Editing 1958 (section)

== Deaths ==

=== January ===
[[File:Petru Groza Anefo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Petru Groza]]]]
[[File:Prince Oskar of Prussia1888-1958.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Prince Oskar of Prussia]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Edward Weston]], American photographer (b. [[1886]])<ref>Conger, Amy (1992). ''Edward Weston – Photographs From the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography.'' Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1992. Page 45. {{ISBN|0-938262-21-1}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[Petru Groza]], Romanian politician, 46th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[January 8]] 
** [[Mary Colter]], American architect (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/marycolter.htm|title=Mary Colter and Her Buildings at Grand Canyon (U.S. National Park Service)|website=www.nps.gov}}</ref>
** [[Paul Pilgrim]], American athlete (b. [[1883]])
* [[January 13]] 
** [[Jesse L. Lasky]], American film producer (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Jesse Lasky dies|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864219,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131163510/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864219,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2011 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=January 27, 1958 |access-date=June 8, 2008}}</ref>
** [[Edna Purviance]], American actress (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19580116&id=9RYvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aagFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3279,2536053|title=Edna Purviance|date=January 16, 1958|work=The Montreal Gazette|page=35|access-date=August 13, 2021}}</ref>
* [[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]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Ernst Heinkel]], German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. [[1888]])

=== February ===
[[File:Clinton Davisson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Clinton Davisson]]]]
[[File:Roger Byrne1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Roger Byrne]]]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Clinton Davisson]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Manchester United]] footballers killed in [[Munich air disaster]]
** [[Geoff Bent]] (b. [[1932]])
** [[Roger Byrne]] (b. [[1929]])
** [[Eddie Colman]] (b. [[1936]])
** [[Mark Jones (footballer, born 1933)|Mark Jones]] (b. [[1933]])
** [[David Pegg]] (b. [[1935]]) 
** [[Frank Swift]] (b. [[1913]])
** [[Tommy Taylor]] (b. [[1932]])
** [[Liam Whelan|Liam "Billy" Whelan]] (b. [[1935]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Nezihe Muhiddin]], Turkish suffragette and journalist (b. [[1889]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Ernest Jones]], Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite DWB|last=Davies|first=Thomas Gruffydd|author-mask={{long dash}}
|year=2001|title=Jones, Alfred Ernest|id=s2-JONE-ERN-1879|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=25 March 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 13]]
** [[Christabel Pankhurst]], English suffragette (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite web|last=Hillberg|first=Isabelle|title=Pankhurst, Christabel Hariette (1880–1958)|url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CA148364172&mode=view|publisher=Detroit:Gale|access-date=6 October 2011}}</ref>
** [[Georges Rouault]], French painter (b. [[1871]])
* [[February 21]]
** [[Henryk Arctowski]], Polish scientist and explorer (b. [[1871]])
** [[Duncan Edwards]] English footballer, died from injuries sustained in the [[Munich air disaster]] (b. [[1936]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Harry Cohn]], American film producer (b. [[1891]])

=== March ===
[[File:Ingeborg of Sweden.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Princess Ingeborg of Denmark]]]]
* [[March 1]] – [[Giacomo Balla]], Italian painter (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ian Chilvers|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists|publisher=OUP Oxford|year=2017|isbn=9780191024177}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] – [[Anton Reinthaller]], Austrian politician (b. [[1895]])<ref>[https://www.fbi-politikschule.at/en/austria-in-blue/persons/persons/reinthaller-anton/ Anton Reinthaller (1895 – 1958)]</ref>
* [[March 11]] – [[Ole Kirk Christiansen]], Danish businessman, founder of [[The Lego Group]] (b. [[1891]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hagar, Erin|title=Awesome Minds: The Inventors of LEGO Toys|publisher=Duopress|date=2016|page=34}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] – [[Princess Ingeborg of Denmark]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Mike Todd]], American film director, in aviation accident (b. [[1907]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Florian Znaniecki]], Polish philosopher and sociologist (b, [[1882]])
* [[March 28]] – [[W. C. Handy]], African-American blues composer (b. [[1873]])

=== April ===
[[File:Ferdbavar.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria]]]]
* [[April 2]] 
** [[Willie Maley]], Scottish football player and manager (b. [[1868]])
** [[Jōsei Toda]], Japanese educator and activist (b. [[1900]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria]] (born [[1884]])
* [[April 8]] – [[Alcibíades Arosemena]], Panamanian politician, 15th [[President of Panama]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Estelle Taylor]], American actress (b. [[1894]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Estelle Taylor Dies; Cancer Victim, 58|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19580414&id=T5YgAAAAIBAJ&pg=6363,4507136&hl=en|access-date=July 15, 2015|work=[[The Lewiston Daily Sun]]|agency=Associated Press|date=April 16, 1958}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] – [[Rosalind Franklin]], English crystallographer (b. [[1920]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Rita Montaner]], Cuban singer, pianist and actress (b. [[1900]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Maurice Gamelin]], French general (b. [[1872]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Billy Meredith]], Welsh footballer (b. [[1874]])

=== May ===
[[File:Ronald Colman - publicity.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ronald Colman]]]]
* [[May 2]] – [[Henry Cornelius]], South African-born director (b. [[1913]])
* [[May 5]] – [[James Branch Cabell]], American writer (b. [[1879]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Koshirō Oikawa]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1883]])
* [[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]], 59th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Constantin Cantacuzino (aviator)|Constantin Cantacuzino]], Romanian aviator (b. [[1905]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]])

=== June ===
[[File:Kurt Alder Nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kurt Alder]]]]
* [[June 9]] – [[Robert Donat]], English actor (b. [[1905]])
* [[June 16]]
** [[Imre Nagy]], Hungarian politician, 44th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (executed) (b. [[1896]])
** [[Nereu Ramos]], Brazilian politician, 20th [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Douglas Jardine]], English cricketer (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/douglas-jardine-15481 Douglas Jardine England]</ref>
* [[June 20]] – [[Kurt Alder]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]])
* [[June 24]] – [[George Orton]], Canadian athlete (b. [[1873]])

=== July ===
[[File:Faisalh.jpg|thumb|100px|King [[Faisal II of Iraq]]]]
<!--[[File:Nori.png|thumb|100px|[[Nuri al-Said]]]]-->
* [[July 5]] – Patriarch [[Vikentije II, Serbian Patriarch|Vikentije II]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[July 14]] (killed during ''coup d'état''):
** King [[Faisal II of Iraq]] (b. [[1935]]; assassinated)<ref name="Dougherty2019">{{cite book|author=Beth K. Dougherty|title=Historical Dictionary of Iraq|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-mUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA250|date=15 June 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-5381-2005-7|pages=250}}</ref>
** [['Abd al-Ilah]], Prince of Iraq (b. [[1913]]; assassinated)<ref name="Dougherty2019"/>
** [[Ibrahim Hashem]], Jordanian lawyer and politician, 3-time [[Prime Minister of Jordan]] (b.  [[1888]])
* [[July 15]]
** [[Nuri al-Said]], Iraqi politician, 7th [[Prime Minister of Iraq]] (b. [[1888]])
** [[Julia Lennon]], mother of [[John Lennon]] (b. [[1914]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Henri Farman]], French aviator and aircraft company founder (b. [[1874]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Mikhail Zoshchenko]], Russian and Soviet writer and satirist (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Harry Warner]], American studio executive (b. [[1881]])
* [[July 27]] – [[Claire Lee Chennault]], American aviator and general, leader of the [[Flying Tigers]] (b. [[1893]])

=== August ===
[[File:Hans Strijdom.jpg|thumb|100px|[[J. G. Strijdom]]]]
[[File:Ernest Lawrence.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ernest Lawrence]]]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Albert E. Smith (producer)|Albert E. Smith]], English-born American stage magician, film director and producer (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7h4nb4tk/|title=Smith (Albert E.) Papers|website=oac.cdlib.org}}</ref>
* [[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]] 
** [[Big Bill Broonzy]], American blues singer, composer (b. [[1893]]) (some sources give his year of birth as [[1903]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Big-Bill-Broonzy Big Bill Broonzy American musician]</ref>
**[[Frédéric Joliot-Curie]], French physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1935/joliot-fred/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=2 January 2022}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] 
** [[José Domingues dos Santos]], Portuguese politician, 89th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (b. [[1885]])
** [[Paul Panzer]], German actor (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 21]] 
** [[Stevan Hristić]], Yugoslav composer (b. [[1885]])
** [[Kurt Neumann (director)|Kurt Neumann]], German film director (b. [[1908]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Roger Martin du Gard]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]])
* [[August 24]] – [[J. G. Strijdom]], 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. [[1893]])<ref>{{cite web
| publisher=Britannica Online Encyclopedia| title=Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom| url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/569087/Johannes-Gerhardus-Strijdom| access-date=25 March 2010}}</ref>
* [[August 26]] – [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], English composer (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Ernest Lawrence]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]])<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Alvarez|first = Luis | author-link = Luis Walter Alvarez | url = http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/lawrence-ernest.pdf | title = Ernest Orlando Lawrence 1901–1958 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences | year = 1970}}</ref>

=== September ===
[[File:Estate Tatanashvili.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Estate Tatanashvili]]]]
* [[September 11]]
** [[Hans Grundig]], German artist (b. [[1901]])
** [[Robert W. Service]], Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. [[1874]])
* [[September 16]] – [[Alma Bennett]], American actress (b. [[1904]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Katchmer |first1=George A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0905-8 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Alma+Bennett%22+actress&pg=PA24 |access-date=December 9, 2021}}</ref>
* [[September 20]] – [[Jacques Delannoy]], French footballer (b. [[1912]])
* [[September 23]]
** [[Robert Mercier]], French footballer (b. [[1909]])
** [[Walter F. 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 28]] – [[Aarre Merikanto]], Finnish composer (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://fennicagehrman.fi/composer/merikanto-aarre/ Merikanto, Aarre]</ref>
* [[September 30]] – [[Estate Tatanashvili]], Soviet general (b. [[1902]])

=== October ===
[[File:Pope Pius XII, April 1958.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pope Pius XII]]]]
* [[October 9]] – [[Pope Pius XII]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Maurice de Vlaminck]], French painter (b. [[1876]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Douglas Mawson|Sir Douglas Mawson]], Australian geologist and polar explorer (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Michalis Souyioul]], Greek composer (b. [[1906]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Zheng Zhenduo]], Chinese historian and translator (b. [[1898]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zheng-Zhenduo|title=Zheng Zhenduo Chinese historian|website=Britannica|access-date=4 August 2024}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] – [[G. E. Moore]], British philosopher of (''Principia Ethica'') (b. [[1873]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Zoë Akins]], American playwright, poet and author (b. [[1886]])

=== November ===
[[File:Tyrone Power - still.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tyrone Power]]]]
* [[November 4]] – [[Sam Zimbalist]], American film producer (b. [[1904]])
* [[November 11]] – [[André Bazin]], French film critic and theorist (b. [[1918]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Tyrone Power]], American actor (b. [[1914]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AvJVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6211%2C2480779 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |last=Nevin |first=Louis P. |title=Tyrone Power dies in Spain while making new movie |date=November 15, 1958 |page=1}}</ref> 
* [[November 19]] 
** [[Vittorio Ambrosio]], Italian general (b. [[1879]])
** [[Hans Heinrich von Twardowski]], German actor (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.gtv.blue/hans-heinrich-von-twardowski/ 100 Heroes: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski]</ref>
* [[November 24]] – [[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood]], English politician and diplomat, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1864]])<ref name=death>{{London Gazette |issue=41608 |date=16 January 1959 |page=472 |supp=y }}</ref>
* [[November 27]] 
** [[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]] – [[Hubert Wilkins|Sir Hubert Wilkins]], Australian explorer (b. [[1888]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Hubert-Wilkins Sir George Hubert Wilkins Australian explorer]</ref>

=== December ===
<!--[[File:Willie Applegarth and Sam Mussabini 1912.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Willie Applegarth]]]]-->
[[File:Pauli.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wolfgang Pauli]]]]
* [[December 4]] – [[José María Caro Rodríguez]], Chilean [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal and eminence (born [[1866]])
* [[December 5]] 
** [[Willie Applegarth]], British track and field athlete (b. [[1890]])
** [[Patras Bokhari]], Pakistani humorist (b. [[1898]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Tris Speaker]], American baseball player (b. [[1888]])
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Slobodan Jovanović]], Serbian intellectual and politician (b. [[1869]])
** [[Milutin Milanković]], Yugoslav mathematician, astronomer, climatologist and geophysicist, (b. [[1879]])
* [[December 13]] 
** [[Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)|Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia]] (b.[[1890]])<ref>[https://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/mariepavlovna.php Biographies - Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna]</ref>
** [[Tim Moore (comedian)|Tim Moore]], American vaudevillian and comic actor (b. [[1887]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Wolfgang Pauli]], Austrian-born American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1900]])
* [[December 21]] 
** [[Lion Feuchtwanger]], German novelist and playwright (b. [[1884]])
** [[H. B. Warner]], English actor (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Mustafa Merlika-Kruja]], 16th [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Doris Humphrey]], American dancer and choreographer (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106197754/obituary-doris-humphrey/ |title=Obituary: Doris Humphrey |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |page=996 |date=1958-12-31 |access-date=2022-07-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>