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• Heuvel, Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland († 1898)
• Adrianus Antonius Schippers, Alem, Maasdriel, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1990)
• Aafke Haaksma, Westerhorn († 1979)
• albertus Cornelis van den Hoek, Amsterdam († 1929)
• Adrianus van der Hoek, Zwartewaal, Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1899)
• Adrianus Florentius Franciscus Maria Keuls, Leiden († 1987)
• Alida Catrina van Wijk, Amsterdam († 1899)
• Aafke Haaksma, Westerhorn, gem. Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Bolhuis, Ten Boer, Groningen, Nederland († 1973)
• Angèle Marie Noële Vanduynslager, Tourcoing (FR59)

• Barend van Halen (22), Den Helder
• Anno Hofkamp (12), Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland
• Heuvel (0), Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Auke Migchiels Hiemstra (33), Hennaarderadeel
• Catharina DUDINK (93), Blokker, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Tack (44), Rotterdam
• Kievit (0), Buurmalsen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Batje Kruijff (82), Sassenheim
• Berber Piers Fokkens (73)
• Catharina Thorens (84), Goes

• 1891 » Henry Miller, American author and painter († 1980)
• 1892 » Don Barclay, American actor and illustrator († 1975)
• 1893 » Mao Zedong, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Communist Party of China († 1976)
• 1894 » Jean Toomer, American author and poet († 1967)
• 1900 » Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG († 1993)
• 1901 » Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author († 1941)
• 1902 » Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor († 1980)
• 1903 » Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor († 1995)
• 1904 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author († 1980)
• 1905 » William Loeb III, American publisher († 1981)

• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

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 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 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.
• 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.
• October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
• November 5 » Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.

The temperature on December 26, 1898 was about -1.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.