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Pius XII
pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spanish poet (1881–1958)
Roger Martin du Gard
French writer (1881–1958)
Ernest Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
Clinton Davisson
American physicist (1881-1958)
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
Kurt Alder
German chemist (1902–1958)
Imre Nagy
Hungarian politician (1896-1958)
John B. Watson
American psychologist (1878
Abul Kalam Azad
Indian politician and writer (1888–1958)
Lion Feuchtwanger
German writer (1884-1958)
G. E. Moore
English philosopher (1873–1958)
Robert Cecil
lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom (1864-1958)
Ronald Colman
British actor (1891–1958)
Milutin Milanković
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879–1958)
Robert Donat
English actor (1905–1958)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer (1872-1958)
Faisal II of Iraq
King of Iraq from 4 April 1939 until 1958
Tyrone Power
American actor (1914-1958)
Maurice Gamelin
French military officer (1872–1958)
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
Johannes R. Becher
German politician, novelist and poet (1891–1958)
Maurice de Vlaminck
French painter (1876-1958)
Rudolf Laban
Austrian choreographer (1879-1958)
Duncan Edwards
English footballer (1936-1958)
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Soviet writer (1894–1958)
Christabel Pankhurst
suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editor (1880-1958)
Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
Giacomo Balla
Italian artist (1871-1958)
Georges Rouault
French painter (1871-1958)
Vítězslav Nezval
Czech poet, writer and translator (1900–1958)
Edna Purviance
actress (1895-1958)
Princess Ingeborg of Denmark
Danish and Swedish royal
Ole Kirk Christiansen
Danish businessman (1891-1958)
Petru Groza
46th Prime Minister of Romania (1945-1952)
Ernst Heinkel
aircraft designer and manufacturer (1888-1958)
Rudolf Rocker
anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist (1873-1958)
Isidora Sekulić
Serbian writer (1877–1958)
Edward Weston
American photographer (1886–1958)
André Bazin
French film critic and theorist (1918–1958)
John Pius Boland
Irish politician (1870-1958)
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician (1873–1958)
Roger Byrne
English footballer (1929–1958)
Goro Yamada
Japanese association football player and manager
Nereu Ramos
President of Brazil from 1955 to 1956
Aleksander Klumberg
Estonian athletics competitor, coach and sportsperson (1899-1958)
Charles F. Kettering
American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents (1876–1958)
Oscar Torp
23rd Prime Minister of Norway (1893–1958)
Nuri as-Said
Iraqi politician (1888–1958)
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
former Prime Minister of South Africa (1893–1958)
Abd al-Ilah
Regent and Crown Prince of Iraq (1913–1958)
James Branch Cabell
American author (1879–1958)
Cyril M. Kornbluth
American science fiction author (1923-1958)
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia
Russian noble (1890–1958)
Pierre-Étienne Flandin
French prime minister (1889-1958)
Evgeny Shvarts
Russian writer (1896-1958)
Billy Meredith
Welsh footballer (1874–1958)
Tommy Taylor
English footballer (1932–1958)