* Guide to the Elements – Revised Edition, Albert Stwertka, ( Oxford University Press ; 1998 ) ISBN 0-19-508083-1

* 1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.

* 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $ 76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.

* 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – Lily Jackson, American actress

* 1998 – Peyton List, American actress

* 1998 – Spencer List, American actor

* 1998 – An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5. 6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.

* 1900 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1902 – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1998 )

* 1921 – Leo Penn, American director ( d. 1998 )

* 1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – Jack Scanlon, English actor

* 1908 – Gene Raymond, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1913 – Fred Davis, English snooker player ( d. 1998 )

Since the 1998 – 99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.

As a compromise, the MCC commissioned a trophy in the form of a larger replica of the urn in Waterford Crystal to award to the winning team of each series from 1998 – 99.

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – Gene Evans, American actor ( b. 1922 )

* 1998 – Rozz Williams, American musician ( Christian Death, Shadow Project, and Premature Ejaculation ) ( b. 1963 )

In 1998, he took a role in the film Blade, playing alongside Wesley Snipes as Blade's mentor Abraham Whistler.

* Abraham Mateo ( 1998 -)

* The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln ( Image Comics, 1998 ) ISBN 978-1-887279-87-1

Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era Fordham University Press, 1998 online edition

Dr. Abraham Sinkov ( 1907 – 1998 ) was a US cryptanalyst.

* Alexander's-opened in October 1971, gutted in 1990, Re-opened as Abraham & Straus in 1992, Closed 1995, re-opened as Bloomingdale's in 1998

* Abraham, R. ( 1998 ).

Abraham Alexander Ribicoff ( April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998 ) was an American Democratic Party politician.

* " Abraham Ribicoff, 87, Dies ," The Washington Post, 23 Feb 1998, p. D06.

* Abraham " Honest Abe " Hirschfeld, a New York City businessman, ran unsuccessful campaigns for the U. S. Senate in 1974 ( defeated in Democratic primary ) and 2004 ( on a minor party line ), for the New York City Council, for Manhattan Borough President in 1997, for Lieutenant Governor of New York, for New York State Comptroller in 1998, and for Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida.

There have been many biographical and research texts about him, such as the work Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus by Susannah Heschel ( 1998 ), which chronicles Geiger's radical contention that the New Testament illustrates Jesus was a Pharisee teaching Judaism.

On January 8, 1998 federal prosecutors in Operation Haunted Hall indicted Chicago attorney Michael Abraham Yashar for collecting $ 9, 223 in wages and benefits despite doing little or no work for Burke's Finance Committee in 1991 and 1992.

* John Abraham Award for Best Malayalam Cinema: Instituted by Federation of Film Societies of India-Kerala since 1998, distributed annually.

* The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, by Scott McCloud ( 1998 ).

After releasing a steady stream of increasingly popular singles, Tracy experienced a career resurgence in the late 1990s which resulted in two Top 20 US Billboard Hot Dance Music / Club Play with " Can't Take My Eyes Off of You " ( 1998 ) and " Keep The Party Jumpin '" ( 1999 ) with producers Frank Abraham and Jimmy Markee on the San Francisco based AM Records.

The team won the Vuelta again in 1998 with Abraham Olano.

Abraham is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and, in 1998 / 99, was an American Physical Society Centennial Speaker.

*" The Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go " pages 23 – 29 from The Holocaust and History The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed and the Reexamined edited by Michael Berenbaum and Abraham Peck, Indiana University Press, 1998.

* Original HQ in San Mateo, California, moved to Redwood City in 1998.

* 1998 San Mateo, California, Bill Rigney

In 1998, Dr. Chapman was Chief Scientist of Rotary Rocket of San Mateo, California.

Over the years, the GamePro offices have moved from Redwood City ( 1989 – 1991 ) to San Mateo ( 1991 – 1998 ) to San Francisco ( 1998 – 2002 ) and lastly Oakland, their current and latest location.

In 1998, then-Republican Governor Pete Wilson appointed Kopp to a judgeship in San Mateo County.

* Hovland, John H., Ph. D., P. E., A Study of the Feasibility of Stabilizing the Landslide Area Along Highway One, San Mateo County, California, by Dewatering, April, 1998