* 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 )

The formal discovery of the element was made in 1895 by two Swedish chemists, Per Teodor Cleve and Nils Abraham Langlet, who found helium emanating from the uranium ore cleveite.

* 1895 – Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat ( d. 1948 )

The will of the Swedish philanthropist inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.

The last was written over a year before he died, signed at the Swedish – Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895.

* September 17 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat ( assassinated ) ( b. 1895 )

* July 6 – Sophie Adlersparre, Swedish feminist ( d. 1895 )

It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will.

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg ( in Swedish: Greve af Wisborg ; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948 ) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945.

* Fredrik August Dahlgren ( 1816 – 1895 ) Swedish writer, playwright and songwriter

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 ).

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1895 and he won the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1903.

Two partial editions of the text of MS Vatican Syriac 162 published in the nineteenth century ( by the Swedish scholar Otto Fredrik Tullberg in 1850 and by Jean-Baptiste Chabot in 1895 ) also credited Dionysius with its authorship.

* 1895 Elektrokemiska Aktiebolaget ( abbreviated EKA ), Swedish for electrochemical factory, is founded by Alfred Nobel ( founder of the Nobel Prize ), C. W. Collander, and Rudolf Liljeqvist ( who becomes Managing Director ) in Bengtsfors, Sweden.

Abraham Viktor Rydberg ( Jönköping, December 18, 1828 – Djursholm, September 21, 1895 ) was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877-1895.

Bertil Lindblad ( Örebro, 26 November 1895 – Saltsjöbaden ( outside Stockholm, 25 June 1965 ) was a Swedish astronomer.

* Hilda Petrini ( 1838 – 1895 ), Swedish clock maker

The first association to administer a Swedish national football tournament was Svenska Idrottsförbundet, founded 1895 in Gothenburg, the dominating football town in Sweden, at the time.

An illustration for a Swedish translation of Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa, in Ekermann's Fornnordiska sagor ( 1895 ).

In 1886 he collected his poems dealing with national subjects as Svenska bilder ( 2nd ed., 1895 ), which ranks as a Swedish classic.

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

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

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

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

* 1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor ( d. 1926 )

* 1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor ( d. 1963 )

* 1895 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor ( d. 1971 )

: For the African-American actor of the same name, see Rex Ingram ( actor ) ( 1895 – 1969 ).

Allan Aynesworth, Evelyn Millard, Irene Vanbrugh and George Alexander ( actor ) | George Alexander in the 1895 London premiere

** Russell Hicks, American actor ( b. 1895 )

** Raymond Griffith, American actor ( b. 1895 )

* August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor ( b. 1895 )

* February 27 – John Boles, American actor ( b. 1895 )

* September 19 – Rex Ingram, American actor ( b. 1895 )

* April 11 – Nando Bruno, Italian film actor ( b. 1895 )

* August 17 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor ( b. 1895 )

** Bud Abbott, American actor ( Abbott and Costello ) ( b. 1895 )

* January 18 – Bert Wheeler, American actor and comedian ( b. 1895 )

** Edward Brophy, American actor ( b. 1895 )

** Lucien Littlefield, American actor ( b. 1895 )

* September 12 – William Boyd, American actor ( b. 1895 )

* May 12 – Louis Calhern, American actor ( b. 1895 )