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.
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March
March 1 – Turkish passenger ship Üsküdar capsizes and sinks in a sudden gale while crossing the Gulf of İzmit , Turkey; many of the 272 who died were teenage students.[12]
March 2 – A British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition team, led by Sir Vivian Fuchs , completes the first overland crossing of the Antarctic, using snowcat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams, in 99 days, via the South Pole .
March 8 – The USS Wisconsin is decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896 (she is recommissioned October 22, 1988).
March 11 – A U.S. B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina . Without a fissile warhead, its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure six people.[13]
March 17 – The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite .
March 19 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire occurs in New York, United States, killing 24 people.
March 26 – The 30th Academy Awards Ceremony takes place; The Bridge on the River Kwai wins 7 awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture .
March 27 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union .
October
October – GoldStar , as predecessor for LG Electronics , founded in South Korea.[32]
October 1
October 2 – Guinea declares itself independent from France, rejecting that nation's new constitution.
October 4
October 11 – Pioneer 1 , the second and most successful of the 3 project Able space probes , becomes the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA .[33]
October 17 – An Evening with Fred Astaire , the first television show recorded on color videotape, is broadcast on NBC in the United States.[34]
October 18 – Tennis for Two , a game invented by William Higinbotham and considered to be the first pure entertainment computer game,[35] is introduced at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Visitors' Day Exhibit in the United States.
October 26 – A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 makes its first transatlantic flight.
October 28 – Pope John XXIII succeeds Pope Pius XII , as the 261st pope.
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January
Boris Tadić
Ellen DeGeneres
January 1
January 4 – Matt Frewer , Canadian-American actor (Max Headroom )
January 6 – Shlomo Glickstein , Israeli tennis player[41]
January 7 – Yasmin Ahmad , Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (d. 2009 )[42]
January 8 – Betsy DeVos , American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education
January 9 – Mehmet Ali Ağca , Turkish militant, would-be assassin of Pope John Paul II
January 10 – Samira Said , Moroccan singer[43]
January 12 – Christiane Amanpour , British-born Iranian journalist and television host for CNN and PBS[44]
January 15 – Boris Tadić , Serbian president[45]
January 19 – Thomas Kinkade , American painter (d. 2012 )
January 20 – Lorenzo Lamas , American actor, martial artist and reality show participant
January 21 – Hussein Saeed , Iraqi football player[46]
January 24 – Jools Holland , British musician[47]
January 26
February
Ice-T
Andriy Bal
February 8
February 9 – Cyrille Regis , English footballer (d. 2018 )
February 10
February 13 – Pernilla August , Swedish actress[49]
February 15 – Shaun Toub , Iranian born-American actor[50]
February 16
Ice-T , American rapper, songwriter, and actor
Andriy Bal , Ukrainian football player and coach (d. 2014 )
February 19 – Leslie David Baker , American actor
February 21
February 26 – Susan Helms , American astronaut[53]
February 28 – Natalya Estemirova , Russian activist (d. 2009 )[54]
March
Sharon Stone
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
March 3 – Miranda Richardson , English actress[55]
March 4 – Patricia Heaton , American actress[56]
March 5 – Andy Gibb , English singer, songwriter, performer, and teen idol (d. 1988 )
March 7
March 8 – Gary Numan , British singer
March 10
March 14 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco
March 20 – Holly Hunter , American actress
March 21 – Gary Oldman , English actor and filmmaker
March 24 – Roland Koch , German politician
March 26 – Hala Fouad , Egyptian actress (d. 1993 )
March 28
March 30 – Maurice LaMarche , Canadian voice actor and comedian
March 31 – Dietmar Bartsch , German politician[59]
May
Marie Fredriksson
May 3 – Sandi Toksvig , Danish-British writer, comedian and broadcaster
May 4 – Keith Haring , American artist (d. 1990 )[67]
May 10
May 11 – Sayuri Kume , Japanese singer-songwriter[69]
May 12 – Dries van Noten , Belgian designer[70]
May 19 – Jenny Durkan , American attorney, federal prosecutor, and politician
May 20 – Jane Wiedlin , American musician and actress[ citation needed ]
May 23
May 25 – Paul Weller , English singer-songwriter
May 26 – Margaret Colin , American actress[72]
May 27 – Neil Finn , New Zealand singer and songwriter
May 29
May 30 – Marie Fredriksson , Swedish rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 2019 )[74]
June
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
Prince
Rosa Mota
June 1 – Nambaryn Enkhbayar , Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia
June 2 – Lex Luger , American professional wrestler[75]
June 3 – Margot Käßmann , Lutheran theologian, German bishop
June 5 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi , Comoroan businessman and politician, President of Comoros 2006–2011[76]
June 7 – Prince , African-American musician (d. 2016 )[77]
June 10 – Elain Harwood , English architectural historian (d. 2023 )[78]
June 14
June 15 – Wade Boggs , American baseball player
June 18 – Peter Altmaier , German jurist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
June 19 – Sergei Makarov , Russian ice-hockey player and coach[79]
June 22
June 24 – Tommy Lister Jr. , American actor and professional wrestler (d. 2020 )[82]
June 25 – Serik Akhmetov , 8th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
June 27 – Magnus Lindberg , Finnish composer[83]
June 29 – Rosa Mota , Portuguese long-distance runner[84]
June 30
July
Kevin Bacon
Wong Kar-wai
Kate Bush
July 1 – Tom Magee , Canadian world champion powerlifter and strongman competitor
July 2 – Pavan Malhotra , Indian actor[87]
July 5 – Bill Watterson , American cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes )[88]
July 6 – Jennifer Saunders , British comedian and actress[89]
July 7 – Michala Petri , Danish recorder player[90]
July 8
July 10 – Fiona Shaw , Irish actress[91]
July 11 – Hugo Sánchez , Mexican football player and coach[92]
July 14
July 15 – Jörg Kachelmann , Swiss presenter, journalist and entrepreneur in the meteorological field[94]
July 16 – Michael Flatley , Irish-born dancer[95]
July 17 – Wong Kar-wai , Hong Kong second wave filmmaker[96]
July 19 – Azumah Nelson , Ghanaian boxer
July 20 – Billy Mays , American television salesperson (d. 2009 )
July 27 – Christopher Dean , British ice dancer and Olympian
July 28 – Terry Fox , Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. 1981 )[97]
July 30 – Kate Bush , English singer-songwriter
July 31 – Mark Cuban , American entrepreneur and basketball team owner[98]
August
Angela Bassett
Anne L'Huillier
Madonna
Michael Jackson
August 3 – Lambert Wilson , French actor
August 5 – Andriy Fedetskyi , Ukrainian football player (d. 2018 )
August 7 – Bruce Dickinson , English musician (Iron Maiden )
August 10 – Rami Hamdallah , Palestine politician[99]
August 16
August 17 – Belinda Carlisle , American singer
August 18
August 19 – Brendan Nelson , Australian politician[102]
August 22 – Colm Feore , American-born Canadian actor[103]
August 24 – Steve Guttenberg , American actor
August 25 – Tim Burton , American film director[104]
August 27 – Kathy Hochul , American politician, Governor of New York[105]
August 29
September
Janez Janša
September 2 – Zdravko Krivokapić , Montenegrin politician, Prime Minister of Montenegro[106]
September 6 – Jeff Foxworthy , American comedian, actor and author[107]
September 10 – Chris Columbus , American film director/writer/producer
September 16 – Jennifer Tilly , Canadian/American actress
September 17 – Janez Janša , 2-Time Prime Minister of Slovenia
September 18 – Rachid Taha , Algerian singer and activist (d. 2018 )[ citation needed ]
September 19 – Lita Ford , British musician[108]
September 22
September 24 – Kevin Sorbo , American actor
September 27 – Irvine Welsh , Scottish writer
October
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Viggo Mortensen
October 3 – Chen Yanyin , Chinese sculptor
October 5 – Neil deGrasse Tyson , American astrophysicist and science communicator
October 7 – Bernardo Arévalo , president of Guatemala[109]
October 8 – Ursula von der Leyen , German politician, President of the European Commission [110]
October 10 – Tanya Tucker , American singer
October 13 – Jamal Khashoggi , Saudi journalist (d. 2018)[111]
October 14 – Thomas Dolby , English musician[ citation needed ]
October 16 – Tim Robbins , American actor and film director[112]
October 18 – Thomas Hearns , American former professional boxer
October 20 – Viggo Mortensen , Danish-American actor[113]
October 25 – Kornelia Ender , German swimmer[114]
October 26 – Pascale Ogier , French actress (d. 1984 )
October 27 – Simon Le Bon , English rock singer
October 28 – Raúl Pellegrin , Chilean revolutionary, leader of Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (d. 1988 )
October 31 – Jeannie Longo , French cyclist
August
J. G. Strijdom
Ernest Lawrence
August 1 – Albert E. Smith , English-born American stage magician, film director and producer (b. 1875 )[134]
August 2 – Michele Navarra , Italian Sicilian Mafia boss (b. 1905 )
August 8 – Barbara Bennett , American actress (b. 1906 )
August 12 – Augustus Owsley Stanley , American politician (b. 1867 )
August 14
August 16
August 21
August 22 – Roger Martin du Gard , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881 )
August 24 – J. G. Strijdom , 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1893 )[137]
August 26 – Ralph Vaughan Williams , English composer (b. 1872 )
August 27 – Ernest Lawrence , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901 )[138]
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