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May1915

Famous People Who Died in May 1915

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

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt

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

Anthony Wilding

François Faber (1887-1915)

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

François Faber

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

Famous People by Cause of Death