* 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 )

** Denis Thatcher ( 1915 – 2003 ), her husband

Notable students include Charles Brasch ( 1909 – 1973 ) at Waitaki 1923 – 1926, a poet and patron of artists ; Douglas Lilburn ( 1915 – 2001 ), " the elder statesman of New Zealand music "; James Bertram ( 1910 – 1993 ), writer and academic ; Denis Blundell, a future Governor-General of New Zealand ; and Ian Milner ( 1911 – 1991 ), the Rector's son, a Czech and English scholar falsely accused of spying for Communism.

Major Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD ( 10 May 1915 – 26 June 2003 ) was a British businessman, and the husband of the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Hilda Thatcher.

The Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, founded in 1915 by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in Los Angeles, California, helped many perfect their dancing talents.

St. Denis and Shawn opened their Denishawn School in 1915, and together formulated a guide for both their pedagogy and choreography, an excerpt of which is quoted below:

The general collection of reference works continued to be located in the historic Beaux-Arts building of the old Saint-Sulpice Library, erected in 1915 on Saint Denis Street, in the centre of Montreal.

Brigadier-General William Denis Whitaker, ( February 27, 1915 – May 30, 2001 ) was a Canadian soldier, business man, and author.

* Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet ( 1915 – 2003 )

The Right Reverend Denis Eugene Hurley ( 9 November 1915 – 13 February 2004 ) was born in Cape Town to Irish parents, spending his early years on Robben Island, where his father was the lighthouse keeper.

Its collaborators were: Casimir Bouis, Jean-Baptiste Clément, Pierre Denis, Charles Rochat with occasional articles by Henry Bauer ( 1851 – 1915 ), Courbet and André Leo.

Pollock ( 1891, + 3-2 = 3 ), Emanuel Lasker ( 1892 / 93, + 2-6 = 2 ), Jacob Halpern ( 1893, + 5-3 = 1 ), Adolf Albin ( 1894, + 10-7-8 ), Dawid Janowski ( 1898, + 2-7 = 4 ; 1899, + 4-2 = 0 and + 4-2 = 1 ; 1916, + 2-7 = 2 ), Borislav Kostic ( 1915, + 2-7 = 5 ), and Norman T. Whitaker ( 1916, + 6-1 = 0 ).

* 1915 – Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman ( d. 1985 )

* 1915 – John Labatt, Canadian businessman and brewer ( b. 1838 )

* 1998 – John Bassett, Canadian publisher ( b. 1915 )

Great North Western Telegraph, facing bankruptcy, was taken over in 1915 by Canadian Northern.

* 2005 – Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer ( b. 1915 )

* 1915 – Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer ( d. 2005 )

The first use of poison gas on the Western Front was on 22 April 1915, by the Germans at Ypres, against Canadian and French colonial troops.

* 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer ; introduced Universal Standard Time ( d. 1915 )

* 1915 – Malak Karsh, Canadian photographer ( d. 2001 )

* 1915 – Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer ( d. 2003 )

* 1915 – Yves Thériault, Canadian author ( d. 1983 )

* 1915 – Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician ( d. 1999 )

* 1983 – Yves Thériault, French Canadian author ( b. 1915 )

* 2000 – Jacques Flynn, Canadian politician ( b. 1915 )

Great Canadian Political Cartoons, 1915 to 1945.

** Lorne Greene, Canadian actor ( b. 1915 )

The event was initially reported in 1915 by Private George Barrie of the 1st Canadian Division.

The front line was mostly the same as the one occupied by the 1st Canadian Division in April 1915.

The town was named by a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1915 after the Roman God of Fire-Vulcan.

They attacked the Canadian position with chlorine gas on April 22, 1915, but were unable to break through the Canadian line which held for over two weeks.

McCrae was moved to the medical corps and stationed in Boulogne, France, in June 1915 where he was named lieutenant-colonel in charge of medicine at the Number 3 Canadian General Hospital.