In the year 1915, Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising, and Zeppelins bomb British towns for the first time (Jan 19), Alexander Graham Bell makes the first United States coast-to-coast phone call (Jan 25), Pluto is photographed for the first time (Mar 19),  Charlie Chaplin’s The Tramp is released (Apr 11), the Gallipoli Campaign starts (Apr 25), RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat (May 7), Iceland gets its own flag (Jun 19), an enemy aircraft is shot down from the ground for the first time (Sep 30), Einstein’s theory of general relativity is formulated (Nov 25), the WW1 rages on - and all these fine people were born:

1915-0106 Alan Watts* philosopher/writer/speaker - Chislehurst, Kent, England (1973/58) 1915-0109 Fernando Lamas* actor/to U.S. at age 34/father of Lorenzo Lamas - Buenos Aires, Argentina (1982/67) 1915-0111 Luise Krüger* athlete (javelin/OS) - Dresden, German Empire (2001/86) 1915-0118 Syl Apps* athlete (pole vault)/hockey player (NHL 100)/SC/politician - Paris, ON Canada (1998/83) 1915-0123 Herma Bauma* athlete (javelin/OG)/handball player - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (2003/88) 1915-0123 W. Arthur Lewis* economist/N - Castries, Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands (1991/76) 1915-0202 Abba Eban* Israeli politician/ diplomat - Cape Town, South Africa (2002/87) 1915-0202 Leevi Kuuranne* (b Lindström) actor - Tampere, Finland (1965/50) 1915-0205 Robert Hofstadter* physicist/N - New York, NY USA (1990/75) 1915-0209 Else Krüger* Nazi secretary - Hamburg, Germany (2005/89) 1915-0212 Lorne Greene* actor (Bonanza)/radio personality/singer - Ottawa, ON Canada (1987/72) 1915-0212 Olivia Hooker* U.S. Coast Guard pioneer/psychologist - Muskogee, OK USA (2018/103) 1915-0215 Jimmy James* New Zealand dancer/dance teacher/ cabaret proprietor - Athens, Greece (1992/77) 1915-0227 Olavi Virta* (b Ilmén) singer/actor - Sysmä, Finland (1972/57) 1915-0228 Peter Medawar* British biologist/immunologist/N - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1987/72) 1915-0301 1915-0308 Tapio Rautavaara* athlete (javelin/OG)/singer/actor - Pirkkala, GD of Finland (1979/64) 1915-0310 1915-0315 Wilfred Abse* psychiatrist/career in the U.S. - Cardiff, Wales (2005/90) Oh Brother 1915-0328 Jeremy Hutchinson* British barrister/life peer - Chelsea, London, England (2017/102) 1915-0331 Maurice Vasset* soldier/personal astrologer of de Gaulle - Le Havre, France 1915-0331 Shoichi Yokoi* WW2 soldier discovered after 28 years in jungle - Saori, Japan (1997/82) 1915-0401 1915-0402 Bill Alexander* painter/art instructor/ television host active in the U.S. - East Prussia, German Empire (1997/81) 1915-0407 Billie Holiday* singer/songwriter - Philadelphia, PA USA (1959/44) 1915-0407 Henry Kuttner* author of science fiction, fantasy and horror - Los Angeles, CA USA (1958/42) 1915-0408 1915-0410 Harry Morgan* actor (M*A*S*H)/director - Detroit, MI USA (2011/96) 1915-0412 Emil Petaja* science fiction and fantasy writer/of Finnish descent - Milltown, MT USA (2000/85) 1915-0420 1915-0421 Anthony Quinn* actor - Chihuahua, Mexico (2001/86) 1915-0430 1915-0506 Sydney Carter* poet/folk musician - Camden Town, London, England (2004/88) 1915-0506 Orson Welles* actor/film director - Kenosha, WI USA (1985/70) 1915-0508 John Archer* (b Ralph Bowman) actor - Osceola, NE USA (1999/84) 1915-0510 1815-0520 1915-0521 Börje Langefors* engineer/computer scientist - Ystad, Sweden (2009/94) 1915-0522 Philip J. Corso* army officer/Roswell witness/writer -  California, PA USA (1998/83) 1915-0527 Herman Wouk* author - New York, NY USA (2019/103) 1915-0601 John Randolph* actor - New York, NY USA (2004/88) 1915-0602 Tapio Wirkkala* designer/sculptor - Hanko, GD of Finland (1985/69) 1915-0604 Modibo KeÏta* the Prime Minister of the Mali Federation/the first President of Mali - Bamako Coura, Upper Senegal and Niger (1977/61) 1915-0606 Thomas William Godwin* science fiction author - Arizona USA (1980/65) a 1915-0610 Saul Bellow* writer/N - Lachine, QC Canada (2005/89) 1915-0611 Magda Gabor* Hungarian-American actress/socialite - Budapest, Austria-Hungary (1997/81) 1915-0612 Priscilla Lane* (b Mulligan) actress/one of the Lane Sisters - Indianola, IA USA (1995/79) 1915-0612 David Rockefeller* banker (Chase Manhattan) - New York, NY USA (2017/101) 1915-0615 Thomas Huckle Weller* virologist/N - Ann Arbor, MI USA (2008/93) 1915-0624 Fred Hoyle* astronomer/coined the term Big Bang on BBC radio/writer - Gilstead, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (2001/86) 1915-0626 Mauno Manninen* poet/painter/ theater director/son of Anni Swan - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1969/54) 1915-0628 John W. Gallivan* newspaper publisher/cable television pioneer/civic leader - Salt Lake City, UT USA (2012/97) 1915-0630 1915-0701 1915-0710 1915-0711 Erkki Kansanaho* bishop - Jyväskylä, GD of Finland (2003/88) 1915-0720 1915-0725 Joseph P Kennedy Jr.* fighter pilot/the eldest child of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. & Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - Hull, MA USA (1944/29) 1915-0728 Charles H. Townes* physicist/N - Greenville, SC USA  (2015/99) 1915-0730 Pentti Viljanen* actor - Tampere, Finland (1975/59) 1915-0731 1915-0802 Gary Merrill* actor - Hartford, CT USA (1990/74) 1915-0804 William Keene* actor - PA USA (1992/76) 1915-0808 María Rostworowski* historian/w Polish father - Lima, Peru (2016/100) 1915-0812 Michael Kidd* choreographer/ dancer/actor - New York City, NY USA (2007/92) 1915-0812 Donald Pellmann* tool and die maker/centenarian masters athlete - Milwaukee, WI USA (2020/105) 1915-0820 Walter Orr Roberts* astronomer/ atmospheric physicist/ philanthropist - West Bridgewater, MA USA (1990/74) 1915-0824 Dave McCoy* skier/businessman/ founder of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area - El Segundo, CA USA (2020/104) 1915-0827 Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.* physicist/N - Washington, D.C. USA (2011/96) 1915-0829 Ingrid Bergman* actress - Stockholm, Sweden (1982/67) 1915-0901 1915-0902 Meinhardt Raabe* actor - Watertown, WI USA (2010/94) 1915-0905 1915-0906 Franz Josef Strauss* politician (CSU)  - Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (1988/73) 1915-0907 Regina Linnanheimo* (b Leino) actress/ screenwriter - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1995/79) 1915-0907 Luuk Tinbergen* ornithologist/ecologist – The Hague, Netherlands (1955/39) 1915-0910 Edmond O’Brien* actor - New York, NY USA (1985/69) 1915-0915 1915-0920 1915-0925 Ethel Rosenberg* convicted of espionage - Manhattan, NY USA (1953/37) 1915-0928 1915-0930 1915-1016 Alice Timander* dentist/ entertainer/red carpet queen - Stockholm, Sweden (2007/91) 1915-1017 Arthur Miller* playwright/essayist - Harlem, NY USA (2005/89) 1915-1024 Bob Kane* comic book writer/co-creator of Batman - New York, NY USA (1998/83) 1915-1026 Sydney Goodsir Smith* Scottish poet/ artist/dramatist - Wellington, New Zealand (1975/59) 1915-1030 1915-1101 1915-1107 Guido Dessauer* physicist/ pioneer in paper engineering/art collector - Aschaffenburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (2012/96) 1915-1107 Philip Morrison* physicist - Somerville, NJ USA (2005/89) 1915-1110 1915-1119 Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr* biochemist/N - Burlingame, KS USA (1974/58) 1915-1120 1915-1123 John Dehner* actor - Staten Island, NY USA (1992/76) 1915-1130 Henry Taube* chemist/N - Neudorf, SK Canada (2005/89) 1915-1201 1915-1203 Toivo Kärki* composer/musician - Pirkkala, GD of Finland (1992/76) 1915-1207 Lorna Arnold* historian - Harlesden, Middlesex, England (2014/98) 1915-1207 Eli Wallach* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA (2014/98) 1915-1210 1915-1212 Frank Sinatra* singer/actor - Hoboken, NJ USA (1988/82) 1915-1213 1915-1215 Isabel Crook* (b Brown) Canadian-British anthropologist - Chengdu, Sichuan, China (2023/107) 1915-1219 Édith Piaf* (b Gassion) singer/ lyricist/actress - Paris, France (1963/47) 1915-1220 1915-1231 1915-0 1915-0 1915-0 Updated 2025-0420 Helsinki-Stockholm Search for another year here