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• Anna Martina van DOORNE, America, 2510, Limburg, Nederland
• adriana vuik, ouderkerk aan de ijssel
• Aaltje van Garderen, Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Maria Wortel, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Vermeij, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aloysius Basilius De Ridder, Vlierzele († 1973)
• Alida Van Duijn, Rijnsburg
• Adriaantje van der Ent, Rhoon
• * Cornelis Johannes van der Meide, Gouda († 1970)
• Adriaantje van der Ent, Rhoon,Zuid Holland,Nederland

• Adrianus Scherpenzeel (8), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Troost, Rotterdam
• Anna Cornelia Simons
• Aartje Floor (63), Maarssen (Gem Stichtse Vecht), Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Albertus Gastel van (74), Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaldert van Amerongen (0), Linschoten
• Aartje Floor (63), Maarssen,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriaan Cornelli Reijntjes (83), Breda
• Aafke Sybrens Oostra, Bolsward
• Antonius Wilhelmus ten Broek (69), Baak, Bronckhorst, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)
• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)
• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)
• 1902 » Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author († 2003)
• 1903 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer († 1983)
• 1904 » Max Factor, Jr., American businessman († 1996)

• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)

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 1 » New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
• 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 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
• June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
• October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
• October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

The temperature on August 18, 1898 was about 18.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.