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

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 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 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