1958
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| Years : | 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Years: | 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- NASA founded
- CEE
[edit] Births
- March 5 - Andy Gibb
- June 7 - Prince
- August 16 - Madonna, singer
- August 25 - Tim Burton
- August 29 - Michael Jackson
[edit] 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 film 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)
[edit] Films released
- Hidden Fortress
[edit] Hit Songs
- "All I Have to Do is Dream" - Everly Brothers
- "Rebel Rouser" - Duane Eddy
[edit] 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
