* 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 )

Von Trier's use of sexually explicit images in The Idiots ( 1998 ) started a wave of arthouse mainstream films with unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( 1999 ), Baise-Moi ( 2000 ), Intimacy ( 2001 ), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny ( 2003 ) and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs ( 2004 ).

* Ooi, Vincent ( 1998 ) Computer Corpus Lexicography, Edinburgh U. P.

Despite the clouds still hovering over the franchise, the Lightning drafted Vincent Lecavalier in 1998, a player who would be a cornerstone of the team for years to come.

Buffalo ’ 66 is a 1998 comedy-drama film that is writer-director Vincent Gallo's semi-autobiographical full-length motion picture debut.

Vincent would serve as the NECBL ’ s president from 1998 to 2003.

With the departure of team captain Vincent Damphousse in 1998 – 99, Koivu was named the 27th captain for the Canadiens on September 30, 1999.

After the resignation of Vincent Beache, Gonsalves became leader of the party in 1998.

* DeSantis, Vincent P. Republicans Face the Southern Question: The New Departure Years, 1877 — 1897 ( 1998 )

In 1992 the Admiralty communications centre was established here as the stone frigate HMS St Vincent, which became MARCOMM COMCEN ( St Vincent ) in 1998.

Former Olympique de Marseille midfielder Abedi Pele was on target with a stunning goal early in the first half and, after Vincent Guérin had equalised for Europe just before half-time, it was the 1998 African Player of the Year, Mustapha Hadji, who struck Africa ’ s 78th-minute winner in the 2-1 win.

Vincent Winter ( 29 December 1947 – 2 November 1998 ) was a Scottish film actor who was successful as a child actor.

* 1998: Jean-Paul Rappeneau ( president ), Michèle Halberstadt, Sandrine Kiberlain, Virginie Ledoyen, Russell Banks, Maurice Bernart, Alessandro Gassman, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Éric Serra and Christian Vincent.

* TCM Remembers 1998: composer John Addison, Gene Autry, Binnie Barnes, Lloyd Bridges, Dane Clark, art director George Davis, John Derek, special effects visual Linwood G. Dunn, Alice Faye, Norman Fell, editor Gene Fowler, Jr., Douglas Fowley, Patricia Hayes, Valerie Hobson, Josephine Hutchinson, director Alan J. Pakula, Leonid Kinskey, director Akira Kurosawa, cinematographer Charles Lang, Phil Leeds, Jean Marais, E. G. Marshall, Roddy McDowall, Jeanette Nolan, Lucille Norman, Maidie Norman, Dick O ' Neill, Maureen O ' Sullivan, composer Gene Page, choreographer Jerome Robbins, Gene Raymond, Roy Rogers, Esther Rolle, Frank Sinatra, J. T. Walsh, Vincent Winter, O.

* Krzysztof R. Apt, Jacob Brunekreef, Vincent Partington, Andrea Schaerf ( 1998 ).

The Marxist theory of " Left " and " Right " Bonapartism can be considered an illustration of what McLynn ( Napoleon, Pimlico, 1998, Conclusion, p667 ) refers to as Napoleon I's appeal in equal measure " to both the Right and the Left ", and what Vincent Cronin describes as " middle of the way ", or " moderate " government ( Napoleon, 1994, HarperCollins, Ch 19, p301 ).

* Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila: The Ownership of Vincent van Gogh's ' Sunflowers, Burlington Magazine, March 1998, pp. 184 – 192

He made 24 appearances for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the 1998, 2002, and 2006 World Cup qualifiers and 123 overall.

A Roman Catholic, Joyce served as President of the St George branch of the Society of St Vincent de Paul 1998 – 2004.

* Bart van Rompay, Lars R. Knudsen and Vincent Rijmen, Differential Cryptanalysis of the ICE Encryption Algorithm, Fast Software Encryption 1998, pp270 – 283 ( PDF ).

In 1998, she was appointed as the Vincent Scully, Jr.

In 1998 she appeared opposite Vincent Gallo in the independent movie Hollywood Salome.

* Bretagnolle, Vincent ; Attié, Carole & Pasquet, Eric ( 1998 ): Cytochrome-B evidence for validity and phylogenetic relationships of Pseudobulweria and Bulweria ( Procellariidae ).

* Sir David Emmanuel Jack ( 1918 – 1998 ), Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines