About the day » Monday August 26, 1895Calender converter

• Aaldert Timmerman, Steenwijkerwold († 1896)
• Adrianus Cornelis Rombouts, Rijsbergen
• Alfons Van Houtte, Vlissegem
• Amerentia Roos, enkhuizen
• Abraham van Roijen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annie Willems Jost
• Agnes Augustine Misseyer, Depok (Ned,Ind.)
• Alphonsius Aloysius De Groene, Sint Jansteen, Nederland († 1937)
• Abraham Verboog, Leiderdorp
• Adrianus Filippus Zeelen, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1896)

• Adelaide Verstaen, Wingene
• Anna Maria Joanna GODSCHALK (75), Veghel, 4303, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Beije Both (34), Zwartewaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje HEUVELINK (0), Rotterdam
• Adriana Cornelia van Gestel (67), Gilze en Rijen (NL)
• Anna Jacoba Cornelia van der Mije (8), Wijk aan Zee, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Zwiers (56), Kloosterveen, Assen
• Bastiana Geertruida van Ooijen (13), Leerbroek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Henricus van den Broek (1), Tilburg
• Augustinus Rumoldus van Reeth (0), Rumst

• 1891 » Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright († 1960)
• 1894 » Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer († 1989)
• 1896 » Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian soldier and politician († 1990)
• 1897 » Yun Posun, South Korean activist and politician, 2nd President of South Korea († 1990)
• 1898 » Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector and philanthropist († 1979)
• 1900 » Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman († 1980)
• 1900 » Margaret Utinsky, American nurse, recipient of the Medal of Freedom († 1970)
• 1901 » Eleanor Dark, Australian author and poet († 1985)
• 1901 » Hans Kammler, German SS officer and engineer († 1945)
• 1901 » Jimmy Rushing, American singer and bandleader († 1972)

• 1850 » Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
• 1865 » Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)
• 1878 » Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)
• 1910 » William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
• 1921 » Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1921 » Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1943 » Bîmen Şen, Turkish composer and songwriter (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1945 » Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)

• 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.
• 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.
• April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
• 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.
• October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
• November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

The temperature on August 26, 1895 was about 15.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.