* 1958 – Marc Emery, Canadian cannabis activist

* 1958 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist ( d. 2009 )

* 1958 – Jello Biafra, American singer, musician, and activist ( Dead Kennedys, The No WTO Combo, and Lard )

* 1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist ( d. 1981 )

* 1958 – Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist ( d. 2011 )

* 1958 – Laurie David, American political activist

* 1958 – Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author

** Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist ( b. 1958 )

Luigino Longo ( born 1958 ), also known as Gigi, is a Norwegian-Italian trade union and socialist activist.

Terrance Stanley " Terry " Fox, ( July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981 ) was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist.

Alberto de Jesús Mercado ( born 1958 ), better known as Tito Kayak, is an activist from Jayuya, Puerto Rico, and founder of the Puerto Rican environmental group, Amig @ s Del Mar.

Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian (; born January 14, 1958, in Kuwait, to Palestinian parents ), is a former resident of Temple Terrace, Florida, now living in Northern Virginia, who is a Muslim activist, and former University of South Florida professor of computer engineering.

* Mo Gaffney ( born 1958 ), American actress, comedian, writer and activist

Jackson's support for nuclear weapons resulted in a primary challenge from the left in 1958, when he handily defeated Seattle peace activist Alice Franklin Bryant before winning re-election with 67 percent of the vote — a total he topped the next four times he ran for re-election.

Timothy Francis " Tim " Robbins ( born October 16, 1958 ) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician.

Johann Rudolf Rocker ( March 25, 1873 – September 19, 1958 ) was an anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist.

During the Truman and Eisenhower years, a number of left wing intellectuals found a space for their work in MR, including a number that would gain in stature in the ensuing liberalized decade, such as pacifist activist Staughton Lynd ( 1952 ), historian William Appleman Williams ( 1952 ), and sociologist C. Wright Mills ( 1958 ).

* June 28-Terry Fox, humanitarian, athlete and cancer treatment activist ( b. 1958 )

Mohammad-Ali Abtahi (; born January 27, 1958 ) is an Iranian theologian, scholar, pro-democracy activist and chairman of the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher ( February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958 ) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Alexander Fernando Pacheco ( born August 1958 ) is an American animal rights activist.

Eva Robin's ( born 10 December 1958 in Bologna, Italy ) is a transgender Italian actress and activist.

Yvonne Ridley ( born 23 April 1958, Stanley, County Durham, England ) is a British journalist, war correspondent and Respect Party activist best known for her capture by the Taliban and subsequent conversion to Islam after release, her outspoken opposition to Zionism, and her criticism of Western media portrayals of the War on Terror.

Maureen E. " Mo " Gaffney ( born November 5, 1958 ) is an American actress, comedian, writer and activist.

Militant opposition to the incorporation of Eritrea into Ethiopia had begun in 1958 with the founding of the Eritrean Liberation Movement ( ELM ), an organization made up mainly of students, intellectuals, and urban wage laborers.

) for psychiatric male nurses, as well as the formation of Friendly Male Nurses ( Amicales d ' infirmiers ) ( in 1958 ), the studies on architecture and the projects of construction of a day hospital of for " students and young workers ".

By 1957 they were students in the Vagabond Class of 1958 at the nearby University High School, where again they were on the school's football team, the Warriors.

African-American students were allowed to enroll starting in 1958.

In an interview in 1958, Barker said, " My sister ran a kindergarten and I used to borrow her students for models.

Following the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, Manual became racially integrated without controversy and graduated its first two black students in 1958.

Initially the countercurrent exchange mechanism and its properties were proposed in 1951 by professor Werner Kuhn and two of his former students who called the mechanism found in the Loop of Henle in mammalian kidneys a Countercurrent multiplier and confirmed by laboratory findings in 1958 by Professor Carl W. Gottschalk.

In 1958 Jewish students were more numerous ; they protested against the Bicker system of eating club member selection.

Originally, only 3000 – 3500 students were anticipated, but the post WWII baby boom led to the designation of general campus in 1958, along with a name change from " Santa Barbara College " to " University of California, Santa Barbara ," and the discontinuation of the industrial arts program for which the State college was famous.

UCR's enrollment exceeded 1, 000 students by the time Clark Kerr became president of the UC system in 1958.

In 1958 the one-room schoolhouses in the surrounding vicinity closed and their students transferred to the village school, doubling the enrollment.

Dement, another of Kleitman's students, described the EEG architecture and phenomenology of sleep stages and the transitions between them in 1955, associated REM sleep with dreaming in 1957, and documented sleep cycles in another species, cats, in 1958, which stimulated basic sleep research.

In 1958, following a post-war boom of students and increasing demands for a more comprehensive curriculum, the college was relocated from Newark to Union Township, site of the Kean family's ancestral home at Liberty Hall.

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.

Bliss Knapp ( June 7, 1877 – March 14, 1958 ), the son of Ira O. and Flavia S. Knapp, students of Mary Baker Eddy, was an early Christian Science lecturer, practitioner, teacher and the author of the highly controversial book, The Destiny of the Mother Church.

She met the artist Christopher Pratt while they were both students there ; they married in 1958, three years prior to her graduation with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1961.

Established in 1854 as the Literary and Scientific Society and renamed The University College Literary and Athletic Society in 1921 it merged with the University College Women's Undergraduate Association in 1958 to become representative of all students attending the college.

Among Caro's students were Tim Scott ( enrolled in 1956 ), Phillip King and Isaac Witkin ( 1957 ), David Annesley and Michael Bolus in ( 1958 ).

The Institute began to expand into other buildings in the neighbouring area, including four houses on Bedford Way which were leased as a residential hall for students in 1946, a building on Tavistock Square as home of the music department in 1958, and a few ' huts ' on Malet Street ( formerly belonging to the University of London Student Union ) where the library was transferred.

He received a Bachelor's ( 1950 ) and Master's ( 1952 ) degree in mathematics from Brooklyn College, and a Ph. D. from Harvard in Applied Mathematics in 1958, the last of Howard Aiken's doctoral students, and taught there until 1965, when he joined Cornell University and co-founded its department of Computer Science.

Thompson Conference Center was built in 1958 and is home to freshmen, graduate, adult, and international students.

It opened in 1958, and is mainly used by students and faculty of UW-Madison for instruction and research.

In 1958, local people and school students built the town swimming pool, which was completed in 1961.

A city newspaper, The Chicago American, devoted its entire front page on December 5, 1958, to photographs of the deceased students under the headline, " Chicago Mourns ".