* 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 )

Saint Raphael of Brooklyn ( November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915 ), also known as Father Raphael, was born as Raphael Hawaweeny () in Beirut, Lebanon, of Damascene Syrian parents.

* 1915 – Robert Strassburg, American composer ( d. 2003 )

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

* 1837 – Émile Waldteufel, French composer ( d. 1915 )

* 1992 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician ( b. 1915 )

* 1915 – David Diamond, American composer ( d. 2005 )

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

* 1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer ( b. 1915 )

In the realm of classical music, semi-spoken music was popular stylized by composer Arnold Schoenberg as Sprechstimme, and famously used in Ernst Toch's 1924 Geographical Fugue for spoken chorus and the final scene in Darius Milhaud's 1915 ballet Les Choéphores.

* 1915 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer

* January 29 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician ( b. 1915 )

* May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist ( b. 1915 )

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

* Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of La Marseillaise ( 1915 )

* William Howard Doane ( 1831 – 1915 ), composer

The same can be said of parts of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski's Nocturne and Tarantella ( 1915 ) and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Symphonic Nocturne for Piano Alone ( 1977 – 78 ).

* Frank Glazer, pianist, composer, and professor of music, was born in Chester in 1915.

In 1915, The Musical Times published a profile of him by his admirer, the composer Philip Heseltine ( known as " Peter Warlock "), who commented:

" In 1915, Gurdjieff accepted P. D. Ouspensky as a pupil, while in 1916 he accepted the composer Thomas de Hartmann and his wife Olga as students.

* David Jenkins ( composer ) ( 1848 – 1915 ), Welsh composer

American music history was compared to the much longer historical record of European nations, and was found wanting, leading writers like the composer Arthur Farwell to ponder what sorts of musical traditions might arise from American culture, in his 1915 Music in America.

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

* May 10-Upendrakishore Ray, Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer ( died 1915 )