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|footer=From top to bottom, left to right: [[Gamal Abdel-Nasser]] and [[Shukri al-Quwatli]] signing the Syria-Egypt union pact that formed [[United Arab Republic]]; Lituya Bay a few weeks after the [[1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami]]; The eye of [[Typhoon Ida (1958)|Typhoon Ida]] at peak intensity; Leaders of the [[14 July Revolution]] in Iraq; [[Tennis for Two]] becomes the First pure Entertainment [[video game]]; Demonstration on rue du Faubourg-du-Temple during the [[May 1958 crisis in France]]; USSR stamps marking the [[1958 FIFA World Cup]]; Explorer 1 in its orbital configuration, the first satellite launched by the [[United States]]. }}-->
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== Events ==
[[File:PAFWorldRecordLoop1958.webm|thumb|right|150px|The [[World record loop]] is showcased towards the end of the video.]]

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1958}}
* [[January 1]] – The [[European Economic Community]] (EEC) comes into being.<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Pinder|author2=Simon Usherwood|title=The European Union: A Very Short Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYOuYAKTswEC&pg=PT33|date=25 July 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-150394-8|pages=33}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] – The [[West Indies Federation]] is formed.<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Board of Inland Revenue|title=Income Taxes Outside the United Kingdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qiFQAQAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=247}}</ref>
* [[January 4]] 
** [[Edmund Hillary]]'s [[Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] completes the third overland journey to the [[South Pole]], the first to use powered vehicles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/dash-pole-tractors|title=Arrival at the Pole by tractor|website=New Zealand History|access-date=March 11, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Sputnik 1]] (launched on October 4, 1957) falls towards Earth from its orbit and burns up.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics|title=Communications Satellites: Hearings Before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives...|year=1961|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=448}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Battle of Edchera]]: The [[Moroccan Army of Liberation]] ambushes a Spanish patrol.<ref>{{cite book|title=East Asian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEBuAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University|page=155}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "[[Lacy-Zarubin Agreement|Lacy–Zarubin Agreement]]", is signed in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kozovoi|first=Andrei|date=2016-01-02|title=A foot in the door: the Lacy–Zarubin agreement and Soviet-American film diplomacy during the Khrushchev era, 1953–1963|journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television|volume=36|issue=1|pages=21–39|doi=10.1080/01439685.2015.1134107|s2cid=155781953|issn=0143-9685}}</ref>

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1958}}
* [[February 1]] – [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]] unite to form the [[United Arab Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division|author2=British Information Services|title=Middle East Background|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghsuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA30|year=1959|publisher=British Information Services|pages=30}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] – The ''Falcons'' aerobatic team of the [[Pakistan Air Force]] led by Wg Cdr [[Zafar Masud (air commodore)|Mitty Masud]] set a [[World record loop|world record]] performing a 16 aircraft diamond loop in [[F-86 Sabres]]. 30,000 people àre in attendance including [[President Iskandar Ali Mirza]], [[General Ayub Khan]], [[Air Marshal Asghar Khan]], Air Commodore [[Nur Khan]], [[List of commanders of the Turkish Air Force|C-in-C Turkish Air Force]] Hamdullah Suphi Göker, Chief of the [[Iraqi Air Force]] Abdul Kadhim Abaddi, [[Air force history of Iran#Imperial era|Chief of the Imperial Iranian Air Force]] and Chief Guest [[King Zahir Shah]] in whose honor the performance has been organized.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mitty Masud folds his wings|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1065137|website=www.dawn.com|date=13 October 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=AM Asghar Khan: father of PAF, doyen of Pakistan's politics|date=5 January 2023|website=Brecorder|url=https://www.brecorder.com/news/40218377}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] – [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision]]: A U.S. [[B-47]] bomber jettisons a [[hydrogen bomb]] into [[Wassaw Sound]] off [[Tybee Island, Georgia]]; it is never recovered.<ref>{{cite news|title=B-47 in Crash Drops Atom Device in Sea|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 13, 1958|page=13}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] – Seven [[Manchester United F.C.|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 [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]. 23 people survive; manager [[Matt Busby]] and players [[Johnny Berry]] and [[Duncan Edwards]] are in a serious condition. Berry will never play again and Edwards dies a fortnight later, as does the co-pilot.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/6/newsid_2535000/2535961.stm |work=BBC News |title=1958: United players killed in air disaster |date=February 6, 1958 |access-date=October 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917140201/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/6/newsid_2535000/2535961.stm |archive-date=September 17, 2010 |url-status=live  }}</ref>
* [[February 11]] – Marshal [[Chen Yi (communist)|Chen Yi]] succeeds [[Zhou Enlai]] as Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs.
* [[February 14]] – The [[Hashemites|Hashemite]] Kingdoms of [[Iraq]] and [[Jordan]] unite in the [[Arab Federation]], with King [[Faisal II of Iraq]] as head of state.
* [[February 23]]
** [[Cuba]]n rebels kidnap five-time world driving champion [[Juan Manuel Fangio]], releasing him 28 hours later.<ref>{{cite book|author=Cuban Information Service|title=Cuban Information Service, Issues 110–144|year=1963|pages= 1–8}}</ref>
** [[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]] in the United Kingdom, initiated at a meeting called by [[Canon John Collins]] on January 15.<ref name=Marr>{{cite book|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew Marr|last=Marr|title=A History of Modern Britain|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4050-0538-8}}</ref> The campaign [[peace symbol]] has been launched on 21 February by [[Gerald Holtom]]. Protests will focus on the [[Atomic Weapons Research Establishment]] at Aldermaston.
* [[February 28]] – [[Prestonsburg bus disaster]]: One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurs in Kentucky when a school bus hits a truck and falls into a river, resulting in 27 deaths, 26 of them schoolchildren. Twenty-two others are rescued.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Beneath the Big Sandy |journal=TIME Magazine |date=10 March 1958 |volume=71 |issue=10 |page=17 |issn=0040-781X}}</ref>

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1958}}
* [[March 1]] – Turkish passenger ship {{SS|Üsküdar||2}} capsizes and sinks in a sudden gale while crossing the [[Gulf of İzmit]], Turkey; many of the 272 who die are teenage students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.denizgazete.com/yazar/100248/28/-denizhaber-yazar-denizcilik-yazarlari |publisher=Deniz Gazete |title=S/S Üsküdar 1927-1958 |author=Bozoğlu, Ali |language=Turkish |accessdate=2012-08-22 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029121006/http://www.denizgazete.com/yazar/100248/28/-denizhaber-yazar-denizcilik-yazarlari |archivedate=2014-10-29 }}</ref>
* [[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|BB-64|6}} 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]] – [[1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident]]: 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323778 |title=Air Force accidentally dropped nuclear bomb on S. Carolina, 1958 |date=27 April 2012 |access-date=25 August 2014 |first=Johnthomas |last=Didymus }}</ref>
* [[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 in Hollywood; ''[[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]].

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1958}}
* [[April 1]] – The [[Treaty of Angra de Cintra]] is signed by [[Spain]] and [[Morocco]], ending the [[Spanish protectorate in Morocco]].<ref name=Schwinghammer>{{Cite book|last=Schwinghammer|first=Torsten|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpRXDwAAQBAJ&dq=ifni+war+casualties&pg=PT260|title=Warfare Since the Second World War|date=2018-04-24|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-28970-2|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – In Cuba, [[Fidel Castro|Castro]]'s revolutionary army begins its attacks on [[Havana]].
* [[April 13]] – The Soviet satellite [[Sputnik 2]] (launched November 3, 1957) disintegrates during reentry from orbit.<ref>{{cite book|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQo7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA35-PA63|year=1959|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=35}}</ref>
* [[April 14]] – [[Van Cliburn]] wins the [[International Tchaikovsky Competition]] for [[piano|pianists]] in Moscow, easing [[Cold War]] tensions.<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwZaAAAAYAAJ|year=1958|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=95}}</ref>
* [[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]] in [[ice hockey]], after [[1958 Stanley Cup Finals|defeating]] the U.S. [[Boston Bruins]] in 6 games.
* [[April 21]] – [[United Airlines Flight 736]] is involved in a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force [[North American F-100 Super. Sabre|F-100F]] jet fighter over what becomes [[Enterprise, Nevada]]; all 49 persons in both aircraft are killed.
* [[April 28]] – A bomber flown by a U.S. [[Central Intelligence Agency]] operative in support of Indonesian [[Permesta]] rebels bombs the harbor at [[Balikpapan]], [[Borneo]], [[Indonesia]], hitting an Indonesian naval corvette and two British [[oil tanker]]s. In June, the Indonesian and British governments both claim that Indonesian rebels are responsible for such attacks, concealing the C.I.A.'s involvement.

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1958}}
* [[May 1]]
** [[Arturo Frondizi]] becomes [[President of Argentina]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960: American republics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srpzvn1OqHUC&pg=PA18|year=1986|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=18}}</ref>
** U.S. space scientist [[James van Allen]] announces the discovery of Earth's [[magnetosphere]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John M. Logsdon|title=Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program|publisher=NASA|year=2004|page=158}}</ref>
** The [[Nordic Passport Union]] comes into force.
* [[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]]
** [[May 1958 crisis in France|Crisis in France]]: [[Pied-Noir|French Algerian]] protesters seize government offices in [[Algiers]], leading to a military coup.
** During a visit to [[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]], [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]]'s car is attacked by [[Anti-Americanism|anti-American]] demonstrators.
* [[May 15]] – The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Sputnik 3]].
* [[May 18]] – A U.S. [[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter]] sets a world speed record of {{Convert|1404.19|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}.
* [[May 20]] – The [[Cuba]]n government of [[Fulgencio Batista]] launches a counteroffensive against Castro's rebels.
* [[May 22]] – U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] becomes the first American elected official to appear on color television. 
* [[May 28]] – [[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid]] beats [[A.C. Milan]] 3–2 at [[Heysel Stadium]], [[Brussels]], and wins the [[1957–58 European Cup]] in Association 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 ===
{{Main|June 1958}}
* [[June 1]]
** [[Charles de Gaulle]] is brought out of retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to lead France by decree for 6 months.
** [[Iceland]] extends its fishing limits to 12 miles (22.2&nbsp;km).
* [[June 4]] – French Prime Minister [[Charles de Gaulle]] visits [[Algeria]].
* [[June 16]] – [[Imre Nagy]] and other leaders of the failed [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]] are hanged for treason, following secret trials.
* [[June 20]] – The iron [[barque]] ''Omega'' of [[Callao]], [[Peru]] (built in Liverpool, 1887), the world's last [[full-rigged ship]] trading under sail alone, sinks on passage carrying [[guano]] from the Pachacamac Islands for [[Huacho]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Drumcliff|url=http://www.sjohistoriskasamfundet.se/LB/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Drumcliff(1887).html|publisher=Sjöhistoriska Samfundet|year=1999|access-date=2011-02-15|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130113175003/http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Drumcliff(1887).html|archive-date=2013-01-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[June 29]] – [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] beats [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]] 5–2 in the [[1958 FIFA World Cup Final|final game]] to win the [[Association football|football]] [[1958 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] in [[Sweden]].
* [[June 30]] – The 1957–58 [[Ifni War]] ends in [[Spanish Sahara]].<ref name=Schwinghammer/>

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1958}}
* [[July 9]] – [[1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami]]: A 7.8 {{M|w}} strike-slip earthquake in [[Southeast Alaska]] causes a [[landslide]] that produces a [[megatsunami]]. The runup from the waves reaches {{convert|525|m|abbr=on}} on the rim of [[Lituya Bay]].
* [[July 12]] – [[Henri Cornelis]] becomes Governor-General of the [[Belgian Congo]], the last Belgian governor prior to independence.
* [[July 14]] – [[July 14 Revolution]] in Iraq: [[Faisal II of Iraq|King Faisal II]] and several family members are executed. [[Abd al-Karim Qasim]] assumes power.<ref>{{cite book|last=Al Hayah|first=Dar|title=Majzarat Al Rihab: A Journalistic Investigation on the Death of the Hashemite Royal Family on 14 July 1958 in Baghdad|publisher=Dar Al Hayah|year=1960|location=Beirut|pages=42|language=Arabic}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] – [[1958 Lebanon crisis]]: 5,000 [[United States Marines]] land in the Lebanese capital [[Beirut]] in support of the pro-Western government.<ref>{{cite book |author=Dwight D. Eisenhower |title=Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1958 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGoTTqSXe2oC&pg=PR25 |year=1960 |publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office]] |page=25}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] – Fourteen [[life peerage]]s, the first under the [[Life Peerages Act 1958]], are created in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Erika Rackley|author2=Rosemary Auchmuty|title=Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating the history of women and law in the UK and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mn17DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA253|date=27 December 2018|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-78225-979-4|pages=253}}</ref>
* [[July 26]]
** [[Explorer program]]: [[Explorer 4]] is launched in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Department of the Army. Office, Chief of Research and Development|title=USSR: Missiles, Rockets and Space Effort: A Bibliographic Record, 1956–1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igE7kL_mt3gC&pg=PA40|year=1960|publisher=Department of The Army|pages=40}}</ref>
** Queen [[Elizabeth II]] of the United Kingdom announces that she is giving her son [[Charles III|Prince Charles]] the customary title for the [[heir apparent]] of [[Prince of Wales]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John Clements|title=The United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Nations, a Directory of Governments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BSYkAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Political Research|page=17}}</ref> The announcement is made at the end of the [[1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games]], held in Cardiff.
* [[July 29]] – The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] formally creates the [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA).<ref>{{cite book|author=United States|title=United States Code Service, Lawyers Edition: All Federal Laws of a General and Permanent Nature Arranged in Accordance with the Section Numbering of the United States Code and the Supplements Thereto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KasoAQAAMAAJ|year=1936|publisher=Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company|page=443}}</ref>

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1958}}
* [[August 3]] – The nuclear-powered submarine {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571|6}} becomes the first vessel to cross the [[North Pole]] under water.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/nautilus-ssn-571-iv.html |title=Nautilus IV (SSN-571) |work=[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] |year=1970 |publisher=[[Naval History & Heritage Command]]}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] 
** Australian athlete [[Herb Elliott]] clips almost 3 seconds off the [[Mile run world record progression|world record]] for the [[mile run]] at [[Santry Stadium]], [[Dublin]], recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds.
** The [[Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy]], which outlawed the [[Communist Party of Chile]] and banned 26,650 persons from the electoral lists,<ref>Adam Feinstein, ''Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=cakCaq8pKCsC url]</ref> is repealed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bcn.cl/leychile|title=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional &#124; Ley Chile |website=www.bcn.cl}}</ref>
* [[August 7]]   – 1958 East Pakistan-India border skirmishes, a skirmish between [[East Pakistan]] and the [[Indian Army]] in Laxmipur.
* [[August 14]] – [[KLM Flight 607-E]], a [[Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation]], crashes into the Atlantic with 99 people aboard, all of whom are killed.<ref name=indo>[https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/city-remembers-memorial-for-99-plane-crash-victims-26468903.html City remembers memorial for 99 plane crash victims]{{snd}} [[Irish Independent]], 13 August 2008</ref>
* [[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.
* [[August 18]] – [[Brojen Das]] from [[East Pakistan]] swims across the [[English Channel]] in a competition, the first [[Bangali]] as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He is first among 39 competitors.
* [[August 21]]–[[October 15]] – [[Illinois]] observes the centennial of the [[Lincoln–Douglas debates]].
* [[August 23]] – The [[Second Taiwan Strait Crisis]] begins with the [[People's Republic of China]]'s [[People's Liberation Army]] shelling the island of [[Kinmen]] (Quemoy) which is controlled by the [[Republic of China]] (Taiwan)'s [[Kuomintang]] forces.
* [[August 26]] – A [[1958 Paraguayan general strike|general strike]] is called in [[Paraguay]].
* [[August 30]]–[[September 1]] – [[1958 Notting Hill race riots|Notting Hill race riots]]: Riots occur between blacks and whites in [[Notting Hill]], London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=2005100819205024|title="Notting Hill Riot Special", newsfilm online|access-date=2008-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001717/http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=2005100819205024|archive-date=June 18, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1958}}
* [[September 1]] – The [[first Cod War]] begins between the United Kingdom and [[Iceland]].
* [[September 2]]
** [[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]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Huang|first=Yu|title=Chinese Television in Mao's Era (1958–1976): A Historical Survey|journal=Chinese Television in Mao's Era|url=http://140.119.187.76/word/382310222014.pdf|access-date=February 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202012709/http://140.119.187.76/word/382310222014.pdf|archive-date=February 2, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>　
* [[September 4]] – [[Jorge Alessandri]] is the winner of [[1958 Chilean presidential election|Chile's presidential election]].
* [[September 12]] – [[Jack Kilby]] invents the first [[integrated circuit]], while working at [[Texas Instruments]].
* [[September 14]] – Two [[Mohr Rocket|rockets]] designed by German engineer [[Ernst Mohr]] (the first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere.
* [[September 18]] – [[BankAmericard]], the first [[credit card]] to be widely offered, is launched in [[Fresno, California]] in what becomes known as the "Fresno Drop".<ref>{{cite book|last=Stearns|first=David L.|title=Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the Visa Electronic Payment System|date=2011|publisher=Springer|location=London|isbn=978-1-84996-138-7|page=1}}</ref>
* [[September 27]]
** [[Typhoon Ida (1958)|Typhoon Ida]] kills at least 1,269 people in [[Honshū]], Japan.
** [[Hurricane Helene (1958)|Hurricane Helene]], the worst storm of the North Atlantic hurricane season, reaches category 4 status.
* [[September 28]]
** In the [[1958 French constitutional referendum]], a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the [[French Fifth Republic|Fifth Republic]].
** [[Killing of Fernando Rios|Fernando Rios]], a Mexican tour guide in [[New Orleans]], dies from injuries suffered in an incident of [[gay bashing]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Satchu |first=Alya |date=March 6, 2024 |title=Author discusses 1950s killing of gay man by Tulane students |url=https://tulanehullabaloo.com/65506/news/author-discusses-1950s-killing-of-gay-man-by-tulane-students/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724000422/https://tulanehullabaloo.com/65506/news/author-discusses-1950s-killing-of-gay-man-by-tulane-students/ |archive-date=July 24, 2024 |access-date=January 2, 2025 |website=[[Tulane Hullabaloo]]}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] – The [[U.S.S.R.]] performs a [[nuclear test]] at [[Novaya Zemlya]].

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1958}}
* October – [[GoldStar]], predecessor of [[LG Electronics]], is founded in South Korea.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Meenakshi|first1=Arun Kumar|author2=N.|title=Marketing Management|edition=2nd|year=2011|publisher=Vikas Publishing House|isbn=978-81-259-4259-7|page=909|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mDlDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA909|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 1]]
** [[Tunisia]] and [[Morocco]] join the [[Arab League]].
** The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty of [[Christmas Island]] from Singapore to Australia.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
** [[NASA]] starts operations and replaces the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]] in the United States.
* [[October 2]] – [[Guinea]] declares itself independent from France, rejecting that nation's new constitution.
* [[October 4]]
** The new [[Constitution of France]] is signed into law, establishing the [[French Fifth Republic]].
** The [[British Overseas Airways Corporation]] (BOAC) uses one of its new [[de Havilland Comet]] 4s, ''G-APDB'', to make the first commercial [[transatlantic flight]] by a [[jet airliner]], from [[Heathrow Airport|London]] to [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|New York International Airport, Anderson Field]] via [[Gander International Airport|Gander]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Atlantic Jet Era Begins; British Span Ocean Twice – Six-Hour Record Is Set|first=Robert|last=Alden|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1958-10-05|page=1}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] – ''[[Pioneer 1]]'', the second and most successful of the 3 project [[Pioneer program|Able space probes]], becomes the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed [[NASA]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1958-007A|title = NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] – ''[[An Evening with Fred Astaire]]'', the first television show recorded on color videotape, is broadcast on [[NBC]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|last=Slide|first=Anthony|title=Nitrate won't wait: a history of film preservation in the United States|publisher=McFarland & Co|location=Jefferson, N.C|year=1992|isbn=9780899506944| page=117}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – ''[[Tennis for Two]]'', a game invented by [[William Higinbotham]] and considered to be the first pure entertainment computer game,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/tennis-anyone/ |title=Tennis Anyone? |work=They Create Worlds |last=Smith |first=Alexander |date=2014-01-28 |access-date=2016-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225121214/https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/tennis-anyone/ |archive-date=2015-12-25 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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.

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1958}}
* [[November 3]]
** The new [[UNESCO]] building, [[World Heritage Centre]], is inaugurated in Paris.
** [[Jorge Alessandri]]  is sworn in as [[President of Chile]].
* [[November 10]] – [[Harry Winston]] donates the [[Hope Diamond]] to the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in Washington, D.C.
* [[November 18]] – En route to [[Rogers City, Michigan]], United States, 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 20]] – [[The Jim Henson Company]] is founded as [[The Muppets|Muppets, Inc.]] in the United States.
* [[November 22]] – [[1958 Australian federal election]]: [[Robert Menzies]]' [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Menzies Government (1949-66)|Government]] is re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[H.V. Evatt]]. This is the first election where television is used as a medium for communicating with voters. Evatt will eventually resign as Labor leader and will be [[1960 Australian Labor Party leadership election|replaced]] by his deputy [[Arthur Calwell]].
* [[November 25]] – [[French Sudan]] gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the [[French Community|French colonial empire]].
* [[November 28]] – [[Chad]], the [[Republic of the Congo]] and [[Gabon]] become autonomous republics within the French colonial empire.
* [[November 30]] – [[Gaullism|Gaullists]] win the [[1958 French legislative election|French parliamentary election]].

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1958}}
* [[December 1]]
** [[Our Lady of the Angels School fire]]: 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire in Chicago.
** [[Adolfo López Mateos]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]].
* [[December 14]] – The [[3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition]] becomes the first ever to reach the Southern [[Pole of Inaccessibility]].
* [[December 15]] – [[Arthur Leonard Schawlow|Arthur L. Schawlow]] and [[Charles Hard Townes|Charles H. Townes]] of [[Bell Laboratories]] publish a paper in ''[[Physical Review|Physical Review Letters]]'' setting out the principles of the [[optical laser]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Research Frontier|journal=Air University Quarterly Review|publisher=U.S. Air University|issue=October|year=1961|page=113}}</ref>
* [[December 16]]
** A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in [[Bogotá, Colombia]] and kills 84 persons.
** [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] polar pilot V. M. Perov on [[Li-2]] rescues four Belgian polar explorers, led by [[Gaston de Gerlache]], who have survived a plane crash in [[Antarctica]] 250&nbsp;km from their base five days earlier.<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015019278947;view=1up;seq=456 Rescue of Belgian Plane Crew in Antarctic], Soviet Bloc International Geophysical Year Information, January 16, 1959, U. S. Department of Commerce, pp. 18–19</ref>
* [[December 18]]
** The United States launches [[SCORE (satellite)|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)|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, killing nine people. Three crew members survive.<ref>{{ASN accident|id=19581224-1}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – [[Battle of Santa Clara]]: Rebel troops under [[Camilo Cienfuegos]] and [[Che Guevara]] begin to invade [[Santa Clara, Cuba]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Calder | first = Simon | title = Cuba | publisher = Vacation Work | location = Oxford | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781854582218 | page=263}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] – The [[Guatemalan Air Force]] fires on Mexican fishing boats which had strayed into [[Guatemala]]n territory, triggering the [[Mexico–Guatemala conflict]].
* [[December 31]] – After the fall of Santa Clara, Cuban President [[Fulgencio Batista]] flees the country.

=== Undated ===
* For the first time, the total of transatlantic passengers carried by air this year exceeds the total carried by sea.
* [[Denatonium]], the [[Bitter (taste)|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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Holvoet|first1=Jean-Patrick|title=Denatonium|url=http://www.sentinalco.com/page/denatonium/f1.html|publisher=Sentinalco|access-date=2 October 2015}}</ref>

== Births ==
{{BDToC|births}}

=== January ===
[[File:Boris Tadić (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Boris Tadić]]]]
[[File:Ellen DeGeneres 2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ellen DeGeneres]]]]
* [[January 1]] 
** [[Grandmaster Flash]], Barbadian-American hip-hop/rap DJ
**[[Renn Woods]], American actress, vocalist and songwriter
**
**
* [[January 4]] – [[Matt Frewer]], Canadian-American actor (''Max Headroom'')
* [[January 6]] – [[Shlomo Glickstein]], Israeli tennis player<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.atptour.com/en/players/shlomo-glickstein/g019/overview|title=Shlomo Glickstein &#124; Overview &#124; ATP Tour &#124; Tennis|website=ATP Tour}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[Yasmin Ahmad]], Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bergan|first1=Ronald|title=Obituary : Yasmin Ahmad|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/aug/12/obituary-yasmin-ahmad|website=The Guardian|access-date=7 March 2017|date=12 August 2009}}</ref>
* [[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<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.libe.ma/Samira-Said-Oui-j-ai-decide-de-m-installer-definitivement-au-Maroc_a46519.html|title=Samira Said: Oui, j'ai décidé de m'installer définitivement au Maroc|date=April 5, 2014|website=Libération|language=fr|access-date=May 18, 2021}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] – [[Christiane Amanpour]], British-born Iranian journalist and television host for CNN and PBS<ref>{{cite news |date=12 January 2020 |title=UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 |work=[[United Press International]] |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/12/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-12-2020/8721578623716/ |url-status=live |access-date=27 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113032052/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/12/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-12-2020/8721578623716/ |archive-date=13 January 2020 |quote=… journalist Christiane Amanpour in 1958 (age 62)}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – [[Boris Tadić]], Serbian president<ref>{{cite book|author=B. Turner|title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2008: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZPlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1087|date=12 January 2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-74024-6|pages=1087}}</ref>
* [[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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/hussein-saeed_prs201399/person.shtml|title=Hussein Saeed Mohammed – Player profile|work=Eurosport|access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – [[Jools Holland]], British musician<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.joolsholland.com/biography.htm | title=Jools Holland &#124; Official Web Site &#124; About Jools &#124; Biography }}</ref>
* [[January 26]]
** [[Anita Baker]], American soul and R&B singer
** [[Ellen DeGeneres]], American actress, comedian and television host<ref>{{cite news|title=Try not to get jealous reading about Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded 60th birthday party|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/02/13/try-not-get-jealous-reading-ellen-degeneres-star-studded-60th-birthday-party/332755002/|publisher=USA Today|date=February 13, 2018|access-date=May 13, 2021|quote=DeGeneres, who marked the milestone birthday on Jan. 26}}</ref>

=== February ===
[[File:Ice T SVU March 2011 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ice-T]]]]
[[File:Andriy Bal1.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[Andriy Bal]]]]
[[File:Kais Saied 2023.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kais Saied]]]]
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* [[February 8]]  
** [[Marina Silva]], Brazilian politician
** [[Sherri Martel]], American professional wrestler and manager (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Cyrille Regis]], English footballer (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 10]] 
** [[Michael Weiss (pianist)|Michael Weiss]], Jazz pianist and composer
** [[Ricardo Gareca]], Argentine footballer and manager
* [[February 13]] – [[Pernilla August]], Swedish actress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=177569|title=Pernilla August|work=sfi.se|date=February 13, 1958 |access-date=2 January 2017}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] – [[Shaun Toub]], Iranian born-American actor<ref>{{cite tweet|number=832037816246824960|user=ShaunToub|title=This is how I spent my Valentine's/ birthday, courtesy of my lovely wife. #Caviar #Champagne #Lobster #Pasta #cake|date=16 February 2017}}</ref>
* [[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]]
** [[Jack Coleman (actor)|Jack Coleman]], American actor and screenwriter<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA140|date=30 September 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-264-1|pages=140}}</ref>
** [[Mary Chapin Carpenter]], American singer<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael McCall, Dave Hockstra and Janet Williams|title=Country Music Stars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGjyvjVg5DIC|year=1992|isbn=978-1-56173-697-3|page=170}}</ref>
* [[February 22]]
** [[Kais Saied]], [[President of Tunisia]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.skynewsarabia.com/middle-east/1290464-قيس-سعيد-هو-ولماذا-اختارته-تونس؟|title=قيس سعيد من هو.. ولماذا اختارته تونس؟|website=سكاي نيوز عربية|language=ar|access-date=16 October 2019}}</ref>
* [[February 26]]
** [[Susan Helms]], American astronaut<ref>{{cite book|title=Astronaut Fact Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpRTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA12|year=1992|publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration|pages=12}}</ref>
** [[Tim Kaine]], US Senator
* [[February 27]] – [[Maggie Hassan]], US Senator
* [[February 28]] – [[Natalya Estemirova]], Russian activist (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/21/obituary-natalia-estemirova|title=Natalia Estemirova|date=21 July 2009|author=Tanya Lokshina|website=The Guardian|access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref>

=== March ===
[[File:Stronger PC 02 (37216444535).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Miranda Richardson]]]]
[[File:Sharon Stone by Gage Skidmore 5.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sharon Stone]]]]
[[File:Prince Albert II of Monaco at the Enthronement of Naruhito (1).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Albert II, Prince of Monaco]]]]
[[File:Holly Hunter by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Holly Hunter]]]]
[[File:Gary Oldman in 2017 (36334517524).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gary Oldman]]]]
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* [[March 3]] – [[Miranda Richardson]], English actress<ref>{{Cite web |title=Miranda Richardson {{!}} {{!}} guardian.co.uk Film |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/Player/Player_Page/0,,45422,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815070630/https://www.theguardian.com/film/Player/Player_Page/0,,45422,00.html |archive-date=Aug 15, 2023 |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
* [[March 4]]
** [[Patricia Heaton]], American actress<ref>{{Cite magazine | title = Monitor | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = March 9, 2012 | issue = 1197 | page = 26}}</ref>
** [[Tina Smith]], US Senator
* [[March 5]] – [[Andy Gibb]], English singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol (d. [[1988]])
* [[March 7]]
** [[Rik Mayall]], English comedian and actor (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Coveney|first1=Michael|title=Rik Mayall obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/09/rik-mayall|access-date=10 June 2014|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=10 June 2014}}</ref>
** [[Gregory Markkanen]], American politician and member of the [[Michigan House of Representatives]] since 2019
* [[March 8]] – [[Gary Numan]], British singer
* [[March 10]]
** [[Sheikh Mohammad Illias]], Bengali politician<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who of Members|page=345|publisher=West Bengal Legislative Assembly Secretariat|year=2006}}</ref>
** [[Sharon Stone]], American actress and producer
** [[Frankie Ruiz]], Puerto Rican singer (d. [[1998]])
* [[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]]
** [[Bart Conner]], American gymnast<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/bart-conner|title=Bart Conner|website=IOC|access-date=15 December 2020}}</ref>
** [[Curt Hennig]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2003]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Maurice LaMarche]], Canadian voice actor and comedian
* [[March 31]] – [[Dietmar Bartsch]], German politician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/abgeordnete/bio/B/bartsdi0.html|title=Biography by German Bundestag|website=Bundestag|language=de|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-date=September 23, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923125536/http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/abgeordnete/bio/B/bartsdi0.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== April ===
[[File:Alec Baldwin by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alec Baldwin]]]]
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[[File:Andie MacDowell Cannes 2017.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andie MacDowell]]]]
[[File:President Luis Guillermo Solis.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Luis Guillermo Solís]]]]
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[[File:Michelle Pfeiffer 2007.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michelle Pfeiffer]]]]
* [[April 3]] – [[Alec Baldwin]], American actor 
* [[April 4]] 
** [[Cazuza]], Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. [[1990]])
** [[Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha]], Thai billionaire businessman (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/29/vichai-srivaddhanaprabha-obiutary|title=Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha obituary|date=29 October 2018|author=Peter Mason|website=The Guardian|access-date=12 March 2023}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[Pascal Lecamp]], French politician<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=nationale |first=Assemblée |title=Mme Delphine Lingemann - Puy-de-Dôme (4e circonscription) |url=https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/deputes/PA794702 |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Assemblée nationale |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] – [[Ginka Zagorcheva]], Bulgarian athlete
* [[April 14]] – [[Peter Capaldi]], Scottish actor
* [[April 15]] – [[Benjamin Zephaniah]], British writer and musician<ref>{{cite book|author=David Scott Kastan|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|page=371}}</ref> (d. [[2023]])
* [[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]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/09/susan-tsvangirai-zimbabwe-obituary|title=Susan Tsvangirai|date=March 9, 2009|author=David Beresford|website=The Guardian|access-date=May 18, 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] – [[Luis Guillermo Solís]], [[President of Costa Rica]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Nick Heath-Brown|title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2016: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDkUDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA362|date=7 February 2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-57823-8|pages=362}}</ref>
** [[Mike DeVault]], American politician<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mike DeVault (R - Marion, 074) |url=https://www.wvlegislature.gov/House/lawmaker.cfm?member=Delegate%20DeVault |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=West Virginia Legislature}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] – [[Giancarlo Esposito]], Italian-American actor
* [[April 29]] – [[Michelle Pfeiffer]], American actress<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gf8ZAAAAYAAJ|year=1991|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=503}}</ref>

=== May ===
<!--[[File:Ellen Ochoa.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ellen Ochoa]]]]-->
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[[File:Marie_Fredriksson-Roxette_at_Bospop_festival_The_Netherlands_2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Marie Fredriksson]]]]
* [[May 3]] – [[Sandi Toksvig]], Danish-British writer, comedian and broadcaster
* [[May 4]] – [[Keith Haring]], American artist (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gruen|first=John|title=Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=978-0-671-78150-7|page=x}}</ref>
* [[May 10]]
** [[Rick Santorum]], American politician<ref>{{cite book|author1=Duane Nystrom|author2=Leslie Mason|title=1993–1994 Official Congressional Directory: 103D Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqmY4Fhf8-AC&pg=PA261|date=June 1993|publisher=Bernan Assoc|isbn=978-0-16-041175-5|pages=261}}</ref>
** [[Ellen Ochoa]], American astronaut, first Hispanic woman to go into space 
*[[May 11]] – [[Saki Kubota|Sayuri Kume]], Japanese singer-songwriter<ref>[https://news.1242.com/article/143927 "5月11日は「異邦人」久保田早紀の誕生日"]. News Online. [[Nippon Broadcasting System]]. 5 May 2018.</ref>
* [[May 12]] – [[Dries van Noten]], Belgian designer<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopedia Britannica|title=Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kbmPiWGOi98C|year=2003|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated|isbn=978-1-59339-073-0|page=97}}</ref>
* [[May 19]] – [[Jenny Durkan]], American attorney, federal prosecutor and politician
* [[May 20]] – [[Jane Wiedlin]], American musician and actress<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-19 |title=Jane Wiedlin {{!}} Boomer Style Magazine |url=http://www.livinglifeboomerstyle.com/2012/04/30/jane-wiedlin/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140619013601/http://www.livinglifeboomerstyle.com/2012/04/30/jane-wiedlin/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-06-19 |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=archive.ph}}</ref>
* [[May 23]]  
** [[Drew Carey]], American comedian and actor<ref>{{cite news|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/drew-carey/|title=Drew Carey|last=Ferrell|first=David|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=February 11, 2010|access-date=October 17, 2018}}</ref>
** [[Lea DeLaria]], American comedian, actress and jazz singer
* [[May 25]] – [[Paul Weller]], English singer-songwriter
* [[May 26]] – [[Margaret Colin]], American actress<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Playbill]]|url=http://www.playbill.com/person/margaret-colin-vault-0000063449|title=Margaret Colin|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190130064226/http://www.playbill.com/person/margaret-colin-vault-0000063449|archive-date=January 30, 2019|access-date=January 30, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 27]] – [[Neil Finn]], New Zealand singer-songwriter
* [[May 29]]
** [[Annette Bening]], American actress
** [[Juliano Mer-Khamis]], Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/apr/11/juliano-mer-khamis-obituary|title=Juliano Mer-Khamis obituary|date=11 April 2011|author=Rachel Shabi|website=The Guardian|access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] – [[Marie Fredriksson]], Swedish rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/arts/music/marie-fredriksson-roxette-dead.html |title=Roxette Singer Marie Fredriksson Is Dead at 61 |author1=Edwards, Gavin |author2=Magra, Iliana |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 December 2019 |access-date=3 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215144948/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/arts/music/marie-fredriksson-roxette-dead.html |archive-date=15 December 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== June ===
[[File:Sambi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi]]]]
[[File:Prince at Coachella (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Prince (musician)|Prince]]]]
[[File:Rosa_Mota_na_Exponor.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Rosa Mota]]]]
* [[June 1]] – [[Nambaryn Enkhbayar]], Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd [[President of Mongolia]] 
* [[June 2]] – [[Lex Luger]], American professional wrestler<ref name="LugerWCW">{{cite web|url=http://www.wcw.com/2000/superstars/total.package/|title=The Total Package|publisher=[[World Championship Wrestling]]|work=[[World Championship Wrestling|WCW]].com (via [[Wayback Machine]])|access-date=July 22, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001110060100/http://www.wcw.com/2000/superstars/total.package/|archive-date=November 10, 2000 }}</ref>
* [[June 3]] – [[Margot Käßmann]], Lutheran theologian, German bishop
* [[June 5]] – [[Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi]], Comoroan businessman and politician, [[President of Comoros]] 2006–2011<ref>{{cite book|title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2012: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|year=2017|isbn=9781349590513|page=349}}</ref>
* [[June 7]] – [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], African-American musician (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=August|last2=Rottenberg|first2=Josh|date=April 21, 2016|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-prince-20160421-story.html|title=Prince, master of rock, soul, pop and funk, dies at 57|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=March 15, 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] – [[Elain Harwood]], English architectural historian (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/08/elain-harwood-obituary|first=Andrew|last=Saint|title=Elain Harwood obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|date=8 May 2023|access-date=9 May 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 14]]
** [[Eric Heiden]], American speed skater with five Olympic gold medals
** [[Olaf Scholz]], 9th [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)|Chancellor of Germany]]
* [[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 (ice hockey, born 1958)|Sergei Makarov]], Russian ice-hockey player and coach<ref>{{Ice hockey stats|legendsm=P201602}}</ref> 
* [[June 22]]
** [[Rocío Banquells]], Mexican pop singer and actress<ref>{{cite web|website=All Music.com|title=Rocio Banquells|author=Evan C. Gutierrez|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/roc%C3%ADo-banquells-mn0000287921/biography|access-date=August 24, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Bruce Campbell]], American actor, producer, writer and director<ref>{{cite book | last = Weisbrot | first = Robert | title = Xena, Warrior Princess : the official guide to the Xenaverse | publisher = Doubleday | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780385491365 |page=141}}</ref>
* [[June 24]] – [[Tommy Lister Jr.]], American actor and professional wrestler (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/cmplxjoshua-espinoza/tommy-tiny-lister-dead-at-62|title='Friday' Actor Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Dead at 62|website=[[Complex Networks]] |access-date=December 11, 2020|archive-date=December 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211022302/https://amp.www.complex.com/pop-culture/2020/12/tommy-tiny-lister-dead-at-62|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[June 25]] – [[Serik Akhmetov]], 8th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
* [[June 27]] – [[Magnus Lindberg]], Finnish composer<ref>{{BLF|9660|Magnus Lindberg}}</ref>
* [[June 29]] – [[Rosa Mota]], Portuguese long-distance runner<ref>{{cite book|author1=David E. Martin|author2=Roger W. H. Gynn|title=The Olympic Marathon|publisher=Human Kinetics|year=2000|isbn=9780880119696|page=366}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] 
** [[Ziggy Rozalski]], Polish American boxing manager and promoter<ref>{{cite web |title=Zbigniew Rozalski |url=https://www.officialusa.com/names/Zbigniew-Rozalski/ |website=officialusa.com |access-date=18 July 2023 |archive-date=July 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718192959/https://www.officialusa.com/names/Zbigniew-Rozalski/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]], Finnish conductor and composer<ref>{{cite book|author1=Roderick L. Sharpe|author2=Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman|title=Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2008|isbn=9781461669487|page=212}}</ref>
** [[Irina Vorobieva]], Russian pair skater 
** [[Vasil Yakusha]], Belarusian rower

=== July ===
[[File:Kevin Bacon SDCC 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kevin Bacon]]]]
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[[File:Wong Kar-wai Berlin cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wong Kar-wai]]]]
[[File:Kate Bush at 1986 Comic Relief (cropped).png|thumb|100px|[[Kate Bush]]]]
* [[July 1]] – [[Tom Magee]], Canadian world champion powerlifter and strongman competitor
* [[July 2]] – [[Pavan Malhotra]], Indian actor<ref>{{cite news |title=Happy Birthday Pavan Malhotra: 5 Best Movies of the Versatile Actor |url=https://www.news18.com/news/lifestyle/happy-birthday-pavan-malhotra-5-best-movies-of-the-versatile-actor-3916154.html |website=[[Network18 Group#Digital and publishing divisions|News18]] |accessdate=15 August 2022 |date=4 July 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815131853/https://www.news18.com/news/lifestyle/happy-birthday-pavan-malhotra-5-best-movies-of-the-versatile-actor-3916154.html |archivedate=15 August 2022 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 5]] 
** [[Avigdor Lieberman]], Soviet-born Israeli politician
** [[Bill Watterson]], American cartoonist ([[Calvin and Hobbes]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Martell |first=Nevin| date=2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q6wHaqIDzDEC |title=Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip |page=15 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-2984-1}}</ref> 
* [[July 6]] – [[Jennifer Saunders]], British comedian and actress<ref>Editors at The Times. ''[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article2032228.ece Birthdays]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}'' The Times. Retrieved 5 October 2007.</ref>
* [[July 7]] – [[Michala Petri]], Danish recorder player<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Scandinavia|publisher=Who's Who, the international red series Verlag|year=1981|page=811}}</ref>
* [[July 8]]
** [[Kevin Bacon]], American actor
** [[Neetu Singh]], Indian actress
** [[Jackson Anthony]], Sri Lankan actor (d. [[2023]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Fiona Shaw]], Irish actress<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2024: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|publisher=Bernan Press|year=2023|isbn=9781636714080|page=362}}</ref>
* [[July 11]] – [[Hugo Sánchez]], Mexican football player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Hugo Sánchez |url=https://ca.soccerway.com/players/hugo-sanchez-guerrero/14506/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[July 14]]  
** [[Jujie Luan]], Chinese-Canadian fencer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LUANJUJ01 |title=Olympics Statistics: Jujie Luan |accessdate=2011-04-28 |work=databaseolympics.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019021941/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LUANJUJ01 |archivedate=19 October 2012 }}</ref>
** [[Scott Rudin]], American producer
* [[July 15]] – [[Jörg Kachelmann]], Swiss presenter, journalist and entrepreneur in the meteorological field<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/joerg-kachelmann-das-leben-des-wettermanns-1.946671|title=Das Leben des Wettermanns|first=Süddeutsche|last=Zeitung|website=Süddeutsche.de|date=May 22, 2010 }}</ref>
* [[July 16]] – [[Michael Flatley]], Irish-born dancer<ref>{{cite book |author=Constance Valis Hills |title=Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-022538-4 |page=205}}</ref>
* [[July 17]] – [[Wong Kar-wai]], Hong Kong second wave filmmaker<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bettinson|first1=Gary|title=The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance|date=2014|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|location=Hong Kong|isbn=978-9888139293|page=2}}</ref>
* [[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]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McCaffery |first1=Margaret |last2=Murray |first2=Terry |title=Terry Fox: Heroes Aren't Saints |journal=Canadian Family Physician |volume=27 |date=August 1981 |pages=1184–1186 |pmc=2306103 |pmid=21289776}}</ref>
* [[July 30]] – [[Kate Bush]], English singer-songwriter
* [[July 31]] – [[Mark Cuban]], American entrepreneur and basketball team owner<ref>{{cite news|last1=Altman|first1=Alex|last2=Pickert|first2=Kate|last3=Stephey|first3=M. J.|title=Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban |url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1859909,00.html|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=November 18, 2008|access-date=May 12, 2010}}</ref>

=== August ===
[[File:Angela Bassett by Gage Skidmoe.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Angela Bassett]]]]
[[File:Anne_LHuiller_01.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Anne L'Huillier]]]]
[[File:Madonna Rebel Heart Tour 2015 - Stockholm (23051472299) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Madonna]]]]
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[[File:Michael Jackson, 1988 (46845017052).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Jackson]]]]
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* [[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]], Palestinian politician<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rami-hamdallah|title=Rami Hamdallah|website=Jewish Virtual Library|access-date=March 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 16]]
** [[Angela Bassett]], African-American actress
** [[Anne L'Huillier]], French-born atomic physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/lhuillier/facts/ |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
** [[Madonna]], American-born singer-songwriter and actress
* [[August 17]] – [[Belinda Carlisle]], American singer
* [[August 18]]
** [[Reg E. Cathey]], African-American actor (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/reg-cathey-dead-dies-the-wire-house-of-card-1202694366/|title=Reg Cathey, 'House of Cards' and 'The Wire' Actor, Dies at 59|last=Brockington|first=Ariana|date=February 9, 2018|work=Variety|access-date=February 9, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>
** [[Madeleine Stowe]], American actress
* [[August 19]] – [[Brendan Nelson]], Australian politician<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=RW5|title=Hon Dr Brendan Nelson AO|website=Parliament of Australia|access-date=July 8, 2024}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] – [[Colm Feore]], American-born Canadian actor<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/colm-joseph-feore|title=Colm Feore|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=August 22, 2019}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] – [[Steve Guttenberg]], American actor
* [[August 25]] – [[Tim Burton]], American film director<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/p/tim-burton|title=Tim Burton|website=Festival de Cannes|access-date=July 8, 2024}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] – [[Kathy Hochul]], American politician, Governor of New York<ref>{{cite web | url=https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/15616 | title=Hochul, Kathleen C. }}</ref>
* [[August 29]]
** [[Michael Jackson]], African-American singer-songwriter and dancer (d. [[2009]])
** Sir [[Lenny Henry]], English comedian and actor

=== September ===
[[File:Janez Janša at Helsinki 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Janez Janša]]]]
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* [[September 2]] – [[Zdravko Krivokapić]], Montenegrin politician, Prime Minister of Montenegro<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nedeljnik.rs|date=1 August 2020|title=Ko je Zdravko Krivokapić, čovek koji će "izaći na crtu" Đukanovićevom DPS-u|url=https://www.nedeljnik.rs/ko-je-zdravko-krivokapic-covek-koji-ce-izaci-na-crtu-dukanovicevom-dps-u/|access-date=1 August 2020|website=Nedeljnik|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[September 6]] – [[Jeff Foxworthy]], American comedian, actor and author<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA445|date=24 September 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=445}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] – [[Chris Columbus (filmmaker)|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]])<ref>{{Cite news |last=Denselow |first=Robin |date=2018-09-13 |title=Rachid Taha obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/13/rachid-taha-obituary |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] – [[Lita Ford]], British musician<ref>"Lita Ford." ''Contemporary Musicians''. Vol. 9. Detroit: Gale, 1993. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 24 August 2011.</ref>
* [[September 22]]
** [[Andrea Bocelli]], Italian tenor
** [[Joan Jett]], American rock musician
* [[September 24]] – [[Kevin Sorbo]], American actor
* [[September 27]] – [[Irvine Welsh]], Scottish writer

=== October ===
[[File:Neil deGrasse Tyson in June 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Neil deGrasse Tyson]]]]
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[[File:Ned Luke by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ned Luke]]]]
[[File:Viggo Mortensen Cannes 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Viggo Mortensen]]]]
[[File:Scotthall2010.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Scott Hall]]]]
* [[October 3]] – [[Chen Yanyin]], Chinese sculptor
* [[October 4]] – [[Ned Luke]], American actor
* [[October 5]] – [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]], American astrophysicist and science communicator
* [[October 7]] – [[Bernardo Arévalo]], president of Guatemala<ref>[https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/bernardo-arevalo-guatemala-s-next-president-defies-odds-to-face-greater-ones/2974317 Bernardo Arevalo: Guatemala’s next president defies odds to face greater ones]</ref>
* [[October 8]] – [[Ursula von der Leyen]], German politician, [[President of the European Commission]]<ref>{{cite book | title = Chase's calendar of events 2021: the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | location = Lanham, Maryland | year = 2020 | isbn = 9781641434249 | page=503}}</ref>
* [[October 10]] – [[Tanya Tucker]], American singer
* [[October 13]]
** [[Jamal Khashoggi]], Saudi journalist (d. 2018)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/19/jamal-khashoggi-obituary|title=Jamal Khashoggi obituary|last=Black|first=Ian|date=19 October 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=13 October 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013013517/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/19/jamal-khashoggi-obituary|archive-date=13 October 2019|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
** [[Maria Cantwell]], US Senator
* [[October 14]] – [[Thomas Dolby]], English musician<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dohmann |first=Mark |date=2020-03-24 |title=Thomas Dolby – Blinded By Science |url=https://dohmannaudio.com/music-recommendations/thomas-dolby-blinded-by-science/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Dohmann Audio |language=en-AU}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] – [[Tim Robbins]], American actor and film director<ref>{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/108437/Tim-Robbins/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329151753/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/108437/Tim-Robbins/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 29, 2008 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Jason Ankeny |date=2008 |title=Tim Robbins |access-date=August 14, 2010}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Thomas Hearns]], American boxer
* [[October 20]]
**[[Viggo Mortensen]], Danish-American actor<ref>{{cite book|author=Laura Avery|title=Newsmakers 2003 Cumulation: The People Behind Today's Headlines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWdmAAAAMAAJ|date=August 2003|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-6391-9|page=314}}</ref>
**[[Scott Hall]], American professional wrestler (d. 2022)
* [[October 25]] – [[Kornelia Ender]], German swimmer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/kornelia-ender|title=Kornelia Ender|website=IOC|access-date=15 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[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

=== November ===
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[[File:Jamie Lee Curtis (41851191720) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jamie Lee Curtis]]]]
* [[November 5]] – [[Robert Patrick]], American actor
* [[November 7]] – [[Dmitry Kozak]], Russian politician and deputy Prime Minister of Russia
* [[November 12]] – [[Megan Mullally]], American actress, singer and media personality
* [[November 16]]
** [[Sooronbay Jeenbekov]], [[President of Kyrgyzstan]]
** [[Marg Helgenberger]], American actress
* [[November 17]] – [[Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio]], American actress and singer
* [[November 18]]
** [[Daniel Brailovsky]], Argentine-born Israeli footballer and manager<ref>[http://www.realidadamericanista.com/salon-de-la-fama/los-iconos-americanistas/164-daniel-brailovsky.html "Daniel Brailovsky"], realidadamericanista.com.</ref>
** [[Oscar Nunez]], American actor, comedian 
* [[November 22]]
** [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], American actress
** [[Ibrahim Ismail of Johor]], [[Sultan of Johor]]
* [[November 28]] – [[Tanya Harford]], South African tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tanya Harford |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/80138/name |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref>
* [[November 29]] – [[John Mahama]], President of Ghana

=== December ===
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* [[December 1]]
** [[Gary Peters]], US Senator
** [[Charlene Tilton]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/bebe-neuwirth/bio/141418/ |title=Bebe Neuwirth| work=[[TV Guide]] |access-date=July 15, 2015 |archive-date=July 16, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150716060123/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/bebe-neuwirth/bio/141418/ |url-status= dead}}</ref>
** [[Javier Aguirre]], Mexican football player and manager<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Lewis|title=World Cup Soccer: Korea/Japan, 2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2nq2vRvWkAIC|year=2002|publisher=Moyer Bell|isbn=978-1-55921-319-6|page=295}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] – [[Nick Park]], English filmmaker and animator
* [[December 7]] – [[Rick Rude]], American professional wrestler (d. [[1999]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Arlette Sombo-Dibélé]], Central African lawyer and politician<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bissidi |first1=Milka |last2=Ngoulou |first2=Fridolin |title=RCA: le top 10 des centrafricaines qui ont marqué 2022 |url=https://oubanguimedias.com/2023/01/24/rca-le-top-10-des-centrafricaines-qui-ont-marque-2022/ |website=oubanguimedias.com |date=January 24, 2023 |publisher=Oubangui Medias}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – [[Cornelia Funke]], German author<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/cornelia-funke/|title=Cornelia Funke|author=Luise Pusch|author-link=Luise F. Pusch|work=fembio.org|access-date=8 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213105208/http://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/cornelia-funke|archive-date=13 February 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* [[December 11]] – [[Nikki Sixx]], American rock musician
* [[December 12]] – [[Sheree J. Wilson]], American actress
* [[December 25]]
** [[Dimi Mint Abba]], Mauritanian musician and singer (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/09/dimi-mint-abba-obituary|title=Dimi Mint Abba obituary|date=9 June 2011|author=Robin Denselow|website=The Guardian|access-date=23 March 2023}}</ref>
** [[Alannah Myles]], Canadian singer-songwriter
* [[December 29]] – [[Lakhdar Belloumi]], Algerian football player
* [[December 31]] – [[Bebe Neuwirth]], American actress

=== Other ===

* [[Vincenzo de Cotiis]], artist and designer<ref name="Bony">{{Cite book |last1=Bony |first1=Anne |title=Vincenzo de Cotiis: Works |last2=Grima |first2=Joseph |last3=Delavan |first3=Tom |publisher=Rizzoli Electa |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-8478-6609-0 |location=New York |pages=267}}</ref>

== 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>

== Nobel Prizes ==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Pavel Cherenkov]], [[Ilya Frank]] and [[Igor Tamm]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Frederick Sanger]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[George Beadle]], [[Edward Tatum]] and [[Joshua Lederberg]]<ref>{{cite web |title=6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/5/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903184929/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/5/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 3, 2019 |website=National Geographic News |access-date=19 January 2021 |language=en |date=19 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]]: [[Boris Pasternak]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Georges Pire]]

== References ==
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