1958

**1958** (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events

- NASA founded
- CEE

## Births

- January 1 - Elijah Nowak, Polish doctor
- January 21 – Frank Ticheli, American composer
- February 28 – Maurice Wolin, American sex offender and former oncologist   (d. 2021)
- March 5 – Andy Gibb, English singer (d. 1988)
- March 16 - Phillip Wilcher, Australian pianist
- April 3 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
- June 7 – Prince, American singer (d. 2016)
- July 3 – Aaron Tippin, American country singer
- July 5 – Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politician
- July 20 – Billy Mays, American television salesperson (d. 2009)
- July 31 - Bill Berry, American drummer (R.E.M.)
- August 16 – Madonna, American singer
- August 25 – Tim Burton, American movie producer and director
- August 29 – Michael Jackson, American singer (d. 2009)
- September 1 - Fernanda Silva, Brazilian volleyball player
- September 14 - Michael Böllner, German actor
- October 10 – Tanya Tucker, American country singer
- October 27 – Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
- October 30 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
- November 22 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
- November 28 – Shaun Prendergast, English actor
- November 30 – Stacey Q, American singer & actress
- December 17 – Mike Mills, American bass guitarist (R.E.M.)

## Deaths

- January 1 – Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
- January 8 – Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
- January 11 – Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
- January 30 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
- February 1 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- February 4 – Henry Kuttner, American writer (b. 1915)
- February 13 – Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)
- March 21 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
- March 22 – Mike Todd, American movie producer (b. 1909)
- March 25 – Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
- March 26 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
- March 28 – W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
- 16 April – Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (b. 1920)
- April 19 – Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874)
- May 3 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
- May 12 - Irma Sèthe, Belgian violinist (b. 1876)
- May 19 –  Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
- May 29 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- June 20 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- June 26 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1876)
- July 14 – King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935)
- August 14 – Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
- August 22 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- August 27 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- October 9 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
- October 17 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
- November 24 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
- November 27 – Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (b. 1892)
- December 8 – Tris Speaker, baseball player (b. 1888)
- December 15 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- September 29 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer

## Movies released

- _Auntie Mame_
- _Cat on a Hot Roof_
- _Gigi_
- _Hidden Fortress_
- _Hercules_ starring bodybuilder Steve Reeves
- _South Pacific_
- _Vertigo (movie)_

## Hit Songs

- "All I Have to Do Is Dream" – Everly Brothers
- "Rebel Rouser" – Duane Eddy
- "To Know Him Is to Love Him" – Teddy Bears
- "Johnny B. Goode" – Chuck Berry
- "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" – The Chipmunks with David Seville

## New Books

- _The Affluent Society_  –  John Kenneth Galbraith
- _Anatomy of a Murder_  –  Robert Traver
- _Around the World with Auntie Mame_ – Patrick Dennis
- _Balthazar_ – Lawrence Durrell
- _Bird of Fire_ – Helen White
- _Breakfast at Tiffany's_ – Truman Capote
- _Candy_ – Maxwell Kenton
- _Crazy in Berlin_ – Thomas Berger
- _Culture and Society 1780-1950_ – Raymond Williams
- _The Dharma Bums_ – Jack Kerouac
- _Dr. No_  –  Ian Fleming
- _The Enemy Camp_ – Jerome Weidman
- _The Fly_ – James Clavell
- _A Fly Went By_ – Mike McClintock
- _From the Terrace_  –  John O'Hara
- _I Like It Here_ – Kingsley Amis
- _Ice Palace_  –  Edna Ferber
- _The Leopard_ – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- _Masters of Deceit_ – J. Edgar Hoover
- _Our Man in Havana_ – Graham Greene
- _Playback_ – Raymond Chandler
- _The Red Sea Sharks_ – Hergé
- _Red Alert_ – Peter George
- _Venetia_ – Georgette Heyer
- _Victorine_ – Frances Parkinson Keyes
- _The Winthrop Woman_  –  Anya Seton
- _Things Fall Apart_ – Chinua Achebe
- _Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories_ – Dr. Seuss
- _Young Caesar_ – Rex Warner