* 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 )

Joy Street Portal ( 1915 ), looking eastwards

* Joy Gresham ( 1915 – 1960 ), poet married to C. S. Lewis

Born as Leatrice Joy Zeidler in New Orleans, Louisiana, she began her acting career in stock theater companies and made her film debut for the little-known small New Orleans based Nola Film Company in 1915.

* 1915 – Al Hibbler, American singer ( d. 2001 )

* 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.

* 1915 – Michael Kidd, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2007 )

* 1915 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter ( d. 2000 )

* 1915 – Walter Trampler, American violist ( d. 1997 )

* 1915 – Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator ( d. 2008 )

* 1915 – Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist ( d. 1985 )

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

* 1978 – Joe Gordon, American baseball player ( b. 1915 )

* 1884 – Leo Frank, American factory superintendent, victim of lynching ( d. 1915 )

* 1915 – Joe Foss, American marine and politician ( d. 2003 )

* 1977 – Stanley Adams, American actor ( b. 1915 )

* 1915 – Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System ( d. 2007 )

* 1915 – Garrett Hardin, American ecologist ( d. 2003 )

* 2001 – Al Hibbler, American singer ( b. 1915 )

* 1915 – Stanley Adams, American actor ( d. 1977 )

* 1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer and songwriter ( d. 1959 )

* 1915 – Henry Kuttner, American writer ( d. 1958 )

* 1915 – Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet ( d. 2007 )

* 1915 – Margaret Walker, American novelist and poet ( d. 1998 )

In " Into Battle " ( 1915 ), the war poet Julian Grenfell invokes the superhuman characteristics of the Kestrel among several birds, when hoping for prowess in battle:

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

* August 3 – Rupert Brooke, British war poet ( d. 1915 )

* Hortensia Antommarchi, Colombian poet ( d. 1915 )

Rupert Chawner Brooke ( middle name sometimes given as " Chaucer ") ( 3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915 ) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially " The Soldier ".

As a war poet Brooke came to public attention in 1915 when The Times Literary Supplement quoted two of his five sonnets ( IV: The Dead and V: The Soldier ) in full on 11 March and his sonnet V: The Soldier was read from the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral on Easter Sunday ( 4 April ).

This lullaby was written in 1951 by the Danish poet and writer, Halfdan Rasmussen ( 1915 – 2002 ).

It was the home of famous poet / writer Edgar Lee Masters in his early days ; he wrote the famous Spoon River Anthology ( 1915 ).

* Leo Vroman ( born 1915 ), poet.

In 1915, Pound edited the poetry of another 1890s poet, Lionel Johnson for the publisher Elkin Mathews.

Lowell persuaded D. H. Lawrence to contribute poems to the 1915 and 1916 volumes, making him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist.

The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO ( 30 March 1888 – 26 May 1915 ), was a British soldier and poet of World War I.

Charles Hamilton Sorley ( 19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915 ) was a British poet of World War I.

Notable students include Charles Brasch ( 1909 – 1973 ) at Waitaki 1923 – 1926, a poet and patron of artists ; Douglas Lilburn ( 1915 – 2001 ), " the elder statesman of New Zealand music "; James Bertram ( 1910 – 1993 ), writer and academic ; Denis Blundell, a future Governor-General of New Zealand ; and Ian Milner ( 1911 – 1991 ), the Rector's son, a Czech and English scholar falsely accused of spying for Communism.

Alun Lewis ( 1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944 ), was a poet.

Zamość was the hometown of many prominent Jews, including poet Solomon Ettinger ( 1799 – 1855 ), writer Isaac Leib Peretz ( 1852 – 1915 ), and political activist Rosa Luxemburg ( 1870 – 1919 ).

* Rupert Brooke ( 1887 – 1915 ), poet

James Henry Miller ( 25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989 ) who used the stage name Ewan MacColl was a British folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer.

In a special Imagist issue of The Egoist magazine in May 1915, the poet and critic Harold Monro called H. D.

Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill ( August 1, 1863 – 1915 ) was an American poet, born in Hempstead, New York, who wrote mostly in the French language.

Remy de Gourmont ( April 4, 1858, Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne – September 27, 1915, Paris ) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic.