* Albert G. Ingalls ( 1888 – 1958 ), editor of Amateur Telescope Making, Vols.

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

* Atlas, a van made by the Standard Motor Company ( UK ) 1958 – 62

* 1958 – Will Sergeant, English guitarist ( Echo & the Bunnymen and Electrafixion )

* 1958 – Howard Stableford, English actor and host

* 1958 – Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter

* 1958 – Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and actor

* 1958 – Sergei Krikalev, Russian astronaut

* 1958 – Tom Lanoye, Belgian author

* 1958 – Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player ( DeBarge )

* 1958 – Amanda Bearse, American actress

* 1958 – James Lileks, American columnist

* 1889 – Camillien Houde, Canadian politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal ( d. 1958 )

* 1958 – David Feherty, Irish golfer

* 1958 – Feargal Sharkey, Irish singer ( The Undertones )

* 1958 – Randy Shughart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1993 )

Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.

* 1958 – Arshad Ayub, Indian cricketer

* 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter ( 10, 000 Maniacs ) ( d. 2000 )

* 1958 – Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian skier

* 1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer ( Doll Congress )

* 1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player

* 1958 – The nuclear submarine travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.

* 1878 – Dick Grant, Canadian runner ( d. 1958 )

* 1958 – Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins.

Bell was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1958.

Avro Canada underwent a major expansion through aircraft development and acquisition of aircraft engine, mining, steel, railway rolling stock, computers, electronics, and other businesses to become, by 1958, Canada's third largest company directly employing over 14, 000 people and providing 45 % of the parent company's revenues.

Wheeler was voted the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's most outstanding athlete of 1958 and was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.

He was named Canada's baseball player of the half century and in 1958 was the first baseball player elected to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.

The Canadian federal election of 1958 was the 24th general election in Canada's history.

In 1958, at the height of the Cold War and the infancy of the ICBM threat, Carp was selected as the site for one of the Emergency Government Headquarters ( also known as Diefenbunkers, named for Canada's 13th Prime Minister John Diefenbaker ) complexes being constructed across Canada.

It was Canada's worst mining disaster since 1958, when a cave-in at another Nova Scotia coal mine in Springhill claimed the lives of 75 miners.

With assistance from Canada's Department of Defence Production, DHC built a prototype demonstrator that flew for the first time on 30 July 1958.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Allied Arts Medal in 1958.

He then became Canada's ambassador to Italy until finally, in 1958, he was named ambassador to France, where he served until his retirement in 1963.

Blanche Margaret Meagher, ( January 27, 1911 – February 25, 1999 ) was a Canadian diplomat and, in 1958, was appointed Canada's first woman ambassador.

As Canada's first dedicated cancer hospital, it opened officially and began to receive patients in 1958, although its research divisions had begun work a year earlier.

In 1958, Cogswell, along with close friend and travelling poet Warren Kinthompson and a group of students and faculty from the University of New Brunswick founded Fiddlehead Poetry Books, now one of Canada's important small press publishers operating as Goose Lane Editions.

The bombers, whose names all started with the letter " V " and which were known collectively as the V-class, were the Vickers Valiant ( first flew 1951, entered service 1955 ), Avro Vulcan ( first flew 1952, in service 1956 ) and Handley Page Victor ( first flew 1952, in service 1958 ).

Through 1958, Avro spent $ 2. 5 million and the USAF $ 5. 4 million funding the project.

On Friday, 24 October 1958, after sustaining a massive electrical systems failure at 30, 000 feet while flying over the Detroit area, an RAF Avro Vulcan four-engine bomber crashed into the 170 block of Ashland on the south side of the city.

The first Avrocar being readied at the Avro factory in 1958

In 1958, he was chosen as the chief development test pilot of the new CF-105 Avro Arrow program.

Żurakowski retired from active test flying in November 1958 but continued with the Avro Aircraft company as an engineer in the Flight Test Office.

Reformed at RAF Scampton on 1 May 1958 as part of RAF Bomber Command's V-bomber force maintaining the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent, the squadron was equipped with the Avro Vulcan B1 from Aug 1960.

The flight was reformed, once again, by the merger of the Avro Lincoln element of 199 Squadron, called Arrow Squadron and Antler Squadron, to become No. 1321 ( ECM ) Flight RAF at RAF Hemswell on 1 October 1957, disbanding on 31 March 1958 and absorbed by the Bomber Command Bombing School.

On 20 September 1958, the prototype Avro Vulcan VX770 crashed during a fly past at RAF Syerston Battle of Britain At Home display.

* Alliott Verdon Roe ( 1877 – 1958 ), pioneer British pilot and aircraft manufacturer, and founder in 1910 of the Avro company

In 1958, Pearkes recommended that the Avro Arrow programme be cancelled.

In 1958, RCAF Station Trenton became the destination for several test flights of the CF-105 Arrow, flying from the Avro Canada manufacturing facility at Malton Airport.