1958

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 - 1958 - 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963

Births

• February 11 - Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2.
• February 11 - [Regina Marsikova]?, Czechoslovakian tennis player.
• October 14 - [Thomas Dolby]?, English rock musician
• October 16 - [Tim Robbins]?, American actor

Deaths

Events

• February 11 - [[ Marshal [Chen Yi]? succeeds [Chou En-Lai]? as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.
• February 11 - [Ruth Carol Taylor]? is 1st African-American woman hired as a [flight attendant]?.
• Brazil wins Football World Cup in Sweden

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov]?, [Ilya Mikhailovich Frank]?, [Igor Yergenyevich Tamm]?
• Chemistry - [Frederick Sanger]?]]
• Medicine - [George Wells Beadle]?, [Edward Lawrie Tatum]?, [Joshua Lederberg]?
• Literature - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
• Peace - George Henri Pire