What Happened in 1998 — Events, Births & Deaths

Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.

Argentinian physicist Juan Maldacena publishes a landmark paper initiating the study of AdS/CFT correspondence, which links string theory and quantum gravity.

A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.

Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.

Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.

In Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Guatemala, thirteen American students on a school trip are attacked and robbed at gunpoint; five were raped.

Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.

Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.

Netscape announces Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.

During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.

A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.

Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.

Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into Mount Sumagaya in the Philippines, killing all 104 people on board.

Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.

The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.

Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.

China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.

American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.

Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.

An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.

Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, open fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.

A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.

Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performs the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.

The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.

In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.

Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.

The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.

Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-90, the final Spacelab mission.

Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.

The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.

A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.

Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.

Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.

India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.

In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker.

President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.

A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.

The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.

The Supreme Court of the United States rules in New Jersey v. New York that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.

The first "National Sorry Day" is held in Australia. Reconciliation events are held nationally, and attended by over a million people.

A MIAT Mongolian Airlines Harbin Y-12 crashes near Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia, resulting in 28 deaths.

Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.

The 6.5 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.

Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.

Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-91, the final mission of the Shuttle-Mir program.

After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.

A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.

Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.

Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11.

In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.

Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

The Ulster Volunteer Force attack a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.

France win their first World Cup title, defeating defending champions Brazil 3–0.

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.

The 7.0 Mw Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.

A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing the permanent international court in The Hague, to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire, killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.

Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, is officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe. Issims and tribal chiefs agreed to create a self-declared government until Somalia recovered.

Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.

The Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, is raided by Taliban, leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist.

HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.

Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.

Apple introduces the iMac computer.

Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.

The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.

U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.

The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff, resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X communications satellite.

Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.

Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador.

Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.

Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people on board are killed.

The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University.

Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.

PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.

The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.

A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.

Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.

Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum.

Deep Space 1 is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies.

In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.

Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time.

ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with live coverage of the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.

Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.

The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures over 200.

Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings into U.S. President Bill Clinton.

A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Finnish satanist Jarno Elg kills a 23-year-old man and performs a ritual-like cutting and eating of body parts in Hyvinkää, Finland.

Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.

The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India.

The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.

Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.

Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.

Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.

President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second president of the United States to be impeached.

Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.

Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives.

The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

Cristina Bucșa, Moldovan-Spanish tennis player

Edwuin Cetré, Colombian footballer

Enock Mwepu, Zambian footballer

Frank Onyeka, Nigerian footballer

Tfue, American online streamer

Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer

Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer

Emiru, American online streamer

Coco Jones, American singer-songwriter and actress

Arnoldas Kulboka, Lithuanian basketball player

Rodrigo Garro, Argentine footballer

Liza Soberano, Filipina actress

Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer

Corey Horsburgh, Australian rugby league player

Tony Bradley, American basketball player

Jhoan Durán, Dominican baseball player

Kerris Dorsey, American actress

Brent Rivera, American social media personality and actor

Thomas Mikaele, New Zealand rugby league player

Juan Foyth, Argentinian footballer

Maddison Inglis, Australian tennis player

Alexandra Eade, Australian artistic gymnast

Ben Godfrey, English footballer

Chloe Kelly, English footballer

Boo Seung-kwan, South Korean singer

Sophie Molineux, Australian cricketer

Jeff Reine-Adélaïde, French footballer

Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer

Lisandro Martínez, Argentinian footballer

Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer

Emre Guler, Australian rugby league player

Pervis Estupiñán, Ecuadorian footballer

Walid Cheddira, Moroccan footballer

XXXTentacion, American rapper (died 2018)

Moonbin, South Korean singer and actor. (died 2023)

Devin Druid, American actor

Payton Pritchard, American basketball player

Ariel Winter, American actress

Beto, Portuguese and Bissau-Guinean footballer

Jalen McDaniels, American basketball player

Jazz Chisholm Jr., Bahamian baseball player

Shiho Katō, Japanese singer and model

Tyler Huntley, American football player

Isaiah Roby, American basketball player

Aurélien Giraud, French skateboarder

Malik Monk, American basketball player

Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer

Adley Rutschman, American baseball player

Rui Hachimura, Japanese basketball player

Cem Bölükbaşı, Turkish racing driver and former sim racer

Isabella Gomez, Colombian-American actress

Trent Frederic, American ice hockey player

Josh Jacobs, American football player

Khalid, American singer and songwriter

Zachary Gordon, American actor

George Russell, English racing driver

An Hyejin, South Korean volleyball player

Kim Suji, South Korean diver

Harry Grant, Australian rugby league player

Devin White, American football player

Vernon, South Korean and American rapper, singer and songwriter

Katharina Gerlach, German tennis player

Chappell Roan, American singer and songwriter

Jungwoo, South Korean singer

Emam Ashour, Egyptian footballer

Todd Cantwell, English footballer

Teun Koopmeiners, Dutch footballer

Tua Tagovailoa, American football player

Jayson Tatum, American basketball player

Obi Toppin, American basketball player

Bo Bichette, American baseball player

Kyle Trask, American football player

Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist

Najee Harris, American football running back

Justin Herbert, American football player

Carsen Edwards, American basketball player

Mecole Hardman, American football player

Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater

Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater

Jay-Roy Grot, Dutch footballer

Jack Harlow, American rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor

Tyson Jost, Canadian ice hockey player

Brandon Aiyuk, American football player

Emmanuel Clase, Dominican baseball player

Caylee Cowan, American actress

Julian Love, American football player

Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer

Miles Bridges, American basketball player

Noah Lalonde, American actor. Known for his role as Cole Walter in My Life with the Walter Boys.

Christopher Briney, American actor

Ethel Cain, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and model

Damar Hamlin, American football player

Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater

Giannis Bouzoukis, Greek footballer

Lance Morris, Australian cricketer

Kalyn Ponga, Australian rugby league player

King Combs, American rapper

Mitchell Robinson, American basketball player

Paris Jackson, American actress, model and singer

Nathan Broadhead, Welsh football player

Nicolás González, Argentine footballer

Peyton List, American actress and model

Spencer List, American actor

Nahuel Molina, Argentine footballer

Lavinia Valbonesi, Ecuadorian nutritionist, businesswoman and First Lady of Ecuador

Elle Fanning, American actress

Sexyy Red, American rapper

Anna Odine Strøm, Norwegian ski jumper and two-time Olympic champion

Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana (Saint), Thai actor and singer

Jarrett Allen, American basketball player

Ryan Newman, American actress

Satou Sabally, German-American basketball player

Cristian Romero, Argentine footballer

Song Yu-bin, South Korean singer and actor

Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player

Mallory Pugh, American soccer player

Georgina Amorós, Spanish actress

Rex Orange County, English musician

Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player

Luigi Mangione, suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

MrBeast, American YouTuber

Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer

Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player

Viktória Kužmová, Slovak tennis player

Mo Bamba, American-Ivorian basketball player

Adrià Pedrosa, Spanish footballer

Luca Zidane, Algerian footballer

Lucrezia Stefanini, Italian tennis player

Polina Edmunds, American figure skater

Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver

Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater

Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model

Sérgio Sette Câmara, Brazilian racing driver

Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter

Luca de la Torre, American soccer player

Josep Martínez, Spanish footballer

Kim Dahyun, South Korean rapper and singer

De'Anthony Melton, American basketball player

Markelle Fultz, American basketball player

Austin Reaves, American basketball player

Santino Ferrucci, American race car driver

Sam Curran, English cricketer

Central Cee, British rapper and songwriter

Kale Clague, Canadian ice hockey player

Jaqueline Cristian, Romanian tennis player

Dave, British rapper

Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater

Kenny Pickett, American football player

Ryan Papenhuyzen, Australian rugby league player

Karman Thandi, Indian tennis player

Atticus Shaffer, American actor and YouTuber

Joshua Da Silva, Trinidadian cricketer

Isabel Atkin, British-American freestyle skier

Federico Gatti, Italian footballer

Pierre-Luc Dubois, Canadian ice hockey player

Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer

Gjon's Tears, Swiss singer-songwriter

Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player

Tom Davies, English footballer

Chloe Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress

Susan Bandecchi, Swiss tennis player

Aleksandra Golovkina, Lithuanian figure skater

Kim Dong-han, South Korean singer

Emily Fox, American soccer player

Comethazine, American rapper

Maya Hawke, American actress

Jaden Smith, American actor and rapper

Angus Cloud, American actor (died 2023)

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Canadian basketball player

Noah Gragson, American racing driver

Rosana Serrano, Cuban rower

Erin Cuthbert, Scottish footballer

Karl Jacobs, American YouTuber and streamer

Ronaldo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean footballer

Morgan Geekie, Canadian ice hockey player

Maggie Lindemann, American singer-songwriter.

Marie Bouzkova, Czech tennis player

Marc Cucurella, Spanish footballer

Larray, American YouTuber

Madison Pettis, American actress

Federico Valverde, Uruguayan footballer

Sahaphap Wongratch, Thai actor, model, and singer

Deandre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player

Bindi Irwin, Australian conservationist, zookeeper, and actress

Sophie Wotschke, Austrian politician

Cailee Spaeny, American actress

Achraf El Yakhloufi, Belgian politician

Mirjam Björklund, Swedish tennis player

Clayton Keller, American ice hockey player

Tijjani Reijnders, Dutch footballer

Rico Rodriguez, American actor

Lil Skies, American rapper

Adam Doueihi, Australian-Lebanese rugby league player

Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver

María Belén Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer

Jalen Hurts, American football player

Ryan Garcia, American boxer

Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player

Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player

Doechii, American rapper

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Japanese baseball player

Brian To'o, Australian-Samoan rugby league player

Clairo, American singer-songwriter

Nick Fuentes, American far-right political commentator

Lieke Klaver, Dutch track and field athlete

P. J. Washington, American basketball player

Sofia Richie, American model and social media personality

China Anne McClain, American actress and singer

Charlie Gillespie, Canadian actor and singer

Jeon Soyeon, Korean rapper and record producer

Kevin Huerter, American basketball player

Matheus Nunes, Portuguese footballer

Rod Wave, American rapper, singer, and songwriter

Brandon Hagel, Canadian ice hockey player

Weston McKennie, American soccer player

BossMan Dlow, American rapper

Josh Battle, Australian rules footballer

Josh Okogie, Nigerian-American basketball player

Salah Mohsen, Egyptian footballer

Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Canadian basketball player

Choi Ye-bin, South Korean actress

Eetu Luostarinen, Finnish ice hockey player

Oskar Seuntjens, Belgian politician

Neru Nagahama, Japanese television personality

Caroline Dolehide, American tennis player

Mac Jones, American football player

Davion Mitchell, American basketball player

Michele Perniola, Italian singer

Sierra Capri, American actress

Chelsea Gubecka, Australian swimmer

Emma Laird, English actress

Georgie Gleeson, Australian representative

Matheus Leist, Brazilian racing driver

Jordan Nwora, Nigerian-American basketball player

Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player

Sheck Wes, American rapper

Satoshi, Moldovan rapper and singer-songwriter

Kim Dong-hyun, South Korean singer

Christian Pulisic, American soccer player

Conor Timmins, Canadian ice hockey player

Nolan Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player

Trae Young, American basketball player

Trevon Diggs, American football player

Máscara de Bronce, Mexican wrestler

Yainer Díaz, Dominican baseball player

Nikolas Cruz, American mass murderer

Ioana Mincă, Romanian tennis player

Panna Udvardy, Hungarian tennis player

Landon Dickerson, American football player

Yui Imaizumi, Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality

Trevi Moran, American YouTuber and singer

Daniel Gafford, American basketball player

Haumole Olakau'atu, Australian-Tongan rugby league player

Exequiel Palacios, Argentine footballer

Ryan Trahan, American YouTuber

Ariela Barer, American actress

Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, Indonesian activist and politician

Janalynn Castelino, Italian-Indian singer-songwriter

Noof Al Maadeed, Qatari women's rights activist

Jordan Ridley, Australian rules footballer

Kerem Aktürkoğlu, Turkish footballer

Roddy Ricch, American rapper

Amandla Stenberg, American actress

Jordan Goodwin, American basketball player

Daya, American singer

Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player

Lee Know, South Korean singer

Nolan Gould, American actor

Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver

Cale Makar, Canadian ice hockey player

Stuart Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player

Jordan Love, American football player

Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic swimmer

Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer

Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballer

Hongjoong, South Korean rapper, singer, producer, and songwriter

Trevor Rainbolt, American social media personality

Claudine Co, Filipino singer and influencer

Karen Villanueva, Mexican rhythmic gymnast

Liudmila Samsonova, Russian tennis player

Jules Koundé, French footballer

Elias Pettersson, Swedish ice hockey player

Sofia Kenin, American tennis player

DeVonta Smith, American football player

Nahuel Ferraresi, Venezuelan footballer

Ognjen Ilić, Serbian cyclist

Vangelis Pavlidis, Greek footballer

Caoimhín Kelleher, Irish footballer

Jeremy Swayman, American ice hockey player

Shivam Mavi, Indian cricketer

MJ Melendez, American baseball player

Ye Qiuyu, Chinese tennis player

Lovie Simone, American actress

Grant Williams, American basketball player

Annalise Basso, American actress

Anna Kalinskaya, Russian tennis player

Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer and songwriter (died 2019)

Conan Gray, American singer-songwriter

Randal Kolo Muani, French footballer

Angelīna Kučvaļska, Latvian figure skater

Tony Yike Yang, Canadian pianist

Josh Dunne, American ice hockey player

Owen Teague, American actor

Lucia Bronzetti, Italian tennis player

Ian Seymour, American baseball pitcher

Lonnie Walker IV, American basketball player

Kim Ji-woong, South Korean singer and actor

Mira Antonitsch, Austrian tennis player

Zhou Jieqiong, Chinese singer and actress

Jasmine Armfield, English actress

Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer

Paola Egonu, Italian volleyball player

Simona Quadarella, Italian swimmer

Klaudia Zwolińska, Polish slalom canoeist

King Princess, American singer-songwriter and musician

Kylian Mbappé, French footballer

G Hannelius, American actress and singer

Latto, American rapper and singer

Casper Ruud, Norwegian tennis player

Alexis Mac Allister, Argentine footballer

Luka Garza, American basketball player

Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, American actor

Victor Osimhen, Nigerian footballer

Brandon Thomas-Asante, Ghanaian footballer

W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and playwright (born 1914)

Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (born 1937)

Ray Nitschke, American football player (born 1936)

Lloyd Bridges, American actor and director (born 1913)

Jean-François Lyotard, French sociologist and philosopher (born 1924)

Eldridge Cleaver, American author and activist (born 1935)

John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (born 1926)

José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (born 1910)

Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (born 1943)

Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (born 1903)

Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (born 1909)

Bob Kane, American author and illustrator, co-created Batman (born 1915)

Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British impresario and media proprietor (born 1906)

Richard Thomas, Royal Naval Officer (born 1922)

Wade Watts, civil rights activist (born 1919)

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)

Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (born 1904)