* 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 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

Polonium ( ) is a chemical element with the symbol Po and atomic number 84, discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie.

Radium, in the form of radium chloride, was discovered by Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie in 1898.

* January 23 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress ( b. 1898 )

* Marie Prevost ( 1898 – 1937 ), actress

German was by then in high demand to write music for plays, and his commissions included Henry Arthur Jones's The Tempter in 1893, Johnston Forbes-Robertson's Romeo and Juliet at the Lyceum in 1895, Herbert Beerbohm Tree's productions of As You Like It ( 1896 ) and Much Ado about Nothing ( 1898 ), and Anthony Hope's English Nell ( later known as Nell Gwynn ) in 1900, starring Marie Tempest.

In 1898, French physicists Pierre Curie and Marie Curie had discovered that pitchblende, an ore of uranium, contained a substance — which they named radium — that emitted large amounts of radioactivity.

In 1866, Sisley began a relationship with Eugénie Lesouezec ( 1834 – 1898 ; also known as Marie Lescouezec ), a Breton living in Paris.

* Marie Pierre Kœnig ( 1898 – 1970 ) Marshal of France in 1984 ( posthumous )

This laboratory, erected a few streets away from the “ shed ” where the Curies discovered polonium and radium in 1898, was specially built for Marie Curie by the University of Paris and the Institut Pasteur between 1911 and 1914.

Their only child, a daughter named Yvonne Marie Nicolle Calment ( 1898 – 1934 ), produced a grandson, Frédéric Billiot ( 1926 – 1963 ), in 1926.

In February 1898 he married Colonel's daughter Henriette Marie Lund ( 1870 – 1962 ).

Joanna Marie Valentina " Zizi " Lambrino ( 3 October 1898 in Roman, Romania-11 March 1953 in Paris ), also recognized by some historians as Princess Ioana, was the first wife of King Carol II of Romania.

In 1893, he was relocated to Bonthain ( now Bantaeng in South Sulawesi ); in 1896, to Padang and also to Aceh ; in 1898, to Sintang, where he married for the second time, to Elise Marie Wilhelmine Gerardine Chavannes.

In July 1898 with her husband and their four year old, Boris, they visited St Petersburg at the invitation of Nikolai II of Russia, and Marie Louise made a success of the visit.

* Elisabeth Pauline Sabine Marie ( 27 October 1898, Maintenon – 7 December 1969, Paris

* Marie Pierre Kœnig ( 1898 – 1970 ), French army officer and politician

* Marie Prevost ( 1898 – 1937 ), actress

At 42, Selous settled in Worplesdon, England, and married 20 year old Marie Catherine Gladys Maddy ( born 1874 ), daughter of a clergyman Canon Henry William Maddy, and had two sons, Frederick Hatherley Bruce Selous ( 1898 – 1918 ) and Harold Sherborn Selous.

On 28 May 1878 he married Marie Morel of Namur, Belgium ( a widow, ten years his senior ) but was divorced in 1898.

In 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium.

* Maria Skłodowska-Curie-on December 26, 1898, Marie Curie announced the existence of a new substance, radium.

His mother was Marie Vashod ( 1823 – 1899 ) and his father Joseph Philippe ( 1819 – 1898 ).

They are those of :- Jules Dumont d ' Urville with René-Primevère Lesson ( the largest including material from the Falkland Islands, the coast of Chile and Peru, the southern and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea ); Justin Goudot who had explored South America from 1822 ( and continued to until 1842 ); a Louis Pilate who was based in Georgia and Louisiana U. S. A. but lived for five years in Mérida, Yucatán ; Auguste Sallé, a young collector later to become a Paris insect dealer with South American connections ; Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d ' Orbigny who between 1826 and 1823 had travelled, on a mission for the Paris Museum, in to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru returning France with an enormous collection of more than 10, 000 natural history specimens ; Peter Claussen ( c. 1804 – 1855 ) a Danish naturalist who collected in Brazil, a M. Giesebrecht, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ( Diptera from Egypt ) and three members of a Belgian Commission for the exploration of tropical countries, August Giesebreght ( 1810 – 1893 ), Nicholas Funk ( 1817 – 1896 ) and Jean Jules Linden ( 1817 – 1898 ).