* 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 )

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

* Richard P. Gabriel: Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-512123-6, PDF

* Abanes, Richard, Cults, New Religious Movements, and Your Family, Crossway Books, Wheaton, 1998.

( Richard Bak, A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium, 1998, pp. 58 – 59 )

( Richard Bak, A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium, 1998, pp. 73 – 74 ) After entering the ninth inning behind 13 – 4, the team staged a dramatic comeback to win 14 – 13.

* 1927 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor ( d. 1998 )

* 1909 – Richard McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur ( d. 1998 )

* Davenport-Hines, Richard ( 1998 ) Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin.

UNSCOM chief weapons inspector Richard Butler withdrew his team from Iraq in November 1998 because of Iraq's lack of cooperation.

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" Richard Holmes, in 1998, declared the importance of the poem's Preface while describing the reception of the 1816 volume of poems: " However, no contemporary critic saw the larger possible significance of Coleridge's Preface to ' Kubla Khan ', though it eventually became one of the most celebrated, and disputed, accounts of poetic composition ever written.

* 1998 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1918 )

Its founder and president is Richard Heidmann, a space propulsion engineer, who participated in the founding convention of the Mars Society in August 1998 and is a member of the Mars Society Steering Committee.

" Historian Richard Ellis ( 1998 ) says that the SDS's search for their own identity " increasingly meant rejecting, even demonizing, liberalism.

* Royal Blood: Richard III and the mystery of the princes by Bertram Fields ( HarperCollins, 1998 ) ( ISBN 0-06-039269-X )

* Richard Doyle ( politician ) ( 1923 – 2003 ), Canadian senator, 1985 – 1998, journalist and author

* Sherman, Robert B. and Sherman, Richard M. ( 1998 ) " Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond " ISBN 0-9646059-3-7

* September 8 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1998 )

* June 6 – Richard Paul, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* Richard Jenkyns, Virgil's Experience, Oxford, 1998.

After his death, Powell's friend Richard Ritchie recorded in 1998 that " during one of the habitual coal crises of recent years he told me that he had no objection to supporting the coal industry, either through the restriction of cheap coal imports or subsidy, if it were the country's wish to preserve local coal communities ".

* Within the foundations of the Dome in 1998, a time capsule was buried by Katy Hill and Richard Bacon, two of the then current presenters of the long running BBC children's programme Blue Peter.

* The Century of Progress is depicted in the films Massacre starring Richard Dix, and in Buddy ( 1998 ) starring Rene Russo.

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).