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• Adriana Wilhelmina van Voorthuysen, Den Helder,Gemeente den Helder,North Holland,Netherlands
• Adolf Jan Krop, Zwolle,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1970)
• Amadeus van Italie, Turijn († 1942)
• Alida Catharina Antonia Kuijper, Loosduinen, ZH, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika Van Den Berg, Gorinchem, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Amadeus Savoy, Turin, Turin, Piedmont, Italy († 1942)
• Alle van der Sluis, Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• CRIJNS JOHANNES-LOUIS, WILRIJK († 1965)
• Adriana Langerak, Wijngaarden († 1899)
• Aafke Tietje de Boer, Burum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland († 1954)

• Arend van der Kooij (67), Vlaardinger-Ambacht
• Adriana Luijendijk (0), Abbenbroek, Bernisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Annechien Kuipers (0), Annen, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• anna MALLEGROM (33), klaaswaal
• Clementina Cordy (0), Jabbeke, België
• Antonie Trommelen (60), Medemblik
• Blondina Moesick (83), Hamme
• Berend van Petersen (48), Notter, Overijssel, Nederland Gem. Wierden
• Attje Wijmenga (0), Garijp, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia Ederveen (84)

• 1886 » Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot († 1911)
• 1887 » Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar († 1961)
• 1894 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic († 1965)
• 1895 » Edna Purviance, American actress († 1958)
• 1895 » Paavo Johansson, Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete († 1983)
• 1896 » Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d.1985)
• 1898 » Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and actor († 1960)
• 1900 » Andrée Boisson, French Olympic fencer († 1973)
• 1907 » Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet († 1985)
• 1908 » Niyazi Berkes, Cypriot-English sociologist and academic († 1988)

• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
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.
• 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.)
• 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.
• August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
• September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
• October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
• October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.

The temperature on October 21, 1898 was about 11.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.