* 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 )

* John Dobson ( 1915 ), whose name is associated with the Dobsonian telescope, a simplified design for Newtonian reflecting telescopes.

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

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

* John Cuthbert Hedley ( 1837 – 1915 )

* 1838 – John Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer ( d. 1915 )

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

John Hamilton-Gordon, was a Liberal politician and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and from 1905 to 1915 and as Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.

* John Harris Baker ( 1832 – 1915 )

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

* 2012 – John T. Cunningham, American journalist, historian, and writer ( b. 1915 )

* 1915 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister ( d. 2006 )

* 1915 – John Woodruff, American runner ( d. 2007 )

* 1915 – John Tukey, American Mathematician ( d. 2000 )

* 1915 – John C. Lilly, American psychoanalyst ( d. 2001 )

* John Brown ( footballer born 1915 ) ( 1915 – 2005 ), Scottish association football player

* William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay ( Boston: 1915 )

The Keystone Cops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Chaplin in the first full-length Sennett comedy feature, Tillie's Punctured Romance ( 1914 ), as well as in Mabel's New Hero ( 1913 ) with Normand and Arbuckle, Making a Living ( 1914 ) with Chaplin in his first screen appearance ( pre-Tramp ), In the Clutches of the Gang ( 1914 ) with Normand, Arbuckle, and Al St. John, and Wished on Mabel ( 1915 ) with Arbuckle and Normand, among others.

The contract to build the tunnels was won by John Mowlem and Co. Construction of the tunnels started in February 1915 from a series of shafts.

* 1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.

* 1915 – John Dehner, American actor ( d. 1992 )

* 1838 – John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1915 )

* 1863 – John Bunny, American actor ( d. 1915 )

The first U. S. patent for SSB modulation was applied for on December 1, 1915 by John Renshaw Carson.