About the day » Saturday May 21, 1898Calender converter

• Albert PRANGER, Koedijk, NH, Nederland
• Aerendina Dubois, Delfzijl
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth Hoogveld, Cuijk en St. Agatha, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1898)
• Adriaan van DONGEN, Dordrecht († 1983)
• Anna Gerharda Wilhelmina Olthof, Deventer († 1929)
• Anna Elisabeth Hubertina Maessen, Utrecht
• Adriaan van Dongen, Dordrecht
• Adèle GUILLEMOT, Trémeur, 22250, France
• Adrianus Hogerheijde, Amsterdam
• Adriana Catharina Vervoort, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1980)

• Antonia Wilbrordina Kroot (0), Diessen
• Adriana Bastiaans Rijswijk (79), IJsselmonde
• Anna van Marsbergen (73), Heusden
• Barbara Geiger (32), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Steijn (24), Loosduinen
• Ananias Klazens Ananias (75), Norg, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alexander Josephus Habets (63), Maastricht
• Adrianus M. FRYLING (1), Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan U.S.A
• Ananias Ananias (75), Norg, Noordenveld, Drenthe, Nederland
• Ananias Ananias (75), Norg, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1895 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas († 1970)
• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Carl Johnson, American long jumper († 1932)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)
• 1898 » John McLaughlin, American painter and translator († 1976)
• 1901 » Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host († 1986)
• 1901 » Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian († 1993)
• 1901 » Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent († 2000)
• 1901 » Suzanne Lilar, Belgian author and playwright († 1992)
• 1902 » Earl Averill, American baseball player († 1983)

• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)

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.
• February 7 » Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!.
• May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
• August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
• September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
• October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
• December 10 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.

The temperature on May 21, 1898 was about 14.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.