* 1901 – Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer ( d. 1998 )

The “ perennialist ” or “ traditionalist ” school is represented by authors like the French René Guénon ( 1886 – 1951 ), the Indian Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ), the Swiss Frithjof Schuon ( 1907 – 1998 ), the Italian Julius Evola ( 1898 – 1974 ), the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born in 1933 ), both scholars and esotericists.

The chief reason why survivors have so far seen nothing of the $ 1. 25 billion Swiss settlement, reached in 1998, is that U. S. courts have yet to rule on a method of distribution.

* 1907 – Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter ( d. 1998 )

* Alois Estermann, Swiss Guard assassinated in 1998 in mysterious circumstances

In September 2005, Nigeria, with the assistance of the World Bank, began to recover US $ 458 million of illicit funds that had been deposited in Swiss banks by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.

* August 14 – Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer ( died 1998 )

It was formed in 1983 through the merging of the two Swiss watch manufacturers ASUAG and SSIH, and took its present name in 1998 ( formerly SMH Swiss Corporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking Industries Ltd ).

Taken private, in 1985, by then CEO Nicolas Hayek, with the understanding of the Swiss Banks and the financial assistance of a group of Swiss private investors, it was renamed SMH in 1986, and ultimately Swatch Group Ltd in 1998.

On May 4, 1998, the Swiss Guard experienced one of its greatest scandals in over 100 years when the commander of the Guard, Alois Estermann was murdered in unclear circumstances in Vatican City.

The house was bought by locally-born businessman Wensley Grosvenor Haydon-Baillie, who started a programme of restoration ; however a business failure caused it to be repossessed by a Swiss bank and put back on the market in 1998.

Jean-Pascal Delamuraz ( April 1, 1936 in Vevey-October 4, 1998 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1983-1998 ).

Delamuraz was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 7, 1983, and handed over office on March 30, 1998.

Ernst Brugger ( March 10, 1914 – June 20, 1998 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1969 – 1978 ).

Pascal Couchepin ( born April 5, 1942 in Martigny, Valais ) is a Swiss politician, former member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1998 – 2009 ) and President of the Confederation in 2003 and 2008.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on March 11, 1998 as a member of the Free Democratic Party ( FDP / PRD ) and the canton of Valais.

In 1998 he took over the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, in which position he fought against the Swiss government contributing any money to the $ 1. 25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and Holocaust survivors.

The bank, which at the time was the second largest bank in Switzerland, merged with Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998, to become UBS to form what was then the largest bank in Europe and the second largest bank in the World.

" UBS " ceased to be considered a representational abbreviation for the Union Bank of Switzerland after the bank's 1998 merger with Swiss Bank Corporation and is today considered a standalone brand.

He is the second British architect to win the Stirling Prize twice: the first time for the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 1998, and the second for 30 St Mary Axe in 2004.

The most well-known building on campus is the Chapel of St. Ignatius, designed by New York architect Steven Holl, born in Bremerton, Washington: the 1997 building won a national Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1998.

In 1998, Ofili won the Turner Prize, and in 2003 was selected to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale of that year, where his work for the British Pavilion was done in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye.

The Hyper-Architecture of Desire ( 1998 ), Mark Wigley even refers to him as an architect.

He was a primary architect of the 1996 Mitchell Principles and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and was the main investigator in two " Mitchell Reports ", one on the Arab – Israeli conflict ( 2001 ) and one on the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball ( 2007 ).

After initially joining with architect Peter Eisenmann to submit a design for Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Serra abruptly pulled out of the project for " personal and professional reasons " in 1998.

Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa ( 27 February 1902-13 June 1998 ) was a Brazilian architect and urban planner, best known for his plan for Brasília.

In 1998, the construction of the Centro de Documentação e Informação ( Documentation and Information Centre ), was begun by architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça, winner of a public competition promoted by the Secretary-General of the Presidency.

He then helped found mozilla. org in early 1998, serving as chief architect.

Her play Speer ( 1998 ) is a work of fictional biography about the German architect, Albert Speer, and has been staged in Berlin and London, directed by and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer.

He began work in January 1998, succeeding Harold M. Williams, the first president of the Getty Trust, who oversaw construction of the $ 1 billion Getty Center designed by architect Richard Meier.

Werner Seligmann ( March 30, 1930-November 12, 1998 ), was an architect, urban designer, and educator.

Albert Frey ( b. October 18, 1903, Zurich – d. November 14, 1998, Palm Springs, California ) was a prolific architect who established a style of modern architecture centered around Palm Springs, California that came to be known as " desert modernism ".

Renzo Piano, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1998, is the architect of the Center ’ s building ; he had been selected after Nasher met him at the opening of the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, in 1997.

It was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and construction began in 1998.

Joseph Esherick ( December 28, 1914 – December 17, 1998 ) was an American architect.

Harry Mohr Weese ( June 30, 1915-October 29, 1998 ) was an American architect, born in Evanston, Illinois in the Chicago suburbs, who had an important role in 20th century modernism and historic preservation.

The Estorick Collection moved to its current premises in Northumberland Lodge, previously the home and office of Sir Basil Spence, the British architect, a converted Grade II-listed Georgian house, in 1998.

Jenrette has also commissioned new buildings, including a guesthouse ( 1997 ) and poolhouse ( 1998 ) at Edgewater, designed by the architect Michael Middleton Dwyer.

He served as finance minister from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004 during which he was the architect of the national debt that climbed from US $ 2 billion to US $ 50 billion.

In 1996, as Cairo migrated from being a standalone product to a technology source, Zbikowski worked under Lou Perazzoli on the Windows NT kernel, focusing on performance and size, before becoming architect and development manager for NT file systems in 1998.

Eliasson has engaged in a number of projects in public space, including the intervention Green river, carried out in various cities between 1998 and 2001 ; the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, London, a temporary pavilion designed with the Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen ; and The New York City Waterfalls, commissioned by Public Art Fund in 2008.

Greg Whitten is a former Microsoft Chief software architect, where he worked from 1979 to 1998.

The Observation Tower Burgholzhof in Burgholzhof, since 1998 a separate community within Bad Cannstatt in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is an 1891 brick observation tower constructed by the Cannstatt municipal architect Friedrich Keppler on behalf of the Verschönerungsverein Cannstatt e. V. (" Society for the Beautification of Cannstatt "), in the style of a Roman tower, at an elevation of 359 meters ( 1778 ft ) above sea level, at 9 ° 11 ' 41 east and 48 ° 49 ' 08 " north.