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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

1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1958th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 958th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1950s decade.

Events[change | change source]

NASA founded
CEE

Births[change | change source]

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 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)
October 10 – Tanya Tucker, American country singer
October 27 – Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
October 30 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
November 22 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
November 28 – Shaun Prendergast, English actor
November 30 – Stacey Q, American singer & actress
December 17 – Mike Mills, American bass guitarist (R.E.M.)

Deaths[change | change source]

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[change | change source]

Auntie Mame
Cat on a Hot Roof
Gigi
Hidden Fortress
Hercules starring bodybuilder Steve Reeves
South Pacific
Vertigo (movie)

Hit Songs[change | change source]

"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[change | change source]

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