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1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
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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.
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Births
January-March
January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover , American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 1972 )
January 15 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen , Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973 )
January 21 - Cristobal Balenciaga , Spanish-French couturier (d. 1972 )
January 24 - Eugen Roth , German writer (d. 1976 )
January 30 - Wilhelm Gustloff , German-born Swiss Nazi party leader( d. 1936 )
February 2 - George Halas , American football player, coach, and co-founder of the National Football League (d. 1983 )
February 6 - Babe Ruth , baseball player (d. 1948 )
February 14 - Max Horkheimer , German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973 )
February 15 - Earl Thomson , Canadian athlete (d. 1971 )
February 21 - Carl Peter Henrik Dam , Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976 )
March 3 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch , Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973 )
March 3 - Matthew Ridgway , Commander of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff (d. 1993 )
March 12 - William C. Lee , U.S. general (d. 1948 )
March 17 - Shemp Howard , American actor and comedian (d. 1955 )
March 20 - Robert Benoist , French race car driver and war hero (d. 1944 )
March 29 - Ernst Jünger , German author (d. 1998 )
March 30 - Nikolai Bulganin , Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1975 )
April-June
April 1 - Alberta Hunter , American singer (d. 1984 )
April 3 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Italian composer (d. 1968 )
April 9 - Mance Lipscomb , American singer (d. 1976 )
April 15 - Clark McConachy , New Zealand snooker and billiards player (d. 1980 )
April 20 - Emile Christian , American musician (d. 1973 )
April 28 - Spencer W. Kimball , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985 )
April 29 - Malcolm Sargent , English conductor (d. 1967 )
May 6 - Rodolfo Valentino , Italian actor (d. 1926 )
May 8 - Fulton J. Sheen , American Catholic archbishop and television personality (d. 1979 )
May 12 - William Giauque , Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982 )
May 30 - Maurice Tate , English cricketer (d. 1956 )
June 10 - Hattie McDaniel , American actress (d. 1952 )
July-September
July 8 - Igor Tamm , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
July 10 - Carl Orff , German composer (d. 1982 )
July 12 - Kirstin Flagstad , Norwegian soprano (d. 1982 )
July 12 - Buckminster Fuller , American architect (d. 1983 )
July 24 - Robert Graves , English writer (d. 1985 )
July 25 - Yvonne Printemps , French singer and actress (d. 1977 )
August 16 - Liane Haid , Austrian actress (d. 2000 )
September 7 - Sir Brian Horrocks , British general (d. 1985 )
September 11 - Vinoba Bhave , Indian religious leader (d. 1982 )
September 29 - J.B. Rhine , American parapsychologist (d. 1980 )
October-December
October 2 - Bud Abbott , American actor (d. 1974 )
October 4 - Buster Keaton , American actor and film director (d. 1966 )
October 8 - King Zog of Albania (d. 1961 )
October 19 - Lewis Mumford , American historian (d. 1990 )
October 21 - Edna Purviance , actress (d. 1958 )
October 22 - Rolf Nevanlinna , Finnish mathematician (d. 1980 )
October 25 - Levi Eshkol , Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969 )
October 31 - Basil Liddell Hart , military historian (d. 1970 )
November 5 - Walter Gieseking , German pianist (d. 1956 )
November 15 - Antoni Słonimski , Polish poet and writer (d. 1976 )
November 16 - Paul Hindemith , German composer (d. 1963 )
November 25 - Wilhelm Kempff , German pianist (d. 1991 )
November 29 - Busby Berkeley , American film director and choreographer (d. 1976 )
December 2 - Harriet Cohen , English pianist (d. 1967 )
December 14 - Paul Eluard , French poet (d. 1952 )
December 14 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952 )
Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad , Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 1960 )
Deaths
January 9 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison , American watchmaker (b. 1812 )
January 10 - Benjamin Godard , French composer (b. 1849 )
February 2 - Archduke Albert , Austrian general (b. 1817 )
February 20 - Frederick Douglass , American ex-slave and author
March 2 - Berthe Morisot , French painter (b. 1841 )
March 10 - Charles Frederick Worth , English-born couturier (b. 1826 )
May 19 - José Martí , Cuban independence leader (b. 1853 )
May 21 - Franz von Suppé , Austrian composer (b. 1819 )
June 29 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley , English biologist (b. 1825 )
August 5 - Friedrich Engels , German socialist philosopher (b. 1820 )
August 22 - Luzon B. Morris , American politician (b. 1827 )
September 28 - Louis Pasteur , French microbiologist and chemist (b. 1822 )
October 8 - Empress Myeongseong (Queen Min), last Korean empress (b. 1851 )
October 25 - Charles Hallé , German-born pianist and conductor (b. 1819 )
November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils , French author and playwright (b. 1824 )
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