* 1895 – Irving Caesar, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1996 )

* December 18 – Irving Caesar, American lyricist ( b. 1895 )

** 1923 No, No, Nanette ( music Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Irving Caesar )

** 1930 Nina Rosa, music Romberg, lyrics Irving Caesar

* " Hold My Hand " w. Jack Yellen & Irving Caesar m. Ray Henderson

" w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend

* " Serenade of Love " by Irving Caesar

* " Crazy Rhythm " w. Irving Caesar m. Joseph Meyer & Roger Wolfe Kahn.

* " It Goes Like This ( That Funny Melody )" w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend

* " My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now " w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend

* " Sometimes I'm Happy " w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans from the musical Hit the Deck

Irving Caesar

* " Tea for Two " w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans

* " Too Many Rings Around Rosie " w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans

* No, No, Nanette ( Irving Caesar, Otto Harbach, and Vincent Youmans )

" w. Irving Caesar & Sammy Lerner

* " Look What You've Done " w. Bert Kalmar & Irving Caesar m. Harry Ruby & Harry Akst

* " Just a Gigolo " w. ( Eng ) Irving Caesar ( Ger ) Julius Brammer m. Leonello Casucci

* " Lady, Play Your Mandolin " w. Irving Caesar m. Oscar Levant

* " Nina Rosa " m. Irving Caesar

* " I Want To Be Happy " w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans.

* " Tea For Two " w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans

* No, No, Nanette ( Irving Caesar, Otto Harbach, and Vincent Youmans ) – Chicago production.

* " Nashville Nightingale " w. Irving Caesar m. George Gershwin

* 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

The chief remaining novelties at the Lyceum, during Irving's term as sole manager ( the theatre passed, at the beginning of 1899, into the hands of a limited liability company ) were Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo ( 1894 );< ref > see King, Henry Irving's ' Waterloo < nowiki >'</ nowiki ></ ref > J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur in 1895 ; Cymbeline, in which Irving played Iachimo, in 1896 ; Sardou's Madame Sans-Gene in 1897 ; and Peter the Great, a play by Laurence Irving, the actor's second son, in 1898.

Both on and off the stage, Irving always maintained a high ideal of his profession, and in 1895 he received a knighthood, the first ever accorded an actor.

Bert Lahr ( born Irving Lahrheim ; August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967 ) was an American actor and comedian.

The neighborhood grew up around the Bush Terminal of Irving T. Bush, a model industrial park completed in 1895 between 39th and 53d Streets, and continued to grow through World War II, when the Brooklyn Army Terminal between 53d and 66th Streets employed more than 10, 000 civilians to ship 80 % of all American supplies and troops.

In 1891, she debuted in The Pharisee, and in 1895 she appeared in King Arthur, by J. Comyns Carr, with Dame Ellen Terry and Sir Henry Irving.

* Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. ( 1895 – 1979 ) American broadcasting businessman, magazine and newspaper publisher

* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

* 1913 – Robert Irving, English conductor ( d. 1991 )

* Arthur Irving, 1996 – 2010

* 2012 – Irving Fein, American film and television producer and manager ( b. 1911 )

* 1926 – George Irving Bell, American mountaineer ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas.

* 1993 – Irving " Swifty " Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent ( b. 1907 )

* 1838 – Sir Henry Irving, British actor ( d. 1905 )

* 1867 – Irving Fisher, American economist ( d. 1947 )

* 19th century – Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church.

Irving Langmuir ( 31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957 ) was an American chemist and physicist.

* 1905 – Irving Johnson, American sailor and author ( d. 1991 )

* 1914 – Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter ( d. 2008 )

* 1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Irving Kristol, American pundit, columnist and author ( d. 2009 )

* 1894 – Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher ( d. 1985 )

* 1898 – Irving Rapper, UK-US film director ( d. 1999 )

* Miff Mole, ( Irving Milfred Mole, 1898 – 1961 ), American jazz trombonist and band leader

* 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's " White Christmas ", the best-selling Christmas single in history.

* 1888 – Irving Berlin, American composer ( d. 1989 )

* 1942 – John Irving, American author

* 1899 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer ( d. 1936 )

* 1876 – Irving Baxter, American athlete ( d. 1957 )