Deaths Date 1915 | History by KabAstro

Armand Peugeot (1849-1915)

Feb 4 French industrialist, automobile pioneer and founder of Peugeot, dies at 65

Feb 5 Ross Barnes, American baseball infielder (3×NA/NL batting champion 1872, 73, 76; 4×NA/NL runs scored leader; 4×NA/NL hits leader; Boston Red Stockings), dies at 64
Feb 7 Władysław Górski, Polish violinist, composer and teacher, dies at 68
Feb 10 Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
Feb 12 Émile Waldteufel [Charles Émile Lévy], French pianist and composer (Estudiantina; Les Patineurs - The Skaters' Waltz), dies at 77

Frank James (1843-1915)

Feb 18 American outlaw (member of the James-Younger gang), dies at 72

Feb 19 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian social reformer and leader of Indian Independence Movement, dies at 48
Feb 23 Robert Smalls, African-American congressman (1875-87), dies at 75
Feb 24 Amanda Smith, American former slave, singer and evangelist, dies at 78
Mar 4 William Willett, British inventor of Daylight Saving Time, dies of influenza at 58
Mar 11 Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (Robbery Under Arms), dies at 88
Mar 13 Sergei Witte, 1st Prime Minister of Russia (1905-06), dies at 65
Mar 17 Walter Crane, English painter, cartoonist and illustrator (The Lady of Shalott), dies at 69
Mar 19 Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat and Roman Catholic cardinal, dies at 82

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915)

Mar 21 American mechanical engineer and the father of scientific management, dies of influenza at 59

Mar 24 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
Mar 31 Wyndham Halswelle, British athlete (Olympic gold 400m 1908), dies in WWI action at 32
Apr 1 Johann Joseph Abert, German composer, dies at 82
Apr 3 Andrew Stoddart, English cricket batsman and captain (16 Tests, 2 x 100, HS 173; Middlesex CCC) and rugby union centre & captain (10 Tests; first captain Barbarians RFC), dies by suicide at 52
Apr 14 James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies
Apr 16 Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, dies at 73

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

Apr 23 British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), dies at 27

Apr 25 Frederick William Seward, 6th and 11th United States Assistant Secretary of State, dies at 84
Apr 25 Nicola d' Arienzo, Italian composer, and pedagogue, dies at 72
Apr 27 Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (Prometheus), dies at 43
Apr 27 John Labatt, Canadian brewer and businessman (Labatt Brewing Company), dies at 76
May 2 Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, first woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry in Germany, dies at 44

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877-1915)

May 7 American businessman (New York Central Railway), dies aboard the RMS Lusitania during World War I at 37

May 7 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr., American 3-year-old who drowned on Lusitania
May 7 Charles Frohman, American theatre producer (Peter Pan), dies aboard RMS Lusitania at 58
May 8 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 African American Methodist Bishop and 1st African American army chaplain, dies at 82

Anthony Wilding (1883-1915)

May 9 New Zealand tennis player (Wimbledon 1910-13), killed in action on the Western Front at 31

François Faber (1887-1915)

May 9 Luxembourgian cyclist (Tour de France 1909), killed in action by gunshot wounds at 28

May 10 Albert Weisgerber, German painter and graphic artist, dies in battle at 37
May 19 Bob Ferguson, Scottish golfer (British Open 1880, 81, 82), dies at 69
May 19 John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
May 21 Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (designed the portable mortar), dies in combat at 40
Jun 4 William Denis Browne, British composer, dies at 26
Jun 5 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French artist and sculptor, killed fighting in WWI at 23
Jun 7 Benjamin Lambord, American composer, dies at 35
Jun 19 Sergei Taneyev, Russian pianist and composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
Jun 20 Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies ay 76
Jun 22 James Murray Spangler, American inventor of portable vacuum cleaner (Hoover), dies at 66 [1]

Victor Trumper (1877-1915)

Jun 28 Australian cricket batsman (48 Tests, top score 214; key figure foundation of rugby league in Australia), dies of Bright's disease at 37

Jul 2 José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, Mexican military man, politician, and dictator (President of Mexico, 1877-1911), dies at 84
Jul 6 Lawrence Hargrave, English-born aviation pioneer and inventor (box kite), dies at 65
Jul 10 Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag), dies at 84
Jul 15 Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80

Ellen G. White (1827-1915)

Jul 16 American religious leader and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, dies at 87

Jul 17 Francesco Fanciulli, American-Italian composer, dies at 62
Jul 18 George Marshall-Hall, British organist, poet, and composer who worked chiefly in Australia, dies at 53
Jul 22 Sir Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
Jul 26 James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (Oxford English Dictionary), dies at 78
Jul 28 Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, Haitian rebellion leader, President of Haiti (1915), lynched by a mob at 56
Aug 4 Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68
Aug 10 Henry Moseley, English physicist (relationship between atomic number and charge of the atomic nucleus), shot and killed at Gallipoli during WWI, at 27
Aug 15 Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
Aug 17 Leo Frank, American convict, hanged in 1915 by a lynch mob in Georgia at 31
Aug 20 Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist and physician (Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908), dies in 61
Aug 26 John Bunny American film comedian, dies at 51
Aug 28 John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (1880-1915), dies at 76
Sep 2 August Stramm, German poet and playwright dies in battle during WWI at 41
Sep 9 A. G. Spalding, American Baseball HOF pitcher, manager and executive (NL wins leader 1871–76; President, co-owner Chicago White Stockings; co-founder of Spalding sporting goods company), dies at 66
Sep 10 Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec, dies at 93
Sep 11 William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian railway executive (Canadian Pacific Railway), dies at 72
Sep 11 William Sprague IV, American politician and Governor of Rhode Island (1859-63), dies at 84
Sep 13 Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
Sep 18 Susan La Flesche Picotte, American physician (first Native American woman to receive a medical degree), dies of cancer at 50 [1]
Sep 21 Anthony Comstock, American anti-vice crusader, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, dies at 71
Sep 27 Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57
Sep 27 Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84
Sep 27 Remy de Gourmont, French poet, dies at 57
Sep 28 Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
Sep 29 Luther Orlando Emerson, American composer, dies at 95
Sep 29 Rudi Stephan, German composer (Die ersten Menschen), dies fighting in World War I at 28
Oct 2 Russell Alexander, American vaudenille performer, euphonium virtuoso, and march composer, dies at 38
Oct 4 George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl), dies at 59
Oct 5 José María Usandizaga, Spanish Basque composer (Mendi Mendiyan - High in the Mountains), dies of tuberculosis at 28
Oct 5 Otto Valdemar Malling, Danish organist and composer (Det hellige Land, opus 46), dies at 67
Oct 7 Samuel Prowse Warren, Canadian composer and organist, dies at 74
Oct 9 Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73
Oct 11 Jean Henri Fabre, French naturalist and entomologist (insects & spiders), dies at 91

Edith Cavell (1865-1915)

Oct 12 British nurse, executed by German firing squad in Belgium during World War I at 49

Oct 22 Andrew Noble, Scottish physicist who was a founder of the science of ballistics, dies at 84

W. G. Grace (1848-1915)

Oct 23 English cricket batsman and captain (22 Tests; 2 x 100, HS 170; 54,896 runs over record 44 FC seasons; Gloucestershire CCC), dies of a heart attack at 67

Oct 24 Désiré Charnay, French traveller and archaeologist, dies at 87

Charles Tupper (1821-1915)

Oct 30 6th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 69-day term in 1896), dies of heart failure at 94

Oct 30 Gervys Rignold Hazlitt, cricketer (9 Tests for Aust 1907-12), dies
Nov 2 Isaac Rice, German-American businessman (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium, Electric Boat Company), dies at 65

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Nov 14 American education pioneer and 1st African American on a US stamp, dies at 59

Nov 14 Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, composer, and teacher (Contes de Jeunesse), dies at 85
Nov 19 Joe Hill [Joel Hägglund], Swedish-American labor activist and protest songwriter ("The Preacher and the Slave"; "There Is Power in a Union"), executed at Sugar House Prison in Salt Lake City, Utah for murder at 36
Nov 19 Solomon Schechter, Moldavian-American Talmudic scholar and rabbi, dies at about 64
Nov 27 Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, Ukrainian-Russian composer, dies at 54
Nov 28 Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author and critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76
Nov 28 Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
Dec 2 Jan Malát, Czech composer, pedagogue, and musicologist, dies at 72
Dec 4 Gustav Hollaender, German violinist, conductor, and composer, dies at 60
Dec 9 Willem Molkenboer, Dutch sculptor and art educator, dies at 71
Dec 13 Francis Cockrell, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 81
Dec 18 Henry Enfield Roscoe, English chemist (vanadium and photochemistry), dies at 82
Dec 18 Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st American female professional architect (Buffalo Meter Company Building), dies at 59

Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915)

Dec 19 German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51

Dec 23 Roland Leighton, English poet and soldier (featured in The Testament of Youth), dies on French battlefield during WWI at 20
Dec 28 Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer and politician, dies at 78
Dec 29 C. B. Hawley, American organist and composer, dies at 57
Dec 29 Tom Shevlin, American College Football Hall of Fame end (Yale - Consensus All-American 1902, 04, 05; National C'ship 1902, 05), dies of pneumonia at 32