1915: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Rabbit 🐇 · Born in 1915 turn 111 in 2026

The year in numbers

US president

Woodrow Wilson

Top film

The Birth of a Nation

In the news: The Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat

What happened in 1915

1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1915th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 915th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1915, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Born in 1915

71 people in our data · most viewed first

Arthur Miller

1915–2005 · October 17

American playwright and essayist

Billie Holiday

1915–1959 · April 7

American jazz singer

Anthony Quinn

1915–2001 · April 21

Mexican-American actor

Augusto Pinochet

1915–2006 · November 25

President of Chile from 1973 to 1990

Alan Watts

1915–1973 · January 6

British and American writer and lecturer

Babe Paley

1915–1978 · July 5

American editor and socialite

Barbara Billingsley

1915–2010 · December 22

American actress

Ann Sheridan

1915–1967 · February 21

American actress and singer

Gary Merrill

1915–1990 · August 2

American actor

Ewan MacColl

1915–1989 · January 25

British folk singer-songwriter and activist

Brenda Marshall

1915–1992 · September 29

American actress

Bob Kane

1915–1998 · October 24

American comic book artist

Barnard Hughes

1915–2006 · July 16

American actor

Aung San

1915–1947 · February 13

Burmese independence activist

Alan Lomax

1915–2002 · January 31

American musicologist

Alice Faye

1915–1998 · May 5

American actress and singer

Billy Strayhorn

1915–1967 · November 29

American jazz pianist, composer, lyricist and arranger

Abba Eban

1915–2002 · February 2

Israeli diplomat and politician

Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington

1915–2014 · July 2

British peer and army officer

Hanns Martin Schleyer

1915–1977 · May 1

German business magnate and SS officer

Anita Louise

1915–1970 · January 9

American actress

Elizabeth Catlett

1915–2012 · April 15

American artist and sculptor

Bill Peet

1915–2002 · January 29

American illustrator and animator

Brownie McGhee

1915–1996 · November 30

American folk-blues musician

Died in 1915

Booker T. Washington1856–1915 · American educator, author, orator and adviser
Edith Cavell1865–1915 · British nurse
Frank James1843–1915 · American outlaw, Confederate guerrilla, and train robber
Alexander Scriabin1872–1915 · Russian composer and pianist
Frederick Winslow Taylor1856–1915 · American mechanical engineer
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt1877–1915 · American businessman and sportsman
Alois Alzheimer1864–1915 · German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
Clara Immerwahr1870–1915 · German chemist
Charles Tupper1821–1915 · Father of Confederation, Prime Minister of Canada in 1896
George Llewelyn Davies1893–1915 · British Army officer
Albert Spalding1850–1915 · Baseball player
Carlos Finlay1833–1915 · Cuban epidemiologist, yellow fever researcher