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1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.

January

 * January 2 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
 * January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria: over 170 are killed in 3 remote villages.
 * 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 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
 * 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 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which would lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
 * January 22 – "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty in the United States, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

February

 * 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.
 * February 4 – 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.
 * February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
 * February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people (all 196 on board and 6 on the ground).
 * February 20 – 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 Britain.
 * February 22 - The Palace 2 building collapses at neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca, in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
 * February 28
 * 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, tSeason 5  of  Barney & Friends  aired from November 2-27, 1998. Season4Silhouette.png

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 * January 13: It's Time For Counting is released to stores.
 * February 12: Down On Barney's Farm is released to stores, after being only available through Time Life, possibly to promote Barney's Great Adventure.
 * March 17: Barney In Outer Space is released to stores.
 * March 28: Barney's First Adventures airs on Fox Kids.
 * March 31: Barney's Great Adventure: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is released.
 * Late March: My Party with Barney is available to purchase through Kideo. Also,
 * April 3: Barney's Great Adventure is released to theaters. This was also the final project in which Sheryl Stamps Leach served as executive producer.
 * April 8: Barney appears at La Brea Tar Pits to put his footprints in cement in to promote the release of the movie.
 * April 26: Barney's Big Surprise ends its North American tour at the PNE Coliseum.
 * May 19: The home video, Barney's Big Surprise and The Easter Show is released to stores. The soundtrack, Barney's Big Surprise! Live on Stage is re-released with the front cover matching the home video front cover.
 * August 18: Barney's Halloween Party and Barney's Sing-Along: Halloween Party are both released to stores.
 * September 1: Barney's Great Adventure is released on video to stores. It is the first video that was released on DVD. Barney's First Adventures is available to receive through the mail.
 * September 8: Waiting for Santa is re-released and has new previews.
 * September 15: Barney's Great Adventure Sing-Along is released to stores.
 * November 2: Season 5 premieres on PBS.
 * November 3: Good, Clean Fun! / Oh, Brother...She's My Sister Video 2-Pack is released to stores. Songs in the Key of Purple is packaged with selected Barney home videos.
 * Early November: Barney's Big Surprise and The Easter Show begins an eight city tour of the UK at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
 * November 26: Barney and the kids performed If All the Raindrops at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
 * November 27: Season 5 finale on PBS.
 * Barney is named #1 Kids Artist on "Billboard´s ""Year in Music" for the third time.
 * Barney Rhymes with Mother Goose is re-released. Barney's Exercise Circus / Barney's Parade of Numbers are also re-released separately.
 * December 21: The UK tour of Barney's Big Surprise and The Easter Show wraps up at the Sheffield Arena.

New Barney & Friends Episodes and Songs
Season Five Episodes

Cast

 * Barney (Body: David Joyner/Carey Stinson/Josh Martin, Voice: Bob West)
 * Baby Bop (Body: Jeff Ayers/Lee Clark/Jennifer Romano, Voice: Julie Johnson)
 * BJ (Body: Jeff Brooks/Kyle Nelson/Pat O'Connell, Voice: Patty Wirtz)
 * Colby (Voice: David Frank, Costume: N/A)
 * Hannah (Marisa Kuers)
 * Kristen (Sara Hickman)
 * Ashley (Monet Chandler)
 * Alissa (Maurie Chandler)
 * Stephen (Chase Gallatin)
 * Kim (Erica Rhodes)
 * Keesha (Mera Baker)
 * Robert (Angel Velasco)
 * Chip (Lucien Douglas)
 * Jeff (Austin Ball)
 * Danny (Jeffrey Hood)
 * Curtis (Monte Black)
 * Emily (Hannah Owens) (debut)
 * Linda (Adrianne Kangas) (debut)
 * Mr. Boyd (Robert Sweatman)
 * Stella the Storyteller (Phyllis Cicero)
 * Scooter McNutty (voiced by Todd Duffey)
 * Miss Etta Kette (voiced by Brice Armstrong)
 * Booker T. Bookworm (voiced by Earl Fisher) (debut)
 * Cody Newton (Trevor Morgan)
 * Abby Newton (Diana Rice)
 * Marcella (Kyla Pratt)
 * Grandpa Greenfield (George Hearn)
 * Grandma Greenfield (Shirley Douglas)
 * Mrs. Mildred Goldfinch (Renee Madeline Le Guerrier)
 * Tony (Trent Gentry)
 * Rachel (Vanessa Lauren)
 * Cindy (Mallory Lineberger)
 * Kevin (Brandt Love)
 * Jake Mann
 * Brittany Durlach
 * Stephanie Wall
 * Kevin Jones
 * Matt Sackett
 * Danielle Hogg
 * Paulina Johnson
 * Casey Lagos
 * Danielle Kincebach
 * Andrew Pollaro
 * Peter Woo
 * Gina Gonzalez
 * Dawn Jordan
 * Brandon Muchow
 * Rachel Balich

Executive Producers

 * Dennis DeShazer
 * Sheryl Leach (Executive Producer for It's Time for Counting, Barney in Outer Space, and Barney's Big Surprise)
 * Jay Renfroe
 * Matthew Papish
 * David Garfinkle

Editors

 * McKee Smith
 * Tim Werner
 * Brian Norfolk
 * Vickie Sterling
 * Laura Cargile
 * Peter Cohen (Editor for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Denise Crowell (Dialogue Editor)
 * Don Clark (Sound Editor)
 * Patrick N. Selleers (Music/Dialogue Editor)
 * Clint de Boer (Sound Effects Editor)
 * Alan Porzio (Sound Effects Editor for Barney's First Adventures)

Writers

 * Stephen White
 * Mark S. Bernthal
 * Perri Verdino-Gates
 * Donna Cooner
 * Heidi B. Kirby
 * Troy Charles

Directors

 * Steve Gome
 * Fred Holmes
 * Steven Feldman
 * Jim Rowley
 * Jeff Gittle
 * Lynn Ambrose (Casting Director)
 * Bob Morones (Talent Director for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Eric Norberg (Associate Director)
 * Terrie Davis (Associate Director)
 * Elizabeth Sagen Velten (Art Director)
 * Derek R. Hill (Art Director)
 * Murray Campbell (Lighting Director)
 * Steve Corie (Lighting Director for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Cathie Berbena-Lloyd (Lighting Director)
 * Colin DeFord (Technical Director)
 * David Boothe (Audio Director)
 * Jake Berry (Production Director for Barney's Big Surprise and The Easter Show)
 * Penny Wilson (Performance Director)
 * Bob Singleton (Musical Director)
 * David Bernard Wolf (Musical Director)
 * Joe Phillips (Musical Director)

Audio

 * Ron Balentine (Production Audio)
 * David Lowe (Production Audio)
 * Wild Woods (Post Audio for Barney's First Adventures)

Producers

 * Jim Rowley (Supervising Producer)
 * Rosa Gonzalez (Supervising Producer)
 * Ben Vaughn (Senior Consulting Producer)
 * Linda Houston (Consulting Producer)
 * Jeff Gittle (Senior Producer/Consulting Producer)
 * Mark Ritts (Senior Producer for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Carmen Herrerra (Coordinating Producer for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Sloan Coleman

Coordinators

 * Steven G. McAfee (Production Coordinator)
 * Dawn Stewart (Production Coordinator for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Amy Atherton (Art/Craft Coordinator)
 * Jonathan Smith (Music Coordinator)
 * Perri Verdino-Gates (Writing Coordinator)
 * Russel Towery (Stunt Coordinator)
 * Lynn Corzine (Tour Coordinator)

Secretaries

 * Shirley Bradshaw (Tour Secretary)

Operators

 * Bruce Harmon (Camera Operator)
 * Larry Allen (Camera Operator)
 * Bill Saunders (Camera Operator for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Kevin Roberts (Camera Operator for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Dave Parks (Camera Operator for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Van Smalley (Camera Operator)
 * Scott Dailey (Camera Operator)
 * James Johnson (Videotape Operator)
 * Dudley Asaff (Videotape Operator)
 * James Young (Videotape Operator)
 * Todd Davis (Light Board Operator)

Designers

 * Lisa Odette Albertson (Wardrobe Designer)
 * Bob Lavalee (Production Designer)
 * Doug Leonard (Production Designer for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Victor DiNapoli (Set Designer)
 * Lisa Albertson (Costume Designer)
 * Ken Craig (Lighting Designer)
 * Jeanie L. D'lorio (Makeup Designer)
 * Jimi White (Makeup Designer)
 * Martha Beresford (Makeup Designer)
 * Nancy Gray (Makeup Designer)

Grips

 * Trey Smith (Best Boy Grip)
 * James Edwards
 * Jeffrey Jon
 * Steve Ritchey
 * Tim Harkins
 * Buck Hatcher
 * Jim Fisher
 * Michael Tomassetti
 * Michael Spain

Electricians

 * Todd Davis (Best Boy Electric)
 * James Edwards
 * Jeffrey Jon
 * Steve Ritchey
 * Tim Harkins
 * Buck Hatcher
 * Jim Fisher
 * Michael Tomassetti
 * Michael Spain

Dressers

 * Aggie Davis-Brooks
 * Cheryl Johnson
 * Allison Linna
 * Meredith Motley

Leadmen

 * Tom Rutherford

Buyers

 * Stephanie Emery
 * Melissa James
 * Cheryl Johnson
 * Mindy Cranston

Greenspersons

 * Kelley Johnston Miller

Coaches

 * Shelley C. Aubrey (Dialogue Coach)

Carpenters

 * Dan Leonard (Lead Carpenter)

Wardrobe Sewing

 * Traci Hutton
 * Tom Jaekels
 * Merrie McCoy
 * Celeste Henson
 * Leila Heise
 * Natalie Sergi-Saari

Stitchers

 * Amelia Clemens (Costume Stitcher)
 * Mimi Clemens (Costume Stitcher)

Puppeteers

 * Alan Elson (Tickle Tree Puppeteer for Barney in Outer Space)

Technicians

 * Alan Elson (Costume Technician)
 * William McNully (Costume Technician)

Mixers

 * Gary French (Rerecording Mixer)

Teachers

 * Valinda Kimmel

Interns

 * Sharon Dieter (Production Intern)
 * Beletra Thomas (Production Intern)

Painters

 * Kristen Weeks (Scenic Painter)
 * Tina Griffith-Camp (Scenic Painter)

Special Effects

 * Bob Trevino
 * Rob Goodson

Stylists

 * Debra Hertel Haefling (Hair Stylist)

Engineers

 * Bink Williams (Video Engineer)
 * Willie O'Brien (Sound Engineer)

Managers

 * Charlotte Spivey (Production Manager)
 * Harold Behrens (Production Manager)
 * Jennifer Beasley (Production Manager for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Craig Kawamoto (Production Manager for Barney's First Adventures
 * Matthew McCracken (Production Manager for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Laurie Berry (Production Office Manager)
 * Christine Finnigan (Public Relations Manager)
 * Michelle McCarel (Public Relations Manager)
 * Jena Atchison (Stage Manager)
 * Julie Hutchings (Manager of Talent Services)
 * Lisa Greif (Manager of Music Services)
 * Sue Shinn (Production Office Manager)
 * Lyle Hutchton (Wardrobe/Costume Manager)
 * Georgia Ford Wagenhurst (Wardrobe Shop Manager)
 * Tom Jaekels (Wardrobe Shop Manager)
 * David Cobb (Costume Shop Manager)
 * Glenn R. Grabski (Business Tour Manager)

Researchers

 * Lori Plummer
 * Joy Starr
 * Kimberly Thornton

Specialists

 * Mary Ann Dudko (Educational Specialist)
 * Margie Larsen (Educational Specialist)

Supervisors

 * Lisa Odette Albertson (Wardrobe Supervisor)
 * Bob Dauber (Post Production Supervisor)
 * Randy Breedlove (Technical Operations Supervisor)
 * Caris Palm Turpen (Visual Effects Supervisor)
 * Catherine Reynolds (Script Supervisor)
 * Diane Gillham (Child Supervisor)
 * Sherry Gentry (Child Supervisor)

Accountants

 * Randy Dalton (Senior Accountant)
 * Debbie Cottle (Production Accountant)

Lyricists/Composers

 * Holly Doubet
 * Angelo Natalie
 * Paul Loomis
 * Kevin S. Devine
 * David Sparks
 * Philip Parker
 * Tony Peugh
 * Willy Welch
 * Jerry Herman (wrote Barney - The Song)
 * Joe Phillips
 * C. Russell Riddle
 * Joyce D. Slocum
 * Rene Dupere (wrote Who's Inside It?)
 * Michael Sinelnikoff (wrote Who's Inside It?)
 * David Friedman (wrote We're Gonna Find a Way)
 * Barbara Rothstein (wrote We're Gonna Find a Way)
 * Chris Atwood (wrote You Can and Let's Sing All the Way Home)
 * Steve Ferguson (wrote You Can and Let's Sing All the Way Home)
 * Essra Mohawk (wrote Dream (Twinken's Tune))
 * Stephen Bishop (wrote You Can Do Anything)
 * Jeff Jones (wrote You Can Do Anything)
 * Colin Boyd (wrote Rainbows Follow the Rain)
 * Tim Clott (wrote Rainbows Follow the Rain)

Property Masters

 * Tim Thomaston
 * Frank Goodman

Assistants

 * Caroline St. Denis (Assistant Performance Director)
 * Shelley C. Aubrey (Assistant Performance Director)
 * Malcolm Johnson (Production Audio Assistant)
 * Brenda J. Galgan (Production Audio Assistant)
 * Corey Jones (Assistant to Props)
 * Matt Maples (Assistant to Props)
 * Chris Kaufman (Assistant to Props)
 * John Clark (Assistant to Props)
 * Gail Lee Dunson (Assistant Production Coordinator)
 * Scott Osborne (Carpenter's Assistant)
 * Tim McGarity (Carpenter's Assistant)
 * Ken Weber (Wardrobe Assistant)
 * Mindy Cranston (Wardrobe Assistant)
 * Brian Blevins (Costume Assistant)
 * Janet Bush (Costume Assistant)
 * Kristen Boyett (Costume Assistant)
 * Denise Rohr (Costume Assistant)
 * Gilbert Gonzales (Costume Assistant)
 * Craig Chastain (Post Production Audio Assistant)
 * Beth Read (Assistant Production Accountant)
 * Donna Ivers (Assistant Producer)
 * Craig Wright (Production Assistant)
 * Joel Zoch (Production Assistant)
 * Suzanne Parham (Production Assistant)
 * Barry W.J. Robb (Production Assistant)
 * Halim Jabbour (Production Assistant)
 * Cindy Tang (Production Assistant for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Brent Studler (Production Assistant for Barney's First Adventures)
 * Matt Maples (Art Department Production Assistant)
 * Kim Greenough (Drafting Assistant)
 * Margaret Johnson (Stunt Assistant)
 * Randy Moore (Stunt Assistant)
 * Elizabeth A. Ashbrook (Assistant Musical Director)
 * Melissa James (Assistant Set Decorator)
 * Tony Santiago (Assistant Editor for Barney's First Adventures)

1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean

January

 * January 2 – The in 1998 Year like a 1999 Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
 * January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria: over 170 are killed in 3 remote villages.
 * 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 in 1998 Year like a 2000 Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
 * January 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
 * 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 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which would lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
 * January 22 – "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty in the United States, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

February

 * 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.
 * February 4 – 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.
 * February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
 * February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people (all 196 on board and 6 on the ground).
 * February 20 – 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 Britain.
 * February 28 – A massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts the Kosovo War.

March

 * March 1 – Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion.
 * 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 – Danish general election, 1998: 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 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.
 * 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.

April

 * April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
 * April 6 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
 * April 10 – Good Friday Agreement: 1 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.
 * 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.

May

 * May 11
 * 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 were not finished in 1998, 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.
 * May 19
 * The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the world's pagers without service.
 * The wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, 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 32 years as President of Indonesia and 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 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
 * May 30
 * A 6.6 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 – European Central Bank 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).
 * Peter Arnett publishes a false report of Operation Tailwind (initiated 1970), claiming that sarin nerve agents were used to eliminate a group of deserting U.S. soldiers.
 * James Byrd Jr. is beaten and dragged to death by 3 white men in Jasper, Texas.
 * June 9–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 27 – Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opened, 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 a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.
 * July 6 – The new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens, while the old Kai Tak Airport closes.
 * July 17
 * 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 Lenin-led 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 21 – September 5 – The 1998 Sydney water crisis involved the suspected contamination by the microscopic pathogens cryptosporidium and giardia of the water supply system of Greater Metropolitan Sydney.

August

 * 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 7
 * 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 15 – The Omagh bombing is carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real Irish Republican Army.

September

 * September 2
 * 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.
 * September 5 – The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary.
 * September 9 – St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season, thus breaking the single season record of 61 which had been held by Roger Maris since 1961.
 * 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 convicted of espionage. The agents claim they were not spying against the United States Government but against the Cuban exile community in Miami.
 * 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".

October

 * October 1 – Europol is established when the Europol Convention signed by all of its member states comes into force.
 * October 3 – Australian federal election, 1998: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition Government is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Kim Beazley.
 * 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 29 – Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, killing an estimated 11,000 people.

November

 * November 17 – Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of 69.419 AU.
 * 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 The 1995 like a 1996 and 1991 one.
 * 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 4 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first American component to the International Space Station, the 25,600 lb Unity module on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later.
 * December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of the Venezuelan military, is elected President of Venezuela.
 * 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 16–19 – 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 the nation.
 * December 29 – Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the post-Vietnam War genocide in Cambodia that killed more than one million people in the 1970s.
 * December 31
 * The first leap second since June 30, 1997, occurs.
 * In the Eurozone, the currency rates of this day are fixed permanently.

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 * 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.

January

 * January 1
 * Sara Ahmed, Egyptian weightlifter
 * Carlo Kemp, American football player
 * January 2
 * Chen Xinyi, Chinese swimmer
 * Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
 * January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
 * January 4
 * Coco Jones, American actress and singer
 * Liza Soberano, Filipino actress and singer
 * January 5 – Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer
 * January 6
 * Ismail Azzaoui, Belgian footballer
 * Norman Grimes, American sprinter
 * Lee Seung-woo, South Korean footballer
 * January 8 – Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer
 * January 10 – Xu Shilin, Chinese tennis player
 * January 11 – Salih Özcan, German footballer
 * January 12 – Rafik Zekhnini, Norwegian footballer
 * January 13
 * Gabrielle Daleman, Canadian figure skater
 * Kamron Doyle, American ten-pin bowler
 * January 14 – Ai Moritaka, Japanese model and actress
 * January 16 – Odsonne Édouard, French footballer
 * January 18
 * Vashti Cunningham, American track and field athlete
 * Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer
 * January 20 – Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player
 * January 21 – Amelia Hundley, American artistic gymnast
 * January 23
 * Rachel Crow, American singer and actress
 * Cole Custer, American stock car racing driver
 * XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
 * January 27 – Rebeka Kim, South Korean ice dancer
 * January 28
 * Javier Acevedo, Canadian swimmer
 * Ariel Winter, American actress
 * January 29 – Mion Mukaichi, Japanese singer and actress
 * January 31
 * Amadou Haidara, Malian footballer
 * Bradie Tennell, American figure skater

February

 * February 1
 * Kipyegon Bett, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 * Stefan Kozlov, American tennis player
 * February 3
 * Michael McLeod, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
 * Yang Hao, Chinese diver
 * February 4
 * Scott Jones, English paralympic athlete
 * Malik Monk, American basketball player
 * February 10
 * Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
 * Gray Gaulding, American stock car racing driver
 * February 13 – Khalifa St. Fort, Trinbagonian sprinter
 * February 15
 * Dennis Cholowski Canadian hockey defenseman
 * Zachary Gordon, American actor
 * February 17 – Fernanda Urdapilleta, Mexican actress and singer
 * February 18
 * Sander Berge, Norwegian footballer
 * Matthew Davidson, American guitarist
 * February 21 – Michaela Hrubá, Czech athlete
 * February 24 – Mariel Pamintuan, Filipino actress
 * February 27
 * Elisa Balsamo, Italian cyclist
 * Felix Gall, Austrian cyclist
 * Theo Stevenson, English actor

March

 * March 2 – Tua Tagovailoa, American football player
 * March 3 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player
 * March 5
 * Sergio Díaz, Paraguayan footballer
 * Micah Fowler, American actor
 * March 9
 * Najee Harris, American football player
 * Kaylin Whitney, American sprinter
 * March 17 – Nathan O'Toole, Irish actor
 * March 19 – Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer
 * March 21 – Miles Bridges, American basketball player
 * March 22 – Paola Andino, Puerto-Rican-American actress
 * March 26
 * Daria Grushina, Russian ski jumper
 * Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater
 * March 27 – Haji Wright, American footballer
 * March 28
 * Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
 * Ryan Simpkins, American actress
 * March 31
 * Oskar Buur, Danish footballer
 * Jakob Chychrun, American ice hockey player
 * Anna Seidel, German short track speed skater

April

 * April 3 – Paris Jackson, American actress and model
 * April 5 – Kaito Nakamura, Japanese actor and model
 * April 6
 * Peyton List, American actress
 * Spencer List, American actor
 * April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress
 * April 10 – Anna Pogorilaya, Russian figure skater
 * April 16
 * Maxime Rooney, American swimmer
 * Paul Salas, Filipino actor
 * April 19 – Patrik Laine, Finnish ice hockey player
 * April 21 – Jarrett Allen, American basketball player
 * April 24 – Ryan Newman, American actress
 * April 26 – Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Polish chess grandmaster
 * April 29 – Kimberly Birrell, German-born Australian tennis player

May

 * May 2
 * Ian Anderson, American baseball pitcher
 * Tremaine Edmunds, American football player
 * Jonathan Ikoné, French footballer
 * May 4 – Frank Jackson, American basketball player
 * May 5
 * Tijana Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
 * Olli Juolevi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * May 6
 * Sierra Schmidt, American swimmer
 * Kayden Troff, American chess champion
 * May 7
 * Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
 * Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * May 8 – Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
 * May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
 * May 12
 * Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player
 * Tornado Alicia Black, American tennis player
 * May 13
 * Karen Iwata, Japanese singer and voice actress
 * Mickey Moniak, American baseball outfielder
 * May 16 – Adian Pitkeev, Russian figure skater
 * May 18 – Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
 * May 20 – Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater
 * May 23 – Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
 * May 29
 * Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
 * Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress
 * Oliver Stokes, English actor
 * Felix Passlack, German footballer

June

 * June 1
 * Aleksandra Soldatova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer
 * June 5 – Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater
 * June 7 – Graham Newberry, British-American figure skater
 * June 12 – Andrey Makolov, Russian artistic gymnast
 * June 14 – Jovane Cabral, Cape Verdean footballer
 * June 15 – Alexander Samarin, Russian figure skater
 * June 16
 * Ritsu Doan, Japanese footballer
 * Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer
 * June 19
 * Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş, Turkish swimmer
 * Suzu Hirose, Japanese actress and model
 * Atticus Shaffer, American actor
 * Ömer Yurtseven, Turkish basketball player
 * June 21 – Gerben Thijssen, Belgian road and track cyclist
 * June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun, Dutch footballer
 * June 23 – Josip Brekalo, Croatian footballer
 * June 24
 * Pierre-Luc Dubois, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Coy Stewart, American actor
 * June 25 – Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer
 * June 26 – Edu Gueda, Brazilian singer
 * June 27 – Bor Pavlovčič, Slovenian ski jumper
 * June 29 – Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
 * June 30
 * Houssem Aouar, French footballer
 * Tom Davies, English footballer

July

 * July 2 – Ema Klinec, Slovenian ski jumper
 * July 7 – Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
 * July 8
 * Maya Hawke, American actress and model
 * Yann Karamoh, French footballer
 * Jaden Smith, American actor
 * Daria Spiridonova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * July 9 – Robert Capron, American actor
 * July 10
 * Kimia Alizadeh, Iranian taekwondo athlete
 * Haley Pullos, American actress
 * July 16 – Rina Matsuno, Japanese singer, model, and actress (d. 2017)
 * July 21 – Kim Magnus, South Korean Olympic cross-country skier
 * July 22
 * Alicia Moffet, Canadian singer
 * Patrick Schmidt, Austrian footballer
 * Federico Valverde, Uruguayan footballer
 * July 23 – DeAndre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player
 * July 28 – Frank Ntilikina, French basketball player
 * July 30 – Jake Fromm, American football player
 * July 31 – Rico Rodriguez, American actor

August

 * August 1 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
 * August 2 – Giarnni Regini-Moran, British artistic gymnast
 * August 3 – Cozi Zuehlsdorff, American actress, pianist, and singer
 * August 4 – Lil Skies, American rapper
 * August 5
 * Mimi Keene, English actress
 * Daniil Pakhomov, Russian swimmer
 * August 6 – Forrest Goodluck, American actor
 * August 7 – Jalen Hurts, American football player
 * August 8
 * Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Ronan Parke, English singer
 * August 9
 * Jorrit Croon, Dutch hockey player
 * Panagiotis Retsos, Greek footballer
 * August 10
 * Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess grandmaster
 * Eythóra Thorsdóttir, Dutch gymnast
 * August 11 – Nadia Azzi, American classical pianist
 * August 12 – Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
 * August 13
 * Arina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player
 * Carter Hart, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * August 14 – Amy Marren, English paralympic swimmer
 * August 25 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer

September

 * September 1 – Emily Condon, Australian footballer
 * September 9 – Jesús Marimón, Colombian footballer
 * September 10 – Sheck Wes, American rapper
 * September 17 – Richard Wang, Canadian chess champion
 * September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
 * September 19
 * Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
 * Trae Young, American basketball player
 * September 21 – Miguel Tanfelix, Filipino actor
 * September 26 – Ivan Pavlov, Ukrainian figure skater
 * September 28
 * Máscara de Bronce, Mexican wrestler
 * Aleksandra Goryachkina, Russian chess Grandmaster

October

 * October 1 – Danika Yarosh, American actress and dancer
 * October 7 – Trent Alexander-Arnold, English footballer
 * October 9 – Tako Natsvlishvili, Georgian model
 * October 10 – Nash Aguas, Filipino actor
 * October 12 – Tyler Pierce, American figure skater
 * October 18 – Emily Robinson, American actress
 * October 22
 * Ike Anigbogu, American basketball player
 * Ianis Hagi, Romanian footballer
 * October 24 – Daya, American singer
 * October 26 – Samantha Isler, American actress
 * October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
 * October 28
 * Nolan Gould, American actor
 * Perrine Laffont, French mogul skier
 * October 29
 * Maria Kharenkova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver

November

 * November 1 – Marie-Antoinette Katoto, French footballer
 * November 2 – Elkie, South Korean based singer and actress
 * November 3 – Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic swimmer
 * November 4
 * Darcy Rose Byrnes, American actress
 * Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer
 * November 10 – Renz Valerio, Filipino actor
 * November 11 – Carlo Lacana, Filipino actor
 * November 12 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
 * November 17 – Kara Hayward, American actress
 * November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
 * November 24 – Peyton Meyer, American actor
 * November 29 – Ayumu Hirano, Japanese snowboarder

December

 * December 2
 * Annalise Basso, American actress
 * Amber Montana, American actress
 * Juice WRLD, American rapper and singer
 * December 4 – Si Yajie, Chinese diver
 * December 8 – Anastasia Rizikov, Canadian classical pianist
 * December 11 – Dante Rigo, Belgian footballer
 * December 14 – Maggie Voisin, American freestyle skier
 * December 15 – Chandler Canterbury, American actor
 * December 16
 * Kiara Muhammad, American actress and singer
 * Reece Oxford, English football player
 * December 17
 * Jasmine Armfield, English actress
 * Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
 * December 18 – Calvin Stengs, Dutch footballer
 * December 19 – Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer
 * December 20
 * Kylian Mbappé, French football player
 * Ivett Tóth, Hungarian figure skater
 * December 22 – G Hannelius, American actress and singer
 * December 24 – Nikita Howarth, New Zealand paralympic swimmer
 * December 26 – Kesz Váldez, Filipino humanitarian
 * December 28
 * Paris Berelc, American actress
 * Jared Gilman, American actor
 * December 31 – Gianina Ernst, German ski jumper

January

 * January 1 – Helen Wills, American tennis player (b. 1905)
 * January 2
 * Feodor I. Kozhevnikov, Soviet legal expert (b. 1893)
 * Frank Muir, British actor, comedy writer and raconteur (b. 1920)
 * January 4
 * Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
 * Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italian film director (b. 1894)
 * January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
 * January 7 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b. 1906)
 * January 8 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
 * January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1918)
 * January 11
 * Ellis Rabb, American director and actor (b. 1930)
 * Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
 * January 15
 * Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934)
 * Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist (b. 1898)
 * Duncan McNaughton, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
 * January 16
 * Emil Sitka, American actor (b. 1914)
 * Hermann Wedekind, artistic director (b. 1910)
 * January 18 – Monica Edwards, British writer (b. 1912)
 * January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
 * January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
 * January 23 – Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (b. 1958)
 * January 26
 * Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese musician and educator (b. 1898)
 * Ethelreda Leopold, American film actress (b. 1914)
 * January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist (b. 1938)
 * January 29 – Joseph Alioto, 36th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)

February

 * February 2
 * Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
 * Raymond Cattell, British and American psychologist (b. 1905)
 * February 3
 * Fat Pat, American rapper (b. 1970)
 * Karla Faye Tucker, American convicted murderer (b. 1959)
 * February 6
 * Falco, Austrian musician (b. 1957)
 * Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946)
 * Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (b. 1906)
 * February 7
 * Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
 * Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942)
 * February 8
 * Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer (b. 1902)
 * Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912)
 * Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
 * February 9 – Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
 * February 11 – Jonathan Hole, American actor (b. 1904)
 * February 16 – Fernando Abril Martorell, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936)
 * February 17
 * Ernst Jünger, German writer (b. 1895)
 * Bob Merrill, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 * February 18
 * Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b. 1914)
 * Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (b. 1961)
 * February 19 – Grandpa Jones, American musician (b. 1913)
 * February 22
 * Red Reeder, U.S. Army officer and author (b. 1902)
 * Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
 * Athol Rowan, South African cricketer (b. 1921)
 * José María de Areilza, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
 * February 23
 * Philip Abbott, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (b. 1960)
 * February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
 * February 26 – Theodore Schultz, American economist (b. 1902)
 * February 27
 * Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (b. 1901)
 * George H. Hitchings, American scientist (b. 1905)
 * J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
 * February 28 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)

March

 * March 2 – Darcy O'Brien, American author (b. 1939)
 * March 3 – Fred W. Friendly, American television journalist and executive (b. 1915)
 * March 7 – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master, (b. 1914)
 * March 8 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
 * March 10 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
 * March 10 – Milton Mallawarachchi, Sri Lankan Musician (b. 1944)
 * March 12
 * Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
 * Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
 * Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
 * March 13
 * Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
 * Risen Star, American racehorse (b. 1985)
 * Hans von Ohain, German physicist (b. 1911)
 * March 15
 * Benjamin Spock, American rower, pediatrician, and author (b. 1903)
 * Dušan Pašek, Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1960)
 * Tim Maia, Brazilian musician, songwriter and businessman (b. 1942)
 * March 16 – Derek Barton, British chemist (b. 1918)
 * March 20 – George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician (b. 1956)
 * March 25 – Daniel Massey, English actor (b. 1933)
 * March 27 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer and businessman (b. 1909)
 * March 31 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer, feminist activist, and politician (b. 1920)

April

 * April 1 – Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1920)
 * April 3 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
 * April 6
 * Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
 * Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
 * April 7 – Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1942)
 * April 11
 * Doris Tetzlaff, American female professional baseball player (b. 1921)
 * Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (b. 1967)
 * April 13 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (b. 1960)
 * April 15
 * Rose Maddox, American singer (b. 1925)
 * Pol Pot, 30th Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea and Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
 * April 16
 * Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
 * Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)
 * April 17
 * Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician (b. 1941)
 * Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist (b. 1911)
 * April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer (b. 1914)
 * April 21
 * Peter Lind Hayes, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * Irene Vernon, American actress (b. 1922)
 * April 22 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
 * April 23
 * Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
 * James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
 * April 25
 * Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian (b. 1882)
 * Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (b. 1910)
 * April 26 – Joan Mary Wayne Brown, British author (b. 1906)
 * April 27
 * Carlos Castaneda, American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
 * Anne Desclos, French writer (b. 1907)

May

 * May 1 – Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist and writer (b. 1935)
 * May 2
 * Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961)
 * Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
 * Maidie Norman, American actress (b. 1912)
 * Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
 * May 7
 * Allan McLeod Cormack, South African–born physicist (b. 1924)
 * Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
 * May 9 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * May 14
 * Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)
 * Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * May 15 – Earl Manigault, American street basketball player (b. 1944)
 * May 19 – Sōsuke Uno, 47th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
 * May 21 – Douglas Fowley, American actor (b. 1911)
 * May 22 – John Derek, American actor and film director (b. 1926)
 * May 28 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1948)
 * May 29
 * Orlando Anderson, American criminal (b. 1974)
 * Barry Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)

June

 * June 2
 * Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler (b. 1952)
 * Dorothy Stickney, American actress (b. 1896)
 * June 3 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
 * June 5
 * Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
 * Sam Yorty, American politician, Los Angeles' 37th mayor (1961–1973) (b. 1909).
 * June 8
 * Sani Abacha, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
 * Jackie McGlew, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
 * June 9 – Lois Mailou Jones, African-American artist (b. 1905)
 * June 10 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
 * June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
 * June 12 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (b. 1924)
 * June 13
 * Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
 * Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
 * June 20 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
 * June 22 – Benny Green, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist (b. 1927)
 * June 23 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (b. 1911)
 * June 25 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber singer (b. 1956)
 * June 28 – Marion Eugene Carl, American fighter pilot (b. 1915)

July

 * July 2 – Kay Thompson, American author and actress (b. 1909)
 * July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
 * July 4 – Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and choreographer (b. 1957)
 * July 5
 * Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
 * Johnny Speight, British television scriptwriter (b. 1920)
 * July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
 * July 12 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet, Russian scientist, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the first cosmonaut, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Docent, laureate of the Lenin and state prizes (b. 1925)
 * July 17 – Joseph Maher, Irish-born American actor (b. 1933)
 * July 19 – Elmer Valo, Slovak baseball player (b. 1921)
 * July 21
 * Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 * Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
 * July 22
 * Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
 * Don Dunphy, American television and radio sports announcer (b. 1908)
 * July 27 – Binnie Barnes, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
 * July 28 – Harvie Branscomb, American university president (b. 1894)
 * July 29 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and director (b. 1918)
 * July 30 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's television host (b. 1917)

August

 * August 1 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
 * August 2
 * Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (b. 1933)
 * Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football manager (b. 1914)
 * August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (b. 1934)
 * August 4 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
 * August 5 – Todor Zhivkov, 6th President of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
 * August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
 * August 8 – Nelly's, Greek female photographer (b. 1899)
 * August 9 – Frankie Ruiz, American salsa singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
 * August 13
 * Julien Green, French-born American writer (b. 1900)
 * Nino Ferrer, French singer (b. 1934)
 * August 18 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (b. 1948)
 * August 22 – Jack Briggs, American actor (b. 1920)
 * August 24
 * Jerry Clower, American country comedian (b. 1926)
 * E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1914)
 * August 25 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1907)
 * August 26 – Frederick Reines, American physicist (b. 1918)
 * August 28 – George Büchi, American chemist (b. 1921)

September

 * September 1 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
 * September 2
 * Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)
 * Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918)
 * Walter L. Morgan, American banker (b. 1898)
 * September 5
 * Willem Drees Jr., Dutch politician (b. 1922)
 * Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
 * Leo Penn, American actor and director (b. 1921)
 * September 6 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
 * September 8 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian-born actor (b. 1903)
 * September 9 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943)
 * September 11 – Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1912)
 * September 13 – George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
 * September 14
 * Yang Shangkun, 4th President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907)
 * Johnny Adams, American singer (b. 1932)
 * September 15 – Fred Alderman, American sprint runner (b. 1905)
 * September 17 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
 * September 19 – Patricia Hayes, British character actress and comedian (b. 1909)
 * September 20 – Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
 * September 21 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American runner (b. 1959)
 * September 23
 * Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
 * Trevor Berghan, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1914)
 * September 26
 * Betty Carter, American jazz singer (b. 1929)
 * Giovanni Barbini, Italian naval officer (b. 1901)
 * September 27 – Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
 * September 29 – Herbert V. Prochnow, U.S. banker and author (b. 1897)
 * September 30
 * Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
 * Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer (b. 1907)
 * Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (b. 1925)
 * Robert Lewis Taylor, American author (b. 1912)

October

 * October 2
 * Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907)
 * Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
 * October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British-born American actor (b. 1928)
 * October 6
 * Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
 * Ambrose Burke, Roman Catholic priest and educator (b. 1895)
 * October 8 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (b. 1907)
 * October 9 – Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (b. 1917)
 * October 10
 * Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
 * Marvin Gay Sr., American minister (b. 1914)
 * October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
 * October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
 * October 13 – General Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff (b. 1932)
 * October 14 – Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
 * October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
 * October 17
 * Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
 * Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (b. 1920)
 * October 19 – Germán List Arzubide, Mexican poet and revolutionary (b. 1898)
 * October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909)
 * October 24
 * Pino Dordoni, Italian athlete (b. 1926)
 * Mary Calderone, American physician, public health advocate (b. 1904)
 * October 28
 * Ghulam Ahmed, Indian cricket captain (b. 1922)
 * James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927)
 * October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
 * October 31 – Maria de la Purisima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1926)

November

 * November 3
 * Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915)
 * Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (b. 1922)
 * November 5 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (b. 1932)
 * November 8 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
 * November 10
 * Mary Millar, British actress and singer (b. 1936)
 * Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (b. 1921)
 * November 13
 * Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917)
 * Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman (b. 1975)
 * Doug Wright, English cricketer (b. 1914)
 * Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
 * November 15 – Stokely Carmichael, African-American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
 * November 17
 * Kenneth McDuff, American serial killer (b. 1946)
 * Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
 * November 19 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
 * November 22 – Stu Ungar, professional poker player (b. 1953)
 * November 23 – Don Ray, American basketball player (b. 1921)
 * November 25 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
 * November 29
 * Martin Ruane, British professional wrestler (b. 1947)
 * Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
 * November 30 – Margaret Walker, American poet (b. 1915)

December

 * December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer (b. 1902)
 * December 2
 * Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905)
 * Brian Stonehouse, English painter and secret agent (b. 1918)
 * December 5 – Hazel Bishop, American chemist and inventor (b. 1906)
 * December 6
 * Michael Zaslow, American actor (b. 1942)
 * César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921)
 * December 7 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
 * December 8 - Michael Craze, British actor (b 1942)
 * December 12 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (b. 1930)
 * December 13
 * Sir Lew Grade, British businessman (b. 1906)
 * Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (b. 1930)
 * December 14
 * Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (b. 1924)
 * December 15 – Brady Boone, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
 * December 17 – Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (b. 1959)
 * December 18 – Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1926)
 * December 19
 * Gordon Gunter, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist (b. 1909)
 * Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
 * December 20
 * Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
 * Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1914)
 * December 21
 * Roger Avon, British actor (b. 1914)
 * Richard Turnbull, British colonial governor (b. 1909)
 * December 23 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor (b. 1900)
 * December 25
 * Richard Paul, American actor (b. 1940)
 * John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923)
 * December 26
 * Hurd Hatfield, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Robert Rosen, American biologist (b. 1934)
 * William Frankfather, American actor (b. 1944)
 * Ram Swarup, Indian author (b. 1920)
 * December 30
 * Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
 * George Webb, British actor (b. 1912)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui
 * Chemistry – Walter Kohn, John Pople
 * Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
 * Literature – José Saramago
 * Peace – John Hume and David Trimble
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen

Fields Medal

 * Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis T. McMullen

Children

 * Hannah (Marisa Kuers)
 * Keesha (Mera Baker)
 * Robert (Angel Velasco)
 * Stephen (Chase Gallatin)
 * Curtis (Monte Black)
 * Danny (Jeffrey Hood)
 * Ashley (Maurie Chandler)
 * Jeff (Austin Ball)
 * Kristen (Sara Hickman)
 * Chip (Lucien Douglas)
 * Emily (Hannah Owens) (debut)
 * Kim (Erica Rhodes)
 * Linda (Adrianne Kangas) (debut)
 * Alissa (Monet Chandler) Season5photoshoot.jpg

Adults

 * Stella the Storyteller (Phyllis Cicero)
 * Mr. Boyd (Robert Sweatman)

Animals

 * Scooter McNutty (Todd Duffey)
 * Miss Etta Kette (Brice Armstrong)
 * Booker T. Bookworm (Earl Fisher)BarneyBabyBopBJSeason5PromoPhoto.jpg

Guest Appearances

 * The Marching Band Musicians (in Barney's Band)
 * Riders In The Sky (in Howdy, Friends!)
 * DeWayne Hambrick (played Old King Cole in A Royal Welcome)
 * Saint Adeogba (played  Aunt Rachel  in Aunt Rachel Is Here!)
 * Renee Micheal (played  Ashley and Alissa's Mom  in Aunt Rachel is Here!)

Episodes

 * 1) Books are Fun!
 * 2) Trading Places
 * 3) Safety First!
 * 4) Circle of Friends
 * 5) The One and Only You
 * 6) Barney's Band
 * 7) Try It, You'll Like It!
 * 8) Colors All Around
 * 9) Howdy, Friends!
 * 10) Seven Days a Week
 * 11) Hidden Treasures
 * 12) A Royal Welcome
 * 13) Sweet as Honey
 * 14) First Things First!
 * 15) Aunt Rachel is Here!
 * 16) It's a Rainy Day!
 * 17) Easy Does It!
 * 18) What's in a Name?
 * 19) A Very Special Mouse
 * 20) A Package of Friendship

Trivia
he study was instantly controversial and fueled the nascent anti-vaccination movement. Despite 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".
 * This season marked:
 * The second season to air in only one month.
 * The first appearances of Emily and Linda.
 * The only season that features Booker T. Bookworm.
 * The final television appearances of Ashley, Alissa, Curtis and Kristen.
 * The final season to use the 1993 PBS Kids logo with the P-Pals.
 * The vocals for the Barney Theme Song were rerecorded, but the instrumental track remained the same from the previous season. However, international versions used the original vocals from Season 4 while the new vocals were used at the end.
 * In this season, Marisa Kuers (Hannah) does the fundings for the show.

March

 * March 1 – Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion.
 * 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 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.
 * 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.

April

 * April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
 * April 6 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
 * April 10 – Good Friday Agreement: 1 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.
 * 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.

May

 * May 11
 * 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 were not finished in 1998, 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.
 * May 19
 * The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the world's pagers without service.
 * The wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, 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 32 years as President of Indonesia and 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 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
 * May 30
 * A 6.6 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 – European Central Bank 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).
 * James Byrd Jr. is beaten and dragged to death by 3 white men in Jasper, Texas.
 * June 9–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 27 – Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opened, 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 a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.
 * July 6 – The new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens, while the old Kai Tak Airport closes.
 * July 17
 * 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 Lenin-led 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 21 – September 5 – The 1998 Sydney water crisis involved the suspected contamination by the microscopic pathogens cryptosporidium and giardia of the water supply system of Greater Metropolitan Sydney.

August

 * 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 7
 * 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 15 – The Omagh bombing is carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real Irish Republican Army.
 * August 26 - Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama wins the Libertadores Cup after a 2-1 win against Barcelona S.C..

September

 * September 2
 * 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.
 * September 5 – The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary.
 * September 9 – St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season, thus breaking the single season record of 61 which had been held by Roger Maris since 1961.
 * 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 convicted of espionage. The agents claim they were not spying against the United States Government but against the Cuban exile community in Miami.
 * 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".

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 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 29 – Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, killing an estimated 11,000 people.

November

 * November 17 – Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of 69.419 AU.
 * 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 4 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first American component to the International Space Station, the 25,600 lb Unity module on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later.
 * December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of the Venezuelan military, is elected President of Venezuela.
 * 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 16–19 – 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 the nation.
 * December 29 – Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the post-Vietnam War genocide in Cambodia that killed more than one million people in the 1970s.
 * December 31
 * The first leap second since June 30, 1997, occurs.
 * In the Eurozone, the currency rates of this day are fixed permanently.

Date unknown

 * 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.

January

 * January 1
 * Sara Ahmed, Egyptian weightlifter
 * January 2
 * Chen Xinyi, Chinese swimmer
 * Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
 * January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
 * January 4
 * Coco Jones, American actress and singer
 * Liza Soberano, Filipino actress and singer
 * January 5
 * Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer
 * Marie Iitoyo, Japanese fashion model and actress
 * January 6
 * Ismail Azzaoui, Belgian footballer
 * Norman Grimes, American sprinter
 * Lee Seung-woo, South Korean footballer
 * January 8 – Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer
 * January 10 – Xu Shilin, Chinese tennis player
 * January 11 – Salih Özcan, German footballer
 * January 12
 * Juan Foyth, Argentine footballer
 * Rafik Zekhnini, Norwegian footballer
 * January 13
 * Gabrielle Daleman, Canadian figure skater
 * Kamron Doyle, American ten-pin bowler
 * January 14 – Ai Moritaka, Japanese model and actress
 * January 16 – Odsonne Édouard, French footballer
 * January 18
 * Vashti Cunningham, American track and field athlete
 * Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer
 * January 20 – Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player
 * January 21 – Amelia Hundley, American artistic gymnast
 * January 23
 * Rachel Crow, American singer and actress
 * Cole Custer, American stock car racing driver
 * XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
 * January 26 – Devin Druid, American actor
 * January 27 – Rebeka Kim, South Korean ice dancer
 * January 28
 * Javier Acevedo, Canadian swimmer
 * Ariel Winter, American actress
 * January 29 – Mion Mukaichi, Japanese singer and actress
 * January 31
 * Amadou Haidara, Malian footballer
 * Bradie Tennell, American figure skater

February

 * February 1
 * Kipyegon Bett, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 * Stefan Kozlov, American tennis player
 * February 3
 * Michael McLeod, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
 * Yang Hao, Chinese diver
 * February 4
 * Scott Jones, English paralympic athlete
 * Malik Monk, American basketball player
 * February 10
 * Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
 * Gray Gaulding, American stock car racing driver
 * February 11 – Khalid, American singer and songwriter
 * February 13 – Khalifa St. Fort, Trinbagonian sprinter
 * February 15
 * Dennis Cholowski Canadian hockey defenseman
 * Zachary Gordon, American actor
 * George Russell, British racing driver
 * February 17 – Fernanda Urdapilleta, Mexican actress and singer
 * February 18
 * Sander Berge, Norwegian footballer
 * Matthew Davidson, American guitarist
 * February 21 – Michaela Hrubá, Czech athlete
 * February 24 – Mariel Pamintuan, Filipino actress
 * February 25 – Rizky Febian, Indonesian singer, songwriter, actor, and TV presenter
 * February 27
 * Elisa Balsamo, Italian cyclist
 * Felix Gall, Austrian cyclist
 * Theo Stevenson, English actor

March

 * March 2 – Tua Tagovailoa, American football player
 * March 3 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player
 * March 5
 * Sergio Díaz, Paraguayan footballer
 * Micah Fowler, American actor
 * March 9
 * Najee Harris, American football player
 * Kaylin Whitney, American sprinter
 * March 16 – Lil Keed, American rapper
 * March 17 – Nathan O'Toole, Irish actor
 * March 19 – Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer
 * March 21 – Miles Bridges, American basketball player
 * March 22 – Paola Andino, Puerto-Rican-American actress
 * March 26
 * Daria Grushina, Russian ski jumper
 * Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater
 * March 27 – Haji Wright, American footballer
 * March 28
 * Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
 * Ryan Simpkins, American actress
 * March 29 – Alex Neustaedter, American actor
 * March 30 – Kalyn Ponga, Australian rugby league footballer
 * March 31
 * Oskar Buur, Danish footballer
 * Jakob Chychrun, American ice hockey player
 * Anna Seidel, German short track speed skater

April

 * April 3 – Paris Jackson, American actress and model
 * April 5 – Kaito Nakamura, Japanese actor and model
 * April 6
 * Peyton List, American actress and model
 * Spencer List, American actor
 * April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress and model
 * April 10 – Anna Pogorilaya, Russian figure skater
 * April 16
 * Maxime Rooney, American swimmer
 * Paul Salas, Filipino actor
 * April 19 – Patrik Laine, Finnish ice hockey player
 * April 21 – Jarrett Allen, American basketball player
 * April 24 – Ryan Newman, American actress and model
 * April 26 – Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Polish chess grandmaster
 * April 29 – Kimberly Birrell, German-born Australian tennis player

May

 * May 2
 * Ian Anderson, American baseball pitcher
 * Tremaine Edmunds, American football player
 * Jonathan Ikoné, French footballer
 * May 4
 * Frank Jackson, American basketball player
 * Rex Orange County, English artist and songwriter
 * May 5
 * Tijana Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
 * Olli Juolevi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
 * May 6
 * Sierra Schmidt, American swimmer
 * Kayden Troff, American chess champion
 * May 7
 * MrBeast, American YouTube celebrity
 * Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
 * Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * May 8 – Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
 * May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
 * May 12
 * Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player
 * Tornado Alicia Black, American tennis player
 * May 13
 * Karen Iwata, Japanese singer and voice actress
 * Mickey Moniak, American baseball outfielder
 * May 16 – Adian Pitkeev, Russian figure skater
 * May 17 – Terrance Ferguson, American basketball player
 * May 18 – Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
 * May 20 – Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater
 * May 23 – Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
 * May 28 – Dahyun, South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer
 * May 29
 * Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
 * Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress
 * Oliver Stokes, English actor
 * Felix Passlack, German footballer
 * May 31 – Reza Shekari, Iranian footballer

June

 * June 1
 * Aleksandra Soldatova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer
 * June 5
 * Dave, English rapper, singer and songwriter
 * Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater
 * June 7 – Graham Newberry, British-American figure skater
 * June 11 – Charlie Tahan, American actor
 * June 12
 * Jean-Victor Makengo, French footballer
 * Andrey Makolov, Russian artistic gymnast
 * June 14 – Jovane Cabral, Cape Verdean footballer
 * June 15 – Alexander Samarin, Russian figure skater
 * June 16
 * Ritsu Doan, Japanese footballer
 * Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer
 * June 19
 * Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş, Turkish swimmer
 * Suzu Hirose, Japanese actress and model
 * Atticus Shaffer, American actor
 * Ömer Yurtseven, Turkish basketball player
 * June 21 – Gerben Thijssen, Belgian road and track cyclist
 * June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun, Dutch footballer
 * June 23 – Josip Brekalo, Croatian footballer
 * June 24
 * Pierre-Luc Dubois, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Coy Stewart, American actor
 * June 25 – Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer
 * June 26 – Edu Gueda, Brazilian singer
 * June 27 – Bor Pavlovčič, Slovenian ski jumper
 * June 28 – Óscar Rodríguez Arnaiz, Spanish footballer
 * June 29 – Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
 * June 30
 * Houssem Aouar, French footballer
 * Tom Davies, English footballer

July

 * July 2 – Ema Klinec, Slovenian ski jumper
 * July 7 – Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
 * July 8
 * Maya Hawke, American actress and model
 * Yann Karamoh, French footballer
 * Jaden Smith, American actor
 * Daria Spiridonova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * July 9 – Robert Capron, American actor
 * July 10
 * Kimia Alizadeh, Iranian taekwondo athlete
 * Haley Pullos, American actress
 * July 12 – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Canadian basketball player
 * July 16 – Rina Matsuno, Japanese singer, model, and actress (d. 2017)
 * July 21 – Kim Magnus, South Korean Olympic cross-country skier
 * July 22
 * Alicia Moffet, Canadian singer
 * Madison Pettis, American actress
 * Patrick Schmidt, Austrian footballer
 * Federico Valverde, Uruguayan footballer
 * July 23 – Deandre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player
 * July 24 – Bindi Irwin, Australian television personality and conservationist
 * July 27 – Risa Watanabe, Japanese idol and model
 * July 28 – Frank Ntilikina, French basketball player
 * July 30 – Jake Fromm, American football player
 * July 31
 * Hamidou Diallo, American basketball player
 * Rico Rodriguez, American actor

August

 * August 1 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
 * August 2 – Giarnni Regini-Moran, British artistic gymnast
 * August 3 – Cozi Zuehlsdorff, American actress, pianist, and singer
 * August 4 – Lil Skies, American rapper
 * August 5
 * Mimi Keene, English actress
 * Daniil Pakhomov, Russian swimmer
 * August 6 – Forrest Goodluck, American actor
 * August 7 – Jalen Hurts, American football player
 * August 8
 * Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Ronan Parke, English singer
 * August 9
 * Jorrit Croon, Dutch hockey player
 * Panagiotis Retsos, Greek footballer
 * August 10
 * Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess grandmaster
 * Eythóra Thorsdóttir, Dutch gymnast
 * August 11 – Nadia Azzi, American classical pianist
 * August 12 – Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
 * August 13
 * Arina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player
 * Carter Hart, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * August 14 – Amy Marren, English paralympic swimmer
 * August 18 – Tenshin Nasukawa, Japanese kickboxer and mixed martial artist
 * August 23 – P. J. Washington, American basketball player
 * August 25
 * Abraham Mateo, Spanish singer and actor
 * China Anne McClain, American actress and singer

September

 * September 1 – Emily Condon, Australian footballer
 * September 5 – Matteo Rizzo, Italian figure skater
 * September 9 – Jesús Marimón, Colombian footballer
 * September 10 – Sheck Wes, American rapper
 * September 17 – Richard Wang, Canadian chess champion
 * September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
 * September 19
 * Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
 * Trae Young, American basketball player
 * September 20 – Rashid Khan, Afghan cricket player
 * September 21 – Miguel Tanfelix, Filipino actor
 * September 26 – Ivan Pavlov, Ukrainian figure skater
 * September 28
 * Máscara de Bronce, Mexican wrestler
 * Aleksandra Goryachkina, Russian chess Grandmaster

October

 * October 1 – Danika Yarosh, American actress and dancer
 * October 7 – Trent Alexander-Arnold, English footballer
 * October 9 – Tako Natsvlishvili, Georgian model
 * October 10 – Nash Aguas, Filipino actor
 * October 12 – Tyler Pierce, American figure skater
 * October 17 – Erin Kellyman, British actress
 * October 18 – Emily Robinson, American actress
 * October 22
 * Ike Anigbogu, American basketball player
 * Ianis Hagi, Romanian footballer
 * October 24 – Daya, American singer
 * October 26 – Samantha Isler, American actress
 * October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
 * October 28
 * Nolan Gould, American actor
 * Perrine Laffont, French mogul skier
 * October 29
 * Maria Kharenkova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver

November

 * November 1 – Marie-Antoinette Katoto, French footballer
 * November 2 – Elkie, South Korean based singer and actress
 * November 3 – Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic swimmer
 * November 4
 * Darcy Rose Byrnes, American actress
 * Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer
 * November 10 – Renz Valerio, Filipino actor
 * November 11 – Carlo Lacana, Filipino actor
 * November 12 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
 * November 17 – Kara Hayward, American actress
 * November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
 * November 24 – Peyton Meyer, American actor
 * November 29 – Ayumu Hirano, Japanese snowboarder

December

 * December 2
 * Annalise Basso, American actress
 * Amber Montana, American actress
 * Juice WRLD, American rapper and singer
 * December 4 – Si Yajie, Chinese diver
 * December 8 – Anastasia Rizikov, Canadian classical pianist
 * December 11 – Dante Rigo, Belgian footballer
 * December 14 – Maggie Voisin, American freestyle skier
 * December 15 – Chandler Canterbury, American actor
 * December 16
 * Kiara Muhammad, American actress and singer
 * Reece Oxford, English football player
 * Zhou Jieqiong, Chinese singer
 * December 17
 * Jasmine Armfield, English actress
 * Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
 * December 18
 * Simona Quadarella, Italian swimmer
 * Calvin Stengs, Dutch footballer
 * December 19 – Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer
 * December 20
 * Kylian Mbappé, French football player
 * Ivett Tóth, Hungarian figure skater
 * December 22 – G Hannelius, American actress and singer
 * December 24 – Nikita Howarth, New Zealand paralympic swimmer
 * December 26 – Kesz Váldez, Filipino humanitarian
 * December 28
 * Paris Berelc, American actress
 * Jared Gilman, American actor
 * December 31 – Gianina Ernst, German ski jumper

January



 * January 1
 * Åke Seyffarth, Swedish speed skater (b. 1919)
 * Helen Wills, American tennis player (b. 1905)
 * January 4
 * Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
 * Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italian film director (b. 1894)
 * January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
 * January 6 – Georgy Sviridov, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1915)
 * January 7 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b. 1906)
 * January 8 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
 * January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1918)
 * January 11 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
 * January 15
 * Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934)
 * Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist (b. 1898)
 * Duncan McNaughton, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
 * January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
 * January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
 * January 23 – Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (b. 1958)
 * January 26 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese musician and educator (b. 1898)
 * January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist (b. 1938)

February



 * February 2
 * Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
 * Raymond Cattell, British and American psychologist (b. 1905)
 * February 3
 * Fat Pat, American rapper (b. 1970)
 * Karla Faye Tucker, American convicted murderer (b. 1959)
 * February 6
 * Falco, Austrian rock musician (b. 1957)
 * Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946)
 * Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (b. 1906)
 * February 8
 * Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer (b. 1902)
 * Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912)
 * Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
 * February 9 – Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
 * February 11 – Jonathan Hole, American actor (b. 1904)
 * February 16 – Fernando Abril Martorell, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936)
 * February 17 – Ernst Jünger, German writer (b. 1895)
 * February 18
 * Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b. 1914)
 * Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (b. 1961)
 * February 19 – Grandpa Jones, American musician (b. 1913)
 * February 22
 * Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
 * José María de Areilza, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
 * February 23 – Philip Abbott, American actor (b. 1924)
 * February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
 * February 26 – Theodore Schultz, American economist (b. 1902)
 * February 27
 * George H. Hitchings, American scientist (b. 1905)
 * J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
 * February 28 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)

March



 * March 3 – Fred W. Friendly, American television journalist and executive (b. 1915)
 * March 8 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
 * March 10
 * Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
 * Milton Mallawarachchi, Sri Lankan Musician (b. 1944)
 * March 12
 * Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
 * Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
 * Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
 * March 13
 * Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
 * Hans von Ohain, German physicist (b. 1911)
 * March 15
 * Benjamin Spock, American rower, pediatrician, and author (b. 1903)
 * Dušan Pašek, Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1960)
 * Tim Maia, Brazilian musician, songwriter and businessman (b. 1942)
 * March 16 – Derek Barton, British chemist (b. 1918)
 * March 25 – Daniel Massey, English actor (b. 1933)
 * March 27 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer and businessman (b. 1909)
 * March 31 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer, feminist activist, and politician (b. 1920)

April

 * April 1
 * Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1920)
 * Rozz Williams, American singer (b. 1963)
 * April 3
 * Charles Lang, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
 * Rob Pilatus, German singer and dancer (b. 1965)
 * Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
 * April 5 – Cozy Powell, English drummer (b. 1947)
 * April 6
 * Rudy Dhaenens, Belgian road bicycle racer (b. 1961)
 * Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
 * Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
 * April 11 – Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (b. 1967)
 * April 15 – Pol Pot, 30th Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea and Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
 * April 16
 * Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
 * Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
 * Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)
 * April 17 – Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician (b. 1941)
 * April 18 – Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
 * April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer (b. 1914)
 * April 21 – Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist (b. 1924)
 * April 23
 * Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
 * James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
 * April 25
 * Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian (b. 1882)
 * Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (b. 1910)
 * April 27
 * Carlos Castaneda, American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
 * Anne Desclos, French writer (b. 1907)

May



 * May 1 – Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist and writer (b. 1935)
 * May 2
 * Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961)
 * Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
 * Maidie Norman, American actress (b. 1912)
 * Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
 * May 7
 * Allan McLeod Cormack, South African–born physicist (b. 1924)
 * Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
 * May 9 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * May 14
 * Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)
 * Frank Sinatra, American actor and singer (b. 1915)
 * May 15 – Earl Manigault, American street basketball player (b. 1944)
 * May 19 – Sōsuke Uno, 47th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
 * May 21 – Douglas Fowley, American actor (b. 1911)
 * May 22 – John Derek, American actor and film director (b. 1926)
 * May 28 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1948)
 * May 29
 * Orlando Anderson, American criminal (b. 1974)
 * Barry Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)

June

 * June 2
 * Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler (b. 1952)
 * Dorothy Stickney, American actress (b. 1896)
 * June 5 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
 * June 8 – Sani Abacha, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
 * June 9 – Lois Mailou Jones, African-American artist (b. 1905)
 * June 10 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
 * June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
 * June 12 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (b. 1924)
 * June 13 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
 * June 20 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
 * June 23 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (b. 1911)
 * June 25 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber singer (b. 1956)
 * June 28 – Marion Eugene Carl, American fighter pilot (b. 1915)

July



 * July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
 * July 5 – Johnny Speight, British television scriptwriter (b. 1920)
 * July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
 * July 8 – Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (b. 1905)
 * July 12 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet, Russian scientist (b. 1925)
 * July 17 – Joseph Maher, Irish-born American actor (b. 1933)
 * July 21
 * Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 * Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
 * July 22 – Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
 * July 27 – Binnie Barnes, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
 * July 29 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and director (b. 1918)

August

 * August 1 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
 * August 2
 * Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football manager (b. 1914)
 * Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (b. 1933)
 * August 3
 * Reizo Koike, Japanese swimmer (b. 1915)
 * Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (b. 1934)
 * August 4 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
 * August 5
 * Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)
 * Todor Zhivkov, 6th President of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
 * August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
 * August 8 – László Szabó, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1917)
 * August 9 – Frankie Ruiz, American salsa singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
 * August 13
 * Nino Ferrer, French singer (b. 1934)
 * Julien Green, French-born American writer (b. 1900)
 * August 17
 * Władysław Komar, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1940)
 * Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
 * Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1950)
 * August 18 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (b. 1948)
 * August 19 – Vasily Arkhipov, Soviet Navy officer (b. 1926)
 * August 24 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1914)
 * August 25 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1907)
 * August 26
 * Wade Dominguez, American actor, model, singer, and dancer (b. 1966)
 * Frederick Reines, American physicist (b. 1918)

September



 * September 1 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
 * September 2
 * Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)
 * Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918)
 * September 5
 * Willem Drees Jr., Dutch politician (b. 1922)
 * Leo Penn, American actor and director (b. 1921)
 * September 6 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
 * September 8 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian-born actor (b. 1903)
 * September 9 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943)
 * September 11 – Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1912)
 * September 13 – George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
 * September 14
 * Yang Shangkun, 4th President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907)
 * Johnny Adams, American singer (b. 1932)
 * September 15 – Fred Alderman, American sprint runner (b. 1905)
 * September 17 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
 * September 19 – Patricia Hayes, British character actress and comedian (b. 1909)
 * September 20 – Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
 * September 21 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American runner (b. 1959)
 * September 23 – Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
 * September 26 – Betty Carter, American jazz singer (b. 1929)
 * September 30
 * Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer (b. 1907)
 * Robert Lewis Taylor, American author (b. 1912)

October



 * October 2
 * Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907)
 * Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
 * October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British-born American actor (b. 1928)
 * October 8 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (b. 1907)
 * October 9 – Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (b. 1917)
 * October 10 – Marvin Gay Sr., American minister (b. 1914)
 * October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
 * October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
 * October 14 – Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
 * October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
 * October 17
 * Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
 * Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (b. 1920)
 * October 19 – Germán List Arzubide, Mexican poet and revolutionary (b. 1898)
 * October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909)
 * October 24 – Pino Dordoni, Italian athlete (b. 1926)
 * October 28 – James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927)
 * October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
 * October 31 – Maria de la Purisima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1926)

November

 * November 3
 * Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915)
 * Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (b. 1922)
 * November 5 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (b. 1932)
 * November 8 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
 * November 10 – Mary Millar, British actress and singer (b. 1936)
 * November 13
 * Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917)
 * Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
 * November 15 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
 * November 17 – Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
 * November 19 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
 * November 22 – Stu Ungar, American professional poker player (b. 1953)
 * November 23 – Don Ray, American basketball player (b. 1921)
 * November 25 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
 * November 29 – Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
 * November 30 – Margaret Walker, American poet (b. 1915)

December

 * December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer (b. 1902)
 * December 2 – Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905)
 * December 6 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921)
 * December 7 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
 * December 8 - Michael Craze, British actor (b 1942)
 * December 9 – Archie Moore, American professional boxer (b. 1916)
 * December 12 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (b. 1930)
 * December 13 – Sir Lew Grade, British businessman (b. 1906)
 * December 14 – Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
 * December 15 – Brady Boone, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
 * December 17 – Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (b. 1959)
 * December 18 – Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1926)
 * December 19
 * Gordon Gunter, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist (b. 1909)
 * Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
 * December 20
 * Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
 * Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1914)
 * December 21 – Roger Avon, British actor (b. 1914)
 * December 23 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor (b. 1900)
 * December 25
 * Richard Paul, American actor (b. 1940)
 * John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923)
 * December 26 – Hurd Hatfield, American actor (b. 1917)
 * December 29 – Don Taylor, American actor and film director (b. 1920)
 * December 30
 * Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
 * George Webb, British actor (b. 1912)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui
 * Chemistry – Walter Kohn, John Pople
 * Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
 * Literature – José Saramago
 * Peace – John Hume and David Trimble
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen

Fields Medal

 * Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis T. McMullen

Overview


Established on November 3, 1969 by Hartford N. Gunn Jr. (president of WGBH), John Macy (president of CPB), James Day (last president of National Educational Television), and Kenneth A. Christiansen (chairman of the department of broadcasting at the University of Florida), PBS began operations on October 5, 1970, taking over many of the functions of its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET), which later merged with Newark, New Jersey station WNDT to form WNET. In 1973, it merged with Educational Television Stations.

Unlike the five major commercial broadcast television networks in the United States, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW – which compensate their affiliate stations to carry their programs – PBS is not a network but a program distributor that provides television content and related services to its member stations. Each station is charged with the responsibility of programming local content such as news, interviews, cultural and public affairs programs for their individual market or state that supplements content provided by PBS and other public television distributors.

In a television network structure, affiliates give up portions of their local advertising airtime in exchange for carrying network programming, and the network pays its affiliates a share of the revenue it earns from advertising. By contrast, PBS member stations pay fees for the shows acquired and distributed by the national organization. Under this relationship, PBS member stations have greater latitude in local scheduling than their commercial broadcasting counterparts. Scheduling of PBS-distributed series may vary greatly depending on the market. This can be a source of tension as stations seek to preserve their localism, and PBS strives to market a consistent national lineup. However, PBS has a policy of "common carriage," which requires most stations to clear the national prime time programs on a common programming schedule to market them nationally more effectively. Management at former Los Angeles member KCET cited unresolvable financial and programming disputes among its major reasons for leaving PBS after over 40 years in January 2011.

Although PBS has a set schedule of programming, particularly in regard to its prime time schedule, member stations reserve the right to schedule PBS-distributed programming in other time slots or not clear it at all if they choose to do so; few of the service's members carry all its programming. Most PBS stations timeshift some distributed programs. Once PBS accepts a program offered for distribution, PBS, rather than the originating member station, retains exclusive rebroadcasting rights during an agreed period. Suppliers retain the right to sell the program in non-broadcast media such as DVDs, books, and sometimes PBS licensed merchandise.

In 1991, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting resumed production for most PBS shows that debuted prior to 1977, with the exceptions of Washington Week in Review and Wall Street Week (CPB resumed production of Washington Week in 1997).

In 1994, The Chronicle of Philanthropy released the results of the largest study on the popularity and credibility of charitable and non-profit organizations. PBS ranked as the 11th "most popular charity/non-profit in America" from over 100 charities researched in the study conducted by the industry publication, with 38.2% of Americans over the age of 12 choosing "love" and "like a lot" for PBS.

In December 2009, PBS signed up for the Nielsen ratings audience measurement reports, and began to be included in its primetime and daily "Television Index" reports, alongside the major commercial broadcast networks. In May 2011, PBS announced that it would incorporate breaks containing underwriter spots for corporate and foundation sponsors, program promotions and identification spots within four breaks placed within episodes of Nature and NOVA, airing episodes broken up into segments of up to 15 minutes, rather than airing them as straight 50- to 55-minute episodes. The strategy began that fall, with the intent to expand the in-program breaks to the remainder of the schedule if successful.

In 2011, PBS released apps for iOS and Android to allow viewing of full-length videos on mobile devices. An update in 2015 added Chromecast support.

On February 28, 2012, PBS partnered with AOL to launch Makers: Women Who Make America, a digital documentary series focusing on high-achieving women in male-dominated industries such as war, comedy, space, business, Hollywood and politics.

PBS initially struggled to compete with online media such as YouTube for market share. In a 2012 speech to 850 top executives from PBS stations, Senior Vice President of Digital Jason Seiken warned that PBS was in danger of being disrupted by YouTube studios such as Maker Studios. In the speech, later described as a "seminal moment" for public television, he laid out his vision for a new style of PBS digital video production. Station leadership rallied around his vision and Seiken formed PBS Digital Studios, which began producing educational but edgy videos, something Seiken called "PBS-quality with a YouTube sensibility." The studio's first hit, an auto-tuned version of the theme from one of their most famous television programs, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, was one of YouTube's 10 most viral videos of 2012. By 2013, monthly video views on PBS.org had risen from 2 million to a quarter-billion, PBS.org traffic had surpassed that of the CBS, NBC, and ABC web sites, PBSKids.org had become the dominant US children's site for video, and PBS had won more 2013 Webby Awards than any other media company in the world.

On May 8, 2013, full-length episodes of PBS' prime time, news and children's programs were made available through the Roku streaming player; programming is available on Roku as separate streaming channels for PBS and PBS Kids content. Some content is only available with a PBS Passport member benefit subscription.

Programming
The evening and primetime schedule on PBS features a diverse array of programming including fine arts (Great Performances); drama (Masterpiece, Downton Abbey, American Family: Journey of Dreams); science (Nova, Nature); history (American Experience, American Masters, History Detectives, Antiques Roadshow); music (Austin City Limits, Soundstage); public affairs (Frontline, PBS NewsHour, Washington Week, Nightly Business Report); independent films and documentaries (P.O.V., Independent Lens); home improvement (This Old House); and interviews (Amanpour & Company, Tavis Smiley, The Dick Cavett Show). In 2012, PBS began organizing much of its prime time programming around a genre-based schedule (for example, drama series encompass the Sunday schedule, while science-related programs are featured on Wednesdays).

PBS broadcasts children's programming as part of the service's (and including content supplied by other distributors not programmed by the service, its member stations') morning and afternoon schedule. As the children's programs it distributes are intended to educate as well as entertain its target audience, PBS and its stations have long been in compliance with educational programming guidelines set by the Federal Communications Commission in response to the enactment of the Children's Television Act of 1990. Many member stations have historically also broadcast distance education and other instructional television programs, typically during daytime slots; though with the advent of digital television, which has allowed stations to carry these programs on digital subchannels in lieu of the main PBS feed or exclusively over the Internet, many member stations/networks have replaced distance education content with children's and other programming,.

Unlike its radio counterpart, National Public Radio, PBS does not have a central program production arm or news division. All of the programming carried by PBS, whether news, documentary or entertainment, is created by (or in most cases produced under contract with) other parties, such as individual member stations. Boston member WGBH-TV is one of the largest producers of educational television programming, including shows like American Experience, Arthur, Masterpiece Theatre, Nova, Antiques Roadshow and Frontline, as well as many other children's and lifestyle programs. News programs are produced by WETA-TV (PBS Newshour) in Washington, D.C., WNET in New York City and WPBT in Miami. Newark, New Jersey/New York City member WNET produces or distributes programs such as Secrets of the Dead, Nature, and Cyberchase. PBS also works with other networks for programming such as CNN International for Amanpour & Company which is a co-production of CNN International and WNET.

PBS member stations are known for rebroadcasting British television costume dramas, comedies and science fiction programs (acquired from the BBC and other sources) such as Downton Abbey; 'Allo 'Allo!; Are You Being Served?; The Benny Hill Show, Red Dwarf; The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin; Father Ted; Fawlty Towers; Harry Enfield and Chums; Keeping Up Appearances; Monty Python's Flying Circus; Mr. Bean, The Vicar of Dibley, Doctor Who, and Sherlock; consequently, this has led to jocular references that the service's name stands for "Primarily British Series". However, a significant amount of sharing takes place. The BBC and British broadcasters such as Channel 4 often cooperate with PBS stations, producing material that is shown on both sides of the Atlantic. Less frequently, Canadian, Australian and other international programming appears on PBS stations (such as The Red Green Show, currently distributed by syndicator Executive Program Services); public broadcasting syndicators are more likely to offer this programming to U.S.-based public television stations.

PBS is not the only distributor of public television programming to the member stations. Other distributors have emerged from the roots of companies that maintained loosely held regional public television stations in the 1960s. Boston-based American Public Television (which, among other names, was formerly known as Eastern Educational Network and the American Program Service) is second only to PBS for distributing programs to U.S. non-commercial stations. Another distributor is NETA (formerly SECA), whose properties have included The Shapies and Jerry Yarnell School of Fine Art. In addition, the member stations themselves also produce a variety of local shows, some of which subsequently receive national distribution through PBS or other distributors.

Rerun programming, especially domestic programming not originally produced for public television, is generally uncommon on PBS or its member stations. The most prominent exception to this is The Lawrence Welk Show, which has aired continuously in reruns on PBS (through the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority) almost every weekend since 1986. Reruns of programs originally produced for public television are common, especially with former PBS shows whose hosts have retired or died (for example, The Joy of Painting and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood). Children's programming (such as Clifford the Big Red Dog and DragonflyTV, the latter of which is also syndicated on commercial television) is rerun extensively.

PBS Kids
Launched as PTV on July 11, 1994, PBS Kids is the brand for children's programs aired by PBS. The PBS Kids network, which was launched in 1999 and operated until 2005, was largely funded by satellite provider DirecTV. The channel ceased operations on September 26, 2005, in favor of PBS Kids Sprout, a commercial digital cable and satellite television channel originally operated as a joint venture with Comcast, Sesame Workshop and Apax Partners (NBCUniversal, which Comcast acquired in 2011, later acquired the other partners' interests in the channel in 2012). However, the original programming block still exists on PBS, filling daytime and in some cases, weekend morning schedules on its member stations; many members also carry 24-hour locally programmed children's networks featuring PBS Kids content on one of their digital subchannels. As of 2019, PBS Kids is the only children's programming block on U.S. broadcast television.

As PBS is often known for doing, PBS Kids has broadcast imported series from other countries; these include British series originally broadcast by the BBC and ITV. Through American Public Television, many PBS stations also began airing the Australian series Raggs on June 4, 2007. Some of the programs broadcast as part of the service's children's lineup or through public broadcast syndication directly to its members have subsequently been syndicated to commercial television outlets (such as Ghostwriter and The Magic School Bus).

Sports
Many PBS member stations and networks – including Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MHSAA), Georgia Public Broadcasting (GHSA), Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPA), Iowa Public Television (IGHSAU), Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NSAA), and WKYU-TV (Western Kentucky Hilltoppers) – locally broadcast high school and college sports. From the 1980s onward, the national PBS network has not typically carried sporting events, mainly because the broadcast rights to most sporting events have become more cost-prohibitive in that timeframe, especially for nonprofits with limited revenue potential; in addition, starting with the respective launches of the MountainWest Sports Network (now defunct) and Big Ten Network in 2006 and 2007 and the later launches of the Pac-12 Network and ESPN's SEC Network and ACC Network, athletic conferences have acquired rights for all of their member university's sports programs for their cable channels, restricting their use from PBS member stations, even those associated with their own universities.

From 1976 to 1989, KQED produced a series of Bundesliga matches under the banner Soccer Made in Germany, with Toby Charles announcing. PBS also carried tennis events, as well as Ivy League football. Notable football commentators included Upton Bell, Marty Glickman, Bob Casciola, Brian Dowling, Sean McDonough and Jack Corrigan. Other sports programs included interview series such as The Way It Was and The Sporting Life.

Governance
The board of directors is responsible for governing and setting policy for PBS, consisting of 27 members: 14 professional directors (station managers), 12 general directors (outside directors), and the PBS president. All PBS Board members serve three-year terms, without pay. PBS member stations elect the 14 professional directors; the board elects the 12 general directors and appoints the PBS president and CEO; and the entire board elects its officers.

Member stations
, PBS maintains current memberships with 354 television stations encompassing 50 states, the District of Columbia and four U.S. possessions; as such, it is the only television broadcaster in the United States – commercial or non-commercial – which has station partners licensed in every U.S. state (by comparison, none of the five major commercial broadcast networks has affiliates in certain states where PBS has members, most notably New Jersey). The service has an estimated national reach of 93.74% of all households in the United States (or 292,926,047 Americans with at least one television set).

PBS stations are commonly operated by nonprofit organizations, state agencies, local authorities (such as municipal boards of education), or universities in their city of license; this is similar (albeit more centralized in states where a licensee owns multiple stations rebroadcasting the main PBS member) to the early model of commercial broadcasting in the U.S., in which network-affiliated stations were initially owned by companies that owned few to no other television stations elsewhere in the country. In some U.S. states, a group of PBS stations throughout the entire state may be organized into a single regional "subnetwork" (such as Alabama Public Television and the Arkansas Educational Television Network); in this model, PBS programming and other content is distributed by the originating station in the subnetwork to other full-power stations that serve as satellites as well as any low-power translators in other areas of the state. Some states may be served by such a regional network and simultaneously have PBS member stations in a certain city (such as the case with secondary member KBDI-TV in Denver, which is not related to Colorado member network Rocky Mountain PBS and its flagship station and primary Denver PBS member, KRMA-TV) that operate autonomously from the regional member network.

As opposed to the present commercial broadcasting model in which network programs are often carried exclusively on one television station in a given market, PBS may maintain more than one member station in certain markets, which may be owned by the licensee of the market's primary PBS member station or owned by a separate licensee (as a prime example, KOCE-TV, KLCS and KVCR-DT – which are all individually owned – serve as PBS stations for the Los Angeles market; KCET served as the market's primary PBS member until it left the service in January 2011, at which time it was replaced by KOCE). KCET expects to rejoin PBS later in 2018, thus giving the Los Angeles area four different member stations.

For these cases, PBS utilizes the Program Differentiation Plan, which divides by percentage the amount of programs distributed by the service that each member can carry on their schedule; often, this assigns a larger proportion of PBS-distributed programming to the primary member station, with the secondary members being allowed to carry a lesser amount of program offerings from the service's schedule. Unlike public broadcasters in most other countries, PBS cannot own any of the stations that broadcasts its programming; therefore it is one of the few television programming bodies that does not have any owned-and-operated stations. This is partly due to the origins of the PBS stations themselves, and partly due to historical broadcast license issues.

Participating stations
Most PBS member stations have produced at least some nationally distributed programs. Current regularly scheduled programming on the PBS national feed is produced by a smaller group of stations, including:


 * WGBH-TV (Arthur, NOVA, Masterpiece, Frontline, etc.)
 * WNET (Nature, PBS NewsHour Weekend, Cyberchase, Amanpour & Company etc.)
 * WETA-TV (PBS NewsHour, Washington Week, A Capitol Fourth (annually), etc.)
 * WTTW (Nature Cat, WordWorld)
 * Maryland Public Television (MotorWeek)
 * KLRU (Austin City Limits)
 * KOCE-TV (Sid the Science Kid)
 * KQED (The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!)
 * Oregon Public Broadcasting (History Detectives)
 * UNC-TV (The Woodwright's Shop)
 * South Carolina ETV (A Chef's Life)
 * WQED (Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)


 * Twin Cities Public Public Television(KTCA/KTCI) (Newton's Apple)

PBS networks
PBS has spun off a number of television networks, often in partnership with other media companies. PBS YOU, a distance education and how-to service operated until January 2006, and was largely succeeded by Create (a similarly formatted network owned by American Public Television); PBS Kids Channel was superseded by Sprout at the start of October 2005. The PBS Kids Channel relaunched January 16, 2017. World began operations in 2007 as a service operated by PBS but is now managed by American Public Television.

PBS has also restructured its satellite feed system, simplifying HD02 (PBS West) into a timeshift feed for the Pacific Time Zone, rather than a high-definition complement to its formerly primary SD feed. PBS Kids Go! was proposed as a replacement broadcast network for PBS Kids Channel, however, plans to launch the network were folded in 2006. Programming from the PBS Satellite Service has also been carried by certain member stations or regional member networks to fill their overnight schedules (particularly those that have transitioned to a 24-hour schedule since the late 1990s), in lieu of providing programming sourced from outside public television distributors or repeats of local programming (program promotions shown on the satellite feed advertise upcoming programs as being aired on PBS during the timeslot card normally used as a placeholder for member outlets to insert local airtime information).

Some or all of these services are available on a digital cable tier of many cable providers, on a free-to-air (FTA) satellite receiver receiving from PBS Satellite Service, as well as via subscription-based direct broadcast satellite providers. With the exception of Sprout, some of these services, including those from PBS member stations and networks, have not made contracts with Internet-distributed over-the-top MVPD services such as PlayStation Vue and Sling TV. With the transition to over-the-air digital television broadcasts, many of the services are also often now available as standard-definition multicast channels on the digital signals of some member stations, while HD02 (PBS West) serves as a secondary HD feed. With the absence of advertising, network identification on these PBS networks was limited to utilization at the end of the program, which includes the standard series of bumpers from the "Be More" campaign.

At the summer 2019 Television Critics Association press tour day for PBS on July 29, 2019, it was announced that MVPD YouTube TV would begin to carry PBS programming and member stations in the fall of 2019. Member stations have the choice of having their traditional channel on the service with its full programming schedule received by Google over-the-air and uploaded to the service, a YouTube TV-only feed provided by the station with some programming substitutions due to lack of digital rights, or a PBS-provided feed with limited localization, though with no local programming or pledge drive programming.

Independent networks
While not operated or controlled by PBS proper, additional public broadcasting networks are available and carried by PBS member stations.

From 2002 to 2011, Buffalo, New York member station WNED-TV operated ThinkBright TV, a service that was carried on several stations in upstate New York. Several state networks also offer a public affairs subchannel network offering full-time coverage of state government events and legislative/judicial proceedings in the same vein as C-SPAN's coverage of the federal government.

A separate but related concept is the state network, where a group of stations across a state simulcast a single programming schedule from a central facility, which may include specialty subchannels unique to that broadcaster.

On-air fundraising
Since 53% to 60% of public television's revenues come from private membership donations and grants, most stations solicit individual donations by methods including fundraising, pledge drives or telethons, which disrupt regularly scheduled programming. This has been perceived as potentially annoying since regularly scheduled programming is often replaced with specials aimed at a wider audience (such as music specials aimed at the Baby Boomer generation and financial, health and motivational programs) to solicit new members and donations; during fundraising events, these programs are often interrupted within the broadcast by long-form segments (of six to eight minutes in length) encouraging viewers to donate to their PBS member. Underwriting spots are aired at the end of each program, which differ from traditional commercials in several ways. Each spot must be approved to meet several guidelines. The main guidelines state that underwriting spots cannot be qualitative in any way, nor can they have any call to action.

Accusations of political/ideological bias
A 1982 broadcast of the United States Information Agency program Let Poland be Poland about the martial law declared in Poland in 1981 was widely viewed in the U.S., but met with skepticism on the part of eastern European broadcasters (communist countries at the time) due to concerns that the program's "provocative and anticommunist" tone was intended as propaganda.

In 1999, at least three public television stations were caught selling or trading their mailing lists with the Democratic National Committee. Under IRS regulations, nonprofit organizations are prohibited from participating in political actions. Officials from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting condemned the practice and conducted an investigation into the matter. The stations involved were in New York, Boston, and Washington.

Individual programs aired by PBS have been the targets of organized campaigns by individuals and groups with opposing views, including former United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

Bill Moyers resigned in 2005 after more than three decades as a PBS regular, citing political pressure to alter the content of his program and saying Chairman of the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Kenneth Tomlinson had mounted a "vendetta" against him. Moyers eventually returned to host Bill Moyers Journal, after Tomlinson's resignation from CPB. Subsequently, PBS made room temporarily for rightwing commentator Tucker Carlson, formerly of MSNBC and co-host of CNN's Crossfire, and The Journal Editorial Report with Paul Gigot, an editor of The Wall Street Journal editorial page (this program has since moved to Fox News Channel) to partially balance out the perceived left-leaning PBS shows.

Lawsuit with Pacific Arts
In the 1990s, PBS became involved in a dispute over home video licensing rights with Pacific Arts Corporation, a multimedia company owned and operated by former Monkees guitarist Michael Nesmith.

In 1990, Pacific Arts secured a contract with PBS to distribute their back catalog of programming on VHS under the PBS Home Video banner. However, in the early 1990s, Pacific Arts and PBS went through a series of serious disagreements. Lawsuits were filed: by Nesmith and Pacific Arts against PBS for breach of contract, intentional misrepresentation, intentional concealment, negligent misrepresentation, and interference with contract; and by PBS against Nesmith and Pacific Arts for lost royalties. The lawsuits escalated in 1994 and 1995 into major litigation between the parties over these rights and payments. PBS and Nesmith and Pacific Arts vigorously prosecuted these multimillion-dollar counter-suits.

The six plaintiffs included PBS, WGBH, WNET, the Ken Burns-owned American Documentaries and Radio Pioneers Film Project and the Children's Television Workshop. They sought approximately $5 million in disputed royalties, advances, guarantees and license fees for programs and the use of the PBS logo from the defendants Pacific Arts and Nesmith.

Due to the cost of the litigation, Pacific Arts was forced to cease distribution operations and suspended the use of the PBS logo on the Pacific Arts videos. Though Pacific Arts distribution system had ceased operating, the various plaintiffs were counting on capturing a personal financial guarantee Nesmith had made to PBS in the original PBS deal in 1990.

The cases went to jury trial in Federal Court in Los Angeles in February 1999. After three days of deliberation, the jury unanimously sided with Nesmith. The court awarded Pacific Arts $14,625,000 for loss of its rights library, plus $29,250,000 in punitive damages. The jury awarded $3 million to Nesmith personally, including $2 million in punitive damages for a total award to Nesmith and Pacific Arts of $48,875,000. The jury resolved the outstanding license fee issues by ordering Pacific Arts and Nesmith to pay approximately $1.2 million to American Documentaries for The Civil War, about $230,000 to WGBH, and $150,000 to WNET.

Following the ruling, Nesmith expressed his personal disappointment with PBS and was quoted by BBC News as stating "It's like finding your grandmother stealing your stereo. You're happy to get your stereo back, but it's sad to find out your grandmother is a thief."

The decision never went to an appeals court and the final amount paid to Pacific Arts and Nesmith was an undisclosed sum agreed to in an out-of-court settlement.

Warning, Alert and Response Network (WARN)
PBS provides an alternate path for WEA alerts to wireless carriers. The alerts are transmitted through the PBS satellite network on the AMC-21 satellite to PBS stations who broadcast the messages over their transmitters for reception by wireless carriers at their cell sites.

The network is funded by a grant through National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

Plot
A sign leads Barney and his friends to an enchatanted forest. Along the way, they find a lost crown that belongs to the king. Following the sign to the castle, Barney and his friends return the crown to the king.

Cast
NOTE: The cast listed here preformed in the majority of the original North American tour (including the performance recorded for the video release). The only cast members that remain the same in every performance are the voice actors, as the voices are simply pre-recorded.
 * Barney (Voice: Bob West, Body: Carey Stinson and Antwaun Steele)Musical_Castle_Live!_VHS.png
 * Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson, Body: Jennifer Gibel and Jill Nelson)
 * BJ (Voie: Patty Wirtz, Body: Kyle Nelson and Charles L. Shaw)
 * Andy (Fernando Moguel)
 * Penny (Hayley Greenbauer)
 * Jessica (Talia Davis)
 * Justin (Wesley Farnsworth)
 * Mr. Sign (David Voss)
 * The Guard (Derrick J. Graves)
 * Knights in Shining Armor
 * The King - Derrick J. Graves

Act 1

 * 1) Barney Theme Song
 * 2) Musical Castle Sing Along Medley: (Everyone is Special, If All the Raindrops and Mr. Knickerbocker)
 * 3) Castles So High
 * 4) What Makes a Flower So Pretty?
 * 5) Look at Me, I'm Three
 * 6) You Can Count on Me
 * 7) Here in the Forest
 * 8) And the Green Grass Grows All Around
 * 9) It's a Great Day
 * 10) If You're Happy and You Know It

Act 2

 * 1) Castles So High (Reprise)
 * 2) Wave the Flags
 * 3) Musical Castle Nursery Rhyme Medley: (Little Bo Peep, Hickory Dickory Dock, Pat-A-Cake, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Jack and Jill and This Little Piggy)
 * 4) Knights' Dance
 * 5) Musical Castle Costumes Medley: (The Noble Duke of York; A Silly Hat; & Boom, Boom, Ain't It Great to Be Crazy?)
 * 6) I Put a Smile On
 * 7) I'm the King
 * 8) Musical Castle Celebration Medley: (Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-Dee-Ay, When I'm Old Enough to Join the Band and Wave the Flags) (Reprise)
 * 9) It's a Great Day (Reprise)
 * 10) I Love You Musical_Castle_Fake_DVD.png

Book
Main Article: Barney's Musical Castle (book)

Music and Soundtrack
Main Article: Barney's Musical Castle LIVE! 

'Barney's Musical Castle LIVE! 'was an album that was originally sold on November 7, 1999 during the tour. A retail version of this album was released on March 6, 2001. It has songs from the stage show and home video of the same name.

Main Article: El Castillo Musical de Barney

El Castillo Musical de Barney is an album based Spanish version of Barney's Musical Castle.

Gallery
See the gallery for the live show

Tour Schedule
For the partial schedule of this tour, see Barney's Musical Castle Tour Schedule (North America) 

Trivia

 * This live show/video marked:
 * The first time since Barney's Big Surprise, where BJ whistles to let the audience know of his arrival.
 * The only time a Barney show begins with a projected screen.
 * In the North American tour, the Barney doll with a sandbox is featured before the show starts.
 * During the second verse of "I Love You", Penny signs out the words.
 * This video is shown in the movie  Jurassic Park III  starring Trevor Morgan who plays Cody in Barney's Great Adventure.
 * In the Spanish version, additional shots were used that were not in the original VHS release.
 * The Wiggles and Captain Feathersword performed as the intermission act of the North American tour.
 * Bob the Builder performed as the intermission act of the Mexico tour.
 * No one preformed in the intermission act in the Puerto Rico tour.
 * The BJ costume would later be used in Barney's Dino Dancin' Tunes and Barney's Christmas Star.
 * This video of this live show was filmed at the Rosemont Theatre in Rosemont, Illinois.

Bonus Episodes

 * 1) Barney's Magical Musical Adventure
 * 2) A Royal Welcome

More Castle Fun
Featuring castle scenes from Stop, Look and Be Safe!, Once Upon a Time, Barney's Adventure Bus, Let's Build Together, Sing & Dance with Barney, and Stick with Imagination!.