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Cyril M. Kornbluth
American science fiction author (1923-1958)
Herbert Brenon
Irish film director and screenwriter (1880-1958)
Henry Kuttner
American author (1915–1958)
Mary Ritter Beard
American historian and women's suffrage activist (1876–1958)
Nikolay Zabolotsky
Russian poet, children's writer and translator (1903-1958)
Florian Znaniecki
Polish sociologist (1882–1958)
Ernest Jones
Welsh psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1879–1958)
Claire Lee Chennault
US general
Alfred Weber
German geographer and economist (1868–1958)
Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (1893–1958)
Bhagwan Das
Indian Theosophist (1869-1958)
Florent Schmitt
French composer (1870-1958)
Otto Abetz
Nazi Germany's ambassador to Vichy France during World War II, convicted of war crimes (1903–1958)
Douglas Hartree
British mathematician and physicist (1897-1958)
Slobodan Jovanović
Serbian jurist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and literary critic
Harry Cohn
American film studio executive (1891-1958)
Luigi Musso
racecar driver
Vittorio Ambrosio
Italian army officer (1879-1958)
Frédéric François-Marsal
French politician, Prime Minister of France (1874-1958)
Jesse Louis Lasky
American film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures (1880–1958)
Pál Maléter
Hungarian soldier, Minister of Defence (1917-1958)
Cândido Rondon
Brazilian explorer and officer (1865–1958)
Yutaka Taniyama
Japanese mathematician (1927–1958)
Infanta Eulalia, Duchess of Galliera
Spanish infanta (1864-1958)
Nezihe Muhiddin
Turkish social reformer (1889–1958)
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
American author (1873–1958)
Ludwig Crüwell
German general (1892–1958)
Francisco Olazar
Argentine footballer (1885-1958)
Maurice Germot
French tennis player (1882-1958)
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
Turkish statesperson (1884–1958)
Henryk Arctowski
Polish scientist and explorer (1871–1958)
Princess Louise of Orléans
French princess (1882-1958)
Gustaf Söderström
Swedish athlete (1865-1958)
Wilhelm Zaisser
German politician (1893-1958)
Franz Bardon
Czech hermeticist, illusionist, occultist and writer (1909-1958)
Johnston McCulley
American writer (1883-1958)
Estelle Taylor
American actress (1894–1958)
Grigory Petrovsky
Soviet politician (1878–1958)
Prince Oskar of Prussia
Prussian prince (1888-1958)
Henri Béraud
French writer (1885-1958)
Petr Bezruč
Czech poet and short story writer (1867–1958)
Salama Musa
Egyptian newspaper editor (1887–1958)
Stuart Lewis-Evans
racecar driver (1930-1958)
George Orton
Canadian athlete (1873-1958)
Fyodor Gladkov
Russian-Soviet writer
Georgy Ivanov
Russian poet and essayist
Varvara Stepanova
Russian artist (1894-1958)
Ivan Yefimovich Petrov
Soviet general (1896-1958)
Zoë Akins
Playwright, poet, author (1886–1958)
John Marshall
British archaeologist (1876–1958)
Joseph Klausner
Jewish historian (1874–1958)
Mike Todd
American theatre and film producer
Peter Whitehead
English racing driver (1914-1958)
Paul Rivet
French ethnologist (1876-1958)
Geoff Bent
English footballer (1932-1958)
Carl Westergren
Olympic wrestler (1895–1958)
José Miaja
Spanish general (1878-1958)
Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium
Belgian Royal (1872–1958)
George Jean Nathan
American drama critic and magazine editor (1882–1958)
Harry Warner
American film studio executive (1881-1958)