List of Famous people who died in 1915

Gaston Arman de Caillavet

First Name Gaston
Last Name Caillavet
Died on January 15, 1915

Gaston Arman de Caillavet was a French playwright.

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Rudolph Hittmair

First Name Rudolph
Last Name Hittmair
Born on July 24, 1859
Died on March 5, 1915 (aged 55)

Rudolph Hittmair was an Austrian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Linz. He was ordained in 1888. He was appointed bishop in 1909. He died in 1915.

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Sergei Witte

First Name Sergei
Last Name Witte
Died on February 28, 1915
Born in Georgia

Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte, also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire. He is widely considered to have been one of the key figures in Russian politics at the end of 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. He was made a count following his service to the government in negotiations over the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

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Joseph Thyssen

First Name Joseph
Last Name Thyssen
Born on February 14, 1844
Died on July 15, 1915 (aged 71)

Joseph Thyssen, also Josef Thyssen, was a German industrialist. He was the son of Friedrich Thyssen and the younger brother of August Thyssen, who was also his closest colleague and confidant.

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Guillermo Billinghurst

First Name Guillermo
Last Name Billinghurst
Born on July 27, 1851
Died on June 28, 1915 (aged 63)

Guillermo Enrique Billinghurst Angulo was a Peruvian politician who served as the 31st President of Peru. He succeeded Augusto B. Leguía, from 1912 to 1914. Billinghurst was of part English descent. The surname Billinghurst is a locational name 'of Billinghurst' a parish in Sussex, England.

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Otto Beseler

First Name Otto
Last Name Beseler
Born on May 12, 1841
Died on July 20, 1915 (aged 74)
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John Frederick Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis

First Name John
Born on January 14, 1878
Died on October 24, 1915 (aged 37)

Brigadier-General John Frederick Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis,, known as 'Jack Tre', was a British Army officer in World War I. At the time of his death he was the youngest Brigadier-General in the British Army.

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Heinrich Vollmar

First Name Heinrich
Last Name Vollmar
Born on May 1, 1839
Died on July 8, 1915 (aged 76)
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Frederick William Campbell

First Name Frederick
Last Name Campbell
Born on June 15, 1867
Died on June 19, 1915 (aged 48)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Frederick William Campbell was a Canadian Army Officer, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Mary Anna Jackson

First Name Mary
Last Name Jackson
Born on July 21, 1831
Died on March 24, 1915 (aged 83)

Mary Anna Morrison Jackson was the second wife, and subsequently widow, of Confederate Army general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. She was widely known as the "Widow of the Confederacy" for the next 50 years.

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