* 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 )

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

* 1915: A silent film version was directed by Sidney Olcott and starred Mary Pickford.

* 1915: Vanity Fair: directed by Charles Brabin.

* Lady Audley's Secret ( aka Secrets of Society ) 1915 ( USA, black and white, silent, directed by Marshall Farnum )

1911 ; film of play, directed by Maurice Tourneur, released in 1918 ); Lyall, Eric: Two Pierrot Plays ( 1918 ); Rodker, John: " Fear " ( 1914 ), " Twilight I " ( 1915 ), " Twilight II " ( 1915 ); Sargent, Herbert C .: Pierrot Playlets: Cackle for Concert Parties ( 1920 ).

Another adaptation took place in 1915, directed by and starring Arthur Backner.

The Cheat ( 1915 ) is a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, and Jack Dean, Ward's real-life husband.

* The Foundling ( 1915 film ), a silent film directed by John B. O ' Brien

** The Foundling ( 1916 film ), a remake of the 1915 film, also directed by O ' Brien

In 1952, in the case of Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously overruled its 1915 decision and held that motion pictures were entitled to First Amendment protection, so that the New York State Board of Regents could not ban The Miracle, a short film that was one half of L ' Amore ( 1948 ), an anthology film directed by Roberto Rossellini.

The play was adapted to a novel, and a film adaptation, directed by Edgar Lewis, was made in 1915.

On the morning of June 16, 1915, Nearing's secretary telephoned him to report that a letter from the Provost had arrived, which noted that " as the term of your appointment as assistant professor of economics for 1914-1915 is about to expire, I am directed by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to inform you that it will not be renewed.

It was adapted into a British silent film The Woman Who Did directed by Walter West in 1915 and a 1925 German film The Woman Who Did.

* The Stool Pigeon ( 1915 – also directed )

* For Cash ( 1915 – directed only )

* The Oyster Dredger ( 1915 – also directed )

* The Violin Maker ( 1915 – also directed )

* The Trust ( 1915 – also directed )

* The Chimney's Secret ( 1915 – also directed )

In the 1915 original serial, written and directed by Louis Feuillade, Irma Vep was played by French silent film actress Musidora ( 1889 – 1957 ).

A long series of Shakespeare adaptations were the first done of the Bard's works in the U. S. The 1915 feature The Battle Cry of Peace ( written and directed by Blackton ) was one of the great propaganda films of World War I. Ironically, after America declared war, the film was modified for re-release because it was seen as not being sufficiently pro-war, thus it also earns a place in the history of censorship.

In 1915 he appeared as himself in an early documentary film titled Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco, which was directed by and starred Fatty Arbuckle.

The assembly line developed by Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1915 made assembly lines famous in the following decade through the social ramifications of mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers.

Of course, in terms of face-value in adjusted dollars, the 1915 is the highest denomination ever issued by the U. S. Mint.

Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

The outbreak of World War I forced him to stop the expeditions, and he returned to composing, writing the ballet The Wooden Prince in 1914 – 16 and the String Quartet No. 2 in 1915 – 17, both influenced by Debussy.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

Beginning in April 1915, Herbert ordered his subordinates cease calling him " Sir ", and to address him only by the pseudonym " Captain William McBride.

In Santiago, his brother Facundo M. Bacardí continued to manage the company along with Schueg, who began the company's international expansion by opening new bottling plants in Barcelona ( 1910 ) and New York City ( 1915 ).

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

In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

The characterization is epitomized by an observation made by President Ramón Barros Luco ( 1910 – 1915 ), reputedly made in reference to labor unrest: " There are only two kinds of problems: those that solve themselves and those that can't be solved.

Although the state inherited much of Austro-Hungary's military arsenal, including the entire fleet, the Kingdom of Italy moved rapidly to annex the state's most western territories, promised to her by the Treaty of London of 1915.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, there were several watermills which ground corn and made paper, with 13 mills on the Yeo at the peak, declining to seven by 1791 and just three by 1915.

Presented in 1915 by Wolfgang Gaede and using mercury vapor, they were the first type of high vacuum pumps operating in the regime of free molecular flow, where the movement of the gas molecules can be better understood as diffusion than by conventional fluid dynamics.

* A History of Freethought: Ancient and modern, to the period of the French revolution by John Mackinnon Robertson ( 1915 )

Vander Veer is surrounded by large Queen Anne and Tudor Revival style houses that were built between 1895 and 1915.