1998

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
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Years:	1995 1996 1997 – 1998 – 1999 2000 2001

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.

Events

January

Sonny Bono

Vladimir Prelog

January 1 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (born 1905)
January 5 - Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician (born 1935)
January 7 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (born 1906)
January 8 - Michael Tippett, English composer (born 1905)
January 9 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (born 1918)
January 11 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (born 1926)
January 19 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (born 1932)
January 21 - Jack Lord, American actor (born 1920)
January 23 - Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (born 1958)
January 28 - Shotari Ishinomari, Japanese manga artist (born 1938)

February

Enoch Powell

George H. Hitchings

February 6 - Falco, Austrian singer and musician (born 1957)
February 6 - Carl Wilson, American musician (born 1946)
February 8 - Halldor Laxness, Icelandic writer (born 1902)
February 8 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and writer (born 1932)
February 8 - Enoch Powell, British politician (born 1912)
February 17 - Ernst Juenger, German writer (born 1895)
February 26 - Theodore Schultz, American economist (born 1902)
February 27 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist (born 1905)
February 28 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (born 1952)

March

Lloyd Bridges

March 3 - Fred W. Friendly, American television journalist and executive (born 1915)
March 10 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (born 1913)
March 12 - Judge Dread, English musician (born 1945)
March 12 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (born 1893)
March 12 - Jozef Kroner, Slovakian actor (born 1924)
March 15 - Benjamin Spock, American athlete, pediatrician and writer (born 1903)
March 16 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist (born 1918)
March 21 - Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina (born 1910)
March 25 - Daniel Massey, British actor (born 1933)
March 27 - Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian automobile designer and businessman (born 1909)
March 31 - Bella Abzug, American politician (born 1920)

April

Pol Pot

Octavio Paz

Konstantinos Karamanlis

April 1 - Gene Evans, American actor (born 1920)
April 2 - Rob Pilatus, member of the pop group Milli Vanilli (born 1965)
April 6 - Tammy Wynette, American singer (born 1942)
April 15 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (born 1925)
April 16 - Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (born 1880)
April 17 - Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician (born 1941)
April 19 - Octavio Paz, Mexican writer (born 1914)
April 23 - Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (born 1907)
April 23 - James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (born 1928)
April 25 - Christian Mortensen, Danish-born American supercentenarian (born 1882)
April 27 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and writer (born 1925)

May

May 1 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (born 1935)
May 2 - Hide, Japanese musician (born 1964)
May 2 - Justin Fashanu, English footballer (born 1961)
May 2 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (born 1949)
May 7 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-born physicist (born 1924)
May 14 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and entertainer (born 1915)
May 19 - Sōsuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1922)
May 22 - John Derek, American actor and movie director (born 1926)
May 28 - Phil Hartman, Canadian-born American artist, writer, actor and comedian (born 1948)
May 29 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (born 1909)

June

June 2 - Junkyard Dog, American professional wrestler (born 1952)
June 8 - Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (born 1943)
June 11 - Catherine Cookson, British writer (born 1906)
June 13 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (born 1911)
June 23 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (born 1911)

July

Alan Shepard

July 3 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (born 1949)
July 19 - Elmer Valo, Slovakian baseball player (born 1921)
July 21 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (born 1923)
July 30 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's TV host (born 1917)

August

Frederick Reines

August 1 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (born 1927)
August 3 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (born 1934)
August 4 - Yuri Artyukhin, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1930)
August 5 - Todor Zivkov, Bulgarian Communist leader (born 1911)
August 6 - André Weil, French mathematician (born 1906)
August 9 - Frankie Ruiz, Puerto-Rican singer (born 1958)
August 26 - Frederick Reines, American physicist (born 1918)

September

Akira Kurosawa

Yang Shangkun

September 2 - Allen Drury, American writer (born 1918)
September 5 - Leo Penn, American actor and director (born 1921)
September 6 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer and director (born 1910)
September 13 - George Wallace, American politician (born 1919)
September 14 - Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician (born 1907)
September 21 - Florence Griffith-Joyner, American athlete (born 1959)
September 26 - Betty Carter, American singer (born 1929)
September 29 - Tom Bradley, American politician, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (born 1917)

October

October 3 - Roddy McDowall, British actor (born 1928)
October 14 - Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (born 1915)
October 17 - Joan Hickson, British actress (born 1906)
October 28 - Ted Hughes, British poet (born 1930)

November

November 3 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (born 1915)
November 8 - Jean Marais, French actor (born 1913)
November 10 - Mary Millar, British actress (born 1917)
November 25 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (born 1906)

December

Martin Rodbell

December 2 - Brian Stonehouse, British painter and World War II secret agent (born 1918)
December 7 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist (born 1925)
December 8 - Aaron Hopa, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1971)
December 16 - William Gaddis, American writer (born 1922)
December 17 - Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (born 1959)
December 20 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist (born 1914)
December 28 - Robert Rosen, American biologist (born 1934)
December 30 - Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese movie director (born 1912)
December 30 - George Webb, British actor (born 1911)

Births

January 28 - Ariel Winter, American actress
February 24 - Erica Parsons, American murder victim (d. December 17, 2011).
February 25 – Brendon Baerg, American actor
April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress
April 12 - Diana Quer, Spanish murder victim (d. 2016)
May 3 - Ionuț Palade, Romanian singer (Trupa Muzicii Rock-The Jam Hendrix Experience)
April 24 - Ryan Newman, American actress
April 28 - Byron Ward, American Basketball Player
June 15 – Rachel Covey, American actress
July 1 - Hollie Steel, English singer
July 8 - Jaden Smith, American actor
July 24 – Bindi Irwin, Australian-American conservationist, singer & actress
August 8 - Ronan Parke, English singer
September 9 - Cristian Gabriel Dima, Romanian football player & bassist (Trupa Muzicii Rock-Fecal Matter)
September 21 – Lorenzo Brino, American actor
September 21 – Myrinda Brino, American actress
September 21 – Nikolas Brino, American actor
September 21 – Zachary Brino, American actor
October 6 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
November 23 - Bradley Steven Perry, American actor and singer
December 2 - Gabbi Garcia, Filipina actress
December 9 - Mika Dela Cruz, Filipina actress

Deaths

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Stroemer, Daniel Chee Tsui
Chemistry - Walter Kohn, John Pople
Physiology or Medicine - Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
Literature - Jose Saramago
Nobel Peace Prize - John Hume, David Trimble
Economics - Amartya Sen

Movies released

Hit songs

"Never Ever" - All Saints
"Ray of Light" – Madonna
"Cruel Summer" – Ace of Base
"Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It"- Will Smith
"The Boy Is Mine" - Brandy Norwood and Monica (entertainer)
"My Heart Will Go On" – Céline Dion
"Goodbye (song)" - Spice Girls
"Crush" – Jennifer Paige
"Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" – The Offspring
"The Dope Show"-Marilyn Manson
"Dragula" - Rob Zombie
"Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)" – Green Day
"Iris" – Goo Goo Dolls
"I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" – Aerosmith
"One Week"-Barenaked Ladies
"The Way" – Fastball
"Uninvited" – Alanis Morissette
"You're Still the One" – Shania Twain
"This Kiss" - Faith Hill
"Nothin' But The Tailights" - Clint Black

New books

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

1998 Media

Clockwise from top-left: the 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan; U.S. President Bill Clinton is impeached over the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal; a poster advocates for a "yes" vote on the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, which eventually prevails and ends most of the violence associated with The Troubles; Google is launched; protests erupt in Indonesia over the Fall of Suharto, which lead to 1,000 fatalities; the 1998 FIFA World Cup is held in France; SwissAir Flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia after an in-flight fire; the U.S.