* 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 )

* von Treitschke, Heinrich, History of Germany-vol. 1: The Wars of Emancipation, ( translated by E & C Paul ), Allen & Unwin, London, 1915.

Heinrich Wilhelm Herbert Wohlfarth ( 5 June 1915 – 13 August 1982 ) was a successful World War II U-boat commander.

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

* Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs ( 1915 – 1997 ), mathematician

Heinrich Albertz ( 22 January 1915 – 18 May 1993 ) was a German clergyman, theologian and politician.

The OVP 1918, an offspring of Revelli's Villar Perosa 1915, inspired Heinrich Vollmer for his telescopic bolt used in the VPM 1930, EMP, MP38, MP40 and MP41.

1902 – 1904: Theodor Heinrich Boveri ( 1862 – 1915 ), a German biologist, made several important contributions to chromosome theory in a series of papers, finally stating in 1904 that he had seen the link between chromosomes and Mendel's results in 1902 ( although this is not documented in his publications ).

Theodor Heinrich Boveri ( 12 October 1862 – 15 October 1915 ) was a German biologist.

Heinrich Gross ( 14 November 1915 – 15 December 2005 ) was an Austrian psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, a reputed expert as a leading court-appointed psychiatrist, ill-famed for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and / or emotional / behavioral characteristics considered " unclean " by the Nazi regime, under its Euthanasia Program.

Heinrich Brunner (; 21 June 1840 – 11 August 1915 ) was a German historian born at Wels in Upper Austria.

* 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

Aloysius " Alois " Alzheimer (; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915 ) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin.

The Baralong Incidents were naval engagements of the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-Ship, later renamed HMS Wyandra, and two German U-boats.

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.

The German government delivered a memorandum on the incident via the American ambassador in Berlin, who received it on 6 December 1915.

Wegener was the first to use the phrase " continental drift " ( 1912, 1915 ) ( in German " die Verschiebung der Kontinente " – translated into English in 1922 ) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow " drifted " apart.

German Uhlan s after the capture of Warsaw, August 1915

Vertov studied music at Białystok Conservatory until his family fled from the invading German army to Moscow in 1915.

Habibullah did, however, entertain an Indo-German-Turkish mission in Kabul in 1915 that had as its titular head the Indian nationalist Mahendra Pratap and was led by Oskar Niedermayer and the German legate Werner Otto von Hentig.

* Fokker E. II, a 1915 German single-seat monoplane fighter aircraft

The Trial ( Kafka's original German title:, later as and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925.

The use of metal aircraft structures was pioneered before World War I by Breguet but would find its biggest proponent with Anthony Fokker who used chrome-molybdenum steel tubing for the fuselage structure of all his fighter designs, while the innovative German engineer Hugo Junkers developed two all-metal, single-seat fighter monoplane designs with cantilever wings: the strictly experimental Junkers J 2 private-venture aircraft, made with steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D. I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal airframe technology demonstration aircraft of late 1915.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, public anti-German sentiment was widespread, and Marx's German character was booed, so he quickly dropped the accent and developed the fast-talking wise-guy character that became his trademark.

German soldiers with gasmasks, 1915

When Bulgaria entered the war as a German ally in October 1915, Venizelos invited Entente forces into Greece ( the Salonika Front ), for which he was again dismissed by Constantine.

Goebbels had four siblings: Hans ( 1893 – 1947 ), Konrad ( 1895 – 1949 ), Elisabeth ( 1901 – 1915 ) and Maria ( 1910 – 1949 ; married to the German filmmaker Max W. Kimmich ).

* 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.

* 1915 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer ( d. 1976 )

* 1848 – Thomas Herbst German painter ( d. 1915 )

* 1915 – Josef Priller, German pilot ( d. 1961 )

* 1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.

Following the Royal Navy's revenge at the Battle of the Falkland Islands a month later, the only surviving German cruiser, SMS Dresden, was finally hunted down and cornered at Más a Tierra early in 1915, where she was scuttled after a brief battle with British cruisers.

* Diego von Bergen: German Ambassador to the Vatican ( 1915 – 1918, 1920 – 1943 )

The German Navy's U-boats were also instrumental in the sinking of the civilian passenger liner the Lusitania on 7 May 1915, which was one of the main events that led to the USA joining the war two years later in 1917.