1895

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 - 1895 - 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900

• January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island
• February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in London).
• April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
• April 14 - a major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia
• May 25 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and sentenced to serve two years in a London prison.
• November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator
• Last major earthquake in the New Madrid Fault Zone

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1895 in film
• 1895 in literature
• 1895 in music
• 1895 in sports

Births

• January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director
• January 20 - George Burns, actor, comedian († 1996)
• January 24 - Eugen Roth[?], lyricist and narrator (+ 1976)
• February 2 - George Halas[?], American football player, coach, co-founder of the National Football League (+ 1983)
• February 6 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1948)
• February 8 - King Vidor, director (+ 1982)
• February 11 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky[?], composer.
• February 14 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (+ 1973)
• February 21 - Henrik Carl Peter Dam Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (+ 1976)
• March 3 - Matthew Ridgway[?], Supreme Allied Commander[?] of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff[?]
• March 17 - Shemp Howard[?], actor ("The Three Stooges") (+ 1955)
• March 29 - Ernst Jünger[?], author (+ 1998)
• March 30 - Nikolai Bulganin[?], Premier of the Soviet Union[?] (+ 1975)
• April 1 - Alberta Hunter[?], singer (+ 1984)
• April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer.
• April 26 - Nathaniel Kleitman[?], sleep researcher (+ 1999)
• May 6 - Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor
• May 8 - Fulton J. Sheen, bishop, television personality (+ 1979)
• May 9 - Richard Bathelmess[?], actor (+ 1963)
• July 12 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect.
• September 11 - Vinoba Bhave
• September 28 - Louis Pasteur, French chemist
• October 4 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
• November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
• December 14 - King George VI of the United Kingdom
• Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi party leader.

Deaths

• February 20 - Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and author.
• March 2 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist Painter
• May 19 - Jose Marti, Cuban independence leader
• June 29 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist
• November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, author, playwright