* 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 )

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

* August 16 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player ( b. 1895 )

* Babe Ruth ( 1895 – 1948 ), baseball player and manager, used to vacation at the Allendale Hotel.

* Babe Ruth ( 1895 – 1948 ), Hall of Fame baseball player

* Babe Ruth ( 1895 – 1948 ), American Major League baseball player

* Babe Pinelli ( 1895 – 1984 ), American third baseman and umpire in Major League Baseball

* Babe Pinelli ( 1895 – 1984 ), American baseball umpire

Ralph Arthur " Babe " Pinelli, born Rinaldo Angelo Paolinelli ( October 18, 1895 – October 22, 1984 ), was an American third baseman and umpire in Major League Baseball.

** Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author ( b. 1895 )

* January 12 – Ruth Snyder, American murderer ( executed ) ( b. 1895 )

Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).

* Ruth McDevitt ( 1895 – 1976 ), actress

Matthew Ridgway was born March 3, 1895 in Fort Monroe, Virginia to Colonel Thomas Ridgway, an artillery officer, and Ruth Ridgway.

* Ruth Fischer ( 1895 – 1961 ), German communist

In addition to the aforementioned ( ready-made clothing in 1859 and the Button-Down Dress Shirt in 1896 ), other firsts Brooks Brothers brought to America include: English Foulard Ties ( introduced by Francis G. Lloyd in the 1890s before he was made president of the corporation ); The Sack Suit ( 1895 ); The Pink Dress Shirt ( before 1900, it became a sensation in the postwar period to go with charcoal-gray suits ); The Shetland Sweater ( introduced in 1904 ); The Polo Coat ( about 1910 ); Madras ( introduced from India via Brooks Brothers to the public in 1920 ); Argyles ( in the 1920s, Brooks Brothers became the first American retailer to manufacture argyle socks for men ); Light-weight Summer Suits ( the first lightweight summer suits made of cotton corduroy and seersucker were introduced by Brooks during the early 1930s ); Wash-and-Wear Shirts ( in 1953 the store pioneered the manufacture of wash-and-wear shirts using a blend of Dacron, polyester, and cotton that was invented by Ruth R. Benerito, which they called " Brooksweave "); and the Non-iron Cotton Dress Shirt ( 1999 ).

Ruth Knaggs was born on 8 September 1893 and Phyllis Knaggs on 22 November 1895.

Ruth Brown Snyder ( 1895 – January 12, 1928 ) was an American murderer.

Their first child, Ruth, was born in 1895, followed by Catherine Spencer Hayden in 1902, and Anna Bradford Hayden in 1905.

Sir John Herbert Lewis was married twice, first in 1886 to Adelaide ( d. 1895 ), daughter of Charles Hughes, publisher, Wrexham and in 1897 to Ruth, daughter of W. S. Caine, MP.

In 1895 Lazarus, after the death of his first wife, married the widow Nahida Ruth Remy, who under his influence had embraced Judaism.

The first American automobile race is generally held to be the Thanksgiving Day Chicago Times-Herald race of November 28, 1895.

* 1895 – American Frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

* 1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1895 )

* 1956 – Charles MacArthur, American writer ( b. 1895 )

The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.

* 1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian ( b. 1895 )

Richard Buckminster " Bucky " Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983 ) was an American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

Fuller was born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Caroline Wolcott Andrews, and also the grandnephew of the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.

* 1895 – Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician ( d. 1969 )

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

* 1895 – E. Roland Harriman, American financier ( d. 1978 )

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* 1818 – Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Louis Calhern, American actor ( d. 1956 )

Frederick Douglass ( born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895 ) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.

* 1895 – Anita Stewart, American film actress ( d. 1961 )