1895: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1895

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Birthdays

January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972)
January 2 - Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
January 4 - Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
January 5 - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987)
January 7 - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
January 7 - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
January 11 - Laurens Hammond, American inventor of the Hammond organ (d. 1973)
January 15 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist
January 16 - Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
January 21 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
January 24 - Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
January 27 - Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
January 29 - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
February 1 - Conn Smythe, Canadian builder of the National Hockey League (d. 1980)
February 2 - George Halas, American NFL co-founder (d. 1983)
February 4 - Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)
February 6 - Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
February 7 - Anita Stewart, American film actress (d. 1961)
February 8 - Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (d. 1945)
February 9 - Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
February 14 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
February 15 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
February 19 - Louis Calhern, American actor (d. 1956)
February 21 - Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
February 22 - Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
February 25 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d. 1984)
February 28 - Marcel Pagnol, French novelist
March 3 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist
March 3 - Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO
March 4 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
March 4 - Shemp Howard, American comedian (Three Stooges) (d. 1955)
March 12 - William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948)
March 20 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
March 21 - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
March 23 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
March 25 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
March 28 - Christian Herter, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966)
March 28 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985)
March 29 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
March 30 - Jean Giono, French author (d. 1970)
April 1 - Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984)
April 3 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (d. 1968)
April 4 - Arthur Murray, American dance teacher (d. 1991)
April 9 - Michel Simon, French actor (d. 1975)
April 13 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
April 15 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
April 16 - Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
April 20 - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
April 23 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
April 29 - Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967)
April 30 - Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician
May 2 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943)
May 3 - Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
May 6 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1946)
May 6 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (d. 1974)
May 6 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)
May 8 - James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (d. 1962)
May 8 - Fulton J. Sheen, American bishop (d. 1979)
May 8 - Edmund Wilson, American writer (d. 1972)
May 9 - Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
May 9 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet
May 11 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)
May 12 - William Giauque, American chemist
May 12 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)
May 15 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
May 20 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (d. 1937)
May 23 - Billy Smith The first footballer ever to score directly from a corner kick., (d.1956)
May 24 - Samuel Irving Newhouse, American publisher (d. 1979)
May 26 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965)
May 26 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)
May 30 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)
June 5 - William Boyd (actor), American actor (d. 1972)
June 10 - Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
June 11 - Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)
June 14 - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
June 18 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
June 18 - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian
June 24 - Jack Dempsey, American boxer (d. 1983)
June 26 - George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
July 4 - Irving Caesar, American lyricist and composer (d. 1996)
July 5 - Gordon Jacob, English composer (d. 1984)
July 8 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist
July 10 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
July 11 - Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
July 12 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1962)
July 12 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
July 12 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (d. 1960)
July 13 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)
July 18 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
July 19 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
July 20 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter
July 23 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
July 24 - Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
July 25 - Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977)
July 26 - Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
July 26 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
July 30 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
August 2 - Matt Henderson, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970)
August 3 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)
August 10 - Hammy Love, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
August 13 - Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)
August 14 - Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
August 16 - Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist (d. 1981)
August 16 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
August 22 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
August 24 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (d. 1970)
September 1 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
September 8 - Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980)
September 10 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976).
September 13 - Morris Kirksey, American rugby player (d. 1981)
September 15 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
September 15 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
September 18 - Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world as of June 2007
September 18 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
September 21 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
September 22 - Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)
September 23 - Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
September 23 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
September 24 - André Frédéric Cournand, French Nobel Laureate (d. 1988)
September 26 - George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
September 27 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (d. 1948)
September 29 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)
September 29 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
September 30 - Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
October 2 - Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
October 3 - Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
October 3 - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (d. 1925)
October 4 - Buster Keaton, American comedian (d. 1966)
October 6 - Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic (d. 1981)
October 8 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (d. 1974)
October 8 - Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)
October 10 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian, (d. 1935)
October 10 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
October 11 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
October 13 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978)
October 19 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990)
October 19 - Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.1999)
October 20 - Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
October 21 - Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958)
October 25 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
October 30 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist
October 30 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician
October 31 - Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (d. 1970)
November 3 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, (d. 1918)
November 5 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (d. 1956)
November 5 - Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
November 8 - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer
November 9 - Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
November 10 - John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1981)
November 10 - Mabel Normand, American silent actress (d. 1930)
November 14 - Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
November 14 - Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
November 15 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, (d. 1918)
November 15 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
November 17 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
November 17 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
November 19 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
November 25 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (d. 1991)
November 25 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986)
November 25 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
November 26 - Bill Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
November 28 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
November 29 - Busby Berkeley, American film director and choreographer (d. 1976)
November 29 - William Tubman, Liberian politician (d. 1971)
December 1 - Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977)
December 2 - Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
December 3 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
December 4 - Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)
December 5 - Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969)
December 9 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
December 14 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
December 14 - King George VI of the United Kingdom, (d. 1952)
December 24 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)

Deaths

January 3 - James Merritt Ives, American lithographer with Nathaniel Currier (b. 1824)
January 9 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
January 10 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
January 24 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
February 2 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
February 18 - Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851)
February 20 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818)
March 2 - Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
March 2 - Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (b. 1830)
March 5 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
March 5 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
March 6 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
March 10 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)
April 23 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815)
May 19 - José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)
May 21 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (b. 1819)
May 23 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (b. 1798)
June 29 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
July 8 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
July 28 - Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
August 5 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
August 19 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
September 28 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)
October 25 - Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (b. 1819)
November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils
December 5 - Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840)
December 13 - Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)

Events

January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
January 12 - The National Trust is founded in Britain.
February 9 - William G. Morgan modifies Mintonette to volleyball.
February 11 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled on 10 January 1982 and again on 30 December 1995.
February 24 - Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, which ended with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
March 22 - First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
April 3 - Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested (in the Cadogan Hotel, London) after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
April 8 - The Supreme Court of the United States declares income tax to be unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
April 17 - The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
May 7 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention
May 17 - The first Omonoia station of the Athens metro is inaugurated in Greece.
May 24 - Henry Irving becomes the first personage from the theatre to be knighted.
May 25 - Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
May 25 - The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
May 27 - Oscar Wilde is imprisoned for sodomy.
June 28 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
June 29 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
July 11 - The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
August 19 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
August 29 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
September 18 - Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.
September 18 - Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
September 30 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
October 4 - The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
October 5 - The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
October 8 - Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
October 21 - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
October 22 - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
November 2 - The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
November 5 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
November 8 - While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
November 27 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
November 28 - The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
December 28 - The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema.

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