1958

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1920s  1930s  1940s  – 1950s –  1960s  1970s  1980s
Years:	1955 1956 1957 – 1958 – 1959 1960 1961

Events

• NASA founded
• CEE

Births

• January 21 – Frank Ticheli, American composer
• March 5 – Andy Gibb, English singer (d. 1988)
• June 7 – Prince, American singer (d. 2016)
• July 5 – Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politician
• July 20 – Billy Mays, American television salesperson (d. 2009)
• August 16 – Madonna, American singer
• August 25 – Tim Burton, American movie producer and director
• August 29 – Michael Jackson, American singer (d. 2009)

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 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

• Hidden Fortress
• Hercules starring bodybuilder Steve Reeves

Hit Songs

• "All I Have to Do Is Dream" – Everly Brothers
• "Rebel Rouser" – Duane Eddy
• "To Know Him Is to Love Him" – Teddy Bears

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