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• Adriana Elizabeth Bevelander, Scherpenisse († 1898)
• Adriana Elisabeth Koster, Rotterdam († 1928)
• Adriana Elizabeth Koster, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1928)
• Adriaantje FLACH, Ridderkerk († 1943)
• Anna Boel, Merksplas
• Aaltje Groen, Alteveer, Groningen, Nederland († 1953)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth van WERSCH, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 1955)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth van Wersch, Heerlen († 1955)
• Caroline Louise van der Meulen, Rotterdam
• Angela Maria Alice Reynaert, Torhout,8820,West-Vlaanderen,België

• Antonia Jong, de (64), Capelle gem. Waalwijk Nbr. Nl
• Aagje Maarse (71), Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Verrijt (87), Tilburg
• Albert Doornebosch (41), Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Francina Sluijter (84), Rotterdam
• Adriana Kaim (83), Zwijndrecht
• Annechien EVERTS (51), Annen (Anloo), Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaantje Klases Elzinga (83), Leeuwarden
• Antonia Johanna Kerkhof (0), Hellevoetsluis
• Adriaantje Klazes Elzinga (83), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland

• 1892 » Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer († 1969)
• 1893 » David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier († 1968)
• 1895 » Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster († 1954)
• 1895 » Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina († 1991)
• 1897 » Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver and engineer († 1935)
• 1898 » John Stuart, Scottish-English actor († 1979)
• 1899 » Ernst Scheller, German soldier and politician, 8th Mayor of Marburg († 1942)
• 1900 » Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author († 1999)
• 1902 » Chill Wills, American actor († 1978)
• 1902 » Jessamyn West, American author († 1984)

• 1863 » Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)
• 1884 » Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)

• 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.
• February 7 » Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!.
• April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
• May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
• June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
• 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 July 18, 1898 was about 19.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.