1958
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- January 1 – Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
- January 8 – Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
- January 11 – Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
- January 30 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
- February 1 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- February 4 – Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
- February 13 – Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)
- March 21 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
- March 22 – Mike Todd, American movie producer (b. 1909)
- March 25 – Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
- March 26 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
- March 28 – W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
- 16 April – Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (b. 1920)
- April 19 – Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874)
- May 3 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
- May 19 – Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
- May 29 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- June 20 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- June 26 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1876)
- July 14 – King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935)
- August 14 – Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
- August 22 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- August 27 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- October 9 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
- October 17 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
- November 24 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
- November 27 – Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (b. 1892)
- December 8 – Tris Speaker, baseball player (b. 1888)
- December 15 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- September 29 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer
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