About the day » Saturday August 24, 1895Calender converter

• Alida Pieternella Doejaaren, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1895)
• Adelaide Pearl Greentree, Gosford, NSW, AU († 1948)
• Aaltje Heneweer, Zuid Scharwoude († 1910)
• Alida Roelofje Schoonhoven, Gemeente Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Allegonda Schaap, Musselkanaal, Nederland
• Alida Roelofje Schoonhoven, Oldebroek
• Aaltjen Post, Leeuwte (Vollenhove, ambt) († 1918)
• Janssen, Doorwerth († 1895)
• Adriana Johanna Maria van Spaendonk, Tilburg († 1980)
• Anna Thieke, Rhederfeld

• Anna Veenema (21), Smallingerland
• Catharina van Griensven (0), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Francke (0), Oostkapelle
• Ann Sherwin (70), Aysgarth, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
• Vriends (0), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Francisca Heijs (26), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Catharina Francisca Heijs (26), Loon op Zand
• Catharina van Griensven (0), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Drift (76), Hof van Delft
• Abraham Pieter Dees (0), Zaamslag

• 1890 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer († 1968)
• 1890 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist († 1979)
• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)
• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)
• 1897 » Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher († 1954)
• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1899 » Gaylord DuBois, American author and poet († 1993)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)
• 1900 » Maria Zubreeva, Soviet painter, graphic artist, and designer († 1991)

• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)

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 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
• March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
• March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
• April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
• April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
• 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.

The temperature on August 24, 1895 was about 19.0 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.