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• Afiena Annechiena Jochums KOETSE, Wildervanksterdallen, Wildervank, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrienne Augustine BOUFFELIER, SAINT CALAIS († 1983)
• Aapko Smit, Oostwold, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Christina Scholten, Rotterdam († 1957)
• Albertha Smid, Zuidwolde, Westerveld († 1899)
• Aaldert Westerhof, Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1922)
• Abraham,, Johannes Schuman, Koudekerke († 1951)
• Binneveld, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Mimi" Wilhelmina Maria Keultjes, Sterkrade Duitsland († 1975)
• Andreas Albertus te Meerman, Enschede, 7500, Nederland

• Anna Maria van Wezel (0), Drunen
• Adriaan Riemens (63), oost-en west-Souburg, Nederland
• Adriaan van Houtum (89), St. Oedenrode
• Anna Maria Stiefermann (51), Husten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Anna Chatarina Wilhelmina van der Putten (64), 's Hertogenbosch
• Aaron Edward Hornsby (41), Runnels, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Wermink (46), Lemele
• Anna Magdalena Schalenborgh (77), Kerkom, België
• Anna Catharina Wilhelmina van der Putten (Damen) (64), 's-Hertogenbosch (N.Br)
• Anna Catharina Wilhelmina van der Putten (64), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1893 » Charles C. Banks, English captain and pilot († 1971)
• 1893 » Erwin Piscator, German director and producer († 1966)
• 1894 » Arthur Fiedler, American conductor († 1979)
• 1894 » Patrick Flynn, Irish-American runner and soldier († 1969)
• 1894 » Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch cartographer, engineer, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1977)
• 1895 » Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis player († 1967)
• 1898 » Loren Murchison, American sprinter († 1979)
• 1900 » Katina Paxinou, Greek actress († 1973)
• 1900 » Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos († 1998)
• 1903 » Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and short story writer († 1987)

• 1904 » William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848)
• 1907 » William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)
• 1927 » Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
• 1928 » Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)
• 1929 » Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1930 » Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
• 1933 » 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)

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.
• 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 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
• June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
• July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
• September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
• November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.

The temperature on December 17, 1898 was about 10.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.