* 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( d. 1920 )

* 1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano ( d. 1976 )

* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )

* 1898 – Spanish – American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.

* 1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.

* 1898 – Regis Toomey, American actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1898 – Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer ( d. 1977 )

* 2012 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician ( b. 1898 )

* 1898 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1898 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet ( d. 1966 )

* 1898 – An Armistice ends the Spanish – American War.

* 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.

* 1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.

* 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founder of the Religious of the Assumption ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician ( d. 1975 )

* 1898 – Arthur Wood, English cricketer ( d. 1973 )

* He married, on December 7, 1929 ( civil ), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and December 13, 1929 ( religious ), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron ( 1898 – 1976 ).

), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

By Spanish actress María del Carmen Ruíz y Moragas ( 1898 – 1936 ):

* Alfons Gorbach ( 1898 – 1972 ), Austrian politician

* Fyodor Kuznetsov ( 1898 – 1961 ), a military commander of the Soviet Union

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein ( 23 January 1898 – 11 February 1948 ), né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the " Father of Montage ".

* February 11 – Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director ( b. 1898 )

** Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist ( b. 1898 )

* Fridrikh Ermler ( 1898 – 1967 ) Soviet film director

Armand Hammer ( May 21, 1898 – December 10, 1990 ) was an American business manager and owner, most closely associated with Occidental Petroleum, a company he ran for decades, though he was known as well for his art collection, his philanthropy, and for his close ties to the Soviet Union.

* Gaik Ovakimian – ( 1898 – 1967 ) Major General, Soviet spy.

* Vladimir Fock ( 1898 – 1974 ), a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics

Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsov (, 1898 – 1961 ), Colonel General, was a military commander of the Soviet Union.

Aleksei Aleksandrovich Balandin ( December 20 n. s., 1898 — May 22, 1967 ) was Russian / Soviet chemist member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR His primary contribution lies in the field of organic catalysis, where is known as the developed of the multiplet theory of catalysis.

* Alexander Pokrovsky ( 1898 – 1979 ), Soviet military leader

Vasile Luca ( born László Luka ; June 8, 1898 – July 23, 1963 ) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and Soviet communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) from 1945 and until his imprisonment in the 1950s.

* Rodion Malinovsky ( 1898 – 1967 ), a Soviet military commander and the Defense Minister of the Soviet Union

* Nikolay Smirnov-Sokolsky ( 1898 – 1962 ), Soviet actor and People's Artist of the USSR

July 8 ), 1898 – January 11, 1938 ) was a Soviet rocket designer of German / Swiss background.

* Mikhail Artamonov ( 1898 – 1972 ), Soviet historian and archaeologist

Haik Badalovich Ovakimian ( Hayk Hovakimyan ), Major General, USSR ( 11 August 1898, Nakhchivan-1967 ), better known as " the puppetmaster " in intelligence circles, was a leading Soviet NKVD spy in the United States.

Samuel Jacob Rodman ( born c. 1898, date of death unknown ), an American double-agent during World War II, was employed by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) and spied for the Soviet Union at the same time.