1958

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

## Events 
* NASA founded
* CEE
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## 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 &ndash; Tanya Tucker, American country singer
* October 27 &ndash; Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
* October 30 &ndash; Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
* November 22 &ndash; Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
* November 28 &ndash; Shaun Prendergast, English actor
* November 30 &ndash; Stacey Q, American singer & actress
* December 17 &ndash; 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