List of Famous people who died in 1915
Gaston Arman de Caillavet
Gaston Arman de Caillavet was a French playwright.
Rudolph Hittmair
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.
Sergei Witte
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.
Joseph Thyssen
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.
Guillermo Billinghurst
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.
Otto Beseler
John Frederick Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis
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.
Heinrich Vollmar
Frederick William Campbell
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.
Mary Anna Jackson
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.