Timeline June 1915

Events in June 1915 6

• 1915 – 2009 Les Paul (1915-2009) Died 13 August 2009, aged 94 Paul was an American guitarist and inventor whose innovations in solid-body electric guitars and multitrack recording transformed popular music. The Gibson Les Paul guitar, named for him, became one of the most iconic instruments in rock music. He continued performing weekly club shows into his nineties.
• 1915 – 2005 Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Died 5 April 2005, aged 89 Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist known for works including "Herzog" and "Humboldt's Gift", died on 5 April 2005. He was among the most celebrated American writers of the 20th century, exploring modern intellectual and urban life across a five-decade career. Bellow won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.
• 1915 Dwight D. Eisenhower graduates from West Point He graduates in the class of 1915, later called the class the stars fell on because 59 of its members became generals.
• 1915 – 2000 John Tukey (1915-2000) Died 26 July 2000, aged 85 The American mathematician John Tukey developed the fast Fourier transform algorithm with James Cooley and pioneered exploratory data analysis, introducing the box plot and the stem-and-leaf display. He coined the word "bit" and is generally credited with coining "software". He advised the United States government on matters from polling to nuclear-test detection.
• 1915 – 1917 The Battles of the Isonzo Isonzo river, Italy Eleven battles fought over the same stretch of river and mountain in two years, for almost no ground. The twelfth would be Caporetto.
• 1915 – 2001 Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) Died 20 August 2001, aged 86 Hoyle was an astronomer who explained how stars forge the chemical elements, work for which a Nobel Prize later went to a collaborator. He championed the steady-state theory of the universe and coined the term Big Bang for the rival model he rejected. He also wrote science fiction.