Events from the year 1915 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Births
January to March
April to June
July to December
- 31 July â Henri Decaë, cinematographer (died 1987)
- 19 August â Alphonse Antoine, cyclist (died 1999)
- 22 October â Jules Bigot, soccer player and manager (died 2007)
- 22 October â Jean Despeaux, boxer, Olympic gold-medallist (died 1989)
- 9 November â André François, cartoonist (died 2005)
- 12 November â Roland Barthes, literary critic and philosopher (died 1980)
- 17 November â Michel Arnaud, General (died 1990)
- November â Jean Neuberth, abstract painter (died 1966)
- 17 December â André Claveau, singer (died 2003)
- 19 December â ÃÂdith Piaf, singer (died 1963)
Deaths
- 8 April â Louis Pergaud, novelist (killed in action) (born 1882)
- 10 May â Gaston Cros, army officer and archaeologist (killed in action) (born 1861)
- 5 June â Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, painter and sculptor (killed in action) (born 1891)
- 25 July â Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, socialite, model for Portrait of Madame X (born 1859)
- 31 August â Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1889)
- 15 September â Alfred Agache, painter (born 1843)
- 31 August â Adolphe Pégoud, acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1889)
- 11 October â Jean Henri Fabre, entomologist (born 1823)
- 25 November â Michel Bréal, philologist (born 1832)
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References