About the day » Wednesday February 23, 1898Calender converter

• * Neeltje Visser, Rotterdam
• Adeline Elodia Joanna Sillis, Hamme
• Aart Schrijvershof, Ameide, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1898)
• Aernout van Lennep, Den Helder,Gemeente den Helder,North Holland,Netherlands († 1974)
• Kemp, Woerden
• Adrianus Bruno Haefkens, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1958)
• Aleida Virgienia Hillebrandt, Soerakarta († 1951)
• Adrianus Mattheus Fens, Zevenbergen
• Aagje Bleeker, Heerhugowaard, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Johan Anton de Bas, 's-Gevelduin-Capelle

• Kemmere (0), Waspik, Waalwijk, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Aletta Vermaat (53), Benschop
• Aletta Wilhelmina Van Der Merwe (84), Murraysburg, Central Karoo DC, Western Cape, South Africa
• de Klerk, Roosendaal en Nispen
• (84), Goes
• Arij van Schie (46), (ZH) Loosduinen
• Antonius Luijs (0), Mill en Sint Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Aart van Asselt (22), Harderwijk
• Amandus SEGHERS (60), Sint-Amands,2890,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anna Saarloos (22), Zevenbergen

• 1889 » Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor († 1975)
• 1889 » Musidora, French actress and director († 1957)
• 1889 » Victor Fleming, American director, cinematographer, and producer († 1949)
• 1892 » Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer († 1950)
• 1892 » Kathleen Harrison, English actress († 1995)
• 1894 » Harold Horder, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1978)
• 1899 » Erich Kästner, German author and poet († 1974)
• 1899 » Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1904 » Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter († 1980)
• 1904 » William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian († 1993)

• 1855 » Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
• 1859 » Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1812)
• 1879 » Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (b. 1803)
• 1897 » Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (b. 1828)
• 1900 » Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
• 1908 » Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
• 1918 » Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)

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 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 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
• August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
• September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
• November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.

The temperature on February 23, 1898 was about 3.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.