* 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 )

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 )

One of the greatest Cuban pianist / composers of the 20th century was Ernesto Lecuona ( 1895 – 1963 ).

Source: " Saggio di Commento ai Cognomi Tridentini ", by Ernesto Lorenzo, 1895.

* 1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.

* January 28 – José Martí, Cuban revolutionary ( d. 1895 )

José Julián Martí Pérez ( January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895 ) was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature.

Cuban forces buried José Martí on May 27, 1895 in Santiago de Cuba.

As one of the leaders of the Cuban insurrection of 1895, he ceased using the noble-sounding " de " in his name and became known simply as Alfredo Zayas.

It was the first of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Little War ( 1879 – 1880 ) and the Cuban War of Independence ( 1895 – 1898 ).

Calixto García e Iñiguez ( August 4, 1839 – December 11, 1898 ) was a general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War for Independence: Ten Years ' War, the Little War and the War of 1895, itself sometimes called the Cuban War for Independence, which bled into the Spanish-American War, ultimately resulting in national independence for Cuba.

A policy of repression against Cuban nationalists was ultimately ineffective and Spain's authority was challenged most seriously by the 1895 rebellion led by José Martí.

Zayas was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and sent to the School of Sergeants of the Getafe Civil Guard in Madrid, Spain, before the outbreak of the Cuban Revolt of 1895.

Carlos Manuel Piedra y Piedra ( or Carlos Modesto Piedra y Piedra, 1895 – 1988 ) held the presidency of Cuba for a single day ( January 2, 1959 ) during the transition of power between Fulgencio Batista and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution.

Spain's colony of Cuba rebelled in 1868, leading to a sequence of brutal guerrilla insurgencies and retaliations, through the Ten Years ' War ( 1868 – 1878 ), the Little War ( 1879 – 1880 ) and finally the Cuban War of Independence ( 1895 – 1898 ).

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

* 1895 – Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist ( d. 1960 )

* 1895 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist ( d. 1980 )

* 1895 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist ( d. 1991 )

Showings of silent films almost always featured live music, starting with the pianist at the first public projection of movies by the Lumière Brothers on December 28, 1895 in Paris.

** Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist ( b. 1895 )

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

* April 11 – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor ( d. 1895 )

* Charles Hallé ( 1819 – 1895 ), German pianist and conductor

* José Iturbi ( 1895 – 1980 ), composer and concert pianist

* July 25-Edward Solomon, pianist, conductor and composer ( died 1895 )

* April 11 – Sir Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor ( d. 1895 )

Vincent Lopez ( 30 December 1895 – 20 September 1975 ) was an American bandleader and pianist.

Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff ( 25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991 ) was a German pianist and composer.

Today, the compositions of this period by pianist theatrical composers like Andrianary Ratianarivo ( 1895 – 1949 ) and Naka Rabemananatsoa ( 1892 – 1952 ) form part of the canon of classical Malagasy music and feature in the repertoire of Malagasy students of piano.

His father was the famous Italian concert pianist, composer and music teacher Paolo Gallico ( Trieste, May 13, 1868-New York, July 6, 1955 ) and his mother, Hortense Erlich, came from Austria ; they had emigrated to New York in 1895.

The second, from 1892 to 1895, was the Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño, herself much married and considerably older than d ’ Albert.

The brochure reads: " The Clara Haskil Competition was founded in 1963 to honour and perpetuate the memory of the incomparable Swiss pianist, of Romanian origin, who was born in Bucharest in 1895.

* Wilhelm Kempff ( 1895 – 1991 ), pianist