1915 in Australia
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s See also:
The following lists events that happened during 1915 in Australia .
Incumbents
State premiers
State governors
Events
Science and technology
Arts and literature
Sport
Births 6 February – Donald Friend (died 1989), artist, writer and diarist 2 March – John Wear Burton (died 2010), public servant and diplomat 3 March – Manning Clark (died 1991), historian 6 March – Mary Ward (died 2021), actress 22 March – Charlotte Anderson (died 2002), professor of paediatrics 9 April – Bob Quinn (died 2008), SANFL footballer (Port Adelaide ) 30 May – Michael Thwaites (died 2005), poet, academic and intelligence officer 31 May – Judith Wright (died 2000), poet 3 June – Jim McClelland (died 1999), senator and government minister 20 June – Dick Reynolds (died 2002), VFL footballer (Essendon ) 16 July – David Campbell (died 1979), poet 3 August – Arthur John Birch (died 1995), organic chemist 26 October – Lindsay Pryor (died 1998), botanist 2 November – May Campbell (died 1981), field hockey player 25 November – Ron Hamence (died 2010), cricketer 29 November – Bob Cotton (died 2006), senator and government minister 31 December – John Murray (died 2009), politician
Deaths Thomas Playford II 11 January – James Wilkinson, Queensland politician (b. 1854 ) 11 March – Thomas Alexander Browne , author (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1826 ) 4 April – Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor , New South Wales politician and pastoralist (b. 1839 ) 19 April – Thomas Playford II , 17th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1837 )[ 2] 25 April - William Henry Strahan , writer and soldier (b. 1869 ) 2 June – George Randell , Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1830 ) 25 June – Frederick Manson Bailey , botanist (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1827 ) 28 June – Victor Trumper , cricketer (b. 1877 ) 18 July – George Marshall-Hall , composer and poet (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1862 ) 2 August – Sir John Downer , 16th Premier of South Australia (b. 1843 ) 8 October – E. Phillips Fox , impressionist painter (b. 1865 ) 29 October – Richard Edwards, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom ) (d. 1915 ) 20 November – Robert Barr Smith , businessman and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1824 ) 4 December – George Richards, New South Wales politician (b. 1865 ) 21 December – Thomas Sergeant Hall , geologist and biologist (b. 1858 )
References ^ Myer, Harold (1925). Power Supply and Distribution . ^ John Playford (1988). Geoff Serle (ed.). Playford, Thomas (1837–1915) . Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 3 January 2022 . 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century
1915 in Oceania
Sovereign states Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Associated states of New Zealand