* June 24 – Archie Williams, American athlete ( b. 1915 )

** Thomas Williams, British politician ( b. 1915 )

Branwen by Christopher Williams ( Welsh artist ) | Christopher Williams ( 1915 ).

Branwen by Christopher Williams ( Welsh artist ) | Christopher Williams ( 1915 )

Williams in 1915.

Williams started a music publishing business with violinist / bandleader Armand J. Piron in 1915, which by the 1920s was the leading African-American owned music publisher in the country.

Kreymborg moved to Ridgefield and launched Others: A Magazine of the New Verse with Skipwith Cannell, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams in 1915.

* William Charles Williams ( 1880 – 1915 ), Victoria Cross recipient of World War I

* Sir William Thomas Williams ( UK politician ) ( 1915 – 1986 ), British Member of Parliament for Warrington

* Thomas W. Williams ( Los Angeles ), opposed the direct primary, 1915

In 1915, Piron and Williams together started the Piron and Williams Publishing Company, and in their first year of business published Piron's composition, “ I Wish That I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate ”, which became his biggest hit.

* Billy Williams ( 1878 – 1915 )

Able Seaman William Charles Williams ( 1880 – 1915 ), who was born in Shropshire but raised in Chepstow, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in World War I.

The youngest person elected General Superintendent was Roy T. Williams ( 1883 – 1946 ), who was only 32 when chosen to fill a vacancy caused by the deaths of Phineas F. Bresee ( 1837 – 1915 ) and William C. Wilson ( 1866 – 1915 ), both of whom died within weeks of the 1915 General Assembly.

* Paul Williams ( saxophonist ) ( 1915 – 2002 ), rhythm and blues saxophonist

* Roy Lee Williams ( 1915 – 1989 ), Teamsters labor union president

* Arthur Williams ( actor ) ( 1844 – 1915 ), English actor, singer and playwright

* Thomas Williams Bicknell, Story of Dr. John Clarke: the founder of the first free commonwealth of the world on the basis of " full liberty in religious concernments ," ( Providence, RI: Self Published, 1915 ), pg.

* Cities in Evolution ( 1915 ) Williams & Norgate, London.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

* Morris Jastrow, Jr., The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: its remains, language, history, religion, commerce, law, art, and literature, London: Lippincott ( 1915 ) — a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; also available in layered PDF format

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

Other directors were also just starting to take up this style in 1915, for instance William S. Hart in Bad Buck of Santa Ynez.

Expressionist influence is also in evidence in Frankenstein, drawn in part from the work of Paul Wegener and his films The Golem ( 1915 ) and The Golem: How He Came into the World ( 1920 ) along with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ) from Robert Wiene, which Whale reportedly screened repeatedly while preparing to shoot Frankenstein.

Two larger cruisers, SMS Wiesbaden and SMS Frankfurt were also commenced and entered service in 1915.

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.

Mao also remained active in school politics, in 1915 becoming elected to the position of secretary of the Students Society.

Sun Lutang from 1915 also began publishing martial arts texts.

Saint Raphael of Brooklyn ( November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915 ), also known as Father Raphael, was born as Raphael Hawaweeny () in Beirut, Lebanon, of Damascene Syrian parents.

Other early structures included copper, calcium fluoride ( CaF < sub > 2 </ sub >, also known as fluorite ), calcite ( CaCO < sub > 3 </ sub >) and pyrite ( FeS < sub > 2 </ sub >) in 1914 ; spinel ( MgAl < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 4 </ sub >) in 1915 ; the rutile and anatase forms of titanium dioxide ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) in 1916 ; pyrochroite Mn ( OH )< sub > 2 </ sub > and, by extension, brucite Mg ( OH )< sub > 2 </ sub > in 1919 ;.

The previously German Upper Silesian town of Zabrze () was also renamed after him in 1915.

Thornton also attended Creekside Middle School in Berkeley, and graduated from Berkeley High School in 1915.

The First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) also involved Monza as the other cities of Italy, at the end of the war the city has decided to recall its six hundred grandiose monument to the fallen ( 1932 ) by sculptor E. Pancera, located in the square Trento and Trieste ( the Old Market Square ).

A Federal League team, the Newark Pepper also played in 1915.

This also resulted in the 1915 ABC Pact signed between the three and, like Brazil and Chile, Argentina thereafter pursued a pragmatic foreign policy, focused on preserving favorable trade relationships.

Tatiana was also fond of an officer named Vladimir Kiknadze, whom she cared for when he was wounded in 1915 and again in 1916, according to the diary of Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, a nurse who worked with Tatiana during the war.

The Manual Crimsons football team, which had also been consolidated with Male's from 1915 to 1918, had great success in the 1920s, beating Male two years in a row for the first time in its history.

Recognised for his abilities, Buchan was appointed as the Director of Information in 1917, under the Lord Beaverbrook a job that Buchan said was " the toughest job I ever took on " and also assisted Charles Masterman in publishing a monthly magazine that detailed the history of the war, the first edition appearing in February 1915 ( and later published in 24 volumes as Nelson's History of the War ).

The plumes, or aigrettes, as they were called in the millinery business, sold for $ 32 an ounce in 1915 — also the price of gold.

The Cook County Forest Preserves, organized in 1915, is a separate, independent taxing body, but the Cook County Board of Commissioners also acts as its Board of Commissioners.

Bonner County to the north had been formed in 1907 from Kootenai County ; Bonner County was also divided in 1915 with the formation of Boundary County.

The soldiers also received visits from Lord Kithchener in July 1915, and King George V in August of the same year who presented several soldiers with military honours.