

• October 4
• Karl Staaff, 11th prime minister of Sweden (b. 1860)
• John Rigby, grandfather of Eleanor Rigby, to whom Paul McCartney attributes a subconscious influence on naming the song with the same name (b.1843)
• October 7 – Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Austrian physicist (b. 1874)
• October 10 – Albert Cashier, born Jennie Hodgers, Irish American soldier (b. 1843)
• October 12 – Edith Cavell, British nurse, war heroine (shot) (b. 1865)
• October 13 – Charles Sorley, British poet (killed in action) (b. 1895)
• October 15 – Theodor Boveri, German biologist (b. 1862)
• October 16 – Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková, Moravian pioneer of female education (heart attack) (b. 1868)
• October 22 – Wilhelm Windelband, German philosopher (b. 1848)
• October 23 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
• October 26 – August Bungert, German composer, poet (b. 1845)
• October 30 – Sir Charles Tupper, 6th prime minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• October 31 – Blanche Walsh, American actress (b. 1873)

November

• November 14
• Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1830)
• Booker T. Washington, American educator (b. 1856)
• November 15 – Félix de Blochausen, 6th prime minister of Luxembourg (b. 1834)
• November 21 – Dixie Haygood, American magician (b. 1861)
• November 28 – Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1837)

December

• December 14 – Eva Gouel, second girlfriend of Pablo Picasso
• December 18 – Sir Henry Roscoe, English chemist (b. 1833)
• December 18 – Édouard Vaillant, French Socialist politician (b. 1840)
• December 19 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, neuropathologist (b. 1864)
• December 22 – Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor, professor (b. 1864)
• December 31 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian actor (b. 1829)

Nobel Prizes

• Chemistry – Richard Willstätter
• Literature – Romain Rolland
• Medicine – not awarded
• Peace – not awarded
• Physics – William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg

Notes

Further reading

Primary sources and year books

External links

• Pictures of the 1915 Galveston Hurricane at the University of Houston Digital Library