About the day » Saturday August 13, 1898Calender converter

• Aaltje Bos, Gelders Veenendaal, Ede, Gld., NL
• Adrianus Hendrik (Adriaan) Rensink, Benthuizen († 1980)
• Alida Cornelia Petronella van Elleswijk, Rijnsaterwoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Dam, Krimpen aan de Lek († 1953)
• De Raat, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1898)
• Age Brouwers, Gemeente het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Alphonsus Ludovicus Rottiers, Sint-Amands, Antwerpen, België († 1961)
• Age Brouwers, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Andre Ernest Lucien Bigwood, Ixelles,1050,Bruxelles,BE († 1978)
• Age Jans Brouwers, St. Annaparochie

• Adrianus Laureijssen (0), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Aarnoud Minderhoud (50), Westkapelle, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Antonia van RIJSEWIJK (75), WOUW, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham de Bruijne (79), Scheveningen
• Anna Catharina Mulders (64), Baarle-Nassau
• Antonetta van Rijsewijk (75), Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Schonewille (51), Achterom, Hoogeveen, Nederland
• Abraham de Bruijne (79), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arent Messing (81), Groot Azewijn {GE}
• Antonius Hubertus van Lijf (0), Maastricht

• 1895 » Bert Lahr, American actor († 1967)
• 1895 » István Barta, Hungarian water polo player († 1948)
• 1898 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player († 1994)
• 1898 » Regis Toomey, American actor († 1991)
• 1899 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer († 1980)
• 1902 » Felix Wankel, German engineer († 1988)
• 1904 » Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician († 1999)
• 1904 » Margaret Tafoya, Native American Pueblo potter († 2001)
• 1906 » Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer († 1967)
• 1906 » Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer († 2003)

• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)

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.
• April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
• June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
• November 5 » Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.

The temperature on August 13, 1898 was about 29.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%.