List of Famous people who died in 1915

Theodore M. Davis was an American lawyer and businessman. He is best known for his excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings between 1902 and 1913.

Friedrich Moritz Erich Harnack was a Baltic German pharmacologist and toxicologist.

Jan Hřímalý was an influential Czech violinist and teacher, who was associated with the Moscow Conservatory for 46 years 1869–1915.

John Ulric Nef was a Swiss-born American chemist and the discoverer of the Nef reaction and Nef synthesis. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Lady Elizabeth Philippa Biddulph was an English humanitarian and temperance leader. She published a biography of her father, Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, and was appointed a Woman of the Bedchamber by Queen Victoria.

Karl Goldmark was a Hungarian-born Viennese composer.

Commander Edward Downes Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough, was a British Royal Navy officer and member of the House of Lords.

Julius Johannes Ludovicus Ritter von Payer, ennobled Ritter von Payer in 1876, was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, mountaineer, arctic explorer, cartographer, painter, and professor at the Theresian Military Academy. He is chiefly known for the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition in 1872–74 and the discovery of Franz Josef Land.