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