Editing 1915 (section)

=== 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]])