* 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 )

Published in Tintin magazine from September 1958 to November 1959, Tintin in Tibet sent Tintin to the Himalayas in search of Chang Chong-Chen, the Chinese boy he had befriended in The Blue Lotus.

Halliday's first academic position was Assistant Lecturer in Chinese, at Cambridge University, from 1954 to 1958.

In addition, the assistance of Chinese volunteers during the war and the presence of these troops until 1958 gave China some degree of influence in North Korea.

The road came on Chinese maps published in 1958.

The Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought ( Grove Press, 1958 ).

Outside mainland China, it has mostly been replaced by the pinyin system ( developed by the Chinese government and approved during 1958 ), but remains common in history books, particularly those about Imperial China.

The Soviet and Communist Chinese Aid Missions established in 1958 and 1959 were the first important non-Muslim presence in North Yemen.

* December 19 – Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese author and translator ( d. 1958 )

A skilled and able diplomat, Zhou served as the Chinese foreign minister from 1949 to 1958.

The Indians did not learn of the existence of the road until 1957, which was confirmed when the road was shown in Chinese maps published in 1958.

The film, which was set in China, showed the victory of Mao Zedong's armies in the Chinese civil war, which ended with his ascension to power in 1949, but was actually filmed in England during the summer of 1961, using sets from the 1958 film, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which had the same setting.

In mainland China, Chinese names have been romanized using the Hanyu Pinyin system since 1958.

* The Chinese Bell Murders ( written 1953 – 1956, published 1958 )

* The Chinese Nail Murders ( written 1958, published 1961 )

* Robert van Gulik's The Chinese Gold Murders ( 1952 ) and The Red Pavilion ( 1958 )

Chinese troops remained in North Korea until 1958.

and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Princeton University ( 1958 ), Moscow State University ( 1992 ), Chinese University of Hong Kong ( 1997 ), etc.

In 1959 the Communist Party borrowed from the Chinese Great Leap Forward to symbolize a sudden burst of economic activity to be injected into the Third Five-Year Plan ( 1958 – 1962 ), whose original scope was quite conservative.

The romanization system was changed by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1958 to the current system used now in the country, and other foreign and international institutions, like the United Nations, the Library of Congress, the International Organization for Standardization, and is widely used to teach Mandarin Chinese to foreign students: Hanyu Pinyin.

Democratic Kampuchea's economic policy was similar to, and possibly inspired by, China's radical Great Leap Forward that carried out immediate collectivisation of the Chinese countryside in 1958.

The Three Years of Great Chinese Famine (), referred to by the Communist Party of China as the Three Years of Natural Disasters or Three Years of Difficult Period ( or ) by the government, was the period in the People's Republic of China between the years 1958 and 1961 characterized by widespread famine.

Historian Frank Dikötter, having been granted special access to Chinese archival materials, estimates that there were at least 45 million premature deaths from 1958 to 1962.

* The Angel ( 1958 film ), a Chinese film directed by Li Han-hsiang

Many of Dixon's predictions proved false, such as her claims that a dispute over the offshore Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu would trigger the start of World War III in 1958, that Walter Reuther, an American labor union leader, would run for President of the United States in the 1964 presidential election, that the second child of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his young wife Margaret would be a girl ( it was a boy ), and that the Russians would be the first to put men on the moon.