1998 in Spain

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See also:	Other events of 1998; List of years in Spain

The following lists events that happened during 1998 in Spain.

Incumbents

31 January — The 12th Goya Awards are held in Madrid and Lucky Star is awarded as best film.
16 April – L'Hemisfèric is inaugurated in Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences.
25 April — A holding dam bursts in the Province of Seville, releasing 4–5 million cubic metres of mine tailings causing the Doñana disaster.
30 May — Caesium-137 leaked from an Acerinox plant in Los Barrios, causing radioactive contamination in the Acerinox accident.
25 September — PauknAir Flight 4101 crashes on a flight from Málaga to Melilla. All 38 passengers and crew perish.
25 October — The Basque regional election is held, creating the 6th Basque Parliament.

3 February – Fran Navarro, footballer
4 February — Álvaro Bravo, footballer
5 February – Dani Morer, footballer
9 February – Relu, footballer
10 February
- Juanma Bravo, footballer
- Aitor Buñuel, footballer
- Julio Gracia, footballer
13 February – Guillem Rodríguez, footballer
16 February – Carles Pérez, footballer
19 February – Damià Viader, footballer
22 February – Pablo Martínez, footballer
23 February – Felipe Chacartegui, footballer
25 February – Oriol Rey, footballer
26 February — Josemi Castañeda, footballer

2 May
- Victor Fernández, footballer
- Javi Hernández, footballer
4 May — Clara Azurmendi, badminton player
7 May – Dani Olmo, footballer
9 May – Andrea Vilaró, basketball player
13 May
- Jon Moncayola, footballer
- Adrià Pedrosa, footballer
15 May
- Francisco Callejón, footballer
- Pepe Mena, footballer
- Eric Vila, basketball player
17 May – Patricia Guijarro, footballer
19 May
- Mónica Alonso, rhythmic gymnast
- Aarón Rey, footballer
20 May — Raúl Asencio, footballer
25 May – Javi Puado, footballer
27 May
- Joan Cardona, sailor
- Mourad Daoudi, footballer
- Josep Martínez, footballer
28 May
- Joel Arimany, footballer
- Alejandro Martínez, cyclist
20 May – Anne Fernández de Corres, rugby

12 January – Ramón Sampedro, writer (born 1943)
4 February – Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, aristocrat (born 1922)
16 February — Fernando Abril Martorell, politician (born 1936)
22 February – José María de Areilza, Count of Motrico, politician (born 1909)
13 March — Pere Alberch, biologist (born 1954)
7 April – Luis Díez del Corral, jurist and political scientist (born 1911)
6 May — Juan Antonio García Díez, politician and Deputy Prime Minister of Spain (born 1940)
24 May – Lucio Muñoz, painter (born 1929)
29 June — Carmen Llorca, historian and politician (born 1921)
5 July – Maria Mercè Marçal, writer and professor (born 1952)
8 July — Lilí Álvarez, athlete, feminist, and writer (born 1905 in Italy)
22 July – Antonio Saura, artist (born 1930)
12 August — Jesús Loroño, cyclist (born 1926)
24 August – Manuel Azcárate, journalist and politician (born 1916)
25 October – Juan Tusquets Terrats, priest and author (born 1901)
31 October — María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, religious sister and canonised saint (born 1926)
15 November – Federico Krutwig, writer and politician (born 1921)
27 November — Gloria Fuertes, poet (born 1917)
29 November – Fermín Sanz-Orrio, politician (born 1901)
30 December — Joan Brossa, writer and artist (born 1919)