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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1915</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1915 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000082242/">Charles Francis Adams, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1835</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1915</tt></td> <td>President of Union Pacific, 1884-90</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000082538/">Nelson W. Aldrich</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Nov-1841</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Apr-1915</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Rhode Island, 1881-1911</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/217/000165719/">Alois Alzheimer</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1915</tt></td> <td>Alzheimer's Disease</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000179882/">Rolf Boldrewood</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1826</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1915</tt></td> <td>Robbery Under Arms</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/124/000102815/">Mary Elizabeth Braddon</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1837</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1915</tt></td> <td>Lady Audley's Secret</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000115308/">Rupert Brooke</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1915</tt></td> <td>1914 and Other Poems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/908/000091635/">John Bunny</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1915</tt></td> <td>Comic starred in over 200 short films</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/362/000120002/">Edith Cavell</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1915</tt></td> <td>British nurse, shot by the Germans</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/230/000117876/">Anthony Comstock</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1844</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1915</tt></td> <td>New York Society for the Suppression of Vice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/935/000209308/">Holmes Conrad</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1840</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1915</tt></td> <td>US Solicitor General, 1895-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/411/000040291/">Walter Crane</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1845</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1915</tt></td> <td>British children's illustrator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/504/000097213/">Porfirio Díaz</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1830</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1915</tt></td> <td>Twice President of Mexico</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/238/000086977/">Paul Ehrlich</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1915</tt></td> <td>Father of chemotherapy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/979/000163490/">Leo Frank</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Aug-1915</tt></td> <td>Innocent man, lynched by mob</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/630/000087369/">Rémy de Gourmont</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1915</tt></td> <td>Promenades Littéraires</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/173/000114828/">Julian Grenfell</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1915</tt></td> <td>Into Battle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/057/000111721/">Keir Hardie</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Sep-1915</tt></td> <td>Organizer of the British Labour Party</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000112974/">Joe Hill</a></td> <td><center>Labor Leader</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1915</tt></td> <td>Labor leader, convicted of murder</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/212/000048068/">Elbert Hubbard</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1915</tt></td> <td>Founder of Roycroft Press</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/685/000164193/">Frank James</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1843</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1915</tt></td> <td>Bank robber, with James Gang</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/104/000099804/">Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1915</tt></td> <td>Confirmed importance of atomic number</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/104/000205486/">Armand Peugeot</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1849</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1915</tt></td> <td>Built the first Peugeot automobiles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/304/000093025/">Aleksandr Scriabin</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1915</tt></td> <td>Prometheus: The Poem of Fire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/858/000137447/">Robert Smalls</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-1839</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1915</tt></td> <td>Slave elected to Congress from South Carolina</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/701/000160221/">A. G. Spalding</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1850</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1915</tt></td> <td>Baseball player, owner, and manufacturer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/315/000164820/">James Murray Spangler</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1848</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1915</tt></td> <td>Invented the upright vacuum cleaner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/477/000111144/">Charles Tupper</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1821</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1915</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Canada, 1896</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/829/000031736/">Booker T. Washington</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1915</tt></td> <td>Founder, Tuskegee Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/088/000031992/">Ellen G. 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