1958
- July 14 (killed during coup d'état)
- King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935)
- 'Abd al-Ilah, former regent of Iraq (b. 1913)
- July 15- Julia Lennon (mother of John Lennon) (b. 1914)
- August 14 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
- August 14 - Gladys Presley, mother of Elvis Presley (b. 1912)
- August 22 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- August 24 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
- August 26 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
- August 27 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- September 11
- Hans Grundig, artist (b. 1901)
- Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
- September 23 - Alfred Piccaver, British-American operatic tenor (b. 1884)
- October 9 - Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
- October 17
- Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
- Paul Outerbridge American photographer (b. 1896)
- October 24 - G. E. Moore, British philosopher, author of Principia Ethica (b. 1873)
- November 15 - Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
- November 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
- November 27 - Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
- December 8 - Tris Speaker, baseball player (b. 1888)
- December 15 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
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Ship events
- List of ship launches in 1958
- List of ship commissionings in 1958
- List of ship decommissionings in 1958
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Nobel prizes
- Physics - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
- Chemistry - Frederick Sanger
- Physiology or Medicine - George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
- Literature - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
- Peace - Georges Pire
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Academy Awards
- Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sam Spiegel
- Best Foreign Language Film: Nights of Cabiria,
Italy - Best Documentary Feature: Albert Schweitzer, Jerome Hill
- Best Animated Feature: Birds Anonymous, Edward Selzer
- Best Director: David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Actor: Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Actress: Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve
- Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons, Sayonara
- Best Supporting Actress: Miyoshi Umeki, Sayonara
- Best Original Screenplay: George Wells, Designing Woman
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Novel by Pierre Boulle; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, The Bridge over the River Kwai
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