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• Alice Jeanne Marguerite FRANCHOMME
• Adriaan Bakx, Oosterhout († 1898)
• Adrianus den Heijer, Rijnsburg († 1898)
• Koop, Haar, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1898)
• Anna Gerarda Hulscher, Amsterdam, prov. Noord Holland († 1941)
• Adah Dykstra, Pella Marion, Iowa († 1988)
• Albert Ruiterkamp, Erve Spitholt, Almen
• Aaltje ZUIDEMA, Veendam Groningen Netherlands († 1899)
• Goossens, Roosendaal
• Anacleto Thomaz de Souza, São Joaquim, Santa Catarina, Brasil

• Anna Maria Schonwald (64), Millingen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alberta Zoet (72), Doornspijk
• Albertus Josephus Strikkers (0), Tilburg
• Anders Peter Olsen (81), Sigtenborg, Ugilt, Vennebjerg, Hjørring, Danmark
• - van der Helm (0), Rotterdam
• arij KIEVIT (73), stellendam
• Bernard August Kuiter (0), Suttrup
• Arij Kievit (73), Stellendam
• Adriana Maria van Dongen, Gilze-Rijen
• Berendina Frederika van der Veur (2), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1897 » Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer († 1941)
• 1897 » Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican colonel and politician, 45th President of Mexico († 1955)
• 1899 » Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic († 1986)
• 1900 » Elizabeth Goudge, English author and educator († 1984)
• 1903 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician, founded the Falange († 1936)
• 1904 » Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator († 1997)
• 1905 » Al Bates, American long jumper († 1999)
• 1905 » Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic († 1989)
• 1906 » Mimi Smith, English nurse († 1991)
• 1906 » William Joyce, American-born Irish-British Nazi propaganda broadcaster († 1946)

• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1935 » Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)
• 1938 » George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1942 » Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
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.
• April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
• April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
• July 25 » Spanish-American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.
• August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
• August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
• October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.

The temperature on April 24, 1898 was about 11.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.