* 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 )

1911 ; film of play, directed by Maurice Tourneur, released in 1918 ); Lyall, Eric: Two Pierrot Plays ( 1918 ); Rodker, John: " Fear " ( 1914 ), " Twilight I " ( 1915 ), " Twilight II " ( 1915 ); Sargent, Herbert C .: Pierrot Playlets: Cackle for Concert Parties ( 1920 ).

Westminster is the birthplace of Sargent Shriver ( 1915 – 2011 ), former candidate for Vice President of the United States and brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy.

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 ).

* January 28-Eddie Sargent, politician ( born 1915 )

* The Secret of the Submarine 1915 — US Action-Adventure silent serial directed by George L. Sargent depicting prevention of US submarine from falling into enemy hands

* Eddie Sargent ( 1915 – 1998 ), Canadian politician

* Francis W. Sargent ( 1915 – 1998 ), American politician

* 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 )

* 1915 – Joy Davidman, American poet and writer, wife of C. S. Lewis ( d. 1960 )

* 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 )