* 1898 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( d. 1968 )

* 1898 – Konstantinos Dovas, Greek Greek general and interim Prime Minister ( d. 1973 )

* 1898 – Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.

* 1898 – Golda Meir, Israeli teacher and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel ( d. 1978 )

* 1968 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( b. 1898 )

* January 10 – Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, Former Prime Minister of South Africa, and elected President of South Africa ( b. 1898 )

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

* December 8 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel ( b. 1898 )

* William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom four times between 1868 and 1894

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

1901 Photo in 1898 of the future 1st Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton aged 49 and 2nd Prime Minister of Australia Alfred Deakin The first and second Prime Ministers of Australia, Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin, amongst the 1901 cabinet Sir Edmund Barton Memorial, Barton ACTFew people doubted that Barton, as the leading federalist in the oldest state, deserved to be the first Prime Minister of the new federation.

Sir George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC ( 11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925 ), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary, but who was passed over as Prime Minister in 1923 in favour of Stanley Baldwin.

Yamagata became Prime Minister for a second term from 8 November 1898 to 19 October 1900.

Prince was a Japanese politician and the 4th ( 6 May 1891 – 8 August 1892 ) and 6th ( 18 September 1896 – 12 January 1898 ) Prime Minister of Japan.

Matsukata followed Yamagata Aritomo as Prime Minister from 6 May 1891 – 8 August 1892, and followed Ito Hirobumi as Prime Minister from 18 September 1896 – 12 January 1898, during which times he concurrently also held office as finance minister.

Marquess ; was a statesman in the Empire of Japan and the 8th ( 30 June 1898 – 8 November 1898 ) and 17th ( 16 April 1914 – 9 October 1916 ) Prime Minister of Japan.

Eugène Henri Brisson (; 31 July 183514 April 1912 ) was a French statesman, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1885-1886 and again in 1898.

Antonio Starabba marchese di Rudinì ( Palermo, 16 April 1839 – Rome, 7 August 1908 ) was the 18th and 21st Prime Minister of Italy between 1891 and 1892 and from 1896 until 1898.

In 1898, Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi interviewed American Ralph Adams Cram, who proposed a more " Oriental " design for the building, featuring tiled roofs and a large enclosure of walls and gates.

* Richard Shannon, Gladstone: Peel's Inheritor, 1809 – 1865 ( 1985 ), ISBN 0-8078-1591-8 ; Gladstone: Heroic Minister, 1865 – 1898 ( 1999 ), ISBN 0-8078-2486-0.

In successive cabinets from 1898 to 1901, he served as Minister of War.

* Frank Aiken ( 1898 – 1983 ), born in County Armagh, Irish Republican, Irish Minister for External Affairs, Tánaiste

Yamamoto's subsequent rise through the ranks was rapid: rear admiral ( 1895 ); vice admiral and Navy Minister ( 1898 ).

His first cabinet post was as Minister of Education in the first Ōkuma Shigenobu administration of 1898, and as Minister of Posts and Communications in the second Yamamoto Gonnohyōe administration.

He was tutored by Kristian Claëson, whose first cousin served as the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs under Boström in 1898.

In 1898, the United States had become an East Asian power through the acquisition of the Philippine Islands, and when the partition of China by the European powers and Japan seemed imminent, the United States felt its commercial interests in China threatened.

He served as New York City Park Commissioner from 1889 – 1893, president of the New York City Board of Health, 1898, and in 1894 he was selected by Tammany Hall to run for Mayor on the Democratic ticket, but withdrew from the race when his friends in society threatened to shun him if he did.

In 1898, Strathfield council was threatened by a forced amalgamation into a greater Sydney council.

During the Dog Tax War of 1898, Rawene was evacuated after the tax rebels threatened to march on the town.

This intrigue finally led Harcourt and Morley to resign their positions in 1898 as they continued to be at loggerheads with Rosebery over Irish home rule and issues relating to imperialism.

However, pressure from other teams in the league over the number of American players Derby used forced them to resign at the end of the league's first season, though the baseball club itself lasted until 1898.

Elected president of the chamber in 1894 and 1896, he exercised that office with ability until, in December 1897, he accepted the portfolio of justice in the Rudinì cabinet, only to resign in the following spring on account of dissensions with his colleague, Visconti-Venosta, over the measures necessary to prevent a recurrence of the tumults of May 1898.

When Dezső Bánffy's ministry suffered a serious crisis at the end of 1898 and was compelled to resign in February 1899, Széll was entrusted with the formation of a new cabinet.

In 1894 the young King brought his father, Milan, back to Serbia and, in 1898, appointed him commander-in-chief of the Serbian army.

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.

* September 1 – Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, King of Malaysia ( b. 1898 )

An 1888 treaty established an Anglo-U. S .- German tripartite protectorate of Samoa, and when King Malietoa Laupepa died in 1898, a contest over the succession ensued.

The first school was opened in 1898 in the home of Guy King with Florence Barney as the teacher.

" Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family " < cite > The Journal of the American Medical Association </ cite > pp. 640-641 </ ref > Originally Discovered In 1898 by Victor Loret KV35 yielded a cache of royal mummies, including that of Amenhotep III.

* Louis King ( 1898 – 1962 ), director

* Cecil R. King ( 1898 – 1974 ), U. S. Congressman

These were initially badged as " Silver King " and " Silver Queen " brands but the name " American Indian ", very quickly reduced to simply " Indian ", was adopted by Hendee from 1898 onwards because it gave better product recognition in export markets.

25-reis value of the King Carlos issue of 1898, along with the hexagonal postmark typical of the Portuguese postal system.

Although Zambezia was a part of the Portuguese East Africa Colony, the Portuguese government issued separate postage stamps for it starting in 1894, with the standard design depicting King Charles, and likewise in 1898.

Among his later publications were: La Troisième jeunesse de Mme Prune ( The Third Youth of Mrs. Plum, 1905 ), which resulted from a return visit to Japan and once again hovers between narrative and travelog ; Les Désenchantées ( The Unawakened, 1906 ); La Mort de Philae ( The Death of Philae, 1908 ), recounting a trip to Egypt ; Judith Renaudin ( produced at the Théâtre Antoine, 1898 ), a five-act historical play that Loti presented as based on an episode in his family history ; and, in collaboration with Emile Vedel, a translation of King Lear, produced at the Théâtre Antoine in 1904.

Also in 1897, he played briefly as King Ferdinand V of Vingolia in F. C. Burnand's His Majesty at the Savoy Theatre and made two more short London stage appearances thereafter, as Scoones in Young Mr Yarde ( 1898 ) and Lambert Simnel in The Gay Pretenders ( 1900 ).

Grey married Eliza Lucy Spencer ( 1822 – 1898 ) at King George Sound, West Australia, on 2 November 1839.

In 1892 King Chulalongkorn ( Rama V ) added the area of Uthai Thani to the Monthon Nakhon Sawan, and in 1898 formed the province.

The implementation of an electric street railway along Yonge Street in 1898 towards Kleinburg, Georgina, King and Toronto meant that, for the first time, it was possible for people to reside in Thornhill and work in Toronto.

The 1898 Philippine Declaration of Independence of Cavite II el Viejo, also mentions Lapu-Lapu under the name " Rey Kalipulako de Manktan " ( King Kalipulako of Mactan ).

The chief remaining novelties at the Lyceum, during Irving's term as sole manager ( the theatre passed, at the beginning of 1899, into the hands of a limited liability company ) were Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo ( 1894 );< ref > see King, Henry Irving's ' Waterloo < nowiki >'</ nowiki ></ ref > J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur in 1895 ; Cymbeline, in which Irving played Iachimo, in 1896 ; Sardou's Madame Sans-Gene in 1897 ; and Peter the Great, a play by Laurence Irving, the actor's second son, in 1898.

Lodge was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1898 and was knighted by King Edward VII in 1902.

In 1898 Cody's stage show, The Klondyke Nugget, became very successful ; it included Edward Le Roy ( Edward King, Lela's eldest son from her marriage to Edward John King ( a licensed victualler ) and brother to Leon and Vivian who were known as Cody to save any embarrassment.

He was the son of Prince Frederick of Württemberg ( 1808 – 1870 ) and his wife Princess Catherine Frederica of Württemberg ( 1821 – 1898 ), daughter of King William I of Württemberg ( 1781 – 1864 ); his parents were first cousins.

Neill worked with Homer Lane, a US educator then living in England and founder of the Little Commonwealth school in Dorset, and later at King Alfred School in Hampstead, a school founded by a group and parents in 1898 and led by John Russell from 1901 to 1920.