* 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 )

* Roycroft Press set up by Elbert Hubbard in 1895.

Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895 in the village of East Aurora, Erie County, New York, near Buffalo.

Frank Hawks and Helen Howard met in the early 1890s and married in 1895.

L. Frank Baum's first published short story was " They Played a New Hamlet " ( 1895 ).

* 1895 – Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun ( d. 1999 )

Joseph Frank " Buster " Keaton ( October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966 ) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer.

* Frank Chester ( umpire ) ( 1895 – 1957 ), English first-class cricketer and notable international cricket umpire

In Germany, Frank Wedekind introduced the femme-fatale of his first " Lulu " play, Earth Spirit ( 1895 ), in a Pierrot costume ; and when the Austrian composer Alban Berg drew upon the play for his opera Lulu ( unfinished ; first perf.

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm ( Russian И ́ горь Евге ́ ньевич Тамм ; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971 ) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit, 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box, 1904 ).

Frank Ives for the French Statesman and author Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, who was born in Paris, August 19, 1805, and died November 24, 1895.

1868, Lewis Robins ; 1869, Washington Snyder ; 1870 – 1871, Sylvester M. Lester ; 1872 – 1873, George F. Rogers ; 1874 – 1875, Alvin H. Cipperly ; 1876 – 1880, Arthur M. Peck ; 1881 – 1885, James C. Cotton ; 1886 – 1888, Sanford B. Horton ; 1889 – 1895, Frank Pettit ; 1896 -, John B. Martin.

Frank Matcham 1895, was preserved and restored in the 1980s.

The university was one of the first institutions in America to grant a law degree to a woman ( Mary B. Hickey Wilkinson, 1873 ), to grant a law degree to an African American ( G. Alexander Clark, 1879 ), and to put an African American on a varsity athletic squad ( Frank Holbrook, 1895 ).

According to a review by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, the term " social Darwinism " was first used in an English-language academic journal in an 1895 book review by the Harvard economist Frank Taussig ( it had been used as early as 1877 in Europe ).

During the previous seven years the popular taste had had turned toward the " service novel ", examples of which are Frank Mildmay ( 1829 ) by Frederick Marryat, Tom Cringle's Log ( 1895 ) by Michael Scott, The Subaltern ( 1825 ) by George Robert Gleig, Cyril Thornton ( 1827 ) by Thomas Hamilton, Stories of Waterloo ( 1833 ) by William Hamilton Maxwell, Ben Brace ( 1840 ) by Frederick Chamier and The Bivouac ( 1837 ), also by Maxwell.

* Augustus Frank ( 1826 – 1895 ) was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War.

* British Birds ( 1895 ), with a chapter by Frank Evers Beddard

Frank H. Dodd, head of Dodd, Mead and Company, established The Bookman in 1895.

Frank Raymond " F. R ." Leavis CH ( 14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978 ) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century.

Frank Raymond Leavis was born in Cambridge, England, in 1895, about a decade after T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound, literary figures whose reputations he would later contribute to enhancing.

Pandora's Box () is a 1929 German silent melodrama film based on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit, 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( 1904 ).

Frank S. Jennings, 1895 – 1902

Between 1905 and 1946, music directors of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ( founded in 1895 ) also were engaged as music director of the biannual choral festival ( Frank Van der Stucken, Ernst Kunwald, Eugène Ysaÿe, Fritz Reiner, and Eugene Goosens held the reins during those years ).

They competed in the County Championship from 1895 but despite being strong in batting, their bowling was, until the arrival of Sam Hargreave and Frank Field in 1899, very weak.