* 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 – 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 )

Allowing himself to be involved in the ecclesiastical disputes that divided Hungary in 1895, he was made the subject of formal complaint by the Hungarian government and in 1896 was recalled.

* 1895 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist ( b. 1800 )

* 1800 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian Nazi nobleman ( d. 1946 )

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

* 1895 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian psychologist and parapsychologist ( d. 1964 )

** Zoltán Korda, Hungarian screenwriter and director ( b. 1895 )

* August 15 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor ( b. 1895 )

* January 11 – Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist, the inventor of the Dynamo ( d. 1895 )

Gábor Szegő () ( January 20, 1895 – August 7, 1985 ) was a Hungarian mathematician.

László Moholy-Nagy (; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946 ) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school.

* The town hall: The building, a Hungarian miniature tower, was built around 1895 by the Hungarian tobacco trader Pierre Herzog.

A thicker and richer goulash, similar to a stew, originally made with three kinds of meat, is called Székely gulyás, named after the Hungarian writer, journalist and archivist József Székely ( 1825 – 1895 ).

Modern Hungarian folk music was first recorded in 1895 by Béla Vikár, setting the stage for the pioneering work of Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and László Lajtha in musicological collecting.

On September 26, 1895, Emperor Franz Joseph visited Bánffyhunyad following the end of Hungarian Army manoeuvres in Transylvania and was given an enthusiastic welcome by the townspeople, who built an arch decorated with the region's flowers and plants for the occasion.

** József Teleki, The Age of the Hunyadis in Hungary ( in Hungarian ), Pest, 1852 – 1857 ; ( supplementary volumes by D. Csinki 1895 ).

His complete works were published in Hungarian at Budapest in 1880 – 1895.

As for the membership, the party mainly included former Slovak members of the Hungarian People's Party (" Néppárt ", founded in 1895 ) and former members of the SNS.

* ENDRE, László ( 1895 – 1946 ) Hungarian National Defence Association and Hungarian National Socialist Party activist and collaborator.

* PÁLFFY, Fidél, Count ( 1895 – 1946 ) Hungarian National Socialist Party leader and collaborationist Minister.

Cristea then studied philosophy and modern philology at the University of Budapest ( 1891 – 1895 ), where he was awarded a doctorate in 1895-with a dissertation about the life and works of Mihai Eminescu ( given in Hungarian ).

In 1895, Vincenzo Tiberio, physician of the University of Naples discovered that a mold ( Penicillium ) in a water well has an antibacterial action.

One of the earliest recipes for an Old Fashioned, written in 1895, specifies the following: " Dissolve a small lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey-glass ; add two dashes Angostura bitters, a small piece ice, a piece lemon-peel, one jigger or 44 ml whiskey.

In 1895, Vincenzo Tiberio, physician of the University of Naples published a research about a mold ( Penicillium ) in a water well that had an antibacterial action.

Despite numerous objections, this is the most widely accepted theory for the transport of water through a plant's vascular system based on the classical research of Dixon-Joly ( 1894 ), Askenasy ( 1895 ), and Dixon ( 1914, 1924 ).

In 1895, the Hemet Dam was completed on the San Jacinto River, creating Lake Hemet and providing a reliable water supply to the San Jacinto Valley.

In 1895 the largest irrigation canal in the world, the Great Feeder, began diverting water from the Snake River and aided in converting tens of thousands of acres of desert into green farmland in the vicinity of Idaho Falls.

It was first powered by water and then by steam, and it operated through 1895.

During the night of July 21, 1895, a heavy wall of water rushed through the downtown business district, leaving a trail of destruction.

The Village was formally incorporated in 1895 as a result of an effort to form a public water system.

In September 1895, a dam was constructed across the creek and water began backing-up forming " Lake Naomi ", a lake more than a mile long and about one-third of a mile wide.

By 1895 the D & RGW buildings and shops at Helper were lighted by electricity, and two reservoirs for water had been constructed.

In a paper published in 1894, Traube proposed the addition of chloride of lime ( calcium hypochlorite ) to water to render it “ germ-free .” Two other investigators confirmed Traube ’ s findings and published their papers in 1895.

The 1895 championship was the high water mark for the franchise.

Although the Post Office Department resisted the idea for many years, in early 1895 it agreed to a one-year trial of the water route, established a post office at Price's log cabin at Big Bend, and named Price postmaster.

In 1895 the Great Artesian Basin which sits under Moree was tapped and yields over thirteen million litres of water every day.

He moved to Idaho in 1895, and worked in the water power and irrigation industries.

The Hillsborough River dam ( originally built in 1895 and since rebuilt ) at Rowlett Park creates a lake covering and containing of water, providing for the supply of water for the City of Tampa.

Together with the publication in 1895 by the U. S. Department of Labor of a special report on housing conditions and solutions elsewhere in the world, The Housing of Working People, it ultimately led to the passage of the Tenement House Act of 1901, known as the New Law, which implemented the Tenement House Committee's recommendation of a maximum of 70 percent lot coverage and mandated strict enforcement, specified a minimum of 12 feet for a rear yard and 6 feet for an air and light shaft at the lot line or 12 feet in the middle of the building ( all of these being increased for taller buildings ), and required running water and water closets in every apartment and a window in every room.

The iron wheel pump on the forecourt of The Bull pub, was the only reliable water source in the great freeze of 1895 and water was sold from this point for six pence a bucket.

In 1895 Percival Lowell published a book entitled Mars which speculated about an arid, dying landscape, whose inhabitants had been forced to build canals thousands of miles long to bring water from the polar caps to irrigate the remaining arable land.

In 1895, Diederik Korteweg and Gustav de Vries formulated the KdV equation to describe shallow water waves ( such as the waves in the canal observed by Russell ), but the essential properties of this equation were not understood until the work of Kruskal and his collaborators in the 1960s.