Year (''' MCMLVIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
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The following are references to year 1958 in fiction:
The first third of John Irving 's novel, '' A Widow For One Year ,'' takes place in 1958.
- January 1 - Grandmaster Flash , hip-hop/rap DJ
- January 2 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov , Russian pianist
- January 4 - Matt Frewer , American actor
- January 9 - Mehmet Ali Ağca , Turkish militant
- January 11 - Vicki Peterson , Guitarist for The Bangles
- January 15 - Boris Tadić , Serbian president
- January 20 - Lorenzo Lamas , American actor
- January 24 - Jools Holland , British musician
- January 26 - Ellen DeGeneres , American actress and comedian
- January 27 - Kadri Mälk , Estonian artist and jewelry designer
- January 29 - Judy Norton Taylor , American actress
- February 4 - Tomasz Pacyński , Polish writer (d. 2005 )
- February 8 - Sherri Martel , American professional wrestler (d. 2007 )
- February 11 - Michael Jackson , British broadcast executive
- February 11 - Regina Maršíková , Czechoslovakian tennis player
- February 13 - Pernilla August , Swedish actress
- February 13 - Tip Tipping , American actor and stuntman (d. 1993 )
- February 16 - Ice-T , American singer, songwriter, and actor
- February 21 - Jake Burns , Irish singer ( Stiff Little Fingers )
- February 21 - Mary Chapin Carpenter , American singer
- February 24 - Sammy Kershaw , American musician
- February 24 - Mark Moses , American actor
- February 26 - Susan Helms , American astronaut
- March 1 - Nik Kershaw , English singer
- March 3 - Miranda Richardson , English actress
- March 4 - Patricia Heaton , American actress
- March 4 - Lennie Lee , British artist
- March 5 - Andy Gibb , English-born singer (d. 1988 )
- March 8 - Gary Numan , British singer
- March 10 - Steve Howe , baseball player (d. 2006 )
- March 10 - Sharon Stone , American actress
- March 14 - Albert II, Prince Of Monaco
- March 18 - Kayo Hatta , American film director (d. 2005 )
- March 20 - Holly Hunter , American actress
- March 21 - Gary Oldman , English actor
- April 1 - D. Boon , American singer and guiatrist (d. 1985 )
- April 3 - Alec Baldwin , American actor
- April 4 - Cazuza , Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. 1990 )
- April 10 - Yefim Bronfman , Russian-born pianist
- April 10 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds , American musician and record producer
- April 12 - Will Sergeant , English guitarist ( Echo & The Bunnymen )
- April 15 - Keith Acton , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- April 15 - Benjamin Zephaniah , British writer and musician
- April 21 - Andie MacDowell , American actress
- April 22 - Ken Olandt , American actor
- April 24 - Jiri Meitner , Czech painter, builder of Imaginary Realism
- April 24 - Brian Paddick , British police commander
- April 25 - Fish , Scottish singer
- April 28 - Hal Sutton , American golfer
- April 29 - Michelle Pfeiffer , American actress
- May 3 - Kevin Kilner , American actor
- May 10 - Rick Santorum , Former senator from PA
- May 12 - Eric Singer , American drummer ( Kiss )
- May 15 - Ron Simmons , American professional wrestler
- May 21 - Tom Feeney , American Republican politician from the state of Florida
- May 23 - Mitch Albom , American author
- May 23 - Drew Carey , American comedian and actor
- May 27 - Neil Finn , New Zealand singer and songwriter
- May 29 - Annette Bening , American actress
- June 7 - Prince , American musician
- June 8 - Keenen Ivory Wayans , American comedian, actor, and director
- June 12 - Rebecca Holden , American actress, singer, and entertainer
- June 12 - Meredith Brooks , American singer
- June 17 - Jello Biafra , American musician and activist
- June 20 - Chuck Wagner , American actor
- June 24 - Curt Fraser , American ice hockey coach
- June 27 - Magnus Lindberg , Finnish composer
- June 27 - Jim Cartwright , English actor and playwriter
- June 29 - Jeff Coopwood , American actor, broadcaster and singer
- June 30 - Esa-Pekka Salonen , Finnish conductor and composer
- July 2 - Thomas Bickerton , American Methodist bishop
- July 5 - William Watterson , American cartoonist
- July 6 - Jennifer Saunders , British comedian
- July 7 - Michala Petri , Danish recorder player
- July 8 - Kevin Bacon , American actor
- July 15 - Mac Thornberry , American politician
- July 15 - Austin Hayes , Irish footballer (d. 1986 )
- July 16 - Michael Flatley , Irish-born dancer
- July 17 - Frank P. Stapleton, III , Retired Master Sergeant, USMC
- July 28 - Terry Fox , Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. 1981 )
- July 30 - Kate Bush , British singer and songwriter
- July 31 - Mark Cuban , American entrepreneur and basketball team owner
- July 31 - Bill Berry , American drummer ( R.E.M. )
- August 1 - Adrian Dunbar , Irish actor
- August 7 - Bruce Dickinson , English musician
- August 7 - Russell Baze , all-time winningest jockey
- August 15 - Victor Shenderovich , Russian writer
- August 15 - Rondell Sheridan , American actor and comedian
- August 16 - Madonna , American-born singer, songwriter, and actress
- August 16 - Angela Bassett , American actress
- August 17 - Belinda Carlisle , American singer ( The Go-Go's )
- August 19 - Anthony Muñoz , American football player
- August 22 - Colm Feore , American-born actor
- August 24 - Steve Guttenberg , American actor
- August 29 - Michael Jackson , American singer
- September 6 - Jeff Foxworthy , American comedian, actor, author
- September 6 - Michael Winslow , American comedian, actor, voice actor
- September 8 - Mitsuru Miyamoto , Japanese voice actor
- September 14 - Jeff Crowe , New Zealand cricketer
- September 10 - Chris Columbus (filmmaker) , American film director/writer/producer
- September 16 - Orel Hershiser , baseball player
- September 19 - Azumah Nelson , Ghanaian boxer
- September 21 - Bruno Fitoussi , French poker player
- September 22 - Andrea Bocelli , Italian tenor
- September 23 - Danielle Dax , British musician
- September 23 - Marvin Lewis , American football coach
- September 23 - Scott Shaw , American author, actor, and filmmaker
- September 25 - Michael Madsen , American actor
- September 30 - Marty Stuart , American singer
- October 5 - Bernie Mac , American actor and comedian
- October 13 - Derri Daugherty , American musician ( The Choir and The Lost Dogs )
- October 14 - Thomas Dolby , English musician
- October 16 - Tim Robbins , American actor
- October 17 - Alan Jackson , American country singer and songwriter
- October 18 - Corinne Bohrer , American actress
- October 20 - Dave Finlay , Northern Irish professional wrestler
- October 20 - Viggo Mortensen , American actor
- October 27 - Simon Le Bon , English musician ( Duran Duran )
- November 1 - Mark Austin , English newsreader ( ITN )
- November 2 - Willie McGee , baseball player
- November 10 - Vicky Rosti , Finnish singer, former Eurovision contestant
- November 16 - Marg Helgenberger , American actress
- November 16 - Boris Krivokapić , Serbian academic
- November 18 - Laura Miller , Mayor of Dallas, Texas
- November 22 - Jamie Lee Curtis , American actress
- November 25 - Kim Ashfield , British model
- November 28 - Dave Righetti , baseball player
- November 30 - Juliette Bergmann , Dutch bodybuilder
- December 1 - Charlene Tilton , American actress
- December 1 - Jim Millea , British actor
- December 2 - George Saunders , American writer
- December 4 - Jeff Wilson , Canadian cartoonist
- December 6 - Nick Park , English filmmaker and animator
- December 9 - Rikk Agnew , American punk rock musician
- December 11 - Janko Ferk , Austrian lawyer and writer
- December 11 - Nikki Sixx , American musician ( Mötley Crüe )
- December 13 - Lynn-Holly Johnson , American ice skater and actress
- December 13 - Dana Strum , American bassist
- December 17 - Mike Mills , American bassist ( R.E.M. )
- December 25 - Alannah Myles , Canadian musician
- December 25 - Hanford Dixon , American football player
- December 25 - Rickey Henderson , baseball player
- December 31 - Bebe Neuwirth , American actress
- January 1 - Edward Weston , American photographer (b. 1886 )
- January 1 - Archibald Alphonso Alexander , American designer/govenor (b. 1888 )
- January 8 - Paul Pilgrim , American athlete (b. 1883 )
- January 11 - Edna Purviance , American actress (b. 1895 )
- January 30 - Jean Crotti , Swiss artist (b. 1878 )
- February 1 - Clinton Davisson , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888 )
- February 4 - Henry Kuttner , American author (b. 1915 )
- February 13 - Christabel Pankhurst , English suffragette (b. 1880 )
- March 21 - Cyril M. Kornbluth , American writer (b. 1923 )
- March 22 - Mike Todd , American film producer (b. 1909 )
- March 25 - Tom Brown , American musician (b. 1888 )
- March 26 - Phil Mead , English cricketer (b. 1887 )
- March 28 - W.C. Handy , American composer (b. 1873 )
- April 16 - Rosalind Franklin , British crystallographer (b. 1920 )
- April 19 - Billy Meredith , Welsh footballer (b. 1874 )
- May 3 - Frank Foster , English cricketer (b. 1889 )
- May 19 - Ronald Colman , English actor (b. 1891 )
- May 29 - Juan Ramón Jiménez , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881 )
- June 13 - Edwin Keppel Bennett , British writer (b. 1887 )
- June 20 - Kurt Alder , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902 )
- June 26 - George Orton , Canadian athlete (b. 1876 )
- June 28 - Alfred Noyes , English poet (b. 1880 )
- July 14 - King Faisal II Of Iraq (b. 1935 )
- August 14 - Frédéric Joliot , French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry (b. 1900 )
- August 22 - Roger Martin Du Gard , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881 )
- August 24 - Paul Henry , Northern Irish artist (b. 1876 )
- August 27 - Ernest Lawrence , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901 )
- September 11 - Robert W. Service , Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874 )
- October 9 - Pope Pius XII (b. 1876 )
- October 17 - Charlie Townsend , English cricketer (b. 1876 )
- October 17 - Paul Outerbridge American photographer (b. 1896 )
- October 24 - G. E. Moore , British philosopher, author of Principia Ethica (b. 1873 )
- November 15 - Tyrone Power , American actor (b. 1914 )
- November 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil Of Chelwood , English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864 )
- November 27 - Artur Rodziński , Polish conductor (b. 1892 )
- December 8 - Tris Speaker , baseball player (b. 1888 )
- December 15 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli , Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900 )
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