1995 in animation is an overview of notable events, including notable awards, list of films released, television show debuts and endings, and notable deaths.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
August
September
October
November
December
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Films released
Television series debuts
Television series endings
Television season premieres
Television season finales
Births
January
February
March
May
June
July
- July 4: Post Malone, American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer (voice of Brooklyn Bystander in ' and ', Ray Fillet in ').
August
September
October
- October 3: Ayo Edebiri, American actress and comedienne (voice of Missy Foreman-Greenwald in Big Mouth, General Scarpaccio/Jayson Moody in Mulligan, Harriet Tubman in Clone High, April O'Neil in ', Envy in Inside Out 2), television writer (Craig of the Creek) and producer (Big Mouth).
- October 4: Ambrosia Kelley, American former child actress (voice of Cora Walker in The Zeta Project episode "Change of Heart", young Sharon Hawkins in the Static Shock episode "Tantrum").
- October 15: Billy Unger, American actor (voice of Brad Kingstone in Fish Hooks, young Sammy in ', Michael in the Special Agent Oso episode "The Boy with the Golden Gift", Handicapped Kid in the Family Guy episode "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing").
- October 30: Andy Pessoa, American actor (voice of Raf Esquivel in ', Gabriel in the Sym-Bionic Titan episode "Shadows of Youth").
November
- November 2: Brandon Soo Hoo, American actor (voice of Beast Boy in Justice League vs. Teen Titans and ', Stanford Yu in Mech Cadets, Tom Lee in The Tiger's Apprentice).
- November 17: Zach Barack, American actor (voice of Barney Guttman in ').
- November 22: Katherine McNamara, American actress (voice of Priscilla Pynch in ', Sally Jessup in Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas).
- November 23: Austin Majors, American actor (voice of young Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet, Blue Teammate #3 in The Ant Bully, Thomas in the American Dad! episode "Of Ice and Men"), (d. 2023).
- November 29: Laura Marano, American actress and singer (voice of Scout Y in The X's, Rachel in ', Veronica in Pickle and Peanut, Mei Mei in the Ni Hao, Kai-Lan episode "Kai-Lan's Trip to China", Evie, Linda and Titanic Waitress in Robot Chicken episode "Sundancer Craig in: 30% of the Way to Crying", Girl Hamster #2 in the Fish Hooks episode "Algae Day").
December
Deaths
January
- January 12: William Pomerance, American animator (Walt Disney Studios), dies at age 89.
- January 19: Don Tobin, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 79.
- January 21: John Halas, Hungarian-English animator, film producer and director (Halas & Batchelor, Animal Farm, the animated music video of Love Is All by Roger Glover), dies at age 82.
- January 24: Frank Emery, American mural artist, jazz musician, photographer, animator, illustrator, and comics artist, dies at age 37.
- January 26: Cecil Roy, American actress (voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost and Little Lulu), dies at age 94.
March
- March 4: Gloria Wood, American singer and actress (voice of Nelly in Nelly's Folly, Suzy Sparrow in Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom), dies at age 71.
- March 11: Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (voice of narrator in Wil Cwac Cwac,. Potholer and Linda in the SuperTed episode "SuperTed and the Pothole Rescue", Princess Amaranth in Alias the Jester, Mrs. Clonkers in The BFG), dies at age 50.
- March 19: Yasuo Yamada, Japanese actor (voice of the title character in Lupin III), dies at age 62.
April
- April 14: Burl Ives, American singer and actor (voice of Sam the Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), dies at age 85.
- April 19: Preston Blair, American animator (Walter Lantz, Charles Mintz, Walt Disney Company, MGM, Tex Avery, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 86.
- April 30: Michael Graham Cox, English actor (voice of Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, Bigwig in Watership Down), dies at age 57.
May
- May 2: Michael Hordern, English actor (voice of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, Frith in Watership Down, Badger in The Wind in the Willows, narrator in Paddington), dies at age 83.
- May 18: Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (voice of Samantha in The Flintstones episode "Samantha", Barmaid in the ' episode "Showdown"), dies at age 62.
- May 26: Friz Freleng, American animator and cartoonist (Looney Tunes, The Pink Panther), dies at age 89.
June
July
August
September
- September 5: Paul Julian, American animator, background artist (', '), sound effects artist (Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voice actor (Road Runner), dies at age 81.
- September 12: LubomÃÂr BeneÃ
¡, Czech animator and director (co-creator of Pat & Mat), dies at age 59.
- September 21:
- Irven Spence, American animator (Charles Mintz, Ub Iwerks, Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Chuck Jones, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Ralph Bakshi), dies at age 86.
- Ken Willard, American animator (Gumby Adventures, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Bump in the Night, ', Toy Story), dies at age 36.
- September 22: John Whitney, American animator, composer, and inventor (Five Film Exercises, co-animated the opening sequence of Vertigo), dies at age 78.
- September 25: Kei Tomiyama, Japanese voice actor dies at 56.
October
- October 5: Linda Gary, American actress (voice of Queen Salena in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Teela, the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, Evil-Lyn, and Queen Marlena in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Grandma Longneck in The Land Before Time franchise, Entrapta, Madame Razz, Scorpia, Shadow Weaver, and Glimmer in ', Chromia in The Transformers, Aunt May in seasons 1-3 of Spider-Man, Nora Crest in ', Dr. Abby Sinian in '), dies at age 50.
- October 13: Michael Lah, American animator and film director (Walt Disney Company, worked for Tex Avery), dies at age 83.
- October 21: Maxene Andrews, American singer (co-sang the "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" segment in Make Mine Music and "Little Toot" in Melody Time), dies at age 79.
- October 23: Mary Wickes, American actress (live-action model for Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians, voice of Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at age 85.
November
- November 4: Jackie Banks, American animation checker and scene planner (Hanna-Barbera, This Is America, Charlie Brown, The Simpsons, '), dies at age 54.
- November 9: Robert O. Cook, American sound engineer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 92.
- November 16: Charles Gordone, American playwright, actor, director, educator and actor (voice of Preacher Fox in Coonskin), dies at age 70.
- November 19: Wan Guchan, Chinese animator, film director (founder of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Shuzhendong Chinese Typewriter, Uproar in the Studio, The Camel's Dance, Princess Iron Fan, Havoc in Heaven, Why is the Crow Black-Coated), dies at age 95.
December
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