Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1915
Birthdays
- January 5 - Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer (d. 2004)
- January 6 - Alan Watts, English writer/philosopher (d. 1973)
- January 6 - John C. Lilly, U.S. psychoanalyst
- January 8 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
- January 9 - Anita Louise, U.S. actress (d. 1970)
- January 9 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
- January 10 - Dean Dixon, U.S. conductor (d. 1976)
- January 11 - Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier
- January 12 - Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997)
- January 12 - Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Catholic archbishop of Ottawa
- January 14 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (d. 1992)
- January 18 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
- January 20 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
- January 22 - Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)
- January 23 - Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985)
- January 23 - Arthur Lewis, British economist
- January 24 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
- January 26 - William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)
- January 29 - John Serry, Sr.
- January 30 - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976
- January 30 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
- January 31 - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
- January 31 - Thomas Merton, American author and monk (d. 1968)
- January 31 - Garry Moore, American comedian (d. 1993)
- February 1 - Stanley Matthews, English football player (d. 2000)
- February 2 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (d. 2002)
- February 2 - Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (d. 2005)
- February 4 - Ray Evans, American songwriter with Jay Livingston (d. 2007)
- February 4 - William Talman, American actor (d. 1968)
- February 4 - Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian
- February 5 - Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)
- February 7 - Eddie Bracken, American actor (d. 2002)
- February 7 - Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (d. 2007)
- February 9 - Lennard Pearce, English actor (d. 1984)
- February 11 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, English author
- February 12 - Lorne Greene, American actor (d. 1987)
- February 13 - Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1947)
- February 13 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (d. 2003)
- February 16 - Jim O'Hora, American college football coach (d. 2005)
- February 16 - Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet (d. 2007)
- February 16 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (d. 2004)
- February 18 - Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)
- February 21 - Ann Sheridan, American actress (d. 1967)
- February 23 - Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)
- February 23 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima (d. 2007)
- February 28 - Ketti Frings, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter
- February 28 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist
- February 28 - Zero Mostel, American actor (d. 1977)
- March 4 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
- March 5 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
- March 6 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
- March 6 - Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- March 7 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000)
- March 8 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete
- March 9 - Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (d. 2001)
- March 10 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978)
- March 10 - Sir Charles Groves, English conductor(d. 1992)
- March 11 - Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
- March 11 - Hans Peter Keller, German writer (d. 1988)
- March 11 - J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (d. 1990)
- March 14 - Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
- March 15 - Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
- March 17 - Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006)
- March 18 - Richard Condon, American novelist (d. 1996)
- March 19 - Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st
- March 20 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria (d. 2000)
- March 20 - Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist (d. 1997)
- March 22 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005)
- March 23 - Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (d. 1991)
- March 24 - Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
- March 27 - Robert Lockwood, Jr.
- March 28 - Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)
- March 31 - Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
- March 31 - Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
- April 1 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
- April 4 - Muddy Waters, American musician (d. 1983)
- April 7 - Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
- April 7 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
- April 7 - Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1958)
- April 9 - Daniel Johnson, Sr.
- April 10 - Harry Morgan, American actor
- April 16 - Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright (d. 1997)
- April 17 - Joe Foss, American soldier and politician (d. 2003)
- April 18 - Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer
- April 20 - Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997)
- April 21 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born American actor (d. 2001)
- April 29 - Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999)
- May 1 - Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
- May 2 - Doris Fisher, American songwriter (d. 2003)
- May 2 - Peggy Mount, English actress (d. 2001)
- May 3 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d. 2003)
- May 5 - Alice Faye, American actress (d. 1998)
- May 6 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
- May 6 - Theodore White, American writer (d. 1986)
- May 8 - Milton Meltzer, American history and biography author
- May 10 - Denis Thatcher, British businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
- May 12 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman
- May 15 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author
- May 15 - Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter
- May 15 - Paul Samuelson, American economist
- May 15 - Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)
- May 20 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (d. 1981)
- May 26 - Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)
- May 26 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003)
- May 27 - Herman Wouk, American writer
- May 28 - Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
- May 29 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
- June 1 - John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
- June 2 - Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
- June 2 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Russian communist (d. 1992)
- June 6 - Vincent Persichetti, American composer (d. 1987)
- June 9 - Les Paul, American guitarist
- June 10 - Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- June 11 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician
- June 12 - Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
- June 12 - David Rockefeller, American banker
- June 13 - Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
- June 15 - Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist
- June 16 - John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000)
- June 17 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player and actor (d. 1973)
- June 17 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (d. 1996)
- June 18 - Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
- June 19 - Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent (d. 2004)
- June 20 - Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 2002)
- June 20 - Terence Young, British film director (d. 1994)
- June 24 - Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001)
- June 26 - Paul Castellano, American mafia boss (d. 1985)
- June 26 - Charlotte Zolotow, American author
- June 29 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
- July 1 - Willie Dixon, American musician (d. 1992)
- July 1 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
- July 5 - John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
- July 7 - Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander, African American Novelist and poet (d. 1998)
- July 9 - David Diamond, American composer (d. 2005)
- July 16 - Barnard Hughes, American actor (d. 2006)
- July 22 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician
- July 24 - Enrique Fernando, Philippino jurist (d. 2004)
- July 27 - Mario Del Monaco, Italian singer (d. 1982)
- July 27 - Josef Priller, German fighter pilot (d. 1961)
- July 28 - Charles Townes, American physicist
- July 29 - Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985)
- July 29 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
- August 2 - Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
- August 3 - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (d. 2006)
- August 3 - Pete Newell, American basketball coach
- August 4 - Warren Avis, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
- August 8 - Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
- August 12 - Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)
- August 14 - B.A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and journalist (d. 1998)
- August 16 - Al Hibbler, American singer (d. 2001)
- August 18 - Max Lanier, baseball player (d. 2007)
- August 19 - Ring Lardner Jr, American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
- August 19 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d. 1985)
- August 21 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
- August 22 - David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)
- August 22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
- August 22 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
- August 22 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
- August 24 - James Tiptree, Jr.
- August 25 - Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
- August 27 - Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate
- August 28 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator
- August 28 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
- August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- August 29 - Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
- August 30 - Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
- September 2 - Meinhardt Raabe, actor
- September 2 - Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
- September 6 - Franz Josef Strauß, German Politician (d. 1988)
- September 8 - Frank Cady, American actor
- September 8 - Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (d. 1992)
- September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
- September 12 - Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
- September 15 - Albert Whitlock, English motion picture matte artist (d. 1999)
- September 15 - Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
- September 19 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor
- September 22 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)
- September 23 - Clifford Shull, American physicist
- September 25 - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
- September 29 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
- September 29 - Brenda Marshall, American film actress (d. 1992)
- September 30 - Lester Maddox, American businessman
- October 3 - Ray Stark, American film producer (d. 2004)
- October 6 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
- October 6 - Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and civil rights activist (d. 2007)
- October 9 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
- October 13 - Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
- October 13 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (d. 1989)
- October 15 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
- October 17 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
- October 18 - Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
- October 19 - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer
- October 24 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
- October 24 - Roger Milliken, American millionaire
- October 24 - Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988)
- October 25 - Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
- October 26 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
- October 27 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
- October 29 - William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005)
- October 30 - Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
- November 2 - Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
- November 2 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
- November 7 - Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
- November 9 - André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
- November 9 - Sargent Shriver, American politician
- November 11 - William Proxmire, American politician (d. 2005)
- November 12 - Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980)
- November 14 - Martha Tilton, American singer (d. 2006)
- November 18 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
- November 19 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist
- November 20 - Kon Ichikawa, iconic Japanese film director
- November 23 - John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
- November 25 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean Dictator (d. 2006)
- November 26 - Earl Wild, American pianist
- November 28 - Evald Okas, Estonian painter
- November 28 - Yves Thériault, Quebec author (d. 1983)
- November 29 - Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967)
- November 30 - Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d.1996)
- November 30 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist
- December 4 - Eddie Heywood, American jazz musician (d. 1989)
- 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 singer and actor (d. 1998)
- December 13 - Curd Jürgens, German-born Austrian actor (d. 1982)
- December 13 - Ross Macdonald, American-born author (d. 1983)
- December 13 - B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa 1966-1978 (d. 1983)
- December 16 - Turk Murphy, American trombonist (d. 1987)
- December 17 - André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
- December 19 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
- December 21 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
- December 22 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress
- December 25 - Pete Rugolo, Italian-born composer
- December 27 - Mary Kornman, American actress (d. 1973)
- December 27 - William Masters, American gynecologist (d. 2001)
- December 27 - Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999)
- December 28 - Pops Staples, American musician (The Staple Singers) (d. 2000)
- December 29 - Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
Deaths
- January 2 - Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
- January 3 - James Elroy Flecker, English author (b. 1884)
- January 13 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
- January 14 - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
- January 28 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
- February 5 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
- February 12 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (b. 1837)
- March 4 - William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
- March 11 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826)
- March 21 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
- March 24 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
- March 31 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
- April 16 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
- April 23 - Rupert Brooke, English poet (b. 1887).
- April 25 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
- April 27 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
- May 9 - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
- May 19 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I, (b. 1892)
- May 21 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
- June 18 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata
- June 28 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
- July 2 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
- July 16 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
- July 22 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
- August 10 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
- August 20 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist
- August 26 - John Bunny American comedian, (b. 1863)
- September 9 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
- September 10 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
- September 11 - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
- September 11 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
- September 13 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
- September 27 - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
- September 28 - Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
- October 12 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
- October 23 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
- October 24 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
- October 30 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- November 14 - Booker T. Washington, American educator
- November 19 - Joe Hill, American labor activist (executed) (b. 1879)
- November 28 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
- December 19 - Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
Events
- January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
- January 12 - The United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
- January 13 - An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
- January 18 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- January 19 - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- January 19 - World War I: German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
- January 21 - Kiwanis International was founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- January 25 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
- January 28 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
- January 31 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
- February 8 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
- February 19 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins. Plans for mutiny in the British Indian army, the Ghadar Conspiracy, are uncovered in India.
- February 22 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
- March 3 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded.
- March 5 - World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
- March 14 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
- March 18 - World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
- March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet.
- April 14 - The Turks invade Armenia.
- April 18 - French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
- April 22 - The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
- April 24 - The Armenian Genocide begins with a massacre of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
- April 25 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins -- The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
- May 1 - The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second and final crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
- May 7 - World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
- May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
- May 17 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
- May 22 - Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain, other than Mount St. Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
- May 22 - Five trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
- May 23 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
- May 24 - World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- June 5 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
- June 9 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
- June 16 - The foundation of the British Women's Institute.
- June 21 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- July 7 - World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
- July 7 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
- July 24 - The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 845 lives.
- August 6 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair
- August 16 - World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern ⅔ of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar).
- August 17 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia.
- August 19 - World War I: the Battle of Van begins
- August 29 - US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
- August 31 - Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- September 5 - The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
- September 7 - Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
- September 11 - The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for power.
- September 25 - World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
- October 5 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
- October 12 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
- October 23 - Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
- November 1 - Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- November 29 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California.
- December 12 - President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
- December 15 - World War I: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig replaces John French, 1st Earl of Ypres as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force.
- December 18 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
- December 20 - World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
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