List of Famous people who died in 1915
Eugène Grébaut
Eugène Grébaut was a French Egyptologist. Grébaut made significant discoveries in the complex of mortuary temples and tombs located at Deir el-Bahari including several Egyptian mummies of the twenty-first Dynasty.
Eugène Rostand
Flore Singer
Francis Tattegrain
Francis Tattegrain was a French Naturalist painter.
Francis Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey
Francis Charles Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey, styled Viscount Newry from 1851 to 1880, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev
Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.
François Faber
François Faber was a Luxembourgian racing cyclist. He was born in France. He was the first foreigner to win the Tour de France in 1909, and his record of winning 5 consecutive stages still stands. He died in World War I while fighting for France. Faber was known for his long solo's; he is the only rider in Tour de France history to lead solo more than 1000 km.
William Cornelius Van Horne
Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, succeeded Lord Mount Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1888. He was a prominent member of the Whitney syndicate that created the Cuba Railroad Company, incorporated at Trenton, New Jersey, in 1900 with a capitalization of $8,000,000. He lived at the Van Horne Mansion in Montreal's Golden Square Mile.
Konstantine Bagration of Mukhrani
Prince Konstantine Bagration of Mukhrani was a Georgian nobleman from the House of Mukhrani. A member of the Russian Imperial Guard, Konstantine fought with distinction and died in World War I - actions for which he posthumously received the Order of St. George, the highest military decoration of the Empire. Konstantine was in a brief but controversial marriage with Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, a member of the Russian Imperial Family.
Arthur Hughes
Arthur Hughes was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.