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Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson (1741 – 1813) was a politician, militia officer, and surveyor from South Carolina. He was a lifelong friend of General Andrew Pickens. Anderson, South Carolina, Anderson County, South Carolina, and the ghost town of Andersonville are...
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- Jan 9, 1813
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Josif Runjanin
Josip Runjanian or Josif Runjanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосиф Руњанин; 8 December 1821–2 February 1878) was a Serb composer from Habsburg Monarchy (born in the territory of present-day Croatia, died in the territory of present-day Serbia), most notably...
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- Feb 2, 1878
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Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier, 4th Prince de Wagram
Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier (July 20, 1883, Paris - May 30, 1918, Barenton-sur-Serre; 4th Prince de Wagram) was the son of Bertha Clara von Rothschild of the German branch of the prominent Rothschild family and Louis Philippe Marie...
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- 1903
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Kagher Neiber-Shieg
Kagher Neiber-Shieg (February 5, 1897 – 1910s) was a Canadian-born German fighter ace.
Neiber-Shieg was born to a German family in downtown Ottawa. His father worked in an industrial plant, while his mother lived at home. For three years, 1912–1915,...
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- 1910
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Joseph de Marliave
Joseph de Marliave (1873–24 August 1914) was a French musicologist. He is best known for his book on the Beethoven quartets, which was the most widely-read and quoted book on the subject prior to Joseph Kerman's 1966 book The Beethoven Quartets.
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- 1914
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Karl Baedeker
Karl Baedeker (ca. 1877 – 1914) was a German scientist.
One of his scientific discoveries was that the resistivity of cuprous iodide (CuI) depended on its stoichiometry.
Baedeker was killed in action during World War I.
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- 1914
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Adolphe Reinach
Adolphe Reinach (1887–1914) was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist, active in excavations in Greece and Egypt. He was the son of the archaeologist Joseph Reinach and was killed in the first few months of the First World War whilst fighting in...
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- 1914
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Henri Bonnefoy
Henri Bonnefoy (October 17, 1887 – August 9, 1914) was a French sport shooter who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Le Tremblois and was killed in action in Thann, Haut-Rhin.
In 1908 he was a member of the French team which won...
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- Aug 9, 1914
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Alphonse Six
Alphonse Six (1 January 1890 in Bruges – 19 August 1914 in Boutersem) was a Belgian football player. Six is mainly remembered for his goal-scoring capacities. In his period with Cercle Brugge he scored 93 times in only 89 matches. His 1910-1911...
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- Aug 19, 1914
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Leberecht Maass
Leberecht Maass (or Maaß) (24 November 1863 – 28 August 1914) was the rear admiral who commanded the German naval forces at the first Battle of Heligoland Bight. He lost his life when his flagship, the light cruiser SMS Köln, was sunk by British...
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- Aug 28, 1914
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Edward Kinder Bradbury
Captain Edward Kinder Bradbury VC (16 August 1881 – 1 September 1914) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth...
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- Sep 1, 1914
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Alain-Fournier
Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier (October 3, 1886 – September 22, 1914), a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been twice filmed and is considered a classic of...
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- Sep 22, 1914
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August Macke
August Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main...
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- Sep 26, 1914
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Jean Bouin
Jean Bouin (December 20, 1888 – September 29, 1914) was a French athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
In the 1500 metres, Bouin placed second of three in his initial semifinal heat...
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- Sep 29, 1914
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Georg Thiele
Georg Max Thiele (11 May 1881 - 17 October 1914) was an Imperial German Navy officer (Korvettenkapitän) killed during World War I. During World War I he commanded the Seventh Half Flotilla of torpedo boats, based out of Flanders. His ship,...
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- Oct 17, 1914
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James Anson Otho Brooke
James Anson Otho Brooke VC (3 February 1884 – 29 October 1914) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
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- Oct 29, 1914
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Ernst Stadler
Ernst Stadler (11 August 1883 — 30 October 1914) was a German Expressionist poet. He was born in Colmar, Alsace-Lorraine and educated in Strasbourg and Oxford; in 1906 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Magdalen College, Oxford.
His...
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- Oct 30, 1914
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George Archer-Shee
George Archer-Shee (6 May 1895 – 31 October 1914) was a young Royal Navy cadet whose case of whether he stole a five shilling postal order ended up being decided in London's High Court in 1910. The trial, which became a British cause célèbre, was...
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- Oct 31, 1914
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Edward Teshmaker Busk
Lieutenant Edward Teshmaker Busk, London Electrical Engineers RE(T) (8 March 1886 – 5 November 1914) was an English pioneer of early aircraft design, and the designer of the first full-sized efficient inherently stable aeroplane.
He was the son of...
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- Nov 5, 1914
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Francis Annesley, 6th Earl Annesley
Francis Annesley, 6th Earl of Annesley (25 February 1884 – 6 November 1914) was a pioneer aviator who died in a plane crash at sea.
He was the only son of Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley and his first wife, Mabel Markham. He was born on 25 February...
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- Nov 6, 1914
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Joachim von Heydebreck
Joachim von Heydebreck (October 6, 1861 - November 12, 1914) was a German military officer who was born in Schwedt.
He was a member of the Grenadier-Regiment Prinz Karl, and in 1893 was sent to serve in colonial German Southwest Africa. Heydebreck...
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- Nov 12, 1914
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Frank Alexander de Pass
Frank Alexander de Pass VC (26 April 1887 – November 1914) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was...
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- Nov 25, 1914
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Marc Pourpe
Marc Pourpe (1887 - December 2, 1914) was a French aviation pioneer and stunt flyer. His mother was the courtesan Liane de Pougy and his father a naval officer. His mother had run off with young Armand Pourpe when she was only 16, and they only...
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- Dec 2, 1914
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Maximilian von Spee
Vice Admiral Maximilian Reichsgraf von Spee (22 June 1861 – 8 December 1914) was a German admiral. Although he was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the counts von Spee belonged to the prominent families of the Rhenish nobility. He joined the Kaiserliche...
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- Dec 8, 1914
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William Arthur Bruce
William Arthur McCrae Bruce VC (15 June 1890 – 19 December 1914) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces,...
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- Dec 19, 1914
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Hafiz Hakki
Hafız Hakkı Pasha (* 1879 in Bitola ; 15. February 1915 in Erzurum) was a General of the Ottoman Empire military.
Hafız was a classmate of Enver Pasha. He ranked number 1 in the military school while Enver ranked second. Hakkı fought in the Balkan...
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- 1915
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William Malone
Lieutenant-Colonel William George Malone (24 January 1859 – 8 August 1915) was New Zealand Army officer who served during World War One. He commanded the Wellington Infantry Battalion during the Gallipoli Campaign, and was killed in action during...
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- 1915
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Lacey Robert Johnson
Colonel Lacey Robert Johnson (1854-1915) was a Canadian Pacific Railway pioneer.
Lacey Johnson was the son of James Lacey Johnson, draper, of Market Place, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. From Abingdon School he entered the Great Western Railway...
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- 1915
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Charles H Collet
Charles Herbert Collet DSO (4 February 1888 – 19 August 1915), was a British Naval airman during the First World War, regarded as one of the best Naval airmen of his day.
Charles Collet was born in India in around 1888, the son of an engineer James...
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- 1915
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George Herbert Farrar
Sir George Herbert Farrar, 1st Baronet, DSO (17 June 1859 Chatteris, Cambridgeshire – 20 May 1915 Kuibis, South West Africa, was a South African mining magnate, politician and soldier - Colonel and assistant Quartermaster General - Central Force,...
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- 1915
Harold Chapin
Harold Chapin (15 February 1886 – 26 September 1915) was an English actor and playwright.
Chapin was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1886. Although “technically an American citizen, he was an English actor, and English playwright and died as a...
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- 1915
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Albert Malet
Albert Malet (3 May 1864, Clermont-Ferrand - 25 September 1915, Battle of Thélus, Pas de Calais) was a French historian and author of scholarly textbooks, killed during the First World War.
Catholic, Republican and patriotic, he failed the entry...
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- 1915
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Gaetano Perusini
Gaetano Perusini (1879 – 1915) was an Italian physician. He was the pupil and the co-worker of Alois Alzheimer and contributed to the definition of the Alzheimer’s disease. In 1915 he joined Italian army and was killed in action on 8 December the...
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- 1915
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Dick Gibbs
Richard Horace Maconchie "Dick" Gibbs was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne University in the Victorian Football League.
He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and at the University of Melbourne.
He enlisted during the...
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- 1915
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Eustace Jotham
Eustace Jotham VC (28 November 1883 – 7 January 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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- Jan 7, 1915
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Gobar Sing Negi
Gabbar Singh Negi VC (October 1893 – 1915) was an Indian soldier, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest Commonwealth award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy", during the First World War.
Gabar Singh Negi was born on 21 April 1895 at...
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- Mar 10, 1915
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Wyndham Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd Baron Brabourne
Wyndham Wentworth Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd Baron Brabourne (21 September 1885 – 11 March 1915) was a British peer. He was killed in action with the Grenadier Guards on 11 March 1915, and is buried at Le Touret.
In 1911 he was one of the 112 peers...
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- Mar 11, 1915
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Edward Barber
Edward Barber VC (10 June 1893 – 12 March 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Barber was born on...
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- Mar 12, 1915
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William Anderson
William Anderson VC (November 1885 – 13 March 1915) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Anderson was...
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- Mar 13, 1915
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Otto Weddigen
Otto Eduard Weddigen (15 September 1882 – 18 March 1915) was a German U-boat commander during World War I.
He was born in Herford and started his military career in the Kaiserliche Marine in 1901. In 1910 he was given command of one of the first...
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- Mar 18, 1915
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Louis Pergaud
Louis Pergaud (22 January 1882 – 8 April 1915) was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to their rooting in the flora and fauna of the Franche-Comté. His most famous work was the novel La Guerre des...
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- Apr 7, 1915
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George Godfrey Massy Wheeler
George Godfrey Massy Wheeler VC (31 January 1873 – 13 April 1915) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was...
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- Apr 13, 1915
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Frederick Fisher
Frederick Fisher VC (3 August 1894 – 23 April 1915), was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the...
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- Apr 23, 1915
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Auguste Chaillou
Auguste Chaillou (August 21, 1866 – April 23, 1915) was a French biologist and physician born in Parennes in the department of Sarthe. He worked at the Hôpital des Enfants-Malades, and for most of his career was associated with the Pasteur Institute...
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- Apr 23, 1915
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James Duffy
Jimmy McNiff/Duffy (born May 1, 1890, in County Leitrim, Ireland – died April 23, 1915, outside Ypres, Belgium) was a distance runner from Canada. He was the winner of the 1914 Boston Marathon.
Duffy, born in Ireland, grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland....
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- Apr 23, 1915
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Frederick William Hall
Frederick William Hall, VC (8 February 1885 – 24 April 1915) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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- Apr 24, 1915
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J. Rupert Balfe
(Joseph) Rupert Balfe (9 March 1890 – 25 April 1915) was an Australian rules footballer.
Born in Brunswick, Balfe attended Princes Hill State School before earning a scholarship to attend University High School. Rupert decided after High School that...
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- Apr 25, 1915
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Joe Pearce
Arthur Mueller "Joe" Pearce (28 January 1885 – 25 April 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Throughout his life, he was always known as "Joe".
He was a member of the First AIF,...
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- Apr 25, 1915
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Edward Larkin
Edward Rennix "Teddy" Larkin (21 September 1880–25 April 1915) was an Australian parliamentarian and a national representative rugby union player who saw service in World War I and was killed in action on the first day of the Gallipoli Campaign. He...
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- Apr 25, 1915
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Blair Swannell
Major Blair Inskip Swannell (20 August 1875 – 25 April 1915) was an English-born international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Northampton. Swannell played international rugby for the British Isles on their 1899 tour of Australia and...
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- Apr 25, 1915
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William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse
William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse VC, born William Barnard Moorhouse, (26 September 1887 – 27 April 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be...
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- Apr 27, 1915
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Henry Norman MacLaurin
Brigadier General Henry Normand MacLaurin (31 October 1878 - 27 April 1915) was a barrister and Australian Army Colonel who served in World War I. He was shot dead by a Turkish sniper at Gallipoli on 27 April 1915.
He was subsequently promoted ...
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- Apr 27, 1915
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Hermann Schoemann
Kapitanlieutenant Hermann Schoemann (17. April 1881 - died 1 May 1915) was a German Naval officer killed in World War I. He was commander of torpedo boat A2 which was sunk in action with Royal Navy Forces off the coast of Flanders during the Battle...
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- May 1, 1915
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Tony Wilding
Anthony "Tony" Frederick Wilding (31 October 1883 – 9 May 1915) was a champion tennis player from Christchurch, New Zealand and a soldier killed in action during World War I near Neuve-Chapelle, Pas-de-Calais, France.
He was a leading tennis player...
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- May 9, 1915
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Abraham Acton
Abraham Acton VC (17 December 1893 – 16 May 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Acton was born on...
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- May 16, 1915
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William Throsby Bridges
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges KCB, CMG (18 February 1861 – 18 May 1915) served with Australian forces during World War I, and was the first Australian to reach general officer rank. He died at Gallipoli on 18 May 1915, becoming the first...
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- May 18, 1915
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John Simpson Kirkpatrick
John "Jack" Simpson Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), who served under the name John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. After landing at Anzac...
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- May 19, 1915
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Leonid Gobyato
Leonid Nikolaevich Gobyato (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Гобято) (6 February 1875 – 21 May 1915) was a lieutenant-general (awarded posthumously in 1915) in the Imperial Russian Army and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar.
Leonid Gobyato was...
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- May 21, 1915
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Frank Bingham
Frank Miller Bingham (17 September 1874 – 22 May 1915) was an English doctor, all round sportsman and army officer who was killed in the First World War. As a cricketer, he played for Derbyshire in 1896.
Bingham was born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, the...
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- May 22, 1915
