About the day » Monday July 15, 1895Calender converter

• Aloïs Van Oosterwyck, Lier, België
• adrianus bernardus maria rijkenberg, purmerend († 1958)
• Adriana Smoor, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus (Adrie) van Driel, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1982)
• Alida van de WEERT, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albertus Gerardus Vliek, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1917)
• Aartje Slootweg, Alphen aan de Rijn
• Andrea J. Van Brussel († 1972)
• Adrianus Johannes Bijsterveld, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1916)
• Alice Augusta Josepha Marie Driebeek, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• Albert Engberts (26), Almelo, Stad, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje Sibrens Lautenbach (84), Hijlaard, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alexandrina Wilhelmina HOSKAM (37), Dordrecht
• Arend Kok (67), Haren
• Betsy Endsley (48), Ashflat, Sharp, Arkansas, United States
• Bernard Heinrich Cramer (3), Hebelermeer, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Arie den Heijer (0), Leiderdorp
• Albert Seubring (0), Harkstede gem. Slochteren
• Anne van Dijk (0), Dantumadeel, gem. Zwaagwesteinde
• Arnolda WESSELS (74), Deest,, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1887 » Wharton Esherick, American sculptor († 1970)
• 1892 » Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic († 1940)
• 1893 » Dick Rauch, American football player and coach († 1970)
• 1893 » Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress († 1969)
• 1894 » Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer († 1989)
• 1899 » Seán Lemass, Irish soldier and politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland († 1971)
• 1902 » Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission († 1983)
• 1903 » K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician († 1975)
• 1903 » Walter D. Edmonds, American journalist and author († 1998)
• 1904 » Rudolf Arnheim, German-American psychologist and author († 2007)

• 1858 » Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
• 1883 » General Tom Thumb, American circus performer (b. 1838)
• 1885 » Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837)
• 1890 » Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop († 1825)
• 1904 » Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)
• 1919 » Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1929 » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)

• 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 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
• February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
• March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
• 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.
• October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.

The temperature on July 15, 1895 was about 15.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.