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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Journalist
26-Jan-1871 15-Nov-1958 The Great American Fraud
Zoë Akins
Playwright
30-Oct-1886 29-Oct-1958 The Greeks Had a Word For It
Kurt Alder
Chemist
10-Jul-1902 20-Jun-1958 Diels-Alder Reaction
John Anderson
Politician
8-Jul-1882 4-Jan-1958 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1943-45
Giacomo Balla
Painter
17-Jul-1871 1-Mar-1958 Italian futurist painter
William Berke
Film Director
3-Oct-1903 15-Feb-1958 Dick Tracy
Claude G. Bowers
Diplomat
20-Nov-1878 21-Jan-1958 The Tragic Era
Big Bill Broonzy
Musician
26-Jun-1898 15-Aug-1958 Blues singer and guitarist
Lew Brown
Songwriter
10-Dec-1893 5-Feb-1958 Beer Barrel Polka
James Branch Cabell
Novelist
14-Apr-1879 5-May-1958 Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
Robert Cecil
Politician
14-Sep-1864 24-Nov-1958 Diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient
Ronald Colman
Actor
9-Feb-1891 19-May-1958 A Double Life
Myers Y. Cooper
Politician
25-Nov-1873 6-Dec-1958 Governor of Ohio, 1929-31
Rachel Crothers
Playwright
12-Dec-1878 5-Jul-1958 When Ladies Meet
James M. Curley
Politician
20-Nov-1874 12-Nov-1958 Four-time Mayor of Boston
Joseph E. Davies
Diplomat
29-Nov-1876 9-May-1958 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1937-38
Clinton Davisson
Physicist
22-Oct-1881 1-Feb-1958 Diffraction of electrons
Paul A. Dever
Politician
15-Jan-1903 11-Apr-1958 Governor of Massachusetts, 1949-53
Robert Donat
Actor
18-Mar-1905 9-Jun-1958 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
William F. Durand
Engineer
5-Mar-1859 9-Aug-1958 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Author
17-Feb-1879 9-Nov-1958 Understood Betsy
Rosalind Franklin
Chemist
25-Jul-1920 16-Apr-1958 Photographed DNA's structure
Roger Martin du Gard
Author
23-Mar-1881 22-Aug-1958 Les Thibault
Dwight H. Green
Politician
9-Jan-1897 20-Feb-1958 Governor of Illinois, 1941-49
Robert Greig
Actor
27-Dec-1879 27-Jun-1958 Sullivan's Travels
Raymond Hackett
Actor
15-Jul-1902 7-Jul-1958 Theater and silent film actor
Thurston Hall
Actor
10-May-1882 20-Feb-1958 Mr. Schuyler on Topper
W. C. Handy
Composer
16-Nov-1873 29-Mar-1958 Father of the Blues
Roger Imhof
Actor
15-Aug-1875 15-Apr-1958 This Gun for Hire
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Poet
24-Dec-1881 29-May-1958 Pastorales
Frédéric Joliot
Physicist
19-Mar-1900 14-Aug-1958 Artificial radioactivity
Charles F. Kettering
Engineer
29-Aug-1876 25-Nov-1958 Invented the electric starter
Walter Kingsford
Actor
20-Sep-1881 7-Feb-1958 British-American character actor
C. M. Kornbluth
Novelist
23-Jul-1923 21-Mar-1958 The Space Merchants
Ernest Lawrence
Physicist
8-Aug-1901 27-Aug-1958 Inventor of the cyclotron
Guy Liddell
Spy
8-Nov-1892 2-Dec-1958 British spymaster
Breckinridge Long
Diplomat
16-May-1881 26-Sep-1958 US Ambassador to Italy, 1933-36
John W. Martin
Politician
21-Jun-1884 22-Feb-1958 Governor of Florida, 1925-29
Edward Cardinal Mooney
Religion
9-May-1882 25-Oct-1958 Archbishop of Detroit, 1937-58
G. E. Moore
Philosopher
4-Nov-1873 24-Oct-1958 Principia Ethica
Francis P. Murphy
Politician
16-Aug-1877 19-Dec-1958 Governor of New Hampshire, 1937-41
Imre Nagy
Head of State
7-Jun-1896 16-Jun-1958 Twice Prime Minister of Hungary
George Jean Nathan
Author
14-Feb-1882 8-Apr-1958 American Mercury
Matthew M. Neely
Politician
9-Nov-1874 18-Jan-1958 Governor and Senator from West Virginia
Mel Ott
Baseball
2-Mar-1909 21-Nov-1958 HoF New York Giants outfielder
Franklin Pangborn
Actor
23-Jan-1888 20-Jul-1958 Character actor, 1920s to 1950s
Wolfgang Pauli
Physicist
25-Apr-1900 15-Dec-1958 Pauli Exclusion Principle
Leon C. Phillips
Politician
9-Dec-1890 27-Mar-1958 Governor of Oklahoma, 1939-43
Pope Pius XII
Religion
2-Mar-1876 9-Oct-1958 Signed treaty with Hitler
Tyrone Power
Actor
5-May-1913 15-Nov-1958 Witness for the Prosecution
Edna Purviance
Actor
21-Oct-1895 11-Jan-1958 Leading lady in Chaplin films
Harry Revel
Composer
21-Dec-1905 3-Nov-1958 Poor Little Rich Girl
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Novelist
12-Aug-1876 22-Sep-1958 Circular Staircase
Elisabeth Risdon
Actor
26-Apr-1887 20-Dec-1958 The Roaring Twenties
Artur Rodzinski
Conductor
2-Jan-1892 27-Nov-1958 Conductor, NY Philharmonic, 1943-47
Georges Rouault
Painter
27-May-1871 13-Feb-1958 Expressionist painter of clowns, Christs
W. Kerr Scott
Politician
17-Apr-1896 16-Apr-1958 Governor and Senator from North Carolina
Robert W. Service
Poet
16-Jan-1874 11-Sep-1958 Bard of the Yukon
Bertrand H. Snell
Politician
9-Dec-1870 2-Feb-1958 Congressman from New York, 1915-39
Tris Speaker
Baseball
4-Apr-1888 8-Dec-1958 Exceptional centerfielder
A. Owsley Stanley
Politician
21-May-1867 12-Aug-1958 US Senator from Kentucky, 1919-25
Walter W. Stewart
Economist
1885 Mar-1958 Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55
Marie Stopes
Scientist
15-Oct-1880 2-Oct-1958 Scientist and birth control advocate
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Religion
17-Aug-1887 27-May-1958 Archbishop of Chicago, 1939-58
Sam Taylor
Film Director
13-Aug-1895 6-Mar-1958 Safety Last!
Michael Todd
Film/TV Producer
22-Jun-1909 22-Mar-1958 Around the World in Eighty Days
Helen Twelvetrees
Actor
25-Dec-1908 13-Feb-1958 The Painted Desert
Evelyn Varden
Actor
12-Jun-1893 11-Jul-1958 The Bad Seed
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Composer
12-Oct-1872 26-Aug-1958 Sinfonia Antarctica
Krishna Venta
Religion
29-Mar-1911 10-Dec-1958 W.K.F.L. Fountain of the World
Harold Vermilyea
Actor
10-Oct-1889 8-Jan-1958 Sorry, Wrong Number
H. B. Warner
Actor
26-Oct-1875 21-Dec-1958 The King of Kings
John Watson
Psychologist
9-Jan-1878 25-Sep-1958 Founder of Behaviorism
Roy Owen West
Attorney
27-Oct-1868 29-Nov-1958 US Secretary of the Interior, 1928-29
Herbert O. Yardley
Scientist
13-Apr-1889 7-Aug-1958 U.S. cryptographer during WWI


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