Historical Figures Who Died in 1895

Abolitionist · 1818 – 1895

Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, orator and writer who escaped slavery to become the most powerful voice of the antislavery movement and one of the foremost advocates for equality and human rights in the 19th century.

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Abolitionist oratory

Chemist · 1822 – 1895

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist whose work on germ theory, vaccination, and pasteurization revolutionized medicine and saved countless lives.

• Germ theory of disease
• Pasteurization