* 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( d. 1920 )

* 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founder of the Religious of the Assumption ( d. 1898 )

In 1898, the French scientist Paul-Louis Simond ( who had also come to China to battle the Third Pandemic ) established the rat-flea vector that drives the disease.

The French surgeon Eugène-Louis Doyen started a series of surgical films sometime before July 1898.

* 1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter ( d. 1898 )

The “ perennialist ” or “ traditionalist ” school is represented by authors like the French René Guénon ( 1886 – 1951 ), the Indian Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ), the Swiss Frithjof Schuon ( 1907 – 1998 ), the Italian Julius Evola ( 1898 – 1974 ), the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born in 1933 ), both scholars and esotericists.

* 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing " J ' accuse ", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.

On the 29th of September, 1898, Samori Ture was captured by the French Commandant Gouraud and exiled to Gabon, marking the end of the Wassoulou Empire.

French domination was assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Samori Touré, Mansa ( or Emperor ) of the Ouassoulou state and leader of Malinké descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas.

* 1824 – Eugène Boudin, French painter ( d. 1898 )

It resisted the effort of Samori Ture, leader of Wassoulou Empire, in 1887, to conquer it, and was one of the last kingdoms in the area to fall to the French in 1898.

* 1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet ( d. 1898 )

* 1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer ( d. 1898 )

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.

In 1898, after moving to their newly-built factory, the pair bought a Werner " motorcyclist ", which was produced by French manufacturer Werner Brothers.

* 1898 – Renée Adorée, French actress ( d. 1933 )

* 1898 – Roger Désormière, French conductor ( d. 1963 )

* June 9 – Maurice Journeau, French composer ( b. 1898 )

* April 6 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )

** Antoine Balpêtré, French film actor ( b. 1898 )

* October 25 – Roger Désormière, French conductor ( b. 1898 )

* July 24 – Arletty, French singer and actress ( b. 1898 )

* January 25 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, model, and common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( suicide ) ( b. 1898 )

* March 15 – René Clair, French film director ( b. 1898 )

* 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.

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* 1898 – Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer ( d. 1960 )

The Ambrose-Ward Mansion was built in 1898 for a book manufacturer, now the home of the African-American Fund of New Jersey

The United Kingdom's first ball bearing factory was established at New Street and Rectory Lane in Chelmsford in 1898 by cousins Geoffrey and Charles Barrett and bankrolled by American ball bearing machine manufacturer Ernst Gustav Hoffmann from whom the Company took its name.

Wilhelm Emil " Willy " Messerschmitt (/' vĭli ' messer shmĭt /) ( June 26, 1898 – September 15, 1978 ) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer.

* Star Motor Company, an 1898 – 1932 British car manufacturer

Norton is a British motorcycle marque, originally from Birmingham, founded in 1898 as a manufacturer of " fittings and parts for the two-wheel trade ".

James & Browne was a British automobile manufacturer, based in Hammersmith, London between 1898 and 1910.

* Western Cartridge Company, a manufacturer of small arms and ammunitions founded in 1898

Adler was also a well-known typewriter and office machine manufacturer from 1898.

* Wilson Eddy, American steam locomotive manufacturer ( d. 1898 ).

From 1856 to 1898 he worked as a self-employed manufacturer of scientific instruments in this city.

Mortier is an organ manufacturer from Antwerp, Belgium that made orchestrions, fairground organs, and mostly dance organs from 1898 until 1950.

St. Louis Motor Carriage Company was a manufacturer of automobiles at 1211 – 13 North Vandeventer Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri founded by George Preston Dorris ( later credited with developing and patenting the float-carburetor ) and John French in 1898, with French taking charge of marketing and Dorris heading engineering and production.

Benjamin Tyler Henry ( 1821 – 1898 ) was an American gunsmith and manufacturer.

* Thomas Mayes Lewin, the founder ( 1898 ) and its brand of gentleman's shirt retailer and manufacturer