2015 in public domain

This is a list of authors whose works enter the public domain in part of the world in 2015.

Entering the public domain in Europe

A work enters the public domain in most European countries 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the author's lifetime.^[1]

Writers

• George Ade, American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright
• Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish poet
• Charles Glover Barkla, British physicist and 1917 Nobel laureate in Physics
• Marc Bloch, French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history
• Max Brand (nom de plume of Frederick Schiller Faust), American author
• Pierre Brossolette, journalist and French Resistance fighter
• Joseph Campbell, Northern Irish poet and lyricist
• Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, 1912 Nobel laureate in Medicine
• Irvin S. Cobb, American author, humorist and columnist
• William Coles Finch, English author and mill enthusiast
• Sir Arthur Eddington, British astronomer, physicist, and mathematician
• Jean Giraudoux, French writer
• Gerald Haxton, long-term secretary and lover of novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham
• Max Jacob, French poet, painter, writer, and critic
• Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor
• Carl Mayer, Austrian screenwriter
• Carl Meinhof, German linguist
• Kaj Munk, Danish playwright, priest and martyr
• Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and stage director
• Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, British writer and literary critic who published under the pen name of Q
• William Emerson Ritter, American biologist
• Romain Rolland, French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic; 1915 Nobel laureate for Literature
• Vincent Rose, Italian-American songwriter and band leader
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer and aviator
• Edgar Selwyn, American screenwriter
• Dame Edith Sitwell, British avant-garde poet and literary critic
• Ida Tarbell, American teacher, author and muckraking journalist
• Jakob von Uexküll, Baltic German biologist
• Harold Bell Wright, American writer of fiction, essays, and non-fiction

Artists

• George Herriman, American cartoonist
• Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter.
• Hilma af Klint, Swedish painter
• Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter
• Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement
• Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter.
• Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter
• Paul Poiret, French couturier
• W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist and illustrator
• Rex Whistler, English artist

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