Today in History for July 1895
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Months in 1895: January February March April May June August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 5 of 5
3rd - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
4th - Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
8th - Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa
11th - Auguste & Louis Lumière show film for scientists
16th - Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 31 of 31
3rd - Oles' Semyonovich Chishko, composer
4th - Irving Caesar, songwriter
4th - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
4th - Walderman Marx, cricketer (S Af, 240 on FC debut (then world record))
5th - Gordon Jacob, composer
8th - Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (God & the Worms)
9th - Cullen Landis, Nashville TN, actor (Soul of the Beast)
10th - Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969)
10th - John Gilbert, [Pringle], Logan UT, actor (Heart o' the Hills)
10th - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court
10th - Nahum Goldmann, Switz, pres Zionist World Organization
11th - Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
12th - Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner)
12th - Oscar Hammerstein II, NYC, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
12th - R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
13th - Sidney Blackmer, Salisbury NC, actor (Ted Roosevelt in 12 movies)
14th - Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment)
18th - Marie Ney, London England, actress (Brief Ecstasy, Simba, Witchcraft)
18th - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
19th - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
20th - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
21st - H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31)
21st - Ken Maynard, Texas, cowboy/actor/producer (Bigfoot)
23rd - Florence Vidor, [Arto], Houston TX, actress (Jack Knife Man)
23rd - Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
25th - Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel)
26th - Jerry Verno, London England, actor (River of Unrest, Sweeney Todd)
26th - Robert Graves, London England, writer/poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26]
26th - Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
29th - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author
30th - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 6 of 6
2nd - William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72
8th - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
14th - Alexander Ewing, composer, dies at 65
19th - Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73
19th - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
28th - Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89), dies at 72
