* 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

* 1898 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress ( d. 1952 )

* 1898 – Lawrence Gray, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1838 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general and politician, 19th Governor of Texas ( d. 1898 )

* September 27 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A & M University ( d. 1898 )

In the spring of 1898 they embarked on a return journey to St. Lawrence Island on the ship Lady Jane Grey.

* Gertrude Lawrence ( 1898 – 1952 )

The first Silver Taps was held in 1898 and honored Lawrence Sullivan Ross, the former governor of Texas and president of A & M College.

In 1895 he published a book on Lawrence Alma-Tadema and his review of the posthumous exhibition of Millais in 1898 took the painter to task for poorly thought-out works.

* November 11-George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth casualty of World War I ( b. 1898 )

Several impressive construction feats were associated with the GTR: the first successful bridging of the St. Lawrence River on August 25, 1860, with the opening of the first Victoria Bridge at Montreal ( replaced by the present structure in 1898 ); the bridging of the Niagara River between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York ; and the construction of a tunnel beneath the St. Clair River, connecting Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan.

* George Lawrence Price ( 1898 – 1918 ), last Commonwealth of Nations soldier killed in combat during World War I

Gertrude Lawrence ( July 4, 1898 – September 6, 1952 ) was an English actress, singer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End theatre district of London and on Broadway.

In 1898, the first sawmill in the Côte-Nord region was built there by the brothers Damase and Henri Jalbert, but it closed in 1907 after their timber stock was swept into the St. Lawrence.

Lawrence Sullivan " Sul " Ross ( September 27, 1838January 3, 1898 ) was the 19th Governor of Texas ( USA ), a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and a president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now called Texas A & M University.

In 1898, Lawrence M. Lambe of the Geological Survey of Canada made the first discovery of Chasmosaurus remains-part of a neck frill.

Lawrence passed the hotel on to his son William in 1898, and it is believed it remained in the Lawrence family ownership until 1906.

Lawrence Brooks Hays ( August 9, 1898 – October 11, 1981 ) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Arkansas.

Lawrence Ogilvie ( 1898 – 1980 ), East Dundry, plant pathologist

* Lawrence Gellert ( 1898 – 1979 ), American music collector of Hungarian ancestry.

Daniel Lawrence Braine ( 18 May 1829 – 30 January 1898 ) was an admiral of the United States Navy in the 19th century.

Between 1898 and 1904, Kiki and her family resided at different times in Paris, France, Lawrence, Nassau County, New York and Park Hill, Yonkers in New York.

In 1898 Conrad Hubert used consumer batteries manufactured by W. H. Lawrence to power what was the first flashlight, and subsequently the two formed the Ever Ready battery company.

Portrait of Lawrence Barrett, American Actor ( from Harper's Magazine, January 1898 )