* 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

** Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker ( b. 1898 )

Enzo Anselmo Ferrari () ( February 18, 1898 – August 14, 1988 ) Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque.

Famous Modenesi include Mary of Modena, the Queen consort of England and Scotland ; operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti ( 1935 – 2007 ) and soprano Mirella Freni, born in Modena itself ; Enzo Ferrari ( 1898 – 1988 ), eponymous founder of the Ferrari motor company ; the Catholic Priest and Senior Exorcist of Vatican Gabriele Amorth ; and the rock singer Vasco Rossi who was born in Zocca, one of the 47 comuni in the Province of Modena.

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

* Helen B. Taussig ( 1898 – 1986 ), founder of pediatric cardiology and extensively worked on blue baby syndrome

** Josefa Llanes Escoda, Filipino advocate of women's suffrage and founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines ( b. 1898 )

* September 27 – George Müller, Prussian evangelist and founder of the Ashley Down orphanage ( d. 1898 )

He was the first artist to permanently settle in Taos, New Mexico ( 1898 ) and is considered to be the founder of the Taos art colony.

UKC founder C. Z. Bennett assigned UKC registration number 1 to his own dog, " Bennett's Ring ", as an American Pit Bull Terrier in 1898.

* Jan Antonín Baťa ( 1898 – 1965 ), half-brother of the founder

Its founder, Warren A. Bechtel, started as an employee of the burgeoning United States railroad industry in 1898 after his Oklahoma cattle ranch failed.

Burry founded the Wayne Paper Box and Printing Corp. in 1898, and was also the founder and President of the National Paper Box Manufacturing Association ( s ) in 1917-1918, and 1926-1928.

* Norman Vincent Peale ( 1898 – 1993 ) Christian preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking and a founder of Guideposts magazine, died in town.

* Jacob Tome ( 1810 – 1898 ), American philanthropist, founder of the Tome School

* Henry Luce ( 1898 – 1967 )-born in Penglai, founder of TIME, Fortune, and Life.

Chicago SDP founder Victor L. Berger, circa 1898.

* Pietro Ferrero ( 1898 – 1949 ), founder of Ferrero SpA, father of Michele Ferrero

One year later, as an uncompromising advocate of Jewish assimilation, he attacked the founder of modern Zionism Theodor Herzl with his polemic Eine Krone für Zion ( A Crown for Zion ) ( 1898 ).

Martin Abern ( né Martin Abramowitz ) ( 1898 – 1949 ) was a Marxist politician who was an important leader of the Communist youth movement of the 1920s as well as a founder of the American Trotskyist movement.

Neill worked with Homer Lane, a US educator then living in England and founder of the Little Commonwealth school in Dorset, and later at King Alfred School in Hampstead, a school founded by a group and parents in 1898 and led by John Russell from 1901 to 1920.

* Chitose Tsuyoshi ( born 1898 ), founder of Chito-ryu karate

* KELLER, Carlos ( 1898 – 1974 ) National Socialist Movement of Chile founder and ideologue.

* 8 March – Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet ( born 1898 ).

Michael Daniel Jones ( 2 March 1822 – 2 December 1898 ) was a Welsh Congregationalist minister and principal of a theological college, but is best remembered as a founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia known as Y Wladfa and as one of the fathers of modern Welsh nationalism.

Lama Anagarika Govinda ( May 17, 1898 – January 14, 1985 ), born Ernst Lothar Hoffman was the founder of the order of the Arya Maitreya Mandala and an expositor of Tibetan Buddhism, Abhidharma, Buddhist Meditation as well as other aspects of Buddhism.