1915 in Australia
List of events
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 .
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
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