* 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 )

* 1998: Susan L. Wachowski, " Grandpa ”

The July 1998 Salzburg Festival production featured Catherine Malfitano as Jenny, Gwyneth Jones as Begbick, and Jerry Hadley as Jimmy.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

* Collins, B. and I. Mees ( 1998 ), " The Real Professor Higgins, the Life and Career of Daniel Jones ", Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998.

In January 1998, after Lewinsky had submitted an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying any physical relationship with Clinton, and attempted to persuade Tripp to lie under oath in the Jones case, Tripp gave the tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and these tapes added to his ongoing investigation into the Whitewater controversy.

* 1998: Tom Jones recorded the song several times between 1998 and 2005.

" Kimberly Jones of The Austin Chronicle noted that the two leading characters being mistreated was the biggest disappointment from The Wedding Planner, feeling that while Lopez and McConaughey have " enormous charisma " ( referencing Lopez's work on Out of Sight ( 1998 ) as an example ) the " blandness of The Wedding Planner burlap-sacks their appeal in an altogether dowdy outing for two stars who deserve much snazzier threads.

In 1998, under the company Demas, NED co-founder Cameron W. Jones ( original and current owner of the Synclavier trademark and software ) collaborated with ex-employee Brian S. George ( owner of Demas, the company that purchased all of NED's hardware and technical assets ) and original co-founding partner Sydney Alonso to develop an emulator designed to run Synclavier software for Apple Computer's Macintosh computer systems and hardware designed to share the core processing with the later generation of Apple G3 computers giving enhanced features and greater speed to the system.

* Stafford Hildred & David Gritten: " Tom Jones: A Biography " ( revised edition ' 98 ) ( Sidgwick & Jackson, 1998 an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Ltd ) ISBN 0-283-06312-2

* Kim Jones ( 1998 – 2003 )

Sullivan also pointed out that the magazine greatly exaggerated the danger the US economy was in after the Dow Jones fell to 7, 400 during the 1998 Labor Day weekend and noted that the magazine's claim that the US economy was at a high risk of entering a recession was far from clear.

* People ( Howard Jones album ), released in 1998

During the 1998 – 99 season, All-Star guard Eddie Jones and center Elden Campbell were traded to the Charlotte Hornets.

* Charles Jones, artistic director of the Omaha Community Playhouse, 1974 – 1998

Twenty years after Days of Heaven, Malick returned to film directing in 1998 with The Thin Red Line, a loose adaptation of the James Jones World War II novel of the same name, for which he gathered a large ensemble of famous stars.

In early 1998, Roy Jones, Jr. announced that he was relinquishing his WBC light heavyweight title.

In late 1998 they made a record-breaking flight from Morocco to Hawaii but were unable to complete a global flight before Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones in Breitling Orbiter 3 in March 1999.

The 1993 film The Fugitive, and its 1998 sequel U. S. Marshals, follow the operations of a fictional unit of U. S. Marshals, led by Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard.

The course, which is considered to be the jewel of Alabama's Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, has hosted a number of national tournaments, including the 1997 Nike Tour championship, the 1998 LPGA Tournament of Champions, and the 2000 NCAA Men's Division 1 National Championship.

* The Rt Revd James Jones — Bishop of Liverpool, 1998 – present

Jones, ed., Comte: Early Political Writings, Cambridge University Press, 1998 ;

* Cherry Jones — Actress ; Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play 1991 ( Nominee-Our Country's Good ), 1995 ( Winner-The Heiress ), 2000 ( Nominee-A Moon for the Misbegotten ), 2005 ( Winner-Doubt ); Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play 1995 ( Winner-The Heiress ), 1998 ( Winner-Pride's Crossing ), 2005 ( Winner-Doubt ), 2006 ( Nominee-Faith Healer )