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Months in Year 1915: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 99 of 99

Jan 2nd - Karl Goldmark, Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at 84
Jan 3rd - James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30
Jan 6th - Reginald Wood, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1886), dies
Jan 13th - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
Jan 14th - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
Jan 15th - Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
Jan 28th - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
Feb 5th - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
Feb 7th - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68
Feb 10th - Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
Feb 12th - Charles Emile Waldteufel, composer, dies at 77
Feb 16th - Emil Waldteufel, [Charles Levy], French composer (Estudiantina), dies
Feb 19th - Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies
Feb 23rd - Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC
Feb 25th - George Mimot, physician (Nobel-1934), dies
Mar 4th - William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
Mar 11th - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826)
Mar 13th - Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65
Mar 17th - Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69
Mar 21st - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
Mar 24th - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
Mar 31st - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
Apr 1st - Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82
Apr 3rd - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (England capt at turn of century), suicide
Apr 14th - James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies
Apr 16th - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
Apr 17th - Johannes P Kelly, [Kellij], Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60
Apr 23rd - Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27
Apr 25th - Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72
Apr 25th - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
Apr 27th - Alexander N Skriabin, Russ pianist/composer (Prometheus), dies at 43
Apr 27th - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
May 7th - Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
May 7th - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US Lusitania officer, dies
May 7th - Charles Frohman, dies aboard Lusitania
May 8th - Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
May 9th - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
May 10th - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle
May 19th - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
May 21st - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
Jun 4th - William Charles Denis Browne, composer, dies at 26
Jun 5th - Brzeska, sculptor, dies
Jun 7th - Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35
Jun 18th - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho
Jun 19th - Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
Jun 20th - Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies
Jun 28th - Victor Trumper, cricketer (48 Tests for Australia, 3163 runs), dies
Jul 2nd - Gen Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies
Jul 10th - Hendrik W Mesdag, painter (Panorama Mesdag), dies
Jul 15th - Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80
Jul 16th - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
Jul 17th - Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
Jul 18th - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53
Jul 22nd - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
Jul 26th - James Murray, philologist, dies
Jul 28th - Vilbrun G Sam, rebellion leader/president of Haiti, lynched
Aug 4th - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68
Aug 9th - Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle
Aug 10th - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
Aug 15th - Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
Aug 17th - Leo Frank, lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
Aug 20th - Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61
Aug 26th - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
Sep 2nd - August Stramm, writer, dies at 41
Sep 9th - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
Sep 10th - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
Sep 11th - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
Sep 11th - William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
Sep 13th - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
Sep 21st - Anthony Comstock, anti-vice crusader, dies at 71 in NYC
Sep 27th - Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57
Sep 27th - Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84
Sep 27th - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
Sep 28th - Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
Sep 29th - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer, dies at 95
Sep 29th - Rudi Stephan, composer, dies at 28
Oct 2nd - Russell Alexander, composer, dies at 38
Oct 5th - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer, dies at 28
Oct 5th - Otto Valdemar Malling, composer, dies at 67
Oct 7th - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
Oct 9th - Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73
Oct 12th - Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)
Oct 23rd - W G Grace, British cricketer, dies
Oct 24th - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
Oct 30th - Gervys Rignold Hazlitt, cricketer (9 Tests for Aust 1907-12), dies
Oct 30th - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
Education Pioneer Booker Taliaferro Washington (Nov 14th) Nov 14th - Booker T Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala
Nov 14th - Theodor Leschetizky, composer, dies at 85
Nov 19th - Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder
Nov 19th - Solomon Schechter, theologist, dies at about 64
Nov 27th - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 54
Nov 28th - Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76
Nov 28th - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
Dec 2nd - Jan Malat, composer, dies at 72
Dec 4th - Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60
Dec 19th - Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51
Dec 23rd - Roland Leighton, dies at 20
Dec 28th - Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78
Dec 29th - Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57

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