Editing 1915

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== Events ==
Below, the events of [[World War I]] have the "WWI" prefix.
[[File:HMS Formidable 1898.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 1]]: [[HMS Formidable (1898)|HMS ''Formidable'']], sunk by a German [[U-boat]].]]
=== January ===
{{main|January 1915}}
*[[January]] – British physicist Sir [[Joseph Larmor]] publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".<ref>''Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society'' '''75''':205–10.</ref>
*[[January 1]]
** WWI: British [[Royal Navy]] battleship [[HMS Formidable (1898)|HMS ''Formidable'']] is sunk off [[Lyme Regis]], [[Dorset]], England, by an [[Imperial German Navy]] [[U-boat]], with the loss of 547 crew.
**WWI: [[Battle of Broken Hill]]: A train ambush near [[Broken Hill]], Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the [[Ottoman Empire]]) who are killed, together with four civilians.
* [[January 5]] – [[Joseph E. Carberry]] sets an altitude record of {{convert|11,690|ft|m}}, carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft.
* [[January 12]]
** The [[United States House of Representatives]] rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
** ''[[A Fool There Was (1915 film)|A Fool There Was]]'' premières in the United States, starring [[Theda Bara]] as a ''[[femme fatale]]''; she quickly becomes one of early cinema's most sensational stars.
* [[January 17]] – WWI: Caucasus Campaign – [[Battle of Sarikamish]]: Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey.
* [[January 18]] – [[Twenty-One Demands]] from [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] to [[Republic of China (1912–49)|China]] are made.
* [[January 19]]
** [[Georges Claude]] patents the [[neon discharge tube]] for use in advertising.
** WWI: German [[Zeppelin]]s bomb the coastal towns of [[Great Yarmouth]] and [[King's Lynn]] in England for the first time, killing more than 20.
* [[January 21]] – [[Kiwanis]] is founded in [[Detroit]], Michigan, as The Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order Brothers.
* [[January 23]] – [[Chilembwe uprising]]: [[Baptist]] minister [[John Chilembwe]] initiates an ultimately unsuccessful uprising against British colonial rule in [[Nyasaland]] (modern-day [[Malawi]]).
* [[January 24]] – WWI: [[Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)|Battle of Dogger Bank]] – The [[British Grand Fleet]] defeats the [[Imperial German Navy|German High Seas Fleet]], sinking the armoured cruiser {{SMS|Blücher}}.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] – The first United States coast-to-coast [[Long-distance calling|long-distance telephone call]] is facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by [[Alexander Graham Bell]] in New York City and his former assistant [[Thomas A. Watson]], in San Francisco, California.
* [[January 26]]
** WWI: The [[Ottoman Army]] begins the [[Raid on the Suez Canal]].
** The [[Rocky Mountain National Park]] is established by an act of the [[United States Congress]].
* [[January 27]] – WWI: French military casualties begin arriving at the [[Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois]], established earlier in the month by British volunteers.
* [[January 28]] – An act of the [[United States Congress]] designates the [[United States Coast Guard]], began in [[1790]], as a military branch.
* [[January 31]] – WWI: [[Battle of Bolimów]] – [[German Empire|Germany]]'s first large-scale use of [[Chemical weapons in World War I|poison gas]] as a weapon occurs, when 18,000 [[artillery]] shells containing liquid [[xylyl bromide]] [[tear gas]] are fired on the [[Imperial Russian Army]], on the [[Rawka River]] west of [[Warsaw]]; however, freezing temperatures prevent it being effective.<ref>{{cite web|last=Heller|first=Charles E.|url=http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/resources/csi/Heller/HELLER.asp|title=Chemical Warfare in World War I: The American Experience, 1917–1918|publisher=Combat Studies Institute|series=Leaveanworth Papers, 10|access-date=August 24, 2012|date=September 1984|archive-date=April 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422083826/http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/resources/csi/Heller/HELLER.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Seal of the U.S. Coast Guard.svg|thumb|120px|right|[[January 28]]: [[United States Coast Guard]] military branch]]

=== February ===
{{main|February 1915}}
* [[February]] – While working as a [[cook (profession)|cook]] at New York's [[Sloane Hospital for Women]] under an assumed name, "[[Typhoid Mary]]" (an [[asymptomatic carrier]] of [[typhoid fever]]) infects 25 people, and is placed in [[quarantine]] for life on [[March 27]].
* [[February 1]] – [[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]] creates the [[Fox Film Corporation]].
* [[February 4]] – The [[Maritz Rebellion]] of disaffected [[Boer]]s against the government of the [[Union of South Africa]] ends with the surrender of the remaining rebels.
* [[February 8]] – The controversial film ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'', directed by [[D. W. Griffith]], premieres in Los Angeles. It will be the [[List of highest-grossing films#Timeline of highest-grossing films|highest-grossing film]] for around 25 years.
* [[February 18]] – WWI: Germany regards the waters around the British Isles to be a war zone from this date, as part of its [[U-boat Campaign]].
* [[February 20]] – In San Francisco, the [[Panama–Pacific International Exposition]] is opened.
* [[February 25]] – [[Armenian genocide]]: The Ottoman Empire transfers Armenians from its armed forces to unarmed [[Ottoman labour battalions]].

=== March ===
{{main|March 1915}}
* [[March]] – The [[1915 Palestine locust infestation]] breaks out in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]; it continues until [[October]].
* [[March 2]] – [[Armenian genocide]]: Earliest recorded deportations.<ref>"The Deportation of the Armenians of Dörtyol", Ciphered telegram from the [[Ministry of the Interior (Ottoman Empire)]] to the Province of Adana, BOA. DH. ŞFR, nr. 50/141.</ref>
* [[March 10]]–[[March 13|13]] – WWI: [[Battle of Neuve Chapelle]] – In the first deliberately planned British offensive of the war, British Indian troops overrun German positions in France, but are unable to sustain the advance.
* [[March 11]] – WWI: British [[armed merchantman]] {{HMS|Bayano|1913}} is sunk in the [[North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland)|North Channel]] off the coast of [[Scotland]] by [[Imperial German Navy]] [[U-boat]] ''[[SM U-27 (Germany)|SM U-27]]''. Around 200 crew are lost, a number of bodies being washed up on the [[Isle of Man]], with only 26 saved.<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnston|first=Willie|date=March 12, 2015|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-31821949|title=Centenary of HMS Bayano disaster off the Galloway coast|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=March 24, 2015|archive-date=March 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150313044311/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-31821949|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 14]] – WWI:
** [[Battle of Más a Tierra]]: Off the coast of [[Chile]], the British [[Royal Navy]] forces the Imperial German Navy [[light cruiser]] [[SMS Dresden (1907)|SMS ''Dresden'']] (last survivor of the German East Asia Squadron) to scuttle.
** [[Constantinople Agreement]]: [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]], [[French Third Republic|France]] and the [[Russian Empire]] agree to give [[Constantinople]] (Istanbul) and the [[Bosphorus]] to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the [[Bolshevik Revolution]]).
* [[March 18]] – WWI:
** [[Gallipoli campaign]]: A Franco-British naval attack on the [[Dardanelles]] fails.
** British Royal Navy battleship {{HMS|Dreadnought|1906}} sinks [[SM U-29 (Germany)|German submarine ''U-29'']] with all hands in the [[Pentland Firth]] off the coast of Scotland by ramming her, the only time this tactic is known to have been successfully used by a battleship.
* [[March 19]] – [[Pluto]] is photographed for the first time, but is not recognised for what it is.
* [[March 26]] – The [[Vancouver Millionaires]] win the [[1915 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup]] in [[ice hockey]] over the [[Ottawa Senators (original)|Ottawa Senators]], 3 games to 0.
* [[March 28]] – The first [[Roman Catholic liturgy]] at the newly consecrated [[Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota)|Cathedral of Saint Paul, Minnesota]], is celebrated by [[Archbishop]] [[John Ireland (bishop)|John Ireland]].
[[File:SMS Dresden German Cruiser LOC 16727.jpg|thumb|250px|right| [[March 14]]: WWI: [[SMS Dresden (1907)|SMS ''Dresden'']], forced to scuttle by the [[Royal Navy]].]]

=== April ===
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* [[April 5]] – Boxer [[Jess Willard]], the latest "Great White Hope", defeats [[Jack Johnson (boxer)|Jack Johnson]] with a 26th-round knockout in sweltering heat, at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans, for "bringing back the championship to the white race".
* [[April 11]] – [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s film ''[[The Tramp (film)|The Tramp]]'' is released in the United States.
* [[April 21]] – On the orders of [[Talat Pasha]], Haydar Bey organized an [[Haydar Bey's Assyrian Expedition|expedition]] against the Assyrians. He killed thousands of [[Assyrians]] along with [[Kurdish tribes]].
* [[April 22]] – WWI: Start of [[Second Battle of Ypres]] – Germany makes its first large scale use of [[chemical weapons|poison gas]] on the Western Front.
* [[April 24]] – Armenian genocide: [[Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915|deportation of Armenian notables]] from [[Istanbul]] begins.
* [[April 25]] – WWI: Start of the [[Gallipoli Campaign]] by land forces (lasting until January 1916) – A [[landing at Anzac Cove]] is conducted by [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps]], and a [[landing at Cape Helles]] by British and French troops, to begin the Allied invasion of the [[Gallipoli]] peninsula in the [[Ottoman Empire]].
[[File:RMS Luisitania.jpg|thumb|250px|right| [[May 7]]: WWI: {{RMS|Lusitania}}, sunk by a German [[U-boat]].]]
* [[April 26]] – [[Treaty of London (1915)|Treaty of London]]: Italy secretly agrees to leave the [[Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance]] with Germany and [[Austria-Hungary]], and join with the [[Allies of World War I|Entente Powers]], in exchange for certain territories of Austria-Hungary on its borders.

=== May ===
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* [[May 1]] –  General [[Louis Botha]], [[Prime Minister of South Africa]], leads the army in the occupation of [[German South West Africa]].
* [[May 5]] – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign – Forces of the [[Ottoman Empire]] begin shelling [[ANZAC Cove]] from a new position behind their lines.
* [[May 6]] – [[Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition]]: [[SY Aurora's drift|SY ''Aurora'''s drift]] – The {{SY|Aurora}} breaks loose from its anchorage during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal.<ref>{{cite book|last=Haddelsey|first=Stephen|title=Ice Captain|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7509-4348-2|pages=51–2}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] – WWI
** [[Sinking of the RMS Lusitania|Sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania'']]: {{RMS|Titanic}}'s main rival, the British [[ocean liner]] {{RMS|Lusitania}}, is sunk by [[Imperial German Navy]] [[U-boat]] ''[[SM U-20 (Germany)|U-20]]'' off the south-west coast of Ireland, killing 1,199 civilians en route from New York City to [[Liverpool]]. The best-known of the celebrities on board is American sportsman [[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt]] (b. [[1877]]).
** Germany captures the Latvian port city of [[Liepāja|Libau]].
* [[May 9]] – WWI – [[Second Battle of Artois]]: [[German Empire|German]] and [[French Third Republic|French]] forces fight to a standstill; German forces defeat the British at the [[Battle of Aubers Ridge]].
* [[May 17]] – The last purely [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] government in the United Kingdom ends, when the prime minister [[H. H. Asquith]] forms an all-party [[coalition government]], the [[Asquith coalition ministry]], effective [[May 25]].
* [[May 19]] – WWI: The [[third attack on Anzac Cove]] by Ottoman forces is repelled by the [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps]].
* [[May 22]]
** [[Quintinshill rail disaster]] in Scotland: The collision and fire kill 226, mostly troops, the largest number of fatalities in a [[List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom|rail accident in the United Kingdom]].
** [[Lassen Peak]], one of the [[Cascade Volcanoes]] in [[California]], erupts, sending an ash plume 30,000 feet in the air, and devastating the nearby area with [[pyroclastic flow]]s and [[lahar]]s. It is the only volcano to erupt in the contiguous United States this century, until the [[1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens]].
* [[May 23]] – WWI: [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] joins the [[Allies of World War I|Allies]] after declaring war on [[Austria-Hungary]].
* [[May 25]] – [[Republic of China (1912–49)|China]] agrees to the [[Twenty-One Demands]] of the Japanese.
* [[May 27]] – [[Armenian genocide]]: The [[Temporary Law of Deportation|Tehcir Law]] is promulgated by the Turkish [[Ottoman Empire]] authorizing deportation of the [[Ottoman Armenian population]] to [[Deir ez-Zor]] in the Syrian desert, leading to the deaths of anywhere between 800,000 and over 1,500,000 civilians and confiscation of their property.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Akçam |first1=Taner |author1-link=Taner Akçam |title=[[A Shameful Act]] |date=2006 |publisher=Henry Hold and Company |isbn=978-0-8050-8665-2 |page=249}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] – [[International Congress of Women]] meets at the Hague as a major peace initiative.<ref>{{cite book|last=Paull|first=John|year=2018|url=https://www.academia.edu/36546779|chapter=12:The Women Who Tried to Stop the Great War: The International Congress of Women at The Hague 1915|editor=Campbell, A. H.|title=Global Leadership Initiatives for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding|pages=249–266|location=Hershey, PA|publisher=IGI Global|doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-4993-2.CH012 |access-date=May 27, 2021|archive-date=March 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325143727/https://www.academia.edu/36546779|url-status=live}}</ref> 
* [[May 29]] – [[Teófilo Braga]] becomes president of [[First Portuguese Republic|Portugal]].

=== June ===
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* June – [[Armenian genocide]]: 15,000 civilians from the [[Ottoman Armenian population]] of [[Bitlis]] are massacred by Ottoman Turks and Kurds.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Christopher J. Walker|last=Walker|first=Christopher J.|chapter=The End of Armenian Taron and Baghesh, 1914-1916|title=Armenian Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush|pages=191–206}}</ref>
* [[June 3]] – [[Mexican Revolution]]: Troops of [[Álvaro Obregón]] and [[Pancho Villa]] clash at [[León, Guanajuato|León]]; Obregón loses his right arm in a grenade attack, but Villa is decisively defeated.
* [[June 5]] – [[Women's suffrage]] in national elections is introduced in Denmark.
* [[June 9]] – U.S. Secretary of State [[William Jennings Bryan]] resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the [[sinking of the RMS Lusitania|sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania'']].
* [[June 11]] – Friar [[Leonard Melki]] and hundreds of other Christians are driven out of [[Mardin]] and massacred by [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] troops.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mardine la ville héroïque|last=Simon|first=Hyacinthe|publisher=Maison Naaman pour la culture|year=1991|location=Jounieh-Lebanon}}</ref>
* [[June 16]] – [[Women's Institutes]] are established in Britain.
* [[June 19]] – In [[Iceland]], at this time a dependency of Denmark, [[women's suffrage]] is granted to those over 40.<ref>{{cite web|title=100 years of women's suffrage in Iceland|first=Stefan|last=Jonasson|url=https://www.lh-inc.ca/icelandic-paper/online-stories/548-stefan-jonasson|work=Lögberg Heimskringla|access-date=January 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317013707/https://www.lh-inc.ca/icelandic-paper/online-stories/548-stefan-jonasson|archive-date=March 17, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== July ===
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* [[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 during the Armenian genocide|Trebizond]] are massacred by Ottoman Turks.<ref name=Gilbert>{{cite book|last=Gilbert|first=Martin|author-link=Martin Gilbert|title=A History of the Twentieth Century|year=2009|publisher=Avon Books|location=New York|page=357}}</ref>
* [[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)]] [[Tram|trolleycar]] with 157 passengers crashes near [[Queenston, Ontario]], resulting in 15 casualties.
** [[Sinhalese people|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 {{SMS|Königsberg|1905}} is forced to [[Scuttling|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 (diplomat)|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.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-141-01728-0|first=Avi|last=Shlaim|author-link=Avi Shlaim|title=Lion of Jordan|publisher=Penguin Books|location=London|year=2008|page=2}}</ref>
* [[July 22]] – WWI: The "[[Great Retreat (Russian)|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 {{SS|Eastland||2}} capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.
* [[July 28]] – The [[American occupation of Haiti]] (1915–34) begins.

=== August ===
{{main|August 1915}}
[[File:Galveston Hurricane 1915 wrecked home.jpg|thumb|August: Destruction by the [[1915 Galveston hurricane]].]]
* [[August 5]]–[[August 23|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 of World War I|Allies]] mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at [[Suvla Bay]].
* [[August 16]] – WWI: The [[Allies of World War I|Allies]] promises the [[Kingdom of Serbia]], should victory be achieved over [[Austria-Hungary]] and its allied [[Central Powers]], the territories of [[Baranya (region)|Baranja]], [[Srem]] and [[Slavonia]] from the [[Cisleithania]]n part of the Dual Monarchy, [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], and eastern [[Dalmatia]] (from the river of [[Krka (Croatia)|Krka]] to Bar).

=== September ===
{{main|September 1915}}
* [[September 5]] – The [[Zimmerwald Conference]] begins in [[Switzerland]]. 
* [[September 6]] – The prototype [[Tanks in World War I|military tank]] is first tested by the [[British Army]].
* [[September 7]] – Cartoonist [[Johnny Gruelle|John B. Gruelle]] is given a patent for his ''[[Raggedy Ann]]'' doll.
* [[September 8]] – WWI: A [[Zeppelin]] raid destroys No. 61 [[Farringdon Road]], London; the premises are rebuilt in [[1917]], and called The Zeppelin Building.
* [[September 11]] – The [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] begins electrified commuter rail service between [[Paoli, Pennsylvania|Paoli]] and [[Philadelphia]], using overhead AC trolley wires for power. This type of system is later used in long-distance passenger trains between New York City, Washington, D.C., and [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]].
* [[September 12]] – French soldiers rescue over 4,000 [[Armenian genocide]] survivors stranded on Musa Dagh, a mountain in the Hatay province of [[Turkey]].
* [[September 25]]–[[October 14]] – WWI: [[Battle of Loos]] – British forces take the [[French Third Republic|French]] town of [[Loos-en-Gohelle|Loos]], but with substantial casualties, and are unable to press their advantage. This is the first time the British use [[poison gas in World War I]], and also their first large-scale use of 'New' (or [[Kitchener's Army]]) units.
* [[September 30]] – WWI: [[Serbian Army]] [[private (rank)|private]] [[Radoje Ljutovac]] becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft, with [[Anti-aircraft warfare|ground-to-air]] fire.

=== October ===
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* [[October 12]] – WWI: British nurse [[Edith Cavell]] is executed by a [[German Empire|German]] firing squad, for helping [[Allies of World War I|Allied]] soldiers escape from Belgium.
* [[October 15]] – WWI: [[Serbian Campaign of World War I|Serbian Campaign]] – [[Austria-Hungary]] invades the [[Kingdom of Serbia]]. [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] enters the war, also invading Serbia. The [[Serbian First Army]] retreats towards [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greece]].
* [[October 16]] – WWI: France declares war on [[Bulgaria]].
* [[October 19]]
** WWI: [[Russia]] and [[Italy]] declare war on [[Bulgaria]].
** [[Mexican Revolution]]: The U.S. recognizes the Mexican government of [[Venustiano Carranza]] ''[[de facto]]'' (not ''[[de jure]]'' until [[1917]]).
* [[October 21]] – The [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] holds its first annual meeting outside the South, in [[San Francisco]]. Historian General [[Mildred Rutherford]] addresses the gathering on the "Historical Sins of Omission & Commission", of [[Yankee]] historians.
* [[October 23]] – WWI: The torpedoing of [[armored cruiser]] {{SMS|Prinz Adalbert|1901}} results in only 3 men being rescued from a crew of 675, the greatest single loss of life for the [[Imperial German Navy]] in the [[Baltic Sea]] during the war.
* [[October 25]] – [[Lyda Conley]], the first [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian]] woman to appear before the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] as a lawyer, is admitted to practice there.<ref>"Washington, Oct. 25." ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 26, 1915.</ref>
* [[October 27]] – [[Billy Hughes|William Morris "Billy" Hughes]] becomes the 7th [[Prime Minister of Australia]].
* [[October 28]] – [[St. Johns School fire]]: Fire at St. John's School in [[Peabody, Massachusetts]], United States, claims the lives of 21 girls between the ages of 7 and 17.

=== November ===
{{main|November 1915}}
* [[November 18]] – The U.S. [[silent film]] ''[[Inspiration (1915 film)|Inspiration]]'', the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress ([[Audrey Munson]]) appears [[Nudity in film|nude]], is released.
* [[November 21]] – British polar exploration ship ''[[Endurance (1912 ship)|Endurance]]'' finally breaks apart from pressure of ice around it and sinks into the [[Weddell Sea]], stranding [[Ernest Shackleton]]'s [[Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] party in the Antarctic.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shackleton|first=Ernest|title=South|publisher=Century Publishing|location=London|year=1983|isbn=0-7126-0111-2|page=98}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Ernest_Shackleton_map_time_line.htm|title=Ernest Shackleton, Endurance Voyage, Time Line and Map|publisher=CoolAntarctica.com|year=2001|access-date=October 27, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016131004/http://coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Ernest_Shackleton_map_time_line.htm|archive-date=October 16, 2012}}</ref> The wreck is discovered at a depth of 3,008 metres (9,869&nbsp;ft), 107 years later in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60662541|access-date=9 March 2022|date=9 March 2022|website=BBC News|language=en-US|archive-date=March 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312115224/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60662541|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] – The [[Triangle Film Corporation]] opens its new motion picture theater in [[Massillon, Ohio]].
* [[November 24]] – [[William Joseph Simmons|William J. Simmons]] revives the American Civil War era [[Ku Klux Klan]] at [[Stone Mountain]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].
* [[November 25]] – [[Albert Einstein]] presents part of his theory of [[general relativity]] to the [[Prussian Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Einstein|first=Albert|date=November 25, 1915|title=Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation|journal=Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin|pages=844–847|bibcode=1915SPAW.......844E |url=http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/echo/einstein/sitzungsberichte/6E3MAXK4/index.meta|access-date=August 27, 2018|archive-date=July 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725074812/https://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/echo/einstein/sitzungsberichte/6E3MAXK4/index.meta|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== December ===
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* [[December 4]]–[[December 18|18]] – The '[[Peace Ship]]' ''Oscar II'' chartered by industrialist [[Henry Ford]] sails from [[Hoboken, New Jersey]] to [[Oslo]] on an independent and eventually unsuccessful mission to broker a peace conference.<ref>{{cite book|last=Watts|first=Steven|title=The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century|url=https://archive.org/details/peoplestycoonhen00watt|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/peoplestycoonhen00watt/page/228 228]|isbn=978-0-375-40735-2 }}</ref>
* [[December 8]] – [[Jean Sibelius]] conducts the world première of his [[Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 5]] in [[Helsinki]] at a 50th birthday concert for him.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jon|last=Paxman|title=Classical Music 1600–2000: A Chronology|location=London|publisher=Omnibus|year=2014|isbn=978-1-84449-773-7}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – The 1&nbsp;millionth [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] car rolls off the assembly line at the [[River Rouge Plant]] in [[Detroit]], Michigan.
* [[December 12]] – [[President of the Republic of China]] [[Yuan Shikai]] declares himself [[Empire of China (1915–16)|Emperor]].
* [[December 18]] – United States President [[Woodrow Wilson]] marries [[Edith Bolling Galt Wilson|Edith B. Galt]], in Washington, D.C.
* [[December 23]] – [[HMHS Britannic|HMHS ''Britannic'']], which will be the largest British ship lost in WWI (though with only 30 fatalities), departs [[Liverpool]] on her maiden voyage as a [[hospital ship]].
* [[December 26]] – The [[Irish Republican Brotherhood]] Military Council decides to stage an [[Easter Rising]] in 1916.

=== Date unknown ===
* Carrier Engineering, predecessor of [[Carrier Global]], a global [[air conditioning]] brand, is founded in [[New Jersey]], United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corp.carrier.com/StaticFiles/Carrier.com/Carrier%20Corporate%20Sites%20Content/Corporate-English/Data/History/historyflash.html|title=Carrier Corporation: Interactive Timeline|publisher=Carrier Corporation|location=Palm Beach Gardens|access-date=2012-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708044906/http://www.corp.carrier.com/StaticFiles/Carrier.com/Carrier%20Corporate%20Sites%20Content/Corporate-English/Data/History/historyflash.html|archive-date=2012-07-08}}</ref>
* The WWI song ''[[Just for the Sake of Gold]]'' is published.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Parker |first1=Bernard S. |date=2007 |volume=1 |title=World War I Sheet Music |location=Jefferson |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |page=329 |isbn=978-0-7864-2799-4}}</ref>

== Births ==
{{BDToC|births}}

=== January ===
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[[File:Fernando Lamas circa mid 1960s.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Fernando Lamas]]]]
[[File:Santiago Carrillo firmando en la Feria del Libro de Madrid en 2006.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Santiago Carrillo]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R65485, Joachim Peiper.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Joachim Peiper]]]]
* [[January 1]] 
** [[Branko Ćopić]], Yugoslav writer (d. [[1984]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Layman|author2=Gale Cengage|title=South Slavic Writers Since World War II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T80UAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-7876-1070-8|page=42}}</ref>
** [[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]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alan Watts|author2=John Snelling|title=The Early Writings of Alan Watts: The British Years, 1931-1938 : Writings in Buddhism in England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAYHAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Celestial Arts|isbn=978-0-89087-480-6|page=2}}</ref>
* [[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 Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|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]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Siri Engberg|author2=Joan Banach|author3=Robert Motherwell|title=Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EAFjBOn_eS4C&pg=PA40|year=2003|publisher=Hudson Hills|isbn=978-1-55595-163-4|pages=40}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] – [[Ewan MacColl]], English folk singer, songwriter, and poet (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nick Talevski|title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7548-4|page=260}}</ref>
* [[January 29]]
**[[Albert Henderson (actor)|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 ===
[[File:Robert Hofstadter.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Hofstadter]]]]
[[File:Patriarch-Teoctist.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Teoctist Arăpașu]]]]
[[File:Tikka Khan.png|thumb|100px|[[Tikka Khan]] of the [[Pakistan Army]], known as the ''Victor of the Rann of Kutch'']]
[[File:Lorne Greene - 1969.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lorne Greene]]]]
[[File:Ann Sheridan Argentinean Magazine AD.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ann Sheridan]]]]
[[File:Paul W. Tibbets.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Paul Tibbets]]]]
* [[February 1]]
** [[Alicia Rhett]], American actress (d. [[2014]])
** [[Artur London]], Czech statesman (d. [[1986]])
** Sir [[Stanley Matthews]], English footballer (d. [[2000]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[Abba Eban]], South African-born Israeli foreign affairs minister (d. [[2002]])
** [[Khushwant Singh]], Indian writer (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Vinson|author2=D. L. Kirkpatrick|title=Novelists and Prose Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oEjAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-333-25292-5|page=1116}}</ref>
* [[February 4]]
** [[Ray Evans]], American composer (d. [[2007]])
** Sir [[Norman Wisdom]], English comedian, singer, and actor (d. [[2010]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Robert Hofstadter]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1990]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Danuta Szaflarska]], Polish actress (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 7]]
** [[Teoctist Arăpașu]], Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (d. [[2007]])
** [[Georges-André Chevallaz]], 78th [[President of the Swiss Confederation]] (d. [[2002]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Tikka Khan]], Pakistan Army General, [[World War II|WWII]] Veteran and a War Hero of the [[Indo-Pakistani war of 1965|Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]] (d. [[2002]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Karl Winsch]], American professional baseball player, manager (d. [[2001]])
* [[February 11]] 
** [[Patrick Leigh Fermor]], British author (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Caribbean Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGAYAQAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Caribbean Review, Incorporated}}</ref>
** [[Harry Walker (rugby union)|Harry Walker]], English rugby union player (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 12]]
** [[Richard G. Colbert]], American admiral (d. [[1973]])
** [[Lorne Greene]], Canadian actor (d. [[1987]])
** [[Olivia Hooker]], American civil rights figure (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Aung San]], Burmese national leader (d. [[1947]])
* [[February 16]]
** [[Elisabeth Eybers]], South African poet (d. [[2007]])
** [[Jim O'Hora]], American college football coach (d. [[2005]])
* [[February 19]]
**[[Fred Freiberger]], American screenwriter, television producer (d. [[2003]])
**[[John Freeman (British politician)|John Freeman]], British politician (d. [[2014]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Danuta Szaflarska]] Polish screen, stage actress (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 21]]
** [[Ann Sheridan]], American film actress (d. [[1967]])
** [[Anton Vratuša]], 8th [[Prime Minister of Slovenia]] (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 23]]
**[[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]], American actor (d. [[1979]])
**[[Paul Tibbets]], American World War II bomber pilot (''[[Enola Gay]]'') (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 25]] – [[S. Rajaratnam]], 1st Senior Minister of Singapore (d. [[2006]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Dick Crockett]], American actor, stunt performer (d. [[1979]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Peter Medawar]], Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1987]])
** [[Zero Mostel]], American film, stage actor (d. [[1977]])

=== March ===
[[File:Csatáry László.jpg|100px|thumb|[[László Csatáry]]]]
[[File:Jacques Chaban-Delmas-1 (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Jacques Chaban-Delmas]]]]
<!--[[File:Rudolf Kirchschläger.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Rudolf Kirchschläger]]]]-->
* [[March 1]] – [[Elizabeth Peet McIntosh]], American spy (d. [[2015]])
* [[March 4]] 
**[[László Csatáry|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 (actress)|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]] – [[Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer)|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]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Recorded Sound|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJLkAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=British Institute of Recorded Sound|page=72}}</ref>
** [[Marie M. Runyon]], American politician, activist (d. [[2018]])
** [[Sister Rosetta Tharpe]], American singer (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Black Women in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJIbAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Macmillan Library Reference USA|isbn=978-0-02-865363-1|page=266}}</ref>
* [[March 23]]
** [[Tom Pashby]], Canadian ophthalmologist and sport safety advocate (d. [[2005]])<ref name="sportshall">{{cite web|url=http://www.sportshall.ca/hall-of-famers/hall-of-famers-search.html?proID=35&lang=EN|title=Dr. Tom Pashby|year=2000|website=[[Canada's Sports Hall of Fame]]|access-date=October 26, 2022|archive-date=October 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022185920/http://www.sportshall.ca/hall-of-famers/hall-of-famers-search.html?proID=35&lang=EN|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Vasily Zaitsev (sniper)|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 ===
[[File:Piet de Jong 2011 (1).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Piet de Jong]]]]
[[File:Billie Holiday 1947 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billie Holiday]]]]
[[File:Harry Morgan in 1975.JPG|100px|thumb|[[Harry Morgan]]]]
<!--[[File:Aurora Miranda Tres Caballeros.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Aurora Miranda]]]]-->
[[File:Anthony Quinn publicity photo, unknown date (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Anthony Quinn]]]]
* [[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, [[Ministry of Defence (Netherlands)|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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Deborah Andrews|title=Annual Obituary, 1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6VIYAAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-092-6|page=752|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124838/https://books.google.com/books?id=6VIYAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> 
** [[Thelma McKenzie]], Australian cricketer (d. {{circa|[[2023]]}})<ref>{{cite news |title=Australian cricket pioneer Norma Johnston dies aged 95 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-09/australian-cricket-norma-johnston-dies-aged-95/101838650 |access-date=9 January 2023 |publisher=ABC News |date=9 January 2023}}</ref>
* [[April 7]]
** [[Stanley Adams (actor)|Stanley Adams]], American actor and screenwriter (d. [[1977]])
** [[Albert O. Hirschman]], German-born economist (d. [[2012]])
** [[Billie Holiday]], African-American singer (d. [[1959]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ken Vail|title=Lady Day's Diary: The Life of Billie Holiday, 1937-1959|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ksIAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Castle Communications|isbn=978-1-86074-131-9|page=4|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124839/https://books.google.com/books?id=1ksIAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[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]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Contemporary|author2=Contemporary Books|title=Chase's Annual Events: The Day-By-Day Directory to 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQoBM1qCk5wC|year=1993|publisher=Contemporary books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=162|access-date=July 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124833/https://books.google.com/books?id=zQoBM1qCk5wC|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] 
** [[George Hogan (basketball)|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 ===
[[File:Welles-Draft-1943 (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Orson Welles]]]]
<!--[[File:Denis Thatcher in 1988.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Denis Thatcher]]]]-->
[[File:Paul Samuelson.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Paul Samuelson]]]]
[[File:MarioMonicelli.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Mario Monicelli]]]]
<!--[[File:Herman Wouk 2014.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Herman Wouk]]]]-->
<!--[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F026295-0025, Bonn, Konzert Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Karl Münchinger]]]]-->
* [[May 2]]
** [[Van Alexander]], American bandleader, arranger and composer (d. [[2015]])
** [[Doris Fisher (songwriter)|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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Barry Rivadue|title=Alice Faye: A Bio-bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydIgIyw6FSoC&pg=PA1|year=1990|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26525-9|pages=1|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125436/https://books.google.com/books?id=ydIgIyw6FSoC&pg=PA1|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[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 (engineer)|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 in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Milton Friedman|author2=Paul Anthony Samuelson|title=Milton Friedman and Paul A. Samuelson Discuss the Economic Responsibility of Government|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=37ArAAAAYAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Center for Education and Research in Free Enterprise, Texas A&M University|page=17|access-date=July 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125441/https://books.google.com/books?id=37ArAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Heinz-Dietrich Fischer|title=Novel / Fiction Awards, 1917-1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2P_rAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Saur|isbn=978-3-598-30180-3|page=135|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125431/https://books.google.com/books?id=2P_rAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] – [[Karl Münchinger]], German conductor (d. [[1990]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Carmen Herrera]], Cuban-American painter (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Carmen Herrera|author2=Alejandro Anreus|author3=Carolina Ponce de León|title=Carmen Herrera: The Black-and-white Paintings, 1951-1989|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uklNAAAAYAAJ|year=1998|publisher=El Museo del Barrio|isbn=978-1-882454-07-5|page=29|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125431/https://books.google.com/books?id=uklNAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== June ===
[[File:David Rockefeller - NARA - 195929 (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[David Rockefeller]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F054628-0037, Ludwigshafen, CDU-Bundesparteitag, Rumor.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Mariano Rumor]]]]
* [[June 1]] – [[John Randolph (actor)|John Randolph]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
* [[June 2]] 
** [[Jason Lee (judge)|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 in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Georgia Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPG2FkH1z7wC|year=1995|publisher=University of Georgia|page=76|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125426/https://books.google.com/books?id=aPG2FkH1z7wC|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[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 (athlete)|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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles W. Carey|title=American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKiGgl36bkgC&pg=PA139|access-date=7 October 2012|year=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6883-8|pages=139–40}}</ref>
* [[June 24]] 
** [[Fred Hoyle]], British astronomer (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Fred Hoyle|title=The Small World of Fred Hoyle: An Autobiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MmbvAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=M. Joseph|isbn=978-0-7181-2740-4|page=7|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125446/https://books.google.com/books?id=MmbvAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[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 ===
[[File:Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Navy.JPG|100px|thumb|[[Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.]]]]
* [[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 (athlete)|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 (footballer)|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 (saxophonist)|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 in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2015]])
** [[Frankie Yankovic]], American accordion player (d. [[1998]])
* [[July 30]]
** [[Viliam Žingor]], Slovak general and anti-fascist fighter (d. [[1950]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mikušovič |first1=Dušan |title=Legendárny partizánsky veliteľ Viliam Žingor opustil komunistov tesne pred ich pučom. Pomstili sa mu popravou |url=https://dennikn.sk/4145877/legendarny-partizansky-velitel-viliam-zingor-opustil-komunistov-tesne-pred-ich-pucom-pomstili-sa-mu-popravou/ |website=Denník N |access-date=30 August 2024 |language=sk-SK |date=28 August 2024}}</ref>

=== August ===
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* [[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]])
* [[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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Clifford M. Caruthers|title=Letters of Ring Lardner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1UtMB50GD0C&pg=PA108|year=1995|publisher=Orchises Press|isbn=978-0-914061-52-6|pages=108|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125430/https://books.google.com/books?id=O1UtMB50GD0C&pg=PA108#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 20]] – [[Ivo Rojnica]], Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Brozović|first=Dalibor|year=1999|title=Hrvatska enciklopedija|volume=1|language=Croatian|publisher=Leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža"|location=Zagreb, Croatia|isbn=978-9-53603-629-5|page=400}}</ref>
* [[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 in Physics|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 ===
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* [[September 3]] – [[Knut Nystedt]], Norwegian composer (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url=https://nbl.snl.no/Knut_Nystedt | title=Knut Nystedt | encyclopedia=[[Norsk Biografisk Leksikon]] | first=Rune J. | last=Andersen | editor=[[Knut Helle|Helle, Knut]] | publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget | location=Oslo | language=no | date=2014-12-10 | access-date=13 April 2017}}</ref>
* [[September 6]] – [[Franz Josef Strauss]], German politician (d. [[1988]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Frank Cady]], American actor (d. [[2012]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Richard Webb (actor)|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 (amateur astronomer)|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]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/M-F-Husain |title=M.F. Husain |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |access-date=4 September 2018 |archive-date=July 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728114954/https://www.britannica.com/biography/M-F-Husain |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[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 in Physics|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 ===
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* [[October 1]]
** [[Jerome Bruner]], American psychologist (d. [[2016]]) 
** [[Talat Tunçalp]], Turkish Olympian cyclist (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Chuck Williams (author)|Chuck Williams]], American businessman (d. [[2015]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Neus Català]], 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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Neil Carson|title=Arthur Miller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPMcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|date=25 April 2008|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-137-02141-0|pages=2}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[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 (general)|Shin Hyun-joon]], South Korean general (d. [[2007]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Bob Kane]], American comic book artist/writer, co-creator of [[Batman]] (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Edmond Grant|title=The Motion Picture Guide: 1999 Annual (The Films of 1998)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WVAOAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=CineBooks|isbn=978-0-933997-43-1|page=505}}</ref>
* [[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 ===
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* [[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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Graham Allen|title=Roland Barthes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ID9cBdFvydUC&pg=PA1|date=2 June 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-50340-7|pages=1|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125422/https://books.google.com/books?id=ID9cBdFvydUC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[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 in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Bill Daniel (politician)|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 in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2005]])

=== December ===
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* [[December 2]]
** [[Takahito, Prince Mikasa|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 ===
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* [[January 9]] – [[Yang Shoujing]], Chinese historical geographer and calligrapher (b. [[1839]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Marshall Pinckney Wilder]], American actor, humorist, comedian and monologist (b. [[1859]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Mary Slessor]], Scottish Christian missionary (b. [[1848]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Richard Meux Benson]], English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. [[1824]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Anatoly Stessel]], Russian baron and general (b. [[1848]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Anna Leonowens]] (Anna of ''[[The King and I]]'') (b. [[1831]])
* [[January 22]] – [[James M. Spangler]], American inventor (b. [[1848]])

=== 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]])
** [[Miško 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]] – [[John Gough (British Army officer)|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]])
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* [[March 15]] – [[George Llewelyn Davies]], English soldier, inspiration for the "Lost Boys" of ''[[Peter Pan]]'' (killed in action) (b. [[1893]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]], American engineer, economist (b. [[1856]])
* [[March 24]] − [[Morgan Robertson]], American author (b. [[1861]])
* [[March 31]] 
** [[Wyndham Halswelle]], Scottish runner (killed in action) (b. [[1882]])
** [[Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild]], British banker and politician (b. [[1840]])

=== 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 (Mormon)|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 (VC)|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<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.recordingpioneers.com/RP_EASTON1.html | title=Edward Denison EASTON | access-date=August 9, 2022 | archive-date=August 19, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819121924/http://www.recordingpioneers.com/RP_EASTON1.html | url-status=live }}</ref> (b. [[1856]])

=== May ===
* [[May 7]] – [[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt]], American sportsman (b. [[1877]]; died in the [[Sinking of the RMS Lusitania|Sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania'']]) 
* [[May 9]] 
** [[François Faber]], Luxembourgish cyclist (killed in action) (b. [[1887]])
** [[Anthony Wilding]], New Zealand tennis player (killed in action) (b. [[1883]])
* [[May 18]] – [[William Bridges (general)|Sir William Bridges]], Australian army general (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 24]] – [[John Condon (British Army soldier)|John Condon]], Irish private soldier in British Army, claimed as youngest British soldier to die in WWI (killed in action) (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Emil Lask]], German philosopher (killed in action) (b. [[1875]])
** [[Julian Grenfell]], English poet (killed in action) (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicholas Mosley|title=Julian Grenfell, His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1AwAAAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston|isbn=978-0-03-017596-1|page=265|access-date=July 25, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125423/https://books.google.com/books?id=N1AwAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] – [[Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero]], 3-time [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1832]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey]], 18th [[Governor of New South Wales]] (b. [[1845]])

=== June ===
* [[June 5]] – [[Henri Gaudier-Brzeska]], French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. [[1891]])<ref>{{cite book | author=Ede, H.S. | title=Savage Messiah | year=1931 | publisher=London: Heinemann | oclc=1655358}}</ref>
* [[June 7]] – [[Charles Reed Bishop]], American businessman, [[philanthropist]] in Hawaii (b. [[1822]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Ignatius Maloyan]], Armenian [[Eastern Catholic]] archbishop and blessed (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20011007_beat-maloyan_en.html| title = Ignatius Maloyan| access-date = September 27, 2021| archive-date = November 25, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211125135549/https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20011007_beat-maloyan_en.html| url-status = live}}</ref>
* [[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]])

=== July ===
[[File:Porfirio diaz.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Porfirio Diaz]]]]
[[File:Paul Ehrlich 1915.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Paul Ehrlich]]]]
[[File:Alois Alzheimer 003.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alois Alzheimer]]]]
[[File:TupperUniform.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Charles Tupper]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Porfirio Díaz]], 29th [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1830]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-porfirio-diaz-2136494|title=Biography of Porfirio Diaz, Ruler of Mexico for 35 Years|publisher=ThoughtCo.|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213053033/http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/presidentsofmexico/p/08pordiazbio.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] – [[Lawrence Hargrave]], Australian engineer (b. [[1850]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner]], American physician (b. [[1859]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Ellen G. White]], American prophetess, co-founder of the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]], most translated American author (b. [[1827]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Ozra Amander Hadley]], American politician (b. [[1826]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Sandford Fleming|Sir Sandford Fleming]], Canadian engineer and inventor (b. [[1827]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau]], American-born French socialite, model for the painting ''[[Portrait of Madame X]]'' (b. [[1859]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Charles Becker]], American policeman and murderer (executed) (b. [[1870]])

=== 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]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/11138/Pascual%20Orozcoc|title=Biografía de Pascual Orozco (Su vida, historia, bio resumida)|access-date=August 3, 2022|archive-date=October 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017121857/https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/11138/Pascual%20Orozcoc|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[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 [[Eleanor Rigby|song with the same name]] (b.[[1843]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Friedrich Hasenöhrl]], Austrian physicist (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.h/h236082.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115062733/https://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.h/h236082.htm|url-status=dead|title=Hasenöhrl, Friedrich|archivedate=January 15, 2022|website=www.aeiou.at}}</ref>
* [[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]] – [[Charles Tupper|Sir Charles Tupper]], 6th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1821]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Blanche Walsh]], American actress (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.josephhaworth.com/blanche_walsh.htm| title = Blanche Walsh (1873-1915)| access-date = December 2, 2021| archive-date = August 24, 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230824000641/http://www.josephhaworth.com/blanche_walsh.htm| url-status = live}}</ref>

=== November ===
[[File:Booker T Washington retouched flattened-crop.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Booker T. Washington]]]]
* [[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]] – [[Henry Roscoe (chemist)|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 ==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Richard Willstätter]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Romain Rolland]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – not awarded
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – not awarded
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[William Henry Bragg]] and [[William Lawrence Bragg]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Williams, John. ''The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914–1918'' (1972) pp 43–108.

===Primary sources and year books===
* [https://archive.org/details/NewInternationalYearBookFor1915 ''New International Year Book 1915''], Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 791pp
* ''Hazell's Annual for 1916'' (1916), worldwide events of 1915; 640pp [https://archive.org/details/hazellsannualcy1916pric_2 online]; worldwide coverage of 1915 events; emphasis on Great Britain

== External links ==
* Pictures of the 1915 Galveston Hurricane at the [http://digital.lib.uh.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/p15195coll5&CISOBOX1=hurricanes University of Houston Digital Library]

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