About the day » Sunday August 7, 1898Calender converter

• Aleida Anthonia BAX, Wieringen Noord-Holland Netherlands
• Albert Hertgers, Apeldoorn († 1898)
• Albert Heersink, Doetinchem
• Albert Jochems, Apeldoorn
• Josephus Schel(Huijberts), Oss († 1898)
• Adrianus Cornelius Petrus Josephus Tuerlings, Tilburg († 1986)
• Adolphus Ludovicus Pellens, Antwerpen 2000, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1899)
• Adrianus van Dam, Ter Aar (Papenveer) († 1902)
• van Bemmel, Schalkwijk, Nederland († 1898)
• Aartje Maria Hartman, Leerdam

• Booike Lanting (50), Den Ham gem. Aduard
• Arie Plaizier (57), Ridderkerk
• Goetheer, Kattendijke
• Amelia Roelandt (82), Denderhautem
• Abel Niehof (38), Winschoten (gem. Oldambt)
• Christoffel Groninger (55), Veenhuizen (Norg), Drenthe, the Netherlands
• Celia Atwater Strowd [Bu] (84), Probably Orange County, North Carolina
• Adriana Dingena Dekker (72), Almkerk, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• van Bemmel (0), Schalkwijk, Nederland
• Adriana Timmermans (0), Lagemierde

• 1884 » Billie Burke, American actress and singer († 1970)
• 1887 » Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright († 1970)
• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
• 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
• 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)
• 1911 » Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter († 1979)

• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

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…!.
• March 16 » In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• 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 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 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
• November 5 » Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.

The temperature on August 7, 1898 was about 15.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.