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• Amelia_Prudentia Bouwens, Den Haag († 1988)
• Adrianus Johannes Anthonius (Adriaan) Kuiters, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1984)
• Albertus Nieuwveld, Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland († 1899)
• Adolphus Henricus Van Rooy, Westerlo, België († 1981)
• Alphonsine Geens, Geetbets († 1967)
• Westein, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Aagje VERLOOP, Rotterdam († 1900)
• Adrianus Johannes Antonius KUITERS, Dordrecht
• Agnes Ludovica Mangelschots, Geel, België († 1899)
• Aaltje Krans, Noordbroek, Groningen, Nederland († 1906)

• Aalbert van der Zande (80), Arnhem (GL)
• Catharina van Württemberg (77)
• Baukje Rienks Hoff (66), Haulerwijk, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina Friederike Charlotte van WURTTEMBERG (77), Stuttgart
• Adolphus Antonius Rientjes (56), Deventer
• Aart Johannis van Thielen (66), Sprang
• Brienen BRIENISSEN (64), Dodewaard (Gelderland, The Netherlands)
• Arend van 't Goor (63), Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Sophia Bauduin (24), Meerssen, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriaan Boot (0), Kortgene, Nederland

• 1893 » Homer N. Wallin, American admiral († 1984)
• 1893 » Sylvia Townsend Warner, English author and poet († 1978)
• 1896 » Ira Gershwin, American songwriter († 1983)
• 1898 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist († 1995)
• 1898 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1898 » John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria († 1977)
• 1898 » Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director († 1964)
• 1900 » Agnes Moorehead, American actress († 1974)
• 1901 » Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic († 1990)
• 1903 » Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager († 1946)

• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
• 1924 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)

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.
• June 10 » Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.
• 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 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
• August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
• September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
• October 6 » Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

The temperature on December 6, 1898 was about 6.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.