Editing 1958 (section)

=== 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>