1915
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 - 1915 - 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920
Events:
- January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of Congress
- January 12 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote
- January 19 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- January 19 - German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20.
- January 21 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan
- January 27 - United States Marines occupy Haiti
- January 28 - An act of the United States Congress creates the United States Coast Guard
- January 31 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians
- February 8 - The controversial film The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith premieres (Los Angeles, California).
- February 12 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
- March 3 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded
- March 14 - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship Dresden.
- March 18 - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.
- March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
- April 22 - World War I: Second Battle Ypres - German troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium.
- April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
- May 7 - World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.
- May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois - German and French forces fight.
- May 17 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
- May 23 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
- June 16 - foundation of the British Women's Institute
- August 6 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
- August 17 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.
- September 6 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
- October 12 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
- Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of Pangea
- Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta.
- Denise Bloch, SOE agent executed by the Nazis (+ 1945)
- Chick Hearn, pro-basketball announcer
- Krystyna Skarbek, SOE agent, heroine of WW II (+ 1944)
- January 7 - Erwin Wickert, narrator
- January 12 - Paul Jarrico, writer (+ 1997)
- January 14 - Mark Goodson, game show producer and television pioneer (+ 1992)
- January 20 - C. W. Ceram, author († 1972)
- January 22 - Heinrich Albertz, theologian and politician (+ 1993)
- January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (+ 1999)
- January 31 - Thomas Merton, author (+ 1968)
- January 31 - Diana Rowden, SOE agent executed by the Nazis (+ 1944)
- February 2 - Abba Eban, diplomat (+ 2002)
- February 11 - Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist.
- February 11 - Mervyn Levy, American artist/critic.
- February 11 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, American author.
- February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (+ 1987)
- February 23 - Paul Tibbets, pilot of the "Enola Gay", dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
- February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (+ 1977)
- March 8 - Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, singer
- March 11 - Hans Peter Keller, writer (+ 1989)
- March 11 - Karl Krolow, lyricist and essayist (+ 1999)
- March 20 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian President (+ 2000)
- April 1 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer, actor
- April 4 - Muddy Waters, blues musician (+ 1983)
- April 7 - Billie Holiday, jazz and blues singer
- April 7 - Henry Kuttner, science fiction writer (+ 1958)
- May 6 - Orson Welles, American director (Citizen Kane)
- May 6 - Theodore H. White, writer (+ 1986)
- May 15 - Paul Samuelson, economist, Nobel Prize in economics recipient
- May 20 - Moshe Dayan, Israelian general
- May 27 - Herman Wouk American writer
- May 28 - Joseph H. Greenberg, linguist (+ 2001)
- May 28 - Frank Pickersgill, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis (+ 1944
- June 13 - Don Budge, tennis player (+ 2000)
- August 22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor
- October 25 - Tommy Prince, aboriginal Canadian war hero (+ 1977)
- December 12 - Frank Sinatra, American entertainer
- December 19 - Edith Piaf, French singer
- April 27 - Alexander Scriabin, composer
- September 9 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
- November 15 - Booker T. Washington, African-American educator
- Albert Einstein publishes his theory of general relativity.
- Physics - Sir William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg
- Chemistry- Richard Martin Willstätter
- Medicine - not awarded
- Literature - Romain Rolland
- Peace - not awarded
