topic collection

1998

year

80 entities

5 domains

Human

64

Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)

Frank Sinatra

American singer and actor (1915–1998)

French footballer (born 1998)

former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1925–1998)

Chancellor of West Germany and reunified Germany (1982–1998)

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of West Germany (1998–2005)

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)

2nd President of Indonesia (1968—1998) and Acting President of Indonesia (1967—1968)

Viktor Orbán

Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–2026) (born 1963)

Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness

Icelandic author (1902-1998)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Prime Minister of India in 1996 and from 1998 to 2004

3rd President of Indonesia (1998—1999) and 7th Vice President of Indonesia (1998)

French actor and theatre director (1913-1998)

Moroccan-Spanish footballer (born 1998)

Japanese actress (1932-1998)

Ernst Jünger

German writer (1895–1998)

American actress (born 1998)

American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorer (1923–1998)

President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998

American YouTuber, media personality and businessman (born 1998)

Fidel Ramos

President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998

XXXTentacion

American rapper (1998–2018)

Frederick Reines

American physicist (1918–1998)

Prime Minister of Cambodia (1985–1993; 1998–2023)

Rafiq Hariri

Prime Minister of Lebanon (1992–1998, 2000–2004)

Federico Valverde

Uruguayan professional footballer (born 1998)

Vladimir Prelog

Bosnian-Swiss chemist (1906-1998)

Kenichi Fukui

Japanese chemist (1918–1998)

Carlos Castañeda

Peruvian-American author (1925-1998)

First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002

Martin Ødegaard

Norwegian footballer (born 1998)

Trent Alexander-Arnold

English association football player (born 1998)

Jean-François Lyotard

French philosopher (1924–1998)

Allan McLeod Cormack

American physicist (1924-1998)

Slovenian cyclist (born 1998)

5th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 2003 (1928–2026)

Theodore Schultz

Theodore Schultz

American economist (1902–1998)

Nigerian footballer (born 1998)

Christian Pulisic

American soccer player (born 1998)

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)

Viktor Gyökeres

Swedish footballer (born 1998)

Gulzarilal Nanda

Indian politician (1898-1998)

nigerian military ruler (1943-1998)

Derek Barton

English organic chemist (1918–1998)

French footballer (born 1998)

American rapper and actor (born 1998)

Florence Griffith Joyner

Florence Griffith Joyner

American track and field athlete (1959-1998)

Alexis Mac Allister

Argentine association football player (born 1998)

Ted Hughes

English poet and children's writer (1930–1998)

Levon Ter-Petrosyan

first President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998

Brazilian association football player (born 1998)

Joseph Estrada

actor and President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001

President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008

Shōichi Nishimura

Japanese association football player (1912–1998)

American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care (1903-1998)

Inder Kumar Gujral

Prime Minister of India (1997-1998)

Austrian musician (1957–1998)

Konstantinos Karamanlis

Konstantinos Karamanlis

Greek politician and lawyer (1907–1998), Prime Minister of Greece intermittently between 1955–80, President from 1980–85, 1990–95

Nizar Qabbani

Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher (1923-1998)

Paweł Adamowicz

Mayor of Gdańsk (1998-2019)

Dayot Upamecano

French footballer (born 1998)

British racing driver (born 1998)

American singer (born 1998)

Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater

American politician and military officer (1909–1998)

Film

11

Saving Private Ryan

1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg

The Truman Show

1998 film directed by Peter Weir

Shakespeare in Love

1998 film directed by John Madden

American History X

1998 film directed by Tony Kaye

The Big Lebowski

1998 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

1998 film directed by Michael Bay

The Thin Red Line

1998 film by Terrence Malick

1998 film by Tom Tykwer

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

1998 film by Guy Ritchie

1998 film directed by Martin Brest

1998 film directed by Brett Ratner

Television_Series

3

Sex and the City

American TV series (1998–2004)

American supernatural drama / fantasy television series (1998–2006)

American television sitcom (1989–1998)

Literary_Work

1

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

1998 novel by J. K. Rowling

Automobile_Manufacturer

1

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

English car company (1998-present)