Editing 1915 (section)

== Deaths ==
=== January ===
[[File:Wyndham Halswelle.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Wyndham Halswelle]]]]
* [[January 9]] – [[Yang Shoujing]], Chinese historical geographer and calligrapher (b. [[1839]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Marshall Pinckney Wilder]], American actor, humorist, comedian and monologist (b. [[1859]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Mary Slessor]], Scottish Christian missionary (b. [[1848]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Richard Meux Benson]], English founder of an Anglican religious order (b. [[1824]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Anatoly Stessel]], Russian baron and general (b. [[1848]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Anna Leonowens]] (Anna of ''[[The King and I]]'') (b. [[1831]])
* [[January 22]] – [[James M. Spangler]], American inventor (b. [[1848]])

=== February ===
* [[February 3]] – Bosnian Serb conspirators (executed for their part in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria):
** [[Veljko Čubrilović]] (b. [[1886]])
** [[Danilo Ilić]] (b. [[1891]])
** [[Miško Jovanović]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Ross Barnes]], American baseball player (b. [[1850]])
* [[February 18]] 
** [[Francisco Giner de los Ríos]], Spanish philosopher, educator (b. [[1839]])
** [[Frank James]], American outlaw (b. [[1843]])
* [[February 22]] – [[John Gough (British Army officer)|Sir John Gough]], British general, Victoria Cross recipient (killed in action) (b. [[1871]])
* [[February 26]] –[[Edward Richardson]], New Zealand engineer and politician (b. [[1831]])

=== March ===
* [[March 4]] – [[William Willett]], English promoter of [[daylight saving time]] (b. [[1856]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Sergei Witte]], Russian aristocrat, statesman and Prime Minister (b. [[1849]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Lincoln J. Beachey]], American pilot (b. [[1887]])
[[File:Friedrich Loeffler 3.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Friedrich Loeffler]]]]
* [[March 15]] – [[George Llewelyn Davies]], English soldier, inspiration for the "Lost Boys" of ''[[Peter Pan]]'' (killed in action) (b. [[1893]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]], American engineer, economist (b. [[1856]])
* [[March 24]] − [[Morgan Robertson]], American author (b. [[1861]])
* [[March 31]] 
** [[Wyndham Halswelle]], Scottish runner (killed in action) (b. [[1882]])
** [[Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild]], British banker and politician (b. [[1840]])

=== April ===
* [[April 4]] – [[Andrew Stoddart]], English sportsman (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 9]] – [[Friedrich Loeffler]], German bacteriologist (b. [[1852]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Ida Hunt Udall]], American Latter-day Saint diarist (b. [[1858]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Nelson W. Aldrich]], U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. [[1841]])
* [[April 20]] – [[Daniel Webster Jones (Mormon)|Daniel Webster Jones]], American Latter-day Saint pioneer (b. [[1830]])
* [[April 23]]
** [[Rupert Brooke]], English poet (sepsis from an infected mosquito bite on active service) (b. [[1887]]) 
** [[Frederick Fisher (VC)|Frederick Fisher]], Canadian recipient of [[Victoria Cross]] (killed in action) (b. [[1894]])
* [[April 25]] – [[Frederick W. Seward]], American politician (b. [[1830]])
* [[April 26]] – [[John Bunny]], American actor (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 27]]
** [[William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse]], English airman, first aviator awarded [[Victoria Cross]] (b. [[1887]])
** [[Alexander Scriabin]], Russian composer (b. [[1872]])
*[[April 30]] – [[Edward D. Easton]], founder and president of Columbia Phonograph Company<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.recordingpioneers.com/RP_EASTON1.html | title=Edward Denison EASTON | access-date=August 9, 2022 | archive-date=August 19, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819121924/http://www.recordingpioneers.com/RP_EASTON1.html | url-status=live }}</ref> (b. [[1856]])

=== May ===
* [[May 7]] – [[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt]], American sportsman (b. [[1877]]; died in the [[Sinking of the RMS Lusitania|Sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania'']]) 
* [[May 9]] 
** [[François Faber]], Luxembourgish cyclist (killed in action) (b. [[1887]])
** [[Anthony Wilding]], New Zealand tennis player (killed in action) (b. [[1883]])
* [[May 18]] – [[William Bridges (general)|Sir William Bridges]], Australian army general (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 24]] – [[John Condon (British Army soldier)|John Condon]], Irish private soldier in British Army, claimed as youngest British soldier to die in WWI (killed in action) (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Emil Lask]], German philosopher (killed in action) (b. [[1875]])
** [[Julian Grenfell]], English poet (killed in action) (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicholas Mosley|title=Julian Grenfell, His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1AwAAAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston|isbn=978-0-03-017596-1|page=265|access-date=July 25, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125423/https://books.google.com/books?id=N1AwAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] – [[Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero]], 3-time [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1832]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey]], 18th [[Governor of New South Wales]] (b. [[1845]])

=== June ===
* [[June 5]] – [[Henri Gaudier-Brzeska]], French artist and sculptor (killed in action) (b. [[1891]])<ref>{{cite book | author=Ede, H.S. | title=Savage Messiah | year=1931 | publisher=London: Heinemann | oclc=1655358}}</ref>
* [[June 7]] – [[Charles Reed Bishop]], American businessman, [[philanthropist]] in Hawaii (b. [[1822]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Ignatius Maloyan]], Armenian [[Eastern Catholic]] archbishop and blessed (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20011007_beat-maloyan_en.html| title = Ignatius Maloyan| access-date = September 27, 2021| archive-date = November 25, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211125135549/https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20011007_beat-maloyan_en.html| url-status = live}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] – [[Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz]], Polish military leader (killed in action) (b. [[1882]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Benjamin F. Isherwood]], American admiral, United States Navy Engineer-in-Chief (b. [[1822]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Tok Janggut]], Malayan rebel leader (killed in action) (b. [[1853]])

=== July ===
[[File:Porfirio diaz.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Porfirio Diaz]]]]
[[File:Paul Ehrlich 1915.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Paul Ehrlich]]]]
[[File:Alois Alzheimer 003.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alois Alzheimer]]]]
[[File:TupperUniform.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Charles Tupper]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Porfirio Díaz]], 29th [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1830]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-porfirio-diaz-2136494|title=Biography of Porfirio Diaz, Ruler of Mexico for 35 Years|publisher=ThoughtCo.|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213053033/http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/presidentsofmexico/p/08pordiazbio.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] – [[Lawrence Hargrave]], Australian engineer (b. [[1850]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner]], American physician (b. [[1859]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Ellen G. White]], American prophetess, co-founder of the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]], most translated American author (b. [[1827]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Ozra Amander Hadley]], American politician (b. [[1826]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Sandford Fleming|Sir Sandford Fleming]], Canadian engineer and inventor (b. [[1827]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau]], American-born French socialite, model for the painting ''[[Portrait of Madame X]]'' (b. [[1859]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Charles Becker]], American policeman and murderer (executed) (b. [[1870]])

=== August ===
* [[August 10]] – [[Henry Moseley]], English physicist (killed in action) (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Kálmán Széll]], 13th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. [[1843]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Leo Frank]], Jewish-American factory superintendent who was lynched after the murder of Mary Phagan (b. [[1884]])
* [[August 20]] 
** [[Paul Ehrlich]], German scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1854]])
** [[Carlos Finlay]], Cuban pathologist (b. [[1833]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Josiah T. Settle]], American lawyer and politician (b. [[1850]])
* [[August 30]] 
** [[Antonio Flores Jijón]], 13th [[President of Ecuador]] (b. [[1833]])
** [[Pascual Orozco]], Mexican revolutionary (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/11138/Pascual%20Orozcoc|title=Biografía de Pascual Orozco (Su vida, historia, bio resumida)|access-date=August 3, 2022|archive-date=October 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017121857/https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/11138/Pascual%20Orozcoc|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 31]] – [[Adolphe Pégoud]], French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (b. [[1889]])

=== September ===
* [[September 1]] – [[August Stramm]], German poet, playwright (killed in action) (b. [[1874]])
* [[September 9]]
** [[Antonín Petrof]], Czech piano maker (b. [[1839]])
** [[Albert Spalding]], American baseball player, sporting goods manufacturer (b. [[1850]])
* [[September 11]] – [[William Sprague IV]], American politician from Rhode Island (b. [[1830]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Andrew L. Harris]], American Civil War hero, 44th [[Governor of Ohio]] (b. [[1835]])
* [[September 21]] – [[Anthony Comstock]], American anti-indecency reformer (b. [[1844]])
* [[September 26]] – [[Keir Hardie]], British labour leader (b. [[1856]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Fergus Bowes-Lyon]], brother of [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]] (killed in action) (b. [[1889]])

=== October ===
* [[October 4]]
** [[Karl Staaff]], 11th [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (b. [[1860]])
** John Rigby, grandfather of [[Eleanor Rigby]], to whom Paul McCartney attributes a subconscious influence on naming the [[Eleanor Rigby|song with the same name]] (b.[[1843]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Friedrich Hasenöhrl]], Austrian physicist (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.h/h236082.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115062733/https://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.h/h236082.htm|url-status=dead|title=Hasenöhrl, Friedrich|archivedate=January 15, 2022|website=www.aeiou.at}}</ref>
* [[October 10]] – [[Albert Cashier]], born Jennie Hodgers, Irish American soldier (b. [[1843]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Edith Cavell]], British nurse, war heroine (shot) (b. [[1865]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Charles Sorley]], British poet (killed in action) (b. [[1895]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Theodor Boveri]], German biologist (b. [[1862]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková]], Moravian pioneer of female education (heart attack) (b. [[1868]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Wilhelm Windelband]], German philosopher (b. [[1848]])
* [[October 23]] – [[W. G. Grace]], English cricketer (b. [[1848]])
* [[October 26]] – [[August Bungert]], German composer, poet (b. [[1845]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Charles Tupper|Sir Charles Tupper]], 6th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1821]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Blanche Walsh]], American actress (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.josephhaworth.com/blanche_walsh.htm| title = Blanche Walsh (1873-1915)| access-date = December 2, 2021| archive-date = August 24, 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230824000641/http://www.josephhaworth.com/blanche_walsh.htm| url-status = live}}</ref>

=== November ===
[[File:Booker T Washington retouched flattened-crop.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Booker T. Washington]]]]
* [[November 14]] 
** [[Theodor Leschetizky]], Polish pianist and composer (b. [[1830]])
** [[Booker T. Washington]], American educator (b. [[1856]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Félix de Blochausen]], 6th [[Prime Minister of Luxembourg]] (b. [[1834]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Dixie Haygood]], American magician (b. [[1861]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Mubarak Al-Sabah]], [[Emir of Kuwait]] (b. [[1837]])

=== December ===
* [[December 14]] – [[Eva Gouel]], second girlfriend of [[Pablo Picasso]]
* [[December 18]] – [[Henry Roscoe (chemist)|Sir Henry Roscoe]], English chemist (b. [[1833]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Édouard Vaillant]], French Socialist politician (b. [[1840]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Alois Alzheimer]], German psychiatrist, neuropathologist (b. [[1864]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Rose Talbot Bullard]], American medical doctor, professor (b. [[1864]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Tommaso Salvini]], Italian actor (b. [[1829]])