* 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 )

Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry ( Time, Cover, July 14, 1958 ).

In 1958, George Beadle and Edward Tatum received the Nobel Prize for work in fungi showing that one gene produces one enzyme.

Dyson has six children, two of them ( Esther and George ) with his first wife, mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, and the other four with his second wife, Imme Dyson, a masters runner who married him in 1958.

George Edward Moore OM, FBA ( 4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958 ) was an English philosopher.

* 1873 – George Orton, Canadian athlete ( d. 1958 )

In 1958, Davis and Evans were back in the studio to record Porgy and Bess, an arrangement of pieces from George Gershwin's opera of the same name.

A series of critical academic books and articles, however, held in check any appreciable growth of anti-Stratfordism and Oxfordism, most notably The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined ( 1957 ), by William and Elizebeth Friedman, The Poacher from Stratford ( 1958 ), by Frank Wadsworth, Shakespeare and His Betters ( 1958 ), by Reginald Churchill, The Shakespeare Claimants ( 1962 ), by H. N. Gibson, and Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy ( 1962 ), by George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn.

* January 10 – George Orton, Canadian athlete ( d. 1958 )

* American ( U. S. A .)— Baksa, Robert: Aria da Capo ( 1968 ); Bilotta, John George: Aria da Capo ( 1980 ); Blank, Allan: Aria da Capo ( 1958 – 60 ); Smith, Larry Alan: Aria da Capo ( 1980 )— all libretti by Edna St. Vincent Millay ( see above under Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues ).

George Baines was the grandfather of Johnson's mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson ( 1881 – 1958 ).

The Box – Muller transform ( by George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller 1958 ) is a pseudo-random number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed ( zero expectation, unit variance ) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.

George Lucas's creation of R2-D2 was influenced by Akira Kurosawa's 1958 feature film The Hidden Fortress ( USA release 1962 ), particularly Tahei and Matakishi, the two comic relief characters that serve as sidekicks to General Makabe.

Greer Garson was born Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson in Manor Park, Essex, England in 1904, the only child of George Garson ( 1865 – 1906 ), a clerk born in London, but with Scottish lineage, and his wife, Nina ( née Nancy Sophia Greer ; died 1958 ).

An account of this instrument, and of the results of some early years of its operation, are given in Danjon's 1958 George Darwin Lecture to the Royal Astronomical Society ( in Monthly Notices of the RAS ( 1958 ), vol. 118, pages 411-431 ).

* George Stewart Henry ( 1871 – 1958 )

Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

* N. Gregory Mankiw ( born 1958 ), Harvard professor who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush.

In 1958, he guest starred in the premiere episode of NBC's Cimarron City western series, with George Montgomery and John Smith.

* 1958: George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman, and Volume VII, written by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's death in 1953

He was ordained on June 1, 1958 at the same Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church where he had heard George Buttrick preach four years earlier.

Major restorations and reconfigurations were carried out under architect George Pace of York, and the building was back in use in June 1958.