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[[Image:Sputnik 1.png|thumb|150px|right| [[January 4|Jan.4]] [[Sputnik 1|Sputnik]] falls to [[Earth]].]]
Year '''1958''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] (link will display full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
==Events of 1958==
===January===
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* [[January 4]] - [[Sputnik 1]] falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on [[October 4]] [[1957]]).
* [[January 8]] - 14-year-old [[Bobby Fischer]] wins the [[United States Chess Championship]].
* [[January 13]] - 9235 scientists publish a plea to stop [[nuclear bomb]] tests.
* [[January 18]] - Armed [[Lumbee]] Indians confront a handful of [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansmen]] at the town of [[Maxton, North Carolina]].
* [[January 28]] - [[Baseball Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] [[baseball]] player [[Roy Campanella]] is involved in an automobile accident that ends his career and leaves him paralyzed.
* [[January 31]] - The first successful American [[satellite]], [[Explorer 1]], is launched into orbit.
===February===
* [[February 1]] - [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]] unite to form the [[United Arab Republic]].
* [[February 2]] - The word Aerospace is coined, from the words Aircraft (aero) and Spacecraft (space) taking into consideration that the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a single realm.
* [[February 5]]
**[[Gamel Abdel Nasser]] is nominated to be the first president of the [[United Arab Republic]].
**[[Tybee Bomb]] a 7,600 pound (3,500 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb was lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia.
* [[February 6]] - [[Munich air disaster]] - 23 dead, including 8 players for [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]].
* [[February 11]]
**Marshal [[Chen Yi (communist)|Chen Yi]] succeeds [[Zhou Enlai]] as [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] Minister of Foreign affairs.
**[[Ruth Carol Taylor]] is the first [[African American]] woman hired as a [[flight attendant]].
* [[February 14]] - The [[Hashemite]] Kingdoms of [[Iraq]] and [[Jordan]] unites in the [[Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan]] with the Iraqi King [[Faisal II]] as head of state.
* [[February 17]] - [[Pope Pius XII]] declares [[Clare of Assisi|Saint Clare]] the [[patron saint]] of [[television]]
* [[February 20]] - Test rocket explodes in [[Cape Canaveral]].
* [[February 21]] - [[Peace symbol]] designed and completed by [[Gerald Holtom]], commissioned by [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]], in protest against the [[Atomic Weapons Research Establishment]].
* [[February 23]]
**<!-- February 23-->[[Cuba]]n rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion [[Juan Manuel Fangio]]. They release him 28 hours later.
**<!-- February 23-->[[Arturo Frondizi]] wins presidential elections in [[Argentina]].
* [[February 24]] - In [[Cuba]], ''[[Radio Rebelde]]'', radio of rebels of [[Fidel Castro]], begins broadcasting from [[Sierra Maestra]].
* [[February 25]] - [[Bertrand Russell]] launches the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]].
* [[February 28]] - One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurred at Prestonsburg, Kentucky, killing 27.
===March===
* [[March 1]] - [[Samuel Cardinal Stritch|Samuel Alphonsus Stritch]], ninth bishop (fourth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the [[Roman Curia]].
**<!-- March 1-->[[Turkey|Turkish]] passenger ship ''[[Uskudar]]'' capsized and sank at Izmit Bay, [[Kocaeli]], [[Turkey]], killing at least 300.
* [[March 2]] - A British team led by Sir [[Vivian Fuchs]] completes the first crossing of the [[Antarctic]] in Snow-cat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams in 99 days.
* [[March 8]] - [[USS Wisconsin (BB-64)|USS ''Wisconsin'']] is decommissioned, leaving the [[United States Navy]] without an active battleship for the first time since [[1896]] (recommissioned [[October 22]], [[1988]]).
* [[March 11]] - [[U.S.]] [[B-47]] bomber accidentally drops an [[atom bomb]] on [[Mars Bluff]], [[South Carolina]]. Its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people, but no [[nuclear fission]] occurs.
* [[March 17]] - The [[United States]] launches the [[Vanguard 1]] [[satellite]].
* [[March 24]] - The U.S. Army inducts [[Elvis Presley]], transforming The King Of Rock & Roll into U.S. private #53310761
* [[March 25]] - Canada's [[Avro Arrow]] makes its debut flight.
* [[March 26]]
**The [[United States Army]] launches [[Explorer 3]].
**[[30th Academy Awards]] ceremony
* [[March 27]] - [[Nikita Khrushchev]] becomes [[Premier of the Soviet Union]].
===April===
* [[April 1]] - [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]] established.
* [[April 3]] - [[Fidel Castro|Castro]]'s revolutionary army begins its attacks on [[Havana]].
* [[April 4]] - [[April 7]] - The first protest march for the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] from [[Hyde Park, London]] to [[Aldermaston]], [[Berkshire]]. Demonstrators demand ban of [[nuclear weapons]].
* [[April 4]] - [[Cheryl Crane]], the daughter of actress [[Lana Turner]], fatally stabs her mother's gangster lover [[Johnny Stompanato]] (eventually ruled as [[self-defense]]).
* [[April 6]] - [[Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari]] divorces the Shah of Iran, [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] after she is unable to produce any children.
* [[April 14]] - [[Van Cliburn]] wins the [[Tchaikovsky International Competition]] for [[piano|pianists]] in [[Moscow]], breaking [[Cold War]] tensions.
* [[April 15]] - The first [[Major League Baseball]] regular season game ever played in [[California]] as the [[San Francisco Giants]] beat the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] 8-0 at [[San Francisco]]'s [[Seals Stadium]].
* [[April 17]] - King [[Baudouin of Belgium]] officially opens the [[World Fair]] in [[Brussels]], also known as [[Expo '58]].
===May===
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* [[May 1]]
**<!-- May 1-->[[Arturo Frondizi]] becomes [[President of Argentina]].
**<!-- May 1-->The [[Nordic Passport Union]] comes into force.
* [[May 9]] - Actor-singer [[Paul Robeson]], whose passport has been reinstated, sings in a sold-out one-man recital at [[Carnegie Hall]]. The recital is such a success that Robeson gives another one at Carnegie Hall a few days later. But after these two concerts, Robeson is seldom seen in public in the United States again. His Carnegie Hall concerts are later released on records and on [[CD]].
* [[May 12]] - A formal [[North American Aerospace Defense Command]] agreement is signed between the [[United States]] and [[Canada]].
* [[May 13]]
**[[Pied-noir|French Algerian]] protesters seize government offices in [[Algiers]], leading to a military coup.
**During a visit to [[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]], [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]]'s car is attacked by [[Anti-Americanism|anti-American]] demonstrators.
* [[May 15]] - The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Sputnik program|Sputnik 3]].
* [[May 18]] - An [[F-104 Starfighter]] sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph.
* [[May 20]] - [[Fulgencio Batista]]'s government launches counteroffensive against Castro's rebels.
* [[May 21]] - [[United Kingdom Postmaster General]] [[Ernest Marples]] announces that from December, [[subscriber trunk dialling|Subscriber Trunk Dialling]] will be introduced in the [[Bristol]] area. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21/newsid_2510000/2510289.stm]
* [[May 23]] - [[Explorer 1]] ceased transmission
* [[May 30]] - The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during [[World War II]] and the [[Korean War]] are buried at the [[Tomb of the Unknowns]] in [[Arlington National Cemetery]].
===June===
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* [[June 1]]
**<!-- June 1-->[[Charles de Gaulle]] is brought out of retirement to lead [[France]] by decree for six months.
**<!-- June 1-->[[Iceland]] extends its fishing limits to 12 miles (22.2 km).
* [[June 2]] - [[San Simeon, California|San Simeon]], [[California]], USA; [http://www.hearstcastle.com Hearst Castle] opens to the public for guided tours.
* [[June 4]] - [[Charles de Gaulle|Charles De Gaulle]] visits [[Algeria]].
* [[June 16]] - [[Imre Nagy]] is hanged for treason in Hungary.
* [[June 27]] - [[Peronism|Peronist]] party becomes legal again in [[Argentina]].
* [[June 29]] - [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] beats [[Sweden national football team|Sweden]] 5-2 to win the [[1958 FIFA World Cup|1958 World Cup]].
===July===
* [[July 5]] - First ascent of [[Gasherbrum I]], 11th highest mountain in the world.
* [[July 7]]
**<!-- July 7-->[[President of the United States|President]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] signs the [[Alaska]] Statehood Act into [[United States law]].
**<!-- July 7-->First [[International House of Pancakes]] ([[IHOP]]) opens in Toluca Lake, Calif.
* [[July 9]]
**7.5 [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] [[earthquake]] in [[Lituya Bay]], [[Alaska]], causes a [[landslide]] that produces a huge 520-meter high wave <!-- Exact date unverified? Sources differ. Best sources say 9th. -->
* [[July 10]]
**First [[parking meter]]s installed in Britain
* [[July 14]] - [[Iraqi Revolution]]: The [[Iraq]]i monarchy is overthrown by [[Arab nationalist]]s, King [[Faisal II]] is murdered and [[Abdul Karim Qassim]] assumes power.
* [[July 15]] - In [[Lebanon]], 5,000 [[United States Marines]] land in the capital [[Beirut]] in order to protect the pro-Western government there.
* [[July 17]] - British paratroopers arrive in [[Jordan]]; King [[Hussein of Jordan|Hussein]] has asked help against pressure from Iraq.
* [[July 20]] - Various rebel groups in Cuba join forces but communists do not join the deal.
* [[July 24]] - The first [[life peerage]] is created in Britain.
* [[July 26]]
**<!-- July 26-->[[Explorer program]]: [[Explorer 4]] is launched
**<!-- July 26-->Queen [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]] gives her son [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Charles]] the title of [[Prince of Wales]].
** [[July 28]] - [[Terrance Stanley Fox]] is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
* [[July 29]] - The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] formally creates the [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA).
===August===
* [[August 3]] - The nuclear powered submarine ''[[USS Nautilus (SSN-571)]]'' became the first vessel to cross the [[North Pole]] under water.
* [[August 17]] - The first [[Thor (launch vehicle)|Thor]] space craft was launched carrying [[Pioneer 0]] from [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17]] and failed with a first stage malefunction.
* [[August 23]] - [[Chinese Civil War]]: The [[Second Taiwan Strait crisis]] begins with the [[People's Liberation Army]]'s bombardment of [[Quemoy]].
*[[August 27]] - The [[United States]] begins [[Operation Argus]].
* [[August 30]]-[[September 1]] - Riots between blacks and whites in [[Notting Hill]], [[London]].
===September===
* [[September 1]] - Beginning of the [[First]] [[Cod War]] between UK and Iceland.
* [[September 6]] - [[Paul Robeson]] performs in concert at [[Young Pioneer camp]] [[Artek (camp)|Artek]].
* [[September 12]] - [[Jack St. Clair Kilby]] invents first [[integrated circuit]].
* [[September 14]] - Two [[Mohr rocket|rockets]] designed by German engineer Ernst Mohr (the first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere.
* [[September 27]] - [[Typhoon Ida]] in [[Honshū]], [[Japan]] at least 1,269 killed.
* [[September 28]] - In [[France]], a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the [[French Fifth Republic|Fifth Republic]].
* [[September 30]] - [[U.S.S.R]]. performs [[nuclear test]] at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
===October===
* [[October 1]]
**[[Tunisia]] and [[Morocco]] join the [[Arab League]].
**[[NASA]] starts operations and replaces the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]].
* [[October 2]] - [[Guinea]] declares itself independent from [[France]].
* [[October 4]] - [[British Overseas Airways Corporation|BOAC]] uses new [[De Havilland Comet|Comet]] jets to become the first [[airline]] to fly jet passenger services across the [[Atlantic]].
* [[October 9]] - [[Pope]] [[Pius XII]] dies.
* [[October 11]] - [[Pioneer 1]], the second and most successful of three project [[Able space probes]], became the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed [[NASA]].
* [[October 28]] - [[Pope John XXIII]] succeeds [[Pope Pius XII]] as the 261st [[pope]].
===November===
* [[November 3]] - New [[UNESCO]] building inaugurated in [[Paris]].
* [[November 22]] - Menzies Government (Australia) re-elected for a 5th Term.
* [[November 23]] - ''[[Have Gun, Will Travel]]'' debuts on [[radio]].
* [[November 25]] - [[French Sudan]] gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the [[French Community]].
* [[November 28]] - [[Chad]], the [[Republic of the Congo]], and [[Gabon]] become autonomous republics within the [[French colonial empire|French Community]].
* [[November 30]] - [[Gaullism|Gaullists]] win parliamentary elections in [[France]].
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===December===
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* [[December 1]]
**<!-- December 1-->[[Central African Republic]] becomes independent from [[France]].
**<!-- December 1-->At least 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a [[Our Lady of the Angels School Fire|fire at Our Lady of the Angels School]] in [[Chicago]].
* [[December 5]]
**<!-- December 5-->[[subscriber trunk dialling|Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD)]] is inaugurated in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] by the [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen]] when she dials a call from [[Bristol]] to [[Edinburgh]] and speaks to the [[Lord Provost]]. [http://www.bt.com/archives/history/19461959.htm#1958]
**<!-- December 5-->The [[Preston]] bypass, the [[United Kingdom]]'s first [[motorway]], opens to traffic for the first time. This stretch is now part of the [[M6 motorway|M6]] and [[M55 motorway]]s.
* [[December 6]] - The third launch of a [[Thor (launch vehicle)|Thor]] space craft carrying [[Pioneer 2]] was unsuccessful due to a 3rd stage ignition failure.
* [[December 9]] - The [[John Birch Society]] is founded in the USA by [[Robert W. Welch Jr.|Robert Welch]], a retired candy manufacturer.
* [[December 14]] - The ''3rd [[Soviet Antarctic Expedition]]'' becomes the first ever to reach the Southern [[Pole of Inaccessibility]].
* [[December 21]] - General [[Charles de Gaulle]] is elected president of [[France]] with 78.5% of the votes.
* [[December 24]] - [[BOAC]] [[Bristol Britannia]] 312 [[G-AOVD]] Crashes near Winkton [[England]] during a test flight.
* [[December 25]] - [[Tchaikovsky]]'s [[ballet]] ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' (the [[George Balanchine]] version) is shown on prime-time [[television]] in [[color]] for the first time, as an episode of the [[CBS]] [[anthology]] series ''[[Playhouse 90]]''.
* [[December 28]] - The Baltimore Colts beat The New York Giants 23-17 in overtime to win The NFL Championship.
* [[December 29]] - Rebel troops under [[Che Guevara]] begin to invade [[Santa Clara, Cuba|Santa Clara]] in [[Cuba]].
===Undated===
* During the [[International Geophysical Year]], [[Earth|Earth's]] [[magnetosphere]] is discovered.
* Foundation of [[Amirkabir University of Technology]].
* Based on birth rates (per 1,000 population), the post-war [[baby boom]] ended in the [[United States]] as an eleven-year decline in the birth rate began - the longest on record in that country
* Last legal [[female genital cutting]] in the United States.
* [[Denatonium]], the [[bitter (taste)|bitterest]] substance known is discovered. It is used as an ''aversive agent'' in products such as bleach to reduce the risk of children drinking them.
* [[The Jim Henson Company]] is founded.
* The [[Japan]]ese [[10 yen coin]] ceased having serrated edges after a five year period beginning in 1953. All 10 yen coins since and before had smooth edges.
* The largest [[solar maximum]] in recorded history of solar maxima occurs.
* [[Recession of 1958]]
* Instant [[noodle]]s go on sale for the first time.
* First year of the [[British Rally Championship]]
===Ongoing===
* [[Cold War]]
* [[Cuban Revolution]]
* [[Mau Mau Uprising]]
==Births==
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===January-February===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Grandmaster Flash]], hip-hop/rap DJ
* [[January 2]] - [[Vladimir Ovchinnikov]], Russian pianist
* [[January 4]] - [[Matt Frewer]], Canadian/American actor
* [[January 9]] - [[Mehmet Ali Ağca]], Turkish militant
* [[January 11]] - [[Vicki Peterson]], Guitarist for The Bangles
* [[January 13]] - [[Ricardo Acuña]], Chilean tennis player
* [[January 15]] - [[Boris Tadić]], Serbian president
* [[January 20]] - [[Lorenzo Lamas]], American actor
* [[January 24]] - [[Jools Holland]], British musician
* [[January 26]] - [[Ellen DeGeneres]], American actress and comedian
* [[January 27]] - [[Kadri Mälk]], Estonian artist and jewelry designer
* [[January 29]] - [[Judy Norton Taylor]], American actress
* [[February 4]] - [[Tomasz Pacynski|Tomasz Pacyński]], Polish writer (d. [[2005]])
*[[February 8]] - [[Sherri Martel]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 11]]
**[[Michael Jackson (TV)|Michael Jackson]], British broadcasting executive
**[[Regina Maršíková]], Czechoslovakian tennis player
* [[February 13]]
**[[Pernilla August]], Swedish actress
**[[Tip Tipping]], British actor and stuntman (d. [[1993]])
* [[February 14]] - [[Grant Thomas (footballer)|Grant Thomas]], Australian rules footballer
* [[February 16]] - [[Ice-T]], American singer, songwriter, and actor
* [[February 21]]
**[[Jake Burns]], Irish singer ([[Stiff Little Fingers]])
**[[Mary Chapin Carpenter]], American singer
* [[February 24]]
**[[Sammy Kershaw]], American musician
**[[Mark Moses]], American actor
* [[February 25]] - [[Kurt Rambis]], American basketball player
* [[February 26]] - [[Susan Helms]], American astronaut
===March-April===
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*[[March 1]] - [[Nik Kershaw]], English singer
*[[March 3]] - [[Miranda Richardson]], English actress
*[[March 4]]
**[[Patricia Heaton]], American actress
**[[Lennie Lee]], British artist
*[[March 5]] - [[Andy Gibb]], English-born singer (d. [[1988]])
*[[March 7]] - [[Rik Mayall]], English comedian
*[[March 8]] - [[Gary Numan]], British singer
*[[March 10]]
**[[Steve Howe (baseball player)|Steve Howe]], baseball player (d. [[2006]])
**[[Sharon Stone]], American actress
*[[March 14]] - [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco]]
*[[March 18]] - [[Kayo Hatta]], American film director (d. [[2005]])
*[[March 20]] - [[Holly Hunter]], American actress
*[[March 21]] - [[Gary Oldman]], English actor
*[[April 1]] - [[D. Boon]], American singer and guiatrist (d. [[1985]])
*[[April 3]] - [[Alec Baldwin]], American actor
*[[April 4]] - [[Cazuza]], Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. [[1990]])
*[[April 10]]
**[[Yefim Bronfman]], Russian-born pianist
**[[Babyface|Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds]], American musician and record producer
*[[April 11]] - [[Luc Luycx]], Belgian designer of the Euro coins common side
*[[April 12]] - [[Will Sergeant]], English guitarist ([[Echo & the Bunnymen]])
*[[April 15]]
**[[Keith Acton]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach
**[[Dolores Gordon-Smith]], British Writer
**[[Benjamin Zephaniah]], British writer and musician
*[[April 21]] - [[Andie MacDowell]], American actress
*[[April 22]] - [[Ken Olandt]], American actor
*[[April 24]] - [[Brian Paddick]], British former deputy assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay police officer
*[[April 25]] - [[Fish (singer)|Fish]], Scottish singer
*[[April 28]] - [[Hal Sutton]], American golfer
*[[April 29]] - [[Michelle Pfeiffer]], American actress
===May-July===
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* [[May 3]] - [[Kevin Kilner]], American actor
* [[May 10]] - [[Rick Santorum]], Former senator from PA
* [[May 11]] - [[Christian Brando]], American actor and eldest child of Marlon Brando (d. [[2008]])
* [[May 12]] - [[Dries Van Noten]], Belgian Designer.
* [[May 12]] - [[Eric Singer]], American drummer ([[Kiss (band)|Kiss]])
* [[May 15]] - [[Ron Simmons]], American professional wrestler
*[[May 21]] - [[Tom Feeney]], American Republican politician from the state of Florida
* [[May 23]]
**[[Mitch Albom]], American author
**[[Drew Carey]], American comedian and actor
* [[May 27]] - [[Neil Finn]], New Zealand singer and songwriter
* [[May 29]] - [[Annette Bening]], American actress
* [[June 7]] - [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], American musician
* [[June 8]] - [[Keenen Ivory Wayans]], American comedian, actor, and director
* [[June 12]]
**[[Rebecca Holden]], American actress, singer, and entertainer
* [[June 15]] - [[Wade Boggs]], American baseball player
* [[June 17]] - [[Jello Biafra]], American musician and activist
* [[June 20]] - [[Chuck Wagner]], American actor
* [[June 22]] - [[Bruce Campbell]], American actor, producer, writer and director.
* [[June 24]] - [[Curt Fraser]], American ice hockey coach
* [[June 27]]
**[[Magnus Lindberg]], Finnish composer
**[[Jim Cartwright]], English actor and playwright
* [[June 29]] - [[Jeff Coopwood]], American actor, broadcaster and singer
* [[June 30]] - [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]], Finnish conductor and composer
* [[July 2]] - [[Thomas Bickerton]], American Methodist bishop
* [[July 5]] - [[William Watterson]], American cartoonist of [[Calvin and Hobbes]].
* [[July 6]] - [[Jennifer Saunders]], British comedian
* [[July 7]] - [[Michala Petri]], Danish recorder player
* [[July 8]] - [[Kevin Bacon]], American actor
* [[July 15]]
**[[Mac Thornberry]], American politician
**[[Austin Hayes]], Irish footballer (d. [[1986]])
* [[July 16]] - [[Michael Flatley]], Irish-born dancer
* [[July 20]] - [[Billy Mays]], American infomercial salesperson
* [[July 22]] - [[Tatsunori Hara]], Japanese professional-baseball coach and player
* [[July 28]] - [[Terry Fox]], Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. [[1981]])
* [[July 30]] - [[Kate Bush]], British singer and songwriter
* [[July 31]]
**[[Mark Cuban]], American entrepreneur and basketball team owner
**[[Bill Berry]], American drummer ([[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]])
===August-September===
* [[August 1]] - [[Adrian Dunbar]], Irish
* [[August 4]] - [[Allison Hedge Coke]], Poet and writer
* [[August 7]]
**[[Bruce Dickinson]], English musician
**[[Russell Baze]], champion jockey
* [[August 15]] - [[Victor Shenderovich]], Russian writer
* [[August 16]]
**[[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]], American-born singer, songwriter, and actress
**[[Angela Bassett]], American actress
* [[August 17]] - [[Belinda Carlisle]], American singer ([[The Go-Go's]])
* [[August 19]] - [[Anthony Muñoz]], American football player
* [[August 20]] - [[Nicholas Bell]], English Actor based in Australia
* [[August 22]] - [[Colm Feore]], American-born actor
* [[August 24]] - [[Steve Guttenberg]], American actor
* [[August 25]] - [[Tim Burton]], American film director
* [[August 27]] - [[Normand Brathwaite]], Canadian comedian and television and radio host
* [[August 29]] - [[Michael Jackson]], American singer and dancer
* [[September 6]]
**[[Jeff Foxworthy]], American comedian, actor, author
**[[Michael Winslow]], American comedian, actor, voice actor
* [[September 8]]
**<!--September 8-->[[Mitsuru Miyamoto]], Japanese voice actor
**<!--September 8-->[[Reiko Terashima]], Japanese manga artist and illustrator
* [[September 14]]
**[[Michael Bollner]], German actor
**[[Jeff Crowe]], New Zealand cricketer
* [[September 10]] - [[Chris Columbus (filmmaker)]], American film director/writer/producer
* [[September 16]] - [[Orel Hershiser]], baseball player
* [[September 19]] - [[Azumah Nelson]], Ghanaian boxer
* [[September 21]] - [[Bruno Fitoussi]], French poker player
* [[September 22]] - [[Andrea Bocelli]], Italian tenor
* [[September 23]]
**[[Danielle Dax]], British musician
**[[Marvin Lewis]], American football coach
**[[Scott Shaw]], American author, actor, and filmmaker
* [[September 25]] - [[Michael Madsen]], American actor
* [[September 25]] - [[Eamonn Healy]], Irish chemist
* [[September 30]] - [[Marty Stuart]], American singer
===October-December===
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* [[October 13]] - [[Derri Daugherty]], American musician ([[The Choir]] and The [[Lost Dogs]])
* [[October 14]] - [[Thomas Dolby]], English musician
* [[October 16]] - [[Tim Robbins]], American actor
* [[October 17]] - [[Alan Jackson]], American country singer and songwriter
* [[October 20]]
**[[Dave Finlay]], Northern Irish professional wrestler
**[[Viggo Mortensen]], American actor
**[[Mark King (musician)|Mark King]], British musician ([[Level 42]])
* [[October 25]] - [[Phil Daniels]] , Actor
* [[October 27]] - [[Simon Le Bon]], English musician ([[Duran Duran]])
* [[October 31]] - [[Brian Stokes Mitchell]], American actor and singer
* [[November 1]] - [[Mark Austin]], British newsreader ([[ITN]])
* [[November 2]] - [[Willie McGee]], baseball player
* [[November 8]] - [[Jeff Speakman]], American actor and martial artst
* [[November 10]] - [[Vicky Rosti]], Finnish singer, former Eurovision contestant
* [[November 16]]
**[[Marg Helgenberger]], American actress
**[[Boris Krivokapić]], Serbian academic
* [[November 18]] - [[Laura Miller]], Mayor of Dallas, Texas
* [[November 19]] - [[Michael Wilbon]], American sportswriter
* [[November 22]] - [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], American actress
* [[November 28]] - [[Dave Righetti]], baseball player
* [[November 30]] - [[Juliette Bergmann]], Dutch bodybuilder
* [[December 1]] - [[Charlene Tilton]], American actress
* [[December 2]] - [[George Saunders]], American writer
* [[December 6]] - [[Nick Park]], English filmmaker and animator
* [[December 9]] - [[Rikk Agnew]], American punk rock musician
* [[December 11]]
**[[Janko Ferk]], Austrian lawyer and writer
**[[Nikki Sixx]], American musician ([[Mötley Crüe]])
* [[December 13]]
**[[Lynn-Holly Johnson]], American ice skater and actress
**[[Dana Strum]], American bassist
* [[December 17]] - [[Mike Mills]], American bassist ([[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]])
* [[December 25]]
**[[Hanford Dixon]], American football player
**[[Rickey Henderson]], baseball player
* [[December 29]] - [[Lakhdar Belloumi]], Algerian football player
* [[December 31]] - [[Bebe Neuwirth]], American actress
===Unknown===
* [[Greg Roberts (musician)|Greg Roberts]], drummer with [[Big Audio Dynamite]]
==Deaths==
===January-June===
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* [[January 1]]
**[[Edward Weston]], American photographer (b. [[1886]])
**[[Archibald Alphonso Alexander]], American designer/governor (b.[[1888]])
* [[January 8]] - [[Paul Pilgrim]], American athlete (b. [[1883]])
* [[January 11]] - [[Edna Purviance]], American actress (b. [[1895]])
* [[January 19]] - [[Cândido Rondon]], Brazilian military officer (b. 1865)
* [[January 30]] - [[Jean Crotti]], Swiss artist (b. [[1878]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Clinton Davisson]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]])
* [[February 4]] - [[Henry Kuttner]], American author (b. [[1915]])
* [[February 13]] - [[Christabel Pankhurst]], English suffragette (b. [[1880]])
* [[March 21]] - [[Cyril M. Kornbluth]], American writer (b. [[1923]])
* [[March 22]] - [[Mike Todd]], American film producer (b. [[1909]])
* [[March 25]] - [[Tom Brown (trombonist)|Tom Brown]], American musician (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 26]] - [[Phil Mead]], English cricketer (b. [[1887]])
* [[March 28]] - [[W.C. Handy]], American composer (b. [[1873]])
* [[April 16]] - [[Rosalind Franklin]], British crystallographer (b. [[1920]])
* [[April 19]] - [[Billy Meredith]], Welsh footballer (b. [[1874]])
* [[May 3]] - [[Frank Foster]], English cricketer (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 19]] - [[Ronald Colman]], English actor (b. [[1891]])
*[[May 26]] - [[Constantin Cantacuzino (aviator)|Constantin Cantacuzino]], Romanian aviator (b. [[1905]])
* [[May 29]] - [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]])
* [[June 13]] - [[Edwin Keppel Bennett]], British writer (b. [[1887]])
*[[June 16]] - [[Aleksandr Chervyakov]], Prime Minister of [[Byelorussian SSR]] (suicide) (b. [[1892]])
* [[June 20]] - [[Kurt Alder]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]])
* [[June 26]] - [[George Orton]], Canadian athlete (b. [[1876]])
* [[June 28]] - [[Alfred Noyes]], English poet (b. [[1880]])
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* [[July 14]] (killed during ''coup d'état'')
**King [[Faisal II of Iraq]] (b. [[1935]])
**[['Abd al-Ilah]], former regent of Iraq (b. [[1913]])
* [[July 15]]- [[Julia Lennon]] (mother of [[John Lennon]]) (b. [[1914]])
* [[August 14]] - [[Frédéric Joliot]], French physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[August 14]] - [[Gladys Presley]], mother of [[Elvis Presley]] (b. [[1912]])
* [[August 22]] - [[Roger Martin du Gard]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]])
* [[August 24]] - [[Paul Henry (painter)|Paul Henry]], Northern Irish artist (b. [[1876]])
* [[August 26]] - [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], English composer (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 27]] - [[Ernest Lawrence]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]])
* [[September 11]]
**[[Hans Grundig]], artist (b. [[1901]])
**[[Robert W. Service]], Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. [[1874]])
* [[september 23]] - [[Alfred Piccaver]], British-American operatic tenor (b. [[1884]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Pope Pius XII]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[October 17]]
**[[Charlie Townsend]], English cricketer (b. [[1876]])
**[[Paul Outerbridge]] American photographer (b. [[1896]])
* [[October 24]] - [[G. E. Moore]], British philosopher, author of Principia Ethica (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 15]] - [[Tyrone Power]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[November 24]] - [[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood]], English politician and diplomat, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[November 27]] - [[Artur Rodziński]], Polish conductor (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 8]] - [[Tris Speaker]], baseball player (b. [[1888]])
* [[December 15]] - [[Wolfgang Ernst Pauli]], Austrian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1900]])
== Ship events ==
* [[List of ship launches in 1958]]
* [[List of ship commissionings in 1958]]
* [[List of ship decommissionings in 1958]]
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov]], [[Ilya Mikhailovich Frank]], [[Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Frederick Sanger]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[George Wells Beadle]], [[Edward Lawrie Tatum]], [[Joshua Lederberg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Boris Pasternak|Boris Leonidovich Pasternak]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Georges Pire]]
==Academy Awards==
*Best Picture: ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'', [[Sam Spiegel]]
*Best Foreign Language Film: ''[[Nights of Cabiria]]'', {{flag|Italy}}
*Best Documentary Feature: ''[[Albert Schweitzer]]'', [[Jerome Hill]]
*Best Animated Feature: ''[[Birds Anonymous]]'', [[Edward Selzer]]
*Best Director: [[David Lean]], ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''
*Best Actor: [[Alec Guinness]], ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''
*Best Actress: [[Joanne Woodward]], ''[[The Three Faces of Eve]]''
*Best Supporting Actor: [[Red Buttons]], ''[[Sayonara]]''
*Best Supporting Actress: [[Miyoshi Umeki]], ''[[Sayonara]]''
*Best Original Screenplay: [[George Wells]], ''[[Designing Woman]]''
*Best Adapted Screenplay: Novel by [[Pierre Boulle]]; screenplay by [[Michael Wilson]] and [[Carl Foreman]], ''[[The Bridge over the River Kwai]]''
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