* 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

* May 17 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1898 )

* Karl Gunnar Myrdal ( 1898 – 1987 ), Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1974

Karl Gunnar Myrdal ( 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987 ) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician.

Myrdal was born on 6 December 1898 in Gustafs, Sweden, to Karl Adolf Pettersson ( 1876 – 1934 ), a railroad employee, and his wife Anna Sofia Karlsson ( 1878 – 1965 ).

* 1898 – Renée Björling, Swedish actress ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Renée Björling, Swedish actress ( b. 1898 )

Zachris Topelius (; 14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.

* Baltzar von Platen ( inventor ) ( 1898 – 1984 ), Swedish inventor

In the summer of 1898, the " Three Lucky Swedes ": Norwegian-American Jafet Lindeberg, and two naturalized American citizens of Swedish birth, Erik Lindblom and John Brynteson, discovered gold on Anvil Creek.

Baltzar von Platen ( 1898 – 1984 ), together with Carl Munters, was the inventor of the gas absorption refrigerator in 1922 while they were both Swedish engineering students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

* Ludwig Norman-Neruda ( 1864 – 1898 ), English alpinist, son of Wilma Neruda and Ludwig Norman, a Swedish composer and director

Swedish American farmer Olof Ohman ( he appears to have dropped the Swedish spelling Öhman when moving to the US ) asserted that he found the stone late in 1898 while clearing his land of trees and stumps before plowing, having recently taken over an parcel of public domain that had for years been left unallocated as " Internal Improvement Land ".

* 1863 – 1898: thirty-five years of increased independence, including the re-establishment of the Diet of Finland and the elevation of Finnish from a language for the common people to a national language equal to Swedish.

The Confederation, which gathers in total almost two million employees, was founded in 1898 by members of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

*, was a Swedish coastal defence ship that was launched on 7 March 1898.

In 1898 the first choral society was established in Paslepa, and in 1902 the first Swedish lending library was established.

The 1898 season in Swedish football, starting January 1898 and ending December 1898:

Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée wrote an opera to a libretto by Selma Lagerlöf based on the poem, also called Frithjof's Saga ; it was never performed publicly, but selections from the opera received a private hearing in 1898.

Its longtime popularity led to the emergence of several lyrical versions, including an 1898 anti-war song and a Swedish version that was a number-one hit.

Nu tändas tusen juleljus, is a Christian traditional Swedish language Christmas song, written in 1898 by the Swedish song text writer Emmy Köhler ( both text and melody ).