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In the year 1898, New York City is divided into five boroughs (Jan 1), Annie Oakley promotes the service of women in combat situations with the United States military (Apr 5), neon is discovered at a laboratory in London (Jun 7), Britain makes a 99 year rent of Hong Kong from China (Jun 9), the United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands (Jul 7), Caleb Bradham names his soft drink Pepsi-Cola (Aug 28), the Treaty of Paris ends the Spanish-American War (Dec 10), Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of an element they name radium (Dec 26) - and all these fine people were born:
1898-xxxx Albert Luthuli* South African teacher/activist/politician/N - Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (1967/c.69) 1898-0101 Tony DeMarco* burlesque/vaudeville dancer - Buffalo, NY USA (1965/67) 1898-0103 Charles Ackerly* wrestler/OG - Cuba, NY USA (1982/84) 1898-0103 Howard Bondurant* Prohibition-era gangster - Franklin County, VA USA (1968/70) 1898-0113 Kaj Munk* playwright/pastor/martyr - Lolland, Denmark (1944/45) 1898-0122 Sergei Eisenstein* film director - Riga, Livonia, Russian Empire (1948/50) 1898-0123 Randolph Scott* actor - Orange County, VA USA (1987/89) 1898-0202 William Costello* voice actor/original voice of Popeye/ vaudeville performer - RI USA (1971/73) 1898-0203 Alvar Aalto* architect/designer - Kuortane, GD of Finland (1976/78) 1898-0210 Bertolt Brecht* playwright/poet - Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire (1956/58) 1898-0214 Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz* journalist/writer/ philosopher - Corrientes, Argentina (1959/61) 1898-0220 Enzo Ferrari* racing driver/entrepreneur/founder of Ferrari - Modena, Kingdom of Italy (1988/90) 1898-0228 1898-0301 1898-0303 Joseph Binder* Austrian-American graphic designer/painter - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1972/78) 1898-0304 Aino Lohikoski* actress - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1981/83) 1898-0305 Soong Mei-ling* political figure/the wife of Chiang Kai-shek - Shanghai, Qing Dynasty, China (2018/105) 1898-0310 1898-0326 Rudolf Dassler* founder of Puma - Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, German Empire (1974/76) 1898-0331 S. J. V. Chelvanayakam* Ceylonese lawyer/politician/MP - Ipoh, Malaya (1977/79) 1898-0406 Jeanne Hébuterne* painter - Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France (1920) 1898-0408 Fritzi Ridgeway* actress/ vaudeville performer/hotelier - Missoula, MT USA (1961/62) 1898-0423 Eliseo Morales* rower - Yecla, Spain (1993/94) 1898-0426 Vicente Aleixandre* poet/N - Seville, Spain (1984/86) 1898-0503 Golda Meir* (b Mabovitch) to U.S. at age 8/teacher/Israeli stateswoman - Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire (1978/80) 1898-0506 Daniel Frank Gerber* manufacturer of baby food - Fremont, MI USA (1974/75) 1898-0521 Armand Hammer* business manager/owner (Occidental Petroleum) - New York City, NY USA (1990/92) 1898-0601 1898-0611 Lionel Penrose* psychiatrist/ medical geneticist/chess theorist - London, England (1972/73) 1898-0618 Carleton Hobbs* actor - Farnborough, Hampshire, England (1978/80) 1898-0622 Erich Maria Remarque* (b Remark) author (All Quiet on the Western Front) - Osnabrück, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1970/72) 1898-0630 1898-0701 Charles Hartmann* jazz trombonist - New Orleans, LA USA (1982/84) 1898-0704 Gertrud Weaver* supercentenarian - Arkansas, USA (2015/116) 1898-0705 Robert Roth* wrestler/OG - Switzerland (1959/61) 1898-0710 1898-0713 Johan Abram Persson* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet)/ fisherman/wolf hunter - Luokta Sami Village, Sweden (1971/72) 1898-0719 Vilho Lampi* painter - Oulu, GD of Finland (1936/37) 1898-0729 Isidor Isaac Rabi* physicist/N - Rymanow, Austria-Hungary (1988/89) 1898-0810 Jack Haley* vaudevillian/actor/radio host - Boston, MA USA (1979/80) 1898-0820 Vilhelm Moberg* author/historian - Emmaboda, Småland, Sweden (1973/74) 1898-0826 Peggy Guggenheim* heiress/art collector/socialite - New York City, NY USA (1979/81) 1898-0831 1898-0901 1898-0924 Claire Adams* silent film actress/ benefactor - Winnipeg, MB Canada (1978/80) 1898-0924 Howard Florey* pharmacologist/pathologist/ helped develop penicillin/N - Adelaide, South Australia (1968/69) 1898-0925 Robert Brackman* Ukrainian American artist/ teacher/to USA at age 10 - Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire (1980/81) 1898-0925 Eero Salomo Hakoniemi** Finnish American farmer’s son/emigrated to New Hampshire - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1967/68) 1898-0926 George Gerschwin* composer/pianist - Brooklyn, NY USA (1937/38) 1898-1001 1898-1003 Morgan Farley* actor - Mamaroneck, NY USA (1988/90) 1898-1006 Jack Cohen* grocer/ businessman (Tesco) - Whitechapel, London, England (1979/80) 1898-1010 1898-1017 Shinichi Suzuki* 鈴木 鎮 violinist/philosopher/inventor of the Suzuki method - Nagoya, Japan (1998/99) 1898-1020 1898-1022 Dámaso Alonso* poet/philologist /literary critic - Madrid, Spain (1990/91) 1898-1031 1898-1108 Aimo Halonen* actor/ journalist - Kontiolahti, GD of Finland (1960/61) 1898-1110 1898-1120 1898-1122 Wiley Post* pioneering aviator - Van Zandt County, TX USA (1935/36) 1898-1126 Karl Ziegler* chemist/N - Helsa, near Kassel, German Empire (1973/74) 1898-1129 C. S. Lewis* author (The Chronicles of Narnia) - Belfast, Ireland (1963/64) 1898-1202 Indra Lal Roy* the sole Indian World War I flying ace - Calcutta, British India (1918/19) 1898-1206 Gunnar Myrdal* economist/sociologist - Gustafs, Dalarna, Sweden (1987/88) 1898-1211 Nils Ferlin* poet/lyricist - Karlstad, Sweden (1961/62) 1898-1213 Clarence Walker* boxer/OG - Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony (1957/58) 1898-1215 1898-1220 Irene Dunne* actress/singer - Louisville, KY USA (1990/91) 1898-1227 Olgivanna Lloyd Wright* (b Lazović) dancer/3rd wife of Frank Lloyd Wright - Cetinje, Montenegro (1985/86) 1898-1228 Carl-Gustaf Rossby* Swedish-American inventive meteorologist - Stockholm, Sweden (1957/58) 1898-0 1898-0 1898-0 Updated 2025-0505 Helsinki Search for another year here