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• Anna Gerharda Francisca Alouisia Rakers († 1981)
• Antje Hazelhoff, Morige (Wedde)
• Aaron Levi Cavender, Fannin County, Georgia, Verenigde Staten († 1945)
• Aloijsius Want, Sint Jansteen, gem. Hulst, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alice E Richards, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1923)
• Albert Duker, Uffelte {DR} († 1898)
• Haisma, Duurswoude († 1898)
• Ale Wouters Pietersma, Drachten († 1971)
• Anthonius Aloicius van Keimpema, Velsen († 1899)
• Alida Maria Bierman, Noordwijk († 1899)

• Bernardus Lambertus Gerardus Fokkens (80), Uithuizen
• Derk Abee (0), Veendam
• Bernardus Goris (47), Doornenburg
• Anje Pieters Knol (70), Bedum, Gemeente Bedum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arie Westerhout (47), De Werken en Sleeuwijk
• Kappers (Dekker) (16-10-1899 naamsverandering) (0), Lenthe (Dalfsen)
• Arnoldina Johanna Reijntjes (0), Bergen, Limburg, Nederland
• Bastiaan Knijnenburg (63), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carel Das (56), Hengelo
• Antonia Benschop (25), Kamerik

• 1891 » Hermann Scherchen, German-Swiss viola player and conductor († 1966)
• 1891 » Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect and engineer, co-designed the Pirelli Tower and Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption († 1979)
• 1892 » Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic († 1971)
• 1893 » Alois Hába, Czech composer and educator († 1973)
• 1894 » Milward Kennedy, English journalist and civil servant († 1968)
• 1896 » Charles Momsen, American admiral, invented the Momsen lung († 1967)
• 1898 » Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and author († 1964)
• 1899 » Pavel Haas, Czech composer († 1944)
• 1903 » Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator († 2003)
• 1903 » Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach († 1984)

• 1865 » Frances Adeline Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (b. 1824)
• 1874 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
• 1876 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)
• 1914 » Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1929 » Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
• 1940 » Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1881)

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.
• 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.
• July 7 » US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• August 11 » Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
• August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
• 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 June 21, 1898 was about 20.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.