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1895 births

  • Milton WaldmanMilton Waldman entered the world in 1895 within the city limits of Cleveland, Ohio. His early education took place at Yale University before he joined the…
  • Phillip FormanPhillip Forman entered the world on the 30th of November 1895, in New York City. He grew up instead in Trenton, New Jersey.
  • Buster KeatonJoseph Frank Keaton arrived in Piqua, Kansas on the 4th of October 1895. His father Joe ran a traveling medicine show called the Mohawk Indian Medicine…
  • Edmund WilsonEdmund Wilson Jr. entered the world on the 8th of May 1895 in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father Edmund Wilson Sr. served as the state Attorney General before…
  • Mikhail BakhtinMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was born in the city of Oryol, Russia, to a family of nobility. His father managed a bank and moved the family across several…
  • Sergei YeseninSergei Yesenin was born in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan County, Russian Empire, on the 3rd of October 1895. His parents spent most of their time…
  • T. D. KendrickThomas Downing Kendrick entered the world on the 1st of April 1895 in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham. His father Thomas H.
  • Walter Bedell SmithWalter Bedell Smith was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 5th of October 1895. He grew up as the elder of two sons to William Long Smith and Ida Francis…
  • George HalasGeorge Halas was born on the 2nd of February 1895 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in a home filled with Czech-Bohemian immigrants from Pilsen…
  • Paul HindemithPaul Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, on the 16th of November 1895. He grew up as the eldest child of Robert Hindemith and his wife Marie…
  • Lewis MumfordLewis Mumford was born on the 19th of October 1895 in Flushing, Queens. He grew up in a household that valued education and culture.
  • Richard SorgeRichard Gustavovich Sorge was born on the 4th of October 1895 in the settlement of Sabunchi, a suburb of Baku. His father worked as a German mining engineer…