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• Aagtje Pieters SENNEMA, Grijpskerk Groningen Netherlands († 1899)
• Aafje Ooms, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth Hoogveld, Cuijk,Cuijk,Noord Brabant,Nederland († 1898)
• Adriaan Carel Wilhelm Wardenier, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1943)
• Adriaan_Carel_Wilhelm Wardenier, Arnhem († 1943)
• Adriaan van Dongen, Dordrecht
• Anna Stet, Egmond aan de Hoef
• Andreas Bernardus (br. Xaverius) Rammelkamp, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1984)
• Aaron de Vries, Harlingen, Harlingen, Friesland, The Netherlands († 1943)
• Adriaan Vleeming, Westervoort

• Anna van Marsbergen (73), Heusden
• Berend Jan Hermanus Noorlander (1), Rotterdam
• Bernardus Hendricus Johannes Huging (72), Dokkum
• Anje Hoeksema (2), Wetsinge, gem. Adorp, Groningen, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Hendriekus Griepink (0), Hengelo-Driene
• Adriana Bastiaans Rijswijk (79), IJsselmonde
• Aaltje Klein (37), Nieuwleusen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anje Hoeksema (2), Sauerd
• Adrianus_Wilhelmus Steijn (24), Loosduinen
• Annechien Geertsdr Goederee (3), Onstwedde, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland

• 1895 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas († 1970)
• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Carl Johnson, American long jumper († 1932)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)
• 1898 » John McLaughlin, American painter and translator († 1976)
• 1901 » Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host († 1986)
• 1901 » Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian († 1993)
• 1901 » Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent († 2000)
• 1901 » Suzanne Lilar, Belgian author and playwright († 1992)
• 1902 » Earl Averill, American baseball player († 1983)

• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)

• 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.)
• July 1 » Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
• August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
• August 24 » Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
• September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
• November 5 » Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.

The temperature on May 21, 1898 was about 14.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.