About the day » Sunday October 2, 1898Calender converter

• Andreas Wilhelmus Petrus Antonius Leuven, Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Visser, Nieuwenhoorn († 1898)
• Aaltjen de Boer, Urk, Gemeente Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1971)
• Aimé DENYS, Oostende
• Anna Maria Dau, Amsterdam
• Alfons Pieter Bosteels († 1975)
• Aaltje Steenkamer, Weststellingswerf († 1979)
• Akke Roelofs Wuite, Oldeboorn, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Kruitbosch, Diepenveen († 1970)
• Wens Josephus, Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1949)

• Visser (0), Nieuwenhoorn
• Anna Catharina Verschuren (63), Graauw en Langendam
• Aagje Kremer (1), Musselkanaal (Onstwedde, Groningen)
• Anna Cornelia Riemslag (56), Borkel en Schaft
• Anna Maria Spelthahn (1), Kerkrade, Limburg, Niederlande
• Anna Petronella Groen (0), Eemnes, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries Reinders Gras (67), Steggerda (Weststellingwerf)
• Andries Akkerman (1), Leeuwarden
• Andries Reindert GRAS (67), Steggerda
• (Stillborn) ELZINGA (0), Leeuwarderadeel Friesland Netherlands

• 1890 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor († 1977)
• 1893 » Leroy Shield, American composer and conductor († 1962)
• 1895 » Ruth Cheney Streeter, American colonel († 1990)
• 1897 » Bud Abbott, American comedian († 1974)
• 1902 » John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician († 1996)
• 1902 » Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria († 1965)
• 1904 » Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic († 1991)
• 1904 » Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India († 1966)
• 1905 » Franjo Šeper, Croatian cardinal († 1981)
• 1906 » Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria († 1971)

• 1850 » Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 » François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)

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.
• January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• 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 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 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
• July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
• August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.

The temperature on October 2, 1898 was about 16.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.