| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charles Francis Adams, Jr. |
Business |
27-May-1835 |
20-May-1915 |
President of Union Pacific, 1884-90 |
| Nelson W. Aldrich |
Politician |
6-Nov-1841 |
16-Apr-1915 |
US Senator from Rhode Island, 1881-1911 |
| Alois Alzheimer |
Doctor |
14-Jun-1864 |
19-Dec-1915 |
Alzheimer's Disease |
| Rolf Boldrewood |
Novelist |
6-Aug-1826 |
11-Mar-1915 |
Robbery Under Arms |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Novelist |
4-Oct-1837 |
4-Feb-1915 |
Lady Audley's Secret |
| Rupert Brooke |
Poet |
3-Aug-1887 |
23-Apr-1915 |
1914 and Other Poems |
| John Bunny |
Actor |
21-Sep-1863 |
26-Apr-1915 |
Comic starred in over 200 short films |
| Edith Cavell |
Victim |
4-Dec-1865 |
12-Oct-1915 |
British nurse, shot by the Germans |
| Anthony Comstock |
Activist |
7-Mar-1844 |
21-Sep-1915 |
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice |
| Holmes Conrad |
Attorney |
31-Jan-1840 |
4-Sep-1915 |
US Solicitor General, 1895-97 |
| Walter Crane |
Artist |
15-Aug-1845 |
17-Mar-1915 |
British children's illustrator |
| Porfirio Díaz |
Head of State |
15-Sep-1830 |
2-Jul-1915 |
Twice President of Mexico |
| Paul Ehrlich |
Doctor |
14-Mar-1854 |
20-Aug-1915 |
Father of chemotherapy |
| Leo Frank |
Victim |
17-Apr-1884 |
17-Aug-1915 |
Innocent man, lynched by mob |
| Rémy de Gourmont |
Poet |
4-Apr-1858 |
27-Sep-1915 |
Promenades Littéraires |
| Julian Grenfell |
Poet |
30-Mar-1888 |
26-May-1915 |
Into Battle |
| Keir Hardie |
Politician |
15-Aug-1856 |
26-Sep-1915 |
Organizer of the British Labour Party |
| Joe Hill |
Labor Leader |
7-Oct-1879 |
19-Nov-1915 |
Labor leader, convicted of murder |
| Elbert Hubbard |
Author |
19-Jun-1856 |
7-May-1915 |
Founder of Roycroft Press |
| Frank James |
Criminal |
10-Jan-1843 |
18-Feb-1915 |
Bank robber, with James Gang |
| Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley |
Physicist |
23-Nov-1887 |
10-Aug-1915 |
Confirmed importance of atomic number |
| Armand Peugeot |
Business |
26-Mar-1849 |
2-Jan-1915 |
Built the first Peugeot automobiles |
| Aleksandr Scriabin |
Composer |
25-Dec-1871 |
14-Apr-1915 |
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire |
| Robert Smalls |
Politician |
5-Apr-1839 |
23-Feb-1915 |
Slave elected to Congress from South Carolina |
| A. G. Spalding |
Baseball |
2-Sep-1850 |
9-Sep-1915 |
Baseball player, owner, and manufacturer |
| James Murray Spangler |
Inventor |
20-Nov-1848 |
22-Jan-1915 |
Invented the upright vacuum cleaner |
| Charles Tupper |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1821 |
30-Oct-1915 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1896 |
| Booker T. Washington |
Educator |
5-Apr-1856 |
14-Nov-1915 |
Founder, Tuskegee Institute |
| Ellen G. White |
Religion |
26-Nov-1827 |
16-Jul-1915 |
Adventist seer of visions |
