About the day » Thursday August 8, 1895Calender converter

• Ada Beisel, Hatfield, Montgomery Co., Pennslyania († 1989)
• Alice Marguerite Sinnaeve, Ichtegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Aaltje Elizabeth Dam, Oudshoorn
• Agnès Céline Marie Joseph LORTHIOIS, Croix, Nord, France
• Adriana Maria van Ee, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• A. de Keijzer, Werkendam
• * Geretske Hoekstra, Drongelen († 1977)
• Adriana Geertruida Maria Effting, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1975)
• Adrianus Johannes Petrus Oomes, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aldano Alves, Tiete, São Paulo, Brasil

• Andries Leendert Lührman (0), Charlois
• Albertus Adrianus van Dorland (90), Echteld
• Abigail Corbin 'Abbie' Abbott (83), Kenilworth, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Carolus Ignatius Vanacker (77), Klerken West-Vlaanderen, België
• Albertus Verkroos (27), Utrecht
• Aaltje Kooijman (14), Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Allard Merens (51), Kapelle (Zuid-Beveland), The Netherlands
• Andrea Ailkolina Heeres (62), Winschoten (gem. Oldambt)
• Aleida Lakerink (41), Enschede
• Adam Schouwenaars (0), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1884 » Sara Teasdale, American poet and educator († 1933)
• 1889 » Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor († 1968)
• 1889 » Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer († 1977)
• 1891 » Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic († 1953)
• 1898 » Marguerite Bise, French chef († 1965)
• 1901 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1904 » Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver († 1948)
• 1905 » André Jolivet, French composer († 1974)

• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)

• 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.
• April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
• June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
• October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
• November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

The temperature on August 8, 1895 was about 17.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.