About the day » Thursday June 23, 1898Calender converter

• Albert Stellema, Achtkarspelen, Provincie Friesland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Zagwijn, Schiedam
• Abraham Buis, Leiden
• Adrianus van de Pol, Renkum
• Aart Oskam, Wijngaarden († 1957)
• Amalia Frieda Nicolaas Portier, Ambarawa, Indonesië († 1971)
• Albert Engels, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1945)
• Albert Jelles STELLEMA, Gerkesklooster, Achtkarspelen, Fryslân, Nederland († 1995)
• Albert Jan Overzet, Tolbert († 1899)
• Adriana Gijsberta Reijerse, Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland

• Albert Duker (0), Uffelte {DR}
• Aloys Castelyn (25), Klerken
• Charles Octave Laporte (34), Jol, Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau
• te GROTENHUIS (0), Klein Breedenbroek, Gendringen, Gelderland, NL
• Cornelia Christina Antonisse (61), Utrecht
• Baukje Hiddes Boeysma (13), Grouw, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anke Toben (97), Langefeld, Middels, Ostfriesland
• Berend Jacobs Extra (78), Lekkum
• Mol (0), Rhenen
• Christina van Noorden (25), Yerseke

• 1894 » Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist († 1956)
• 1894 » Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom († 1972)
• 1894 » Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice († 1972)
• 1899 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French race car driver and sports car manufacturer († 1979)
• 1900 » Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race († 1981)
• 1901 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar († 1962)
• 1903 » Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician († 1992)
• 1904 » Quintin McMillan, South African cricketer († 1938)
• 1905 » Jack Pickersgill, Canadian civil servant and politician, 35th Secretary of State for Canada († 1997)
• 1906 » Tribhuvan of Nepal († 1955)

• 1848 » Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1776)
• 1856 » Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1806)
• 1881 » Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (b. 1825)
• 1891 » Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (b. 1817)
• 1893 » William Fox, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
• 1914 » Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1945 » Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1923)
• 1953 » Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)

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 7 » Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!.
• 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.
• June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
• 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.
• September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
• September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.

The temperature on June 23, 1898 was about 14.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.