* Hubert Austin ( 1845 – 1915 ), British architect

* 1915 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, set designer and theater director ( d. 1990 )

* 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and genocide claims for 1915 – 1918 events made impossible relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey, thus increased an isolation of the country.

* 1915 – Gary Merrill, American actor ( d. 1990 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

* 1887 – Rupert Brooke, English poet ( d. 1915 )

* 1915 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician ( d. 2006 )

* 1915 – Pete Newell, American basketball coach ( d. 2008 )

* 2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-English soprano ( b. 1915 )

* 2012 – Paul McCracken, American economist ( b. 1915 )

* Haliotis dalli Henderson, 1915 – the Dall ’ s abalone

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* 1915 – James Elliott, American track and field coach ( d. 1981 )

* 1915 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright ( d. 1997 )

* 1915 – Joan Alexander, American actress ( d. 2009 )

Alexander returned to the Western Front in August 1915, fought at Loos and was, for ten days in October 1915, acting major and acting Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion Irish Guards as a " Battle Casualty Replacement ".

* 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U. S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.

* 1872 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer ( d. 1915 )

A bright spot came in 1915, when the Phillies won their first pennant, thanks to the pitching of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the batting prowess of Gavvy Cravath, who set what was then the modern major-league single-season record for home runs with 24.

* January 6 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer ( d. 1915 )

* Russian — Blok, Alexander: The Fairground Booth a. k. a. The Puppet Show ( 1906 ); Evreinov, Nikolai: A Merry Death ( 1908 ), Today's Columbine ( 1915 ), The Chief Thing ( 1921 ; turned into film, La Comédie du bonheur, in 1940 ).

* Russell Alexander ( 1877 – 1915 )

In 1915, Alexander met one of his childhood friends, Aspasia Manos, at a party held in Athens by Marshal Theodore Ypsilantis.

Alexander Franklin " Frank " James ( January 10, 1843 – February 18, 1915 ) was an American soldier, guerrilla and outlaw.

It is in the District of Cook which was opened up for occupation in 1866 The first Michellton lease was granted to Alfred Joseph Smith, Thomas Alexander Simpson and Marshall Hanley Woodhouse in 1915 under the Land Act 1910.

Grover Cleveland Alexander captured his first two in consecutive seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1915 – 1916 ), and won a third in 1920 with the Chicago Cubs.

Among pitchers, the lowest ERAs belong to Johnson ( 1. 14 in the 1913 AL ) and Alexander ( 1. 22 in the 1915 NL ).

The late 19th and early 20th century saw the third wave of Russian classics: Igor Stravinsky ( 1882 – 1971 ), Alexander Scriabin ( 1872 – 1915 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( 1891 – 1953 ) and Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).

From 1912 to 1920, Alexander led the league in ERA five times ( 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919, and 1920 ), wins five times ( 1914 – 17, 1920 ), innings six times ( 1912, 1914 – 17, 1920 ), strikeouts six times ( 1912, 1914 – 1917, 1920 ), complete games five times ( 1914 – 1917, 1920 ), and shutouts five times ( 1915, 1916 single-season record 16, 1917, 1919 ).

: Pete Alexander, 3 ( 1915 – 1917 )

: Pete Alexander, 3 ( 1915 – 1917 )

: Pete Alexander, 3 ( 1915 – 1917 )

: 5 Grover Cleveland Alexander ( 1915 – 1917, 1919 – 1920 )

: 5 Pete Alexander ( 1915 – 1916, 1923, 1926 – 1927 )

* January 6-Alexander Scriabin, composer ( d. 1915 )

The first Russian examples were all made by Yevgeni Bauer for Khanzhonkov during the First World War, and include Grezy, Schastye vechnoi nochi, and Posle smerti, all from 1915.

* 1849 – Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1915 )

* 1875 – Leonid Gobyato, Russian general ( d. 1915 )

During heavy fighting he was captured by the Austrians in April 1915, when his division became isolated from the rest of the Russian forces.

* 1915 – Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer ( d. 2005 )

Color photography by taking three separate plates was used by other pioneers, such as Russian Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in the period 1909 through 1915.

The British made early use of underwater hydrophones, while the French physicist Paul Langevin, working with a Russian immigrant electrical engineer, Constantin Chilowski, worked on the development of active sound devices for detecting submarines in 1915 using quartz.

** Vasily Zaytsev, Russian World War II hero ( b. 1915 )

* February 22 – Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1915 )

In 1915, Russian forces withdrew from Warsaw and Warsaw University was reopened with Polish as the language of instruction.

Even as late as 1915, the Caesar cipher was in use: the Russian army employed it as a replacement for more complicated ciphers which had proved to be too difficult for their troops to master ; German and Austrian cryptanalysts had little difficulty in decrypting their messages.

Paul returned to serve in the Russian army during the First World War, and Nicholas II rewarded his uncle's loyalty by elevating Olga and her children as Princess and Princes Paley in 1915.

Nicholas refused to grant the bride or their son, George Mikhailovich ( 1910 – 1931 ) a title initially, legitimising George and incorporated him into the Russian nobility under the name " Brassov " in 1915, although he used the title of count under the monarchy from 1915 and, along with his mother, was granted a princely prefix in exile by Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia in 1928.

The United States ( 1920 – 1933 ), Finland ( 1919 – 1932 ), Norway ( 1916 – 1927 ), Canada ( 1901 – 1948 ), Iceland ( 1915 – 1922 ) and the Russian Empire / USSR ( 1914 – 1925 ) had alcohol prohibition.

In 1915, World War I needs led to the construction of the railroad from Petrozavodsk to an ice-free location on the Murman Coast in the Russian Arctic, to which Russia's allies shipped military supplies.

* Kingdom of Poland ( 1916 – 1918 ) – The Central Powers ' forces occupied Russian Congress Poland in 1915 and in 1916 the German Empire and Austria-Hungary created a Polish Monarchy in order to exploit the occupied territories in an easier way and mobilize the Poles against the Russians ( see Polish Legions ).

* Duchy of Courland and Semigallia ( 1918 ) – in 1915 the Imperial German forces occupied the Russian Courland Governorate and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended the war in the east, so the local ethnic Baltic Germans established a Duchy under the German crown from that part of Ober Ost, with a common return of civil administration in favor of military.

Despite early success and the capture of the towns of Rastenburg and Gumbinnen, In the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 and the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in 1915, the Russians were decisively defeated and forced to retreat, followed by the German Army advancing into Russian territory.

Russian occupation lasted until May 1915.

During World War I, the city was one of the focal points of Austro-Hungarian / German Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive of 1915, a military operation that changed the situation in the Eastern Front and resulted in major retreat of opposing Russian forces.