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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. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5Media Events[edit] January[edit] ·
The European
Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. ·
The
first Carrefour store opens, in Annecy. ·
Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth
Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland
journey to the South Pole, and the
first to use powered vehicles. ·
The West Indies
Federation is formed. ·
January 4 – Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957)
falls to Earth from its orbit and burns up. ·
January 8 – 14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United
States Chess Championship. ·
January 13 - The Moroccan Army
of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. ·
In
the Battle of Hayes Pond,
armed Lumbee Indians routed a gathering
of Klansmen in Maxton, North
Carolina. ·
The
first of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's
Concerts with the New York Philharmonic is telecast by
CBS. The Emmy-winning series (one concert approximately every three months
except for the summer) will run for more than fourteen years. It will make
Bernstein's name a household word, and the most famous conductor in the U.S. ·
January 27 – Soviet-American executive
agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as
the "Lacy–Zarubin agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C.[1] ·
Hall of Fame baseball player Roy Campanella is involved in an
automobile accident that ends his career and leaves him paralyzed. ·
Godtfred Kirk
Christiansen files a patent for the iconic plastic Lego brick. From its foundation, his company
will make 400 billion Lego elements. ·
January 31 – The first successful
American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February[edit] ·
February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic. ·
February 2 – The word Aerospace is
coined, from the words Aircraft (aero) and Spacecraft (space), taking into
consideration that the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a
single realm. ·
Gamal Abdel Nasser is
nominated as the first president of the United Arab Republic. ·
The Tybee Bomb, a 7,600 pound (3,500 kg)
Mark 15 hydrogen bomb,
is lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia. ·
February 6 – Seven Manchester United footballers
are among the 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster in
West Germany, on the return flight from a European Cup game in Yugoslavia. 23 people survive, but four of
them, including manager Matt Busby and players Johnny Berry and Duncan Edwards, are in a serious condition.
Busby and Berry would pull through although Berry would never play again.
Edwards died fortnight later.[2] ·
The
strongest ever known solar maximum is recorded.[3] ·
Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of
Foreign Affairs. ·
Ruth
Carol Taylor is the first African American woman hired as a flight attendant. Hired by Mohawk Airlines, her career lasts only six
months, due to another discriminatory barrier – the airline's ban on married
flight attendants. ·
February 14 – The Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan unite in the Arab Federation with King Faisal II of Iraq as
head of state. ·
February 17 – Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television. ·
February 20 – A test rocket explodes
at Cape Canaveral. ·
February 21 – A peace symbol is designed and completed
by Gerald Holtom,
commissioned by the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic
Weapons Research Establishment. ·
Cuban rebels
kidnap five-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio,
releasing him 28 hours later. ·
Arturo Frondizi is elected president
of Argentina. ·
February 24 – In Cuba, Fidel Castro's Radio Rebelde begins broadcasting
from Sierra Maestra. ·
February 25 – Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament. ·
February 28 – One of the worst school
bus accidents in U.S. history occurs at Prestonburg,
Kentucky; 27 are killed. March[edit] ·
March 1 – The Turkish passenger
ship Üsküdar capsizes
and sinks in the Gulf of İzmit, Turkey; at least 300
die. ·
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 several people. ·
March 17 – The Convention on the
Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO)
enters into force, founding the IMCO as a specialized agency of the United Nations. ·
March 17 – The United States launches
the Vanguard 1 satellite. ·
March 19 – The Monarch
Underwear Company fire occurs in New York, killing
twenty-four. ·
March 24 – The U.S. Army inducts Elvis Presley, transforming The King Of Rock
& Roll into U.S. Private #53310761. ·
March 25 – Canada's Avro Arrow makes its maiden flight. ·
March 26 ·
The United States Army launches Explorer 3. ·
The 30th Academy Awards ceremony
takes place; The Bridge
on the River Kwai wins seven awards, including Academy
Award for Best Picture. ·
March 27 ·
Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of
the Soviet Union. ·
The
film Run
Silent, Run Deep is released in the US. April[edit] ·
April
– Unemployment in Detroit reaches 20%, marking the height of the Recession of 1958 in
the United States. ·
April 1 – The BBC Radiophonic
Workshop is established. ·
April 3 – Castro's revolutionary army begins its
attacks on Havana. ·
April 4 – April 7 – In the first protest march
for the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament from Hyde Park, London to Aldermaston, Berkshire, demonstrators demand the banning
of nuclear weapons. ·
April 4 – Cheryl Crane, daughter of actress Lana Turner, fatally stabs her mother's
gangster lover Johnny Stompanato (the
stabbing is eventually ruled as self-defense). ·
April 6 – Soraya
Esfandiary-Bakhtiari divorces the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi after she is unable to produce any children. ·
April 14 ·
The
satellite Sputnik 2 (launched
3 November 1957) disintegrates during reentry from orbit. ·
Van Cliburn wins the International
Tchaikovsky Competition for pianists in Moscow, breaking Cold War tensions. ·
April 15 – The San Francisco Giants beat
the Los Angeles Dodgers 8–0
at San Francisco's Seals Stadium, in the first Major League
Baseball regular season game ever played in California. ·
April 17 – King Baudouin of Belgium officially
opens the world's fair in Brussels, also known as Expo 58. The Atomium forms the centrepiece. ·
April 20 – The Montreal Canadiens win
the Stanley Cup after defeating the Boston Bruins in six games. ·
April 21 – United
Airlines Flight 736 is involved in a mid-air collision with a
U.S. Air Force F-100F jet
fighter near Las Vegas. All 49
persons in both aircraft are killed. ·
April 22 – "The Sunday Afternoon
at Home", one of the most famous episodes of the comedy radio
series Hancock's Half Hour is
broadcast on the BBC Light Programme for the first time. May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Arturo Frondizi becomes President of
Argentina. ·
The Nordic Passport
Union comes into force. ·
May 9 – Actor-singer Paul Robeson, whose passport has been
reinstated, sings in a sold-out one-man recital at Carnegie Hall. The recital is such a success
that Robeson gives another one at Carnegie Hall a few days later; but, after
this, Robeson is seldom seen in public in the United States again. His
Carnegie Hall concerts are later released on records and on CD. ·
May 10 – Interviewed in the Chave
d'Ouro café, when asked about his rival António de
Oliveira Salazar, Humberto Delgado utters one of the most
famous comments in Portuguese political history: "Obviamente, demito-o!
(Obviously, I'll sack him!)". ·
May 12 – A formal North
American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed
between the United States and Canada. ·
May 13 ·
French Algerian protesters seize
government offices in Algiers, leading to a
military coup. ·
During
a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice
President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators. ·
May 15 ·
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. ·
MGM's Gigi opens in New York City,
beginning its run in the U.S. after being shown at the Cannes film festival.
The last of the great MGM musicals, it will become a huge critical and box
office success and win nine Academy Awards including Best Picture. Gigi is Lerner and Loewe's first musical written
especially for film, and is deliberately written in a style evoking the
team's My Fair Lady,
which was still playing on Broadway at the time and could not be filmed yet. ·
May 18 – An F-104 Starfighter sets
a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h). ·
May 20 – Fulgencio Batista's
government launches a counteroffensive against Castro's rebels. ·
May 21 – United
Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from
December, Subscriber
Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.[4] ·
May 22 - President Dwight D.
Eisenhower becomes the first American elected official to be
broadcast on color television. ·
May 23 – Explorer 1 ceases transmission. ·
May 28 – Real Madrid beats A.C.Milan 3-2 at Heysel Stadium, Brussels and wins the 1957-58 European Cup (football). ·
May 30 – The bodies of unidentified
United States soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington
National Cemetery. June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Charles de Gaulle is
brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for 6 months. ·
Iceland extends its fishing limits to
12 miles (22.2 km). ·
June 2 – In San Simeon,
California, Hearst Castle opens to the public for
guided tours.[5] ·
June 4 – French President Charles de Gaulle visits Algeria. ·
June 8 – The SS Edmund
Fitzgerald is launched; she will be the largest Lake freighter for more than a dozen
years. ·
June 15 – Pizza Hut is founded. ·
June 16 – Imre Nagy is hanged for treason in
Hungary. ·
June 20 – The iron barque Omega of Callao, Peru (built
in Scotland, 1887), sinks on passage carrying guano from the Pachacamac Islands
for Huacho, the world's last full-rigged ship trading under sail
alone.[6] ·
June 27 – The Peronist party becomes legal again
in Argentina. ·
June 29 – Brazil beats Sweden 5–2
in the final game to
win the football World Cup in Sweden. ·
June 30 – The Ifni War ends. July[edit] ·
July
– The plastic hula hoop is
first marketed in the United States. ·
July 5 – Gasherbrum I, the 11th highest mountain in
the world, is first ascended. ·
July 7 ·
United
States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs
the Alaska Statehood Act into
law. ·
The
first International House of Pancakes (IHOP)
opens in Toluca Lake, Los
Angeles. ·
July 9 – 1958 Lituya
Bay megatsunami: A 7.8 Mw strike-slip
earthquake in Southeast Alaska causes
a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves
reaches 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay. ·
July 10 – The first parking meters are installed in
Britain. ·
July 11 ·
Count
Michael Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, direct descendant of Samuel Aba,
King of Hungary, at the age of 60 is pistol-whipped and murdered
over a few hectares of land by Czechoslovak Communists during the
collectivization process at his residence in Olcsvar, Slovakia. ·
Scottish
serial killer Peter Manuel,
"The Beast of Birkenshaw" is hanged at Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow for the murder of seven people. ·
July 12 ·
The Beatles, at this time known as The Quarrymen, pay 17 shillings and 6 pence
to have their first recording session where they record Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day"
and "In Spite of
All the Danger", a song written by Paul McCartney and George Harrison. ·
Henri Cornelis becomes Governor-General
of the Belgian Congo,
the last Belgian governor prior to independence. ·
July 14 – July 14 Revolution in
Iraq. King Faisal is killed. Abdul Qassim assumes power. ·
July 15 – In Lebanon, 5,000 United States
Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the
pro-Western government. ·
July 20 – Various rebel groups in Cuba
join forces but the communists do not join them. ·
July 24 – The first life peerage under the Life Peerages Act
1958 is created in the United Kingdom. ·
July 26 ·
Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. ·
Elizabeth II gives her son and heir apparent The Prince
Charles the customary title of Prince of Wales. ·
July 29 – The U.S. Congress formally
creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ·
July 31 – The Tibetan
resistance movement against rule by China receives support
from the United States Central
Intelligence Agency. August[edit] ·
August 3 – The nuclear-powered
submarine USS Nautilus becomes
the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water. ·
August 6 – Australian athlete Herb Elliott clips almost three seconds
off the world
record for the mile run at Santry Stadium, Dublin, recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5
seconds. ·
August 14 – KLM Flight 607-E, a Lockheed
L-1049 Super Constellation, crashes into the sea with 99 people
aboard. ·
August 17 – The first Thor-Able rocket is launched,
carrying Pioneer 0,
from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex
17. The launch fails due to a first stage malfunction. ·
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United
States. ·
Brojen Das from East Pakistan swims across the English Channel in a competition, as
the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to
ever do it. He is first among 39 competitors. ·
Chinese Civil War:
The Second Taiwan
Strait Crisis begins with the People's
Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy. ·
President
of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower signs
the Federal
Aviation Act, transferring all authority over aviation in the USA
to the newly created Federal Aviation
Agency (FAA, later renamed Federal
Aviation Administration). ·
August 26 – A general
strike is called in Paraguay. ·
August 27 – Operation Argus: The United States begins
nuclear tests over the South Atlantic. ·
August 30 – September 1 – Notting Hill
race riots: Riots occur between blacks and whites in Notting Hill, London.[7] September[edit] ·
September 1 – The first Cod War begins between the United
Kingdom and Iceland. ·
Hendrik Verwoerd becomes the 6th Prime
Minister of South Africa. ·
China's
first television broadcasts start at Beijing Television Station, a
predecessor of China Central
Television.[8] ·
September 6 – Paul Robeson performs in concert at the
Soviet Young Pioneer camp Artek. ·
September 12 – Jack Kilby invents the first integrated circuit while
working at Texas Instruments. ·
September 14 – Two rockets designed by German
engineer Ernst Mohr (the
first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere. ·
Typhoon Ida kills
at least 1,269 in Honshū, Japan. ·
Hurricane Helene,
the worst storm of the North Atlantic hurricane season, reaches category 4
status. ·
September 28 – In France, a majority of
79% says yes to the constitution of the Fifth Republic. ·
September 30 – The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya. October[edit] ·
Tunisia and Morocco join the Arab League. ·
NASA starts
operations and replaces the NACA in
the United States. ·
October 2 – Guinea declares itself independent from
France. ·
October 4 – British
Overseas Airways Corporation uses the new De Havilland Comet jets,
to become the first airline to fly jet passenger services across the
Atlantic. ·
October 9 – Pope Pius XII dies. ·
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. ·
October 13 – Penny Coelen is crowned as Miss World 1958 during the 8th Miss
World pageant, the first South African to win the title. ·
October 16 – First broadcast of the
long-running BBC Television children's
programme Blue Peter.[9] ·
October 17 – An Evening
with Fred Astaire, the first television show recorded on color
videotape, is broadcast on NBC in the United
States. ·
October 18 – The first video game,
“Tennis for Two,” invented by William Higinbotham, is introduced at the
Brookhaven National Laboratory Visitors' Day Exhibit in the United States. ·
October 19 – Beginning of Great Chinese Famine. ·
October 21 – The Life Peerages Act entitles
women to sit in the British House of Lords for the first time. The
Baronesses Swanborough (Stella
Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading) and Wooton (Barbara
Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger) are the first to take their
seats. ·
October 23 – Nobel Committee announces Russian
novelist Boris Pasternak as
the winner of the 1958 Prize for Literature. ·
October 26 – First transatlantic flight
of a Pan American
World Airways Boeing 707. ·
October 28 – Pope John XXIII succeeds Pope Pius XII as the 261st pope. November[edit] ·
November 3 – The new UNESCO building is inaugurated in
Paris. ·
November 10 – The bossa nova is born in Rio de Janeiro, with João Gilberto's recording of Chega de Saudade. ·
November 10 – Harry Winston donates the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian
Institution. ·
November 18 – En route to Rogers City,
Michigan, the lake freighter SS Carl D.
Bradley breaks up and sinks in a storm on Lake Michigan; 33 of the 35 crewmen on board
perish. ·
November 22 – Australian
federal election, 1958: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is
re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led
by H.V. Evatt. This was the first election
where television was used as a medium for communicating with voters. Evatt
would eventually resign as Labor leader; he would be replaced by his deputy Arthur Calwell. ·
November 23 – The radio version
of Have Gun – Will
Travel premieres. It is one of the last dramas to go on
the air on commercial radio. Only some NPR stations will broadcast radio
dramas in years to come. ·
November 25 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a
self-governing member of the French colonial empire. ·
November 28 – Chad,
the Republic of the
Congo, and Gabon become
autonomous republics within the French colonial empire. ·
November 30 – Gaullists win the French
parliamentary election. December[edit] ·
Adolfo López Mateos takes
office as President of Mexico. ·
Our
Lady of the Angels School fire: At least 90 students and 3 nuns
are killed in a fire in Chicago. ·
Subscriber
trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by
the Queen, when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost.[10] ·
Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan personally inspects
and opens the United Kingdom's first ever motorway, the Preston Bypass,
to traffic for the first time. The Bypass is now part of the M6 and M55 Motorways, and was significantly
upgraded in the mid 1990s. 11 months later the M1, M45 and M10 Motorways
open. ·
December 9 – The right-wing John Birch Society is
founded in the United States by Robert W. Welch Jr.,
a retired candy manufacturer. ·
December 14 – The 3rd Soviet
Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach the
Southern Pole of
Inaccessibility. ·
December 15 – Arthur L.
Schawlow and Charles H. Townes of Bell Laboratories publish
a paper in Physical Review Letters setting
out the principles of the optical laser. ·
December 16 – A fire breaks out in the
Vida Department Store in Bogotá, Colombia and
kills 84 persons. ·
Soviet polar pilot V. M. Perov on Li-2 rescues
four Belgian polar explorers, led by Gaston de Gerlache,
who had survived a plane crash in Antarctica 250 km from their base five
days earlier.[11] ·
The
United States launches SCORE, the
world's first communications
satellite. ·
The Bell XV-3 Tiltrotor makes the first true mid-air
transition from vertical helicopter-type flight to fully level fixed-wing
flight. ·
December 19 – A message from U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is broadcast from the SCORE satellite. ·
December 21 – General Charles de Gaulle is
elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes. ·
December 24 – 1958
BOAC Bristol Britannia crash: A BOAC Bristol Britannia (312 G-AOVD) crashes near Winkton, England during
a test flight. ·
December 25 – Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker (the George Balanchine version)
is shown on prime-time television in color for the first time, as an episode
of the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90. ·
December 28 – In American football,
the Baltimore Colts beat
the New York Giants 23–17
to win the NFL
Championship Game, the first to go into sudden deathovertime and "The Greatest Game
Ever Played".[12] ·
December 29 – Rebel troops under Che Guevara begin to invade Santa Clara, Cuba.
Fulgencio Batista resigns two days later, on the night of the 31st. ·
December 31 – Tallies reveal that, for
the first time, the total of passengers carried by air this year exceeds the
total carried by sea in transatlantic service. Date unknown[edit] ·
Nikita Khrushchev orders
the Western allies to evacuate West Berlin within 6 months but backs down
in the face of the Allies' unity. ·
The
United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom agree to stop testing
atomic bombs for 3 years. ·
During
the International
Geophysical Year, Earth's magnetosphere is discovered. ·
The
last legal female genital
cutting occurs in the United States. ·
Denatonium, the bitterest substance known, is
discovered. It is used as an aversive agent in products such as
bleach to reduce the risk of children drinking them. ·
The Jim Henson
Company is founded. ·
Instant noodles go on sale for the
first time. ·
The
Japanese 10 yen coin ceases
having serrated edges after a 5-year period beginning in 1953. All 10 yen
coins since have smooth edges. ·
The British Rally
Championship begins its first year. ·
The University of
New Orleans established ·
Illinois observes the centennial of
the Lincoln–Douglas
debates. ·
Sicilian writer Giuseppe
Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel Il Gattopardo is published
posthumously. ·
Welsh
cultural critic Raymond Williams publishes Culture and Society. ·
Based
on birth rates (per 1,000 population), the post-war baby boom ends in the United States as
an 11-year decline in the birth rate begins (the longest on record in that
country). ·
The Professional
Bowlers Tour is established at its headquarters in Seattle. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Grandmaster Flash,
African-American hip-hop/rap DJ ·
January 2 – Vladimir
Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist ·
Matt Frewer, Canadian/American actor (Max
Headroom) ·
James J. Greco, American businessman ·
Julian Sands, English actor ·
January 7 – Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director,
writer and scriptwriter (d. 2009) ·
January 8 – Betsy DeVos, American businesswoman and
politician, 11th Secretary of Education ·
Mehmet Ali Ağca,
Turkish militant, would-be assassin of Pope John Paul II ·
Stephen Neale, British philosopher ·
Samira Said, Moroccan singer ·
Terrence
Scammell, Canadian voice director and voice actor ·
Alyson Reed, American dancer and actress ·
Vicki Peterson, American rock musician (The Bangles) ·
Trevor Taylor,
Jamaican-German singer and musician (Bad Boys Blue) (d. 2008) ·
Christiane Amanpour,
British-Iranian journalist and television host ·
Curt Fraser, American ice hockey coach ·
Ricardo Acuña, Chilean tennis player ·
Juan Pedro de Miguel,
Spanish handball player (d. 2016) ·
January 15 – Boris Tadić, Serbian president ·
Lorenzo Lamas, American actor, martial
artist and reality show participant ·
Masuo Amada, Japanese voice actor ·
January 21 – Hussein Saeed Mohammed, Iraqi football
player ·
January 24 – Jools Holland, British musician ·
Anita Baker, African-American soul and
R&B singer ·
Ellen DeGeneres, American actress, comedian,
and television host ·
Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry
designer ·
Susanna Thompson, American actress ·
January 28 – Maitê Proença,
Brazilian actress ·
January 29 – Stephen Lerner, American labor and community
activist February[edit] ·
February 1 – Ryō Horikawa, Japanese voice actor ·
February 4 – Tomasz Pacyński,
Polish writer (d. 2005) ·
February 7 – Kevin Schon, American voice actor ·
Marina Silva, Brazilian politician ·
Sherri Martel, American professional
wrestler (d. 2007) ·
Cyrille Regis, English footballer (d. 2018) ·
Walid al-Kubaisi, Norwegian-Iraqi author,
journalist, translator, film director and government scholar (d. 2018) ·
February 10 – Michael Weiss,
jazz pianist and composer ·
Michael
Jackson, British broadcasting executive ·
Regina Maršíková,
Czechoslovakian tennis player ·
February 13 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress ·
Grant Thomas,
Australian rules footballer ·
Francisco
Javier López Peña, Basque separatist ·
Ice-T, African-American rapper, songwriter,
and actor ·
Andriy Bal, Ukrainian football player and
coach (d. 2014) ·
February 18 – Gar Samuelson, American drummer (d. 1999) ·
February 19 – Steve Nieve, English musician ·
February 20 – Jamal Hamdan,
Lebanese actor and voice actor ·
Jack Coleman,
American actor and screenwriter ·
Jake Burns, Irish punk singer ·
Jake Steinfeld, American actor ·
Mary Chapin
Carpenter, American singer ·
February 24 – Todd Fisher, American actor ·
February 25 – Kurt Rambis, American basketball player ·
María Casal, Spanish actress ·
Susan Helms, American astronaut ·
Tim Kaine, American politician ·
Max Crivello, Italian artist ·
Maggie Hassan, U.S. Senator from New
Hampshire ·
Michael LeMoyne
Kennedy, American socialite (d. 1997) ·
Nancy Spungen, American groupie and
girlfriend of Sid Vicious (d. 1978) ·
Natalya Estemirova,
Russian activist (d. 2009) ·
Phil Hayes,
British voice actor March[edit] ·
March 1 – Nik Kershaw, English singer ·
March 3 – Miranda Richardson,
English actress ·
March 4 – Patricia Heaton, American actress ·
March 5 – Andy Gibb, British singer (d. 1988) ·
March 7 – Rik Mayall, English comedian and actor
(d. 2014) ·
March 8 – Gary Numan, British singer ·
March 9 ·
Linda Fiorentino, American actress ·
Mary Murphy,
Dance choreographer ·
March 10 ·
Steve Howe,
American baseball player (d. 2006) ·
Sharon Stone, American actress and producer ·
Frankie Ruiz, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1998) ·
Hiroshi Yanaka, Japanese voice actor ·
March 13 – Linda Robson, English actress ·
March 14 ·
Bruno Dumont, French film director and
screenwriter ·
March 15 ·
Anne
Davies, British television presenter and newsreader ·
John Friedrich,
American actor ·
March 18 ·
John Elefante, American singer and producer
(Kansas) ·
Kayo Hatta, American film director (d. 2005) ·
March 20 – Holly Hunter, American actress ·
March 21 – Gary Oldman, English actor and filmmaker ·
March 23 ·
Eldon Hoke, American singer and drummer
(d. 1997) ·
Michael Sorich, American voice actor, actor,
writer, director and voice director ·
March 24 – Roland Koch, German politician ·
March 25 – James McDaniel, American actor ·
March 26 ·
Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver
(d. 1986) ·
Todd Joseph
Miles Holden, American-born social scientist, author, basketball
coach ·
March 27 – Jessica Soho, Philippine television celebrity
and reporter ·
March 28 ·
Bart Conner, American gymnast ·
Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler
(d. 2003) ·
Edesio Alejandro, Cuban music composer ·
March 29 – Anu Lamp, Estonian actress ·
March 30 ·
Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor ·
Lucy Turnbull, Lord Mayor of Sydney, wife
of Malcolm Turnbull ·
March 31 – Dietmar Bartsch, German politician April[edit] ·
April 1 – D. Boon, American singer and guitarist
(d. 1985) ·
April 3 ·
Alec Baldwin, American actor ·
Jaan Rekkor, Estonian actor ·
April 4 ·
Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer
(d. 1990) ·
Constance Shulman,
American actress ·
Vichai
Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai billionaire businessman (d. 2018) ·
April 6 – Sophie Muller, British music video director ·
April 7 – Shinobu Adachi, Japanese voice actress ·
April 10 – Yefim Bronfman, Russian-born pianist ·
April 11 ·
Hussniya Jabara, Israeli Arab politician ·
Luc Luycx, Belgian coin designer ·
Stuart Adamson, Scottish singer and
guitarist (Big Country)
(d. 2001) ·
April 12 – Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgarian athlete ·
April 14 ·
Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor ·
Junko Sakurada, Japanese actress and singer ·
April 15 ·
Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
Benjamin Zephaniah,
British writer and musician ·
April 18 – Saviour Pirotta, British/Maltese children's
author ·
April 21 ·
Andie MacDowell, American actress ·
Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (Crayon Shin-chan) (d. 2009) ·
April 24 ·
Susan Tsvangirai, Spouse of the Prime
Minister of Zimbabwe (d. 2009) ·
Brian Paddick, British former deputy
assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay police officer ·
April 25 ·
Fish, Scottish singer ·
Luis Guillermo Solís, President of
Costa Rica ·
April 26 ·
Ingolf Lück, German actor, comedian and
television host ·
Giancarlo Esposito,
Italian-American actor ·
April 28 – Hal Sutton, American golfer ·
April 29 ·
Michelle Pfeiffer,
American actress ·
Eve Plumb, American actress May[edit] ·
May 4 – Keith Haring, American artist (d. 1990) ·
May 10 ·
May 10 – Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator ·
May 10 – Ellen Ochoa, American astronaut, first
Hispanic woman to go into space ·
May 11 – Christian Brando, American actor and eldest
child of Marlon Brando (d. 2008) ·
May 12 ·
Dries van Noten, Belgian designer ·
Eric Singer, American rock drummer ·
Tony Oliver, American voice actor ·
May 14 – Anna Höglund, Swedish writer and illustrator ·
May 15 – Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler ·
May 17 – Paul Whitehouse, Welsh actor, writer and
comedian ·
May 18 – Toyah Willcox, English actress & singer ·
May 20 – Ron Reagan, political pundit and son of U.S.
president Ronald Reagan ·
May 21 – Tom Feeney, American Republican politician
from the state of Florida ·
May 23 ·
Mitch Albom, American author ·
Drew Carey, American comedian and actor ·
Lea DeLaria, American comedian and actress ·
May 25 ·
Paul Weller, English singer-songwriter ·
Carrie Newcomer, American singer-songwriter
& musician ·
May 26 ·
Margaret Colin, American actress ·
Moinul Ahsan Saber, Bangladeshi writer, editor. ·
May 27 ·
Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter ·
Linnea Quigley, American actress ·
May 29 ·
Annette Bening, American actress ·
Juliano Mer-Khamis,
Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (d. 2011) ·
May 30 ·
Marie Fredriksson,
Swedish singer-songwriter ·
Ted McGinley, American actor June[edit] ·
June 1 – Nambaryn Enkhbayar,
Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia ·
June 2 ·
Lex Luger, former American professional
wrestler ·
Brian Regan,
American stand-up comedian ·
June 3 – Margot Käßmann,
Lutheran theologian, German bishop ·
June 4 – Gordon P. Robertson,
American televangelist and son of Pat Robertson ·
June 5 – Ahmed
Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Comoroan businessman and politician, President of Comoros ·
June 7 – Prince,
African-American musician (d. 2016) ·
June 8 ·
Cyril O'Reilly, American actor ·
Keenen Ivory Wayans,
African-American comedian, actor, and director ·
June 11 ·
Tim Draper, American venture capitalist ·
Barry Adamson, English singer and bass
player ·
June 12 ·
Rebecca Holden, American actress, singer, and
entertainer ·
Meredith Brooks, American singer, songwriter
and guitarist ·
June 14 ·
Masami Yoshida, Japanese athlete (d. 2000) ·
Eric Heiden, American speed skater ·
June 15 – Wade Boggs, American baseball player ·
June 17 – Jello Biafra, American punk musician and
activist (Dead Kennedys) ·
June 18 ·
Peter Altmaier, German jurist and
politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany ·
Gary Martin,
British voice actor and actor ·
June 20 ·
Chuck Wagner, American actor ·
Teiyū
Ichiryūsai, Japanese voice actress ·
June 21 – Eric Douglas, American actor (d. 2004) ·
June 22 ·
John Murray,
American actor ·
Bruce Campbell, American actor, producer,
writer and director ·
June 24 ·
John Tortorella, American ice hockey coach ·
Tom Lister Jr., American actor and
professional wrestler ·
June 25 – Serik Akhmetov, 8th Prime Minister of
Kazakhstan ·
June 26 – Glen Stewart Godwin,
American fugitive and convicted murderer ·
June 27 ·
Jeffrey Lee Pierce,
American musician (d. 1996) ·
Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer ·
June 28 – Félix Gray, French singer and songwriter ·
June 29 ·
Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster
and singer ·
Rosa Mota, Portuguese long-distance runner ·
Mohamed Bendahmane,
Algerian swimmer ·
June 30 ·
Irina Vorobieva, Russian pair skater ·
Karl Friesen, Canadian ice hockey goaltender ·
Pam Royle, British television presenter,
journalist and voice coach ·
Esa-Pekka Salonen,
Finnish conductor and composer ·
Vasily Yakusha, Belarusian rower July[edit] ·
July 1 – Tom Magee, Canadian world champion
powerlifter and strongman competitor ·
July 2 ·
Pavan Malhotra, Indian actor ·
Rainer Hasler, Liechtensteiner footballer
(d. 2014) ·
Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop ·
July 3 – Didier Mouron, Swiss artist ·
July 5 ·
Avigdor Lieberman,
Israeli politician ·
Bill Watterson, American cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes) ·
Kyoko Terase, Japanese voice actress ·
Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (d. 1996) ·
July 6 – Jennifer Saunders,
British comedian and actress ·
July 7 – Michala Petri, Danish recorder player ·
July 8 ·
Kevin Bacon, American actor ·
Neetu Singh, Indian actress ·
July 9 ·
Jacob
Joseph, Malaysian football coach ·
Robin Kermode, English actor, author and
communications coach ·
Abdul Latiff Ahmad,
Malaysian politician ·
July 10 ·
Salleh Said Keruak,
Malaysian politician ·
Chileshe Kapwepwe,
Zambian accountant and corporate executive ·
Jaka Singgih, Indonesian businessman and
politician ·
July 11 – Mark Lester, English actor ·
July 12 – Valery Kipelov, Russian music artist and
composer ·
July 13 ·
Roger L. Jackson, American voice actor ·
Arun Pandian, Indian film actor, director,
producer and politician ·
July 14 – Jujie Luan, Chinese-Canadian fencer ·
July 15 ·
Christian Dornier,
French mass murderer ·
Austin Hayes, Irish footballer (d. 1986) ·
Mac Thornberry, American politician ·
July 16 ·
Mick Cornett, American politician ·
Sally Ponce Enrile,
Filipino politician ·
Jack Enrile, Filipino politician ·
Michael Flatley, Irish-born dancer ·
Sabine de Bethune,
Belgian politician ·
July 17 ·
Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong second wave
filmmaker ·
Suzanne Moore, English journalist ·
July 19 ·
Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer ·
Jonathan Lee,
Taiwanese musician ·
July 20 ·
Bala Garba Jahumpa,
Gambian politician ·
Billy Mays, American infomercial salesperson
(d. 2009) ·
July 22 – Tatsunori Hara, Japanese
professional-baseball coach and player ·
July 24 – Joe McGann, English actor ·
July 26 – Jesús Barrero, Mexican actor and voice actor
(d. 2016) ·
July 27 ·
Kimmo Hakola, Finnish composer ·
Margarethe
Schreinemakers, German television presenter ·
July 28 ·
Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer
activist (d. 1981) ·
Deon van der Walt,
South African tenor (d. 2005) ·
July 30 – Kate Bush, English musician ·
July 31 – Mark Cuban, American entrepreneur and
basketball team owner August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Michael Penn, American singer ·
Adrian Dunbar, Irish actor and director ·
August 2 – Shō Hayami, Japanese voice actor and
singer ·
August 3 – Lambert Wilson, French actor ·
August 5 – Andriy Fedetskyi, Ukrainian football player
(d. 2018) ·
August 7 ·
Bruce Dickinson, English musician (Iron Maiden) ·
Russell Baze, Canadian/American champion
jockey ·
Don Swayze, American actor ·
Rami Hamdallah, Palestine politician ·
Rondell Sheridan, American actor ·
Victor Shenderovich,
Russian writer ·
Chiharu Suzuka, Japanese voice actress ·
Angela Bassett, African-American actress ·
Madonna,
American-born singer, songwriter, and actress ·
August 17 - Belinda Carlisle, American singer ·
Reg E. Cathey, American actor (d. 2018) ·
Madeleine Stowe, American actress ·
Anthony Muñoz, American football player ·
Brendan Nelson, Australian politician ·
August 20 – Nicholas Bell, English actor based in
Australia ·
Brady Boone, American professional wrestler
(d. 1998) ·
Colm Feore, American-born actor ·
August 24 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor ·
Tim Burton, American film director ·
Christian LeBlanc,
American actor ·
August 26 – Billy Ray Irick, American convicted murderer
(d. 2018) ·
August 27 – Normand Brathwaite,
African-Canadian comedian and television and radio host ·
August 29 – Michael Jackson, African-American singer,
songwriter and dancer (d. 2009) ·
August 31 – Julie Brown, American actress September[edit] ·
September 4 – Drew Pinsky, American celebrity doctor ·
Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor,
author ·
Sione Vailahi, Tongan professional wrestler
("The Barbarian") ·
Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor ·
Reiko Terashima, Japanese manga artist and
illustrator ·
Stevie Vallance, Canadian actress, voice
actress, stage performer, singer, casting director and voice director ·
September 9 – Colin Murdock, Canadian
voice actor ·
Chris Columbus,
American film director/writer/producer ·
Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama, Shakespears Sister) ·
September 11 – Julia Nickson-Soul,
Singapore actress ·
September 13 – Paweł Przytocki,
Polish conductor ·
Silas Malafaia, Brazilian evangelical
pastor, author, and televangelist ·
Michael Bollner, German actor ·
Jeff Crowe, New Zealand cricketer ·
Orel Hershiser, American baseball player ·
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) ·
September 19 – Lita Ford, British musician ·
September 21 – Bruno Fitoussi, French poker player ·
Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor ·
Joan Jett, American rock musician ·
September 23 – Marvin Lewis, American football coach ·
September 24 – Kevin Sorbo, American actor ·
Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist ·
September 26 – Darby Crash, American rock songwriter,
singer (Germs) (d. 1980) ·
Shaun Cassidy, American actor, producer and
screenwriter ·
Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer ·
Eduardo Cunha, Brazilian politician, former
President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil ·
Tom Buhrow, German journalist and intendant
of the WDR ·
September 30 – Marty Stuart, American singer October[edit] ·
October 3 – Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor ·
Ned Luke, American actor ·
Wendy Makkena, American actress ·
October 5 – Neil deGrasse Tyson,
American astrophysicist and science communicator (Also host of many episodes
of NOVA) ·
October 8 – Ursula von der Leyen,
German politician who has been the Minister of Defence ·
October 9 – Michael Paré, American actor ·
October 13 – Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist ·
Thomas Dolby, English rock musician ·
Peter Kloeppel, German television journalist ·
October 15 – Masako Katsuki, Japanese voice actress ·
October 16 – Tim Robbins, American actor and film
director ·
October 17 – Alan Jackson, American country singer and
songwriter ·
Mark King,
English singer and musician (Level 42) ·
Viggo Mortensen, American actor and
businessman, founder of Perceval Press ·
Scott Hall, American professional wrestler ·
October 23 – Hiroyuki Kinoshita,
Japanese actor and voice actor ·
Phil Daniels, English actor ·
Kornelia Ender, German swimmer ·
October 27 – Simon Le Bon, English rock singer ·
October 29 – Blažej Baláž,
Slovak painter November[edit] ·
November 2 – Willie McGee, African-American baseball
player ·
November 5 – Robert Patrick, American actor ·
November 7 – Dmitry Kozak, Russian politician and deputy
Prime Minister of Russia ·
November 8 – Jeff Speakman, American actor and martial
artist ·
Vicky Rosti, Finnish singer, former
Eurovision contestant ·
Megan Mullally, American actress, singer and
media personality ·
Hiromi Iwasaki, Japanese singer ·
November 14 – Sergio Goyri, Mexican actor ·
Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of
Kyrgyzstan ·
Marg Helgenberger,
American actress ·
Boris
Krivokapić, Serbian academic ·
November 17 – Mary
Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer ·
November 18 – Laura Miller, Mayor of Dallas, Texas ·
November 19 – Michael Wilbon, American sportswriter ·
November 21 – David Reivers, Jamaican actor ·
Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress ·
Bruce Payne, English actor and producer ·
Ibrahim Ismail of
Johor, Sultan of Johor ·
November 24 – Nick Knight,
British photographer ·
November 25 – Darlanne Fluegel, American actress ·
November 27 – Tetsuya Komuro, Japanese music producer and
songwriter ·
November 28 – Dave Righetti, American baseball player ·
November 30 – Juliette Bergmann,
Dutch bodybuilder December[edit] ·
Charlene Tilton, American actress ·
Javier Aguirre, Mexican football player and
manager ·
December 2 – Mina Asami, Japanese actress ·
December 5 – Dynamite Kid, English professional wrestler
(d. 2018) ·
Nick Park, English filmmaker and animator ·
Debbie Rowe, American ex-wife of pop
star Michael Jackson,
and mother of two; ·
Liliana
Řeháková, Czech ice dancer (d. 2008) ·
Cornelia Funke, German author ·
Annelore Zinke, East German gymnast ·
David Paul Grove, Canadian actor and voice actor ·
Tom Shadyac, American director and producer ·
Nikki Sixx, American rock musician ·
Isabella Hofmann, American actress ·
Monica Attard, Australian journalist ·
Lucie Guay, Canadian canoer ·
Dag Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian musician ·
Sheree J. Wilson, American actress ·
December 13 – Lynn-Holly Johnson,
American ice skater and actress ·
Mike Scott,
Scottish singer-songwriter (The Waterboys) ·
Spider Stacy, English musician (The Pogues) ·
François Zocchetto,
French politician ·
December 15 – Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (d. 1998) ·
December 16 – Katie Leigh, American voice actress ·
December 18 – Julia Wolfe, American composer ·
December 19 – Limahl, English singer ·
December 21 – Kevin Blackwell, English football manager ·
Dimi Mint Abba, Mauritanian musician and
singer (d. 2011) ·
Hanford Dixon, American football player ·
Rickey Henderson, African-American baseball
player ·
Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter ·
December 26 – Mieko Harada, Japanese actress ·
December 28 – Twila Paris, American Christian musician ·
December 29 – Lakhdar Belloumi, Algerian football player ·
December 31 – Bebe Neuwirth, American actress Date unknown[edit] ·
Helena Klakocar, Dutch cartoonist ·
Yoshiteru Otani, Japanese cartoonist ·
Kenn Thomas, American conspiracy theory writer
and publisher Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Edward Weston, American photographer
(b. 1886) ·
January 3 – Cafer Tayyar
Eğilmez, Turkish general (b. 1877) ·
January 4 – Archie Alexander, American designer and governor
(b. 1888) ·
Margaret Anglin, American stage actress
(b. 1876) ·
Petru Groza, Romanian politician, 46th Prime Minister
of Romania and head of the State (b. 1884) ·
January 8 – Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883) ·
January 9 – Karl
Reinhardt, German philologist. (b. 1886) ·
January 11 – Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895) ·
January 13 – Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer
(b. 1880) ·
January 16 – Aubrey Mather, English actor (b. 1885) ·
January 19 – Cândido Rondon,
Brazilian military officer (b. 1865) ·
January 20 – Ataúlfo Argenta,
Spanish conductor and pianist (b. 1913) ·
January 27 – Prince Oskar of
Prussia (b. 1888) ·
Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878) ·
Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer and
manufacturer (b. 1888) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888) ·
Monta Bell, American actor (b. 1891) ·
Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915) ·
Geoff Bent (b. 1932) ·
Roger Byrne (b. 1929) ·
Eddie Colman (b. 1936) ·
Mark
Jones (b. 1933) ·
David Pegg (b. 1935) ·
Tommy Taylor (b. 1932) ·
Liam "Billy" Whelan (b. 1935),
all footballers that perished in the Munich air disaster ·
February 7 – Walter Kingsford, English actor (b. 1882) ·
February 10 – Aleksander Klumberg,
Estonian decathlete (b. 1899) ·
Christabel Pankhurst,
English suffragette (b. 1880) ·
Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871) ·
Helen Twelvetrees,
American actress (b. 1908) ·
February 14 – Prince
Heinrich of Bavaria (b. 1922) ·
February 16 – Situ Qiao, Chinese painter (b. 1902) ·
February 17 – Marguerite Snow, American actress (b. 1889) ·
February 20 – Thurston Hall, American actor (b. 1882) ·
February 21 – Duncan Edwards English footballer
(b. 1936), injury in the Munich air disaster ·
February 27 – Harry Cohn, American film producer (b. 1891) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (b. 1871) ·
March 6 – Anton Reinthaller,
Austrian right wing politician (b. 1895) ·
March 11 – Ole Kirk
Christiansen, Danish businessman (b. 1891) ·
March 12 – Princess
Ingeborg of Denmark (b. 1878) ·
March 17 – Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician
(b. 1877) ·
March 20 – Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian politician
(b. 1915) ·
March 21 – Cyril M. Kornbluth,
American writer (b. 1923) ·
March 22 (in plane crash) ·
Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909) ·
Art Cohn, American screenwriter (b. 1909) ·
March 23 ·
Charlotte
Walker, American actress (b. 1876) ·
Florian Znaniecki,
Polish philosopher and sociologist (b. 1882) ·
March 24 – Herbert Fields, American librettist and
screenwriter (b. 1897) ·
March 25 – Tom Brown,
American musician (b. 1888) ·
March 26 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887) ·
March 28 ·
W. C. Handy, African-American blues composer
(b. 1873) ·
Chuck Klein, American baseball player (Philadelphia
Phillies) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1904) April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Willie Maley, Scottish football player and
manager (b. 1868) ·
Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and
activist (b. 1900) ·
April 4 – María Luisa
Sepúlveda, Chilean composer (b. 1898) ·
April 5 – Prince
Ferdinand of Bavaria (b. 1884) ·
April 8 ·
Alcibíades Arosemena,
Panamanian politician, 15th President of Panama (b. 1883) ·
George Jean Nathan,
American drama critic (b. 1882) ·
Frank Eaton, American Deputy Marshal
(b. 1860) ·
Frank Kingdon-Ward,
English botanist and explorer (b. 1885) ·
April 15 – Estelle Taylor, American actress (b. 1894) ·
April 16 – Rosalind Franklin,
English crystallographer (b. 1920) ·
April 18 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872) ·
April 19 – Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874) May[edit] ·
May 2 – Henry Cornelius, South African-born director
(b. 1913) ·
May 3 – Frank Foster,
English cricketer (b. 1889) ·
May 5 – James Branch Cabell,
American writer (b. 1879) ·
May 7 ·
Joan Comorera, Spanish politician (b. 1894) ·
Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian composer, organist
and choir conductor (b. 1880) ·
May 18 – Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and essayist
(b. 1881) ·
May 19 ·
Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891) ·
Marie Pujmanová,
Czechoslovak poet and novelist (b. 1893) ·
Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870) ·
May 20 – Frédéric
François-Marsal, Prime Minister of France (b. 1874) ·
May 22 – Sir Richmond Palmer, British lawyer and
colonial administrator (b. 1877) ·
May 26 – Constantin
Cantacuzino, Romanian aviator (b. 1905) ·
May 29 – Juan Ramón Jiménez,
Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1881) June[edit] ·
June 2 ·
Townsend Cromwell,
American oceanographer (plane crash) (b. 1922) ·
Bell M. Shimada, American fisheries
scientist (plane crash) (b. 1922) ·
June 6 ·
Lloyd Hughes, American actor (b. 1897) ·
Virginia Pearson, American actress (b. 1886) ·
June 8 – Nicola da Gesturi,
Italian Roman Catholic priest
and blessed (b. 1882) ·
June 9 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905) ·
June 13 – Edwin Keppel Bennett,
British writer (b. 1887) ·
June 14 – Ibrahim Hashem, Jordanian lawyer and
politician, 3-time Prime Minister
of Jordan (b. 1888) ·
June 16 ·
Alexander Chervyakov,
Prime Minister of the Byelorussian SSR (suicide) (b. 1892) ·
Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician, 44th Prime Minister
of Hungary (executed) (b. 1896) ·
Nereu Ramos, Brazilian politician,
20th President of Brazil (b. 1888) ·
June 20 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1902) ·
June 21 ·
Herbert Brenon, American film director
(b. 1880) ·
Robert L. Ghormley,
American admiral (b. 1883) ·
June 26 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1876) ·
June 27 – Vytautas
Augustauskas, Soviet educator (b. 1904) ·
June 28 – Alfred Noyes, English poet (b. 1880) July[edit] King Faisal II of Iraq ·
July 2 – Martha Boswell, American singer (b. 1905) ·
July 3 – Charles
Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General
of New Zealand (b. 1867) ·
July 5 – Patriarch Vikentije
II (b. 1890) ·
July 9 – James H. Flatley, American naval aviator and
admiral (b. 1906) ·
July 14 (killed during coup
d'état): ·
King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935) ·
'Abd al-Ilah, Prince of Iraq (b. 1913) ·
July 15 ·
Julia Lennon, English mother of John Lennon (b. 1914) ·
Nuri al-Said, Iraqi politician, 7th Prime Minister of
Iraq (b. 1888) ·
July 18 – Henri Farman, pioneer French aviator and
aircraft company founder (b. 1874) ·
July 20 – Franklin Pangborn,
American actor (b. 1889) ·
July 24 – Mabel Ballin, American actress (b. 1887) ·
July 25 – Harry Warner, American studio executive
(b. 1881) ·
July 26 – Iven Carl
Kincheloe Jr., American Korean War fighter ace and test pilot
(b. 1928) ·
July 27 – Claire Lee Chennault,
American aviator and general, leader of the Flying Tigers (b. 1893) ·
July 30 – William A. Glassford,
American admiral (b. 1886) August[edit] ·
August 2 – Michele Navarra, Italian Sicilian Mafia boss
(b. 1905) ·
August 3 – Peter
Collins, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1931) ·
August 4 – Mario Zanin,
Italian Roman Catholic prelate
and monsignor (b. 1890) ·
August 8 – Barbara Bennett, American actress (b. 1906) ·
August 9 – Felipe Boero, Argentine composer (b. 1884) ·
August 12 – Augustus Owsley
Stanley, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1867) ·
Frédéric
Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (b. 1900) ·
Gladys Presley, American mother of Elvis Presley (b. 1912) ·
José Domingues
dos Santos, Portuguese politician, 89th Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1885) ·
Paul Panzer, German actor (b. 1872) ·
August 18 – Bonar Colleano, American actor (b. 1924) ·
Stevan Hristić,
Yugoslav composer (b. 1885) ·
Kurt Neumann,
German film director (b. 1908) ·
August 22 – Roger Martin du Gard,
French writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1881) ·
Paul Henry,
Northern Irish artist (b. 1876) ·
J. G. Strijdom, 5th Prime Minister of South
Africa (b. 1893) ·
August 26 – Ralph Vaughan
Williams, English composer (b. 1872) ·
August 27 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1901) ·
August 29 – Marjorie Flack, American artist, illustrator
and writer (b. 1897) September[edit] ·
Hans Grundig, German artist (b. 1901) ·
Robert W. Service,
Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874) ·
September 16 – Alma Bennett, American actress (b. 1904) ·
Alfred Piccaver, British-born American
operatic tenor (b. 1884) ·
Walter Friedrich
Otto, German classical philologist (b. 1874) ·
September 25 – John B. Watson, American psychologist
(b. 1878) ·
September 27 – Adolfo Salazar, Spanish historian, composer
and diplomat (b. 1890) ·
September 30 – Estate Tatanashvili,
Soviet general (b. 1902) October[edit] ·
October 9 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876) ·
October 11 – Maurice de Vlaminck,
French painter (b. 1876) ·
October 14 – Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist and
polar explorer (b. 1882) ·
October 15 – Jack Norton, American actor (b. 1882) ·
October 16 – Michalis Souyioul,
Greek composer (b. 1906) ·
Celso
Benigno Luigi Costantini, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence
(b. 1876) ·
Charlie Townsend, English cricketer
(b. 1876) ·
Paul Outerbridge, American photographer
(b. 1896) ·
October 24 – G. E. Moore, British philosopher of (Principia
Ethica) (b. 1873) ·
October 26 – Herbert A.
Bartholomew, American farmer and politician (b. 1871) ·
October 27 – Marshall Neilan, American actor and director
(b. 1891) ·
October 29 – Zoë Akins, American playwright, poet and
author (b. 1886) November[edit] ·
November 4 – Sam Zimbalist, American film producer
(b. 1904) ·
November 8 – C. Ganesha Iyer, Ceylon Tamil Philologist (b. 1878) ·
November 15 – Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914) ·
November 16 – Samuel Hopkins Adams,
American writer (b. 1871) ·
November 19 – Vittorio Ambrosio,
Italian general (b. 1879) ·
November 21 – Mel Ott, American baseball player (New York Giants)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1909) ·
Robert
Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and
diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864) ·
Harry Parke, American comedian (b. 1904) ·
Artur Rodziński,
Polish conductor (b. 1892) ·
Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian Communist
political, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly and head of the
State (b. 1892) ·
November 30 – Oscar C. Badger II,
American admiral (b. 1890) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Boots Mallory, American actress (b. 1913) ·
December 4 – José María Caro
Rodríguez, Chilean Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence
(b. 1866) ·
Willie Applegarth,
British Olympic athlete (b. 1890) ·
Patras Bokhari, Pakistani humorist (b. 1898) ·
December 8 – Tris Speaker, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1888) ·
December 11 – Alberto Meschi, Italian anarchist (b. 1879) ·
Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1900) ·
Milutin
Milanković, Yugoslav mathematician, astronomer, climatologist
and geophysicist, (b. 1879) ·
December 13 – Tim Moore,
American comedian (b. 1887) ·
December 15 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born American
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1900) ·
Lion Feuchtwanger,
German novelist and playwright (b. 1884) ·
H. B. Warner, English actor (b. 1875) ·
December 27 – Mustafa
Merlika-Kruja, 16th Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1887) ·
December 29 – Doris Humphrey, American dancer and
choreographer (b. 1895) Date unknown[edit] ·
Stylianos Lykoudis,
Greek admiral (b. 1878) ·
Thomas Chrostwaite,
American educator (b. 1873) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Pavel
Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Ilya Mikhailovich
Frank, and Igor Yevgenyevich
Tamm ·
Chemistry – Frederick Sanger ·
Physiology
or Medicine – George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum,
and Joshua Lederberg ·
Literature – Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ·
Peace – Georges Pire Media[edit] ·
In
Stephen King's novel 11/22/63, the
time bubble in Al's Diner sends the protagonist Jake Epping to 11:58 AM on
the morning of September 9, 1958. ·
The 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro is
set in 1958. References[edit] 1.
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