Authors born in 1898
- George Gershwin Composer, 1898
- H. A. Rey Author, 1898
- Hanns Eisler Composer, 1898
- Harold Stephen Black Engineer, 1898
- Harry Crosby Heir, 1898
- Harry Day Officer, 1898
- Howard Florey Pharmacologist, 1898
- Irene Dunne Film Actor, 1898
- James Randolph Adams Advertiser, 1898
- John Grierson Film Maker, 1898
- Katherine Amelia Towle Director, 1898
- Leo McCarey Film Director, 1898
- Leo Szilard Physicist, 1898
- Lillian Gordy Carter Nurse, 1898
- Ludwig Bemelmans Writer, 1898
- M. C. Escher Engraver, 1898
- Malcolm Cowley Writer, 1898
- Mark Lazarevich Levi Author, 1898
- Millicent Carey McIntosh Administrator, 1898
- Nathan Eldon Tanner Politician, 1898
- Ninette de Valois Dancer, 1898
- Norman Vincent Peale Author, 1898
- Paul Brunton Philosopher, 1898
- Paul Robeson Actor, 1898
- Paul Tournier Physician, 1898
- Preston Sturges Film Director, 1898
- Randolph Scott Actor, 1898
- Rene Magritte Artist, 1898
- Russell Meriwether Hughes Dancer, 1898
- Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Lawyer, 1898
- Sara Carter Musician, 1898
- Septima Poinsette Clark Activist, 1898
- Sergei Eisenstein Director, 1898
- Shinichi Suzuki Violinist, 1898
- Stephen Vincent Benet Writer, 1898
- W. C. Sellar Author, 1898
- Walter Judd Politician, 1898
- William Herbert Sheldon Psychologist, 1898
- William O. Douglas Jurist, 1898
- William Soutar Poet, 1898