About the day » Wednesday December 18, 1895Calender converter

• Adriana Margaretha Wilhelmina Kroes, Woubrugge
• Anna Christina Roos, Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Andrieske Tuin van der, Drachten, Smallingerland, Fr, Nederland († 1971)
• Griffioen, Polsbroek († 1895)
• Aaltje Hoving, Anreep, Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1957)
• Aletta Marthina PRETORIUS
• Anna Bier (96), Ketzelsdorf 96, Zwittau († 1959)
• Aaltje Hoving, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1957)
• Aleida Gerritdina Uilenreef, Stad Almelo, in Wijk D Nummer tachtig
• Alida Geertruida Maria van der Lande, Enschede († 1978)

• Adrianus Roukens (48), 's Gravenhage
• Alida Johanna Smit (1), 's-Graveland
• Albertje Diphoorn (61), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aagje Hoek (78), Katwijk
• Anna Maria van Bers, Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Zandee (29), Wolphaartsdijk
• Andries Jacob Woestenburg (84), Hoorn
• Alida Jutte (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Beijk (0), Haarlemmermeer
• Aagje Hoek (78), Katwijk

• 1884 » Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology († 1942)
• 1886 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager († 1961)
• 1887 » Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright († 1971)
• 1888 » Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer († 1971)
• 1888 » Robert Moses, American urban planner († 1981)
• 1890 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio († 1954)
• 1896 » Gerald Barry, English colonel and cricketer († 1977)
• 1897 » Fletcher Henderson, American pianist and composer († 1952)
• 1899 » Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher and author († 1990)
• 1904 » George Stevens, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer († 1975)

• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
• 1936 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1939 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b. 1873)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Neeltje
15. Petronella
16. Trijntje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
• February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
• March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
• 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.
• June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
• September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.

The temperature on December 18, 1895 was about -0.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.