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Gregorian Year
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1998th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of
the 20th century,
and the 9th year of the 1990s decade. 1998 was designated as the International
Year of the Ocean.[1] Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 2 – Russia begins to circulate
new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence. ·
January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria: over 170 are killed in 3 remote
villages. ·
January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is
launched into orbit around the Moon,
and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed
craters near the Moon's poles. ·
January 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in
prison for planning the first World Trade
Center bombing in 1993. ·
January 11 – Over 100 people are killed
in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. ·
January 12 – Nineteen European nations
agree to forbid human cloning. ·
January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story
about U.S. President Bill Clinton's
alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which would lead to
the House
of Representatives' impeachment of him. ·
January 22 –
"Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty in the
United States, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of
parole.
New rubles
February[edit] ·
February 3 – Cavalese
cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the
deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his
low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs
the cable of a cable-car. ·
February 4 – The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan
earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VII (Very strong). With up to 4,000
killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme. ·
February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are
held in Nagano, Japan. ·
February 16 – China Airlines
Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang
Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people (all 196 on
board and 6 on the ground). ·
February 20 – Iraq disarmament
crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan,
allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the
United States and Britain. ·
February 28 – A massacre in
Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts
the Kosovo War. March[edit] ·
March 1 – Titanic becomes
the first film to gross US$1 billion. ·
March 2 – Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates
that Jupiter's moon Europa has
a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. ·
March 5 – NASA announces
that the Clementine probe
orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human
colony and rocket fueling station. ·
March 11 – Danish
general election, 1998: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is
re-elected. ·
March 13 – The High-Z
Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish
evidence that the universe is
expanding at an accelerating rate. ·
March 23 – The 70th Academy Awards ceremony,
hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in
Los Angeles, California. Titanic wins
11 Oscars including Best
Picture. ·
March 26 – Oued Bouaicha
massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and
knives; 32 of the killed are babies under the age of two. April[edit]
Akashi Kaikyō
Bridge ·
April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi
Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.8
billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in
the world. ·
April 6 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles
capable of hitting India. ·
April 10 – Good Friday
Agreement: 1 hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is
signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties,
with the notable exception of the Democratic
Unionist Party. ·
April 20 – The alleged date the
German Red Army Faction (created 1970)
is dissolved. ·
April 23 – The Yugoslav
Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation
Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into
Kosovo, killing 19. May[edit] ·
May 11 ·
India
conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including one thermonuclear device. ·
The
first euro coins are minted in Pessac, France. Because the final
specifications for the coins were not finished in 1998, they will have to be
melted and minted again in 1999. ·
May 13–14 – Riots
directed against Chinese Indonesians break out in Indonesia,
killing around 1,000 people.[2][3][4][5][6] ·
May 19 ·
The Galaxy IV communications satellite
fails, leaving 80–90% of the world's pagers without service. ·
The
wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown,
sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942,
is found near Midway Atoll by
a team led by former US Navy officer Robert D. Ballard. ·
May 21 – Suharto (elected 1967)
resigns, after 32 years as President of
Indonesia and his 7th consecutive re-election by the
Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie, becomes Indonesia's third
president. ·
May 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of
Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in
the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States,
Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually. ·
May 30 ·
A 6.6
magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000. ·
A
second nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-II, is conducted and supervised
by the Pakistan
Atomic Energy Commission(PAEC). June[edit]
President Joseph Estrada ·
June 3 – Eschede train disaster:
an Intercity-Express high-speed train derails between Hanover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths. ·
June 7 ·
Former
Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané seizes control over
military barracks in Bissau, marking the
beginning of the Guinea-Bissau
Civil War (1998–99). ·
Peter Arnett publishes a false report
of Operation Tailwind (initiated 1970),
claiming that sarin nerve agents were used to
eliminate a group of deserting U.S. soldiers. ·
James Byrd Jr. is
beaten and dragged to death by 3 white men in Jasper, Texas. ·
June 9 – July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in
France. France beats Brazil 3–0
in the FIFA World Cup
Final. ·
June 10 - The Organisation
of African Unity passes a resolution which states that its
members will no longer comply with punitive sanctions applied by the UN
Security Council against Libya. ·
June 27 – Kuala
Lumpur International Airport officially opened, which also
became the new international gateway into Malaysia.[importance?] ·
June 30 – Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada is sworn in as the 13th
President of the Philippines. July[edit] ·
July 5 – Japan launches a probe
to Mars, joining the United States and Russia
as an outer space-exploring
nation. ·
July 6 – The new Hong Kong
International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens, while the old Kai Tak Airport closes.[importance?] ·
July 17 ·
At
a conference in Rome, 120 countries vote to create a
permanent International
Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against
humanity, war crimes, and
the crime of aggression. ·
In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of
Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80
years after he and his family were killed by the Lenin-led Bolsheviks in 1918. ·
The
7.0 Mw Papua
New Guinea earthquake shakes the region near Aitape with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe). This submarine earthquake triggered
a landslide that caused a destructive tsunami, leaving more than 2,100 dead
and thousands injured. ·
July 21 – September 5 – The 1998 Sydney
water crisis involved the suspected contamination by the
microscopic pathogens cryptosporidium and giardia of the water supply system
of Greater Metropolitan Sydney.[7] August[edit]
Aug. 7: Nairobi Embassy bombing. ·
August 4 – The Second Congo War begins; 5.4 million
people die before it ends in 2003, making it the
bloodiest war, to date, since World War II. ·
August 7 ·
Yangtze
River Floods: in China the Yangtze river breaks through the main
bank; before this, from August 1–5, peripheral levees collapsed consecutively
in Jiayu County Baizhou Bay. The death toll exceeds 12,000, with many thousands
more injured. ·
1998 U.S.
embassy bombings: the bombings of the United States embassies
in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224
people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia. ·
August 15 – The Omagh bombing is carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real Irish
Republican Army. September[edit]
Canadian Coast Guard
Vessel Henry Hudson searches for Swissair Flight 111 debris ·
A McDonnell Douglas
MD-11 airliner (Swissair Flight 111)
crashes near Peggy's Cove,
Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en route to Geneva; all 229 people on board are killed. ·
A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu,
the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide,
marking the first time that the 1948 law
banning genocide is enforced. ·
September 4 – Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park,
California, by Stanford University PhD
candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.[8] ·
September 5 – The Government of North Korea adopts a military
dictatorship on its 50th anniversary. ·
September 9 – St. Louis Cardinals first
baseman Mark McGwire hits
his 62nd home run of the season, thus breaking the single season record of 61
which had been held by Roger Maris since 1961. ·
September 10 – At midnight, a shooting
occurs aboard an Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Russian Navy docked in the northern
Russian port city of Severomorsk. ·
September 12 – The Cuban Five intelligence agents are
arrested in Miami, and convicted of espionage. The agents claim they were not
spying against the United
States Government but against the Cuban exile community in Miami. ·
September 24 – Iranian President Mohammad Khatami retracts a fatwa
against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie that was in force
since 1989 stating that the Iranian
government will "neither support nor hinder assassination operations on
Rushdie". October[edit] ·
October 1 – Europol is established when the Europol
Convention signed by all of its member states comes into force. ·
October 3 – Australian
federal election, 1998: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition Government is
re-elected with a substantially reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led
by Kim Beazley.[9] ·
October 10 – Indictment
and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990,
is indicted for human
rights violations he committed in Chile by Spanish
magistrate Baltasar Garzón.
6 days later British police place him under house arrest during his medical
treatment in the UK. This is a leading case in the law of universal
jurisdiction. ·
October 17 – 1998 Jesse
pipeline explosion: An oil pipeline explosion in Jesse, Nigeria results in 1,082 deaths. ·
October 29 – Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in
Central America, killing an estimated 11,000 people. November[edit] ·
November 17 – Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant
man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of
69.419 AU (1.03849×1010 km). ·
November 20 – A Russian Proton rocket is
launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first segment of
the International
Space Station, the 21-ton Zarya Module. ·
November 24 – A declassified report by
Swiss International
Olympic Committee official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had
been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City during bidding process
in 1995. The IOC, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United
States Olympic Committee and the United
States Department of Justice immediately launch an
investigation into the scandal. December[edit] ·
December 4 – The Space
Shuttle Endeavour launches the first American
component to the International
Space Station, the 25,600 pounds (11,600 kg) Unitymodule
on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later. ·
December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of
the Venezuelan military, is elected President
of Venezuela. ·
December 14 – The Yugoslav
Army ambushes a column of 140 Kosovo Liberation
Army militants attempting to smuggle arms from Albania into
Kosovo, killing 36. ·
December 16–19 – Iraq disarmament
crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq.
UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq. ·
December 19 – The U.S. House
of Representatives forwards articles of
impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making
him the second president to be impeached in the nation. ·
December 29 – Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the
post-Vietnam War genocide in Cambodia that killed more than one
million people in the 1970s. ·
The
first leap second since
June 30, 1997, occurs. ·
In
the Eurozone, the currency rates of this day are
fixed permanently. Date unknown[edit] ·
Ibrahim
Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsô, dies
in Qamishli, Syria, making the language effectively
extinct. Also, the last native speaker of related Bijil
Neo-Aramaic, Mrs. Rahel Avraham, dies in Jerusalem.[10] Births[edit]
January[edit]
·
Carlo Kemp, American football player ·
Sara Ahmed,
Egyptian weightlifter ·
Chen Xinyi, Chinese swimmer ·
Timothy Fosu-Mensah,
Dutch footballer ·
Coco Jones, American actress and singer ·
Liza Soberano, Filipino actress and singer ·
January 5 – Carles Aleńá,
Spanish footballer ·
Ismail Azzaoui, Belgian footballer ·
Lee Seung-woo, South Korean footballer ·
Norman Grimes, American sprinter ·
January 8 – Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer ·
January 10 – Xu Shilin, Chinese tennis player ·
January 12 – Rafik Zekhnini, Norwegian footballer ·
Gabrielle Daleman,
Canadian figure skater ·
Kamron Doyle, American ten-pin bowler ·
January 14 – Ai Moritaka, Japanese model and actress ·
January 16 – Odsonne Édouard,
French footballer ·
Éder Milităo, Brazilian
footballer ·
Vashti Cunningham,
American track and field ·
January 20 – Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player ·
January 21 – Amelia Hundley, American artistic gymnast ·
Rachel Crow, American singer and actress ·
Cole Custer, American stock car racing
driver ·
XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018) ·
January 27 – Rebeka Kim, South Korean ice dancer ·
Javier Acevedo, Canadian swimmer ·
Garamond Winter, American actress ·
January 29 – Mion Mukaichi, Japanese singer and actress ·
January 30 – Grigoris Kastanos,
Greek-Cypriot footballer ·
January 31 – Bradie Tennell, American figure skater February[edit]
·
Stefan Kozlov, American tennis player ·
Kipyegon Bett, Kenyan middle-distance runner ·
Michael
McLeod, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer ·
Yang Hao, Chinese diver ·
Scott Jones,
English paralympic athlete ·
Malik Monk, American basketball player ·
Gray Gaulding, American stock car racing
driver ·
Aitor Buńuel, Spanish footballer ·
February 13 – Khalifa St. Fort, Trinbagonian sprinter ·
Dennis Cholowski Canadian hockey
defenseman ·
Zachary Gordon, American actor ·
February 17 – Fernanda Urdapilleta,
Mexican actress and singer ·
February 18 – Matthew Davidson, American guitarist ·
February 21 – Michaela Hrubá,
Czech athlete ·
February 24 – MGaramond Pamintuan, Filipino actress ·
February 25 – Matheus Pereira
da Silva, Brazilian footballer ·
Elisa Balsamo,
Italian cyclist ·
Theo Stevenson, English actor ·
Felix Gall, Austrian cyclist March[edit]
·
March 3 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player ·
March 5 ·
Sergio
Díaz, Paraguayan footballer ·
Micah Fowler, American actor ·
March 9 ·
Kaylin Whitney, American sprinter ·
Najee Harris, American football player ·
March 17 – Nathan O'Toole, Irish actor ·
March 19 – Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer ·
March 20 – Giovanni Troupée,
Dutch footballer ·
March 21 – Miles Bridges, American basketball player ·
March 26 ·
Daria Grushina, Russian ski jumper ·
Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater ·
March 27 – Haji Wright, American footballer ·
March 28 ·
Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer ·
Ryan Simpkins, American actress ·
March 31 ·
Jakob Chychrun, American ice hockey player ·
Anna Seidel,
German short track speed skater ·
Oskar Buur, Danish footballer April[edit]
·
April 1 – Franco Lopez, Argentinian footballer ·
April 3 – Paris Jackson,
American actress and model ·
April 5 – Kaito Nakamura,
Japanese actor and model ·
April 6 ·
Peyton
List, American actress ·
Spencer List, American actor ·
April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress ·
April 10 – Anna Pogorilaya, Russian figure skater ·
April 16 ·
Paul Salas, Filipino actor ·
Maxime Rooney, American swimmer ·
April 19 – Patrik Laine, Finnish ice hockey player ·
April 21 – Jarrett Allen, American basketball player ·
April 24 – Ryan Newman,
American actress ·
April 26 – Jan-Krzysztof Duda,
Polish chess grandmaster ·
April 29 – Kimberly Birrell, German-born Australian
tennis player May[edit]
·
May 2 ·
Ian Anderson,
American baseball pitcher ·
Jonathan Ikoné,
French footballer ·
Tremaine Edmunds, American football player ·
May 4 – Frank Jackson,
American basketball player ·
May 5 ·
Olli Juolevi, Finnish ice hockey player ·
Tijana
Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner ·
May 6 ·
Kayden Troff, American chess champion ·
Sierra Schmidt, American swimmer ·
May 7 ·
Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer ·
Jesse Puljujärvi,
Finnish ice hockey player ·
May 8 – Johannes Eggestein,
German footballer ·
May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer ·
May 12 ·
Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player ·
Tornado Alicia Black,
American tennis player ·
May 13 ·
Karen Iwata, Japanese singer and voice
actress ·
Mickey Moniak, American baseball outfielder ·
May 16 – Adian Pitkeev, Russian figure skater ·
May 18 – Polina Edmunds, American figure skater ·
May 20 – Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater ·
May 23 – Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field
sprinter ·
May 25 – Nazmul Hossain
Shanto, Bangladeshi cricketer ·
May 29 ·
Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress ·
Oliver Stokes, English actor ·
Felix Passlack, German footballer ·
Markelle Fultz, American basketball player June[edit]
·
June 1 ·
Aleksandra Soldatova,
Russian rhythmic gymnast ·
Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer ·
June 5 – Yulia Lipnitskaya,
Russian figure skater ·
June 7 – Graham Newberry, British-American figure
skater ·
June 12 – Andrey Makolov, Russian artistic gymnast ·
June 15 ·
Alexander Samarin,
Russian figure skater ·
Hachim Mastour, Moroccan footballer ·
June 16 ·
Ritsu Doan, Japanese footballer ·
Lauren Taylor,
American actress and singer ·
June 19 ·
Suzu Hirose, Japanese actress and model ·
Atticus Shaffer, American actor ·
Viktoriya
Zeynep Güneş, Turkish swimmer ·
Ömer Yurtseven,
Turkish basketball player ·
June 21 – Gerben Thijssen, Belgian road and track
cyclist ·
June 23 – Josip Brekalo, Croatian footballer ·
June 24 ·
Coy Stewart, American actor ·
Pierre-Luc Dubois,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
June 25 – Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer ·
June 26 – Edu Gueda, Brazilian singer ·
June 27 – Bor
Pavlovčič, Slovenian ski jumper ·
June 29 – Michael Porter Jr.,
American basketball player ·
June 30 ·
Tom
Davies, English footballer ·
Houssem Aouar, French footballer July[edit]
·
July 2 – Ema Klinec, Slovenian ski jumper ·
July 7 – Dylan Sprayberry, American actor ·
July 8 ·
Jaden Smith, American actor ·
Daria Spiridonova,
Russian artistic gymnast ·
Maya Hawke, American actress and model ·
July 9 – Robert Capron, American actor ·
July 10 ·
Haley Pullos, American actress ·
Kimia Alizadeh, Iranian taekwondo athlete ·
July 16 ·
Rina Matsuno, Japanese singer, model, and
actress (d. 2017) ·
July 21 – Kim Magnus, South Korean Olympic cross-country
skiier[importance?] ·
July 22 ·
Alicia Moffet, Canadian singer ·
Patrick
Schmidt, Austrian footballer ·
Federico Valverde,
Uruguayan footballer ·
July 23 – DeAndre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player ·
July 28 – Frank Ntilikina, French basketball player ·
July 31 – Rico Rodriguez,
American actor August[edit]
·
August 1 – Khamani Griffin, American actor ·
August 2 – Giarnni Regini-Moran,
British artistic gymnast ·
August 3 – Cozi Zuehlsdorff, American actress, pianist
and singer ·
August 4 – Lil Skies, American rapper ·
August 5 ·
Mimi Keene, English actress ·
Daniil Pakhomov, Russian swimmer ·
August 6 – Forrest Goodluck, American actor ·
August 7 – Jalen Hurts, American football player ·
August 8 ·
Ronan Parke, English singer ·
Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer ·
August 9 – Jorrit Croon, Dutch hockey player ·
Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess grandmaster ·
Eythóra Thorsdóttir,
Dutch gymnast ·
Nadia Azzi, American classical pianist ·
Nicolas Janvier, French footballer ·
Arina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast ·
Dina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast ·
Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player ·
August 14 – Amy Marren, English paralympic swimmer ·
August 25 – China Anne McClain,
American actress and singer September[edit]
·
September 1 – Emily Condon, Australian footballer ·
September 9 – Jesús Marimón,
Colombian footballer ·
September 10 – Sheck Wes, American rapper ·
September 17 – Richard Wang,
Canadian chess champion ·
September 18 – Christian Pulisic,
American footballer ·
Jacob Bruun Larsen,
Danish footballer ·
Trae Young, American basketball player ·
September 21 – Miguel Tanfelix, Filipino actor ·
September 26 – Ivan Pavlov,
Ukrainian figure skater ·
Aleksandra
Goryachkina, Russian chess Grandmaster ·
Máscara de Bronce,
Mexican wrestler October[edit]
·
October 1 – Danika Yarosh, American actress and dancer ·
October 7 – Trent
Alexander-Arnold, English footballer ·
October 9 – Tako Natsvlishvili,
Georgian model ·
October 10 – Nash Aguas, Filipino actor ·
October 12 – Tyler Pierce,
American figure skater ·
October 18 – Emily Robinson, American actress ·
October 20 – Jordan Allan, Scottish footballer ·
Ianis Hagi, Romanian footballer ·
Ike Anigbogu, American basketball player ·
October 26 – Samantha Isler, American actress ·
October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer ·
Nolan Gould, American actor ·
Perrine Laffont, French mogul skier ·
Maria Kharenkova, Russian artistic gymnast ·
Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver November[edit]
·
November 2 – Elkie, South Korean based singer and actress ·
November 3 – Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic
swimmer ·
November 4 – Darcy Rose Byrnes,
American actress ·
November 10 – Renz Valerio, Filipino actor ·
November 11 – Carlo Lacana, Filipino actor ·
November 17 – Kara Hayward, American actress ·
November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry,
American actor ·
November 24 – Peyton Meyer, American actor ·
November 29 – Ayumu Hirano, Japanese snowboarder December[edit]
·
Annalise Basso, American actress ·
Amber Montana, American actress ·
Juice WRLD, American rapper and singer ·
December 4 – Si Yajie, Chinese diver ·
December 8 – Anastasia Rizikov,
Canadian classical pianist ·
December 11 – Dante Rigo, Belgian footballer ·
December 14 – Maggie Voisin, American freestyle skier ·
Reece Oxford, English football player ·
Kiara Muhammad, American actress and singer ·
Martin Řdegaard,
Norwegian footballer ·
Jasmine Armfield, English actress ·
December 19 – Frans Jeppsson Wall,
Swedish singer ·
Ivett Tóth, Hungarian figure skater ·
Kylian Mbappé, French football player ·
December 24 – Nikita Howarth, New Zealand paralympic
swimmer ·
December 26 – Kesz Váldez, Filipino humanitarian ·
Paris Berelc, American actress ·
Jared Gilman, American actor ·
December 31 – Gianina Ernst, German ski jumper Deaths[edit] Main article: Deaths in 1998
January[edit]
·
January 1 – Helen Wills, American tennis player
(b. 1905) ·
Feodor I.
Kozhevnikov, Soviet legal expert (b. 1893) ·
Frank Muir, British actor, comedy writer and
raconteur (b. 1920) ·
Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908) ·
Carlo Ludovico
Bragaglia, Italian film director (b. 1894) ·
January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and
politician (b. 1935) ·
January 7 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b. 1906) ·
January 8 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905) ·
January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1918) ·
Ellis Rabb, American director and actor
(b. 1930) ·
Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926) ·
Junior Wells, American harmonica player
(b. 1934) ·
Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and
economist (b. 1898) ·
Duncan McNaughton,
Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1910) ·
Emil Sitka, American actor (b. 1914) ·
Hermann Wedekind, artistic director
(b. 1910) ·
January 18 – Monica Edwards, British writer (b. 1912) ·
January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932) ·
January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920) ·
January 23 – Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (b. 1958) ·
Shinichi
Suzuki, Japanese musician and educator (b. 1898) ·
Ethelreda Leopold,
American film actress (b. 1914) ·
January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori,
Japanese manga artist (b. 1938) ·
January 29 – Joseph Alioto, 36th Mayor of San
Francisco (b. 1916) February[edit]
·
Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and
geologist (b. 1914) ·
Raymond Cattell, British and American
psychologist (b. 1905) ·
Fat Pat, American rapper (b. 1970) ·
Karla Faye Tucker,
American convicted murderer (b. 1959) ·
Falco, Austrian musician (b. 1957) ·
Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946) ·
Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of
Syria and 14th President of Syria (b. 1906) ·
Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920) ·
Roger Nicholas
Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942) ·
Halldór Laxness,
Icelandic writer (b. 1902) ·
Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912) ·
Julian Simon, American economist and author
(b. 1932) ·
February 9 – Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign
Affairs (b. 1911) ·
February 11 – Jonathan Hole, American actor (b. 1904) ·
February 16 – Fernando Abril
Martorell, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936) ·
Ernst Jünger, German writer (b. 1895) ·
Bob Merrill, American composer and
screenwriter (b. 1921) ·
February 18 – Harry Caray, American television and radio
broadcaster (b. 1914) ·
February 19 – Grandpa Jones, American musician (b. 1913) ·
Red Reeder, U.S. Army officer and author
(b. 1902) ·
Abraham
Alexander Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910) ·
Athol Rowan, South African cricketer
(b. 1921) ·
José María de
Areilza, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909) ·
Philip Abbott, American actor (b. 1924) ·
Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (b. 1960) ·
February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian
(b. 1906) ·
February 26 – Theodore Schultz, American economist
(b. 1902) ·
Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (b. 1901) ·
George H. Hitchings,
American scientist (b. 1905) ·
February 28 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian
(b. 1952) March[edit]
·
March 2 – Darcy O'Brien, American author (b. 1939) ·
March 3 – Fred W. Friendly, American television
journalist and executive (b. 1915) ·
March 7 – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music
education, organist, and choir master, (b. 1914) ·
March 8 – Ray Nitschke, American football player
(b. 1936) ·
March 10 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913) ·
March 10 – Milton
Mallawarachchi, Sri Lankan Musician (b. 1944) ·
March 12 ·
Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945) ·
Beatrice Wood, American artist and
ceramicist (b. 1893) ·
Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924) ·
March 13 ·
Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920) ·
Risen Star, American racehorse (b. 1985) ·
Hans von Ohain, German physicist (b. 1911) ·
March 15 ·
Benjamin Spock, American rower,
pediatrician, and author (b. 1903) ·
Dušan Pašek, Slovak ice hockey player
(b. 1960) ·
Tim Maia, Brazilian musician, songwriter and
businessman (b. 1942) ·
March 16 – Derek Barton, British chemist (b. 1918) ·
March 20 – George Howard,
American jazz saxophone musician (b. 1956) ·
March 25 – Daniel Massey,
English actor (b. 1933) ·
March 27 – Ferdinand
Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer and businessman
(b. 1909) ·
March 31 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer, feminist
activist, and politician (b. 1920) April[edit]
·
April 1 – Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1920) ·
April 3 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer
(b. 1901) ·
April 6 ·
Wendy O. Williams,
American singer (b. 1949) ·
Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942) ·
April 7 – Nick Auf der Maur,
Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1942) ·
April 11 ·
Doris Tetzlaff, American female professional
baseball player (b. 1921) ·
Rodney Harvey, American actor and model
(b. 1967) ·
April 13 – Patrick de Gayardon,
French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (b. 1960) ·
April 15 ·
Rose Maddox, American singer (b. 1925) ·
Pol Pot, 30th Prime Minister
of Democratic Kampuchea and Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader
(b. 1925) ·
April 16 ·
Fred Davis,
English snooker player (b. 1913) ·
Marie-Louise
Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880) ·
April 17 ·
Linda McCartney, American photographer and
musician (b. 1941) ·
Muhammad
Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist (b. 1911) ·
April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer
(b. 1914) ·
April 21 ·
Peter Lind Hayes, American entertainer
(b. 1915) ·
Irene Vernon, American actress (b. 1922) ·
April 22 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach
(b. 1940) ·
April 23 ·
Konstantinos
Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907) ·
James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928) ·
April 25 ·
Christian Mortensen,
Danish supercentenarian (b. 1882) ·
Wright Morris, American photographer and
writer (b. 1910) ·
April 26 – Joan Mary Wayne
Brown, British author (b. 1906) ·
April 27 ·
Carlos Castaneda, American anthropologist
and author (b. 1925) ·
Anne Desclos, French writer (b. 1907) May[edit]
·
May 1 – Eldridge Cleaver, American activist
(b. 1935) ·
May 2 ·
Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961) ·
hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964) ·
Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908) ·
May 7 ·
Allan McLeod Cormack,
South African–born physicist (b. 1924) ·
Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941) ·
May 9 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915) ·
May 14 ·
Marjory Stoneman
Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890) ·
Frank Sinatra, American entertainer
(b. 1915) ·
May 15 – Earl Manigault, American street basketball
player (b. 1944) ·
May 19 – Sōsuke Uno, 47th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1922) ·
May 22 – John Derek, American actor and film director
(b. 1926) ·
May 28 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor,
writer, and comedian (b. 1948) ·
May 29 ·
Orlando Anderson, American criminal
(b. 1974) ·
Barry Goldwater, American politician
(b. 1909) June[edit]
·
June 2 ·
Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler
(b. 1952) ·
Dorothy Stickney, American actress (b. 1896) ·
June 3 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer
(b. 1922) ·
June 5 ·
Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911) ·
Sam Yorty, American politician, Los Angeles' 37th mayor (1961–1973)
(b. 1909). ·
June 8 ·
Sani Abacha, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943) ·
Jackie McGlew, South African cricketer
(b. 1929) ·
June 9 – Lois Mailou Jones,
African-American artist (b. 1905) ·
June 10 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914) ·
June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson,
English author (b. 1906) ·
June 12 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (b. 1924) ·
June 13 ·
Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917) ·
Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911) ·
June 20 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard
(b. 1942) ·
June 22 – Benny Green,
British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist (b. 1927) ·
June 23 – Maureen O'Sullivan,
Irish-American actress (b. 1911) ·
June 28 – Marion Eugene Carl,
American fighter pilot (b. 1915) July[edit]
·
July 2 – Kay Thompson, American author and actress
(b. 1909) ·
July 3 – Danielle Bunten
Berry, American software developer (b. 1949) ·
July 4 – Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and
choreographer (b. 1957) ·
July 5 ·
Sid Luckman, American football player
(b. 1916) ·
Johnny Speight, British television
scriptwriter (b. 1920) ·
July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor
(b. 1911) ·
July 12 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet, Russian scientist, participant in the launch of the
first artificial Earth satellite and the first cosmonaut, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Docent, laureate of the Lenin and state prizes (b. 1925) ·
July 17 – Joseph Maher, Irish-born American actor
(b. 1933) ·
July 19 – Elmer Valo, Slovak baseball player (b. 1921) ·
July 21 ·
Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923) ·
Robert Young,
American actor (b. 1907) ·
July 22 ·
Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929) ·
Don Dunphy, American television and radio
sports announcer (b. 1908) ·
July 27 – Binnie Barnes, British-born American actress
(b. 1903) ·
July 28 – Harvie Branscomb, American university
president (b. 1894) ·
July 29 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and
director (b. 1918) ·
July 30 – Buffalo Bob Smith,
American children's television host (b. 1917) August[edit]
·
August 1 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927) ·
August 2 ·
Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist
(b. 1933) ·
Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football
manager (b. 1914) ·
August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer
(b. 1934) ·
August 4 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930) ·
August 5 – Todor Zhivkov, 6th President of
Bulgaria (b. 1911) ·
August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906) ·
August 8 – Nelly's, Greek female photographer (b. 1899) ·
August 9 – Frankie Ruiz, American salsa singer and
songwriter (b. 1958) ·
Julien Green, French-born American writer
(b. 1900) ·
Nino Ferrer, French singer (b. 1934) ·
August 18 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model
(b. 1948) ·
August 22 – Jack Briggs,
American actor (b. 1920) ·
Jerry Clower, American country comedian
(b. 1926) ·
E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1914) ·
August 25 – Lewis F. Powell Jr.,
American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1907) ·
August 26 – Frederick Reines, American physicist
(b. 1918) ·
August 28 – George Büchi, American chemist (b. 1921) September[edit]
·
September 1 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921) ·
Jackie Blanchflower,
Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933) ·
Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918) ·
Walter L. Morgan, American banker (b. 1898) ·
Willem Drees Jr., Dutch politician (b. 1922) ·
Fernando Balzaretti,
Mexican actor (b. 1946) ·
Leo Penn, American actor and director
(b. 1921) ·
September 6 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter,
producer, and director (b. 1910) ·
September 8 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian-born actor (b. 1903) ·
September 9 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943) ·
September 11 – Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1912) ·
September 13 – George Wallace, American politician
(b. 1919) ·
Yang Shangkun, 4th President
of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907) ·
Johnny Adams, American singer (b. 1932) ·
September 15 – Fred Alderman, American sprint runner
(b. 1905) ·
September 17 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907) ·
September 19 – Patricia Hayes, British character actress
and comedian (b. 1909) ·
September 20 – Muriel Humphrey
Brown, American politician (b. 1912) ·
September 21 – Florence
Griffith Joyner, American runner (b. 1959) ·
Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943) ·
Trevor Berghan, New Zealand rugby union
player (b. 1914) ·
Betty Carter, American jazz singer (b. 1929) ·
Giovanni Barbini, Italian naval officer
(b. 1901) ·
September 27 – Doak Walker, American football player
(b. 1927) ·
September 29 – Herbert V. Prochnow,
U.S. banker and author (b. 1897) ·
Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player
(b. 1953) ·
Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial
designer (b. 1907) ·
Pavel Štěpán,
Czech pianist (b. 1925) ·
Robert Lewis Taylor,
American author (b. 1912) October[edit]
·
Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and
sports team owner (b. 1907) ·
Olivier Gendebien,
Belgian race car driver (b. 1924) ·
October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British-born American actor
(b. 1928) ·
Mark Belanger, American baseball player
(b. 1944) ·
Ambrose Burke, Roman Catholic priest and
educator (b. 1895) ·
October 8 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (b. 1907) ·
October 9 – Ian Johnson,
Australian cricketer (b. 1917) ·
Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957) ·
Marvin Gay Sr., American minister (b. 1914) ·
October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914) ·
October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim
(b. 1976) ·
October 13 – General Gérard
Charles Édouard Thériault, Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff
(b. 1932) ·
October 14 – Frankie Yankovic, American musician
(b. 1916) ·
October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer
(b. 1943) ·
Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906) ·
Hakim Mohammed Said,
Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (b. 1920) ·
October 19 – Germán List Arzubide,
Mexican poet and revolutionary (b. 1898) ·
October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909) ·
Pino Dordoni, Italian athlete (b. 1926) ·
Mary Calderone, American physician, public
health advocate (b. 1904) ·
Ghulam Ahmed,
Indian cricket captain (b. 1922) ·
James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927) ·
October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930) ·
October 31 – Maria
de la Purisima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1926) November[edit]
·
Bob Kane, American comic book creator
(b. 1915) ·
Martha O'Driscoll,
American film actress (b. 1922) ·
November 5 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress
(b. 1932) ·
November 8 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913) ·
Mary Millar, British actress and singer
(b. 1936) ·
Hal Newhouser, American baseball player
(b. 1921) ·
Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917) ·
Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman
(b. 1975) ·
Doug Wright,
English cricketer (b. 1914) ·
Red Holzman, American basketball coach
(b. 1920) ·
November 15 – Stokely Carmichael, Civil Rights
Movement organizer (b. 1941) ·
Kenneth McDuff, American serial killer
(b. 1946) ·
Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920) ·
November 19 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director
(b. 1928) ·
November 22 – Stu Ungar, professional poker player
(b. 1953) ·
November 23 – Don Ray,
American basketball player (b. 1921) ·
November 25 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian
(b. 1933) ·
Martin Ruane, British professional wrestler
(b. 1947) ·
Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925) ·
November 30 – Margaret Walker, American poet (b. 1915) December[edit]
·
December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer
(b. 1902) ·
Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905) ·
Brian Stonehouse, English painter and secret
agent (b. 1918) ·
December 5 – Hazel Bishop, American chemist and inventor
(b. 1906) ·
Michael Zaslow, American actor (b. 1942) ·
César Baldaccini,
French sculptor (b. 1921) ·
December 7 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925) ·
December 12 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (b. 1930) ·
Sir Lew Grade, British businessman (b. 1906) ·
Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (b. 1930) ·
Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924) ·
Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and
politician (b. 1924) ·
December 15 – Brady Boone, American professional wrestler
(b. 1958) ·
December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922) ·
December 17 – Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child
psychologist (b. 1959) ·
December 18 – Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1926) ·
Gordon Gunter, American marine biologist and
fisheries scientist (b. 1909) ·
Antonio Ordóńez,
Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932) ·
Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909) ·
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin,
British scientist (b. 1914) ·
Roger Avon, British actor (b. 1914) ·
Richard
Turnbull, British colonial governor (b. 1909) ·
December 23 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor
(b. 1900) ·
Richard Paul,
American actor (b. 1940) ·
John Pulman, English snooker player
(b. 1923) ·
Hurd Hatfield, American actor (b. 1917) ·
Robert
Rosen, American biologist (b. 1934) ·
William Frankfather,
American actor (b. 1944) ·
Ram Swarup, Indian author (b. 1920) ·
Keisuke Kinoshita,
Japanese film director (b. 1912) ·
George Webb,
British actor (b. 1912) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui ·
Chemistry – Walter Kohn, John Pople ·
Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad ·
Peace – John Hume and David Trimble ·
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of
Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen Fields Medal[edit] ·
Richard Ewen
Borcherds, William Timothy
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