page_title: 1898
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1898 / Births / January–March
caption_attribution_description: Theophilus Ebenhaezer (Eben) Dönges (1898-1968), South African politician, Finance minister (1961-1966)acting Prime Minister of South Africa (Sept 1966) and State President of South Africa (1967)
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: January 1
  Tony DeMarco, American dancer (d. 1965)
  Binay Ranjan Sen, Indian diplomat, 4th Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (d. 1993)
  January 3 – John Loder, British actor (d. 1988)
  January 7 – Art Baker, American actor (d. 1966)
  January 9 – Gracie Fields, British singer, actress and comedian (d. 1979)
  January 13 – Kaj Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor and martyr (d. 1944)
  January 16
  Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
  Irving Rapper, English-born American director (d. 1999)
  January 18 – Margaret Irving, American actress (d. 1988)
  January 20
  John George, Ottoman-born American actor (d. 1968)
  Tudor Owen, Welsh-American actor (d. 1979)
  Norma Varden, British-born American actress (d. 1989)
  January 21
  Rudolph Maté, Polish-born American cinematographer, film director (d. 1964)
  Shah Ahmad Shah Qajar of Persia (d. 1930)
  January 22
  Sergei Eisenstein, Russian and Soviet film director (d. 1948)
  Elazar Shach, Lithuanian-born Israeli Haredi rabbi (d. 2001)
  January 23
  Randolph Scott, American film actor (d. 1987)
  January 24 – Karl Hermann Frank, German Nazi official, war criminal (d. 1946)
  January 25 – Hymie Weiss, American gangster (d. 1926)
  January 26 – Katarzyna Kobro, Russian sculptor (d. 1951)
  February 1 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician, supercentenarian (d. 2012)
  February 2 – William "Billy" Costello, American voice actor, the original voice of Popeye (d. 1971)
  February 3 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
  February 5
  Sidney Fields, American actor (d. 1975)
  Denjirō Ōkōchi, Japanese actor (d. 1962)
  February 10
  Bertolt Brecht, German writer (d. 1956)
  Robert Keith, American actor (d. 1966)
  Joseph Kessel, French journalist, author (d. 1979)
  February 11
  Henry de La Falaise, French film director, Croix de guerre recipient (d. 1972)
  Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist (d. 1964)
  February 12
  Wallace Ford, British actor (d. 1966)
  Roy Harris, American composer (d. 1979)
  Audrey Jeffers, Trinidadian social worker, politician (d. 1968)
  Blue Washington, American actor, Negro league baseball player (d. 1970)
  February 14
  Eva Novak, American actress (d. 1988)
  Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, Argentine writer, journalist, essayist and poet (d. 1959)
  Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist, astronomer (d. 1974)
  February 15
  Bud Geary, American actor (d. 1946)
  Totò, Italian comedian, actor, poet, and songwriter (d. 1967)
  Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
  February 18
  Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver, automobile manufacturer (d. 1988)
  Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (d. 1980)
  February 20 – Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, Russian inventor (d. 1978)
  February 25 – William Astbury, English physicist, molecular biologist (d. 1961)
  February 24 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer (d. 1983)
  February 27 – Otto Hulett, American actor (d. 1983)
  February 28
  Hugh O'Flaherty, Irish Catholic priest (d. 1963)
  Molly Picon, American actress, lyricist (d. 1992)
  March 3 – Emil Artin, Austrian mathematician (d. 1962)
  March 4 – Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1986)
  March 5
  Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2015)
  Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
  Soong Mei-ling, First Lady of China (d. 2003)
  March 6 – Therese Giehse, German actress (d. 1975)
  March 8 – Eben Dönges, acting Prime Minister of South Africa and elected President of South Africa (d. 1968)
  March 10 – Cy Kendall, American actor (d. 1953)
  March 11 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
  March 13 – Henry Hathaway, American film director, producer (d. 1985)
  March 14 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
  March 21 – Paul Alfred Weiss, Austrian biologist (d. 1989)
  March 23
  Erich Bey, German admiral (d. 1943)
  Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (d. 1984)
  March 25 – Marcelle Narbonne, French supercentenarian, oldest European living person (d. 2012)
  March 30 – Joyce Carey, English actress (d. 1993)
  March 31 – Hermann van Pels, German-Dutch father of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1944)
caption: Eben Dönges
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