About the day » Sunday February 13, 1898Calender converter

• Adrianus Westerveld, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bruns, Wesuwe, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1898)
• Aaltje ten Kate, Ommerschans {OV} (Ommen Stad) († 1965)
• Alfred Hertrampf († 1975)
• Adriana Pietronella Corten, Oosterhout († 1972)
• Adolf Knott († 1898)
• Aarnoudt Jeras, Nieuw-en Sint Joosland († 1898)
• Albert Johannes Buitenhuis, Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Albert Samuel Voss, Bigelow, Nobles County, Minnesota († 1935)
• Alexander Adrianus Cornelis Joseph Chene de, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1977)

• Bartha Kers (81), Oene (Epe), Gelderland, Nederland
• Aris Willemse Hardeman (89), De Bilt
• Bartha Kers (80), Oene
• Adriana Alblas (69), Hoogblokland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana de Lange (43), Ijsselmonde
• Aris Willemse Hardeman (90), de Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anthonia Overbeek (65), Lopik, Utrecht, NL
• Aris (Willemse) Hardeman (89), De Bilt
• Adriana Meulmeester (78), Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana van Geest (78), Naaldwijk

• 1891 » Grant Wood, American painter and academic († 1942)
• 1891 » Kate Roberts, Welsh author and activist († 1985)
• 1892 » Robert H. Jackson, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 57th United States Attorney General († 1954)
• 1898 » Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician († 1979)
• 1900 » Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress († 1979)
• 1901 » Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic († 1976)
• 1902 » Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist († 1978)
• 1903 » Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author († 1989)
• 1903 » Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Aircraft Company († 1979)
• 1906 » Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and author († 1994)

• 1877 » Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (b. 1815)
• 1883 » Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
• 1888 » Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (b. 1814)
• 1892 » Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (b. 1791)
• 1893 » Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (b. 1834)
• 1905 » Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1906 » Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
• 1934 » József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (b. 1864)
• 1942 » Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (b. 1865)
• 1942 » Otakar Batlička, Czech journalist (b. 1895)

• 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 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
• March 16 » In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• June 13 » Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
• September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
• November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.

The temperature on February 13, 1898 was about 5.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.