* 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

Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.

From 1898 American producer Charles Urban expanded the London-based Warwick Trading Company to produce British films, mostly documentary and news.

* 1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British Member of Parliament ( b. 1802 )

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

Bode's law was discussed as an example of fallacious reasoning by the astronomer and logician Charles Sanders Peirce in 1898.

In an attempt to clarify the issue, American writer Charles Montgomery Skinner noted in 1898 that the Tom Collins made its way to the " American Bars " in England, France, and Germany, where the American invention stimulated curiosity in Europe and served as a reflection of American art.

* January 3 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British politician ( d. 1898 )

In 1898, Horace Short patented a design for a loudspeaker driven by compressed air ; he then sold the rights to Charles Parsons, who was issued several additional British patents before 1910.

Detail from Manual labour | Labor, by Charles Sprague Pearce ( 1898 )

Charles Cannan, who had been instrumental in Gell's removal, succeeded Gell in 1898, and Humphrey S. Milford, his younger colleague, effectively succeeded Frowde in 1907.

In 1898, Dr. Charles David Spivak, a noted Russian immigrant, physician and genealogist, established the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society to treat tuberculosis victims on a campus in today's 6400 block of the road.

Colbert had one brother, Charles ( 1898 – 1971 ), who used the surname Wendling and served as her agent and business manager for a time.

* Charles Ritchie Burns ( 1898 – 1985 ), New Zealand doctor

* Charles E. Kearney ( 1820 – 1898 ), American railroad businessman

The novel of When Knighthood Was in Flower, by Edwin Caskoden ( the pen name of Charles Major ) was published in 1898, and was the source material for both the Davies and the Disney films.

Charles H. Spiller, who headed the operation until 1898, founded it in 1882.

After his death in 1898, the land went to his son, George Wilhelm Bean, who partnered with Charles Roser, a wealthy real estate developer from St. Petersburg, to form the Anna Maria Beach Company to develop the area.

Built in 1898 by Charles A. Eitzen, this home has 19 rooms and nine fireplaces.

West of the campus and just east of the Charles Benbow House, around the intersection of Oak Ridge Road and Linville Road, is an important collection of architectural styles including the 1863 log I-house belonging originally to the Moore family, the 1898 Neoclassical Robert M. Stafford House with its large vernacular doric-style columns, the 1924 National Folk side gable J. F.

* Lewis Carroll ( 1832 – 1898 ), ( real name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ), writer, clergyman and mathematician

The south hall ( 39 ), meanwhile, was the private home of Mrs Letitia Pett ( 1841 ), Mrs Maria Brown ( 1852 ), Mrs Greswell ( 1861 ), Rev Richard Greswell ( 1866 ), Misses Greswell ( 1882 ), Charles William Chadwick Oman, Fellow of All Souls College and Chichele Professor of Modern History ( 1898 ).

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

* Lewis Carroll ( real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ; 1832 – 1898 ), renowned children's and fantasy author

Their parents were Joseph Charles Duncan ( 1819 – 1898 ), a banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray ( 1849 – 1922 ).