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• Albert Trinks, Midlum, Nederland († 1962)
• Adrianus Norbertus Cornelis Tuerlings, Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1967)
• Albertus OVING, Borger, Drenthe, NEDERLAND († 1985)
• Albert Koers, Borgercompagnie (Wildervank, Groningen)
• Adrianus Cornelis Petrus Josephus Tuerlings, Tilburg, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Aleida Antonia Bax, Wieringen
• Andries Johannes Molier-, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland († 1945)
• Adrianus Norbertus Petrus Josephus (Leo) Tuerlings, Tilburg († 1967)
• Adriana van Dijk, Amerongen
• Albert HEERSINK, Doetinchem, Gelderland, NEDERLAND († 1959)

• Derk Sikkenga (52), Orvelte, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abel Niehof (38), Winschoten (gem. Oldambt)
• Alphonsus Hubertus Paulus Hollander (0), Maastricht,6201,Limburg,Nederland
• "Sytske Aukes" Bootsma (62), Reduzum
• Adriana Dingena Dekker (72), Almkerk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland Nederland
• arie PLAISIER (57), ridderkerk
• Derk Sikkenga (52), Orvelte, Westerbork
• Zwaantje Alberts Zantinge (68), Westerveld
• Cornelia Maria Henrica van Helvoort (33), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Arend Hut (69), Egmond aan Zee

• 1884 » Billie Burke, American actress and singer († 1970)
• 1887 » Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright († 1970)
• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
• 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
• 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)
• 1911 » Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter († 1979)

• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

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.
• February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
• 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 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
• July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
• December 18 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245mph (63.159km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.

The temperature on August 7, 1898 was about 15.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.