* 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

Cambridge University financed a multidisciplinary expedition to the Torres Strait Islands in 1898, organized by Alfred Court Haddon and including a physician-anthropologist, William Rivers, as well as a linguist, a botanist, and other specialists.

* Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1894 – 1898

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

* Jerome Cardan, a Biographical Study, 1898, by William George Waters, from Project Gutenberg

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

* 1898 – U. S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

Neon ( Greek ( neon ) meaning " new one ") was discovered in 1898 by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay ( 1852 – 1916 ) and Morris W. Travers ( 1872 – 1961 ) in London.

According to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, in 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate ( a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama ), Philippe Bunau Varilla, hired William Nelson Cromwell to lobby the U. S. Congress for the Panama Canal.

Paul Robeson was born in Princeton in 1898, to Reverend William Drew Robeson and Maria Louisa Bustill.

* An Almanac of Twelve Sports ( 1898, with illustrations by William Nicholson )

The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) was the Liberal counterpart to Disraeli, serving as prime minister four times ( 1868 – 74, 1880 – 85, 1886, and 1892 – 94 ).

In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft chairman of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines which had been ceded to the United States by Spain following the Spanish – American War and the 1898 Treaty of Paris.

William Seward Burroughs I ( January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898 ) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.

William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS ( 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898 ) was a British Liberal statesman.

The death of William Ewart Gladstone was registered by Helen Gladstone, his daughter, " present at the death ", on 23 May 1898.

* Matthew, H. C. G. " Gladstone, William Ewart ( 1809 – 1898 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ( 2004 ; online edition May 2006

* December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1898 )

* January 28 – William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor ( d. 1898 )

* William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) 1859 – 1859

In this image taken by William O. Owen in 1898, his climbing partners John Shive, Franklin Spalding, and Frank Petersen are depicted on top of Grand Teton.

The first ascent of Grand Teton that is substantiated was made by William O. Owen, Frank Petersen, John Shive and Franklin Spencer Spalding on August 11, 1898.

* 1898 William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover neon, and negatively charged beta particles

Also, William Pember Reeves used ' Aotearoa ' to mean New Zealand in his history of New Zealand published in 1898, titled The Long White Cloud Ao-tea-roa.