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Famous People Who Died in December 1915

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  • Dec 2 Jan Malat, Czech composer, dies at 72
  • Dec 4 Gustav Hollaender, German violinist, conductor, and composer, dies at 60
  • Dec 9 Willem Molkenboer, Dutch sculptor and art educator, dies at 71
  • Dec 13 Francis Cockrell, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 81
  • Dec 18 Henry Enfield Roscoe, English chemist (vanadium and photochemistry), dies at 82
  • Dec 18 Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st American female professional architect (Buffalo Meter Company Building), dies at 59

Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915)

Dec 19 German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51

Alois Alzheimer
  • Dec 23 Roland Leighton, English poet and soldier (featured in The Testament of Youth), dies on French battlefield during WWI at 20
  • Dec 28 Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer and politician, dies at 78
  • Dec 29 C. B. Hawley, American organist and composer, dies at 57
  • Dec 29 Tom Shevlin, American College Football Hall of Fame end (Yale - Consensus All-American 1902, 04, 05; National C'ship 1902, 05), dies of pneumonia at 32


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