About the day » Tuesday July 12, 1898Calender converter

• Abel Fonck, Vries, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Borgstein, Culemborg, Gelderland, NL
• Agatha Cornelia Vries de, Haarlem,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Aarts, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1963)
• Jacob van Tuinen, Sneek
• Abel Fonck, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1983)
• Alice De Wilde, Stekene, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1981)
• Aaltje Claus, Surhuisterveen († 1899)
• Addiers, Hingene († 1898)
• Andries Johannes Smits, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Anna Buijsen (79), Roosendaal
• Aaltje de Bode (88), Woerden
• Anna Van NUGTEREN (79), Zwijndrecht
• Anna Catharina Budel (0), Velp gemeente Rheden
• Anthonius BECKS BECKX, Kota Radja/Atjeh (IND)
• Anna Maria Sprenkeling (0), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Bobeldijk (0), Buiksloot
• Addiers (0), Hingene
• Antje Geerts Oosterloo (10), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Angela Justina Aspeslagh (1), Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, België

• 1892 » Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter († 1942)
• 1895 » Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère († 1983)
• 1895 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano († 1962)
• 1895 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and songwriter († 1960)
• 1899 » E.D. Nixon, American civil rights leader († 1987)
• 1902 » Günther Anders, German philosopher and journalist († 1992)
• 1902 » Tony Lovink, Dutch politician; Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1995)
• 1902 » Vic Armbruster, Australian rugby league player († 1984)
• 1904 » Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1907 » Weary Dunlop, Australian colonel and surgeon († 1993)

• 1855 » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
• 1870 » John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (b. 1809)
• 1892 » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
• 1910 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
• 1926 » Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
• 1931 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
• 1935 » Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (b. 1859)

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.
• January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• April 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
• September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
• September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
• 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 July 12, 1898 was about 17.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.