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

* Silberstein, Gerard E. " The Serbian Campaign of 1915: Its Diplomatic Background.

* Gerard Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck, 6th Baron Huntingfield ( 1915 – 1994 )

Gerard Piel ( 1 March 1915, Woodmere, N. Y. – 5 September 2004 ) was the publisher of the new Scientific American magazine starting in 1948.

Gerard Martens, Founder of the Tubao Catholic School in 1915.

John Leslie " Gerard " Glaister DFC, ( 21 December 1915 – 5 February 2005 ) was a British television producer and director best known for his work with the BBC.

Throughout the summer of 1915, Baralong continued routine patrol duties in the Irish Sea without encountering the enemy.

The Irish player John Rea ( 1915 – 1983 ) used hammers made of thick steel wire, wound with wool.

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 ".

In May 1915 while traveling to England on shipyard business, aboard the RMS Lusitania, Hopkins ' tenure and life ended prematurely when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off Queenstown on the Irish coast.

* February 27 – Charles Donnelly, Irish poet ( b. 1915 )

In January 1915 Lemass was persuaded to join the Irish Volunteers.

Hyde himself, however, felt uncomfortable at the growing politicisation of his movement ( which had been infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, just like the Irish Volunteers and the Gaelic Athletic Association ) and resigned the presidency in 1915 ; he was replaced reluctantly by co-Founder Eoin MacNeill.

In March 1915, O ' Kelly went to New York City, to inform Clan Na Gael of the plans for a rising in Dublin by the Irish Volunteers.

By 1915 MacLysaght's command of Irish had improved dramatically and in that year he founded the Nua-Ghaeltacht in Raheen, Co. Clare.

In October 1914 he was appointed Brigade Major of 48th Brigade in 16th Irish division, with which he was sent to France in December 1915.

* Tom O ’ Reilly ( 1915 – 1995 ), Irish Irish Fianna Fáil politician

* Tom O ’ Reilly ( 1915 – 1995 ), Irish gaelic footballer and politician

O ' Higgins joined the Irish Volunteers in 1915.

He was also given the honorary appointment of Colonel of the Royal Irish Rifles on 11 November 1915.

Noël Christopher Browne ( 20 December 1915 – 21 May 1997 ) was an Irish politician and doctor.

Sometime in 1915 Joseph Plunkett joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and soon after was sent to Germany to meet with Roger Casement, who was negotiating with the German government on behalf of Ireland.

The Irish Parliamentary Party was discredited after Home Rule had been suspended at the outbreak of World War I, in the belief that the war would be over by the end of 1915, then by the severe losses suffered by Irish battalions in Gallipoli at Cape Helles and on the Western Front.

The Under Secretary for Ireland, Mathew Nathan, writing in November 1915, thought that Redmond's stance on the War ultimately cost him and his party their pre-eminent position in Irish life, " Redmond has been honestly imperial, but by going as far as he has, he has lost his position in the country "

Former President Theodore Roosevelt in speaking to the largely Irish Catholic Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall on Columbus Day 1915, asserted that,

James " Jim " Tully ( 18 September 1915 – 20 May 1992 ) was an Irish trade unionist, politician and Deputy leader of the Labour Party who served as a minister in a series of Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition governments.