Timelines for year 1895
Lorraine Hansberry
Her father Carl A. Hansberry, Sr. (30 Apr 1895 - 7 Mar 1946), won the 1940 US Supreme Court case "Hansberry vs. Lee" which involved the enforcement of racially restrictive housing covenants. The family's experience with segregation was an inspiration for the play, A Raisin in the Sun.
Frank Morgan
Wife Alma Muller (1895-1970) was the daughter of a New York real estate magnate and a woman suffragette. They eloped in 1914.
Leo Carrillo
Several of his political cartoons appear in Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals and the Mass Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915 by Andrew L. Erdman.
Sara Seegar
The youngest of four talented sisters: Dr. Helen Seegar Stone (1895-1976) (educator); Dorothy Seegar (Broadway and opera singer); and Miriam Seegar (1907-2011) (silent film actress).
Claire Windsor
Clara Viola (Ola) Cronk was actually born in Marvin (present day Glade), in Phillips County, Kansas. Ola was two years old when the family moved to Cawker City (Jan. 1895) and ran a general merchandise store until 1920. "Claire Windsor" always claimed to be born in Cawker because she used 1897 or 1898 as the date of her birth instead of 1892.
Miriam Seegar
The third of four talented sisters: Dr. Helen Seegar Stone (1895-1976) (educator); Dorothy Seegar (Broadway and opera singer); and the youngest Sara Seegar Stone (1914-1990) (stage, film and TV character actress).
George Roy Hill
Not to be confused with another ace director of an earlier generation, George W. Hill (1895-1934).
George Raft
There has been much debate over when George was born. Although most sources and articles claim his birth year as 1895, including his gravestone, New York census reports suggest Mr. Raft was born in 1901.
Sally Rand
Most people think she was the original female ecdysiast. Actually, Susie Johnson displayed her charms - and more - in 1895, securing a place in history as the central figure in the infamous "Pie Girl Dinner".
Hattie McDaniel
Although her gravestone at Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles and her memorial cenotaph at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery show 1895 as her year of birth, Kansas census records for her household dated March 1st, 1895 show her age as 2, confirming that the year on her funerary markers is incorrect.
Mae Marsh
Although Marsh's birth date is usually given as 1895, U.S. Census records from 1900 clearly indicate her birth date as 9 November 1894. Furthermore, the same census records indicate that her father, S.C. Marsh, did not die when she was four, as most stories have it, nor was he a railroad auditor. Rather, he was a bartender and was alive as late as June, 1900.
Raymond Griffith
According to "Classic Images," Griffith was born in 1895. Most obituaries incorrectly list his birth year as either 1890 or 1897.
Georges Méliès
On December 28, 1895, he was a member of the first audience in the world to see the Lumiere brothers' Cinematographe.