In the year 1998, 19 European nations agree to forbid human cloning (Jan 12), Titanic becomes the first film to gross 1 billion U.S. dollars (Mar 1), data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice (Mar 2), the Alashi Kaikyoo Bridge becomes world’s longest suspension bridge (Apr 5), Indonesia’s Suharto resigns after 32 years in power (May 21), **Google Inc. is founded in California **(Sep 4), India and Pakistan test their nuclear capacity - and all these fine people were born:
1998-0101 Maryanne Oketch* Canadian ministry coordinator/Survivor contestant/of Kenyan descent - Karlsruhe, Germany
1998-0104 Hussain Al-Hizam* athlete (pole vault) - Jubail, Saudi Arabia
1998-0104 Liza Soberano* American-Filipino actress - Santa Clara, CA USA
1998-0105
1998-0107 Marcus Thomsen* athlete (shot put) - Voss, Norway
1998-0109 Brent Rivera* YouTuber/social media personality/actor - Huntington Beach, CA USA
1998-0110
1998-0115 Chloe Kelly* football player/EC - London, England
1998-0116 Mikko Paavola* athlete (pole vault) - Alajärvi, Finland
1998-0117 Anthony Zambrano* athlete (sprinter) - Colombia
1998-0118 Aitana Bonmatí* football player - Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain
1998-0118 Vashti Cunningham* athlete (high jump/WB) - Las Vegas, NV USA
1998-0120 Frances Tiafoe* tennis player - Hyattsville, MD USA
1998-0121 Maksim Nedasekau* athlete (high jump/OB) - Vitebsk, Belarus
1998-0124 Yamila Rodríguez* football player - Posadas, Argentina
1998-0126 Moonbin* (b Moon Bin) 문빈 singer/actor/dancer - Cheongju, South Korea (2023/25)
1998-0128 Ariel Winter* actress/singer - Fairfax, VA USA
1998-0130 Max Hrelja* athlete (hurdles) - Sweden
1998-0131
1998-0203 Sam Steel* hockey player - Sherwood Park, AB Canada
1998-0204 Yoshiyuki Ogata* 緒方 良行 sport climber - Kurume, Japan
1998-0206
1998-0209 Juha Jääskä* hockey player - Helsinki, Finland
1998-0211 Niklas Kaul* athlete (decathlon/WG) - Mainz, Germany
1998-0211 Ryan Lindgren* hockey player - Minneapolis, MN USA
1998-0215 Zachary Gordon* actor - Oak Park, CA USA
1998-0215 George Russell* racing driver - King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England
1998-0218 Elina Lampela* Finnish athlete (pole vault) - Irving, TX USA
1998-0221 Ella-Rae Smith* actress - Bristol, England
1998-0227 Elisa Balsamo* cyclist - Cuneo, Italy
1998-0301 Tarmo Reunanen* hockey player - Äänekoski, Finland
1998-0307 Amanda Gorman* poet (The Hill We Climb)/activist - Los Angeles, CA USA
1998-0310
1998-0316 Haruka Kitaguchi* 北口 榛花 athlete (javelin) - Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
1998-0318 Miltiadis Tentoglou* athlete (long jump/OG) - Grevena, Greece
1998-0320 Letesenbet Gidey* long-distance runner - Ethiopia
1998-0326 Daria Grushina* ski jumper - Saint Petersburg, Russia
1998-0401
1998-0403 Paris Jackson* singer/ actress/daughter of Michael Jackson - Beverly Hills, CA USA
1998-0406 Fernando Scheffer* swimmer/OB - Canoas, Brazil
1998-0407 Sara Säkkinen* hockey player - Tampere, Finland
1998-0409 Elle Fanning* actress - Conyers, GA USA
1998-0410
1998-0415 Dorsa Derakhshani* chess player - Tehran, Iran
1998-0417 Osagi Bascome* footbal player - Hamilton, Bermuda (2021/23)
1998-0419 Patrik Laine* hockey player - Tampere, Finland
1998-0419 Zhang Yufei* swimmer/OS - Xuzhou, China
1998-0420
1998-0424 Ryan Newman* actress - Manhattan Beach, CA USA
1998-0426 Jan-Krzysztof Duda* chess player/grandmaster - Kraków, Poland
1998-0427 Froy Gutierrez* actor/ singer - Highland Park, TX USA
1998-0428
1998-0429 Ingrid Syrstad Engen* football player - Melhus, Norway
1998-0429 Ella Hunt* actress - Devon, England
1998-0430 Olivia DeJonge* actress - Melbourne, VIC Australia
1998-0501
1998-0503 Koki Ikeda* 池田 向希 race walker/OS - Japan
1998-0505 Olli Juolevi* hockey player - Helsinki, Finland
1998-0505 Aryna Sabalenka* tennis player - Minsk, Belorus
1998-0506
1998-0507 Dani Olmo* football player - Terrassa, Spain
1998-0507 Jesse Puljujärvi* Finnish hockey player - Älvkarleby, Sweden
1998-0508 Ashleigh Plumptre* British-Nigerian football player/w Nigerian grandfather - Leicester, England
1998-0509
1998-0510 Patriks Gailums* athlete (javelin) - Latvia - WA
1998-0512 Mo Bamba* basketball player - New York City, NY USA
1998-0513 Annamaria Serturini* football player - Alzano Lombardo, Italy
1998-0514 Aaron Ramsdale* football goalie - Stoke-on-Trent, England
1998-0518 Polina Edmunds* figure skater - Santa Clara, CA USA
1998-0518 Brianna Fruean* activist/ environmental advocate for Samoa - Auckland, New Zealand
1998-0522 Alicia Barker* American-Filipino football player - Kirkland, WA USA
1998-0523 Eetu Kallioinen* sport shooter - Loppi, Finland
1998-0523 Salwa Eid Naser* Bahraini sprinter/WG - Anambra State, Nigeria
1998-0525 Janne Kuokkanen* hockey player - Oulunsalo, Finland
1998-0526 Logan Stanley* hockey player - Kitchener, ON Canada
1998-0529 Grete Ahlberg* athlete (hammer) - Sweden
1998-0531
1998-0601 Aapeli Räsänen* hockey player - Tampere, Finland
1998-0609 Juuso Vuorenmäki* baseball player - Ilmajoki, Finland
1998-0610 Sam Grewe* Paralympic athlete (high jump)/OG - Goshen, IN USA
1998-0611 Wilma Murto* athlete (pole vault/EG) - Kuusjoki, Finland
1998-0611 Charlie Tahan* actor - Glen Rock, NJ USA
1998-0612 Heikki Iiskola* floorball player - Helsinki, Finland
1998-0612 Brianne Tju* actress - Chino Hills, CA USA
1998-0615 Alexander Samarin* figure skater - Moscow, Russia
1998-0615 Filippo Tortu* athlete (sprinter) - Milan, Italy
1998-0616 Toni Keränen* athlete (j_avelin_) - Liminka, Finland
1998-0624 Miriam Dattke* German long-distance runner - Germany
1998-0624 Pierre-Luc Dubois* hockey player - Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, QC Canada
1998-0627 Sistine Stallone* model/ actress/daughter of Sylvester Stallone - Los Angeles, CA USA
1998-0629 Emma Oosterwegel* athlete (heptathlon/OB) - Deventer, Netherlands
1998-0630 Samuel Soramies* hockey player/w Finnish father - Heidelberg, Germany
1998-0701 Chloe Bailey* singer-songwriter/ record producer/actress - Mableton, GA USA
1998-0706 Sumit Antil* Paralympic athlete (javelin)/OG - Kherwa, Haryana, India
1998-0706 Sarah-Léonie Cysique* judoka/OS - Sarcelles, France
1998-0707
1998-0708 Jaden Smith* actor/rapper - Malibu, CA USA
1998-0708 Maya Thurman-Hawke* actress/model - New York, NY USA
1998-0709 Alejandra Paola Perez Lopez* Paralympic athlete (sprinter)/OB - Maracaibo, Venezuela
1998-0709 Linda Patricia Perez Lopez* Paralympic athlete (sprinter)/OG - Maracaibo, Venezuela
1998-0714 Charles-Antoine Kouakou* Paralympic athlete (sprinter)/OG - Paris, France
1998-0720
1998-0723 Helena Howard* actress - New York City, NY USA
1998-0723 Martina Lenzini* football player - Pavullo nel Frignano, Italy
1998-0729 Clayton Keller* hockey player - Chesterfield, MO SA
1998-0731 Rico Rodriguez* actor - Bryan, TX USA
1998-0803 Sophiane Méthot* trampoline gymnast/OB - Longueuil, QC Canada
1998-0803 Daniel Romanchuk* Paralympic athlete (wheelchair racer)/OG - Mount Airy, MA USA
1998-0804 Tuomas Lehtonen* runner (400hurdles) - Turku, Finland
1998-0805
1998-0806 Chantelle Swaby* Jamaican football player - Hartford, CT USA
1998-0807 Felicia Hano* artistic gymnast/trampolinist - San Gabriel, CA USA
1998-0808 Ronan Parke* singer/BGT runner-up - Poringland, Norfolk, England
1998-0810 Diptayan Ghosh* chess grandmaster - Kolkata, India
1998-0811 Juan Miguel Echevarría* athlete (long jump)/OS - Camagüey, Cuba
1998-0812 Stefanos Tsitsipas* tennis player - Athens, Greece
1998-0817 Kaito Kawabata* 川端 魁人 athlete (runner/400m) - Matsusaka, Japan
1998-0818 Tenshin Nasukawa* 那須川 天心 kickboxer/mixed martial artist - Chiba Prefecture, Japan
1998-0820
1998-0824 Robin Packalen* singer - Turku, Finland
1998-0825 Abraham Mateo* singer/ actor/record producer - San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain
1998-0901
1998-0902 Eetu Luostarinen* hockey player - Siilinjärvi, Finland
1998-0910
1998-0914 Poppy Gilbert* British actress - Stockholm, Sweden
1998-0917 Mario Ferraro* hockey player - Toronto, ON Canada
1998-0919 Nolan Patrick* hockey player - Winnipeg, MB Canada
1998-0920
1998-0921 Tadej Pogačar* cyclist/OB - Komenda, Slovenia
1998-0930
1998-1001
1998-1007 Nikita Boyarkin* hockey goalie - Karaganda, Kazakhstan
1998-1009 Emmanuel Ihemeje* athlete (triple jump)/of Nigerian descent - Carrara, Italy
1998-1010 Santeri Kuusiniemi* athlete (hurdles) - Finland
1998-1011 Jason Joseph* hurdler - Basel-Lanschaft, Switzerland
1998-1019 Katie Douglas* actress - Burlington, ON Canada
1998-1022 Paris Intarakomalyasut* actor/singer - Bangkok, Thailand
1998-1023 Amandla Stenberg* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1998-1025 Felix Sandman* singer/songwriter/actor - Värmdö, Sweden
1998-1028 Luca Ekler* Paralympic athlete (long jump/OG) - Szombathely, Hungary
1998-1028 Nolan Gould* actor - New York, NY USA
1998-1028 Francis Uzoho* football goalie - Nwangele, Imo State, Nigeria
1998-1030 Cale Makar* hockey player - Calgary, AB Canada
1998-1031
1998-1105 Champion Allison* athlete (runner/400m) - Houston, TX USA
1998-1112 Elias Pettersson* hockey player/WG - Sundsvall, Sweden
1998-1116 Kasper Kotkansalo* hockey player - Espoo, Finland
1998-1116 Igor Son* weightlifter/OB - Kazakhstan
1998-1117 Kara Hayward* actress - Andover, MA USA
1998-1122 Bianca Salming* athlete (heptathlon)/daughter of Börje Salming - Sweden
1998-1129 Ayumu Hirano* 平野 歩夢 snowboarder/OS - Murakami, Niigata, Japan
1998-1204 Taika Koilahti* athlete (long jump) - Finland
1998-1206 Joe Fraser* artistic gymnast/WG - Birmingham, England
1998-1206 Ella Junnila* athlete (high jump)/daughter of Ringa Ropo - Espoo, Finland
1998-1212 Ida Hulkko* swimmer - Mikkeli, Finland
1998-1215
1998-1218 Simona Quadarella* swimmer/OB - Rome, Italy
1998-1219 Frans Jeppsson Wall* singer-songwriter - Ystad, Sweden
1998-1220 Kylian Mbappé* football player - Paris, France
1998-1222 Casper Ruud* tennis player - Oslo, Norway
1998-1224
1998-1230 Alice Hopkins* athlete (long jump) - Thame, Oxfordshire, England
1998-1230 Jutta Leerdam* speed skater - ’s-Gravenzande, Netherlands
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