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Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar. Events HMS Formidable]] Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January January 28: United States Coast Guard military branch. February March France]] and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik Revolution). SMS Dresden]] to scuttle. April RMS Lusitania]]. May June July Picture of destruction from the 1915 Galveston Hurricane. August September October November December Date unknown Births January–February - January 2 – John Hope Franklin, American historian (d. 2009)
- January 3
- Sid Hudson, American baseball player (d. 2008)
- Mady Rahl, German stage and film actress (d. 2009)
- January 4 – Meg Mundy, English-American actress
- January 5 – Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer and cartographer (d. 2004)
- January 6 – Don Edwards, American politician
- January 9 – Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970)
- January 11 – Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier and co-founder of the Special Air Service (d. 1955)
- January 14 – Mark Goodson, American television game show producer (d. 1992)
- January 15 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (d. 2009)
- January 16 – Leslie H. Martinson, American television and film director
- January 18 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician
- January 20 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
- January 23 – Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
- January 28 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-born American writer (d. 2009)
- January 29 – John Serry, Sr., American musician, composer, arranger (d. 2003)
- January 30
- January 31
- February 1
- February 2 – Khushwant Singh, Indian writer
- February 4 – Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer, and actor (d. 2010)
- February 5 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
- February 7 – Teoctist Ar pa u, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (d. 2007)
- February 10 – Karl Winsch, American professional baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
- February 11 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, British author and soldier (d. 2011)
- February 12 – Richard G. Colbert, American admiral (d. 1973)
- February 14 – Ray Evans, American composer (d. 2007)
- February 16
- February 19 – John Freeman, British politician
- February 20 – Danuta Szaflarska Polish screen and stage actress
- February 21 – Ann Sheridan American film actress (d. 1967)
- February 23 – Paul Tibbets, American WWII bomber pilot (Enola Gay) (d. 2007)
- February 26 – Preacher Roe, American baseball player (d. 2008)
- February 28
March–April - March 4 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
- March 6 – Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Community
- March 9 – John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, English pilot (d. 2001)
- March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (d. 1978)
- March 11 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
- March 14 – Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
- March 15 – Ferenc Sas, Hungarian football right-winger (died 1988)
- March 17 – Bill Roycroft, Australian equestrian (d. 2011)
- March 19 – Patricia Morison, American actress
- March 20
- March 23 – Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet sniper (d. 1991)
- March 27 – Robert Lockwood Jr., American musician (d. 2006)
- March 30
- March 31 – Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
- April 3 – Piet de Jong, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 until 1971
- April 4 – Muddy Waters, African-American musician (d. 1983)
- April 7
- April 8 – Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, author, and human rights activist (d. 2007)
- April 10
- April 12 – J lius Tomin, Czech writer known for promoting Interlingua (d. 2003)
- April 15 – Elizabeth Catlett, American-born artist (d. 2012)
- April 21 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (d. 2001)
- April 29 – Donald Mills, lead tenor of The Mills Brothers (d. 1999)
- April 30 – Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi
May–June - May 1 – Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
- May 2 – Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
- May 3 – Stu Hart, Canadian wrestling trainer (d. 2003)
- May 5 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (d. 1998)
- May 6 – Orson Welles, American actor and director (d. 1985)
- May 8 – Milton Meltzer, American author (d. 2009)
- May 10 – Denis Thatcher, British businessman, husband of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
- May 12 – Fr re Roger, Swiss founder of the Taiz Community (d. 2005)
- May 15
- May 20 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader and politician (d. 1981)
- May 26 – Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)
- May 27
- May 29 – Karl M nchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
- June 1 – John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
- June 2 – Tapio Wirkkala, Finnish designer (d. 1985)
- June 4 – Modibo Keita, former President of Mali (d. 1977)
- June 9 – Les Paul, American inventor and musician (d. 2009)
- June 10
- June 12 – David Rockefeller, American banker and philanthropist
- June 15
- June 17
- June 24 – Sir Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001)
- June 26
- June 28 – David Honeyboy Edwards, American musician (d. 2011)
July–August - July 2 – Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
- July 5 – John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
- July 15 – Albert Ghiorso, American nuclear scientist (d. 2010)
- July 17 – Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (d. 2007)
- July 24 – Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (d. 2004)
- July 26 – Pattabhi Jois, Indian yogi (d. 2009)
- July 28
- July 28 – Dick Sprang,American comic book artist during the golden age of comics and an explorer (d. 2000)
- August 3
- August 4 – William Keene, American actor (d. 1992)
- August 12 – Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)
- August 14 – Irene Hickson, American professional baseball player (d. 1995)
- August 19 – Ring Lardner Jr., American film screenwriter (d. 2000)
- August 22 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
- August 25 – Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
- August 27 – Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
- August 28
- August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- August 30
September–October - September 2 – Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010)
- September 3 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer
- September 8
- September 10 – Viva Leroy Nash, American murderer, oldest death row inmate (d. 2010)
- September 12 – Frank McGee, American television personality (d. 1974)
- September 14
- September 15
- September 17
- September 23
- September 29 – Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
- September 30 – Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
- October 1 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet (d. 2009)
- October 13 – Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
- October 14 – Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church
- October 15
- October 17 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
- October 19 – Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor (d. 1974)
- October 24
- Bob Kane, American comic book artist/writer, creator of Batman (d. 1998)
- Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (d. 1984)
- October 28 – Dody Goodman, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
- October 29 – William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005)
- October 30 – Jane Randolph, American actress (d. 2009)
November–December - November 4 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th president of Singapore (d. 2005)
- November 9
- November 11 – William Proxmire, U.S. Senator (d. 2005)
- November 12 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher and literary critic (d. 1980)
- November 17 – David "Stringbean" Akeman, American country music banjo player (d. 1973)
- November 19 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- November 23 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
- November 25
- November 28 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)
- November 29 – Eugene Polley, American engineer (d. 2012)
- November 30 – Brownie McGhee, American musician (d. 1996)
- November 30 – Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- December 2 – Marais Viljoen, former President of South Africa (d. 2007)
- December 4 – Virginia deGravelles, Louisiana actress
- December 7 – Eli Wallach, American actor
- December 8 – Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
- December 9 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)
- December 12 – Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (d. 1998)
- December 13 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (d. 1983)
- December 17 – Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist
- December 19 – dith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963)
- December 21 – Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
- December 22 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (Leave It To Beaver) (d. 2010)
- December 27 – Gyula Zsengell r, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999)
Deaths January–June - January 13 – Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary (b. 1848)
- January 14 – Richard Meux Benson, English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
- January 23 – Anne Whitney American sculptor and poet (b. 1821)
- February 3 (executed for their part in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria):
- February 5 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player (b. 1850)
- February 18 – Frank James American outlaw (b. 1843)
- March 4 – William Willett, English promoter of daylight saving time (b. 1856)
- March 9 – Fran ois Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1887) (killed in action)
- March 15 – George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier, inspiration for the "Lost Boys" of Peter Pan (b. 1893) (killed in action)
- March 31 – Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (killed in action) (b. 1882)
- April 16 – Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
- April 23
- April 27
- May 7
- May 19 – Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (b. 1883)
- May 24 – Private John Condon, youngest British soldier to die during the First World War (b. c. 1901)
- May 26 – Julian Grenfell, poet (killed in action) (b. 1888)
- May 31 – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, 18th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1845)
- June 7 – Charles Reed Bishop, preeminent businessman and philanthropist in Hawaii (b. 1822)
- June 19 – Benjamin F. Isherwood, American admiral and United States Navy Engineer-in-Chief (b. 1822)
- June 25 – Tok Janggut, Malayan rebel leader (b. 1853) (killed in battle)
July–December - July 2 – Porfirio D az, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
- July 16 – Ellen G. White, American prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism, most translated American author (b. 1827)
- August 20 – Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)
- August 26 – John Bunny American silent film comedian (b. 1863)
- August 31 – Adolphe P goud, French acrobatic pilot and World War I fighter ace (b. 1889)
- September 9 – Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
- September 11 – William Sprague IV, America politician from Rhode Island (b. 1830)
- September 13 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
- September 27 – Fergus Bowes-Lyon, brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (killed in battle) (b. 1889)
- October 12
- October 23 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
- October 26 – August Bungert, German composer and poet (b. 1845)
- October 30 – Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- November 15 – Booker T. Washington, American educator (b. 1856)
- November 21 – Dixie Haygood, American magician (b. 1861)
- November 28 – Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
- December 31 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian actor (b. 1829)
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