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• Albert S Norton, Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey († 1978)
• Adriana Westdijk, Rozenburg, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1975)
• Adrianus Antonius IJzendoorn, van, Tiel († 1898)
• Adriaan Izaak de Bruijne, Schoondijke, Zeeland, NL
• Adriana Judith Mulder, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Lageveen, Losser († 1960)
• Albertine Christina Herst, Bandjarnegara (Banjoemas)
• Albertus Gonggrijp, Harlingen, Nederland
• Albertje Arends, Tiendeveen, Beilen
• Agnes Fuchs, De Rijp {NH} († 1914)

• Adriana Johanna Vogelaars (13), Klundert
• Adrianus Poncin (39), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• ADRIANA SCHILPEROORD (77), VLAARDINGEN
• Agatha Zwart (1), Krommenie, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Hendrika Nijhof (33), Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Duitsland
• Arie de Kreek (21), Strijen, Nederland
• Alice Maria Anna Decabooter (0), Wervik, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Adriana Maria de Jong (44)
• Adriaan van Woensel (54), Baardwijk
• Anna Geerts (20), Sleen

• 1892 » Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire († 1989)
• 1893 » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author († 1947)
• 1895 » Frank Foss, American pole vaulter († 1989)
• 1895 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher († 1961)
• 1895 » Richard Barthelmess, American actor († 1963)
• 1896 » Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator († 1972)
• 1900 » Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress († 1992)
• 1904 » Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator († 1988)
• 1905 » Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist († 1998)
• 1906 » Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator († 1988)

• 1861 » Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
• 1864 » John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)

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.
• April 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
• 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.
• July 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
• August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
• 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 May 9, 1898 was about 11.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.