About the day » Thursday May 16, 1895Calender converter

• Adam Pieter van der LuiJt, Oegstgeest
• Adriana Goes, Noordeloos († 1977)
• Albertha Antonia Roetert, Wageningen
• Anna Maria Baumeister, Haarlem
• Adriana Anthonia Maria van der Bijl, Bovenkerk († 1987)
• Anna Maria Drummen, Nuth († 1964)
• Albert Flikkema, Spijk, Delfzijl, Groningen, Netherlands († 1983)
• Adriana Anthonia Maria van der Bijl-, Nieuwer-Amstel, Nederland († 1987)
• Oeseburg, Finsterwolde, Groningen, Nederland († 1895)
• Andreas Frederic de Jong, Rotterdam († 1914)

• Antje Koenraads Reuling (40), Harkema-Opeinde, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Gertudis HANSSEN (58), Heythuysen, Limburg, Nederland
• Arie JONGEJAN (15), Noordzee
• Alexander Thomas Anton Spiegel (68), Daruvar, Kroatië
• Antonia van Kuijl (38), Nijmegen
• Aartje Garstman (50), Wijk, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Arend van Velzen (60), op zee
• Andries Jacobus DE BEER (41), Lichtenburg
• Antonie van Vught (78), Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend van Velzen (60), Op zee

• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)
• 1897 » Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic († 1994)
• 1898 » Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic († 1993)
• 1898 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1956)
• 1898 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter († 1980)
• 1903 » Charles F. Brannock, American inventor and manufacturer († 1992)
• 1905 » Henry Fonda, American actor († 1982)

• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)

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.
• May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
• 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.
• August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
• October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
• November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

The temperature on May 16, 1895 was about 8.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.