About the day » Monday August 12, 1895Calender converter

• Adrianus Kraan, Amersfoort († 1896)
• Adrianus van Zijl, Utrecht († 1960)
• Aleida Jantiena Jansen, Groningen
• Anna Catharina Northausen, Vianen († 1984)
• Adam Sparreboom, Rotterdam
• * Gerrit de Jong, Hei en Boeicop
• Adriana van Anrooij, Werkendam, Noord Brabant, Netherlands († 1957)
• Alphonse Lindebrings, Sint-Truiden, België († 1923)
• Hock, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin
• Albert John HENNING, Larkin Townplace,Minnesota († 1895)

• Anna Seen (79), Waterlandkerkje
• Adolphina Krop (0), Tuk, Steenwijk,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arnoldus van de Coolwijk (29), Megen, Haren en Macharen
• Anna Bendzulla (46), Bergfriede, Kreis Osterode, Ostpreußen
• Arie van der Ree (48), s'Gravendeel
• Arie van de REE (48), 's-Gravendeel
• Adrianus van der Maat (69), Laagnieuwkoop, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Kruizenga (0), Ferrysburg, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Schakenbos (16), Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arie Simon ROOS (0), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)

• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)
• 1891 » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic († 1953)
• 1891 » John McDermott, American golfer († 1971)
• 1892 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director († 1977)
• 1897 » Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer († 1981)
• 1899 » Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer († 1963)
• 1902 » Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia († 1980)
• 1904 » Idel Jakobson, Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer († 1997)
• 1904 » Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter († 2009)

• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)

• 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.
• February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
• March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
• April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
• September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
• October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
• October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.

The temperature on August 12, 1895 was about 18.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.