page_title: 1898
section_title: April–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1898 / Births / April–June
caption_attribution_description: Jacobus Johannes Fouché
context_page_description: 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1898th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 898th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1898, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: April 1 – William James Sidis, American mathematician (d. 1944)
  April 2 – Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor and politician (d. 1990)
  April 3 – George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981)
  April 4 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
  April 6 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter (d. 1920)
  April 9 – Paul Robeson, African-American actor, singer and political activist (d. 1976)
  April 12 – Lily Pons, French-American opera singer, actress (d. 1976)
  April 14 – Lee Tracy, American actor (d. 1968)
  April 15 – Marian Driscoll Jordan, American actress (d. 1961)
  April 19 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
  April 20 – Sidney Lanfield, American film director (d. 1972)
  April 21 – Walter Forde, British actor, screenwriter and film director (d. 1984)
  April 23 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 1984)
  April 26
  Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
  John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (d. 1972)
  Tomu Uchida, Japanese film director (d. 1970)
  May 2 – Henry Hall, British bandleader (d. 1989)
  May 3
  Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
  Septima Poinsette Clark, American educator and civil rights activist (d. 1987)
  May 5
  Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (d. 1983)
  Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959)
  Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, German actor (d. 1958)
  May 6 – Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German Nazi leader (d. 1945)
  May 13
  Hisamuddin of Selangor, King of Malaysia (d. 1960)
  Justin Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran (d. 2007)
  May 14
  Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (d. 1997)
  Betty Farrington, American actress (d. 1989)
  May 15 – Arletty, French model, actress (d. 1992)
  May 16
  Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco painter (d. 1980)
  Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (d. 1956)
  May 17
  Anagarika Govinda, German buddhist lama (d. 1985)
  Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
  May 19 – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
  May 21 – Armand Hammer, American entrepreneur, art collector (d. 1990)
  May 23
  Frank McHugh, American actor (d. 1981)
  Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
  May 24 – Helen B. Taussig, American cardiologist (d. 1986)
  May 25 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher (d. 1971)
  May 27 – Lee Garmes, American cinematographer (d. 1978)
  May 31
  Ernest Haller, American cinematographer (d. 1974)
  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
  June 3 – Stuart H. Ingersoll, American admiral (d. 1983)
  June 4 – Harry Crosby, American publisher, poet (d. 1929)
  June 5
  Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright (d. 1936)
  Guy La Chambre, French politician (d. 1975)
  June 6
  Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
  Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer, founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d. 2001)
  Jim Fouché, 5th President of South Africa (d. 1980)
  June 10
  Michel Hollard, French Resistance hero (d. 1993)
  Virginia Valli, American film actress (d. 1968)
  June 11 – Lionel Penrose, English geneticist (d. 1972)
  June 12 – Charley Foy, American actor (d. 1984)
  June 17
  M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
  Harry Patch, British World War I soldier, last Tommy Atkins (d. 2009)
  June 18
  Carleton Hobbs, English actor who played Sherlock Holmes for two decades (d. 1978)
  Dink Trout, American actor (d. 1950)
  June 22
  Weeratunge Edward Perera, Malaysian educator, businessman and social entrepreneur (d. 1982)
  Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
  June 23 – Lillian Hall-Davis, English actress (d. 1933)
  June 25 – Buddy Roosevelt, American actor, stunt performer (d. 1973)
  June 26
  Sa`id Al-Mufti, 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1989)
  Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer, manufacturer (d. 1978)
  June 28 – Louis King, American film director (d. 1962)
  June 30
  George Chandler, American actor (d. 1985)
  Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean politician (d. 1985)
caption: Jim Fouché
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