Births[]
- May 14 — Megan Rebelo
- December 19 — Talon G. Ackerman
Deaths[]
- Tito Carpi
- Jacqulin Cole
- Nora Veryán
- January 3 — Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
- January 5 — Vy Russell
- February 5 — Douglas Gamley
- February 10 — Bob Sessions
- February 15 — George White
- February 23 — Philip Abbott
- February 23 — Charles Hayward
- February 24 — Milicent Patrick
- March 7 — Guy Prescott
- March 10 — Lloyd Bridges
- March 10 — Boyd Stockman
- March 13 — Claudio Gora
- March 19 — Taggart Casey
- March 29 — Eugene Walter
- April 15 — Carlos Suárez
- April 19 — Liam Sullivan
- April 20 — Aram Katcher
- April 20 — Hugo Grimaldi
- April 22 — Jack Cummins
- April 24 — Leslie Stevens
- April 24 — Frederic Downs
- May 4 — Albert Glasser
- May 7 — Jack Whitman
- May 11 — Gene Fowler Jr.
- May 20 — Ricardo Franco
- May 22 — Allan Ray
- May 27 — Mark Williams
- May 30 — Stanley Bickman
- June 1 — Darwin Joston
- June 4 — Ray Montgomery
- June 5 — Jeanette Nolan
- June 9 — Norman Stuart
- June 10 — Harrison Muller Sr.
- June 11 — Addalyn Pollitt
- June 13 — Jack Reitzen
- June 16 — Roberto Cañedo
- June 26 — Fuyukichi Maki
- June 29 — Jess Hahn
- July 10 — Alejandro Sessa
- July 15 — Cody Palance
- August 10 — Yuri Leonidov
- August 18 — Persis Khambatta
- August 19 — Susanne Sidney
- October 3 — Roddy McDowall
- October 11 — Richard Denning
- November 2 — Vincent Winter
- November 2 — Tommy Duggan
- November 22 — Les Podewell
- November 30 — René Barrera
- December 1 — Freddie Young
- December 8 — John Veitch
- December 14 — Vittorio Cottafavi
- December 14 — Lew Grade
- December 30 — Stan Jones
- December 31 — Will Sheldon
Episode Premieres[]
- March 14 — The Projected Man (first appearance of Castle Forrester)
- March 21 — The Phantom Planet
- April 4 — The Pumaman (final appearance of Paul Chaplin as Ortega)
- April 18 — Werewolf
- May 9 — The Deadly Bees (final appearance of Michael J. Nelson and Paul Chaplin as Observers)
- June 13 — The Space Children
- June 27 — Hobgoblins
- July 11 — The Touch of Satan
- July 18 — Gorgo
- July 25 — The Final Sacrifice
- August 15 — Devil Fish
- August 29 — The Screaming Skull
- September 26 — Quest of the Delta Knights (Final episode of Season Nine and 1998)
Special Premieres[]
- March 19 — Academy of Robots' Choice Awards Special
- September 4 — 2nd Annual Summer Blockbuster Review
Home Media releases[]
- February — Playstation Underground Vol 2, No 1 is released, including an exclusive disc with original MST3K content.
- March 10 — "Manos" The Hands of Fate
- March 10 — Gunslinger
- March 10 — Poopie!
- July 21 — Angels Revenge
- July 21 — Shorts, Volume 1
- September 15 — Poopie!
Events[]
- March 23 — At the 70th Academy Awards, the following awards were presented:
- James Horner wins the Best Original Dramatic Score Award for Titanic.
- James Horner and Will Jennings win the Best Original Song Award for "My Heart Will Go On", featured in Titanic.
- Michael Ford and Peter Lamont win the Best Art Direction Award for Titanic.
- Rick Baker and David Leroy Anderson win the Best Makeup Award for Men in Black.
- Thomas L. Fisher, Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, and Michael Kanfer win the Best Visual Effects Award for Titanic.
- April 30 — The Sci-Fi Channel announces they would not be picking up the additional 9 episodes for Mystery Science Theater 3000's 9th season.
- June 4 — The Sci-Fi Channel announces they picked up Mystery Science Theater 3000 for its 10th season.
- July 27 — Robert Vaughn receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6633 Hollywood Blvd.