About the day » Sunday December 8, 1895Calender converter

• Aldegondis Hubertina Neven, Alken, België († 1993)
• Adriana Landmeter, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adriaan Hendrik van der Weel, Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Harmsen, Sliedrecht († 1895)
• Adriana Cornelissen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• "Aloys" Wilhelm Maria Friedrich von Walterskirchen, Ghilad, Roumanie
• Anna Marie Francoise Jeukens, Deventer
• Adrianus van Es, Rotterdam († 1896)
• * Franciscus van den Brandt, Hedikhuizen († 1979)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Wolterse, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• Aaltje ten Kleij (0), Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje van Loenen (78), Rijswijk Gld
• Hüsers (0), Hebelermeer, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Antje Zeen (0), Bellingwolde
• Aaltje ten KLEIJ (0), Dalfsen
• Anna Maria Beulen (0), Echt (Slek)
• Berentje Arends Eyer (91), Jubbega-Schurega
• Antonius Arnoldus VAN DE RIJT (0), Nuenen
• Anthony van Beek (72), Poortvliet (Z)
• Anna Maria de Bie (83), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1890 » Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American pianist and composer († 1959)
• 1892 » Marcus Lee Hansen, American historian, author, and academic († 1938)
• 1894 » E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye († 1938)
• 1894 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist († 1961)
• 1899 » Arthur Leslie, English-Welsh actor and playwright († 1970)
• 1899 » John Qualen, Canadian-American actor († 1987)
• 1900 » Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic († 1982)
• 1900 » Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician († 1990)
• 1902 » Wifredo Lam, Cuban-French painter († 1982)
• 1903 » Zelma Watson George, Black American opera singer († 1994)

• 1885 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
• 1886 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
• 1894 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Camille Jenatzy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)
• 1914 » Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861)
• 1914 » Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)
• 1917 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
• 1918 » Josip Štadler, Croatian archbishop (b. 1843)

• 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.
• March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
• April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
• 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.
• June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.

The temperature on December 8, 1895 was about 1.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.