1915 deaths

Lucy Lambert Hale was the daughter of U.S. Senator John Parker Hale of New Hampshire, and was a noted Washington, D.C., society belle. She attracted many admirers including Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Robert Todd Lincoln; and stage actor and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth, to whom she was secretly engaged. Lucy's photograph was found in Booth's pocket after Sergeant Boston Corbett mortally wounded Booth 12 days after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)

President of Mexico (1830–1915)

Russian composer and pianist (1872–1915)

German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)

African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)

American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher

American mechanical engineer (1856–1915)

Russian statesman and first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (1849-1915)

American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1827–1915)

French entomologist and author (1823-1915)

English physicist

British nurse (1865-1915)

French writer (1858–1915)

Indian political leader and social reformer (1866–1915)

English poet (1887–1915)

German chemist (1870-1915)

Vazha-Pshavela (), simply referred to as Vazha () (14 July 1861 – 10 July 1915), is the pen name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili ().

Serbian artist (1873-1915)

Russian composer, pianist, music theorist and teacher (1856–1915)

French philologist (1832–1915)

German philosopher (1848–1915)

Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor (1827-1915)

Georgian writer (1840-1915)

English amateur cricketer (1848-1915)

German astronomer (1838–1915)

Cuban physician discoverer of means of transmission of yellow fever through biological vector (1833–1915)

Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Russian painter (1839-1915)

6th Prime Minister of Canada (1821-1915)

Yiddish language author and playwright (1852–1915)

German painter (1843-1915)

Russian grand prince (1858-1915)

Austrian mountain climber, painter, arctic explorer and nobleman (1841-1915)

British educator and writer (1831-1915)

Scottish socialist and labour leader (1856–1915)

19th century Christian hymnist

French composer (1837-1915)

Italian journalist and writer (1839-1915)

French writer (1882–1915)

German philosopher (1862-1915)

Pre-Raphaelite artist (1832-1915)

English author (1835-1915)

Polish composer and pianist (1830–1915)

New Zealand tennis player (1883-1915)

Luxembourgian racing cyclist (1887–1915)

English naturalist, geologist and writer (1849–1915)

Hungarian-born Viennese composer (1830–1915)

Armenian poet (1884-1915)

British lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837–1915)

British artist (1845-1915)

Irish astronomer (1848–1915)

German historian (1856–1915)

German geneticist (1862-1915)

Chuvash poet (1890–1915)

American factory superintendent and lynching victim (1884–1915)

Dutch painter (1831–1915)

Swedish 20th century prime minister (1860-1915)

German bacteriologist (1852–1915)

Ottoman poet (1867-1915)