1958

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.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1958 MCMLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2711
Armenian calendar	1407 ԹՎ ՌՆԷ
Assyrian calendar	6708
Bahá'í calendar	114–115
Balinese saka calendar	1879–1880
Bengali calendar	1365
Berber calendar	2908
British Regnal year	6 Eliz. 2 – 7 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2502
Burmese calendar	1320
Byzantine calendar	7466–7467
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4654 or 4594     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4655 or 4595
Coptic calendar	1674–1675
Discordian calendar	3124
Ethiopian calendar	1950–1951
Hebrew calendar	5718–5719
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2014–2015
- Shaka Samvat	1879–1880
- Kali Yuga	5058–5059
Holocene calendar	11958
Igbo calendar	958–959
Iranian calendar	1336–1337
Islamic calendar	1377–1378
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 33 (昭和３３年)
Javanese calendar	1889–1890
Juche calendar	47
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4291
Minguo calendar	ROC 47 民國47年
Nanakshahi calendar	490
Thai solar calendar	2501
Tibetan calendar	阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 2084 or 1703 or 931     — to — 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 2085 or 1704 or 932

Events

• NASA founded
• CEE

Births

• 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

• 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

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

Hit Songs

• "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

• 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