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• Adriana Elizabeth Anna Verhoeff, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1949)
• Streithorst
• Alfonsus Gerardus Barten, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1898)
• Amédée,Fernand,Jacques,marie,Joseph de Clermont-Tonnerre (Markies), Parijs, Frankrijk († 1990)
• Adrianus van Doorn, Houten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1966)
• Adriana de Hoon, Breda († 1898)
• Anna Wolf, of Berlicum, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1977)
• Alphonsus Verbert, Hove
• Aaltje Bleijenberg, Leuvenum († 1984)
• Alida Cornelia Slappendel, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Zuid Holland, Netherlands

• Aaltje de Weerdt (0), Hattem, Gld, The Netherlands
• Angele Renilde Rau (4), Brugge, België
• Antonius Leonardus Stuart (1), Bemmel, NL
• Arend Bloemberg (53), Alkmaar
• Antonius Leonardus Stuart- (1), Bemmel, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Rijkx (76), Zolder, 3550, België
• Adriaan Willem van Apeldoorn (84), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Versteeg (91), Woudenberg
• Antje van Veen (25), Dedemsvaart
• Andries MAAS (80), Someren,Gemeente Someren,North Brabant,Netherlands

• 1893 » Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach († 1953)
• 1893 » Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and pianist († 1980)
• 1894 » Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1986)
• 1897 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1897 » Judith Anderson, Australian actress († 1992)
• 1898 » Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet († 1956)
• 1898 » Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author († 1979)
• 1901 » Stella Adler, American actress and educator († 1992)
• 1902 » Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1903 » Waldemar Hoven, German physician († 1948)

• 1879 » Honoré Daumier, French illustrator and painter (b. 1808)
• 1887 » Ellen Wood, English author (b. 1814)
• 1891 » Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850)
• 1904 » John A. Roche, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
• 1906 » Ezra Butler Eddy, American-Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1912 » Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (b. 1827)
• 1913 » Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (b. 1888)
• 1917 » John William Waterhouse, English soldier and painter (b. 1849)
• 1918 » Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)

• 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 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
• April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
• August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
• 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 February 10, 1898 was about 5.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.