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• Albert Anthonie de Lange, Maassluis
• Albert Katuin, Emmen, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1901)
• Albert Gerrits Fennema, Hallum
• Adriana Maria GORDIJN, Hof van Delft († 1946)
• Alida Derkina Stutvoet, Veendam († 1974)
• Adriana Gladpootjes, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1983)
• Adriana Elizabeth Koster, Rotterdam († 1928)
• Alice FISHER, Illinois († 1966)
• Alice Martinusdatter, Tyvåslet, Beiarn, Nordland, Norway
• Adriana Wilhelmina Abels, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie († 1918)

• Arij Poldervaart (37), Nieuwenhoorn
• Hutting (0), Hatert
• Adriana Kaim (83), Zwijndrecht
• Albert Doornebosch (41), Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana KAIM (83), Kijfhoek
• Adriaan Pieter Ledeboer (70), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Klazes Elzinga (83), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Theresia Daenen (0), Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adrianus van Leeuwen (75), Deil, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonie Letterman (2), Schiedam

• 1892 » Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer († 1969)
• 1893 » David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier († 1968)
• 1895 » Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster († 1954)
• 1895 » Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina († 1991)
• 1897 » Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver and engineer († 1935)
• 1898 » John Stuart, Scottish-English actor († 1979)
• 1899 » Ernst Scheller, German soldier and politician, 8th Mayor of Marburg († 1942)
• 1900 » Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author († 1999)
• 1902 » Chill Wills, American actor († 1978)
• 1902 » Jessamyn West, American author († 1984)

• 1863 » Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)
• 1884 » Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Hendrika
7. Elisabeth
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Petronella
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
• February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
• April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
• June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
• October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

The temperature on July 18, 1898 was about 19.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.