* 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 word " holomorphic " was introduced by two of Cauchy's students, Briot ( 1817 – 1882 ) and Bouquet ( 1819 – 1895 ), and derives from the Greek ὅλος ( holos ) meaning " entire ", and μορφή ( morphē ) meaning " form " or " appearance ".

In 1960, Immanuel Velikovsky ( 1895 – 1979 ) published a book called Oedipus and Akhnaton which made a comparison between the stories of the legendary Greek figure, Oedipus, and the historic Egyptian King of Thebes, Akhnaton.

Other publications are: Judaistic Christianity ( 1894 ); Village Sermons ( two series ); Cambridge and other Sermons ; Prolegomena to ... Romans and Ephesians ( 1895 ); The Ante-Nicene Fathers ( 1895 ); and two Dissertations, on the reading of a Greek word in John i. 18, and on The Constantinopolitan and other Eastern Creeds in the Fourth Century.

The numerous revolutions in Crete, during and after the Greek War of Independence, ( 1821, 1833, 1841, 1858, 1866, 1878, 1889, 1895, 1897 ) were the result of the Cretans ' desire for Enosis — Union with Greece.

In 1895 a friend and former student of Pater's, Charles Lancelot Shadwell, a Fellow of Oriel, collected and published as Greek Studies Pater's essays on Greek mythology, religion, art and literature.

In 1895, at the age of 28, Lomax entered the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in English literature, and undertaking almost a double course load ( including Greek, Latin and Anglo Saxon ) and was graduated in two years.

Founded in 1895 as a private company, the Stefanopoli Telegraphic Agency, the Greek State assumed its subsidisation in 1905, at which time it acquired its present name.

* A History of Classical Greek Literature Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 ( 1895 )

There is a similar word, " holomorphic ", that was introduced by two of Cauchy's students, Briot ( 1817 – 1882 ) and Bouquet ( 1819 – 1895 ), and derives from the Greek ὅλος ( holos ) meaning " entire ", and μορφή ( morphē ) meaning " form " or " appearance ".

In 1895 the stadium was refurbished a second time for the 1896 Olympics, with completion funding provided by the Greek benefactor George Averoff, whose marble statue now stands at the entrance, based on designs by the architects Anastasios Metaxas and Ernst Ziller.

Born Abraham Albert Cohen () in Corfu, Greece, in 1895, to Greek Jewish parents.

But by far the largest Greek contribution to English vocabulary is the huge number of scientific, medical, and technical neologisms that have been coined by compounding Greek roots and affixes to produce novel words which never existed in the Greek language: utopia ( 1516, οὐ ' not ' + τόπος ' place '), zoology ( 1669, ζώον + λογία ), hydrodynamics ( 1738, ύδωρ + δυναμικός ), photography ( 1834, φώς + γραφικός ), oocyte ( 1895, ωόν + κύτος ), helicobacter ( 1989, έλιξ + βακτήριον ).

The most important of the 24 monuments and buildings in the county capital of Zalău are: " Transilvania " ( theatre in 1895 ), the city hall ( court and seat of the prefects office in 1889 ), the Roman Catholic Church ( 1878 ), the reformed church ( 1904 – 1907 ), the Greek Catholic church " Adormirea Maicii Domnului " ( 1930 – 1934 ), the Orthodox deanery ( built in late 19th century ), the Historical Museum ( built about 1900 – casino of the artisans fellowship ), the primary school " Simion Bărnuţiu " ( girls ' school in 1895 ) and the National College Silvania ( Reformed College in 1860 ), all these being valuable urbanistic elements for the historical and cultural patrimony of the land.

Sheffield had its own student secret societies ( aka final clubs or senior societies, some also known by their Greek letters ) including the Colony Club, 1848 ( now Berzelius ), the Cloister, 1863 ( now Book and Snake ), St. Anthony Hall, 1867 ( now a 3-year society, also called Delta Psi ), St. Elmo, 1889 ( also a senior society ), as well as Franklin Hall, 1865 ( Theta Xi ), York Hall, 1877 ( Chi Phi ), Sachem Hall, 1890 ( Phi Sigma Kappa ), and Vernon Hall, 1895 ( Phi Gamma Delta ).

* Antonis Travlantonis ( 1895 – 1896 ), Greek educator, former director of Zosimaia School

The text of one " parchment " ( parchment 1 ) was copied from Codex Bezae, an Old Latin / Greek diglot from the 5th century CE contained in the book by Fulcran Grégoire Vigouroux, Dictionnaire De La Bible ( 1895 ).

* the Ottoman Empire-era bazaar ( Arasta )-marked by a clock tower built by a Greek craftsman named Filivari Usta in 1895,

) – April 1896 ) was a Greek politician who served as a Prime Minister of Greece seven times from 1875 until 1895.

Greek satirical poster of 1895 depicting Trikoupis and his main political opponent Theodoros Deligiannis.

* 1956 – Charles MacArthur, American writer ( b. 1895 )

* 1895 – Noel Streatfeild, English children's writer ( d. 1986 )

Frederick Douglass ( born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895 ) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.

* 1831 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer ( d. 1895 )

* 1836 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer ( d. 1895 )

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

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch ( 27 January 1836 — 9 March 1895 ) was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life.

* 1895 – Edmund Wilson, American writer ( d. 1972 )

* 1895 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer ( d. 1974 )

* 1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer ( b. 1895 )

* 1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer ( d. 1986 )

* 1827 – Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic ( d. 1981 )

The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz authored the well-known novel Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero in 1895, which in turn has been made into motion pictures several times.

* 1850 – Eugene Field American writer and poet ( d. 1895 )

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

* February 17 – Ernst Jünger, German writer ( b. 1895 )

** Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and writer ( b. 1895 )

** Oscar Hammerstein II, writer and lyricist ( b. 1895 )

** Edmund Wilson, American writer and critic ( b. 1895 )

** Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer ( b. 1895 )

* January 27 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer ( d. 1895 )