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• Aaltje van Renselaar, Nijkerk Gld († 1913)
• Aaltje van Zeeburg, Doornspijk († 1973)
• Alida Hillegiena Schuring, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Aimé Julien MESSIAEN, Spiere
• Schenkeveld, Delft
• Adrianus Euser, Zwijndrecht Z.H
• Adrianus Johannes Schreij, Rotterdam
• Andries Groeneveld, Rockanje, 3235, Nederland († 1979)
• Amanda Adrienne Maria Glorieux, Rollegem-kapelle († 1977)
• Alphonsius Adriaan Heere, Dussen, NL († 1962)

• Abraham van Poppel (42), Princenhage
• Adriana Doggen (56), Wouw,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aarnout Alewijnse (76), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Barbara Thérèse Vervaecke (41), Rekkem
• Antonie van den Bogaard (86), Werkhoven
• Artje van Gessel (62), Tiel 24
• Antje Schardam (46), Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Martha Hermes (81), Tinnen
• Adrianus Jacobusz Deumers (56), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Aaltje van Gelder (0), Gorinchem

• 1891 » Ronald Colman, English-American actor († 1958)
• 1892 » Peggy Wood, American actress († 1978)
• 1893 » Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece († 1987)
• 1895 » Hermann Brill, German lawyer and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia († 1959)
• 1896 » Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator († 1982)
• 1897 » Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian captain and pilot († 1935)
• 1898 » Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet and educator († 1927)
• 1901 » Brian Donlevy, American actor († 1972)
• 1901 » James Murray, American actor († 1936)
• 1905 » David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, English hurdler and politician († 1981)

• 1857 » Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet and translator (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (b. 1798)
• 1881 » Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (b. 1821)
• 1891 » Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
• 1903 » Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (b. 1816)
• 1906 » Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1872)
• 1928 » William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Richard With, Norwegian captain and businessman, founded Hurtigruten (b. 1846)
• 1932 » A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi soldier and activist (b. 1904)
• 1932 » Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and banker (b. 1869)

• 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 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
• June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
• September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
• November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.

The temperature on February 9, 1898 was about 3.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.