1958

1958 (MCMLVIII) was .
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 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)
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 Sethe, Belgian violinist (b. 1876)
May 19 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
May 29 - Juan Ramon Jimenez, 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 - Frederic 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 - Herge
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