1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1898 [edit] January–March [edit] April–June The original flag of the Philippines as conceived by General Emilio Aguinaldo. The blue is of a lighter shade than the currently mandated royal blue, the sun has eight points as currently but many more rays and it has a mythical face. [edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–March - January 16 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
- January 21 – Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (d. 1930)
- January 22 – Elazar Shach, Haredi rabbi (d. 2001)
- January 23
- January 26 – Katarzyna Kobro, Russian sculptor (d.1951)
- February 1 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician
- February 3 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
- February 10 – Bertolt Brecht, German writer (d. 1956)
- February 11 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist (d. 1964)
- February 14 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
- February 15 – Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
- February 18
- February 24 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer (d. 1983)
- February 28 – Hugh O'Flaherty, Irish Catholic priest (d. 1963)
- March 4 – Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
- March 11 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
- March 14 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
- March 31 – Hermann van Pels, German-Dutch father of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1944)
[edit] April–June - April 1 – William James Sidis, American mathematician (d. 1944)
- April 3 – George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981)
- April 4 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
- April 6 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter (d. 1920)
- April 26
- May 3 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
- May 5 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959)
- May 5 – Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (d. 1983)
- May 13
- May 15 – Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
- May 16 – Tamara de Lempicka, Art Deco painter (d. 1980)
- May 17 – Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
- May 21 – Armand Hammer, American entrepreneur and art collector (d. 1990)
- May 23 – Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
- May 31 – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
- June 4 – Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (d. 1929)
- June 5 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet (d. 1936)
- June 6 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d. 2001)
- June 17
- June 22 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
[edit] July–September - July 2 – Gen Paul, French artist (d. 1975)
- July 3 – Donald Healey, English motor engineer and race car driver (d. 1988)
- July 6 – Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
- July 14 – Youssef Wahbi, Egyptian actor and film director (d. 1982)
- July 17
- July 22
- July 28 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
- July 29 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- July 30 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
- August 15 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966)
- August 18 – Lance Sharkey, Australian Communist Leader (d. 1967)
- August 20 – Leopold Infeld, Polish physicist (d. 1968)
- August 26 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
- August 29 – Preston Sturges, American director and writer (d. 1959)
- September 13 – Roger Désormière, French conductor (d. 1963)
- September 22 – Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
- September 24 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
- September 25 – Robert Brackman, American artist (d. 1980)
- September 26 – George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
- September 29 – Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d. 1976)
- September 30
[edit] October–December - October 7 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956)
- October 10
- October 15 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1959)
- October 18 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian actress and singer (d. 1981)
- November 8 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
- November 12 – Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
- November 17 – Maurice Journeau, French composer (d. 1999)
- November 18 – Joris Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989)
- November 19 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
- November 21 – René Magritte, Belgian artist (d. 1967)
- November 26 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- November 29 – C. S. Lewis, British author (d. 1963)
- November 30 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball pitcher (d. 1976)
- December 2 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian World War I pilot (d. 1918)
- December 6 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, American photojournalist (d. 1995)
- December 19 – Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese author and translator (d. 1958)
- December 20 – Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
- December 24 – Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959)
- date unknown – Mariya Klenova, Russian marine geologist (d. 1976)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 3 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A&M University (b.1838)
- January 14 – Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician (Alice in Wonderland)(b. 1832)
- January 16 – Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
- January 18 – Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811)
- February 16 – Thomas Bracken, author of the official national anthem of New Zealand (God Defend New Zealand) (b. 1843)
- March 1 – George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer and author (b. 1825)
- March 15 – Henry Bessemer, British engineer and inventor (b. 1813)
- March 16 – Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
- March 18 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist (b. 1826)
- March 27 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder (b. 1817)
- April 15 – Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
- April 18 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
- May 19 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
[edit] July–December - July 1 – Siegfried Marcus, Austrian automobile pioneer (b. 1831)
- July 5 – Richard Pankhurst
- July 12 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, Roman Catholic Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Native American missionary (b. 1818)
- July 30 – Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815)
- August 8 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
- September 2 – Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
- September 5 – Sarah Emma Edmundson, Canadian nurse and spy (b. 1841)
- September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- September 10 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, empress consort of Austria, queen consort of Hungary (assassinated) (b. 1837)
- September 16 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
- September 20 – Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
- September 28 – Tan Sitong, Chinese revolutionary (executed) (b. 1865)
- October 24 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
- November 2 – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
- December 24 – Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk (b. 1828)
[edit] References - ^ The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). "Letter to President William McKinley from Annie Oakley" Retrieved January 24, 2008.
[edit] External links - Morro Castle, Havana Harbor. 00694250. Thomas Edison. Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. http://www.webcitation.org/5h5mAdwl3. Retrieved 2009-05-25. "Filmed ca. March 17 to April 1, 1898" Morro Castle (fortress) downloadable videos. ( 1898 Morro Castle, Havana Harbor, YouTube stream. Thomas Edison. Archived from the original on 2009-05-09. http://www.webcitation.org/5gekrgrI2. Retrieved 2009-05-07. needs Flash)
- 1898 U S Battleship Indiana. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D92DQwUCt0. Retrieved 2009-05-07. view of USS Indiana (BB-1) (needs Flash)
- 1898 Transport Ship Whitney Leaving Dock. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4i2evPoeto. Retrieved 2009-05-07. "1898-05-20" (needs Flash)
- 1898 10th U.S. Infantry, 2nd Battalion leaving Train. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhuiqL8Z9Z0. Retrieved 2009-05-20. "1898-05-20" view of 10th U.S. Infantry, 2nd Battalion (needs Flash)
- 1898 U.S. Cavalry Supplies Unloading at Tampa, Florida. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlL8stPXzMA. Retrieved 2009-05-07. "1898-05-20" view of Tampa, Florida (needs Flash)
- 1898 Military Camp at Tampa, taken from train. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYHtEpxF2ag. Retrieved 2009-05-07. "1898-05-20" view of Tampa, Florida (needs Flash)
- 1898 Cuban Refugees Waiting for Rations. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW7fyQwsbEo. Retrieved 2009-05-07. "1898-05-20" (needs Flash)
- 1898 Colored Troops Disembarking. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XB2iroTGsI. Retrieved 2009-05-07. "1898-05-20" (needs Flash)
- 1898 Troops Ship for the Philippines. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dqUyi4JutU. Retrieved 2009-05-07. "June 1898" (needs Flash)
- 1898 U.S. troops landing at Daiquirí, Cuba. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl-iNvtwkGk. Retrieved 2009-05-07. "1898-08-05" view of Daiquirí after the United States invasion of Cuba in the Spanish–American War (needs Flash)
- 1898 Major General Shafter. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKO6BQSdCms. Retrieved 2009-05-07. "1898-08-05" view of Major General Shafter (needs Flash)
- 1898 Troops making road in front of Santiago. Thomas Edison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtapAKGTt6s. Retrieved 2009-05-07. "1898-09-03" view of Santiago (needs Flash)
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