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1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
* January 1 – Sara Ahmed (weightlifter), Sara Ahmed, Egyptian weightlifter
* January 2 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
* January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
* January 4 – Liza Soberano, Filipino actress and singer
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* March 3 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player
* March 18 – Zane Waddell, South African swimmer
* March 18 – Abigail Cowen, American actress and model
* March 22 – Paola Andino, Puerto-Rican-American actress
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* April 3 – Paris Jackson, American actress and model
* April 6 – Peyton List (actress, born 1998), Peyton List, American actress and model
* April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress and model
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* May 2 – Jonathan Ikoné, French footballer
* May 5
** Tijana Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
** Olli Juolevi, Finnish ice hockey player
** Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
* May 7
** MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), American YouTuber
** Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
* May 12 – Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player
* May 18 – Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
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* July 7 – Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
* July 8
** Maya Hawke, American actress and model
** Jaden Smith, American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor
** Daria Spiridonova, Russian artistic gymnast
* July 9 – Robert Capron, American actor
* July 10
** Kimia Alizadeh, Iranian taekwondo athlete
** Haley Pullos, American actress
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* August 3 – Cozi Zuehlsdorff, American actress, pianist, and singer
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* November 1 – Marie-Antoinette Katoto, French footballer
* November 2 – Elkie Chong, Elkie, South Korean based singer and actress
* November 3 – Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic swimmer
* November 4 – Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer
* November 5 – Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballer
* November 12 – Elias Pettersson, Swedish ice hockey player
* November 14 – Sofia Kenin, American tennis player
* November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
* November 29 – Ayumu Hirano, Japanese snowboarder
* December 2 – Juice Wrld, American rapper and singer (d. 2019)
* December 4 – Si Yajie, Chinese diver
* December 5 – Conan Gray, American singer
* December 6 – Joe Fraser (gymnast), Joe Fraser, British artistic gymnast
* December 8 – Matthew Wilson (swimmer), Matthew Wilson, Australian swimmer
* December 13 – Make Joke Of, Indian Youtuber
* December 14 – Maggie Voisin, American freestyle skier
* December 16 – Zhou Jieqiong, Chinese singer
* December 17 – Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
* December 18 – Simona Quadarella, Italian swimmer
* December 19 – Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer
* December 20 – Kylian Mbappé, French football player
* December 22
** G Hannelius, American actress and singer
** Casper Ruud, Norwegian tennis player
** Latto, American rapper
* December 24 – Nikita Howarth, New Zealand paralympic swimmer
* December 28 – Jared Gilman, American actor
* December 29
** Paris Berelc, American actress and model
** Victor Osimhen, Nigerian footballer
* December 30 – Jutta Leerdam, Dutch speed skater
* January 1
** Åke Seyffarth, Swedish speed skater (b. 1919)
** Helen Wills, American tennis player (b. 1905)
* January 4
** Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italian film director (b. 1894)
** Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
* January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
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* February 2
** Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
** Raymond Cattell, British and American psychologist (b. 1905)
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* March 1 – Jean Marie Balland, French cardinal (b. 1934)
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* April 1
** Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1920)
** Rozz Williams, American singer (b. 1963)
* April 3
** Charles Lang, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
** Rob Pilatus, German singer and dancer (b. 1965)
** Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
* April 5 – Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (b. 1947)
* April 6
** Rudy Dhaenens, Belgian road bicycle racer (b. 1961)
** Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
** Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
* April 11 – Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (b. 1967)
* April 13 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (b. 1960)
* April 15 – Pol Pot, 30th Prime Minister of Cambodia, Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea and Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
* April 16
** Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
** Fred Davis (snooker player), Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
** Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)
* April 17 – Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician (b. 1941)
* April 18 – Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
* April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer (b. 1914)
* April 21 – Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist (b. 1924)
* April 23
** Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
** James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
* April 25 – Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian (b. 1882)
* April 27
** Carlos Castaneda, American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
** Anne Desclos, French writer (b. 1907)
* April 30 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher (b. 1923)
* May 1 – Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist and writer (b. 1935)
* May 2
** Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961)
** hide (musician), Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
** Maidie Norman, American actress (b. 1912)
* May 3
** Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
** Gojko Šušak, Croatian politician (b. 1945)
* May 5 – Frithjof Schuon, Swiss author, poet and painter (b. 1907)
* May 6
** Chatichai Choonhavan, 17th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1920)
** Erich Mende, German politician (b. 1916)
* May 7
** Allan McLeod Cormack, South African–born physicist (b. 1924)
** Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
* May 8 – Johannes Kotkas, Estonian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler (b. 1915)
* May 9 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (b. 1915)
* May 10 – Clara Rockmore, American musician (b. 1911)
* May 14
** Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)
** Frank Sinatra, American actor and singer (b. 1915)
* May 15
** Naim Talu, 15th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1919)
** Gunter d'Alquen, Gunter D’Alquen, German journalist, propagandist, and SS unit commander (b. 1910)
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* June 2 – Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler (b. 1952)
* June 5 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
* June 8 – Sani Abacha, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
* June 9
** Agostino Casaroli, 53rd Cardinal Secretary of State, Secretary of State of the Holy See (b. 1914)
** Lois Mailou Jones, American artist (b. 1905)
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* July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
* July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
* July 8 – Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (b. 1905)
* July 14 – Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, South Vietnamese general (b. 1930)
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* August 1 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
* August 2
** Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football manager (b. 1914)
** Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (b. 1933)
* August 3
** Reizo Koike, Japanese swimmer (b. 1915)
** Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (b. 1934)
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* September 2
** Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)
** Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918)
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* October 2
** Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907)
** Olin J. Eggen, American astronomer (b. 1919)
** Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
* October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British-born American actor (b. 1928)
* October 6 – Rolan Bykov, Soviet and Russian actor, director and producer (b. 1929)
* October 9 – Ian Johnson (cricketer), Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (b. 1917)
* October 10 – Clark Clifford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1906)
* October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
* October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
* October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
* October 17 – Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
* October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909)
* October 24 – Pino Dordoni, Italian athlete (b. 1926)
* October 26 – Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician (b. 1917)
* October 27 – Reidar Kvammen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1914)
* October 28
** Tommy Flowers, English engineer (b. 1905)
** James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927)
* October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
* October 30 – Apo Lazaridès, French cyclist (b. 1925)
* November 3 – Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915)
* November 5 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (b. 1932)
* November 6
** Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, 5th President of the Comoros (b. 1936)
** Niklas Luhmann, German sociologist (b. 1927)
* November 8 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
* November 10
** Jean Leray, French mathematician (b. 1906)
** Mary Millar, British actress and singer (b. 1936)
* November 13
** Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907)
** Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917)
** Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
** Hendrik Timmer, Dutch sportsman (b. 1904)
* November 15
** Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
** Jean Dalrymple, American theatre producer, manager, publicist, and playwright (b. 1902)
** Ludvík Daněk, Czechoslovak discus thrower (b. 1937)
* November 17
** Efim Geller, Soviet chess player and grandmaster (b. 1925)
** Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
* November 19
** Louis Dumont, French anthropologist (b. 1911)
** Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
* November 20
** Roland Alphonso, Jamaican musician (b. 1931)
** Galina Starovoytova, Soviet dissident (b. 1946)
* November 22 – Stu Ungar, American professional poker player (b. 1953)
* November 25 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
* December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer (b. 1902)
* December 2 – Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905)
* December 6 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921)
* December 7 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
* December 8 – Michael Craze, British actor (b 1942)
* December 9 – Archie Moore, American professional boxer (b. 1916)
* December 12 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (b. 1930)
* December 14 – Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
* December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
* December 18 – Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1926)
* December 20
** Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
** Alan Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1914)
* December 23
** David Manners, Canadian-American actor (b. 1900)
** Michelle Thomas, American actress and comedian (b. 1968)
* December 25
** Richard Paul (actor), Richard Paul, American actor (b. 1940)
** John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923)
* December 29 – Don Taylor (American actor and director), Don Taylor, American actor and film director (b. 1920)
* December 30 – Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
1998 Year in Review
- CNN/Sports Illustrated {{DEFAULTSORT:1998 1998,
Events
January
*January 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...
– The ''Lunar Prospector
''Lunar Prospector'' was the third mission selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program. At a cost of $62.8 million, the 19-month mission was designed for a low polar orbit investigation of the Moon ...
'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
* January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muha ...
– Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre
The Sidi-Hamed massacre took place on the night of January 11, 1998 (the last day of Ramadan), in the town of Sidi-Hamed (or Sidi-Hammad), 30 km south of Algiers. An estimated fifty gunmen participated, attacking children and adults; they ...
in Algeria
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* January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
* 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...
– Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy (or clone) of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue. It does not refer to the natural concept ...
.
* January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
– The '' Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again ...
's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
February
*February 3
Events Pre-1600
*1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
* 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
* 1488 – ...
– Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento
Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th centu ...
, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler
The Northrop Grumman (formerly Grumman) EA-6B Prowler is a twin-engine, four-seat, mid-wing electronic-warfare aircraft derived from the A-6 Intruder airframe. The EA-6A was the initial electronic warfare version of the A-6 used by the United ...
severs the cable of a cable-car.
* February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling ...
– The 5.9 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
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
*1301 &nda ...
– 22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in th ...
are held in Nagano, Japan
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.
* February 20
Events Pre-1600
*1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
* 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotlan ...
– Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...
negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founde ...
, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
, preventing military action by the United States and Britain.
* February 28
Events Pre-1600
* 202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
* 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is execut ...
** A massacre
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...
in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
starts the Kosovo War
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...
.
**A study
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General
* Education
** Higher education
* Clinical trial
* Experiment
* Observational study
* Research
* Study skills, abilities and approaches applied to learning
Other
* Study (art), a drawing or series of ...
led by Andrew Wakefield
Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born September 3, 1956) is a British anti-vaccine activist, former physician, and discredited academic who was struck off the medical register for his involvement in ''The Lancet'' MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that ...
is published in ''The Lancet
''The Lancet'' is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind. It is also the world's highest-impact academic journal. It was founded in England in 1823.
The journal publishes original research articles ...
'' suggesting an alleged link between MMR vaccine
The MMR vaccine is a vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles), abbreviated as ''MMR''. The first dose is generally given to children around 9 months to 15 months of age, with a second dose at 15 months to 6 years of age, ...
and autism
The autism spectrum, often referred to as just autism or in the context of a professional diagnosis autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental condition (or conditions) characterized by difficulti ...
. Now known to be full of data manipulation, the study was instantly controversial and fueled the nascent anti-vaccination movement. Although subsequent large epidemiological
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.
It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evid ...
research found no link between vaccines and autism, the study contributed – in the following years and decades – to a sharp drop in vaccination rates and the resurgence of measles in several countries. The study, fully retracted in 2010, was later characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the 20th Century".
March
*March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
– Data sent from the Galileo probe
''Galileo'' was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe. It was ...
indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa
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Places
* Europe
* Europa (Roman province), a province within the Diocese of Thrace
* Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro
* Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development
* Europa Cliff ...
has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
* March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
* 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
– NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
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
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ven ...
– 1998 Danish general election: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen (, informally Poul Nyrup, born 15 June 1943) is a retired Danish politician. Rasmussen was Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) from ...
is re-elected.
* March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
*1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
– The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
* March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
– The 70th Academy Awards
The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the sh ...
ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal
William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948)On page 17 of his book ''700 Sundays'', Crystal displays his birth announcement, which gives his first two names as "William Edward", not "William Jacob" is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. ...
, is held at the Shrine Auditorium
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in Los Angeles, California. ''Titanic
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'' wins 11 Oscars including Best Picture
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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.
* March 26
Events Pre-1600
* 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
*1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, ...
– Oued Bouaicha massacre
The Oued Bouaïcha massacre took place about 150 miles (240 km) south of Algiers, near Djelfa, on March 26, 1998, during the Algerian Civil War. Forty-seven people, including 27 children under the age of sixteen, were killed at Oued Boua ...
in Algeria
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: 52 people are killed with axes and knives; 32 of the killed are babies under the age of two.
April
* April 5 – In Japan, theAkashi Kaikyō Bridge
The is a suspension bridge which links the city of Kobe on the Japanese island of Honshu to Iwaya on Awaji Island. It is part of the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway, and crosses the busy and turbulent Akashi Strait (''Akashi Kaikyō'' in Japanese ...
linking Shikoku
is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is long and between wide. It has a population of 3.8 million (, 3.1%). It is south of Honshu and northeast of Kyushu. Shikoku's ancient names include ''Iyo-no-futana-shima'' (), '' ...
with Honshū and costing about US$3.6 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
* April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 140 ...
– Good Friday Agreement
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA), or Belfast Agreement ( ga, Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or ; Ulster-Scots: or ), is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April 1998 that ended most of the violence of The Troubles, a political conflict in No ...
: 1 hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA), or Belfast Agreement ( ga, Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or ; Ulster-Scots: or ), is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April 1998 that ended most of the violence of The Troubles, a political conflict in No ...
is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.
* April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
* 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
* 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
– The alleged date the German Red Army Faction
The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970.
The ...
(created 1970) is dissolved.
* April 23 – The Yugoslav Army
The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska ar ...
ambushes
An ambush is a long-established military tactic in which a combatant uses an advantage of concealment or the element of surprise to attack unsuspecting enemy combatants from concealed positions, such as among dense underbrush or behind mount ...
a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 19.
May
*May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
** India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran
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, including one thermonuclear
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device.
** The first euro
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coins are minted in Pessac
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, 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
Events Pre-1600
*1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book '' Revelations of Divine Love''.
* 1501 – Amerigo Vespu ...
– 14 – Riots directed against Chinese Indonesians break out in Indonesia, killing around 1,000 people.
* May 19
Events
Pre-1600
* 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
* 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
*1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev.
*1445 &nda ...
** The Galaxy IV
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communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the US's pagers without service.
** The wreck of the aircraft carrier , sunk during the Battle of Midway
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in 1942, is found near Midway Atoll by a team led by former US Navy officer Robert D. Ballard.
* May 21
Events Pre-1600
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
* 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabi ...
– Suharto
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(elected 1967) resigns after 31 years as President of Indonesia
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, effectively ending the New Order period. It is his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie
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, becomes Indonesia's third president.
* May 28
Events Pre-1600
*585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...
– 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
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'', prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanction
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s. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir
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annually.
* May 30
** A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan
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, killing up to 5,000.
** A second nuclear test, codenamed ''Chagai-II
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'', is conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
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(PAEC).
June
*June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
– European Central Bank
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established, replacing the European Monetary Institute
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History
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.
* June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, depos ...
– Eschede train disaster
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: an Intercity-Express
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high-speed train
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derails between Hanover
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and Hamburg
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, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
* June 7
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
* 879 – Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.
* 1002 – Henr ...
– Former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané
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seizes control over military barracks in Bissau, marking the beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War
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(1998–99).
* June 10
Events Pre-1600
* 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock ( clepsydra) called ''Rokoku''. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
*1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I ...
–July 12
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.
* 927 – King Constantine II o ...
– The 1998 FIFA World Cup
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in France: France
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beats Brazil
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3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.
* June 10
Events Pre-1600
* 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock ( clepsydra) called ''Rokoku''. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
*1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I ...
– The Organisation of African Unity
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passes a resolution which states that its members will no longer comply with punitive sanctions applied by the UN Security Council
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against Libya
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.
* June 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
*1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
* 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coa ...
– Kuala Lumpur International Airport
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KLIA is the largest and b ...
officially opens, becoming the new international gateway into Malaysia.
* June 30
Events Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
*1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
– Philippine
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Vice President Joseph Estrada
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is sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.
July
*July 5
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius.
* 1316 – The Burgundian a ...
– Japan launches a probe to Mars
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, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space
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-exploring nation.
* July 17
Events Pre-1600
* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
* 1048 – Damas ...
** At a conference in Rome
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, 120 countries vote to create a permanent International Criminal Court
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to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression
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.
** In Saint Petersburg
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, Nicholas II of Russia
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and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks
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in 1918.
** The 7.0 Papua New Guinea earthquake shakes the region near Aitape with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''). This submarine earthquake
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triggered a landslide that caused a destructive tsunami, leaving more than 2,100 dead and thousands injured.
* July 21
Events Pre-1600
* 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
* 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. After being exiled to Sardinia, he became t ...
– September 5
Events Pre-1600
* 917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
*1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
*1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry ...
– The 1998 Sydney water crisis
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Following routine wa ...
involved the suspected contamination by the microscopic pathogens ''cryptosporidium
''Cryptosporidium'', sometimes informally called crypto, is a genus of apicomplexan parasitic alveolates that can cause a respiratory and gastrointestinal illness (cryptosporidiosis) that primarily involves watery diarrhea (intestinal cryptosp ...
'' and '' giardia'' of the water supply system of Greater Metropolitan Sydney.
*July 24
Events Pre-1600
*1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
* 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
*1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirl ...
– Russell Eugene Weston Jr. enters the United States Capitol Building
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and opens fire, killing two members of the United States Capitol Police
The United States Capitol Police (USCP) is a federal law enforcement agency in the United States with nationwide jurisdiction charged with protecting the United States Congress within the District of Columbia and throughout the United States an ...
, Jacob Chestnut
The 1998 United States Capitol shooting was an attack on July 24, 1998, which led to the deaths of two United States Capitol Police officers. Officer Jacob Chestnut and Detective John Gibson were killed when Russell Eugene Weston Jr. entered t ...
and John Gibson.
August
*August 4
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during th ...
– 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
Events Pre-1600
* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the ''magister militum'' Ricimer.
* 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Co ...
** Yangtze River Floods
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: in China the Yangtze
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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
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, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia
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.
* August 15 – The Omagh bombing is carried out in Northern Ireland
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by the Real Irish Republican Army. Shortly after these events, the group would call a ceasefire in response, signaling an end to the 30+ year conflict known as the Troubles.
* August 26 – Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama wins the Libertadores Cup after a 2–1 win against Barcelona S.C.
September
* September 2 ** 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. *September 5
Events Pre-1600
* 917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
*1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
*1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry ...
– The Politics of North Korea, Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary.
* September 8 – 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 Russian submarine Vepr (K-157)#1998 incident, shooting occurs aboard an Akula-class submarine, ''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 Federal government of the United States, United States Government but against the Cuban exile community in Miami.
*September 24 – President of Iran, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami retracts a fatwa against ''The Satanic Verses, 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".
* September 29 – Nipah virus epidemic begins in Malaysia.
October
* October 1 – Europol is established when the Europol Convention signed by all of its member states comes into force. * October 3 – 1998 Australian federal election: John Howard's Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, National Coalition (Australia), Coalition Howard Government, Government is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority, defeating the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by Kim Beazley. * October 6 – Matthew Shepard, a Homosexuality, gay University of Wyoming student, is hate crime, beaten and left for dead outside of Laramie, Wyoming. The subsequent media coverage, followed by his death on October 12, opens a larger conversation on homophobia in the United States of America, United States. * October 10 – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, is indicted legacy of Augusto Pinochet, 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. ** STS-95: Former astronaut John Glenn returns to space, as a payload specialist. ** Gothenburg discothèque fire: 63 are killed and 213 injured in an arson fire.November
* November 11 – Tencent, a multinational technology company, is founded in Shenzhen, China. * November 17 – ''Voyager 1'' overtakes ''Pioneer 10'' as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of . * November 20 – A Russian Proton (rocket family), 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 for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002, Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Department of Justice immediately launch an investigation into the 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal, scandal.December
* December 4 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour, Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' launches the first American component to the International Space Station, the Unity (ISS module), Unity module on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later. * December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of the Venezuelan military, is 1998 Venezuelan presidential election, elected President of Venezuela. * December 14 – TheYugoslav Army
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December 14, 1998 Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush, ambushes a column of 140 Kosovo Liberation Army militants attempting to smuggle arms from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
* December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton
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orders airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq.
* December 19 – The U.S. House of Representatives forwards Impeachment of Bill Clinton, articles of impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making him the second President of the United States, president to be impeached in the nation's history.
* December 29 – Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the post-Vietnam War genocide in Cambodia that killed more than one million people in the 1970s.
* December 31
** The first leap second since June 30, 1997, occurs.
** In the Eurozone, the currency rates of this day are fixed permanently.
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* European Small Business Alliance organization is formed. * Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsô language, Mlahsô, dies in Qamishli, Syria, making the language effectively extinct. Also, the last native speaker of related Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Bijil Neo-Aramaic, Mrs. Rahel Avraham, dies in Jerusalem. * The Neelwafurat.com company is founded in Beirut, Lebanon.Births
January
* January 1 – Sara Ahmed (weightlifter), Sara Ahmed, Egyptian weightlifter
* January 2 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
* January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
* January 4 – Liza Soberano, Filipino actress and singer
* January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muha ...
– Louisa Johnson, English singer
* January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
* 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...
– Juan Foyth, Argentine footballer
* January 13 – Gabrielle Daleman, Canadian figure skater
* January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
– Anthony Zambrano, Colombian sprinter
* January 18
** Vashti Cunningham, American track and field athlete
** Lisandro Martínez, Argentinian footballer
* January 20 – Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player
* January 23 – XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
* January 28 – Ariel Winter, American actress and voice actress
* January 31 – Amadou Haidara, Malian footballer
February
* February 3
Events Pre-1600
*1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
* 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
* 1488 – ...
– Yang Hao (diver), Yang Hao, Chinese diver
* February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling ...
– Scott Jones (athlete), Scott Jones, English paralympic athlete
* February 8 – Rui Hachimura, Japanese basketball player
* February 11 – Khalid (singer), Khalid, American singer and songwriter
* February 14 – Sander Berge, Norwegian footballer
* February 15 – Zachary Gordon, American actor
* February 24 – Mariel Pamintuan, Filipino actress
* February 27 – Elisa Balsamo (cyclist), Elisa Balsamo, Italian cyclist
March
* March 3 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player
* March 18 – Zane Waddell, South African swimmer
* March 18 – Abigail Cowen, American actress and model
* March 22 – Paola Andino, Puerto-Rican-American actress
* March 26
Events Pre-1600
* 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
*1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, ...
** Daria Grushina, Russian ski jumper
** Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater
* March 30 – Kalyn Ponga, Australian rugby league footballer
* March 31 – Anna Seidel (speed skater), Anna Seidel, German short track speed skater
April
* April 3 – Paris Jackson, American actress and model
* April 6 – Peyton List (actress, born 1998), Peyton List, American actress and model
* April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress and model
* April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 140 ...
** Anna Pogorilaya, Russian figure skater
** Fedor Chalov, Russian footballer
* April 15 – Dorsa Derakhshani, Iranian chess player
* April 19 – Patrik Laine, Finnish ice hockey player
* April 26 – Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Polish chess grandmaster
May
* May 2 – Jonathan Ikoné, French footballer
* May 5
** Tijana Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
** Olli Juolevi, Finnish ice hockey player
** Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
* May 7
** MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), American YouTuber
** Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
* May 12 – Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player
* May 18 – Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
* May 19
Events
Pre-1600
* 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
* 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
*1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev.
*1445 &nda ...
– Alex Král, Czech footballer
* May 23 – Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
* May 28
Events Pre-1600
*585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...
– Dahyun, South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer
* May 29
** Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
** Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress
June
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
– Aleksandra Soldatova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
* June 5
** Yulia Lipnitskaya, former Russian figure skater
** Maxim Burov, Russian freestyle skier
* June 11 – Charlie Tahan, American actor
* June 15 – Alexander Samarin, Russian figure skater
* June 16
** Ritsu Doan, Japanese footballer
** Lauren Taylor (actress), Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer
* June 19
** Suzu Hirose, Japanese actress and model
** Atticus Shaffer, American actor
* June 23 – Josip Brekalo, Croatian footballer
* June 24 – Pierre-Luc Dubois, Canadian ice hockey player
* June 25 – Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer
* June 29 – Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
July
* July 7 – Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
* July 8
** Maya Hawke, American actress and model
** Jaden Smith, American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor
** Daria Spiridonova, Russian artistic gymnast
* July 9 – Robert Capron, American actor
* July 10
** Kimia Alizadeh, Iranian taekwondo athlete
** Haley Pullos, American actress
* July 12
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.
* 927 – King Constantine II o ...
– Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Canadian basketball player
* July 16 – Rina Matsuno, Japanese singer, model, and actress (d. 2017)
* July 18 – Devin Bush Jr., American football player
* July 21
Events Pre-1600
* 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
* 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. After being exiled to Sardinia, he became t ...
– Kim Magnus, South Korean Olympic cross-country skier
* July 22
** Madison Pettis, American actress and model
** Federico Valverde, Uruguayan footballer
* July 23 – Deandre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player
* July 24
Events Pre-1600
*1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
* 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
*1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirl ...
** Bindi Irwin, Australian television personality and conservationist
** Cailee Spaeny, American actress and singer
* July 28 – Frank Ntilikina, French basketball player
* July 31 – Rico Rodriguez (actor), Rico Rodriguez, American actor
August
* August 3 – Cozi Zuehlsdorff, American actress, pianist, and singer
* August 4
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during th ...
– Lil Skies, American rapper
* August 5
** Mimi Keene, English actress
** Daniil Pakhomov, Russian swimmer
* August 7
Events Pre-1600
* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the ''magister militum'' Ricimer.
* 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Co ...
– Jalen Hurts, American football player
* August 8 – Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter
* August 9
** Jorrit Croon, Dutch hockey player
** Panagiotis Retsos, Greek footballer
* August 10
** Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess grandmaster
** Eythóra Thorsdóttir, Dutch gymnast
* August 11 – Juan Miguel Echevarría, Cuban long jumper
* August 12
** Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
** Rudy Pankow, American actor
** Nguyễn Thúc Thùy Tiên, Vietnamese beauty queen and model, Miss Grand International 2021
* August 13
** Arina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
** Dina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
* August 18 – Tenshin Nasukawa, Japanese kickboxer and mixed martial artist
* August 20 – Paulo André de Oliveira, Brazilian sprinter
* August 25
** Abraham Mateo, Spanish singer and actor
** China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
* August 27 – Kevin Huerter, American basketball player
* August 28 – Weston McKennie, American footballer
September
* September 5
Events Pre-1600
* 917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
*1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
*1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry ...
– Matteo Rizzo, Italian figure skater
* September 10 – Sheck Wes, American rapper
* September 17 – Richard Wang (chess player), Richard Wang, Canadian chess champion
* September 18
**Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
**Ethan Hayter, English multi-discipline cyclist
* September 19 – Trae Young, American basketball player
* September 20 – Rashid Khan (cricketer), Rashid Khan, Afghan cricket player
* September 21 – Miguel Tanfelix, Filipino actor
* September 28
** Máscara de Bronce, Mexican wrestler
** Aleksandra Goryachkina, Russian chess Grandmaster
October
* October 10 ** Nash Aguas, Filipino actor ** Fabio Di Giannantonio, Italian motorcycle racer * October 22 ** Ianis Hagi, Romanian footballer ** Roddy Ricch, American rapper * October 23 – Amandla Stenberg, American actress and singer * October 28 ** Nolan Gould, American actor ** Perrine Laffont, French mogul skier * October 29 ** Maria Kharenkova, Russian artistic gymnast ** Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driverNovember
* November 1 – Marie-Antoinette Katoto, French footballer
* November 2 – Elkie Chong, Elkie, South Korean based singer and actress
* November 3 – Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic swimmer
* November 4 – Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer
* November 5 – Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballer
* November 12 – Elias Pettersson, Swedish ice hockey player
* November 14 – Sofia Kenin, American tennis player
* November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
* November 29 – Ayumu Hirano, Japanese snowboarder
December
* December 2 – Juice Wrld, American rapper and singer (d. 2019)
* December 4 – Si Yajie, Chinese diver
* December 5 – Conan Gray, American singer
* December 6 – Joe Fraser (gymnast), Joe Fraser, British artistic gymnast
* December 8 – Matthew Wilson (swimmer), Matthew Wilson, Australian swimmer
* December 13 – Make Joke Of, Indian Youtuber
* December 14 – Maggie Voisin, American freestyle skier
* December 16 – Zhou Jieqiong, Chinese singer
* December 17 – Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
* December 18 – Simona Quadarella, Italian swimmer
* December 19 – Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer
* December 20 – Kylian Mbappé, French football player
* December 22
** G Hannelius, American actress and singer
** Casper Ruud, Norwegian tennis player
** Latto, American rapper
* December 24 – Nikita Howarth, New Zealand paralympic swimmer
* December 28 – Jared Gilman, American actor
* December 29
** Paris Berelc, American actress and model
** Victor Osimhen, Nigerian footballer
* December 30 – Jutta Leerdam, Dutch speed skater
Deaths
January
* January 1
** Åke Seyffarth, Swedish speed skater (b. 1919)
** Helen Wills, American tennis player (b. 1905)
* January 4
** Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italian film director (b. 1894)
** Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
* January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
* January 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...
– Georgy Sviridov, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1915)
* January 7 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b. 1906)
* January 8 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
* January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1918)
* January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muha ...
– Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
* January 15
** Duncan McNaughton, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
** Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist (b. 1898)
** Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934)
* January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
* January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
* January 23
** Hilla Limann, President of Ghana (b. 1934)
** Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (b. 1958)
* January 26 – Shinichi Suzuki (violinist), Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese musician and educator (b. 1898)
* January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist (b. 1938)
February
* February 2
** Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
** Raymond Cattell, British and American psychologist (b. 1905)
* February 3
Events Pre-1600
*1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
* 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
* 1488 – ...
– Karla Faye Tucker, American convicted murderer (b. 1959)
* February 6
** Falco (musician), Falco, Austrian rock musician (b. 1957)
** Carl Wilson, American musician, singer, and songwriter (b. 1946)
** Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (b. 1906)
* February 8
** 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 17 – Ernst Jünger, German military hero, philosopher and entomologist (b. 1895)
* February 23 – Philip Abbott, American actor (b. 1924)
* February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
* February 26 – Theodore Schultz, American economist (b. 1902)
* February 27
** George H. Hitchings, American scientist (b. 1905)
** J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
* February 28
Events Pre-1600
* 202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
* 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is execut ...
– Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
March
* March 1 – Jean Marie Balland, French cardinal (b. 1934)
* March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
* 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
– Donald Woods (actor), Donald Woods, Canadian-American actor (b. 1906)
* March 7
** Josep Escolà, Spanish footballer (b. 1914)
** Adem Jashari, Kosovo-Albanian militant separatist (b. 1955)
* March 10 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
* March 12
** Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
** Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
* March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
*1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
** Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
** 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 25 – Daniel Massey (actor), 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
* April 1
** Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1920)
** Rozz Williams, American singer (b. 1963)
* April 3
** Charles Lang, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
** Rob Pilatus, German singer and dancer (b. 1965)
** Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
* April 5 – Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (b. 1947)
* April 6
** Rudy Dhaenens, Belgian road bicycle racer (b. 1961)
** Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
** Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
* April 11 – Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (b. 1967)
* April 13 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (b. 1960)
* April 15 – Pol Pot, 30th Prime Minister of Cambodia, Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea and Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
* April 16
** Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
** Fred Davis (snooker player), Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
** Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)
* April 17 – Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician (b. 1941)
* April 18 – Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
* April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer (b. 1914)
* April 21 – Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist (b. 1924)
* April 23
** Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
** James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
* April 25 – Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian (b. 1882)
* April 27
** Carlos Castaneda, American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
** Anne Desclos, French writer (b. 1907)
* April 30 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher (b. 1923)
May
* May 1 – Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist and writer (b. 1935)
* May 2
** Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961)
** hide (musician), Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
** Maidie Norman, American actress (b. 1912)
* May 3
** Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
** Gojko Šušak, Croatian politician (b. 1945)
* May 5 – Frithjof Schuon, Swiss author, poet and painter (b. 1907)
* May 6
** Chatichai Choonhavan, 17th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1920)
** Erich Mende, German politician (b. 1916)
* May 7
** Allan McLeod Cormack, South African–born physicist (b. 1924)
** Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
* May 8 – Johannes Kotkas, Estonian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler (b. 1915)
* May 9 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (b. 1915)
* May 10 – Clara Rockmore, American musician (b. 1911)
* May 14
** Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)
** Frank Sinatra, American actor and singer (b. 1915)
* May 15
** Naim Talu, 15th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1919)
** Gunter d'Alquen, Gunter D’Alquen, German journalist, propagandist, and SS unit commander (b. 1910)
* May 19
Events
Pre-1600
* 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
* 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
*1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev.
*1445 &nda ...
– Sōsuke Uno, 47th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
* May 21
Events Pre-1600
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
* 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabi ...
– Douglas Fowley, American actor (b. 1911)
* May 22 – John Derek, American actor and film director (b. 1926)
* May 28
Events Pre-1600
*585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...
– Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1948)
* May 29
** Orlando Anderson, American criminal and gangster (b. 1974)
** Barry Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)
June
* June 2 – Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler (b. 1952)
* June 5 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
* June 8 – Sani Abacha, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
* June 9
** Agostino Casaroli, 53rd Cardinal Secretary of State, Secretary of State of the Holy See (b. 1914)
** Lois Mailou Jones, American artist (b. 1905)
* June 10
Events Pre-1600
* 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock ( clepsydra) called ''Rokoku''. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
*1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I ...
– Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
* June 11 – Catherine Cookson, Dame Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
* June 13 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
* June 20 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
* June 23 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (b. 1911)
* June 25 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber singer (b. 1956)
July
* July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
* July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
* July 8 – Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (b. 1905)
* July 14 – Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, South Vietnamese general (b. 1930)
* July 17
Events Pre-1600
* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
* 1048 – Damas ...
– Joseph Maher, Irish-born American actor (b. 1933)
* July 21
Events Pre-1600
* 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
* 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. After being exiled to Sardinia, he became t ...
** Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
** Robert Young (actor), Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
* July 22 – Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
* July 27 – Binnie Barnes, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
* July 30 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's television host (b. 1917)
August
* August 1 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
* August 2
** Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football manager (b. 1914)
** Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (b. 1933)
* August 3
** Reizo Koike, Japanese swimmer (b. 1915)
** Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (b. 1934)
* August 4
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during th ...
– Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
* August 5
** Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)
** Todor Zhivkov, 6th President of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
* August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
* August 8 – László Szabó (chess player), László Szabó, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1917)
* August 9 – Frankie Ruiz, American salsa singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
* August 13
** Nino Ferrer, French singer (b. 1934)
** Julien Green, French-born American writer (b. 1900)
* August 17
** Władysław Komar, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1940)
** Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
** Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1950)
* August 18 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (b. 1948)
* August 19 – Vasily Arkhipov (vice admiral), Vasily Arkhipov, Soviet Navy officer (b. 1926)
* August 20 – Vũ Văn Mẫu, 9th and final Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (b. 1914)
* August 24 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1914)
* August 25 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1907)
* August 26
** Wade Dominguez, American actor, model, singer, and dancer (b. 1966)
** Frederick Reines, American physicist (b. 1918)
September
* September 2
** Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)
** Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918)
* September 5
Events Pre-1600
* 917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
*1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
*1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry ...
** Willem Drees Jr., Dutch politician (b. 1922)
** 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)
* September 14
** 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 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 athlete (b. 1959)
* September 23 – Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
* September 26 – Betty Carter, American jazz singer (b. 1929)
* September 30
** Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer (b. 1907)
** Robert Lewis Taylor, American author (b. 1912)
October
* October 2
** Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907)
** Olin J. Eggen, American astronomer (b. 1919)
** Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
* October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British-born American actor (b. 1928)
* October 6 – Rolan Bykov, Soviet and Russian actor, director and producer (b. 1929)
* October 9 – Ian Johnson (cricketer), Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (b. 1917)
* October 10 – Clark Clifford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1906)
* October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
* October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
* October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
* October 17 – Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
* October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909)
* October 24 – Pino Dordoni, Italian athlete (b. 1926)
* October 26 – Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician (b. 1917)
* October 27 – Reidar Kvammen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1914)
* October 28
** Tommy Flowers, English engineer (b. 1905)
** James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927)
* October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
* October 30 – Apo Lazaridès, French cyclist (b. 1925)
November
* November 3 – Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915)
* November 5 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (b. 1932)
* November 6
** Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, 5th President of the Comoros (b. 1936)
** Niklas Luhmann, German sociologist (b. 1927)
* November 8 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
* November 10
** Jean Leray, French mathematician (b. 1906)
** Mary Millar, British actress and singer (b. 1936)
* November 13
** Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907)
** Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917)
** Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
** Hendrik Timmer, Dutch sportsman (b. 1904)
* November 15
** Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
** Jean Dalrymple, American theatre producer, manager, publicist, and playwright (b. 1902)
** Ludvík Daněk, Czechoslovak discus thrower (b. 1937)
* November 17
** Efim Geller, Soviet chess player and grandmaster (b. 1925)
** Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
* November 19
** Louis Dumont, French anthropologist (b. 1911)
** Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
* November 20
** Roland Alphonso, Jamaican musician (b. 1931)
** Galina Starovoytova, Soviet dissident (b. 1946)
* November 22 – Stu Ungar, American professional poker player (b. 1953)
* November 25 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
December
* December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer (b. 1902)
* December 2 – Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905)
* December 6 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921)
* December 7 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
* December 8 – Michael Craze, British actor (b 1942)
* December 9 – Archie Moore, American professional boxer (b. 1916)
* December 12 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (b. 1930)
* December 14 – Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
* December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
* December 18 – Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1926)
* December 20
** Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
** Alan Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1914)
* December 23
** David Manners, Canadian-American actor (b. 1900)
** Michelle Thomas, American actress and comedian (b. 1968)
* December 25
** Richard Paul (actor), Richard Paul, American actor (b. 1940)
** John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923)
* December 29 – Don Taylor (American actor and director), Don Taylor, American actor and film director (b. 1920)
* December 30 – Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Walter Kohn, John Pople * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – José Saramago * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – John Hume and David Trimble * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya SenFields Medal
*Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis T. McMullenReferences
External links
1998 Year in Review
- CNN/Sports Illustrated {{DEFAULTSORT:1998 1998,