About the day » Wednesday May 15, 1895Calender converter

• Adolphina Krop, Steenwijk,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1895)
• Aaltje Kleinhoven, Hoogland
• Alice Alina Lievens, Beveren (Roeselare),, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1917)
• Aaltien Nijzingh, Anholt (Ruinen) († 1972)
• Adriana van der Perk, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Adrianus van Hoogstraten (106.3.13.3), Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1968)
• Adriana Maria VAN VEEN, Voorburg
• Adrianus Johannes Schalkwijk, Kamerik († 1959)
• Abele Abeles Middendorp, katlijk († 1947)
• Aaltien Nijsingh, Anholt (Ruinen)

• Berend Jan Voskus (33), Lemele
• Catharina Cornelia Swaneveld (0), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriaan (Arie) Beets (71), Purmerend
• Adriaantje in 't Veld (66), numansdorp (zuid holland)
• Charles Henry "Harry" Eberhart (50)
• Adrianus Storm (76), Vlaardingen
• Cornelis Vernooij (77), Utrecht
• Cornelia Hendrika Beaufort (12), Rotterdam
• Carolus LOGGHE (79), Ichtegem Belgie
• Bastiaan van Eijk (38), Bodegraven

• 1891 » Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic († 1971)
• 1891 » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright († 1940)
• 1892 » Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral († 1977)
• 1892 » Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer († 1969)
• 1893 » José Nepomuceno, Filipino filmmaker, founder of Philippine cinema († 1959)
• 1894 » Feg Murray, American hurdler and cartoonist († 1973)
• 1895 » Prescott Bush, American captain, banker, and politician († 1972)
• 1895 » William D. Byron, American lieutenant and politician († 1941)
• 1898 » Arletty, French model, actress, and singer († 1992)
• 1899 » Jean Étienne Valluy, French general († 1970)

• 1845 » Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, Head of State of Costa Rica (b. 1800)
• 1879 » Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator, designed the Semper Opera House (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Emily Dickinson, American poet and author (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)

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.
• January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
• 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 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
• August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
• October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.

The temperature on May 15, 1895 was about 12.5 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.