Deaths Date 1958 | History by KabAstro

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Jan 30 Jean Crotti, Swiss-French artist, dies at 79
Feb 1 Clinton Davisson, American physicist (Nobel 1937- discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment), dies at 76
Feb 3 Henry Kuttner, American sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies of a heart attack at 42
Feb 3 Johan Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer and clown (1 great dog), dies at 81
Feb 4 Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince and International Red Cross executive, dies of a thrombosis at 46
Feb 5 H. M. Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies at 84
Feb 6 Billy Whelan, Irish soccer forward (4 caps, Republic of Ireland; Manchester United 79 games), dies Munich air disaster at 22
Feb 6 Charles Morgan, English writer (Fountain), dies at 64
Feb 6 David Pegg, English soccer outside left (1 cap; Manchester United 127 games), dies in Munich air disaster at 22
Feb 6 Eddie Colman, English soccer winger (Manchester United 85 games), dies in Munich air disaster at 21
Feb 6 Frank Swift, English soccer goalkeeper and journalist (19 caps; Manchester City 376 games), dies in Munich air disaster at 44
Feb 6 Geoff Bent, English soccer fullback (Manchester United 12 games), dies in Munich air disaster at 25
Feb 6 Mark Jones, English soccer defender (Manchester United 103 games), dies in Munich air disaster at 24
Feb 6 Roger Byrne, English soccer fullback (33 caps; Manchester United 245 games), dies in Munich air disaster at 28
Feb 6 Tommy Taylor, English soccer striker (19 caps; Manchester United 166 games), dies in Munich air disaster at 26

Feb 6 Walter Crickmer, English soccer executive and manager (Manchester United), dies in Munich air disaster at 58
Feb 7 Betty MacDonald [nee Bard], American humor writer (The Egg and I), dies of cancer at 50
Feb 7 Walter Kingsford, British actor (Carefree, My Favorite Blonde), dies at 76
Feb 10 Billy Vine, American actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42
Feb 11 Ernest Jones, Welsh psychoanalyst (biographer of Freud - Life & Work of Sigmund Freud), dies at 79
Feb 12 Douglas R. Hartree, English mathematician and physicist, dies at 60
Feb 12 Marcel Cachin, French politician and co-founder of the French Communist Party, dies at 88
Feb 13 Dame Christabel Pankhurst, a leading suffragette (English) "Queen of the mob" (b.1880)
Feb 13 Georges Rouault, French expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre), dies at 86
Feb 14 Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
Feb 17 Hugh McCrae, Australian writer and poet (Satyrs and Sunlight: Sylvarum Libri), dies at 81
Feb 20 Thurston Hall, American actor (Roaming Lady; In Society), dies at 75
Feb 21 Duncan Edwards, English soccer midfielder (18 caps; Manchester United), dies from injuries sustained in Munich air disaster at 21
Feb 22 Abul Kalam Azad, 1st Minister of Education in the Indian government, dies at 69
Feb 22 Theo Harych, German writer, commits suicide at 54

Feb 24 Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
Feb 26 Vlas Chubar, Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician, executed as part of Josef Stalin's 'Great Purge' at 58
Feb 27 Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack
Mar 1 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope), dies at 86
Mar 4 Albert Kuyle [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54
Mar 11 Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish carpenter, inventor, and toy maker (Lego Group), dies of a heart attack at 66
Mar 12 Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, wife of Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, dies at 79
Mar 14 Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist, choir director, and composer (In Tempore Belli), dies at 64
Mar 16 Leon Cadore, American baseball pitcher (pitched all of 26 inning game), dies at 65
Mar 18 Sigve Lie, Norwegian sailor (Olympic gold dragon class 1948, 52), dies at 51
Mar 19 Vernon Ransford, cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1211 runs), dies
Mar 21 Cyril M. Kornbluth, American sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34
Mar 22 Michael "Mike" Todd [Avrom Goldbogen], American producer (Around the World in 80 Days) and 3rd husband of Elizabeth Taylor, dies in a plane crash at 48
Mar 23 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
Mar 25 Emerson Whithorne, American composer, dies at 73
Mar 25 Tom Brown, American dixieland jazz trombonist, dies at 69
Mar 26 Phil Mead, English cricket batsman (17 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 182no; Hampshire CCC, MCC, Suffolk CCC), dies at 71

Chuck Klein (1904-1958)

Mar 28 American Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder (Triple Crown 1933; MLB All-Star 1933, 34; NL MVP 1932; Philadelphia Phillies), dies of a stroke at 53

W. C. Handy (1873-1958)

Mar 28 American composer and musician known as the "Father of the Blues" (Memphis Blues, St Louis Blues), dies of bronchial pneumonia at 84

Apr 2 Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900)
Apr 3 Theodor Kramer, Austrian poet and writer, dies at 61
Apr 4 Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78
Apr 4 Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure and abusive partner of actress Lana Turner, stabbed to death by her teenage daughter in self-defense at 32
Apr 5 Josef Brems, Flemish apostole (vicar of Denmark), dies at 87
Apr 7 Judge Jackson, American sacred harp composer, songwriter, and educator (The Colored Sacred Harp), dies at 75
Apr 7 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, Ukrainian composer, dies at 58
Apr 8 Ethel Turner, Australian author (Seven Little Australians), dies at 88
Apr 8 George Jean Nathan, American editor, author and critic (American Mercury), dies at 76
Apr 10 Chuck Willis, rocker, dies at 30
Apr 11 Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter, dies at 82
Apr 13 Henry Phillips, American businessman (Phillip's screw), dies at 68 [1]
Apr 15 Estelle Taylor, American actress, dies at 64

Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)

Apr 16 English chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies of ovarian cancer at 37

Apr 18 Maurice Gamelin, French Army officer (World War I - First Battle of the Marne; World War II - failure to stop German assault on France), dies at 85
Apr 18 Richard B. Goldschmidt, German-American zoologist (butterflies), dies at 80
Apr 21 Manuel Infante, Spanish composer and conductor, dies at 74
Apr 25 Herman Hickman, American College Football Hall of Fame guard, coach and broadcaster (Army, Yale), dies at 46
Apr 26 Joan Collette, Dutch graphic artist and painter (New Church, Delft), dies at 68
Apr 26 Joe Small, West Indian cricketer (WI all-rounder in 1928 series), dies at 65
May 2 Alfred Weber, German economist and sociologist, dies at 89
May 3 Frank Foster, English cricket all-rounder (11 Tests, 3 x 50, 45 wickets, BB 6/91; Warwickshire CCC), dies at 69
May 5 James Branch Cabell, American novelist and essayist (Restless Heads), dies at 79
May 7 Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
May 8 Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, assassinated at 48 or 49
May 8 Norman Bel Geddes, American theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End), dies at 65
May 9 Bill Goodwin, American television announcer (Jolson Story, Burns & Allen), dies at 47
May 15 Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91
May 16 Jeroom Verten [Jozef Frans Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49
May 19 Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
May 19 Bruno Stürmer, German conductor, composer and educator dies at 65

Ronald Colman (1891-1958)

May 19 British actor (Lost Horizon, The Prisoner of Zenda, Phantom Shot), dies at 67

May 22 Julien de Valckenaere, Belgian poet, dies at 60
May 25 Rolland Beaumont, South African cricket batsman (5 Tests; Transvaal), dies at 74
May 27 Ainslie Pryor, American actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies of cancer at 37
May 27 Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
May 28 Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský, Slovak composer (Missa pastoralis), dies at 77
May 29 Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spanish poet (Distant Gardeens; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1956), dies at 76 [1]
May 30 Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit and literary (Hadewych), dies at 79
Jun 4 Mechtilde Lichnowsky, German writer, dies at 79
Jun 6 Lily Strickland, American composer and artist, dies at 71
Jun 7 Roger Hartigan, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust in 1908), dies

Robert Donat (1905-1958)

Jun 9 English actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr Chips, 39 Steps), dies at 53

Jun 10 Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist, teacher and playwright (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 78

Clarence DeMar (1888-1958)

Jun 11 American marathon runner and 7-time winner of the Boston Marathon, dies of cancer at 70

Jun 12 Marinus van Meel, Dutch aviator and aircraft manufacturer, dies at 77
Jun 13 Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (Built in Jerusalem’s Wall: A Book in praise of Jerusalem), dies at 70
Jun 15 François de Vries, Dutch economist, dies at 74

Imre Nagy (1896-1958)

Jun 16 Hungarian communist and Prime Minister of Hungary (1953-56), hanged at 62

Jun 16 José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer (Huapango), dies at 45
Jun 18 Douglas Jardine, English cricket batsman (22 Tests, 1 x 100, 10 x 50, HS 127; England's Bodyline Series captain; Oxford Uni CC, Surrey CCC, MCC), dies at 57
Jun 20 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 55
Jun 23 Edvard Armas Jarnefeldt, composer, dies at 88
Jun 24 Bonifacius Cornelius de Jonge, Dutch politician (Governor General of the Dutch East Indies 1931-6), dies at 83
Jun 26 Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
Jun 26 George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
Jun 26 Martinus Ballings, Belguan Jesuit author (Vocation), dies at 93
Jun 27 Robert Greig, Australian actor (Sullivan's Travels, Horse Feathers), dies at 78
Jun 28 Alfred Noyes, British poet and essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77
Jun 29 Charles Spencelayh, English painter (Why War), dies at 92
Jun 29 George Gunn, English cricket batsman (15 Tests, 2 x 100, 7 x 50, HS 122no; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 79
Jul 1 Harry Nicholls Holmes, American chemist (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78
Jul 1 Rudolf von Laban, Czech-German choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78
Jul 2 Joe Jeannette, American boxer (world coloured champion 1909), dies at 78
Jul 4 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
Jul 5 Frank Burge, Australian rugby league forward (13 Tests, 26 games NSW; Glebe, St. George; RL "Immortal") and coach (St. George, North Sydney, Western Suburbs, Newtown), dies of a heart attack at 63
Jul 6 Marie van Regteren Altena, Dutch painter (Amsterdam's Joffers), dies at 89
Jul 7 Raymond Hackett, American husband of Blanche Sweet and actor (Faithless Lover), dies at 55
Jul 11 Karel Wellens, Flemish painter, dies at 69
Jul 13 Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on his 81st birthday
Jul 14 'Abd al-Ilah, crown prince of Iraq, assassinated at Baghdad during the revolution at 44
Jul 14 Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), son of Ghasi I, assassinated during the revolution at Baghdad at 23
Jul 14 René Guillou, French organist and composer (L'Autre mère), dies at 55
Jul 15 Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident
Jul 15 Nuri al-Said, Iraqi politician, 8-time Prime Minister of Iraq, assassinated while trying to escape during the revolution at 69

Henri Farman (1874-1958)

Jul 17 British-French aviator who broke several aviation records, dies at 84

Jul 18 John Gobau, Flemish actor (Electricity, Hostage Rights, The Cross-Patch), dies at 67
Jul 19 Robert Earl Hughes, American man who became heaviest known human (485 kg), dies at 32
Jul 20 Franklin Pangborn, American actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living), dies at 69
Jul 22 Karl Nunes, cricketer (1st WI Test captain 1928), dies
Jul 22 Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian author and satirist, dies at 62
Jul 25 Harry Warner, US movie pioneer (Warner Bros), dies at 81
Jul 27 Claire Chennault, American aviator and military leader (Flying Tigers), dies at 64
Jul 28 Walter Andrae, German archaeologist (helped steal Ishtar Gate), dies at 81
Jul 29 Charles O'Malley, American actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61
Jul 30 Alexander Albrecht, Slovak composer, dies at 72
Jul 31 Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist and philosopher, dies at 67
Aug 3 Peter Collins, English auto racer (British GP 1958), dies in race accident at German GP at 26
Aug 4 Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
Aug 5 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist, conductor and composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
Aug 9 Felipe Boero, Argentine composer, dies at 74
Aug 10 Frank Demaree, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1936, 37; Chicago Cubs, NY Giants), dies of internal haemorrhage at 48
Aug 13 Otto Witte, acrobat and, purportedly, King of Albania (b. 1868)
Aug 14 "Big" Bill Broonzy, American blues singer and guitarist (Blues by Broonzy), dies of cancer at 65
Aug 14 Gladys Presley, mother of Elvis, dies at 46

Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958)

Aug 14 French nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1936 for discovery of artificial radioactivity), dies at 58

Aug 14 Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b.1873)
Aug 14 Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82
Aug 16 Paul Panzer, German-American silent film actor (The Perils of Pauline, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin), dies at 85
Aug 17 Florent Schmitt, French composer (La tragédie de Salome; Psalm 47), and music critic (Le Temps), dies at 87
Aug 21 Stevan Hristić, Serbian composer (Legend of Ohrid; Opeleo), conductor (Belgrade Philharmonic, 1923-34; Belgrade Opera, 1925-35), and pedagogue (Belgrade Music Academy, 1937-50), dies at 73
Aug 21 Walter Schumann, American choral director (Ford Show) and film and television composer (Night Of The Hunter; Dragnet theme), dies at 44
Aug 22 Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist (Nobel Prize for Literature 1937), dies at 77
Aug 23 Martin du Gard, writer, dies
Aug 24 John G. Strijdom, South African politician and nationalist, Prime Minister of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65
Aug 24 Kenneth Leighton, British pianist and composer, dies of esophageal cancer at 58
Aug 24 Leo Blech, German opera composer and conductor, (Königliches Opernhaus, 1906-37; Städtische Oper, 1949-53). dies at 87
Aug 24 Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist, dies at 82
Aug 26 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (Hugh the Drover), dies at 85
Aug 27 Ernest Lawrence, American nuclear scientist and inventor (Cyclotron - Nobel 1939), dies at 57
Aug 28 Nikolay Golovanov, Soviet composer, dies at 67
Sep 9 Charles Macartney, Australian cricket all-rounder (35 Tests, 2,131 runs at 41.78, 7 x 100s, 45 wickets), dies at 72
Sep 11 Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician and Mayor of Montreal, dies at 69
Sep 11 Robert Lach, Austrian composer, dies at 84
Sep 11 Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee), dies at 84
Sep 15 (George) "Snuffy" Stirnweiss, American MLB baseball second baseman, 1943-52, 2X All-Star. AL Batting Title, 3X World Series (New York Yankees and 2 other teams), dies in a train wreck in Bayonne, New Jersey at 39
Sep 17 Eugène Jungers, Belgian Governor of Rwanda Urundi, dies at 70
Sep 17 Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian-British chemist, dies at 71
Sep 17 Herbie Fields [Bernfeld], American jazz saxophonist and bandleader ("Dardanella"), dies from an intentional overdose of sleeping pills at 39
Sep 22 Mary Roberts Rinehart, American mystery writer and playwright (The Circular Staircase), dies at 82
Sep 25 John B. Watson, American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, dies at 80
Sep 26 Carl Brisson, Danish actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho, Murder at the Vanities), dies of jaundice at 64
Sep 28 Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (Juha; Schott Concerto), and educator, dies of lung cancer at 65
Sep 30 Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph-stipulation), dies at 79
Oct 1 Robert Falk, Russian painter (b. 1886)
Oct 2 Marie Stopes, British birth control pioneer, dies at 77
Oct 8 Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)

Pius XII (1876-1958)

Oct 9 260th Roman Catholic Pope (1939-58), dies of heart failure at 82

Oct 11 Johannes R. Becher, German writer and politician, dies at 67
Oct 12 Ed Hinton, American actor (I Lived 3 Lives -"Agent Henderson"), dies in a plane crash at Santa Catalina Island, California at 39
Oct 12 Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect and painter, dies at 59
Oct 12 Gordon Griffith, American silent and sound screen child actor, first to portray Tarzan on film (as Young Tarzan in "Tarzan of the Apes" (1918)), dies of a heart attack at 51
Oct 13 Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, Russian composer, dies at 59 (b. 1899)
Oct 14 Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and educator, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 76
Oct 15 Jack Mason, English cricketer (England all-rounder v Australia 1897-98), dies at 84