In the year 1895, Mintonette - later known as volleyball - is created by William G. Morgan in Massachusetts (Feb 9), first worldwide gasoline bus starts in Germany (Mar 18), Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine (Mar 30), Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays (Nov 5), Alfred Nobel signs his last will, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death (Nov 27), Svante Arrhenius becomes the first scientist to deliver quantified data on climate change (Dec 11), Auguste and Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in Paris (Dec 28) - and all these fine people were born:

1895-0101 J. Edgar Hoover* FBI chief - Washington D.C., USA (1972/77) 1895-0102 Folke Bernadotte* nobleman/diplomat/negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps - Stockholm, Sweden (1948/53) 1895-0105 Yrjö Johannes Hakoniemi* farmer/married to Aili Margareta Ala-ranta  - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1977/82) 1895-0105 Rebecca Lancefield* microbiologist - Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, NY USA (1981/86) 1895-0115 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen* chemist/N - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1973/78) 1895-0201 Conn Smythe* businessman/hockey promoter - Toronto, ON Canada (1980/85) 1895-0206 Babe Ruth* baseball player - Baltimore, MD USA (1948/53) 1895-0206 Kurt Wolff* German WWI flying ace - Greifswald, Pomerania (1917/22) 1895-0210 1895-0219 Mary Dilys Glynne* plant pathologist/ mountaineer - Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales (1991/96) 1895-0220 1895-0226 Leslie Joy Whitehead* soldier WW1/enlisted as a man in the Serbian Army - Montmorency, QC Canada (1964/69) 1895-0228 1895-0301 1895-0303 Ragnar Frisch* economist/N - Kristiania, Norway (1973/77). 1895-0323 Dane Rudhyar* (b Chennevière) French-American pioneering astrologer/ composer - Paris, France (1985/90) 1895-0330 Carl Lutz* diplomat/credited with saving over 62,000 Jews during WW2 - Walzenhausen, Switzerland (1975/79) 1895-0419 Antonio Locatelli* aviator/journalist - Bergamo, Italy (1936/41) 1895-0426 Hans Kopfermann* nuclear physicist - Breckenheim, Germany (1963/67) 1895-0430 1895-0501 1895-0502 Norman Ross* swimmer/OG - Portland, OR USA 1895-0505 Abraham Bankier* Polish businessman/Holocaust survivor/assisted Oskar Schindler in his rescue activities - Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (1956/61) 1895-0506 Rudolph Valentino* actor - Castellaneta, Italy (1926/31) 1895-0511 Jiddu Krishnamurti* philosopher/speaker/writer - Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, British India (1986/90) 1895-0526 Dorothea Lange* photographer/photojournalist - Hoboken, NJ USA (1965/70) 1895-0601 Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski* Polish military leader/PM - Khorobriv, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (1966/71) 1895-0606 Henry Gunther* last soldier to be killed in WW1 - Baltimore, MD USA (1918/23) 1895-0607 Fanny Aleksandra Stenvall** wife of Vilho Stenvall/sister-in-law of Carl Fredrik Kivi - Metsämaa, GD of Finland (1959/63) 1895-0610 1895-0613 Charles Bierer Wrightsman* oil executive/arts patron - Pawnee, Oklahoma Territory, USA (1986/90) 1895-0617 George MacLeod* soldier/ clergyman/ - Glasgow, Scotland (1991/96) 1895-0617 Ruben Rausing* billionaire Tetra Pak founder - Råå, Sweden (1983/88) 1895-0624 Jack Dempsey* heavyweight boxer - Manassa, CO USA (1983/87) 1895-0628 Louis Raymond* tennis player/OG - Pretoria, South African Republic (1962/66) 1895-0630 1895-0701 1895-0708 Igor Tamm* physicist/N - Vladivostok, Russian Empire (1971/75) 1895-0712 Oscar Hammerstein II* librettist/theatrical producer - New York, NY USA (1960/65) 1895-0714 Leefe Robinson* pilot/the first to shoot down a German airship over Britain during WWI - Pollibetta, Coorg, India (1918/23) 1895-0724 Robert Graves* poet/novelist/ critic - Wimbledon, England (1985/90) 1895-0806 Ernesto Lecuona* pianist/composer - Havana, Cuba (1963/68) 1895-0809 Nat Pendleton* wrestler/OS/actor - Davenport, IA USA (1967/72) 1895-0810 Harry Richman* (b Reichman) actor/dancer/ entertainer - Cincinnati, OH USA (1972/77) 1895-0813 Bert Lahr* (b Irving Lahrheim) actor - New York City, NY USA (1967/72) 1895-0820 1895-0824 Guido Masiero* WW1 flying ace - Padova, Italy (1942/47) 1895-0901 1895-0910 1895-0922 Paul Muni* American actor - Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (1967/71) 1895-0926 Oskar Dirlewanger* military officer/war criminal - Würzburg, German Empire (1945/49) 1895-1004 Buster Keaton* actor - Piqua, KS USA (1966/70) 1895-1008 Juan Perón* general/politician/P - Buenos Aires, Argentina (1974/78) 1895-1010 1895-1013 Carl Westergren* wrestler/OG - Malmö, Sweden (1958/62) 1895-1014 John Millar Watt* painter/ illustrator/comics artist (Pop) - Greenock, Scotland (1975) 1895-1016 Max Koegel* Nazi officer/concentration camp commander - Füssen, Kingdom of Bavaria (1946/50) 1895-1020 Evelyn Brent* (b Mary Elizabeth Riggs) actress - Tampa, FL USA (1975/79) 1895-1021 Paavo Johansson/Jaale* athlete/javelin/OB - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1983/) 1895-1022 Rolf Nevanlinna* mathematician - Joensuu, GD of Finland (1980/84) 1895-1101 1895-1110 1895-1114 Walter Jackson Freeman II* neurologist - Philadelphia, PA USA (1972/76) 1895-1120 1895-1125 Helen Hooven Santmyer* librarian/ writer ( ["…And Ladies of the Club"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22...And_Ladies_of_the_Club%22 “”…And Ladies of the Club"")) - Cincinnati, OH USA (1986/90) 1895-1126 Bill Wilson* co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous - East Dorset, VT USA (1971/75) 1895-1130 Sam Gerson* Ukrainian-American wrestler/OS - Tymky, Ukraine, Russian Empire (1972/76) 1895-1201 1895-1209 Whina Cooper* (b Hōhepine Te Wake) Maori activist - Te Karaka, Hokianga, New Zealand (1994/98) 1895-1212 Sulho Sipilä* painter/navy officer - Brändö, Åland, GD of Finland (1949/54) 1895-1214 George VI* King of the United Kingdom (1936-1952)/father of Queen Elizabeth II - Sandringham Estate, Norfolk, England (1952/56) 1895-1224 Marguerite Williams* geologist - Washington D.C., USA  (1991/95) 1895-0 1895-0 1895-0 Updated 2025-0312 Helsinki Search for another year here