About the day » Saturday August 24, 1895Calender converter

• Alice Virginia Smith Kittrell <Ks3 SSDIObFgmcOlveBrBu>4 "Virginia", Middlesex County, Virginia († 1990)
• Adriana van Santvliet, Woensdrecht
• Adelaide Pearl Greentree, Gosford, NSW, AU († 1948)
• Adriaan Baauw, Vlaardingen († 1972)
• Adriana Johanna Maria van Spaendonk, Tilburg († 1980)
• Alida Roelofje Schoonhoven, Gemeente Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella van den Berg, Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1963)
• Janssen, Doorwerth († 1895)
• Adriana van Santvliet, Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anje de Jonge, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 1895)

• Adrianus Jacobus van Zeeland (0), Tiel, GLD, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Wilhelmina Gunneweg (0), Schiedam
• Bastiana de Man (58), Strijen
• Bernardus Johannes Laurentius Van Beckhoven (42), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Jans Venema (21), Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Pieter Dees (0), Zaamslag, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus van Zeeland (0), Tiel, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus Koelemij (60), Haarlemmermeer
• Charles Boucher (75), Prospect, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Vriends (0), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, 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)

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 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
• 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.
• April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
• 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.
• November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• 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.

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%.