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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 == |
== Events == |
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=== January === |
=== January === |
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{{Main|January 1958}} |
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* [[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> |
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** The [[European Economic Community]] (EEC) is founded. |
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* [[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> |
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** The first [[Carrefour]] store opens, in [[Annecy]]. |
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* [[January 4]] |
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* [[January 3]] – [[Edmund Hillary]]'s [[Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] completes the third overland journey to the [[South Pole]], and the first to use powered vehicles. |
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** [[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> |
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* [[January 4]] – [[Sputnik 1]] (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit and burns up. |
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** [[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> |
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* [[January 8]] – 14-year-old [[Bobby Fischer]] wins the [[United States Chess Championship]]. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[January 18]] |
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* [[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> |
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** Armed [[Lumbee]] Indians confront a handful of [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansmen]] in [[Maxton, North Carolina]]. |
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** The first of [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''[[Young People's Concerts]]'' with the New York Philharmonic is telecast by CBS. The Emmy-winning series (one concert approximately every three months except for the summer) will run for more than fourteen years. It will make Bernstein's name a household word, and the most famous conductor in the U.S. |
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* [[January 20]] – [[Anne de Vries]] releases the fourth and final volume of ''[[Journey Through the Night]]''. |
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* [[January 28]] – [[Baseball Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] [[baseball]] player [[Roy Campanella]] is involved in an automobile accident that ends his career and leaves him paralyzed. |
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* [[January 31]] – The first successful American [[satellite]], [[Explorer 1]], is launched into orbit. |
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=== February === |
=== February === |
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{{Main|February 1958}} |
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* [[February 1]] – [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]] unite to form the [[United Arab Republic]]. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[February 2]] – The word ''Aerospace'' is coined, from the words Aircraft (aero) and Spacecraft (space), taking into consideration that the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a single realm. |
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* [[February 2]] – The ''Falcons'' aerobatic team of the [[Pakistan Air Force]] led by Wg Cdr [[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> |
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* [[February 5]] |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] is nominated as the first president of the [[United Arab Republic]]. |
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* [[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> |
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** The [[Tybee Bomb]], a 7,600 pound (3,500 kg) Mark 15 [[hydrogen bomb]], is lost in the waters off [[Savannah, Georgia]]. |
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* [[February 11]] – Marshal [[Chen Yi (communist)|Chen Yi]] succeeds [[Zhou Enlai]] as Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
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* [[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 [[Yugoslavia]]. 23 people survive, but four of them, including manager [[Matt Busby]] and players [[Johnny Berry]] and [[Duncan Edwards]], are in a serious condition.<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|accessdate= 3 October 2010<!--DASHBot-->|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20100917140201/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/6/newsid_2535000/2535961.stm|archivedate=17 September 2010|deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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* [[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. |
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* [[February 11]] |
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** The strongest ever known [[solar maximum]] is recorded.<ref>As of 2012. {{cite web|url=http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm?list862664|title=Solar Storm Warning|work=Science@NASA|date=2006-03-10|accessdate=2012-03-30}}</ref> |
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** Marshal [[Chen Yi (communist)|Chen Yi]] succeeds [[Zhou Enlai]] as Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
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** Ruth Carol Taylor is the first [[African American]] woman hired as a [[flight attendant]]. Hired by [[Mohawk Airlines]], her career lasts only six months, due to another discriminatory barrier – the airline's ban on married flight attendants. |
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* [[February 14]] – The [[Hashemite]] Kingdoms of [[Iraq]] and [[Jordan]] unite in the [[Arab Federation]] with King [[Faisal II of Iraq]] as head of state. |
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* [[February 17]] – [[Pope Pius XII]] declares [[Clare of Assisi|Saint Clare]] the [[patron saint]] of television. |
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* [[February 20]] – A test rocket explodes at [[Cape Canaveral]]. |
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* [[February 21]] – A [[peace symbol]] is designed and completed by [[Gerald Holtom]], commissioned by the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]], in protest against the [[Atomic Weapons Research Establishment]]. |
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* [[February 23]] |
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** [[Cuba]]n rebels kidnap five-time world driving champion [[Juan Manuel Fangio]], releasing him 28 hours later. |
** [[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> |
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** [[Arturo Frondizi]] is elected president of [[Argentina]]. |
** [[Arturo Frondizi]] is elected president of [[Argentina]]. |
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* [[February 24]] – In [[Cuba]], [[Fidel Castro]]'s ''[[Radio Rebelde]]'' begins broadcasting from [[Sierra Maestra]]. |
* [[February 24]] – In [[Cuba]], [[Fidel Castro]]'s ''[[Radio Rebelde]]'' begins broadcasting from [[Sierra Maestra]]. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[February 25]] – [[Bertrand Russell]] launches the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]]. |
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* [[February 28]] – One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurs |
* [[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> |
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=== March === |
=== March === |
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{{Main|March 1958}} |
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* [[March 1]] – The Turkish passenger ship {{SS|Üsküdar||2}} capsizes and sinks in the [[Gulf of İzmit]], Turkey; at least 300 die. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[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]]. |
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* [[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]]. |
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* [[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]] (it is recommissioned October 22, 1988). |
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* [[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). |
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* [[March 11]] – 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 several people. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[March 17]] – The Convention on the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization ([[International Maritime Organization|IMCO]]) enters into force, founding the IMCO as a specialized agency of the [[United Nations]]. |
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* [[March 17]] – The United States launches the [[Vanguard 1]] [[satellite]]. |
* [[March 17]] – The United States launches the [[Vanguard 1]] [[satellite]]. |
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* [[March 19]] – The [[Monarch Underwear Company fire]] occurs in New York. |
* [[March 19]] – The [[Monarch Underwear Company fire]] occurs in New York, United States, killing 24 people. |
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* [[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]]. |
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* [[March 24]] – The U.S. Army inducts [[Elvis Presley]], transforming The King Of Rock & Roll into U.S. Private #53310761. |
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* [[March 25]] – Canada's [[Avro Arrow]] makes its debut flight. |
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** The [[United States Army]] launches [[Explorer 3]]. |
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** The [[30th Academy Awards]] ceremony takes place; ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'' wins seven awards, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture]]. |
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* [[March 27]] – [[Nikita Khrushchev]] becomes [[Premier of the Soviet Union]]. |
* [[March 27]] – [[Nikita Khrushchev]] becomes [[Premier of the Soviet Union]]. |
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=== April === |
=== April === |
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{{Main|April 1958}} |
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* April – Unemployment in Detroit reaches 20%, marking the height of the [[Recession of 1958]] in the United States. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[April 1]] – The [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]] is established. |
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* [[April 3]] – [[Fidel Castro|Castro]]'s revolutionary army begins its attacks on [[Havana]]. |
* [[April 3]] – In Cuba, [[Fidel Castro|Castro]]'s revolutionary army begins its attacks on [[Havana]]. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[April 4]] – [[April 7]] – In the first protest march for the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] from [[Hyde Park, London]] to [[Aldermaston]], [[Berkshire]], demonstrators demand the banning of [[nuclear weapons]]. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[April 4]] – [[Cheryl Crane]], daughter of actress [[Lana Turner]], fatally stabs her mother's gangster lover [[Johnny Stompanato]] (the stabbing is eventually ruled as [[self-defense]]). |
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* [[April 6]] – [[Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari]] divorces the Shah of Iran, [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] after she is unable to produce any children. |
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** The satellite [[Sputnik 2]] disintegrates in space after several orbits. |
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** [[Van Cliburn]] wins the [[International Tchaikovsky Competition]] for [[piano|pianists]] in Moscow, breaking [[Cold War]] tensions. |
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* [[April 15]] – The [[San Francisco Giants]] beat the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] 8–0 at [[San Francisco]]'s [[Seals Stadium]], in the first [[Major League Baseball]] regular season game ever played in [[California]]. |
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* [[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 17]] – King [[Baudouin of Belgium]] officially opens the [[world's fair]] in [[Brussels]], also known as [[Expo 58]]. The [[Atomium]] forms the centrepiece. |
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* [[April 20]] – The [[Montreal Canadiens]] win the [[Stanley Cup]] after [[1958 Stanley Cup Finals|defeating]] the [[Boston Bruins]] in |
* [[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. |
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* [[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 |
* [[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. |
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* [[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. |
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=== May === |
=== May === |
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* [[May 1]] |
* [[May 1]] |
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** [[Arturo Frondizi]] becomes [[President of Argentina]]. |
** [[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> |
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** 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> |
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** The [[Nordic Passport Union]] comes into force. |
** The [[Nordic Passport Union]] comes into force. |
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* [[May 9]] – Actor-singer [[Paul Robeson]], whose passport has been reinstated, sings in a sold-out one-man recital at [[Carnegie Hall]]. The recital is such a success that Robeson gives another one at Carnegie Hall a few days later; but, after this, Robeson is seldom seen in public in the United States again. His Carnegie Hall concerts are later released on records and on [[CD]]. |
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* [[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 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!)". |
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* [[May 12]] – A formal [[North American Aerospace Defense Command]] agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. |
* [[May 12]] – A formal [[North American Aerospace Defense Command]] agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. |
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* [[May 13]] |
* [[May 13]] |
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** [[Pied-Noir|French Algerian]] protesters seize government offices in [[Algiers]], leading to a military coup. |
** [[May 1958 crisis in France|Crisis in France]]: [[Pied-Noir|French Algerian]] protesters seize government offices in [[Algiers]], leading to a military coup. |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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* [[May 15]] – The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Sputnik 3]]. |
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* [[May 15]] |
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* [[May 18]] – A U.S. [[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter]] sets a world speed record of {{Convert|1404.19|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}. |
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** The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Sputnik 3]]. |
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* [[May 20]] – The [[Cuba]]n government of [[Fulgencio Batista]] launches a counteroffensive against Castro's rebels. |
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** [[MGM]]'s ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' opens in New York City, beginning its run in the U.S. after being shown at the Cannes film festival. The last of the great MGM musicals, it will become a huge critical and box office success and win nine Academy Awards including Best Picture. ''Gigi'' is [[Lerner and Loewe]]'s first musical written especially for film, and is deliberately written in a style evoking the team's ''[[My Fair Lady]]'', which was still playing on Broadway at the time and could not be filmed yet. |
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* [[May 22]] – U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] becomes the first American elected official to appear on color television. |
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* [[May 18]] – An [[F-104 Starfighter]] sets a world speed record of {{Convert|1404.19|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[May 20]] – [[Fulgencio Batista]]'s government launches a counteroffensive against Castro's rebels. |
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* [[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]]. |
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* [[May 21]] – [[United Kingdom Postmaster General]] [[Ernest Marples]] announces that from December, [[subscriber trunk dialling|Subscriber Trunk Dialling]] will be introduced in the [[Bristol]] area.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21/newsid_2510000/2510289.stm | work=BBC News | title=1958: Trunk dialling heralds cheaper calls | date=May 21, 1958}}</ref> |
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* [[May 23]] – [[Explorer 1]] ceases transmission. |
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* [[May 28]] - [[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid]] beats [[A.C. Milan|A.C.Milan]] 3-2 at [[Heysel Stadium]], [[Brussels]] and wins the [[1957-58 European Cup]] (football). |
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* [[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]]. |
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=== June === |
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* [[June 1]] |
* [[June 1]] |
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** [[Charles de Gaulle]] is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for 6 months. |
** [[Charles de Gaulle]] is brought out of retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to lead France by decree for 6 months. |
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** [[Iceland]] extends its fishing limits to 12 miles (22.2 km). |
** [[Iceland]] extends its fishing limits to 12 miles (22.2 km). |
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* [[June 4]] – French Prime Minister [[Charles de Gaulle]] visits [[Algeria]]. |
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* [[June 2]] – In [[San Simeon, California]], [[Hearst Castle]] opens to the public for guided tours.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hearstcastle.com|title=Hearst Castle|publisher=[[California State Parks]]|accessdate=2011-02-15|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20110208001323/http://hearstcastle.com/|archivedate=8 February 2011<!--DASHBot-->|deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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* [[June 16]] – [[Imre Nagy]] and other leaders of the failed [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]] are hanged for treason, following secret trials. |
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* [[June 4]] – French President [[Charles de Gaulle]] visits [[Algeria]]. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[June 8]] – The {{SS|Edmund Fitzgerald}} is launched; she will be the largest [[Lake freighter]] for more than a dozen years. |
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* [[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]]. |
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* [[June 15]] - [[Pizza Hut]] is founded. |
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* [[June 30]] – The 1957–58 [[Ifni War]] ends in [[Spanish Sahara]].<ref name=Schwinghammer/> |
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* [[June 20]] – The iron [[barque]] ''Omega'' of [[Callao]], [[Peru]] (built in Scotland, 1887), sinks on passage carrying [[guano]] from the Pachacamac Islands for [[Huacho]], the world's last [[full-rigged ship]] trading under sail alone.<ref>{{cite web|title=Drumcliff|url=http://www.sjohistoriskasamfundet.se/LB/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Drumcliff(1887).html|publisher=Sjöhistoriska Samfundet|year=1999|accessdate=2011-02-15}}</ref> |
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* [[June 27]] – The [[Peronism|Peronist]] party becomes legal again in [[Argentina]]. |
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* [[June 29]] – [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] beats [[Sweden national football team|Sweden]] 5–2 to win the [[Association football|football]] [[1958 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]]. |
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* [[June 30]] – The [[Ifni War]] ends. |
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=== July === |
=== July === |
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* [[July 5]] – [[Gasherbrum I]], the 11th highest mountain in the world, is first ascended. |
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* [[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]]. |
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* [[July 7]] |
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** United States President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] signs the [[Alaska Statehood Act]] into law. |
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** The first International House of Pancakes ([[IHOP]]) opens in [[Toluca Lake, Los Angeles]]. |
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* [[July 9]] – [[1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami]]: A 7.5 [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] earthquake in [[Lituya Bay]], Alaska, causes a [[landslide]] that produces a huge 520-meter high [[megatsunami]].<!-- Exact date unverified? Sources differ. Best sources say 9th. --> |
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* [[July 10]] – The first [[parking meter]]s are installed in Britain. |
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* [[July 11]] – Count Michael Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, direct descendant of [[Samuel Aba, King of Hungary]], at the age of 60 is pistol-whipped and murdered over a few hectares of land by [[Czechoslovak]] Communists during the collectivization process at his residence in [[Košické Oľšany|Olcsvar]], [[Slovakia]]. |
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* [[July 12]] – [[Henri Cornelis]] becomes Governor-General of the [[Belgian Congo]], the last Belgian governor prior to independence. |
* [[July 12]] – [[Henri Cornelis]] becomes Governor-General of the [[Belgian Congo]], the last Belgian governor prior to independence. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[July 14]] - [[July 14 Revolution]] in Iraq. King Faisal is killed. Abdul Qassim assumes power. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[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> |
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* [[July 17]] – British paratroopers arrive in [[Jordan]]; King [[Hussein of Jordan|Hussein]] has asked help against pressure from Iraq. |
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* [[July 19]] – [[The Beatles]], at this time [[The Quarrymen]], pay 17 shillings and 6 pence to have their first recording session where they record ''That'll Be The Day'' by [[Buddy Holly]] and ''In Spite Of All The Danger'' by [[Paul McCartney]] and [[George Harrison]]. |
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* [[July 20]] – Various rebel groups in Cuba join forces but the communists do not join them. |
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* [[July 24]] – The first [[life peerage]] under the [[Life Peerages Act 1958]] is created in the United Kingdom. |
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* [[July 26]] |
* [[July 26]] |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Explorer program]]: [[Explorer 4]] is launched. |
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** 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. |
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** [[Elizabeth II]] gives her son and [[heir apparent]] [[Charles, Prince of Wales|The Prince Charles]] the customary title of [[Prince of Wales]]. |
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* [[July 29]] – The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] formally creates the [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA). |
* [[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> |
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* [[July 31]] – The [[Protests and uprisings in Tibet since 1950|Tibetan resistance movement]] against rule by China receives support from the United States [[Central Intelligence Agency]]. |
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=== August === |
=== August === |
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{{Main|August 1958}} |
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* [[August 1]] – The last [[Tom and Jerry]] episode (''[[Tot Watchers]]'') made by [[William Hanna]] and [[Joseph Barbera]] is released. Tom and Jerry will not be released to theatres again until [[1961]]. |
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* [[August 3]] – The nuclear-powered submarine {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571|6}} becomes the first vessel to cross the [[North Pole]] under water. |
* [[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=http://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> |
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* [[August 6]] |
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* [[August 6]] – Australian athlete [[Herb Elliott]] clips almost three 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. |
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** 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. |
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* [[August 14]] – A 4-engine [[Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation]] aircraft belonging to [[KLM]] crashes into the sea with 99 people on board. |
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** 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 | Ley Chile |website=www.bcn.cl}}</ref> |
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* [[August 7]] – 1958 East Pakistan-India border skirmishes, a skirmish between [[East Pakistan]] and the [[Indian Army]] in Laxmipur. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[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 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. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[August 18]] |
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* [[August 21]]–[[October 15]] – [[Illinois]] observes the centennial of the [[Lincoln–Douglas debates]]. |
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**[[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s controversial novel ''[[Lolita]]'' is published in the United States. |
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* [[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. |
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**[[Brojen Das]] from [[East Pakistan]] swims across the [[English Channel]] in a competition, as the first [[Bangali]] as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He is first among 39 competitors. |
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* [[August 26]] – A [[1958 Paraguayan general strike|general strike]] is called in [[Paraguay]]. |
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* [[August 23]] |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Chinese Civil War]]: The [[Second Taiwan Strait Crisis]] begins with the [[People's Liberation Army]]'s bombardment of [[Quemoy]]. |
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** President of the United States [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] signs the [[Federal Aviation Act of 1958|Federal Aviation Act]], transferring all authority over aviation in the USA to the newly created [[Federal Aviation Agency]] (FAA, later renamed [[Federal Aviation Administration]]). |
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* [[August 27]] – [[Operation Argus]]: The United States begins nuclear tests over the South Atlantic. |
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* [[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|accessdate=2008-03-05}}</ref> |
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=== September === |
=== September === |
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{{Main|September 1958}} |
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* [[September 1]] – The [[first Cod War]] begins between the United Kingdom and [[Iceland]]. |
* [[September 1]] – The [[first Cod War]] begins between the United Kingdom and [[Iceland]]. |
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* [[September 2]] |
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* [[September 6]] – [[Paul Robeson]] performs in concert at the Soviet [[Young Pioneer camp]] [[Artek (camp)|Artek]]. |
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** [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] becomes the 6th [[Prime Minister of South Africa]]. |
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* [[September 12]] – [[Jack Kilby]] invents the first [[integrated circuit]]. |
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** 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> |
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* [[September 4]] – [[Jorge Alessandri]] is the winner of [[1958 Chilean presidential election|Chile's presidential election]]. |
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* [[September 12]] – [[Jack Kilby]] invents the first [[integrated circuit]], while working at [[Texas Instruments]]. |
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* [[September 14]] – Two [[Mohr Rocket|rockets]] designed by German engineer [[Ernst Mohr]] (the first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere. |
* [[September 14]] – Two [[Mohr Rocket|rockets]] designed by German engineer [[Ernst Mohr]] (the first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[September 27]] |
* [[September 27]] |
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**[[Typhoon Ida (1958)|Typhoon Ida]] kills at least 1,269 in [[Honshū]], Japan. |
** [[Typhoon Ida (1958)|Typhoon Ida]] kills at least 1,269 people in [[Honshū]], Japan. |
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**[[Hurricane Helene (1958)|Hurricane Helene]], the worst storm of the North Atlantic hurricane season, reaches category 4 status. |
** [[Hurricane Helene (1958)|Hurricane Helene]], the worst storm of the North Atlantic hurricane season, reaches category 4 status. |
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* [[September 28]] |
* [[September 28]] |
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** In the [[1958 French constitutional referendum]], a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the [[French Fifth Republic|Fifth Republic]]. |
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** [[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> |
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* [[September 30]] – The [[U.S.S.R.]] performs a [[nuclear test]] at [[Novaya Zemlya]]. |
* [[September 30]] – The [[U.S.S.R.]] performs a [[nuclear test]] at [[Novaya Zemlya]]. |
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=== October === |
=== October === |
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{{Main|October 1958}} |
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* 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> |
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* [[October 1]] |
* [[October 1]] |
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** [[Tunisia]] and [[Morocco]] join the [[Arab League]]. |
** [[Tunisia]] and [[Morocco]] join the [[Arab League]]. |
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** 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><ref>{{cite book|last=Kerr|first=Alan|year=2009|title=A federation in these seas: An account of the acquisition by Australia of its external territories, with selected documents|publisher=Attorney General's Dept (Australia)|location=Barton, ACT|isbn=978-1921241727|page=329}}</ref> |
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** [[NASA]] starts operations and replaces the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]]. |
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** [[NASA]] starts operations and replaces the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]] in the United States. |
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* [[October 2]] – [[Guinea]] declares itself independent from France. |
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* [[October 2]] – [[Guinea]] declares itself independent from France, rejecting that nation's new constitution. |
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* [[October 4]] – [[British Overseas Airways Corporation|BOAC]] uses the new [[De Havilland Comet]] jets, to become the first airline to fly jet passenger services across the Atlantic. |
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** The new [[Constitution of France]] is signed into law, establishing the [[French Fifth Republic]]. |
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* [[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]]. |
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** 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> |
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* [[October 13]] – [[Penelope Coelen|Penny Coelen]] is crowned as [[Miss World 1958]] during the 8th Miss World pageant, the first South African to win the title. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[October 16]] – First broadcast of the long-running [[BBC Television]] children's programme ''[[Blue Peter]]''.<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> |
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* [[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> |
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* [[October 19]] – Beginning of [[Great Chinese Famine]]. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[October 21]] – The [[Life Peerages Act 1958|Life Peerages Act]] entitles women to sit in the British [[House of Lords]] for the first time. The Baronesses Swanborough ([[Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading]]) and Wooton ([[Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger]]) are the first to take their seats. |
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* [[October 26]] – A [[Pan American World Airways]] [[Boeing 707]] makes its first transatlantic flight. |
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* [[October 28]] – [[Pope John XXIII]] succeeds [[Pope Pius XII]], as the 261st pope. |
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* [[October 28]] – [[Pope John XXIII]] succeeds [[Pope Pius XII]] as the 261st pope. |
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=== November === |
=== November === |
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* [[November 3]] – The new [[UNESCO]] building is inaugurated in Paris. |
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* [[November 3]] |
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* [[November 10]] – The [[bossa nova]] is born in [[Rio de Janeiro]], with [[João Gilberto]]'s recording of ''[[Chega de Saudade]]''. |
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** The new [[UNESCO]] building, [[World Heritage Centre]], is inaugurated in Paris. |
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* [[November 10]] – [[Harry Winston]] donates the [[Hope Diamond]] to the [[Smithsonian Institution]]. |
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** [[Jorge Alessandri]] is sworn in as [[President of Chile]]. |
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* [[November 18]] - En route to [[Rogers City, Michigan]], 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. |
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* [[November |
* [[November 10]] – [[Harry Winston]] donates the [[Hope Diamond]] to the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in Washington, D.C. |
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* [[November |
* [[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. |
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* [[November 20]] – [[The Jim Henson Company]] is founded as [[The Muppets|Muppets, Inc.]] in the United States. |
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* [[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]]. |
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* [[November 25]] – [[French Sudan]] gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the [[French Community|French colonial empire]]. |
* [[November 25]] – [[French Sudan]] gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the [[French Community|French colonial empire]]. |
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* [[November 28]] – [[Chad]], the [[Republic of the Congo]] |
* [[November 28]] – [[Chad]], the [[Republic of the Congo]] and [[Gabon]] become autonomous republics within the French colonial empire. |
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* [[November 30]] – [[Gaullism|Gaullists]] win the [[French legislative election |
* [[November 30]] – [[Gaullism|Gaullists]] win the [[1958 French legislative election|French parliamentary election]]. |
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=== December === |
=== December === |
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{{Main|December 1958}} |
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* [[December 1]] |
* [[December 1]] |
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** [[Our Lady of the Angels School fire]]: 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire in Chicago. |
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** [[Adolfo López Mateos]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]]. |
** [[Adolfo López Mateos]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]]. |
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* [[December 14]] – The [[3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition]] becomes the first ever to reach the Southern [[Pole of Inaccessibility]]. |
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** [[Our Lady of the Angels School fire]]: At least 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire in Chicago. |
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* [[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> |
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* [[December 5]] |
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* [[December 16]] |
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** [[Subscriber trunk dialling]] (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by the Queen, when she dials a call from [[Bristol]] to [[Edinburgh]] and speaks to the [[Lord Provost]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.btplc.com/thegroup/BTsHistory/1912to1968/1958.htm|title=Events in Telecommunications History – 1958|accessdate=2008-01-27}}</ref> |
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** A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in [[Bogotá, Colombia]] and kills 84 persons. |
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** [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Harold Macmillan]] personally inspects and opens the United Kingdom's first ever motorway, the [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]] Bypass, to traffic for the first time. The Bypass is now part of the [[M6 motorway|M6]] and [[M55 motorway|M55]] Motorways, and was significantly upgraded in the mid 1990s. 11 months later the [[M1 motorway|M1]], [[M45 motorway|M45]] and [[M10 motorway (Great Britain)|M10]] Motorways open. |
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** [[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 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> |
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* [[December 9]] – The right-wing [[John Birch Society]] is founded in the United States by [[Robert W. Welch, Jr.]], a retired candy manufacturer. |
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* [[December 14]] – The ''3rd [[Soviet Antarctic Expedition]]'' becomes the first ever to reach the Southern [[Pole of Inaccessibility]]. |
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* [[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]]. |
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* [[December 16]] - A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in [[Bogotá, Colombia]] and kills 84 persons. |
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* [[December 18]] |
* [[December 18]] |
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** The United States launches [[SCORE (satellite)|SCORE]], the world's first [[communications satellite]]. |
** The United States launches [[SCORE (satellite)|SCORE]], the world's first [[communications satellite]]. |
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* [[December 19]] – A message from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is broadcast from the [[SCORE (satellite)|SCORE satellite]]. |
* [[December 19]] – A message from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is broadcast from the [[SCORE (satellite)|SCORE satellite]]. |
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* [[December 21]] – General [[Charles de Gaulle]] is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes. |
* [[December 21]] – General [[Charles de Gaulle]] is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes. |
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* [[December 24]] – [[1958 BOAC Bristol Britannia crash]]: A [[BOAC]] [[Bristol Britannia]] (312 [[G-AOVD]]) crashes near Winkton, England during a test flight. |
* [[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> |
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* [[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> |
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* [[December 25]] – [[Tchaikovsky]]'s [[ballet]] ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' (the [[George Balanchine]] version) is shown on prime-time television in color for the first time, as an episode of the [[CBS]] [[anthology series]] ''[[Playhouse 90]]''. |
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* [[December 30]] – The [[Guatemalan Air Force]] fires on Mexican fishing boats which had strayed into [[Guatemala]]n territory, triggering the [[Mexico–Guatemala conflict]]. |
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* [[December 28]] – In [[American football]], the [[Indianapolis Colts|Baltimore Colts]] beat the [[New York Giants]] 23–17 to win the [[1958 NFL Championship Game|NFL Championship Game]], the first to go into [[Sudden death (sport)|sudden death]] [[Overtime (sport)|overtime]] and "The Greatest Game Ever Played".<ref>Barnidge, Tom. [http://www.nfl.com/insider/story/6032205 1958 Colts remember the 'Greatest Game'], nfl.com, reprinted from Official [[Super Bowl XXXIII]] Game Program, accessed March 21, 2007.</ref> |
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* [[December 31]] – After the fall of Santa Clara, Cuban President [[Fulgencio Batista]] flees the country. |
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* [[December 31]] – Tallies reveal that, for the first time, the total of passengers carried by air this year exceeds the total carried by sea in transatlantic service. |
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* For the first time, the total of transatlantic passengers carried by air this year exceeds the total carried by sea. |
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* [[Nikita Khrushchev]] orders the Western allies to evacuate [[West Berlin]] within 6 months but backs down in the face of the Allies' unity. |
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* [[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> |
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* USA, USSR and Great Britain agree to stop testing atomic bombs for 3 years. |
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* During the [[International Geophysical Year]], Earth's [[magnetosphere]] is discovered. |
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* The last legal [[female genital cutting]] occurs in the United States. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[The Jim Henson Company]] is founded. |
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* [[Instant noodle]]s go on sale for the first time. |
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* The Japanese [[10 yen coin]] ceases having serrated edges after a 5-year period beginning in 1953. All 10 yen coins since have smooth edges. |
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* The [[British Rally Championship]] begins its first year. |
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* The [[Amirkabir University of Technology]] is founded in [[Tehran]]. |
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* The [[University of New Orleans]] established |
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* [[Illinois]] observes the centennial of the [[Lincoln–Douglas debates]]. |
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* [[Sicily|Sicilian]] writer [[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa]]'s novel ''[[The Leopard|Il Gattopardo]]'' is published posthumously. |
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* Welsh cultural critic [[Raymond Williams]] publishes ''[[Culture and Society]]''. |
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* Based on birth rates (per 1,000 population), the post-war [[baby boom]] ends in the United States as an 11-year decline in the birth rate begins (the longest on record in that country). |
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* The [[Professional Bowlers Tour]] is established at its headquarters in [[Seattle]]. |
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== Births == |
== Births == |
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=== January === |
=== January === |
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[[File:Ellen DeGeneres 2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ellen DeGeneres]]]] |
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* [[January 1]] |
* [[January 1]] |
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** [[Grandmaster Flash]], Barbadian-American hip-hop/rap DJ |
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**[[Renn Woods]], American actress, vocalist and songwriter |
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* [[January 2]] – [[Vladimir Ovchinnikov (pianist)|Vladimir Ovchinnikov]], Russian pianist |
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** |
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* [[January 4]] |
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** [[Matt Frewer]], Canadian/American actor (''Max Headroom'') |
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* [[January 4]] – [[Matt Frewer]], Canadian-American actor (''Max Headroom'') |
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* [[January 6]] – [[Shlomo Glickstein]], Israeli tennis player<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.atptour.com/en/players/shlomo-glickstein/g019/overview|title=Shlomo Glickstein | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis|website=ATP Tour}}</ref> |
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** [[Julian Sands]], English actor |
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* [[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> |
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* [[January 8]] – [[Betsy DeVos]], American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education |
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* [[January 9]] – [[Mehmet Ali Ağca]], Turkish militant, would-be assassin of [[Pope John Paul II]] |
* [[January 9]] – [[Mehmet Ali Ağca]], Turkish militant, would-be assassin of [[Pope John Paul II]] |
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* [[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> |
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* [[January 11]] – [[Vicki Peterson]], American rock musician |
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* [[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> |
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* [[January 13]] – [[Ricardo Acuña]], Chilean tennis player |
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* [[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> |
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* [[January 15]] – [[Boris Tadić]], Serbian president |
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* [[January |
* [[January 19]] – [[Thomas Kinkade]], American painter (d. [[2012]]) |
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* [[January 20]] – [[Lorenzo Lamas]], American actor, martial artist and reality show participant |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Masuo Amada]], Japanese voice actor |
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* [[January 24]] – [[Jools Holland]], British musician<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.joolsholland.com/biography.htm | title=Jools Holland | Official Web Site | About Jools | Biography }}</ref> |
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* [[January 21]] – [[Hussein Saeed|Hussein Saeed Mohammed]], Iraqi football player |
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* [[January |
* [[January 26]] |
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** [[Anita Baker]], American soul and R&B singer |
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** [[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> |
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* [[January 27]] – [[Kadri Mälk]], Estonian artist and jewelry designer |
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* [[January 28]] - [[Lagaf']], French singer, humorist, animator TV and actor |
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* [[January 29]] - [[Stephen Lerner]], American labor and community activist |
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=== February === |
=== February === |
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[[File:Ice |
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[[File:Andriy Bal1.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[Andriy Bal]]]] |
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* [[February 1]] – [[Ryō Horikawa]], Japanese voice actor |
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[[File:Kais Saied 2023.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kais Saied]]]] |
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* [[February 4]] – [[Tomasz Pacyński]], Polish writer (d. [[2005]]) |
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* [[February 8]] – [[Sherri Martel]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2007]]) |
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* [[February 10]] - [[Michael Weiss (composer)|Michael Weiss]], jazz pianist and composer |
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* [[February |
* [[February 8]] |
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** [[Marina Silva]], Brazilian politician |
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** [[Michael Jackson (TV executive)|Michael Jackson]], British broadcasting executive |
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** [[Sherri Martel]], American professional wrestler and manager (d. [[2007]]) |
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** [[Regina Maršíková]], Czechoslovakian tennis player |
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* [[February |
* [[February 9]] – [[Cyrille Regis]], English footballer (d. [[2018]]) |
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* [[February |
* [[February 10]] |
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** [[ |
** [[Michael Weiss (pianist)|Michael Weiss]], Jazz pianist and composer |
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** [[Ricardo Gareca]], Argentine footballer and manager |
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** [[Francisco Javier López Peña]], Basque separatist |
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* [[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> |
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* [[February 16]] – [[Ice-T]], African-American rapper, songwriter, and actor |
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* [[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> |
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* [[February 19]] – [[Steve Nieve]], English musician |
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* [[February 16]] |
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** [[Ice-T]], American rapper, songwriter and actor |
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** [[Andriy Bal]], Ukrainian football player and coach (d. [[2014]]) |
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* [[February 19]] – [[Leslie David Baker]], American actor |
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* [[February 21]] |
* [[February 21]] |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Jake Burns]], Irish punk singer |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Mary Chapin Carpenter]], American singer |
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* [[February |
* [[February 22]] |
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** [[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> |
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* [[February 26]] – [[Susan J. Helms]], American astronaut |
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* [[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> |
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* [[February 27]] – [[Max Crivello]], Italian artist |
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* [[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> |
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* [[February 28]] |
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** [[Natalya Estemirova]], Russian activist (d. [[2009]]) |
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** [[Phil Hayes (actor)|Phil Hayes]], British voice actor |
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=== March === |
=== March === |
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* [[March 1]] – [[Nik Kershaw]], English singer |
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<!--[[File:Fan Expo 2016 - Maurice LaMarche (32975591392).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Maurice LaMarche]]]]--> |
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* [[March 3]] – [[Miranda Richardson]], English actress |
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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> |
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* [[March 4]] - [[Patricia Heaton]], American actress |
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* [[March 4]] – [[Patricia Heaton]], American actress<ref>{{Cite magazine | title = Monitor | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = March 9, 2012 | issue = 1197 | page = 26}}</ref> |
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* [[March 5]] – [[Andy Gibb]], English-born singer (d. [[1988]]) |
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* [[March 5]] – [[Andy Gibb]], English singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol (d. [[1988]]) |
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* [[March 7]] |
* [[March 7]] |
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** [[Rik Mayall]], English comedian and actor (d. [[2014]]) |
** [[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> |
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** [[ |
** [[Gregory Markkanen]], American politician and member of the [[Michigan House of Representatives]] since 2019 |
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* [[March 8]] – [[Gary Numan]], British singer |
* [[March 8]] – [[Gary Numan]], British singer |
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* [[March 9]] |
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** [[Linda Fiorentino]], American actress |
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** [[Mary Murphy (choreographer)|Mary Murphy]], Dance choreographer |
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* [[March 10]] |
* [[March 10]] |
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** [[Steve Howe (baseball)|Steve Howe]], American baseball player (d. [[2006]]) |
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** [[Sharon Stone]], American actress and producer |
** [[Sharon Stone]], American actress and producer |
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** [[ |
** [[Frankie Ruiz]], Puerto Rican singer (d. [[1998]]) |
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* [[March 13]] – [[Linda Robson]], English actress |
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* [[March 14]] – [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco]] |
* [[March 14]] – [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco]] |
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* [[March 18]] |
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** [[Kayo Hatta]], American film director (d. [[2005]]) |
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** [[John Elefante]], American singer and producer (''Kansas'') |
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* [[March 20]] – [[Holly Hunter]], American actress |
* [[March 20]] – [[Holly Hunter]], American actress |
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* [[March 21]] – [[Gary Oldman]], English actor and filmmaker |
* [[March 21]] – [[Gary Oldman]], English actor and filmmaker |
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* [[March |
* [[March 24]] – [[Roland Koch]], German politician |
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* [[March |
* [[March 26]] – [[Hala Fouad]], Egyptian actress (d. [[1993]]) |
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* [[March 26]] – [[Todd Joseph Miles Holden]], American-born social scientist, author, basketball coach |
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* [[March 27]] – [[Jessica Soho]], Philippine television celebrity and reporter |
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* [[March 28]] |
* [[March 28]] |
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** [[Bart Conner]], American gymnast |
** [[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> |
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** [[Curt Hennig]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2003]]) |
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** [[Edesio Alejandro]], Cuban music composer |
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* [[March 30]] – [[Maurice LaMarche]], Canadian voice actor and comedian |
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** [[Curt Hennig|Mr. Perfect]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2003]]) |
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* [[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> |
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* [[March 30]] - [[Maurice LaMarche]], Canadian voice actor |
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=== April === |
=== April === |
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[[File:Alec Baldwin |
[[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]]]] |
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[[File:President Luis Guillermo Solis.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Luis Guillermo Solís]]]] |
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* [[April 3]] - [[Alec Baldwin]], American actor (''30 Rock'') |
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* [[April 4]] – [[Cazuza]], Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. [[1990]]) |
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[[File:Michelle Pfeiffer 2007.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michelle Pfeiffer]]]] |
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* [[April 7]] - [[Shinobu Adachi]], Japanese voice actress |
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* [[April |
* [[April 3]] – [[Alec Baldwin]], American actor |
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* [[April 4]] |
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** [[Yefim Bronfman]], Russian-born pianist |
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** [[Cazuza]], Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. [[1990]]) |
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** [[Babyface (musician)|Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds]], African-American musician and record producer |
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** [[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> |
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* [[April 11]] |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Hussniya Jabara]], Israeli Arab politician |
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** [[Luc Luycx]], Belgian coin designer |
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* [[April 12]] – [[Ginka Zagorcheva]], Bulgarian athlete |
* [[April 12]] – [[Ginka Zagorcheva]], Bulgarian athlete |
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* [[April 14]] |
* [[April 14]] – [[Peter Capaldi]], Scottish actor |
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* [[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]]) |
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** [[Peter Capaldi]], Scottish actor |
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** [[Junko Sakurada]], Japanese actress and singer |
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* [[April 15]] |
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** [[Keith Acton]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
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** [[Benjamin Zephaniah]], British writer and musician |
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* [[April 21]] |
* [[April 21]] |
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** [[Andie MacDowell]], American actress |
** [[Andie MacDowell]], American actress |
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** [[Yoshito Usui]], Japanese manga artist ([[Crayon Shin-chan]]) (d. [[2009]]) |
** [[Yoshito Usui]], Japanese manga artist ([[Crayon Shin-chan]]) (d. [[2009]]) |
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* [[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> |
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* [[April 24]] – [[Brian Paddick]], British former deputy assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay police officer |
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* [[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> |
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* [[April 25]] – [[Fish (singer)|Fish]], Scottish singer |
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** [[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> |
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* [[April 28]] – [[Hal Sutton]], American golfer |
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* [[April 26]] – [[Giancarlo Esposito]], Italian-American actor |
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* [[April 29]] |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Michelle Pfeiffer]], American actress |
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** [[Eve Plumb]], American actress |
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=== May === |
=== May === |
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* [[May 4]] – [[Keith Haring]], American artist (d. [[1990]]) |
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* [[May 10]] – [[Rick Santorum]], former U.S. Senator |
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* [[May 11]] – [[Christian Brando]], American actor and eldest child of Marlon Brando (d. [[2008]]) |
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* [[May 3]] – [[Sandi Toksvig]], Danish-British writer, comedian and broadcaster |
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* [[May 12]] |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Dries van Noten]], Belgian designer |
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* [[May 10]] |
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** [[Eric Singer]], American rock drummer |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Tony Oliver]], American voice actor |
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** [[Ellen Ochoa]], American astronaut, first Hispanic woman to go into space |
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* [[May 15]] – [[Ron Simmons]], American professional wrestler |
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*[[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> |
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* [[May 17]] – [[Paul Whitehouse]], Welsh actor, writer and comedian |
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* [[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> |
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* [[May 18]] – [[Toyah Willcox]], English actress & singer |
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* [[May |
* [[May 19]] – [[Jenny Durkan]], American attorney, federal prosecutor and politician |
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* [[May |
* [[May 20]] – [[Jane Wiedlin]], American musician and actress{{cn|date=March 2023}} |
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* [[May 23]] |
* [[May 23]] |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Mitch Albom]], American author |
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** [[Lea DeLaria]], American comedian, actress and jazz singer |
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* [[May 25]] – [[Paul Weller]], English singer-songwriter |
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** [[Lea DeLaria]], American comedian and actress |
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* [[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> |
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* [[May 25]] |
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* [[May 27]] – [[Neil Finn]], New Zealand singer-songwriter |
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** [[Carrie Newcomer]], American singer-songwriter & musician |
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* [[May 26]] – [[Margaret Colin]], American actress |
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* [[May 26]] – [[Moinul Ahsan Saber]], [[Bangladesh]]i writer, editor. |
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* [[May 27]] |
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** [[Neil Finn]], New Zealand singer and songwriter |
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** [[Linnea Quigley]], American actress |
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* [[May 29]] |
* [[May 29]] |
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** [[Annette Bening]], American actress |
** [[Annette Bening]], American actress |
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** [[Juliano Mer-Khamis]], Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (d. [[2011]]) |
** [[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> |
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* [[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> |
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* [[May 30]] – [[Marie Fredriksson]], Swedish singer-songwriter |
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=== June === |
=== June === |
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* [[June 2]] – [[Lex Luger]], former American professional wrestler |
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* [[June 1]] – [[Nambaryn Enkhbayar]], Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd [[President of Mongolia]] |
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* [[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> |
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* [[June 3]] – [[Margot Käßmann]], Lutheran theologian, German bishop |
* [[June 3]] – [[Margot Käßmann]], Lutheran theologian, German bishop |
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* [[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> |
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* [[June 4]] – [[Gordon P. Robertson]], American televangelist and son of [[Pat Robertson]] |
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* [[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> |
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* [[June 7]] – [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], African-American musician |
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* [[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> |
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* [[June 8]] |
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** [[Cyril O'Reilly]], American actor |
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** [[Keenen Ivory Wayans]], African-American comedian, actor, and director |
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* [[June 12]] |
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** [[Rebecca Holden]], American actress, singer, and entertainer |
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** [[Meredith Brooks]], American singer/songwriter and guitarist |
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* [[June 14]] |
* [[June 14]] |
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** [[Eric Heiden]], American speed skater with five Olympic gold medals |
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** [[Masami Yoshida]], Japanese athlete (d. [[2000]]) |
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** [[Olaf Scholz]], 9th [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)|Chancellor of Germany]] |
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** [[Eric Heiden]], American speed skater |
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* [[June 15]] – [[Wade Boggs]], American baseball player |
* [[June 15]] – [[Wade Boggs]], American baseball player |
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* [[June |
* [[June 18]] – [[Peter Altmaier]], German jurist and politician, [[Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany]] |
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* [[June 19]] – [[Sergei Makarov (ice hockey, born 1958)|Sergei Makarov]], Russian ice-hockey player and coach<ref>{{Ice hockey stats|legendsm=P201602}}</ref> |
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* [[June 20]] |
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* [[June 22]] |
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** [[Chuck Wagner]], American actor |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Teiyū Ichiryūsai]], Japanese voice actress |
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** [[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> |
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* [[June 24]] – [[Tommy Lister Jr.]], American actor and professional wrestler (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://amp.www.complex.com/pop-culture/2020/12/tommy-tiny-lister-dead-at-62|title='Friday' Actor Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Dead at 62|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> |
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* [[June 24]] |
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* [[June 25]] – [[Serik Akhmetov]], 8th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan |
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** [[Curt Fraser]], American ice hockey coach |
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* [[June 27]] – [[Magnus Lindberg]], Finnish composer<ref>{{BLF|9660|Magnus Lindberg}}</ref> |
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** [[John Tortorella]], American ice hockey coach |
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* [[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> |
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* [[June 27]] – [[Magnus Lindberg]], Finnish composer |
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* [[June 30]] |
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* [[June 28]] – [[Félix Gray]], French singer and songwriter |
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** [[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> |
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* [[June 29]] |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Jeff Coopwood]], American actor, broadcaster and singer |
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** [[ |
** [[Irina Vorobieva]], Russian pair skater |
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** [[Vasil Yakusha]], Belarusian rower |
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* [[June 30]] – [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]], Finnish conductor and composer |
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=== July === |
=== July === |
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* [[July 2]] – [[Thomas Bickerton]], American Methodist bishop |
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[[File:Kate Bush at 1986 Comic Relief (cropped).png|thumb|100px|[[Kate Bush]]]] |
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* [[July 3]] – [[Didier Mouron]], Swiss artist |
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* [[July 1]] – [[Tom Magee]], Canadian world champion powerlifter and strongman competitor |
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* [[July 5]] |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Bill Watterson]], American cartoonist ([[Calvin and Hobbes]]) |
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* [[July 5]] – [[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> |
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** [[Kyoko Terase]], Japanese voice actress |
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* [[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> |
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* [[July 6]] – [[Jennifer Saunders]], British comedienne and actress |
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* [[July 7]] – [[Michala Petri]], Danish recorder player |
* [[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> |
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* [[July 8]] |
* [[July 8]] |
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** [[Kevin Bacon]], American actor |
** [[Kevin Bacon]], American actor |
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** [[ |
** [[Neetu Singh]], Indian actress |
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** [[Jackson Anthony]], Sri Lankan actor (d. [[2023]]) |
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* [[July 15]] |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Mac Thornberry]], American politician |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Austin Hayes]], Irish footballer (d. [[1986]]) |
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* [[July |
* [[July 14]] |
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** [[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> |
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* [[July 20]] – [[Billy Mays]], American infomercial salesperson (d. [[2009]]) |
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** [[Scott Rudin]], American producer |
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* [[July 22]] – [[Tatsunori Hara]], Japanese professional-baseball coach and player |
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* [[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> |
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* [[July 27]] – [[Kimmo Hakola]], Finnish composer |
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* [[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> |
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* [[July 28]] – [[Terry Fox]], Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. [[1981]]) |
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* [[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> |
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* [[July 30]] – [[Kate Bush]], English musician |
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* [[July |
* [[July 19]] – [[Azumah Nelson]], Ghanaian boxer |
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* [[July 20]] – [[Billy Mays]], American television salesperson (d. [[2009]]) |
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* [[July 27]] – [[Christopher Dean]], British ice dancer and Olympian |
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* [[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> |
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* [[July 30]] – [[Kate Bush]], English singer-songwriter |
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* [[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> |
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=== August === |
=== August === |
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* [[August |
* [[August 3]] – [[Lambert Wilson]], French actor |
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* [[August |
* [[August 5]] – [[Andriy Fedetskyi]], Ukrainian football player (d. [[2018]]) |
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* [[August 7]] – [[Bruce Dickinson]], English musician ([[Iron Maiden]]) |
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* [[August 7]] |
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* [[August 10]] – [[Rami Hamdallah]], Palestine politician<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rami-hamdallah|title=Rami Hamdallah|website=Jewish Virtual Library|access-date=March 13, 2023}}</ref> |
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** [[Bruce Dickinson]], English musician ([[Iron Maiden]]) |
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** [[Russell Baze]], Canadian/American champion jockey |
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* [[August 10]] – [[Don Swayze]], American actor |
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* [[August 15]] |
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** [[Victor Shenderovich]], Russian writer |
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** [[Chiharu Suzuka]], Japanese voice actress |
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* [[August 16]] |
* [[August 16]] |
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** [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]], American-born singer, songwriter, and actress |
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** [[Angela Bassett]], African-American actress |
** [[Angela Bassett]], African-American actress |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Madonna]], American-born singer-songwriter and actress |
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* [[August 17]] – [[Belinda Carlisle]], American singer |
* [[August 17]] – [[Belinda Carlisle]], American singer |
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* [[August |
* [[August 18]] |
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** [[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> |
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* [[August 20]] – [[Nicholas Bell]], English actor based in Australia |
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* [[ |
** [[Madeleine Stowe]], American actress |
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* [[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> |
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* [[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> |
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* [[August 24]] – [[Steve Guttenberg]], American actor |
* [[August 24]] – [[Steve Guttenberg]], American actor |
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* [[August 25]] – [[Tim Burton]], American film director |
* [[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> |
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* [[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. | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives }}</ref> |
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* [[August 27]] – [[Normand Brathwaite]], African-Canadian comedian and television and radio host |
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* [[August 29]] |
* [[August 29]] |
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** [[Michael Jackson]], African-American singer-songwriter and dancer (d. [[2009]]) |
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** Sir [[Lenny Henry]], English comedian and actor |
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=== September === |
=== September === |
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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> |
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* [[September 6]] |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Jeff Foxworthy]], American comedian, actor, author |
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* [[September 10]] – [[Chris Columbus (filmmaker)|Chris Columbus]], American film director/writer/producer |
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** [[Sione Vailahi]], Tongan professional wrestler ("The Barbarian") |
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* [[September |
* [[September 16]] – [[Jennifer Tilly]], Canadian/American actress |
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* [[September 17]] – [[Janez Janša]], 2-Time [[Prime Minister of Slovenia]] |
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** [[Mitsuru Miyamoto]], Japanese voice actor |
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* [[September 18]] – [[Rachid Taha]], Algerian singer and activist (d. [[2018]]){{cn|date=July 2024}} |
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** [[Reiko Terashima]], Japanese manga artist and illustrator |
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* [[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> |
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* [[September 9]] – Colin Murdock, Canadian voice actor |
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* [[September 10]] |
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** [[Chris Columbus (filmmaker)]], American film director/writer/producer |
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** [[Siobhan Fahey]], Irish singer |
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* [[September 11]] – [[Julia Nickson-Soul]], Singapore actress |
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* [[September 13]] – [[Paweł Przytocki]], Polish conductor |
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* [[September 14]] |
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** [[Michael Bollner]], German actor |
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** [[Jeff Crowe]], New Zealand cricketer |
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*[[September 16]] |
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** [[Orel Hershiser]], American baseball player |
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** [[Jennifer Tilly]], Canadian/American actress |
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* [[September 19]] |
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** [[Lita Ford]], British musician |
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** [[Azumah Nelson]], Ghanaian boxer |
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* [[September 21]] – [[Bruno Fitoussi]], French poker player |
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* [[September 22]] |
* [[September 22]] |
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** [[Andrea Bocelli]], Italian tenor |
** [[Andrea Bocelli]], Italian tenor |
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** [[Joan Jett]], American rock musician |
** [[Joan Jett]], American rock musician |
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* [[September 23]] – [[Marvin Lewis]], American football coach |
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* [[September 24]] – [[Kevin Sorbo]], American actor |
* [[September 24]] – [[Kevin Sorbo]], American actor |
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* [[September 25]] |
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** [[Michael Madsen]], American actor |
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** [[Eamonn Healy]], Irish chemist |
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* [[September 26]] - [[Darby Crash]], American rock songwriter, singer ([[Germs (band)|Germs]]) (d. [[1980]]) |
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* [[September 27]] – [[Irvine Welsh]], Scottish writer |
* [[September 27]] – [[Irvine Welsh]], Scottish writer |
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* [[September 30]] – [[Marty Stuart]], American singer |
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=== October === |
=== October === |
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* [[October 3]] - [[Chen Yanyin]], Chinese sculptor |
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* [[October 5]] – [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]], American astrophysicist and science communicator (Also host of many episodes of NOVA) |
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[[File:Viggo Mortensen Cannes 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Viggo Mortensen]]]] |
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* [[October 14]] – [[Thomas Dolby]], English rock musician |
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* [[October |
* [[October 3]] – [[Chen Yanyin]], Chinese sculptor |
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* [[October |
* [[October 5]] – [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]], American astrophysicist and science communicator |
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* [[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> |
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* [[October 17]] – [[Alan Jackson]], American country singer and songwriter |
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* [[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> |
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* [[October 20]] |
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* [[October 10]] – [[Tanya Tucker]], American singer |
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** [[Mark King (musician)|Mark King]], English musician |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Viggo Mortensen]], American actor |
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* [[October 14]] – [[Thomas Dolby]], English musician{{cn|date=July 2024}} |
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** [[Scott Hall]], American professional wrestler |
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* [[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> |
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* [[October 23]] - [[Hiroyuki Kinoshita]], Japanese actor and voice actor |
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* [[October |
* [[October 18]] – [[Thomas Hearns]], American boxer |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Phil Daniels]], English actor |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Kornelia Ender]], German swimmer |
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* [[October 26]] – [[Pascale Ogier]], French actress (d. [[1984]]) |
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* [[October 27]] – [[Simon Le Bon]], English rock singer |
* [[October 27]] – [[Simon Le Bon]], English rock singer |
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* [[October |
* [[October 28]] – [[Raúl Pellegrin]], Chilean revolutionary, leader of [[Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front]] (d. [[1988]]) |
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* [[October 31]] – [[Jeannie Longo]], French cyclist |
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=== November === |
=== November === |
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[[File:Jamie Lee Curtis (41851191720) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jamie Lee Curtis]]]] |
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* [[November 2]] – [[Willie McGee]], African-American baseball player |
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* [[November |
* [[November 5]] – [[Robert Patrick]], American actor |
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* [[November |
* [[November 7]] – [[Dmitry Kozak]], Russian politician and deputy Prime Minister of Russia |
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* [[November 12]] – [[Megan Mullally]], American actress, singer and media personality |
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* [[November 12]] |
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** [[Megan Mullally]], American actress, singer and media personality |
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** [[Hiromi Iwasaki]], Japanese singer |
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* [[November 14]] - [[Donna Wilkes]], American film actress |
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* [[November 16]] |
* [[November 16]] |
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** [[Sooronbay Jeenbekov]], [[President of Kyrgyzstan]] |
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** [[Marg Helgenberger]], American actress |
** [[Marg Helgenberger]], American actress |
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** [[Boris Krivokapić]], Serbian academic |
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* [[November 17]] – [[Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio]], American actress and singer |
* [[November 17]] – [[Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio]], American actress and singer |
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* [[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> |
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* [[November 18]] – [[Laura Miller]], Mayor of Dallas, Texas |
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* [[November 19]] – [[Michael Wilbon]], American sportswriter |
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* [[November 21]] – [[David Reivers]], Jamaican actor |
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* [[November 22]] |
* [[November 22]] |
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**[[Jamie Lee Curtis]], American actress |
** [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], American actress |
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** [[Ibrahim Ismail of Johor]], [[Sultan of Johor]] |
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**[[Bruce Payne]], English actor and producer |
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* [[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> |
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* [[November 25]] - [[Darlanne Fluegel]], American actress |
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* [[November |
* [[November 29]] – [[John Mahama]], President of Ghana |
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* [[November 28]] – [[Dave Righetti]], American baseball player |
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* [[November 30]] – [[Juliette Bergmann]], Dutch bodybuilder |
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=== December === |
=== December === |
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* [[December 1]] |
* [[December 1]] |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Charlene Tilton]], American actress |
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** [[Javier Aguirre]], Mexican football player and manager |
** [[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> |
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* [[December |
* [[December 6]] – [[Nick Park]], English filmmaker and animator |
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* [[December |
* [[December 7]] – [[Rick Rude]], American professional wrestler (d. [[1999]]) |
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* [[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> |
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* [[December 6]] |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Nick Park]], English filmmaker and animator |
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** [[Debbie Rowe]], American ex-wife of pop star [[Michael Jackson]], and mother of two of his children |
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* [[December 10]] – [[Cornelia Funke]], German author |
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* [[December 11]] – [[Nikki Sixx]], American rock musician |
* [[December 11]] – [[Nikki Sixx]], American rock musician |
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* [[December 12]] |
* [[December 12]] – [[Sheree J. Wilson]], American actress |
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** [[Monica Attard]], Australian journalist |
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** [[Lucie Guay]], Canadian canoer |
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** [[Dag Ingebrigtsen]], Norwegian musician |
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** [[Sheree J. Wilson]], American actress |
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* [[December 13]] – [[Lynn-Holly Johnson]], American ice skater and actress |
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* [[December 14]] |
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** [[Mike Scott (musician)|Mike Scott]], Scottish singer-songwriter ([[The Waterboys]]) |
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** [[Spider Stacy]], English musician ([[The Pogues]]) |
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** [[François Zocchetto]], French politician |
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* [[December 18]] – [[Julia Wolfe]], American composer |
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* [[December 19]] - [[Limahl]], English singer |
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* [[December 21]] – [[Kevin Blackwell]], English football manager |
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* [[December 25]] |
* [[December 25]] |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Dimi Mint Abba]], Mauritanian musician and singer |
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** [[ |
** [[Alannah Myles]], Canadian singer-songwriter |
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** [[Rickey Henderson]], African-American baseball player |
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* [[December 26]] - [[Mieko Harada]], Japanese actress |
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* [[December 28]] – [[Twila Paris]], American Christian musician |
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* [[December 29]] – [[Lakhdar Belloumi]], Algerian football player |
* [[December 29]] – [[Lakhdar Belloumi]], Algerian football player |
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* [[December 31]] – [[Bebe Neuwirth]], American actress |
* [[December 31]] – [[Bebe Neuwirth]], American actress |
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=== Other === |
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*[[Helena Klakocar]], Dutch cartoonist |
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* [[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> |
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*[[Yoshiteru Otani]], Japanese cartoonist |
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== Deaths == |
== Deaths == |
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=== January === |
=== January === |
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[[File:Petru Groza Anefo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Petru Groza]]]] |
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* [[January 1]] |
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[[File:Prince Oskar of Prussia1888-1958.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Prince Oskar of Prussia]]]] |
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** [[Edward Weston]], American photographer (b. [[1886]]) |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Archie Alexander]], American designer/governor (b. [[1888]]) |
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* [[January 7]] – [[ |
* [[January 7]] – [[Petru Groza]], Romanian politician, 46th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (b. [[1884]]) |
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* [[January 8]] |
* [[January 8]] |
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** [[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> |
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* [[January 9]] – [[Karl Reinhardt (philologist)|Karl Reinhardt]], German philologist. (b. [[1886]]) |
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* [[ |
** [[Paul Pilgrim]], American athlete (b. [[1883]]) |
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* [[January 13]] |
* [[January 13]] |
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** [[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> |
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* [[January 16]] – [[Aubrey Mather]], English actor (b. [[1885]]) |
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** [[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> |
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* [[January 19]] – [[Cândido Rondon]], Brazilian military officer (b. [[1865]]) |
* [[January 19]] – [[Cândido Rondon]], Brazilian military officer (b. [[1865]]) |
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* [[January 20]] – [[Ataúlfo Argenta]], Spanish conductor and pianist (b. [[1913]]) |
* [[January 20]] – [[Ataúlfo Argenta]], Spanish conductor and pianist (b. [[1913]]) |
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* [[January |
* [[January 27]] – [[Prince Oskar of Prussia]] (b. [[1888]]) |
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* [[January 30]] – [[Ernst Heinkel]], German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. [[1888]]) |
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=== February === |
=== February === |
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[[File:Clinton Davisson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Clinton Davisson]]]] |
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* [[February 1]] – [[Clinton Davisson]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]]) |
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[[File:Roger Byrne1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Roger Byrne]]]] |
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* [[February 2]] – [[Walter Kingsford]], English actor (b. [[1881]]) |
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* [[February 1]] – [[Clinton Davisson]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]]) |
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* [[February 4]] |
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* [[February 6]] – [[Manchester United]] footballers killed in [[Munich air disaster]] |
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** [[Monta Bell]], American actor (b. [[1891]]) |
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** [[Henry Kuttner]], American author (b. [[1915]]) |
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*[[February 6]] |
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** [[Geoff Bent]] (b. [[1932]]) |
** [[Geoff Bent]] (b. [[1932]]) |
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** [[Roger Byrne]] (b. [[1929]]) |
** [[Roger Byrne]] (b. [[1929]]) |
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** [[Eddie Colman]] (b. [[1936]]) |
** [[Eddie Colman]] (b. [[1936]]) |
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** [[Mark Jones (footballer, born 1933)|Mark Jones]] (b. [[1933]]) |
** [[Mark Jones (footballer, born 1933)|Mark Jones]] (b. [[1933]]) |
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** [[David Pegg]] (b. [[1935]]) |
** [[David Pegg]] (b. [[1935]]) |
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** [[Frank Swift]] (b. [[1913]]) |
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** [[Tommy Taylor]] (b. [[1932]]) |
** [[Tommy Taylor]] (b. [[1932]]) |
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** [[Liam Whelan|Liam "Billy" Whelan]] (b. [[1935]]) |
** [[Liam Whelan|Liam "Billy" Whelan]] (b. [[1935]]) |
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* [[February 10]] – [[ |
* [[February 10]] – [[Nezihe Muhiddin]], Turkish suffragette and journalist (b. [[1889]]) |
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* [[February 11]] – [[Ernest Jones]], Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite DWB|last=Davies|first=Thomas Gruffydd|author-mask={{long dash}} |
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|year=2001|title=Jones, Alfred Ernest|id=s2-JONE-ERN-1879|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=25 March 2023}}</ref> |
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* [[February 13]] |
* [[February 13]] |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Christabel Pankhurst]], English suffragette (b. [[1880]]) |
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** [[Georges Rouault]], French painter (b. [[1871]]) |
** [[Georges Rouault]], French painter (b. [[1871]]) |
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* [[February 21]] |
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** [[Helen Twelvetrees]], American actress (b. [[1908]]) |
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* [[ |
** [[Henryk Arctowski]], Polish scientist and explorer (b. [[1871]]) |
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** [[Duncan Edwards]] English footballer, died from injuries sustained in the [[Munich air disaster]] (b. [[1936]]) |
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* [[February 17]] – [[Marguerite Snow]], American actress (b. [[1889]]) |
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* [[February 20]] – [[Thurston Hall]], American actor (b. [[1882]]) |
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* [[February 21]] – [[Duncan Edwards]] English footballer (b. [[1936]]), injury in the [[Munich air disaster]] |
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* [[February 27]] – [[Harry Cohn]], American film producer (b. [[1891]]) |
* [[February 27]] – [[Harry Cohn]], American film producer (b. [[1891]]) |
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=== March === |
=== March === |
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[[File:Ingeborg of Sweden.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Princess Ingeborg of Denmark]]]] |
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* [[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> |
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* [[March 20]] – [[Adegoke Adelabu]], Nigerian politician (b. 1915) (car crash) |
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* [[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> |
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* [[March 21]] – [[Cyril M. Kornbluth]], American writer (b. [[1923]]) |
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* [[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> |
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* [[March 22]] (in plane crash) |
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* [[March 12]] – [[Princess Ingeborg of Denmark]] (b. [[1878]]) |
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* [[March 22]] – [[Mike Todd]], American film director, in aviation accident (b. [[1907]]) |
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* [[March |
* [[March 23]] – [[Florian Znaniecki]], Polish philosopher and sociologist (b, [[1882]]) |
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* [[March |
* [[March 28]] – [[W. C. Handy]], African-American blues composer (b. [[1873]]) |
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* [[March 26]] – [[Phil Mead]], English cricketer (b. [[1887]]) |
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* [[March 28]] |
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** [[W. C. Handy]], African-American blues composer (b. [[1873]]) |
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** [[Chuck Klein]], American baseball player ([[Philadelphia Phillies]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1904]]) |
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=== April === |
=== April === |
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[[File:Ferdbavar.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria]]]] |
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* [[April 2]] |
* [[April 2]] |
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** [[Willie Maley]], Scottish football player and manager (b. [[1868]]) |
** [[Willie Maley]], Scottish football player and manager (b. [[1868]]) |
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** [[Jōsei Toda]], Japanese educator and activist (b. [[1900]]) |
** [[Jōsei Toda]], Japanese educator and activist (b. [[1900]]) |
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* [[April 5]] – [[Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria]] (born [[1884]]) |
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* [[April 8]] |
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* [[April 8]] – [[Alcibíades Arosemena]], Panamanian politician, 15th [[President of Panama]] (b. [[1883]]) |
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**[[George Jean Nathan]], American drama critic (b. [[1882]]) |
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* [[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> |
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**[[Frank Eaton]], American U.S. Deputy Marshal (b. 1860) |
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* [[April |
* [[April 16]] – [[Rosalind Franklin]], English crystallographer (b. [[1920]]) |
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* [[April |
* [[April 17]] – [[Rita Montaner]], Cuban singer, pianist and actress (b. [[1900]]) |
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* [[April 18]] – [[Maurice Gamelin]], French general (b. [[1872]]) |
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* [[April 19]] – [[Billy Meredith]], Welsh footballer (b. [[1874]]) |
* [[April 19]] – [[Billy Meredith]], Welsh footballer (b. [[1874]]) |
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=== May === |
=== May === |
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[[File:Ronald Colman - publicity.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ronald Colman]]]] |
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* [[May 2]] – [[Henry Cornelius]], South African-born director (b. [[1913]]) |
* [[May 2]] – [[Henry Cornelius]], South African-born director (b. [[1913]]) |
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* [[May |
* [[May 5]] – [[James Branch Cabell]], American writer (b. [[1879]]) |
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* [[May |
* [[May 9]] – [[Koshirō Oikawa]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1883]]) |
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* [[May 19]] |
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* [[May 18]] – [[Jacob Fichman]], Israeli poet and essayist (b. [[1881]]) |
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* |
** [[Ronald Colman]], English actor (b. [[1891]]) |
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** [[Marie Pujmanová]], Czechoslovak poet and novelist (b. [[1893]]) |
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** [[Jadunath Sarkar]], Indian historian (b. [[1870]]) |
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* [[May 20]] – [[Frédéric François-Marsal]], 59th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1874]]) |
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* [[May 26]] – [[Constantin Cantacuzino (aviator)|Constantin Cantacuzino]], Romanian aviator (b. [[1905]]) |
* [[May 26]] – [[Constantin Cantacuzino (aviator)|Constantin Cantacuzino]], Romanian aviator (b. [[1905]]) |
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* [[May 29]] – [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]]) |
* [[May 29]] – [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]]) |
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=== June === |
=== June === |
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[[File:Kurt Alder Nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kurt Alder]]]] |
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* [[June 2]] – [[Townsend Cromwell]], American oceanographer (plane crash) (b. [[1922]]) |
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* [[June 6]] |
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** [[Lloyd Hughes]], American actor (b. [[1897]]) |
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** [[Virginia Pearson]], American actress (b. [[1886]]) |
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* [[June 9]] – [[Robert Donat]], English actor (b. [[1905]]) |
* [[June 9]] – [[Robert Donat]], English actor (b. [[1905]]) |
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* [[June 13]] – [[Edwin Keppel Bennett]], British writer (b. [[1887]]) |
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* [[June 16]] |
* [[June 16]] |
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** [[ |
** [[Imre Nagy]], Hungarian politician, 44th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (executed) (b. [[1896]]) |
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** [[ |
** [[Nereu Ramos]], Brazilian politician, 20th [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1888]]) |
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* [[June 20]] – [[Kurt Alder]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]]) |
* [[June 20]] – [[Kurt Alder]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]]) |
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* [[June 24]] – [[George Orton]], Canadian athlete (b. [[1876]]) |
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* [[June 21]] |
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** [[Herbert Brenon]], American film director (b. [[1880]]) |
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** [[Robert L. Ghormley]], American admiral (b. [[1883]]) |
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* [[June 26]] – [[George Orton]], Canadian athlete (b. [[1876]]) |
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* [[June 28]] – [[Alfred Noyes]], English poet (b. [[1880]]) |
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=== July === |
=== July === |
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[[File:Faisalh.jpg|thumb|100px|King [[Faisal II of Iraq]]]] |
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* [[July 2]] – [[Martha Boswell]], American singer (b. [[1905]]) |
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<!--[[File:Nori.png|thumb|100px|[[Nuri al-Said]]]]--> |
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* [[July 9]] – [[James H. Flatley]], American naval aviator and admiral (b. [[1906]]) |
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* [[July 5]] – Patriarch [[Vikentije II, Serbian Patriarch|Vikentije II]] (b. [[1890]]) |
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* [[July 14]] (killed during ''coup d'état''): |
* [[July 14]] (killed during ''coup d'état''): |
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** 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> |
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** King [[Faisal II of Iraq]] (b. [[1935]]) |
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** [['Abd al-Ilah]], |
** [['Abd al-Ilah]], Prince of Iraq (b. [[1913]]; assassinated)<ref name="Dougherty2019"/> |
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* [[ |
** [[Ibrahim Hashem]], Jordanian lawyer and politician, 3-time [[Prime Minister of Jordan]] (b. [[1888]]) |
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* [[July 15]] |
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* [[July 18]] – [[Henri Farman]], pioneer French aviator and aircraft company founder (b. [[1874]]) |
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* [[ |
** [[Nuri al-Said]], Iraqi politician, 7th [[Prime Minister of Iraq]] (b. [[1888]]) |
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* [[ |
** [[Julia Lennon]], mother of [[John Lennon]] (b. [[1914]]) |
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* [[July 18]] – [[Henri Farman]], French aviator and aircraft company founder (b. [[1874]]) |
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* [[July 25]] – [[Harry Warner]], American studio executive (b. [[1881]]) |
* [[July 25]] – [[Harry Warner]], American studio executive (b. [[1881]]) |
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* [[July 26]] – [[Iven Carl Kincheloe, Jr.]], American Korean War fighter ace and test pilot (b. [[1928]]) |
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* [[July 27]] – [[Claire Lee Chennault]], American aviator and general, leader of the [[Flying Tigers]] (b. [[1893]]) |
* [[July 27]] – [[Claire Lee Chennault]], American aviator and general, leader of the [[Flying Tigers]] (b. [[1893]]) |
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* [[July 30]] – [[William A. Glassford]], American admiral (b. [[1886]]) |
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=== August === |
=== August === |
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[[File:Hans Strijdom.jpg|thumb|100px|[[J. G. Strijdom]]]] |
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* [[August 3]] – [[Peter Collins (racing driver)|Peter Collins]], [[Formula 1]] driver (b. [[1931]]) |
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[[File:Ernest Lawrence.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ernest Lawrence]]]] |
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* [[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> |
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* [[August 2]] – [[Michele Navarra]], Italian Sicilian Mafia boss (b. [[1905]]) |
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* [[August 8]] – [[Barbara Bennett]], American actress (b. [[1906]]) |
* [[August 8]] – [[Barbara Bennett]], American actress (b. [[1906]]) |
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* [[August 12]] – [[Augustus Owsley Stanley]], American politician (b. [[1867]]) |
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* [[August 14]] |
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* [[August 14]] |
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** [[Frédéric Joliot-Curie]], French physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (b. [[1900]]) |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Gladys Presley]], American, mother of [[Elvis Presley]] (b. [[1912]]) |
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**[[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> |
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* [[August 16]] – [[Paul Panzer]], German actor (b. [[1872]]) |
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* [[August |
* [[August 16]] |
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** [[José Domingues dos Santos]], Portuguese politician, 89th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (b. [[1885]]) |
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** [[Paul Panzer]], German actor (b. [[1872]]) |
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* [[August 21]] |
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** [[Stevan Hristić]], Yugoslav composer (b. [[1885]]) |
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** [[Kurt Neumann (director)|Kurt Neumann]], German film director (b. [[1908]]) |
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* [[August 22]] – [[Roger Martin du Gard]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]]) |
* [[August 22]] – [[Roger Martin du Gard]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1881]]) |
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* [[August 24]] – [[ |
* [[August 24]] – [[J. G. Strijdom]], 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. [[1893]])<ref>{{cite web |
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| 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> |
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* [[August 26]] – [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], English composer (b. [[1872]]) |
* [[August 26]] – [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], English composer (b. [[1872]]) |
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* [[August 27]] – [[Ernest Lawrence]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]]) |
* [[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> |
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* [[August 29]] – [[Marjorie Flack]], Artist, illustrator, and writer (b. [[1897]]) |
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=== September === |
=== September === |
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[[File:Estate Tatanashvili.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Estate Tatanashvili]]]] |
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* [[September 11]] |
* [[September 11]] |
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** [[Hans Grundig]], German artist (b. [[1901]]) |
** [[Hans Grundig]], German artist (b. [[1901]]) |
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** [[Robert W. Service]], Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. [[1874]]) |
** [[Robert W. Service]], Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. [[1874]]) |
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* [[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> |
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* [[September 16]] – [[Alma Bennett]], American actress (b. [[1904]]) |
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* [[September 23]] |
* [[September 23]] – [[Walter F. Otto]], German classical philologist (b. [[1874]]) |
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* [[September 25]] – [[John B. Watson]], American psychologist (b. [[1878]]) |
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* [[September 27]] – [[Adolfo Salazar]], Spanish historian, composer and diplomat (b. [[1890]]) |
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** [[Walter Friedrich Otto]], German classical philologist (b. [[1874]]) |
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* [[September 28]] – [[Aarre Merikanto]], Finnish composer (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://fennicagehrman.fi/composer/merikanto-aarre/ Merikanto, Aarre]</ref> |
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* [[September 30]] – [[Estate Tatanashvili]], Soviet general (b. [[1902]]) |
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=== October === |
=== October === |
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[[File: |
[[File:Pope Pius XII, April 1958.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pope Pius XII]]]] |
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* [[October 9]] – [[Pope Pius XII]] (b. [[1876]]) |
* [[October 9]] – [[Pope Pius XII]] (b. [[1876]]) |
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* [[October 11]] – [[Maurice de Vlaminck]], French painter (b. [[1876]]) |
* [[October 11]] – [[Maurice de Vlaminck]], French painter (b. [[1876]]) |
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* [[October 14]] – [[Douglas Mawson|Sir Douglas Mawson]], Australian geologist and polar explorer (b. [[1882]]) |
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* [[October 17]] |
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* [[October 16]] – [[Michalis Souyioul]], Greek composer (b. [[1906]]) |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Paul Outerbridge]] American photographer (b. [[1896]]) |
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* [[October 14]] – [[Douglas Mawson]], Australian geologist and polar explorer (b. [[1882]]) |
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* [[October 15]] – [[Jack Norton]], American actor (b. [[1882]]) |
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* [[October 24]] – [[G. E. Moore]], British philosopher of (''Principia Ethica'') (b. [[1873]]) |
* [[October 24]] – [[G. E. Moore]], British philosopher of (''Principia Ethica'') (b. [[1873]]) |
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* [[October |
* [[October 29]] – [[Zoë Akins]], American playwright, poet and author (b. [[1886]]) |
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* [[October 29]] – [[Zoë Akins]], American playwright, poet, and author (b. [[1886]]) |
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=== November === |
=== November === |
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[[File:Tyrone Power - still.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tyrone Power]]]] |
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* [[November 15]] |
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* [[November 4]] – [[Sam Zimbalist]], American film producer (b. [[1904]]) |
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* [[November 11]] – [[André Bazin]], French film critic and theorist (b. [[1918]]) |
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* [[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> |
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* [[November 19]] – [[Vittorio Ambrosio]], Italian general (b. [[1879]]) |
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* [[November 19]] |
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* [[November 21]] – [[Mel Ott]], American baseball player ([[New York Giants (MLB)|New York Giants]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1909]]) |
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** [[Vittorio Ambrosio]], Italian general (b. [[1879]]) |
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* [[November 24]] |
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** [[Hans Heinrich von Twardowski]], German actor (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.gtv.blue/hans-heinrich-von-twardowski/ 100 Heroes: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski]</ref> |
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** [[Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood]], English politician and diplomat, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1864]]) |
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* [[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> |
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** [[Harry Parke]], American comedian (b. [[1904]]) |
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* [[November 27]] |
* [[November 27]] |
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** [[Artur Rodziński]], Polish conductor (b. [[1892]]) |
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** [[Georgi Damyanov]], Bulgarian Communist political, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly and head of the State (b. [[1892]]) |
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* [[November 30]] – [[Oscar C. Badger II]], American admiral (b. [[1890]]) |
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* [[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> |
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=== December === |
=== December === |
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<!--[[File:Willie Applegarth and Sam Mussabini 1912.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Willie Applegarth]]]]--> |
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* [[December 1]] – [[Boots Mallory]], American actress (b. [[1913]]) |
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[[File:Pauli.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wolfgang Pauli]]]] |
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* [[December 8]] – [[Tris Speaker]], American baseball player ([[Cleveland Indians]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1888]]) |
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* [[December |
* [[December 4]] – [[José María Caro Rodríguez]], Chilean [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal and eminence (born [[1866]]) |
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* [[December 5]] |
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* [[December 13]] – [[Tim Moore (comedian)|Tim Moore]], American comedian (b. [[1887]]) |
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** [[Willie Applegarth]], British track and field athlete (b. [[1890]]) |
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* [[December 15]] – [[Wolfgang Pauli]], Austrian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1900]]) |
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* [[ |
** [[Patras Bokhari]], Pakistani humorist (b. [[1898]]) |
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* [[December |
* [[December 8]] – [[Tris Speaker]], American baseball player (b. [[1888]]) |
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* [[December 12]] |
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** [[Slobodan Jovanović]], Serbian intellectual and politician (b. [[1869]]) |
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** [[Milutin Milanković]], Yugoslav mathematician, astronomer, climatologist and geophysicist, (b. [[1879]]) |
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* [[December 13]] |
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*[[Thomas Chrostwaite]], American educator (b. [[1873]]) |
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** [[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> |
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** [[Tim Moore (comedian)|Tim Moore]], American vaudevillian and comic actor (b. [[1887]]) |
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* [[December 15]] – [[Wolfgang Pauli]], Austrian-born American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1900]]) |
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* [[December 21]] |
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** [[Lion Feuchtwanger]], German novelist and playwright (b. [[1884]]) |
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** [[H. B. Warner]], English actor (b. [[1876]]) |
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* [[December 27]] – [[Mustafa Merlika-Kruja]], 16th [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1887]]) |
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* [[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> |
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== Nobel Prizes == |
== Nobel Prizes == |
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[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]] |
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Pavel |
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Pavel Cherenkov]], [[Ilya Frank]] and [[Igor Tamm]] |
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* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Frederick Sanger]] |
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Frederick Sanger]] |
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[George |
* [[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> |
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* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] |
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]]: [[Boris Pasternak]] |
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* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Georges Pire]] |
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Georges Pire]] |
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==Media== |
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* In Stephen King's novel ''[[11/22/63]]'', the time bubble in Al's Diner sends the protagonist Jake Epping to 11:58 AM on the morning of September 9, 1958. |
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Gregorian calendar | 1958 MCMLVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2711 |
Armenian calendar | 1407 ԹՎ ՌՆԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6708 |
Baháʼí calendar | 114–115 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1879–1880 |
Bengali calendar | 1364–1365 |
Berber calendar | 2908 |
British Regnal year | 6 Eliz. 2 – 7 Eliz. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2502 |
Burmese calendar | 1320 |
Byzantine calendar | 7466–7467 |
Chinese calendar | 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4655 or 4448 — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4656 or 4449 |
Coptic calendar | 1674–1675 |
Discordian calendar | 3124 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1950–1951 |
Hebrew calendar | 5718–5719 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2014–2015 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1879–1880 |
- Kali Yuga | 5058–5059 |
Holocene calendar | 11958 |
Igbo calendar | 958–959 |
Iranian calendar | 1336–1337 |
Islamic calendar | 1377–1378 |
Japanese calendar | Shōwa 33 (昭和33年) |
Javanese calendar | 1889–1890 |
Juche calendar | 47 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4291 |
Minguo calendar | ROC 47 民國47年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 490 |
Thai solar calendar | 2501 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 2084 or 1703 or 931 — to — 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 2085 or 1704 or 932 |
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1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1958th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 958th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1950s decade.
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.[1]
- January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.[2]
- January 4
- Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles.[3]
- Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls towards Earth from its orbit and burns up.[4]
- January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol.[5]
- January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C.[6]
February
[edit]- February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic.[7]
- February 2 – The Falcons aerobatic team of the Pakistan Air Force led by Wg Cdr Mitty Masud set a 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, C-in-C Turkish Air Force Hamdullah Suphi Göker, Chief of the Iraqi Air Force Abdul Kadhim Abaddi, Chief of the Imperial Iranian Air Force and Chief Guest King Zahir Shah in whose honor the performance has been organized.[8][9]
- 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.[10]
- February 6 – Seven 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 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.[11]
- February 11 – Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- February 14 – The Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan unite in the Arab Federation, with King Faisal II of Iraq as head of state.
- February 23
- Cuban rebels kidnap five-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio, releasing him 28 hours later.[12]
- 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.[13] 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.[14]
March
[edit]- March 1 – Turkish passenger ship Üsküdar capsizes and sinks in a sudden gale while crossing the Gulf of İzmit, Turkey; many of the 272 who die are teenage students.[15]
- 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 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.[16]
- 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
[edit]- April 1 – The Treaty of Angra de Cintra is signed by Spain and Morocco, ending the Spanish protectorate in Morocco.[17]
- April 3 – In Cuba, 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.[18]
- April 14 – Van Cliburn wins the International Tchaikovsky Competition for pianists in Moscow, easing Cold War tensions.[19]
- 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 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 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 tankers. 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
[edit]- May 1
- Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina.[20]
- U.S. space scientist James van Allen announces the discovery of Earth's magnetosphere.[21]
- 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
- Crisis in France: French Algerian protesters seize government offices in Algiers, leading to a military coup.
- During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by 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 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
- May 20 – The Cuban 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 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
[edit]- 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 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.[22]
- June 29 – Brazil beats Sweden 5–2 in the final game to win the football World Cup in Sweden.
- June 30 – The 1957–58 Ifni War ends in Spanish Sahara.[17]
July
[edit]- July 9 – 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami: A 7.8 Mw strike-slip earthquake in Southeast Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reaches 525 m (1,722 ft) 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: King Faisal II and several family members are executed. Abd al-Karim Qasim assumes power.[23]
- July 15 – 1958 Lebanon crisis: 5,000 United States Marines land in the Lebanese capital Beirut in support of the pro-Western government.[24]
- July 24 – Fourteen life peerages, the first under the Life Peerages Act 1958, are created in the United Kingdom.[25]
- July 26
- Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched in the United States.[26]
- Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom announces that she is giving her son Prince Charles the customary title for the heir apparent of Prince of Wales.[27] The announcement is made at the end of the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, held in Cardiff.
- July 29 – The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[28]
August
[edit]- August 3 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus becomes the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water.[29]
- August 6
- Australian athlete Herb Elliott clips almost 3 seconds off the 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,[30] is repealed.[31]
- 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.[32]
- 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 general strike is called in Paraguay.
- August 30–September 1 – Notting Hill race riots: Riots occur between blacks and whites in Notting Hill, London.[33]
September
[edit]- 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.[34]
- September 4 – Jorge Alessandri is the winner of Chile's presidential election.
- September 12 – Jack Kilby invents the first integrated circuit, while working at Texas Instruments.
- September 14 – Two 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".[35]
- September 27
- Typhoon Ida kills at least 1,269 people in Honshū, Japan.
- 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 Fifth Republic.
- Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, dies from injuries suffered in an incident of gay bashing.[36]
- September 30 – The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya.
October
[edit]- October – GoldStar, predecessor of LG Electronics, is founded in South Korea.[37]
- October 1
- Tunisia and Morocco join the Arab League.
- The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty of Christmas Island from Singapore to Australia.[38][39]
- NASA starts operations and replaces the 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 London to New York International Airport, Anderson Field via Gander.[40]
- October 11 – Pioneer 1, the second and most successful of the 3 project Able space probes, becomes the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA.[41]
- October 17 – An Evening with Fred Astaire, the first television show recorded on color videotape, is broadcast on NBC in the United States.[42]
- October 18 – Tennis for Two, a game invented by William Higinbotham and considered to be the first pure entertainment computer game,[43] 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
[edit]- 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 Muppets, Inc. in the United States.
- November 22 – 1958 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the 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 replaced by his deputy Arthur Calwell.
- November 25 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French colonial empire.
- November 28 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French colonial empire.
- November 30 – Gaullists win the French parliamentary election.
December
[edit]- 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 L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes of Bell Laboratories publish a paper in Physical Review Letters setting out the principles of the optical laser.[44]
- December 16
- A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in Bogotá, Colombia and kills 84 persons.
- 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 km from their base five days earlier.[45]
- December 18
- The United States launches 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.
- 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.[46]
- December 29 – Battle of Santa Clara: Rebel troops under Camilo Cienfuegos and Che Guevara begin to invade Santa Clara, Cuba.[47]
- December 30 – The Guatemalan Air Force fires on Mexican fishing boats which had strayed into Guatemalan territory, triggering the Mexico–Guatemala conflict.
- December 31 – After the fall of Santa Clara, Cuban President Fulgencio Batista flees the country.
Undated
[edit]- For the first time, the total of transatlantic passengers carried by air this year exceeds the total carried by sea.
- Denatonium, the 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.[48]
Births
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January
[edit]- 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[49]
- January 7 – Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (d. 2009)[50]
- 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[51]
- January 12 – Christiane Amanpour, British-born Iranian journalist and television host for CNN and PBS[52]
- January 15 – Boris Tadić, Serbian president[53]
- 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[54]
- January 24 – Jools Holland, British musician[55]
- January 26
- Anita Baker, American soul and R&B singer
- Ellen DeGeneres, American actress, comedian and television host[56]
February
[edit]- 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, Jazz pianist and composer
- Ricardo Gareca, Argentine footballer and manager
- February 13 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress[57]
- February 15 – Shaun Toub, Iranian born-American actor[58]
- 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, American actor and screenwriter[59]
- Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer[60]
- February 22
- February 26 – Susan Helms, American astronaut[62]
- February 28 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (d. 2009)[63]
March
[edit]- March 3 – Miranda Richardson, English actress[64]
- March 4 – Patricia Heaton, American actress[65]
- March 5 – Andy Gibb, English singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol (d. 1988)
- March 7
- Rik Mayall, English comedian and actor (d. 2014)[66]
- Gregory Markkanen, American politician and member of the Michigan House of Representatives since 2019
- March 8 – Gary Numan, British singer
- March 10
- 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[67]
- Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
- March 30 – Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor and comedian
- March 31 – Dietmar Bartsch, German politician[68]
April
[edit]- April 3 – Alec Baldwin, American actor
- April 4
- Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. 1990)
- Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai billionaire businessman (d. 2018)[69]
- April 6 – Pascal Lecamp, French politician[70]
- April 12 – Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgarian athlete
- April 14 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor
- April 15 – Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer and musician[71] (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)[72]
- April 25 – Luis Guillermo Solís, President of Costa Rica[73]
- Mike DeVault, American politician[74]
- April 26 – Giancarlo Esposito, Italian-American actor
- April 29 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress[75]
May
[edit]- May 3 – Sandi Toksvig, Danish-British writer, comedian and broadcaster
- May 4 – Keith Haring, American artist (d. 1990)[76]
- May 10
- Rick Santorum, American politician[77]
- Ellen Ochoa, American astronaut, first Hispanic woman to go into space
- May 11 – Sayuri Kume, Japanese singer-songwriter[78]
- May 12 – Dries van Noten, Belgian designer[79]
- May 19 – Jenny Durkan, American attorney, federal prosecutor and politician
- May 20 – Jane Wiedlin, American musician and actress[citation needed]
- May 23
- Drew Carey, American comedian and actor[80]
- Lea DeLaria, American comedian, actress and jazz singer
- May 25 – Paul Weller, English singer-songwriter
- May 26 – Margaret Colin, American actress[81]
- 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)[82]
- May 30 – Marie Fredriksson, Swedish rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 2019)[83]
June
[edit]- June 1 – Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia
- June 2 – Lex Luger, American professional wrestler[84]
- June 3 – Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop
- June 5 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Comoroan businessman and politician, President of Comoros 2006–2011[85]
- June 7 – Prince, African-American musician (d. 2016)[86]
- June 10 – Elain Harwood, English architectural historian (d. 2023)[87]
- June 14
- Eric Heiden, American speed skater with five Olympic gold medals
- Olaf Scholz, 9th 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, Russian ice-hockey player and coach[88]
- June 22
- Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress[89]
- Bruce Campbell, American actor, producer, writer and director[90]
- June 24 – Tommy Lister Jr., American actor and professional wrestler (d. 2020)[91]
- June 25 – Serik Akhmetov, 8th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- June 27 – Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer[92]
- June 29 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese long-distance runner[93]
- June 30
- Ziggy Rozalski, Polish American boxing manager and promoter[94]
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer[95]
- Irina Vorobieva, Russian pair skater
- Vasil Yakusha, Belarusian rower
July
[edit]- July 1 – Tom Magee, Canadian world champion powerlifter and strongman competitor
- July 2 – Pavan Malhotra, Indian actor[96]
- July 5 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)[97]
- July 6 – Jennifer Saunders, British comedian and actress[98]
- July 7 – Michala Petri, Danish recorder player[99]
- July 8
- Kevin Bacon, American actor
- Neetu Singh, Indian actress
- Jackson Anthony, Sri Lankan actor (d. 2023)
- July 10 – Fiona Shaw, Irish actress[100]
- July 11 – Hugo Sánchez, Mexican football player and coach[101]
- July 14
- Jujie Luan, Chinese-Canadian fencer[102]
- Scott Rudin, American producer
- July 15 – Jörg Kachelmann, Swiss presenter, journalist and entrepreneur in the meteorological field[103]
- July 16 – Michael Flatley, Irish-born dancer[104]
- July 17 – Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong second wave filmmaker[105]
- 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)[106]
- July 30 – Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter
- July 31 – Mark Cuban, American entrepreneur and basketball team owner[107]
August
[edit]- 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, Palestine politician[108]
- August 16
- Angela Bassett, African-American actress
- Anne L'Huillier, French-born atomic physicist, Nobel Prize laureate[109]
- Madonna, American-born singer-songwriter and actress
- August 17 – Belinda Carlisle, American singer
- August 18
- Reg E. Cathey, African-American actor (d. 2018)[110]
- Madeleine Stowe, American actress
- August 19 – Brendan Nelson, Australian politician[111]
- August 22 – Colm Feore, American-born Canadian actor[112]
- August 24 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
- August 25 – Tim Burton, American film director[113]
- August 27 – Kathy Hochul, American politician, Governor of New York[114]
- August 29
- Michael Jackson, African-American singer-songwriter and dancer (d. 2009)
- Sir Lenny Henry, English comedian and actor
September
[edit]- September 2 – Zdravko Krivokapić, Montenegrin politician, Prime Minister of Montenegro[115]
- September 6 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor and author[116]
- September 10 – 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)[citation needed]
- September 19 – Lita Ford, British musician[117]
- September 22
- Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
- Joan Jett, American rock musician
- September 24 – Kevin Sorbo, American actor
- September 27 – Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
October
[edit]- October 3 – Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor
- October 5 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and science communicator
- October 7 – Bernardo Arévalo, president of Guatemala[118]
- October 8 – Ursula von der Leyen, German politician, President of the European Commission[119]
- October 10 – Tanya Tucker, American singer
- October 13 – Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (d. 2018)[120]
- October 14 – Thomas Dolby, English musician[citation needed]
- October 16 – Tim Robbins, American actor and film director[121]
- October 18 – Thomas Hearns, American boxer
- October 20 – Viggo Mortensen, Danish-American actor[122]
- October 25 – Kornelia Ender, German swimmer[123]
- 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
[edit]- 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[124]
- November 22
- Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
- Ibrahim Ismail of Johor, Sultan of Johor
- November 28 – Tanya Harford, South African tennis player[125]
- November 29 – John Mahama, President of Ghana
December
[edit]- December 1
- Charlene Tilton, American actress[126]
- Javier Aguirre, Mexican football player and manager[127]
- 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[128]
- December 10 – Cornelia Funke, German author[129]
- 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)[130]
- Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter
- December 29 – Lakhdar Belloumi, Algerian football player
- December 31 – Bebe Neuwirth, American actress
Other
[edit]- Vincenzo de Cotiis, artist and designer[131]
Deaths
[edit]January
[edit]- January 1 – Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)[132]
- January 7 – Petru Groza, Romanian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1884)
- January 8
- Mary Colter, American architect (b. 1869)[133]
- Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
- January 13
- Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (b. 1880)[134]
- Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)[135]
- 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
[edit]- February 1 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist, 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 (b. 1933)
- David Pegg (b. 1935)
- Frank Swift (b. 1913)
- Tommy Taylor (b. 1932)
- 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)[136]
- February 13
- Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)[137]
- 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
[edit]- March 1 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (b. 1871)[138]
- March 6 – Anton Reinthaller, Austrian politician (b. 1895)[139]
- March 11 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founder of The Lego Group (b. 1891)[140]
- 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
[edit]- 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)[141]
- 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
[edit]- 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, Romanian aviator (b. 1905)
- May 29 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
June
[edit]- 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 20 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- June 24 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1876)
July
[edit]- July 5 – Patriarch Vikentije II (b. 1890)
- July 14 (killed during coup d'état):
- King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935; assassinated)[142]
- 'Abd al-Ilah, Prince of Iraq (b. 1913; assassinated)[142]
- 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 18 – Henri Farman, French aviator and aircraft company founder (b. 1874)
- 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
[edit]- August 1 – Albert E. Smith, English-born American stage magician, film director and producer (b. 1875)[143]
- 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)[144]
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)[145]
- 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, German film director (b. 1908)
- August 22 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- August 24 – J. G. Strijdom, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1893)[146]
- August 26 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
- August 27 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)[147]
September
[edit]- 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)[148]
- September 23 – 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)[149]
- September 30 – Estate Tatanashvili, Soviet general (b. 1902)
October
[edit]- October 9 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
- October 11 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)
- October 14 – 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)[150]
- October 24 – G. E. Moore, British philosopher of (Principia Ethica) (b. 1873)
- October 29 – Zoë Akins, American playwright, poet and author (b. 1886)
November
[edit]- 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)[151]
- November 19
- Vittorio Ambrosio, Italian general (b. 1879)
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, German actor (b. 1898)[152]
- November 24 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)[153]
- 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 – Sir Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer (b. 1888)[154]
December
[edit]- 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 (b.1890)[155]
- Tim Moore, American vaudevillian and comic actor (b. 1887)
- December 15 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, 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)[156]
Nobel Prizes
[edit]- Physics – Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm
- Chemistry – Frederick Sanger
- Physiology or Medicine – George Beadle, Edward Tatum and Joshua Lederberg[157]
- Literature: Boris Pasternak
- Peace – Georges Pire
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