* 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 )

In 1895, Dorn succeeded Hermann Knoblauch at Halle as the ordinarius professor for experimental physics and director of the physics institute.

*“ Arthur Prüfer-Johann Hermann Schein, Leipzig 1895 ,” Die Zeit, Band 5 ( 1895 ), p. 30.

Selections from his literary remains were published by R. Krauss in Eduard Mörike als Gelegenheitsdichter ( 1895 ), and his correspondence with Hermann Kurz, Moritz von Schwind, and Theodor Storm, by J. Bachtold ( 1885 – 1891 ); an edition of Mörike's Ausgewählte Briefe (“ Selected letters ”), in 2 vols., appeared 1903-1904.

Dr. Hermann Louis Brill ( February 9, 1895 – June 22, 1959 ) was a German doctor of law and a politician ( SPD ).

Marcel Janco (,, common rendition of the Romanian name Marcel Hermann Iancu, last name also Ianco, Janko or Jancu ; May 24, 1895 – April 21, 1984 ) was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist.

In 1895, Hugo Stinnes married Cläre Wagenknecht ; the couple had seven children: Edmund ( 1896 – 1980 ), Hugo Hermann ( 1897 – 1982 ), Clärenore ( 1901 – 1990 ), Otto ( 1903 – 1983 ), Hilde ( 1904 – 1975 ), Ernst ( 1911 – 1986 ), and Else ( 1913 – 1997 ).

* 1878 – 1895 Hermann Knoblauch ( since then: Halle )

Alfred Hermann Traeger, OBE ( 2 August 1895 – 31 July 1980 ) was an Australian inventor, chiefly known for the development of the pedal radio.

Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von Gneist ( 13 August 1816 – 22 July 1895 ), German jurist and politician, was born at Berlin, the son of a judge attached to the Kammergericht ( court of appeal ) in that city.

He subsequently worked with Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz ( 1821 – 1894 ) in Heidelberg, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig ( 1816 – 1895 ) and Julius Friedrich Cohnheim ( 1839 – 1884 ) in Leipzig, and with Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke ( 1819 – 1892 ) in Vienna.

Arthur Hermann Florstedt ( 18 February 1895 – 15 April 1945 ) ( NSDAP-488 573, SS-8660 ), born in Bitche, became the third Commandant of Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942.

Brill was born in the small town of Gräfenroda, Thuringia on February 9, 1895 as the son of a tailor ; after finishing school, he attended the Herzog-Ernst-Seminar in Gotha to become a teacher.

In 1885 the Duke of Buckingham opened a modern brickworks near Brill station, with a dedicated siding, and in 1895 his heir William Temple-Gore-Langton, 4th Earl Temple of Stowe, expanded the brickworks, which became the Brill Brick & Tile Works, using the Brill Tramway to deliver bricks to the mainline at Quainton Road.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

* 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.

* 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist ( b. 1895 )

* 1895 – Margarete Schön, German actress ( d. 1985 )

The first large-scale census in the German Empire took place in 1895.

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Wilhelm Burgdorf, German officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1895 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist ( d. 1973 )

* 1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German Nazi party leader ( b. 1895 )

He wrote a favorable encyclopedia article on hypnotism, translated one of Bernheim's works into German, and published an influential series of case studies with his colleague Joseph Breuer entitled Studies on Hysteria ( 1895 ).

* 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers X-rays (" bremsstrahlung ", from German for radiation produced by deceleration )

Goebbels had four siblings: Hans ( 1893 – 1947 ), Konrad ( 1895 – 1949 ), Elisabeth ( 1901 – 1915 ) and Maria ( 1910 – 1949 ; married to the German filmmaker Max W. Kimmich ).

* 1895 – Carl Orff, German composer ( d. 1982 )

* 1954 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician ( b. 1895 )

* 1973 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist ( b. 1895 )

* 1895 – Eugen Roth, German writer ( d. 1976 )

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

* 1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist ( d. 1895 )

Lenin was an advocate of the socio-political theory of Marxism, first developed by the German sociologists Karl Marx ( 1818 – 1883 ) and Friedrich Engels ( 1820 – 1895 ) in the mid-19th century, and Li's articles helped bring an understanding of Marxism to the Chinese revolutionary movement, even though he failed to fully understand it himself.

* 1895 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician ( d. 1954 )

* 1982 – Carl Orff, German composer ( b. 1895 )

* 1820 – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher ( d. 1895 )

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