* 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 – Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer ( d. 1973 )

* 1895 Robert Maclay

* 1895 – Robert Graves, English author ( d. 1985 )

* 1895 – Robert Battey, American surgeon ( b. 1828 )

The last to do so was Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, from 1895 to 1902.

He abandoned this idea after being criticised in Welsh newspapers for bringing about the defeat of the Liberal Party in the 1895 election and when, at a meeting in Newport on 16 January 1896, the South Wales Liberal Federation, led by David Alfred Thomas and Robert Bird moved that he be not heard.

The Poaceae name was given by John Hendley Barnhart in 1895, based on the tribe Poeae ( described in 1814 by Robert Brown ), and the type genus Poa ( described in 1753 by Linnaeus ).

George Robert Charles, the 13th Earl ( 1850 – 1895 ), was a grandson of the 10th Earl and a son of Baron Herbert of Lea ( q. v.

The King in Yellow is a collection of tales of the supernatural by Robert W. Chambers, named after a fictional play with the same title that recurs as a leitmotif through some of its stories and first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895.

* Robert Louis Antral ( 1895 – 1939 ) painter

* Robert Hillyer ( 1895 – 1961 ), poet, novelist, and critic, lived in the town.

* Robert " Bob " Smith, 1895 – 1987, was a Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago Cubs, and the Boston Braves from 1925 – 37 ; he was born and raised in Rogersville.

Promenade concerts had existed in London's pleasure gardens since the mid 18th century, but on 10 August 1895 impresario Robert Newman arranged the first series of indoor promenade concerts, in the Queen's Hall in Langham Place.

* Robert Stockton Green ( 1831 – 1895 ), Governor of New Jersey

Vice Admiral Robert Don Oliver CB CBE DSC DL ( 17 March 1895 – 6 October 1980 ) was a Royal Navy officer who was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.

In 1895 Nellie Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman, who was 40 years her senior.

* Robert Warren Stewart ( 1850 – 1895 ), Anglican Church missionary to China

* Robert Needham Cust ( 1895 ).

He was succeeded in the barony by his son, Robert, who became a prominent Liberal statesman and was created Earl of Crewe in 1895 and Marquess of Crewe in 1911.

Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMG ( 10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895 ) was an English essayist and historian.

During the previous seven years the popular taste had had turned toward the " service novel ", examples of which are Frank Mildmay ( 1829 ) by Frederick Marryat, Tom Cringle's Log ( 1895 ) by Michael Scott, The Subaltern ( 1825 ) by George Robert Gleig, Cyril Thornton ( 1827 ) by Thomas Hamilton, Stories of Waterloo ( 1833 ) by William Hamilton Maxwell, Ben Brace ( 1840 ) by Frederick Chamier and The Bivouac ( 1837 ), also by Maxwell.

Robert Marion " Young Bob " La Follette, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – February 24, 1953 ) was an American senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., the brother of Philip La Follette, and Fola La Follette, whose husband was the playwright George Middleton.

* Robert M. La Follette, Jr. ( 1895 – 1953 ), his son, also a senator from Wisconsin

His first book was a study of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1874 ), and later he edited various classical English writers, and published volumes on Bolingbroke and Voltaire in England ( 1886 ), a Study of English Literature ( 1891 ), a study of Dean Swift ( 1893 ), Essays and Studies ( 1895 ), Ephemera Critica ( 1901 ), Essays in Poetry and Criticism ( 1905 ), and Rousseau and Voltaire ( 1908 ), his original essays being sharply controversial in tone, but full of knowledge.

* Robert Payne Smith ( 1818 – 1895 ), Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Dean of Canterbury

Charles Hamilton Houston ( September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950 ) was a prominent African American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School, and NAACP Litigation Director who played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws, which earned him the title The Man Who Killed Jim Crow.

* Farrar, Dean and others ( 1895 ), Westminster Abbey and The Cathedrals of England.

* James Allen ( priest ) ( 1802 – 1897 ), Anglican Dean of St David's, 1878 – 1895

In 1895, O ' Connor returned to New South Wales and successfully defended the protectionist demagogue Paddy Crick against conspiracy charges relating to the George Dean attempted murder case ; he was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1896 and acted as a judge on the Supreme Court from November 1898 to March 1899.

* William Fremantle ( uncle ) ( 1807 – 1895 ), Dean of Ripon, brother of the 1st Lord Cottesloe

* The Very Reverend Frederic William Farrar, DD Cambridge, FRS, Dean of Canterbury 1895 – 1903

In 1889 he built the " Well Court " development in Edinburgh's Dean Village ( designed by Sydney Mitchell ), followed by the further developments of Hawthorn Buildings and Dean Path Buildings in the same area in 1895 ( designed by James Bow Dunn and Findlay's son James Leslie Findlay ).

She was the second of three daughters of Charles Cannan, Dean of Trinity College, Oxford ( he was in charge at the Oxford University Press from 1895 until his death in 1919 ).

All the people executed were men, except Minnie Dean, found guilty of infanticide in 1895, and all were convicted of murder, except for Hamiora Pere, convicted of treason.

He made a reputation as a barrister and was appointed a crown prosecutor in 1891 and successfully prosecuted George Dean for attempted murder in a notorious case in 1895.