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• Alphonsus Van de Sande, Oorderen
• Anna Elisabeth van Bavel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Adriana Elisabeth de Ruijter, Terneuzen († 1898)
• Aaltje Timmerman, Ommen († 1986)
• ZUIDIJK († 1898)
• Aaltje Stulp, Niezijl, Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland († 1979)
• Aalbertus Pieter Valk, Leiden
• Aalbertus Pieter Valk, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Peter Alting, Leerdam († 1968)
• Unknown, Santa Cruz, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica

• Arien (alias: Arie) de Graaf (65), Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Koole (62), Wissenkerke, Noord-Beveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Bakker (80), Zwaag, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Holtink (67), Baalder
• Antje Baukes de Ruiter (87), ,,, Gaasterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Catarina Wassink (80), Nijkerk
• Boelo Jasper Holtkamp (0), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Ate PROZÉE (0), Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands
• Bernardus Nooij (48), Wijdewormer
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Steffens (84), Adorf, Twist, D of Knoll))

• 1890 » Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player († 1976)
• 1896 » Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician († 1976)
• 1898 » Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician († 1984)
• 1898 » Tian Han, Chinese playwright († 1968)
• 1899 » Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer († 1955)
• 1900 » Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia († 1975)
• 1900 » Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete († 1972)
• 1904 » Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician († 1976)
• 1905 » Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor († 1982)
• 1907 » Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic († 2007)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

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 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
• June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
• August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
• August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
• October 6 » Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

The temperature on March 12, 1898 was about 9.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.