About the day » Saturday August 24, 1895Calender converter

• Adriaan Baauw, Vlaardingen († 1972)
• Allegonda Schaap, Musselkanaal, Nederland
• Alida Pieternella Doejaaren, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1895)
• Adriana Gijsberta Maria Leautaud, Amsterdam († 1963)
• Janssen, Doorwerth († 1895)
• Adriana Johanna Maria van Spaendonk, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1980)
• Adriana van den Berg, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Aaltjen Teunisen Post, Leeuwte, Ambt Vollenhove († 1918)
• Adriana Petronella van den Berg, Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1963)
• Adrianus van de Sluis, Nijmegen († 1936)

• Bernhard Heinrich Kelder (51), Hilversum
• Ann Sherwin (70), Aysgarth, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
• Catharina van Griensven, Rosmalen (N.Br)
• Janssen (0), Doorwerth
• Catharina Elisabeth Vlek (0), Wijk aan Zee en Duin
• Adrianus Jacobus van Zeeland (0), Tiel, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus Koelemij (60), Haarlemmermeer
• Abraham Pieter Dees (0), Zaamslag, Zeeland, Nederland
• Ambrosius Leopoldus Verduyn (63), Koekelare,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Anthonius Cornelis Valk (0), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1890 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer († 1968)
• 1890 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist († 1979)
• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)
• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)
• 1897 » Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher († 1954)
• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1899 » Gaylord DuBois, American author and poet († 1993)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)
• 1900 » Maria Zubreeva, Soviet painter, graphic artist, and designer († 1991)

• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)

• 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 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• 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.
• November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
• November 28 » The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.

The temperature on August 24, 1895 was about 19.0 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.