* 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 )

Alan Parsons Live Project, June 1998 ( distinct from The Alan Parsons Project live ).

* 1928 – Alan J. Pakula, American director and producer ( d. 1998 )

This process can increase the overall riskiness of institutions under a risk insensitive regulatory regime, as described by Alan Greenspan in his October 1998 speech on The Role of Capital in Optimal Banking Supervision and Regulation.

Elfenland is a German-style board game designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Amigo Spiele in German and Rio Grande Games in English in 1998.

* Govenar, Alan B .; Jay F. Brakefield ( 1998 ).

* 1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1998 )

* Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr., USN ( 1923 – 1998 ); first American in space, May 1961

* 1923 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut ( d. 1998 )

* Sokal, Alan and Jean Bricmont ( 1998 ) Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals ' Abuse of Science ( ISBN 0-312-20407-8 )

the Virgin Interactive Entertainment Mythos game Magic and Mayhem ( 1998 ) featured creatures built by stop motion specialist Alan Friswell, who made the miniature figures from modelling clay and latex rubber, over armatures of wire and ball-and-socket joints.

** Alan J. Pakula, American producer and director ( d. 1998 )

* November 18 – Alan Shepard, first American astronaut ( d. 1998 )

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. ( November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998 ) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.

* Obituary, NY Times, July 23, 1998 " Alan B. Shepard Jr. Is Dead at 74 ; First American to Travel in Space "

Three others are notable: Albert Höllerer, a pilot in World War II, appeared briefly and had his story summarized in Swamp Thing # 47 ( May 1986 ), and Aaron Hayley appeared in the Swamp Thing: Roots graphic novel ( 1998 ) set in the 1940s, and Alan Hallman, the Swamp Thing of the 1950s and 1960s, introduced in Vol.

Alan Stevens, later of Magic Bullet Productions, produced three unofficial audio cassettes between 1991 and 1998: Travis: The Final Act, The Mark of Kane and The Logic of Empire.

In 1998, the film An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn was released, in which a man named Alan Smithee ( Eric Idle ) wishes to disavow a film he has directed, but is unable to do so because the only pseudonym he is permitted to use is his own name.

* An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn ( 1998 )

* William Alan Bartley and Mark A. Cohen, Vanderbilt University, ' The Effect of Concealed Weapons Laws: An Extreme Bound Analysis ', Economic Inquiry, 1998

In 1998 a concert was given at the original site and this helped ignite the vision of philanthropist Alan Gerry and daughter Robyn to acquire the land and build what was to become Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Alan I Marcus ( born August 15, 1949 ) is the author of the history textbook Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam ( 1998 ) and other books.

Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam ( ISBN 0-15-500115-9 ) is a history book written by Alan I. Marcus in 1998.