Born in 1915
People born in 1915 turn 111 in 2026. A dollar in 1915 buys what $33.33 buys in September 2026, and about 1.83 billion people were alive. Every figure below links to the source it came from.
Your birthday in 1915
1915
What things cost in 1915
| U.S. average | 1915 | in today’s dollars | latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| One dollar | $1.00 | $33.33 | CPI-U |
1915 figures are annual averages of the published monthly (or quarterly) values. “Today’s dollars” uses the Consumer Price Index for September 2026; “latest” is the most recent published price. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, via FRED. Average retail prices are only published from 1976 on; 1915 has the CPI alone.
Who was in charge in 1915
- United States
- Woodrow Wilson (President)
- United Kingdom
- George V (King); H. H. Asquith (Prime minister)
- Russian Empire
- Nicholas II (Emperor)
- Republic of China (1912–1915)
- Yuan Shikai (President); Xu Shichang (Premier: Secretary of State)
- Empire of China (1915–1916)
- Yuan Shikai (Emperor); Lu Zhengxiang (Premier)
- French Third Republic
- Raymond Poincaré (President); René Viviani, then Aristide Briand (President of the Council of ministers)
- German Empire
- Wilhelm II (Emperor); Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (Chancellor)
- Empire of Japan
- Taishō (Emperor); Ōkuma Shigenobu (Prime minister)
From Wikipedia’s List of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) (revision 1377869146), each name checked against Wikidata. Every country in 1915 →
Famous people born in 1915
- December 12 – Frank Sinatra, American singer, actor (died 1998) source
- January 1 – Branko Ćopić, Yugoslav writer (died 1984) source
- November 25 – Augusto Pinochet, 31st president of Chile (died 2006) source
- 29 August – Ingrid Bergman, film actress (died 1982 in the United Kingdom) source
- 12 March – Reimar Horten, German aircraft pilots (died 1994) source
- 3 January – Mady Rahl, German actress (died 2009) source
- January 3 – Sid Hudson, baseball player (died 2008) source
- January 6 – Alan Watts, British philosopher (died 1973) source
- March 9 – Johnnie Johnson, English WWII pilot (died 2001) source
- January 4 – Adolf Opálka, Czechoslovak soldier (died 1942) source
- April 7 – Billie Holiday, African-American singer (died 1959) source
- October 22 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician (died 2012) source
- 7 June – Dominic Bruce, RAF officer (died 2000) source
- March 8 – Drue Heinz, British-born American literary publisher (died 2018) source
- 5 January - Humberto Teixeira, musician (died 1979) source
What happened in 1915
- January 12 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. source
- January 8 — Imperial Japanese government issues the Twenty-One Demands to the Chinese source
- January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of 11,690 ft, carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. source
- 1 January – First flight of the Walsh Brothers' Curtiss-type flying boat. The flight takes place at Bastion Point and it is the first such aircraft built and flown in the Southern Hemisphere. source
- January - A memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, in the form of a model lighthouse, is erected on an island in Roath Park Lake, commemorating the support given to Scott's expedition by the people of Cardiff. source
- January 1 – WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. source
- January 21 – Kiwanis is founded in Detroit, Michigan, as The Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order Brothers. source
- January 21 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan. source