* 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 )

* Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare ( 1815 – 1895 )

* 1895 – Henry Williamson, English author ( d. 1977 )

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895 ) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary ( 1868 – 1873 ) and as Lord President of the Council.

Lord Aberdare died in London on 25 February 1895, aged 79, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son from his first marriage, Henry.

* John Henry Brown ( 1820 – 1895 ), Texas politician, historian, chaired Texas articles of Secession

The first book edition ( possibly prepared from a different manuscript ) was published in New York by Henry Holt and Company on 7 May 1895 ; an English edition was published by Heinemann on 29 May.

Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS ( 4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895 ) was an English biologist ( anatomist ), known as " Darwin's Bulldog " for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

In the book Chinese Origin Of Playing Cards published in 1895, Sir William Henry Wilkinson pointed out that the game of Tien Gow was invented long before Sung Dynasty, but was standardized in 1120:

* May 4 – Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist ( d. 1895 )

* Caldecott, Henry Stratford: Our English Homer ; or, the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy ( Johannesburg Times, 1895 ).

Academics began to understand the origins and corrected etymology of the brown rat towards the end of the 19th century, as seen in the 1895 text Natural History by American scholar Alfred Henry Miles:

Edited by Henry Binder, this version is questioned by those who believe Crane made the original edits for the 1895 Appleton edition on his own accord.

The London School of Economics was founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, initially funded by a bequest of £ 20, 000 from the estate of Henry Hunt Hutchinson.

In 1895, he married the only daughter of Henry Crossley of Aldborough Hall, Bedale.

Hope is home to a few African-American figures, such as Henry C. Yerger, who established a school for blacks in 1895.

Manual's first principal, Henry Kleinschmid, was a favorite of du Pont but was unpopular with the school board, which conspired to replace him in 1895.

Colm Tóibín used an extensive list of biographies of Henry James and his family for his widely admired 2004 novel, The Master, which is a third person narrative with James as the central character, and deals with specific episodes from his life during the period between 1895 and 1899.

* Henry Eustace McCulloch ( 1816 – 1895 ), U. S. Marshal for Eastern District of Texas.

1895 ), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuñi pueblo ; Professor Henry A. Rowland ( 1897 ), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field ; Antiquated Music ( 1900 ), in which Mrs. William D. Frishmuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments ; and The Concert Singer ( 1890 – 92 ), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing " O rest in the Lord ", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth.

In 1895, Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard and James W. Wilson of the Howard-Wilson Publishing Company of Chicago acquired rights to present Fair Oaks community, then primarily covered by citrus farms, from California Senator Frederick K. Cox and businessman Crawford W. Clarke.

The journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley served one term as the Liberal Unionist member of parliament for Lambeth North between 1895 and 1900.

His work on the Huguenots appeared in three parts, entitled respectively History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France ( 2 vols, 1879 ), The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre ( 2 vols, 1886 ), and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( 2 vols, 1895 ), is described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as being " characterized by painstaking thoroughness, by a judicial temper, and by scholarship of a high order ".

Maj .- Gen. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet GCB ( April 5, 1810 – March 5, 1895 ) was a British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology.

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