* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

* 1895 – Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter ( d. 1960 )

* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )

* 1803 – Edward Beecher, American theologian ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1981 )

* 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer ( d. 1963 )

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

* 1895 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1948 )

* 1895 – Bert Lahr, American actor ( d. 1967 )

* 1828 – Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Matt Henderson, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 1970 )

* 1817 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Neva Morris, American super-centenarian ( d. 2010 )

* 1895 – Marguerite Nichols, American actress ( d. 1941 )

* 1973 – Richard Marshall, American general ( b. 1895 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* 1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer ( d. 1948 )

* 1895 – Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer ( d. 1973 )

* 1895 – Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest and film maker ( d. 1976 )

* 1855 – Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author ( d. 1895 )

Albert Turpain sent and received his first radio signal, using Morse code, in France, up to 25 meters in 1895.

With the Examiners success established by the early 1890s, Hearst began looking for a New York newspaper to purchase, and acquired the New York Journal in 1895, a penny paper which Pulitzer's brother Albert had sold to a Cincinnati publisher the year before.

** Albert White, American Olympic diver ( b. 1895 )

* August 3 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general ( d. 1895 )

George VI ( Albert Frederick Arthur George ; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952 ) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death.

His birthday ( 14 December 1895 ) was the anniversary of the death of his great-grandfather, Prince Albert, the Prince Consort.

* 14 December 1895 – 28 May 1898: His Highness Prince Albert of York

* Prince Albert of York or George VI of the United Kingdom ( 1895 – 1952 ), grandson of Edward VII

* William Albert, Count of Montenuovo, later created Prince of Montenuovo ( 1819 – 1895 ), married Countess Juliana Batthyány von Németújvár )

Joel B. Peck, H. A. Cook ; 1879, William Moul ; 1880, C. Snyder ; 1881, Albert Kilmer ; 1882, Ezra W. Knowlton ; 1883, William Moul ; 1884, B. J. L. Sliter ; 1885, Albert Kilmer ; 1885, A. H. Cipperly ( appointed to fill, vacancy ); 1886, A. H. Cipperly ; 1887, Addison P. Lape ; 1888, C. Snyder ; 1889, Albert Kilmer ; 1890, Addison P. Lape ; 1891, Addison TJline ; 1892, E. M. Gregory, Le Grand M. Turner ( appointed to fill vacancy ); 1893, Sanford B. Horton ; 1894, Le Grand M. Turner ; 1895, Addison Uline ; 1896, Aipheus Bailey.

Founded in 1895, each season currently consists of more than 70 concerts in the Albert Hall, a series of chamber concerts at Cadogan Hall, additional Proms in the Park events across the United Kingdom on the last night, and associated educational and children's events.

Pedestrians had been able to cross the river on the 2 previous Albert Bridges from 1875 – 1893, and from 1895 until the opening of the Walter Taylor Bridge

In 1895, William Randolph Hearst purchased the rival New York Journal from Pulitzer's brother, Albert.

* Albert Pryce-Jones ( 1895 ), ( 1 cap )

The first recorded attempt on an eight-thousander took place on the expedition by Albert F. Mummery, and J. Norman Collie to Nanga Parbat in the territory of Kashmir ( in present day Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan ) in 1895 ; this attempt failed as Mummery and two Gurkhas, Ragobir and Goman Singh, were killed by an avalanche.

In 1895 Albert F. Mummery led an expedition to the peak, and reached almost 7, 000 m ( 23, 000 ft ) on the Diamir ( West ) Face, but Mummery and two Gurkha companions later died reconnoitering the Rakhiot Face.

Physicist Albert Einstein, born in Germany, moved to Switzerland in 1895 at the age of 16 and became a Swiss citizen in 1901.

The architectural firm Albert Kahn Associates was founded in 1895.

* Albert Sorel-diplomatic historian ; L ' Europe et la Révolution française ( 8 volumes, 1895 – 1904 ); introductory section of this work translated as Europe under the Old Regime ( 1947 ).

* Albert Sorel-diplomatic historian: Europe et la Révolution française ( 8 volumes, 1895 – 1904 ); introductory section of this work translated as Europe under the Old Regime ( 1947 ).

* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist ( d. 1967 )

* November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist ( b. 1895 )

The museum's collection includes Marlene Dietrich's Rolls-Royce, a 1915 Stutz Indianapolis race car, gull-winged Mercedes-Benz, a 1950 Cadillac " gangster special " that belonged to gangster Mickey Cohen, and an 1895 Benz Velo, imported to New Zealand in 1900.

Albert Cohen ( August 16, 1895, Corfu, Greece – October 17, 1981, Geneva, Switzerland ) was a Greek-born Romaniote Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French.

Born Abraham Albert Cohen () in Corfu, Greece, in 1895, to Greek Jewish parents.