About the day » Monday May 9, 1898Calender converter

• Abraham Lodder, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• van Hilten, Rotterdam († 1908)
• Alberdina Turksema, Zevenhuizen, Nederland
• Albert Speelman, Schoonoord († 1899)
• Agnes Fuchs, De Rijp {NH} († 1914)
• Albertus Antonius Smink, Amersfoort († 1898)
• Adriana Geertrui Kuijf, Utrecht
• Albertje Arends, Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Tiendeveen)
• Albertje Arends, Tiendeveen, Beilen
• Addison Francis Comes, Litchfield, Herkimer County, New York († 1970)

• Alida Bronswijk (89), Monster, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriaan van Woensel (54), Baardwijk
• Arie de Kreek (21), Strijen, Nederland
• Alice Maria Anna Decabooter (0), Wervik, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Adriana SCHILPEROORD (77), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Nuijens (0), Den Helder
• Anna Margaretha Remmert (Remmers) (34), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Antje van Dobben (0), Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van LENTEN Wzn (72), Dirksland, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Adriana Kemmeren (53)

• 1892 » Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire († 1989)
• 1893 » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author († 1947)
• 1895 » Frank Foss, American pole vaulter († 1989)
• 1895 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher († 1961)
• 1895 » Richard Barthelmess, American actor († 1963)
• 1896 » Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator († 1972)
• 1900 » Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress († 1992)
• 1904 » Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator († 1988)
• 1905 » Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist († 1998)
• 1906 » Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator († 1988)

• 1861 » Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
• 1864 » John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)

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 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.
• 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 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
• August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
• September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
• October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

The temperature on May 9, 1898 was about 11.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.