* 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 )

* 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 )

* December 29 – Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer ( b. 1895 )

The company was founded as Chuit & Naef in 1895 in Geneva ( Switzerland ), by chemist Philippe Chuit and businessman Martin Naef.

In October 1895 Philippe was named as co-respondent in the divorce case of Woolston v Woolston.

More recent authors include Charles Ferdinand Ramuz ( 1878 – 1947 ), whose novels describe the lives of peasants and mountain dwellers, set in a harsh environment, the poets Blaise Cendrars ( born Frédéric Sauser, 1887 – 1961 ), Gustave Roud ( 1897 – 1976 ), Maurice Chappaz ( 1916 – 2009 ) and Philippe Jaccottet (* 1925 ) and the novelists Catherine Colomb ( 1892 – 1965 ), Monique Saint-Hélier ( 1895 – 1955 ), Alice Rivaz ( 1901 – 1998 ) and Prix Goncourt winner Jacques Chessex ( 1934 – 2009 ).

The oldest of these is the French Federation of Speleology ( originally Société de spéléologie ) founded by Édouard-Alfred Martel in 1895, which produced the first periodical journal in speleology, Spelunca.

* 1822 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Paul Eluard, French poet ( d. 1952 )

In 1895, French Guinea was made a dependent colony, and its Governor then became a Lieutenant Governor to a Governor-General in Dakar.

Modern cinema is generally regarded as descending from the work of the French Lumière brothers in 1895, and their show first came to London in 1896.

* 1895 – Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director ( d. 1974 )

After he was ennobled by the Kaiser in 1895, he adopted the name August Kekule von Stradonitz, without the French acute accent over the second " e ".

* 1834 – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher ( d. 1895 )

* 1824 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Benjamin Godard, French composer ( b. 1849 )

Louis Pasteur (, ; December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895 ) was a French chemist and microbiologist who was one of the most important founders of medical microbiology.

The French anarchist journalist Sébastien Faure, later founder and editor of the four-volume Anarchist Encyclopedia, started the weekly paper Le Libertaire ( The Libertarian ) in 1895.

To force capitulation, the French bombarded and occupied the harbor of Toamasina on the east coast, and Mahajanga on the west coast, in December 1894 and January 1895 respectively.

* 1895 – Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest and film maker ( d. 1976 )

In 1895, French chemist Henri Moissan attempted to form a reaction between fluorine, the most electronegative element, and argon, one of the noble gases, but failed.

* Louis Pasteur ( 1822 – 1895 ), French chemist and microbiologist who invented:

In January 1895 a boundary agreement was signed in Paris, roughly fixing the line between French Guinea and Sierra Leone.

* 1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.

* 1895 – André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1988 )

The Edison's Kinétoscope Français, a Belgian company, was founded in Brussels on January 15, 1895, with the rights to sell the kinetoscopes in Monaco, France and the French colonies.

* January 19 – Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress ( b. 1895 )

* April 6 – Gabriel Chevallier, French writer ( b. 1895 )

** Marcel Pagnol, French novelist ( b. 1895 )

* July 10 – Jean Navarre, French World War I fighter ace ( b. 1895 )