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• Adrianus van Rijswijk, Wijk en Aalburg († 1930)
• Aaltje Lap, Ameland (FRL) The Netherlands († 1975)
• Adrianus Pluimgraaff, Katwijk († 1982)
• Adriana Cornelia Broere, Lekkerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1906)
• Adrianus Petrus de Laet, Tilburg, NB Netherlands († 1956)
• Adriaan Willem de Voogd, Vlissingen
• Abraham van Velde, Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Koopsen, Ermelo
• Adriaan Willem de Voogd, VLISSINGEN, ZL, NL († 1948)
• Aaltje Cornelia van der SLUIJS Ddr, Sommelsdijk, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH († 1898)

• Aaltje Atedr. van der Meer (58), Swichum Gem Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Buijsman (1), Bovenkarspel
• Aafje Gerrits Wagenaar (93), Zaandam, Nederland
• Annetje Hendriks van Rouwenda(A)L (78), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Josepha Reith, Oberbimbach, Landkreis Fulda, Hessen, Duitsland
• Annetje van Rouwendaal (78), Putten-Huinen
• Aaltje Muskee (40), Veenoord
• Adriana Arenddr Scholten (62), Hillegom, South Holland, Netherlands
• Aagtje Mug (61), Kloosterburen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Ates van der Meer (58), Swichum

• 1892 » Sumner Welles, American politician and diplomat, 11th Under Secretary of State († 1961)
• 1893 » Lillian Gish, American actress († 1993)
• 1894 » E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright († 1962)
• 1894 » Victoria Drummond, British marine engineer († 1978)
• 1897 » Alicja Dorabialska, Polish chemist († 1975)
• 1898 » Thomas William Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient († 1950)
• 1900 » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic († 1993)
• 1902 » Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager († 1963)
• 1904 » Christian Pineau, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1995)
• 1904 » Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union († 1978)

• 1911 » John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
• 1923 » Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1929 » Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
• 1930 » Samuel van Houten, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (b. 1837)
• 1942 » Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1943 » Sobibór uprising:
• 1944 » Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1877)
• 1953 » Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (b. 1882)

• 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.
• April 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
• April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
• 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.
• July 7 » US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
• September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.

The temperature on October 14, 1898 was about 11.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.