Wikipedia / 1998
Wikipedia / 1998
1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.
Events
January
January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
January 15 – U.N. peacekeepers return Eastern Slavonia to Croatian control; 80,000 displaced Croatians begin returning home, while 60,000 Serbs begin vacating the region. The area will remain under UNPSG supervision until October.
January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
January 21 - Pope John Paul II begins a 5-day visit to Cuba; Fidel Castro releases 300 political prisoners in a gesture of goodwill.
January 23 - P.W. Botha appears in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to answer for apartheid-era policies; he refers to the hearing as a "circus".
February
February 2 - Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into a mountain, this crash marked deadliest aviation accident in Philippines until 2000.
February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car.
The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With up to 4,000 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
Western Pacific, a low-cost airline with headquarters at Colorado Springs Airport, ceases operations.
February 6 – Washington National Airport is officially renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
February 12 - The Flag of the Philippines gets a minor redesign, changing its blue and red shades.
February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes upon attempted landing at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 203, the second-deadliest air crash in Taiwan.
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and United Kingdom.
Rudy Giuliani kicks off his "quality of life" campaign in New York City, focused on increasing civility and reducing nuisances like littering and reckless driving.
The Nashville Banner publishes its last issue; the newspaper ceases operation after 122 years.
February 21 – King Hussein of Jordan imposes martial law in Ma'an to quell growing pro-Iraqi demonstrations.
February 25 – Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government: The SCOTUS rules against the Neets'aii Gwich'in Indian nation, who had been levying taxes on non-natives in order to fund a local airstrip; the Court ruled that only the federal and state governments may collect taxes.
February 26 – Oprah is cleared of slander in an Amarillo court after a highly publicized court battle with Texas beef moguls.
A massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts the Kosovo War.
A study led by Andrew Wakefield is published in The Lancet suggesting an alleged link between MMR vaccine and autism. Now known to be full of data manipulation, the study was instantly controversial and fueled the nascent anti-vaccination movement. Although subsequent large epidemiological research found no link between vaccines and autism, the study contributed – in the following years and decades – to a sharp drop in vaccination rates and the resurgence of measles in several countries. The study, fully retracted in 2010, was later characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the 20th Century".
March
March 2 – Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
March 5 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
March 11 – 1998 Danish general election: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.
March 13 – The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
March 21 – The European Union announces an arms embargo against Serbia and Montenegro.
March 23 – The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Titanic wins 11 Oscars including Best Picture.
Boris Yeltsin dismisses Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin in "an effort to make economic reforms more energetic and effective."
March 24 – Westside Middle School shooting: Five people are killed in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
March 26 – Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives; 32 of the killed are babies under the age of two.
Bill Clinton makes the first visit to South Africa by a U.S. president.
March 31 – Quett Masire voluntarily steps down as President of Botswana after 18 years in office.
April
April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.6 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
April 10 – Good Friday Agreement: An hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party. This would mostly put an end to the conflict known as The Troubles.
April 17 – 1998 Australian waterfront dispute: Patrick Stevedores fires all 1,400 employees.
April 20 – The alleged date the German Red Army Faction (created 1970) is dissolved.
April 23 – The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 19.
April 24 – Rwanda executes 22 Hutus, including Froduald Karamira, for their roles in the 1994 genocide.
May
May 5–6 - landslides in Campania, Italy kill 161
May 6 – A large Eritrean mechanized force enters Badme in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, resulting in the Eritrean–Ethiopian War.
Pokhran-II (Operation Shakti): India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including one thermonuclear device.
The first euro coins are minted in Pessac, France. Because the final specifications for the coins are not finished, they will have to be melted and minted again in 1999.
May 13–14 – Riots directed against Chinese Indonesians break out in Indonesia, killing around 1,000 people. Maria Catarina Sumarsih holds Prabowo Subianto the responsibility for being involved in a series of human rights abuses during the riot.
The Windows 98 operating system is released to manufacturing.
Argentina expels seven Iranian diplomats over their connections to the 1994 AMIA bombing.
May 18 – The Department of Justice files an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging its Windows operating system unfairly takes market share from Netscape's Navigator.
The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the US's pagers without service.
The wreck of the aircraft carrier , sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942, is found near Midway Atoll by a team led by former US Navy officer Robert D. Ballard.
May 21 – Suharto (elected 1967) resigns after 31 years as President of Indonesia, effectively ending the New Order period. It is his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie, becomes Indonesia's third president.
May 26 – Australia holds its first National Sorry Day.
May 27 – The United States requests that El Salvador reopen its probe into the 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries.
May 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in the Chagai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
A second nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-II, is conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).
June
June 1 – The European Central Bank is established, replacing the European Monetary Institute.
June 3 – Eschede train disaster: an Intercity-Express high-speed train derails between Hanover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
June 7 – Former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané seizes control over military barracks in Bissau, marking the beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998–99).
June 8 - The DeBruce Grain Elevator explosion in Wichita, Kansas kills 7.
June 10–July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.
June 10 – The Organisation of African Unity passes a resolution which states that its members will no longer comply with punitive sanctions applied by the UN Security Council against Libya.
June 12 – The 1995 Stock is used on the Northern line in London.
June 27 – Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opens, becoming the new international gateway into Malaysia.
June 30 – Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada is sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.
July
July 5 Japan launches the probe Nozomi to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.
Rome Statute: at a conference in Rome, 120 countries vote to create a permanent International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
The 7.0 Papua New Guinea earthquake shakes the region near Aitape with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This submarine earthquake triggered a landslide that caused a destructive tsunami, leaving more than 2,100 dead and thousands injured.
July 21September 5 1998 Sydney water crisis: suspected contamination by the microscopic pathogens cryptosporidium and giardia of the water supply system of Greater Metropolitan Sydney, Australia.
July 24 Russell Eugene Weston Jr. enters the United States Capitol Building and opens fire, killing two members of the United States Capitol Police, Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson.
August
August 1 – Puntland State leaders in Somalia declare the territory an autonomous state; the capital is the city of Garoowe in the Nugal region.
August 4 – The Second Congo War begins; 5.4 million people die before it ends in 2003, making it the bloodiest war, to date, since World War II.
August 8 – Afghan Civil War: The Taliban takes control of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Yangtze River Floods: in China the Yangtze river breaks through the main bank; before this, from August 1–5, peripheral levees collapsed consecutively in Jiayu County Baizhou Bay. The death toll exceeds 12,000, with many thousands more injured.
1998 U.S. embassy bombings: the bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.
August 10 – Voters in Nevis narrowly reject an independence referendum.
August 15 – The Troubles: The Omagh bombing is carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real Irish Republican Army as a reaction to the Good Friday Agreement. 29 people are killed and 220 are injured. Shortly after these events, the group will call a ceasefire in response, signaling an end to the 30+ year conflict.
August 17 – Russia's government devalues the ruble, defaults on domestic debt, and declares a moratorium on repayment of foreign debt. This marks the beginning of 1998 Russian financial crisis.
September
A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner (Swissair Flight 111) crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en route to Geneva; all 229 people on board are killed.
A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
September 4 – Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Jean Kambanda is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Rwandan genocide.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire premieres in the United Kingdom.
September 5 – The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary. The constitution is amended, and the late Kim Il Sung is enshrined as the eternal President.
September 9 – Keiko the orca, captured in 1979, is released back into the wild off the coast of Iceland.
September 10 – At midnight, a shooting occurs aboard an Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Russian Navy docked in the northern Russian port city of Severomorsk.
September 12 – The Cuban Five intelligence agents are arrested in Miami, and later convicted of espionage. The agents claim they were not spying against the United States Government but against the Cuban exile community in Miami.
September 14 - Failed coup attempt in Albania following the death of Azem Hajdari, a key leader of the Democratic Party of Albania
September 17 – Basque conflict: Basque Homeland and Liberty reaches a ceasefire agreement with the government of Spain, the second such agreement in two years.
September 24 – Iranian President Mohammad Khatami retracts a fatwa against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie that was in force since 1989 stating that the Iranian government will "neither support nor hinder assassination operations on Rushdie".
September 25 – Benoit Lecomte finishes his 72-day swim across the Atlantic Ocean, but uncertainty over the exact route and distance covered prevent him from being recognized as the first person to swim across the Atlantic.
September 25–28 – Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by Federal Reserve officials, agree on terms of a re-capitalization to avoid a wider collapse in financial markets.
October
October 1 – Europol is established when the Europol Convention signed by all of its member states comes into force.
October 3 – 1998 Australian federal election: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition government is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Kim Beazley.
October 4 – The World Bank praises Costa Rica for its remarkable success in raising life expectancy and lowering infant mortality.
October 10 – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, is indicted for human rights violations he committed in Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón. 6 days later British police place him under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK. This is a leading case in the law of universal jurisdiction.
October 17 – 1998 Jesse pipeline explosion: An oil pipeline explosion in Jesse, Nigeria results in 1,082 deaths.
October 20 – Boris Yeltsin announces he will not seek reelection in 2000.
October 29 – Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, killing an estimated 11,000 people.
November
November 3 – South Carolina voters repeal the state's 103-year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage, making Alabama the last U.S. state with such a ban in place.
November 17 – Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of .
November 19 – Valve Corporation releases their first-person shooter video game Half-Life to critical acclaim. The game would be deemed one of the most influential titles of its genre, and one of the greatest video games of all time.
November 20 – A Russian Proton rocket is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first segment of the International Space Station, the 21-ton Zarya Module.
November 24 – A declassified report by Swiss International Olympic Committee official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City during bidding process in 1995. The IOC, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Department of Justice immediately launch an investigation into the scandal.
December
December 1 – Ireland formally relinquishes its territorial claim over Northern Ireland and recognizes the United Kingdom's sovereignty there.
December 4 The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first U.S.-built component to the International Space Station, the Unity module on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later.
December 6 Hugo Chávez, politician and former officer of the Venezuelan army, is elected President of Venezuela.
December 11 Thai Airways International Flight 261 crashes upon attempted landing at Surat Thani International Airport, killing 101, the second-deadliest air crash in Thailand.
December 14 The Yugoslav Army ambushes a column of 140 Kosovo Liberation Army militants attempting to smuggle arms from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
December 16 Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq.
December 19 The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making him the second president to be impeached in U.S. history.
December 29 The Khmer Rouge's leaders apologize for the post-Vietnam War genocide in Cambodia that killed more than one million people in the 1970s.
The first leap second since June 30, 1997, occurs.
In the Eurozone, the currency rates of this day are fixed permanently.
Date unknown
The European Small Business Alliance organization is formed.
Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsô, dies in Qamishli, Syria, making the language effectively extinct. Also, the last native speaker of related Bijil Neo-Aramaic, Mrs. Rahel Avraham, dies in Jerusalem.
Births
January
January 1 Sara Ahmed, Egyptian weightlifter
January 2 Junto Nakatani, Japanese professional boxer
Coco Jones, American actress and singer
Liza Soberano, American actress
January 7 Yangel Herrera, Venezuelan footballer
Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer
Jonathon Cooper, American football linebacker
Alek Manoah, American baseball pitcher
James Phyrillas, YouTuber
January 11 Salih Özcan, Turkish footballer
Gabrielle Daleman, Canadian figure skater
Chris Nilsen, American athlete
January 15 Chloe Kelly, English footballer
January 16 Yerin Ha, Australian actress
Anthony Zambrano, Colombian sprinter
Lovro Majer, Croatian footballer
Natalia Bukowiecka, Polish sprinter
Vashti Cunningham, American track and field athlete
Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer
Lisandro Martínez, Argentine footballer
Shin Ye-eun, South Korean actress and model
Byron Murphy, American football cornerback
January 19 Lily Donoghue, American actress
January 20 Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player
Pervis Estupiñán, Ecuadorian footballer
Borna Sosa, Croatian footballer
January 23 XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
Albina Kelmendi, Albanian-Kosovar singer and songwriter
Mone Kamishiraishi, Japanese actress and singer
Ariel Winter, American actress and voice actress
Payton Pritchard, American basketball player
January 29 Jorge Martín, Spanish motorcycle racer
Amadou Haidara, Malian footballer
Bradie Tennell, American figure skater
February
February 1 Jazz Chisholm Jr., Bahamian baseball infielder
February 3 Yang Hao, Chinese diver
Isadora Cruz, Brazilian actress
Malik Monk, American basketball player
Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer
George Kirby, American baseball pitcher
Adley Rutschman, American baseball catcher
Jay Lycurgo, English actor
February 8 Rui Hachimura, Japanese basketball player
February 10 Ayesha Madon, Australian actress
Niklas Kaul, German decathlete
Khalid, American singer and songwriter
Josh Jacobs, American football running back
Garance Marillier, French actress
Yungeen Ace, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
Josh Jung, American baseball third baseman
February 13 Bella Campos, Brazilian actress and model
February 14 Sander Berge, Norwegian footballer
Zachary Gordon, American actor
George Russell, British racing driver
February 16 Lizze Broadway, American actress
Mohamed Katir, Moroccan born-Spanish middle-distance runner
Devin White, American football linebacker
Chappell Roan, American singer and songwriter
Alice Pagani, Italian actress, model and author
February 22 Blu DeTiger, American singer and bass guitarist
February 24 Will Jordan, New Zealand rugby player
February 26 Keyla Monterroso Mejia, American actress
February 27 Elisa Balsamo, Italian cyclist
February 28 Teun Koopmeiners, Dutch footballer
March
March 2 Tua Tagovailoa, American football quarterback
March 3 Jayson Tatum, American basketball player
Bo Bichette, American baseball shortstop
Merih Demiral, Turkish footballer
March 6 Odessa Young, Australian actress
March 7 Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist
Parker Boudreaux, American professional wrestler
Najee Harris, American football running back
March 10 Justin Herbert, American football quarterback
Axel Disasi, French footballer
Valentina Herszage, Brazilian actress
Jack Harlow, American rapper
Shaoang Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater
March 17 Brandon Aiyuk, American football wide receiver
Miltiadis Tentoglou, Greek track and field athlete
Abigail Cowen, American actress and model
Emmanuel Clase, Dominican baseball pitcher
March 19 Julian Love, American football safety
March 20 Letesenbet Gidey, Ethiopian long-distance runner
Christopher Briney, American actor
Ethel Cain, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and model
March 25 Vergil Ortiz Jr., American professional boxer
March 26 Satoko Miyahara, former Japanese figure skater
March 28 Sandi Lovrić, Slovenian footballer
Anna Seidel, former German short track speed skater
Cash Cobain, American rapper
April
April 1 King Combs, American rapper and model
April 2 Caelan Doris, Irish rugby player
Paris Jackson, American actress and model
Wout Faes, Belgian footballer
Peyton List, American actress and model
Nahuel Molina, Argentine footballer
April 9 Elle Fanning, American actress and model
Anna Pogorilaya, former Russian figure skater
Stijn Desmet, Belgian short track speed skater
Derrick Brown, American football defensive tackle
Sexyy Red, American rapper
Anna Odine Strøm, Norwegian ski jumper
Patrik Laine, Finnish ice hockey player
Zhang Yufei, Chinese swimmer
April 20 Felix Mallard, Australian actor
April 21 Jarrett Allen, American basketball player
Oba Femi, Nigerian professional wrestler
David Raum, German footballer
April 23 Brian Burns, American football defensive end
April 26 Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Polish chess grandmaster
Cristian Romero, Argentine footballer
Drake Batherson, Canadian ice hockey player
Ella Hunt, English actress and singer
Mallory Swanson, American soccer player
Apriyani Rahayu, Indonesian badminton player
April 30 Olivia DeJonge, Australian actress
May
Tremaine Edmunds, American football linebacker
Jonathan Ikoné, French footballer
May 4 Rex Orange County, English singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter
Tijana Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
Jordan Kyrou, Canadian ice hockey player
May 6 Luigi Mangione, perpetrator of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
MrBeast, American YouTuber
Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
May 8 Corey Mylchreest, English actor
May 9 Douglas Luiz, Brazilian footballer
May 10 Lee Jae-wook, South Korean actor and model
Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player
BigXthaPlug, American rapper and songwriter
May 18 Polina Edmunds, former American figure skater
May 20 Beatriz Souza, Brazilian judoka
Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
Steve Lacy, American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer
May 24 Daisy Edgar-Jones, English actress
Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
Austin Reaves, American basketball player
June
June 1 Aleksandra Soldatova, former Russian rhythmic gymnast
June 3 Myles Smith, British singer and songwriter
Central Cee, British rapper and songwriter
Viktor Gyökeres, Swedish footballer
Yulia Lipnitskaya, former Russian figure skater
Maxim Burov, Russian freestyle skier
Dave, British rapper
Charlie Tahan, American actor
Wilma Murto, Finnish pole vaulter
Benedetta Porcaroli, Italian actress
Alina Boz, Russian-born Turkish actress
Brianne Tju, American actress
Shayne Coplan, American businessman and founder of Polymarket
Alexander Samarin, former Russian figure skater
Filippo Tortu, Italian sprinter
Ritsu Doan, Japanese footballer
Maddie Musselman, American water polo player
Suzu Hirose, Japanese actress and model
Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş, Turkish swimmer
Atticus Shaffer, American actor
June 23 Josip Brekalo, Croatian footballer
June 24 Pierre-Luc Dubois, Canadian ice hockey player
Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer
Desmond Bane, American basketball player
Mikhail Sergachev, Russian ice hockey player
June 28 Pedro Gonçalves, Portuguese footballer
Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
Eberechi Eze, English footballer
June 30 Houssem Aouar, French footballer
July
July 1 Chloe Bailey, American singer and actress
Callan Rydz, English darts player
Sara Waisglass, Canadian actress
Iúri Leitão, Portuguese road and track cyclist
July 7 Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
Maya Hawke, American actress and model
Jaden Smith, American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor
Daria Spiridonova, former Russian artistic gymnast
July 9 Robert Capron, American actor
Kimia Alizadeh, Iranian taekwondo athlete
Angus Cloud, American actor (d. 2023)
July 12 Diyora Keldiyorova, Uzbek judoka
July 12 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Canadian basketball player
JayDaYoungan, American rapper (d. 2022)
Tyriq Withers, American actor
July 16 Rina Matsuno, Japanese singer, model, and actress (d. 2017)
Devin Bush Jr., American football inside linebacker
Luisa Sonza, Brazilian singer-songwriter
Carla Díaz, Spanish actress and dancer
Lola Vice, American professional wrestler
Maggie Lindemann, American singer-songwriter
Magnus Bøe, South Korean Olympic cross-country skier
Marie Bouzková, Czech tennis player
Madison Pettis, American actress and model
Federico Valverde, Uruguayan footballer
Marc Cucurella, Spanish footballer
Deandre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player
Cailee Spaeny, American actress
Sophie Wotschke, Austrian politician
July 28 Frank Ntilikina, French basketball player
Clayton Keller, American ice hockey player
Tijjani Reijnders, Dutch footballer
July 30 Jesper Bratt, Swedish ice hockey player
Rico Rodriguez, American actor
Quincy Hall, American athlete
August
August 2 Sophie Hansson, Swedish swimmer
August 3 Cozi Zuehlsdorff, American actress, pianist, and singer
August 5 Mimi Keene, English actress
Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado, Dominican-born Dutch cyclist
Forrest Goodluck, American actor
August 7 Jalen Hurts, American football player
Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter
Ryan Garcia, American professional boxer
Jorrit Croon, Dutch hockey player
Panagiotis Retsos, Greek footballer
Zelym Kotsoiev, Ukrainian-Azerbaijani judoka
August 11 Juan Miguel Echevarría, Cuban long jumper
Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
Nguyễn Thúc Thùy Tiên, Vietnamese beauty queen and model
Arina Averina, former Russian rhythmic gymnast
Dina Averina, former Russian rhythmic gymnast
Francisco Cerúndolo, Argentine tennis player
August 16 Antoine Winfield Jr., American football safety
Tenshin Nasukawa, Japanese kickboxer and mixed martial artist
Clairo, an American singer-songwriter
Nick Fuentes, American far-right political commentator
August 20 Lieke Klaver, Dutch track and field athlete
Marc Hirschi, Swiss cyclist
P. J. Washington, American basketball player
Mason Miller, American baseball pitcher
Abraham Mateo, Spanish singer and actor
China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
August 26 Soyeon, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer
Kevin Huerter, American basketball player
Matheus Nunes, Portuguese footballer
Rod Wave American rapper, singer, and songwriter
August 29 Bizarrap, Argentine record producer, songwriter and DJ
Jaylen Barron American actress
BossMan Dlow American rapper
September
Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Canadian basketball player
Ama Qamata, South African actress
September 5 Matteo Rizzo, Italian figure skater
September 7 Damian Hardung, German actor
September 9 Choi Min-jeong, South Korean short track speed skater
September 10 Sheck Wes, American rapper
September 13 – Satoshi, Moldovan rapper and singer-songwriter
September 16 Emily Fairn, English actress
September 18 Christian Pulisic, American footballer
Trae Young, American basketball player
Phia Saban, English actress
Marco Arop, Canadian middle-distance runner
Rashid Khan, Afghan cricket player
Trevon Diggs, American football cornerback
Grant Delpit, American football safety
Tadej Pogačar, Slovenian cyclist
Yainer Díaz, Dominican baseball catcher
September 23 A. J. Terrell, American football cornerback
September 28 Aleksandra Goryachkina, Russian chess Grandmaster
September 30 Landon Dickerson, American football guard
October
October 1 Guilherme Costa, Brazilian swimmer
Alessandro Miressi, Italian swimmer
Skilla Baby, American rapper
Christopher Lillis, American freestyle skier
October 5 Exequiel Palacios, Argentine footballer
October 7 Trent Alexander-Arnold, English footballer
October 9 Joy Crookes, British singer
October 10 Fabio Di Giannantonio, Italian motorcycle racer
October 14 Kenny Bednarek, American sprinter
Erin Kellyman, English actress
Devin Haney, American professional boxer
October 19 Katie Douglas, Canadian actress
October 20 Nikita Ababiy, American professional boxer
October 22 Roddy Ricch, American rapper
October 23 Amandla Stenberg, American actress and singer
Juan Soto, Dominican baseball outfielder
Lee Know, South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer
October 27 Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
Nolan Gould, American actor
Perrine Laffont, French mogul skier
Spencer Strider, American baseball pitcher
Maria Kharenkova, former Russian artistic gymnast
Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver
October 30 Cale Makar, Canadian ice hockey player
November
Marie-Antoinette Katoto, French footballer
Rachel Chinouriri, English singer-songwriter
Elkie, South Korean based singer and actress
Jordan Love, American football quarterback
November 3 Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic swimmer
November 4 Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer
November 5 Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballer
November 11 Liudmila Samsonova, Russian tennis player
Marco Bezzecchi, Italian motorcycle racer
Jules Koundé, French footballer
Elias Pettersson, Swedish ice hockey player
Omar Rudberg, Venezuelan-Swedish singer and actor
Sofia Kenin, American tennis player
DeVonta Smith, American football wide receiver
Anna Henderson, British racing cyclist
November 16 Hannah Mae, Dutch singer-songwriter
November 17 Kara Hayward, American actress
November 21 Vangelis Pavlidis, Greek footballer
November 22 Casey Mittelstadt, American ice hockey player
November 23 Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
November 25 Jaylen Waddle, American football wide receiver
November 28 Alice Bellandi, Italian judoka
Ayumu Hirano, Japanese snowboarder
Lovie Simone, American actress
December
Juice Wrld, American rapper and singer (d. 2019)
Annalise Basso, American actress
Celeste O'Connor, Kenyan-American actress
December 4 Si Yajie, Chinese diver
Conan Gray, American singer
Randal Kolo Muani, French footballer
December 6 Joe Fraser, British artistic gymnast
December 8 Matthew Wilson, Australian swimmer
Maggie Voisin, American freestyle skier
Lukas Nmecha, German footballer
Lonnie Walker IV, American basketball player
Zhou Jieqiong, Chinese singer
Clara Moneke, Brazilian actress and model
December 17 Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
Paola Egonu, Italian volleyball player
Simona Quadarella, Italian swimmer
Jake Oettinger, American ice hockey player
Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer
King Princess, American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
Kylian Mbappé, French footballer
Dylan Wang, Chinese actor and singer
G Hannelius, American actress and singer
Casper Ruud, Norwegian tennis player
Latto, American rapper
Alexis Mac Allister, Argentine football player
Declan McKenna, English singer-songwriter
December 27 He Jie, Chinese athlete
December 28 Jared Gilman, American actor
Paris Berelc, American actress and model
Victor Osimhen, Nigerian footballer
December 30 Jutta Leerdam, Dutch speed skater
December 31 Hunter Schafer, American actress and model
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui
Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
Peace – John Hume and David Trimble
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen
Fields Medal
References
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