August 26th (1998) was a Wednesday. It's the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days left to the end of the year.
August 26th Famous Deaths for 1998
» Jaanus Kuum, Estonian-Norwegian cyclist (b. 1964)
» Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)