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Replaying Friday, July 24, 1998

The July 24, 1998 was a Friday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 204 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.

If you were born on this day, you are 27 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, July 24, 2025, 349 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, July 24, 2026, in 15 days. You have lived for 10,211 days, or about 245,080 hours, or about 14,704,856 minutes, or about 882,291,360 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

Jennifer Lopez (autobiographer, choreographer, dancer, executive producer, fashion designer, film actor, film director, film producer, model, record producer, restaurateur, singer-songwriter, television actor, television producer, voice actor, born July 24, 1969)
Simón Bolívar (military officer, politician, born July 24, 1783)
Elisabeth Moss (film actor, film producer, stage actor, television actor, born July 24, 1982)
Rose Byrne (actor, film actor, stage actor, born July 24, 1979)
Amelia Earhart (aircraft pilot, journalist, memoirist, travel writer, writer, born July 24, 1897)
Alexandre Dumas (author, novelist, playwright, writer, born July 24, 1802)
Nayib Bukele (businessperson, influencer, politician, born July 24, 1981)
Anna Paquin (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born July 24, 1982)
Mara Wilson (blogger, film actor, podcaster, singer, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, writer, born July 24, 1987)
Lynda Carter (actor, beauty pageant contestant, screenwriter, singer, voice actor, born July 24, 1951)
Kristin Chenoweth (actor, autobiographer, composer, film actor, singer, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, writer, born July 24, 1968)
Michael Richards (actor, comedian, dancer, film producer, screenwriter, singer, stand-up comedian, television actor, voice actor, born July 24, 1949)
Karl Malone (actor, basketball coach, basketball player, born July 24, 1963)
Barry Bonds (baseball player, born July 24, 1964)
Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī (Islamic jurist, historian, muhaddith, theologian, writer, born July 20, 810)
Johnny McDaid (record producer, songwriter, born July 24, 1976)
Bindi Irwin (activist, actor, conservationist, dancer, film actor, musician, naturalist, singer, television actor, television presenter, born July 24, 1998)
Luka Magnotta (model, murderer, prostitute, born July 24, 1982)
Daniele De Rossi (association football player, born July 24, 1983)
John Aniston (actor, film actor, military officer, stage actor, television actor, born July 24, 1933)
Zelda Fitzgerald (artist, autobiographer, dancer, journalist, novelist, painter, poet, socialite, writer, born July 24, 1900)
Chris Sarandon (film actor, film producer, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born July 24, 1942)
Raj Kaushal (film director, film producer, born July 24, 1971)
Laura Fraser (actor, film actor, stage actor, born July 24, 1976)
Rick Fox (actor, basketball player, television actor, born July 24, 1969)
Alphonse Mucha (designer, graphic artist, graphic designer, illustrator, jewelry designer, lithographer, painter, photographer, postage stamp designer, poster artist, teacher, born July 24, 1860)
Peter Nygård (businessperson, born July 24, 1941)
Azim Premji (businessperson, entrepreneur, born July 24, 1945)
Gus Van Sant (actor, director, film director, film editor, film producer, musician, photographer, screenwriter, born July 24, 1952)
Summer Glau (actor, ballet dancer, film actor, television actor, voice actor, born July 24, 1981)
Jorge Jesus (association football manager, association football player, born July 24, 1954)
Shavkat Mirziyoyev (politician, born July 24, 1957)
Asami Mizukawa (actor, born July 24, 1983)
Rashida Tlaib (lawyer, politician, born July 24, 1976)
Danny Dyer (Twat, autobiographer, entrepreneur, film actor, presenter, sports journalist, stage actor, television actor, born July 24, 1977)
Emily Bett Rickards (actor, film actor, born July 24, 1991)
Patty Jenkins (film director, screenwriter, television director, writer, born July 24, 1971)
Emperor Gaozong of Tang (sovereign, born July 21, 628)
Eugène François Vidocq (detective, military personnel, police officer, private investigator, writer, born July 24, 1775)
Vijay Antony (actor, composer, singer, born July 24, 1975)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (author, novelist, screenwriter, writer, born July 24, 1886)
Manoj Kumar (film actor, film director, film editor, screenwriter, born July 24, 1937)
Yulia Navalnaya (actor, economist, born July 24, 1976)
Masayuki Sakamoto (actor, singer, tarento, born July 24, 1971)
Mitch Grassi (YouTuber, singer, born July 24, 1992)
Lauren Miller (actor, film actor, film director, screenwriter, television actor, born July 24, 1982)
Charlie Crist (American football player, lawyer, politician, born July 24, 1956)
Brian Banks (American football player, born July 24, 1985)
Kalanithi Maran (businessperson, born July 24, 1964)
Dan Hedaya (actor, character actor, film actor, television actor, born July 24, 1940)
George Hu (actor, singer, television actor, born July 24, 1982)
Doug Liman (cinematographer, executive producer, film director, film producer, born July 24, 1965)
Guy Savoy (chef, born July 24, 1953)
Torrie Wilson (Playboy Playmate, actor, model, professional wrestler, born July 24, 1975)
Naoko Kawai (actor, composer, singer, singer-songwriter, born July 24, 1963)
Norihiro Nakamura (baseball player, born July 24, 1973)
Claire McCaskill (lawyer, politician, prosecutor, born July 24, 1953)
Dino Baggio (association football player, born July 24, 1971)
Benjamin Flores Jr. (actor, rapper, singer, television actor, born July 24, 2002)
Daveigh Chase (actor, film actor, singer, television actor, voice actor, born July 24, 1990)
Julia Bradbury (television presenter, born July 24, 1970)
Srividya (actor, film actor, television actor, born July 24, 1953)
Turia Pitt (athletics competitor, autobiographer, engineer, mining engineer, born July 24, 1987)
Carmen Nebel (television presenter, born July 24, 1956)
Robert Graves (literary critic, military personnel, mythographer, novelist, playwright, poet, science fiction writer, screenwriter, theatre critic, translator, university teacher, writer, born July 24, 1895)
Han Seung-yeon (actor, film actor, singer, born July 24, 1988)
Laura Leighton (actor, film actor, television actor, born July 24, 1968)
Maurkice Pouncey (American football player, born July 24, 1989)
José Altafini (association football player, color commentator, dub actor, sports commentator, born July 24, 1938)
Kadeem Hardison (actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, born July 24, 1965)
Francisco Solano López (politician, born July 24, 1827)
Michelle Buteau (film actor, podcaster, stand-up comedian, television actor, born July 24, 1977)
Robert Hays (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, television actor, voice actor, born July 24, 1947)
William Poole (boxer, criminal, politician, born July 24, 1821)
Juan Vicente Gómez (military personnel, politician, soldier, born July 24, 1857)
Nikolay Chernyshevsky (economist, journalist, literary critic, novelist, opinion journalist, philosopher, writer, born July 24, 1828)
Madeline Miller (novelist, teacher, writer, born July 24, 1978)
Maria Maksakova, Jr. (member of the State Duma, opera singer, politician, television presenter, born July 24, 1977)
Ruth Buzzi (film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born July 24, 1936)
Dan Inosanto (Thai boxer, actor, film actor, karateka, born July 24, 1936)
Banana Yoshimoto (essayist, novelist, prosaist, writer, born July 24, 1964)
Toshinobu Kubota (record producer, singer-songwriter, born July 24, 1962)
Gotō Shinpei (businessperson, diplomat, physician, politician, born July 24, 1857)
Kim Sang-ho (actor, film actor, television actor, born July 24, 1970)
John Haigh (serial killer, born July 24, 1909)
Johan Micoud (association football player, born July 24, 1973)
H. R. McMaster (army officer, military historian, born July 24, 1962)
Megan Park (actor, film actor, film director, born July 24, 1986)
Martin Keown (association football player, sports commentator, born July 24, 1966)
Chief Dan George (autobiographer, film actor, poet, television actor, tribal chief, born July 24, 1899)
Joan Enric Vives Sicília (Latin Catholic priest, parochus, professor, born July 24, 1949)
Gallagher (comedian, born July 24, 1946)
Patrice Bergeron (ice hockey player, born July 24, 1985)
David Leon (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, born July 24, 1980)
Mike Pouncey (American football player, born July 24, 1989)
Nick Nurse (basketball coach, basketball player, born July 24, 1967)
Satya Pal Malik (politician, born July 24, 1946)
Risa Sudō (actor, born July 24, 1976)
Eric Szmanda (actor, film actor, model, television actor, born July 24, 1975)
Isabelle Cornish (actor, model, born July 24, 1994)
Yves Duteil (politician, singer, singer-songwriter, born July 24, 1949)
Mehdi Mahdavikia (association football player, born July 24, 1977)
Andy Irons (actor, surfer, born July 24, 1978)
Axelle Laffont (actor, film director, born July 24, 1970)
Julie Graham (actor, film actor, born July 24, 1965)
Chiang Peng-lung (table tennis player, born July 24, 1976)
K. T. Rama Rao (politician, born July 24, 1976)
Robin Lehner (ice hockey player, born July 24, 1991)
Bella Abzug (lawyer, politician, social activist, born July 24, 1920)
Jovan Belcher (American football player, born July 24, 1987)
Shawn Weatherly (beauty pageant contestant, film actor, model, television actor, born July 24, 1959)
Éric Tabarly (Officer of the French Navy, sailor, seafarer, born July 24, 1931)
Guido Nicheli (actor, comedian, born July 24, 1934)
Paul Ben-Victor (actor, film actor, film producer, television actor, born July 24, 1965)
Andrew Gaze (autobiographer, basketball coach, basketball player, born July 24, 1965)
Mark Goddard (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born July 24, 1936)
Tala Ashe (actor, stage actor, television actor, born July 24, 1984)
Daniel Günther (politician, born July 24, 1973)
Saskia Vester (actor, film actor, stage actor, born July 24, 1959)
Katsuhide Uekusa (actor, born July 24, 1966)
Hilarion (Alfeyev) (composer, priest, theologian, university teacher, writer, born July 24, 1966)
Jim Leighton (association football player, born July 24, 1958)
Shaghayegh Farahani (actor, born July 24, 1972)
James Glickenhaus (film director, film producer, screenwriter, born July 24, 1950)
Travis S. Taylor (novelist, science fiction writer, born July 24, 1968)
Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov (military personnel, politician, sailor, translator, born July 24, 1904)
Mabel Albertson (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born July 24, 1901)
Irina Miroshnichenko (actor, singer, born July 24, 1942)
Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (king, born July 24, 1759)
Tak Jae-hun (actor, singer, born July 24, 1968)
Takis Mousafiris (composer, lyricist, born July 24, 1936)
Hervé Vilard (composer, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, born July 24, 1946)
Uje Brandelius (journalist, musician, singer, television presenter, born July 24, 1971)
Vincenzo Salemme (actor, dramaturge, film director, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, theatrical director, writer, born July 24, 1957)
Richard Trumka (lawyer, trade unionist, born July 24, 1949)
Alice Ball (chemist, pharmacist, born July 24, 1892)
Mo-Do (singer, born July 24, 1966)
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (sovereign, born July 24, 1817)
Gauge (film actor, pornographic actor, stripper, born July 24, 1980)
Marcos Giron (tennis player, born July 24, 1993)
Jay McGuiness (composer, singer, born July 24, 1990)
Rafer Alston (basketball player, born July 24, 1976)
Uzay Heparı (actor, composer, record producer, songwriter, born July 24, 1969)
Stephanie Adams (Playboy Playmate, astrologer, model, writer, born July 24, 1970)
Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro III (politician, born July 24, 1929)
Penelope Mitchell (actor, film actor, born July 24, 1991)
Kellyn Acosta (association football player, born July 24, 1995)
Tede (rapper, record producer, born July 24, 1976)
Iddo Netanyahu (playwright, radiologist, born July 24, 1952)
Naoki Chiba (association football player, born July 24, 1977)

24th of July 1998 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 24, 1998

Clinton's Spokesman Will Leave in the Fall

Date: 24 July 1998

By James Bennet

James Bennet

Pres Clinton announces that Michael D McCurry will resign as press secretary this fall; it is seen sign of growing confidence at White House that it is weathering Monica Lewinsky investigation; McCurry will be replaced by Joseph Lockhart; photo (M)

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Cyclists Stage Protest as Drug Investigation Widens

Date: 25 July 1998

By Samuel Abt

Samuel Abt

Tour de France nearly unravels as illegal drug use long suspected in bicycle racing surfaces in sport's showpiece, integral part of French culture; at least five expelled riders from Festina team, including world road racing champion Laurent Brochard, admit to police that they used performance-enhancing drugs; police probe Dutch team, reportedly finding doping products and masking agents; remaining riders hold protest against what they call harassment by news media, but start day's stage after two-hour delay; photos (M)

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World News Briefs; Russian Tax Problem For Johnson & Johnson

Date: 24 July 1998

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Russian tax authorities say that subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, world's fifth-largest drug maker, owes them almost $19 million in back taxes and that they have begun criminal cases against two of company's managers (S)

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BLACKSTONE AND VERITAS IN 2D STEEL VENTURE

Date: 25 July 1998

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Blackstone Group and Veritas Capital Partners LP agree to acquire Republic Engineered Steels Inc for $7.25 a share, or $143 million, in cash; will also assume some $277 million in debt (S)

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DELUXE TO CLOSE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OUTLETS

Date: 24 July 1998

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Deluxe Corp, nation's largest check printer, plans to close three facilities in US during coming year, affecting 400 jobs, as it looks to trim costs (S)

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