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1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1998th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1990s decade.

From top to bottom, left to right: Bill Clinton is impeached after the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal; the Kosovo War begins as tensions escalate between Yugoslav forces and ethnic Albanian separatists; the 1998 FIFA World Cup is held in France, with the host nation emerging as champions; the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nariobi kill over 200 people and injure 4,000; the Second Congo War begins, becoming the deadliest conflict in Africa since World War II; the Good Friday Agreement is signed, bringing a major step toward peace in Northern Ireland; Google is founded, ushering in a transformative era for internet search; Hurricane Mitch devastates Central America, killing over 11,000 people; and Frank Sinatra dies, marking the loss of one of the 20th century’s most iconic entertainers.

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1998 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1998 MCMXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2751
Armenian calendar	1447 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6748
Baháʼí calendar	154–155
Balinese saka calendar	1919–1920
Bengali calendar	1404–1405
Berber calendar	2948
British Regnal year	46 Eliz. 2 – 47 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2542
Burmese calendar	1360
Byzantine calendar	7506–7507
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4695 or 4488 — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4696 or 4489
Coptic calendar	1714–1715
Discordian calendar	3164
Ethiopian calendar	1990–1991
Hebrew calendar	5758–5759
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2054–2055
- Shaka Samvat	1919–1920
- Kali Yuga	5098–5099
Holocene calendar	11998
Igbo calendar	998–999
Iranian calendar	1376–1377
Islamic calendar	1418–1419
Japanese calendar	Heisei 10 (平成１０年)
Javanese calendar	1930–1931
Juche calendar	87
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4331
Minguo calendar	ROC 87 民國87年
Nanakshahi calendar	530
Thai solar calendar	2541
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 2124 or 1743 or 971 — to — ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 2125 or 1744 or 972
Unix time	883612800 – 915148799

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1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.^[1]

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Events

January

January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
January 15 – U.N. peacekeepers return Eastern Slavonia to Croatian control; 80,000 displaced Croatians begin returning home, while 60,000 Serbs begin vacating the region. The area will remain under UNPSG supervision until October.
January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
January 21 - Pope John Paul II begins a 5-day visit to Cuba;^[2] Fidel Castro releases 300 political prisoners in a gesture of goodwill.
January 23 - P.W. Botha appears in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to answer for apartheid-era policies; he refers to the hearing as a "circus".

February

February 2 - Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into a mountain,^[3] this crash marked deadliest aviation accident in Philippines until 2000.
February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car.
February 4 – The 5.9 M_w 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 6 – Washington National Airport is officially renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
February 12 - The Flag of the Philippines gets a minor redesign, changing its blue and red shades.
February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes upon attempted landing at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 203, the second-deadliest air crash in Taiwan.
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 United Kingdom.
February 26 – Oprah is cleared of slander in an Amarillo court after a highly publicized court battle with Texas beef moguls.
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, the study was instantly controversial and fueled the nascent anti-vaccination movement. Although subsequent large epidemiological research found no link between vaccines and autism,^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] the study contributed – in the following years and decades – to a sharp drop in vaccination rates and the resurgence of measles in several countries.^[8] The study, fully retracted in 2010, was later characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the 20th Century".^[7]

March

March 2 – Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
March 5 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
March 11 – 1998 Danish general election: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.^[9]
March 13 – The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
March 21 – The European Union announces an arms embargo against Serbia and Montenegro.
March 23 – The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Titanic wins 11 Oscars including Best Picture.
- Boris Yeltsin dismisses Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin in "an effort to make economic reforms more energetic and effective."
March 24 – Westside Middle School shooting: Five people are killed in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
March 26 – Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives; 32 of the killed are babies under the age of two.
- Bill Clinton makes the first visit to South Africa by a U.S. president.
March 30 – Hungary begins European Union accession talks.
March 31 – Quett Masire voluntarily steps down as President of Botswana after 18 years in office.

April

April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.6 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
April 10 – Good Friday Agreement: An hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party. This would mostly put an end to the conflict known as The Troubles.
April 17 – 1998 Australian waterfront dispute: Patrick Stevedores fires all 1,400 employees.
April 20 – The alleged date the German Red Army Faction (created 1970) is dissolved.
April 23 – The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 19.
April 24 – Rwanda executes 22 Hutus, including Froduald Karamira, for their roles in the 1994 genocide.

May

May 5–6 - landslides in Campania, Italy kill 161
May 6 – A large Eritrean mechanized force enters Badme in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, resulting in the Eritrean–Ethiopian War.
May 11
- Pokhran-II (Operation Shakti): India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including one thermonuclear device.
- The first euro coins are minted in Pessac, France. Because the final specifications for the coins are not finished, they will have to be melted and minted again in 1999.
May 13–14 – Riots directed against Chinese Indonesians break out in Indonesia, killing around 1,000 people.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14] Maria Catarina Sumarsih holds Prabowo Subianto responsibilities for involved in a series of human rights abuses during the riot.^[15]
May 15
- The Windows 98 operating system is released to manufacturing.
- Argentina expels seven Iranian diplomats over their connections to the 1994 AMIA bombing.
May 18 – The Department of Justice files an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging its Windows operating system unfairly takes market share from Netscape's Navigator.
May 19
- The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the US'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 31 years as President of Indonesia, effectively ending the New Order period. It is his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie, becomes Indonesia's third president.
May 26 – Australia holds its first National Sorry Day.
May 27 – The United States requests that El Salvador reopen its probe into the 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries.
May 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in the Chagai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
May 30
- A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
- A second nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-II, is conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).

June

June 1 – 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.^[16]
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).^[17]
June 8 - The DeBruce Grain Elevator explosion in Wichita, Kansas kills 7.
June 10–July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.
June 10 – The Organisation of African Unity passes a resolution which states that its members will no longer comply with punitive sanctions applied by the UN Security Council against Libya.
June 27 – Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opens, becoming the new international gateway into Malaysia.
June 30 – Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada is sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.

July

July 5 – Japan launches the probe Nozomi to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.
July 17
- Rome Statute: at a conference in Rome, 120 countries vote to create a permanent International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
- In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
- The 7.0 M_w 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 – 1998 Sydney water crisis: suspected contamination by the microscopic pathogens cryptosporidium and giardia of the water supply system of Greater Metropolitan Sydney, Australia.^[18]
July 24 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. enters the United States Capitol Building and opens fire, killing two members of the United States Capitol Police, Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson.

August

August 1 – Puntland State leaders in Somalia declare the territory an autonomous state; the capital is the city of Garoowe in the Nugal region.^[19]
August 4 – The Second Congo War begins; 5.4 million people die before it ends in 2003, making it the bloodiest war, to date, since World War II.
August 8 – Afghan Civil War: The Taliban takes control of Mazar-i-Sharif.
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 10 – Voters in Nevis narrowly reject an independence referendum.
August 15 – The Troubles: The Omagh bombing is carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real Irish Republican Army as a reaction to the Good Friday Agreement. Shortly after these events, the group will call a ceasefire in response, signaling an end to the 30+ year conflict.^[20]
August 17 – Russia's government devalues the ruble, defaults on domestic debt, and declares a moratorium on repayment of foreign debt.^[21] This marks the beginning of 1998 Russian financial crisis.

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.^[22]
- Jean Kambanda is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Rwandan genocide.
September 5 – The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary. The constitution is amended, and the late Kim Il Sung is enshrined as the eternal President.
September 9 – Keiko the orca, captured in 1979, is released back into the wild off the coast of Iceland.
September 10 – At midnight, a shooting occurs aboard an Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Russian Navy docked in the northern Russian port city of Severomorsk.
September 12 – The Cuban Five intelligence agents are arrested in Miami, and later convicted of espionage. The agents claim they were not spying against the United States Government but against the Cuban exile community in Miami.
September 17 – Basque conflict: Basque Homeland and Liberty reaches a ceasefire agreement with the government of Spain, the second such agreement in two years.
September 24 – Iranian President Mohammad Khatami retracts a fatwa against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie that was in force since 1989 stating that the Iranian government will "neither support nor hinder assassination operations on Rushdie".
September 25 – Benoit Lecomte finishes his 72-day swim across the Atlantic Ocean, but uncertainty over the exact route and distance covered prevent him from being recognized as the first person to swim across the Atlantic.
September 25–28 – Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by Federal Reserve officials, agree on terms of a re-capitalization to avoid a wider collapse in financial markets.^[23]

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.^[24]
October 4 – The World Bank praises Costa Rica for its remarkable success in raising life expectancy and lowering infant mortality.
October 10 – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, is indicted for human rights violations he committed in Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón. 6 days later British police place him under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK. This is a leading case in the law of universal jurisdiction.
October 17 – 1998 Jesse pipeline explosion: An oil pipeline explosion in Jesse, Nigeria results in 1,082 deaths.
October 20 – Boris Yeltsin announces he will not seek reelection in 2000.
October 29 – Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, killing an estimated 11,000 people.

November

November 3 – South Carolina voters repeal the state's 103-year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage, making Alabama the last U.S. state with such a ban in place.
November 17 – Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of 69.419 AU (1.03849×10¹⁰ km).
November 19 – Valve Corporation releases their first-person shooter video game Half-Life to critical acclaim. The game would be deemed one of the most influential titles of its genre, and one of the greatest video games of all time.^[25]
November 20 – A Russian Proton rocket is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first segment of the International Space Station, the 21-ton Zarya Module.
November 24 – A declassified report by Swiss International Olympic Committee official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City during bidding process in 1995. The IOC, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Department of Justice immediately launch an investigation into the scandal.

December

December 1 – Ireland formally relinquishes its territorial claim over Northern Ireland and recognizes the United Kingdom's sovereignty there.^[26]
December 4 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first U.S.-built component to the International Space Station, the 25,600 pounds (11,600 kg) Unity module on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later.
December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former officer of the Venezuelan army, is elected President of Venezuela.
December 11 – Thai Airways International Flight 261 crashes upon attempted landing at Surat Thani International Airport, killing 101, the second-deadliest air crash in Thailand.
December 14 – The Yugoslav Army ambushes a column of 140 Kosovo Liberation Army militants attempting to smuggle arms from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq.
December 19 – The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making him the second president to be impeached in U.S. history.
December 29 – The Khmer Rouge's leaders apologize for the post-Vietnam War genocide in Cambodia that killed more than one million people in the 1970s.
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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The European Small Business Alliance organization is formed.^[27]
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.^[28]

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Births

January

January 1 – Sara Ahmed, Egyptian weightlifter^{[citation needed]}
January 2 – Junto Nakatani, Japanese professional boxer ^[29]
January 4
- Coco Jones, American actress and singer^[30]
- Liza Soberano, American actress
January 7 – Yangel Herrera, Venezuelan footballer ^[31]
January 8
- Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer^[32]
- Jonathon Cooper, American football linebacker ^[33]
January 9 – Alek Manoah, American baseball pitcher ^[34]
January 11 –Salih Özcan, Turkish footballer^[35]
January 13
- Gabrielle Daleman, Canadian figure skater^{[citation needed]}
- Chris Nilsen, American athlete^[36]
January 15 – Chloe Kelly, English footballer^[37]
January 17
- Anthony Zambrano, Colombian sprinter^[38]
- Lovro Majer, Croatian footballer^[39]
- Natalia Bukowiecka, Polish sprinter ^[40]
January 18
- Vashti Cunningham, American track and field athlete
- Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer^[41]
- Lisandro Martínez, Argentine footballer^[42]
- Shin Ye-eun, South Korean actress and model ^[43]
- Byron Murphy, American football cornerback ^[44]^[45]
January 19 – Lily Donoghue, American actress ^[46]^[47]
January 20 – Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player ^[48]^[49]
January 21
- Pervis Estupiñán, Ecuadorian footballer^[50]
- Borna Sosa, Croatian footballer^[51]
January 23 – XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
January 27
- Albina Kelmendi, Albanian-Kosovan singer and songwriter^[52]
- Mone Kamishiraishi, Japanese actress and singer
January 28
- Ariel Winter, American actress and voice actress
- Payton Pritchard, American basketball player ^[53]
January 29 – Jorge Martín, Spanish motorcycle racer^[54]
January 31 – Amadou Haidara, Malian footballer^[55]

February

February 1 – Jazz Chisholm Jr., Bahamian baseball infielder ^[56]
February 3 – Yang Hao, Chinese diver
February 4
- Isadora Cruz, Brazilian actress
- Malik Monk, American basketball player ^[57]
- Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer ^[58]
- George Kirby, American baseball pitcher ^[59]
February 6
- Adley Rutschman, American baseball catcher ^[60]
- Jay Lycurgo, English actor ^[61]^[62]
February 8 – Rui Hachimura, Japanese basketball player ^[63]
February 10 – Ayesha Madon, Australian actress ^[64]
February 11
- Niklas Kaul, German decathlete^[65]
- Khalid, American singer and songwriter ^[66]
- Josh Jacobs, American football running back ^[67]
- Garance Marillier, French actress ^[68]
February 12
- Yungeen Ace, American rapper, singer, and songwriter ^[69]
- Josh Jung, American baseball third baseman ^[70]
February 14 – Sander Berge, Norwegian footballer^[71]
February 15
- Zachary Gordon, American actor
- George Russell, British racing driver ^[72]
February 16 – Lizze Broadway, American actress ^[73]
February 17
- Mohamed Katir, Moroccan born-Spanish middle-distance runner^[74]
- Devin White, American football linebacker ^[75]
February 19
- Chappell Roan, American singer and songwriter ^[76]
- Alice Pagani, Italian actress, model and author ^[77]
February 24 – Will Jordan, New Zealand rugby player ^[78]
February 26 – Keyla Monterroso Mejia, American actress ^[79]
February 27 – Elisa Balsamo, Italian cyclist
February 28 – Teun Koopmeiners, Dutch footballer ^[80]

March

March 2 – Tua Tagovailoa, American football quarterback ^[81]
March 3 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player ^[82]
March 5
- Bo Bichette, American baseball shortstop ^[83]
- Merih Demiral, Turkish footballer ^[84]
March 6 – Odessa Young, Australian actress^[85]
March 7 – Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist ^[86]
March 9
- Parker Boudreaux, American professional wrestler
- Najee Harris, American football running back^[87]
March 10 – Justin Herbert, American football quarterback ^[88]
March 11
- Axel Disasi, French footballer ^[89]
- Valentina Herszage, Brazilian actress ^[90]
March 13
- Jack Harlow, American rapper ^[91]
- Shaoang Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater ^[92]
March 17 – Brandon Aiyuk, American football wide receiver ^[93]
March 18
- Miltiadis Tentoglou, Greek track and field athlete ^[94]
- Abigail Cowen, American actress and model ^[95]
- Emmanuel Clase, Dominican baseball pitcher ^[96]
March 19 – Julian Love, American football safety ^[97]
March 20 – Letesenbet Gidey, Ethiopian long-distance runner^[98]
March 24
- Christopher Briney, American actor ^[99]
- Ethel Cain, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and model ^[100]^[101]
March 25 – Vergil Ortiz Jr., American professional boxer ^[102]
March 26 – Satoko Miyahara, former Japanese figure skater
March 28 –Sandi Lovrić, Slovenian footballer ^[103]
March 31
- Anna Seidel, former German short track speed skater ^[104]
- Cash Cobain, American rapper ^[105]

April

April 1 – King Combs, American rapper and model^[106]
April 2 – Caelan Doris, Irish rugby player ^[107]
April 3
- Paris Jackson, American actress and model
- Wout Faes, Belgian footballer ^[108]
April 4 – Ayliva, German singer ^[109]
April 6
- Peyton List, American actress and model^[110]
- Nahuel Molina, Argentine footballer^[111]
April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress and model ^[112]
April 10
- Anna Pogorilaya, former Russian figure skater
- Stijn Desmet, Belgian short track speed skater ^[113]
April 15
- Derrick Brown, American football defensive tackle ^[114]
- Sexyy Red, American rapper^[115]
April 19
- Patrik Laine, Finnish ice hockey player ^[116]
- Zhang Yufei, Chinese swimmer ^[117]
April 20 – Felix Mallard, Australian actor ^[118]
April 21 – Jarrett Allen, American basketball player ^[119]
April 22 – David Raum, German footballer ^[120]
April 23 – Brian Burns, American football defensive end ^[121]
April 26 – Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Polish chess grandmaster
April 27
- Cristian Romero, Argentine footballer ^[122]
- Drake Batherson, Canadian ice hockey player ^[123]
April 29
- Ella Hunt, English actress and singer ^[124]
- Mallory Swanson, American soccer player^[125]
- Apriyani Rahayu, Indonesian badminton player^[126]
April 30 – Olivia DeJonge, Australian actress ^[127]

May

May 2
- Tremaine Edmunds, American football linebacker ^[128]
- Jonathan Ikoné, French footballer ^[129]
May 4 – Rex Orange County, English singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter^[130]
May 5
- Tijana Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner ^[131]
- Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player ^[132]
- Jordan Kyrou, Canadian ice hockey player ^[133]
May 6 – Luigi Mangione, suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson^[134]
May 7
- MrBeast, American YouTuber
- Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer ^[135]
May 8 – Corey Mylchreest, English actor ^[136]
May 9 – Douglas Luiz, Brazilian footballer ^[137]
May 10 – Lee Jae-wook, South Korean actor and model ^[138]
May 12
- Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player ^[139]
- Allen La/DraconiteDragon, Canadian YouTuber, part of YouTube gaming group Krew ^[140]
- BigXthaPlug, American rapper and songwriter ^[141]
May 18 – Polina Edmunds, former American figure skater
May 19 – Alex Král, Czech footballer ^[142]
May 20 – Beatriz Souza, Brazilian judoka ^[143]^[144]
May 23
- Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter ^[145]
- Steve Lacy, American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer ^[146]
May 24 – Daisy Edgar-Jones, English actress ^[147]
May 28 – Dahyun, South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer
May 29
- Markelle Fultz, American basketball player ^[148]
- Austin Reaves, American basketball player ^[149]