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1898
1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
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May 7 - General Bava-Beccaris killed 80 demonstrants in Milan, Italy shooting on a rally; King of Italy Umberto I will be killed two years after to avenge this shooting.
June
July
September
October
December
Births
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January 7 - Rudolf Fernau , actor (d. 1985)
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January 16 - Margaret Booth, film editor (d. 2002)
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January 21 - Ahmad Shah Qajar, last Persian Shah of the Qajar dynasty (d. 1930)
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January 23 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (d. 1948)
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February 3 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
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February 10 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (d. 1956)
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February 14 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
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February 14 - George Steed , businessman, philanthropist (d. 1988)
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February 15 - Allen Woodring, American sprinter (d. 1982)
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February 18 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (d. 1980)
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February 18 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian auto racer, manufacturer (d. 1988)
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February 24 - Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer (d. 1983)
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February 28 - Hugh O'Flaherty, Roman Catholic monsignor (d. 1963)
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March 6 - Therese Giehse , actress (d. 1975)
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March 11 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
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April 3 - George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981)
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April 6 - Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter (d. 1920)
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April 26 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (d. 1984)
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May 3 - Golda Meir - Israeli Prime Minister (d. 1978)
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May 15 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
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May 17 - Alfred Joseph Casson painter (d. 1992)
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May 21 - Armand Hammer, American entrepreneur and art collector (d. 1990)
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May 23 - Scott O'Dell, author (d. 1989)
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May 31 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
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June 4 - Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (d. 1929)
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June 5 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet (d. 1936)
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June 17 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
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July 2 - Gen Paul, French artist (d. 1975)
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July 3 - Donald Healey, motor engineer and race car driver (d. 1988)
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July 6 - Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
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July 22 - Stephen Vincent Benet, American writer (d. 1943)
- July 22 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
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July 30 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
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August 26 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
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August 29 - Preston Sturges, American director and writer (d. 1959)
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September 22 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
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September 26 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
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September 30 - Renee Adoree, French actress (d. 1933)
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September 30 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
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October 10 - Lilly Daché, French milliner (d. 1989)
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October 15 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1959)
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November 8 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
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November 18 - Joris Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989)
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November 21 - René Magritte, Belgian artist (d. 1967)
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November 29 - C. S. Lewis, British author (d. 1963)
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December 20 - Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
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December 24 - Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (d. 1959)
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Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, Sultan of Selangor and 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 1960)
- Berenice Abbot , American photographer
Deaths
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January 14 - Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician (b. 1832)
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January 18 - Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811)
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March 1 - George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer and author (b. 1825)
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March 15 - Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor (b. 1813)
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March 16 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
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April 15 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
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May 19 - William Ewart Gladstone, British prime minister {b. 1809)
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July 1 - Siegfried Marcus, Austrian - German automobile pioneer (b. 1831)
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July 30 - Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815)
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September 2 - Wilford Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
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September 9 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
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October 24 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
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