1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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Births
January-February
- January 2 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
- January 9 - Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish militant
- January 20 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
- January 24 - Jools Holland, British musician
- January 26 - Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedienne
- January 27 - Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist, jewelry designer
- January 29 - Judy Norton Taylor, American actress
- February 4 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (d. 2005)
- February 11 - Michael Jackson, British broadcast executive
- February 11 - Regina Maršíková, Czechoslovakian tennis player
- February 13 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
- February 16 - Ice-T, American singer, songwriter, and actor
- February 17 - Agim Coma, Albanian-Macedonian American Actor
- February 21 - Jake Burns, Irish singer (Stiff Little Fingers)
- February 21 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer
- February 24 - Sammy Kershaw, American musician
March-April
- March 1 - Nik Kershaw, English singer
- March 3 - Miranda Richardson, English actress
- March 4 - Patricia Heaton, American actress
- March 4 - Lennie Lee British artist
- March 5 - Andy Gibb, English-born singer (d. 1988)
- March 8 - Gary Numan, British singer
- March 10 - Steve Howe, baseball player (d. 2006)
- March 10 - Sharon Stone, American actress
- March 14 - Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- March 18 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (d. 2005)
- March 20 - Holly Hunter, American actress
- March 21 - Gary Oldman, English actor
- April 3 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
- April 10 - Yefim Bronfman, Russian-born pianist
- April 10 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, American musician and record producer
- April 15 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer and musician
- April 21 - Andie MacDowell, American actress
- April 22 - Ken Olandt, American actor
- April 25 - Fish, Scottish singer
- April 28 - Hal Sutton, American golfer
- April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
May-July
- May 12 - Eric Singer, drummer
- May 23 - Mitch Albom, American author
- May 23 - Drew Carey, American comedian and actor
- May 27 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
- May 29 - Annette Bening, American actress
- June 7 - Prince, American musician
- June 8 - Keenen Ivory Wayans, American comedian, actor, and director
- June 12 - Rebecca Holden, American actress, singer, and entertainer
- June 17 - Jello Biafra, American musician and activist
- June 20 - Chuck Wagner, American actor
- June 27 - Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
- June 30 - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
- July 2 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
- July 5 - William Watterson, American cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes
- July 6 - Jennifer Saunders, British comedienne
- July 7 - Michala Petri, Danish recorder player
- July 15 - Mac Thornberry, American politician
- July 15 - Austin Hayes, Irish footballer (d. 1986)
- July 16 - Michael Flatley, Irish-American step-dancer
- July 28 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. 1981)
- July 30 - Kate Bush, British singer and songwriter
- July 31 - Mark Cuban, American entrepreneur and basketball team owner
- July 31 - Bill Berry, American drummer (R.E.M.)
August-September
- August 1 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
- August 7 - Bruce Dickinson, English musician
- August 15 - Victor Shenderovich, Russian writer
- August 16 - Madonna, American musician, songwriter, and actress
- August 19 - Anthony Muñoz, American football player
- August 22 - Colm Feore, American-born actor
- August 29 - Michael Jackson, American singer
- September 6 - Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, author
- September 8 - Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
- September 10 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor
- September 14 - Jeff Crowe, New Zealand cricketer
- September 16 - Orel Hershiser, baseball player
- September 19 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
- September 22 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
- September 23 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach
- September 23 - Scott Shaw, American author, actor, and filmmaker
- September 25 - Michael Madsen, American actor
- September 30 - Marty Stuart, American country singer
October-December
- October 5 - Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian
- October 13 - Derri Daugherty, American musician (The Choir and The Lost Dogs)
- October 14 - Thomas Dolby, English musician
- October 16 - Tim Robbins, American actor
- October 17 - Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter
- October 20 - Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler
- October 20 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor
- October 27 - Simon Le Bon, English musician (Duran Duran)
- November 2 - Willie McGee, baseball player
- November 18 - Laura Miller, Mayor of Dallas, Texas
- November 22 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
- November 25 - Kim Ashfield, British model
- November 28 - Dave Righetti, baseball player
- November 30 - Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
- December 1 - Charlene Tilton, American actress
- December 4 - Jeff Wilson, Canadian cartoonist
- December 6 - Nick Park, English filmmaker and animator
- December 11 - Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
- December 17 - Mike Mills, American bassist (R.E.M.)
- December 25 - Alannah Myles, Canadian musician
- December 25 - Hanford Dixon, American football player
- December 25 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player
- December 31 - Bebe Neuwirth, American actress
Deaths
January-June
- 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)
- April 16 - 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)
- June 28 - Alfred Noyes, English poet (b. 1880)
July-December
- 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 24 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
- 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)
- October 24 - G. E. Moore, British philosopher, author of Principia Ethica (b. 1873)
- 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)
Nobel prizes
Fields Medalists
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