1958

• January 1 – Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian-American hip-hop/rap DJ
• January 4 – Matt Frewer, Canadian-American actor (Max Headroom)
• January 6 – Shlomo Glickstein, Israeli tennis player
• January 7 – Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (d. 2009)
• January 8 – Betsy DeVos, American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education
• January 9 – Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish militant, would-be assassin of Pope John Paul II
• January 10 – Samira Said, Moroccan singer
• January 12 – Christiane Amanpour, British-born Iranian journalist and television host for CNN and PBS
• January 15 – Boris Tadić, Serbian president
• January 20 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor, martial artist and reality show participant
• January 21 – Hussein Saeed, Iraqi football player
• January 24 – Jools Holland, British musician
• January 26
  • Anita Baker, American soul and R&B singer
  • Ellen DeGeneres, American actress, comedian, and television host
• January 28 – Maitê Proença, Brazilian actress

February

• February 8 – Marina Silva, Brazilian politician
• February 9 – Cyrille Regis, English footballer (d. 2018)
• February 10 – Ricardo Gareca, Argentine footballer and manager
• February 13 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress
• February 15 – Shaun Toub, Iranian born-American actor
• February 16
  • Ice-T, American rapper, songwriter, and actor
  • Andriy Bal, Ukrainian football player and coach (d. 2014)
• February 21
  • Jack Coleman, American actor and screenwriter
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer
• February 26 – Susan Helms, American astronaut
• February 27 – Maggie Hassan, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
• February 28 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (d. 2009)

March

• March 3 – Miranda Richardson, English actress
• March 4 – Patricia Heaton, American actress
• March 5 – Andy Gibb, English singer, songwriter, performer, and teen idol (d. 1988)
• March 7 – Rik Mayall, English comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• March 8 – Gary Numan, British singer
• March 10
  • Sharon Stone, American actress and producer
  • Frankie Ruiz, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1998)
• March 14 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• March 20 – Holly Hunter, American actress
• March 21 – Gary Oldman, English actor and filmmaker
• March 24 – Roland Koch, German politician
• March 26
  • Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d. 1986)
  • Hala Fouad, Egyptian actress (died 1993)
• March 28
  • Bart Conner, American gymnast
  • Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
• March 30 – Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor and comedian
• March 31 – Dietmar Bartsch, German politician

April

• April 3 – Alec Baldwin, American actor
• April 4
  • Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. 1990)
  • Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai billionaire businessman (d. 2018)
• April 12 – Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgarian athlete
• April 14 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor
• April 15 – Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer and musician
• April 21
  • Andie MacDowell, American actress
  • Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (Crayon Shin-chan) (d. 2009)
• April 24 – Susan Tsvangirai, Spouse of the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (d. 2009)
• April 25 – Luis Guillermo Solís, President of Costa Rica
• April 26 – Giancarlo Esposito, Italian-American actor
• April 29
  • Sergey Goryunov, Russian football coach and former Soviet player
  • Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress

May

• May 4 – Keith Haring, American artist (d. 1990)
• May 10
  • Rick Santorum, American politician
  • Ellen Ochoa, American astronaut, first Hispanic woman to go into space
• May 12 – Dries van Noten, Belgian designer
• May 20 – Jane Wiedlin, American musician and actress^{[citation needed]}
• May 23 – Drew Carey, American comedian and actor
• May 25 – Paul Weller, English singer-songwriter
• May 26 – Margaret Colin, American actress
• May 27 – Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
• May 29
  • Annette Bening, American actress
  • Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (d. 2011)
• May 30 – Marie Fredriksson, Swedish rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 2019)

June

• June 1 – Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia
• June 2 – Lex Luger, American professional wrestler
• June 3 – Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop
• June 5 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Comoroan businessman and politician, President of Comoros 2006–2011
• June 7 – Prince, African-American musician (d. 2016)
• June 10 – Elain Harwood, English architectural historian (d. 2023)
• June 14 – Eric Heiden, American speed skater with five Olympic gold medals
• June 15 – Wade Boggs, American baseball player
• June 18 – Peter Altmaier, German jurist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
• June 19 – Sergei Makarov, Russian ice-hockey player and coach
• June 22
  • Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress
  • Bruce Campbell, American actor, producer, writer and director
• June 24 – Tommy Lister Jr., American actor and professional wrestler (d. 2020)
• June 25 – Serik Akhmetov, 8th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
• June 27 – Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
• June 29 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese long-distance runner
• June 30
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
  • Irina Vorobieva, Russian pair skater
  • Vasil Yakusha, Belarusian rower

July

• July 1 – Tom Magee, Canadian world champion powerlifter and strongman competitor
• July 2 – Pavan Malhotra, Indian actor
• July 5 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)
• July 6 – Jennifer Saunders, British comedian and actress
• July 7 – Michala Petri, Danish recorder player
• July 8
  • Kevin Bacon, American actor
  • Neetu Singh, Indian actress
• July 10 – Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
• July 11 – Hugo Sánchez, Mexcian footballer player and coach
• July 14 – Jujie Luan, Chinese-Canadian fencer
• July 15 – Jörg Kachelmann, Swiss presenter, journalist and entrepreneur in the meteorological field
• July 16 – Michael Flatley, Irish-born dancer
• July 17 – Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong second wave filmmaker
• July 19 – Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
• July 20 – Billy Mays, American salesperson (d. 2009)
• July 27 – Christopher Dean, British ice dancer and Olympian
• July 28 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. 1981)
• July 30 – Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter
• July 31 – Mark Cuban, American entrepreneur and basketball team owner

August

• August 3 – Lambert Wilson, French actor
• August 5 – Andriy Fedetskyi, Ukrainian football player (d. 2018)
• August 7
  • Bruce Dickinson, English musician (Iron Maiden)
  • Russell Baze, Canadian/American champion jockey
• August 10 – Rami Hamdallah, Palestine politician
• August 16
  • Angela Bassett, African-American actress
  • Madonna, American-born singer, songwriter, and actress
• August 17 – Belinda Carlisle, American singer
• August 18
  • Reg E. Cathey, African-American actor (d. 2018)
  • Madeleine Stowe, American actress
• August 19 – Brendan Nelson, Australian politician
• August 22 – Colm Feore, American-born Canadian actor
• August 24 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
• August 25 – Tim Burton, American film director
• August 27 – Kathy Hochul, American politician, Governor of New York
• August 29
  • Michael Jackson, African-American singer, songwriter and dancer (d. 2009)
  • Lenny Henry, English comedian and actor

September

• September 2 – Zdravko Krivokapić, Montenegrin politician, Prime Minister of Montenegro
• September 6 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor and author
• September 10
  • Chris Columbus, American film director/writer/producer
  • Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama, Shakespears Sister)
• September 13 – Paweł Przytocki, Polish conductor
• September 16 – Jennifer Tilly, Canadian/American actress
• September 17 – Janez Janša, 2-Time Prime Minister of Slovenia
• September 18 – Rachid Taha, Algerian singer and activist (d. 2018)
• September 19 – Lita Ford, British musician
• September 22
  • Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
  • Joan Jett, American rock musician
• September 24 – Kevin Sorbo, American actor
• September 27 – Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
• September 29 – Eduardo Cunha, Brazilian politician, former President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil

October

• October 3 – Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor
• October 5 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and science communicator
• October 8 – Ursula von der Leyen, German politician, President of the European Commission
• October 10 – Tanya Tucker, American singer
• October 13 – Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (d. 2018)
• October 16 – Tim Robbins, American actor and film director
• October 20
  • Mark King, English pop-rock guitarist and singer (Level 42)
  • Viggo Mortensen, Danish-American actor
• October 25 – Kornelia Ender, German swimmer
• October 26 – Pascale Ogier, French actress (d. 1984)
• October 27 – Simon Le Bon, English rock singer
• October 28 – Raúl Pellegrin, Chilean revolutionary, leader of Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (died 1988)
• October 31 – Jeannie Longo, French cyclist

November

• November 5 – Robert Patrick, American actor
• November 7 – Dmitry Kozak, Russian politician and deputy Prime Minister of Russia
• November 12
  • Megan Mullally, American actress, singer and media personality
  • Hiromi Iwasaki, Japanese singer
• November 16
  • Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Kyrgyzstan
  • Marg Helgenberger, American actress
• November 17 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer
• November 18 – Oscar Nunez, Cuban-American actor and comedian
• November 18 – Daniel Brailovsky, Argentine-born Israeli footballer and manager
• November 22
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
  • Ibrahim Ismail of Johor, Sultan of Johor
• November 28 – Tanya Harford, South African tennis player

December

• December 1
  • Charlene Tilton, American actress
  • Javier Aguirre, Mexican football player and manager
• December 6 – Nick Park, English filmmaker and animator
• December 10
  • Cornelia Funke, German author
  • Annelore Zinke, East German gymnast
• December 11 – Nikki Sixx, American rock musician
• December 12 – Sheree J. Wilson, American actress
• December 25
  • Dimi Mint Abba, Mauritanian musician and singer (d. 2011)
  • Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter
• December 29 – Lakhdar Belloumi, Algerian football player
• December 31 – Bebe Neuwirth, American actress

Deaths

January

• January 1 – Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
• January 3 – Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• January 4 – Archie Alexander, American designer and governor (b. 1888)
• January 7
  • Margaret Anglin, Canadian stage actress (b. 1876)
  • Petru Groza, Romanian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Romania and head of the State (born 1884)
• January 8
  • Mary Colter, American architect (b. 1869)
  • Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
• January 13
  • Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (b. 1880)
  • Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
• January 19 – Cândido Rondon, Brazilian military officer (b. 1865)
• January 20 – Ataúlfo Argenta, Spanish conductor and pianist (b. 1913)
• January 27 – Prince Oskar of Prussia (b. 1888)
• January 30
  • Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
  • Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1888)

February

• February 1 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• February 6 – Manchester United footballers killed in Munich air disaster
  • Geoff Bent (b. 1932)
  • Roger Byrne (b. 1929)
  • Eddie Colman (b. 1936)
  • Mark Jones (b. 1933)
  • David Pegg (b. 1935)
  • Frank Swift (b. 1913)
  • Tommy Taylor (b. 1932)
  • Liam "Billy" Whelan (b. 1935)
• February 11 – Ernest Jones, Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1879)
• February 13
  • Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)
  • Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
• February 14 – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (b. 1922)
• February 16 – Situ Qiao, Chinese painter (b. 1902)
• February 21
  • Henryk Arctowski, Polish scientist and explorer (b. 1871)
  • Duncan Edwards English footballer, died from injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster (b. 1936)
• February 27 – Harry Cohn, American film producer (b. 1891)

March

• March 1 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (b. 1871)
• March 8 – Brian Swift, Australian cricketer, car accident (b. 1937)
• March 11 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (born 1891)
• March 12 – Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (b. 1878)
• March 17 – Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877)
• March 22 (in plane crash)
  • Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
  • Art Cohn, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
• March 23 – Florian Znaniecki, Polish philosopher and sociologist (b, 1882)
• March 24
  • Herbert Fields, American librettist and screenwriter (b. 1897)
  • Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1874)^{[citation needed]}
• March 25 – Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian politician (b. 1915)
• March 26 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• March 28
  • W. C. Handy, African-American blues composer (b. 1873)
  • Chuck Klein, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1904)

April

• April 2
  • Willie Maley, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1868)
  • Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist (b. 1900)
• April 4 – María Luisa Sepúlveda, Chilean composer (b. 1898)
• April 5 – Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (born 1884)
• April 8
  • Alcibíades Arosemena, Panamanian politician, 15th President of Panama (b. 1883)
  • Frank Kingdon-Ward, English botanist and explorer (b. 1885)
• April 15 – Estelle Taylor, American actress (b. 1894)
• April 16 – Rosalind Franklin, English crystallographer (b. 1920)
• April 17 – Rita Montaner, Cuban singer, pianist and actress (b. 1900)
• April 18 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
• April 19 – Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (b. 1874)

May

• May 2 – Henry Cornelius, South African-born director (b. 1913)
• May 5 – James Branch Cabell, American writer (b. 1879)
• May 7
  • Joan Comorera, Spanish politician (b. 1894)
  • Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor (b. 1880)
• May 9 – Koshirō Oikawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1883)
• May 18 – Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and essayist (b. 1881)
• May 19
  • Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
  • Marie Pujmanová, Czechoslovak poet and novelist (b. 1893)
  • Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870)
• May 20 – Frédéric François-Marsal, 59th Prime Minister of France (b. 1874)
• May 26 – Constantin Cantacuzino, Romanian aviator (b. 1905)
• May 29 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

June

• June 8 – Nicola da Gesturi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1882)
• June 9 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
• June 16
  • Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (executed) (b. 1896)
  • Nereu Ramos, Brazilian politician, 20th President of Brazil (b. 1888)
• June 20 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• June 24 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1876)
• June 27 – Vytautas Augustauskas, Soviet educator (b. 1904)

July

• July 2 – Martha Boswell, American singer (b. 1905)
• July 3 – Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1867)
• July 5 – Patriarch Vikentije II (b. 1890)
• July 9 – James H. Flatley, American naval aviator and admiral (b. 1906)
• July 14 (killed during coup d'état):
  • King Faisal II of Iraq (b. 1935; assassinated)
  • 'Abd al-Ilah, Prince of Iraq (b. 1913; assassinated)
  • Ibrahim Hashem, Jordanian lawyer and politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1888)
• July 15 – Nuri al-Said, Iraqi politician, 7th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1888)
• July 18 – Henri Farman, French aviator and aircraft company founder (b. 1874)
• July 25 – Harry Warner, American studio executive (b. 1881)
• July 26 – Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr., American Korean War fighter ace and test pilot (b. 1928)
• July 27 – Claire Lee Chennault, American aviator and general, leader of the Flying Tigers (b. 1893)

August

• August 1 – Albert E. Smith, English-born American stage magician, film director and producer (b. 1875)
• August 2 – Michele Navarra, Italian Sicilian Mafia boss (b. 1905)
• August 4 – Mario Zanin, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and monsignor (b. 1890)
• August 8 – Barbara Bennett, American actress (b. 1906)
• August 9 – Felipe Boero, Argentine composer (b. 1884)
• August 12 – Augustus Owsley Stanley, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1867)
• August 14 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
• August 16
  • José Domingues dos Santos, Portuguese politician, 89th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1885)
  • Paul Panzer, German actor (b. 1872)
• August 18 – Bonar Colleano, American actor (b. 1924)
• August 21
  • Stevan Hristić, Yugoslav composer (b. 1885)
  • Kurt Neumann, German film director (b. 1908)
• August 22 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• August 24
  • Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
  • J. G. Strijdom, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1893)
• August 26 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
• August 27 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• August 29 – Marjorie Flack, American artist, illustrator and writer (b. 1897)

September

• September 11
  • Hans Grundig, German artist (b. 1901)
  • Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
• September 16 – Alma Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
• September 23 – Walter Friedrich Otto, German classical philologist (b. 1874)
• September 25 – John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878)
• September 27 – Adolfo Salazar, Spanish historian, composer and diplomat (b. 1890)
• September 30 – Estate Tatanashvili, Soviet general (b. 1902)

October

• October 9 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
• October 11 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)
• October 14 – Sir Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist and polar explorer (b. 1882)
• October 16 – Michalis Souyioul, Greek composer (b. 1906)
• October 17 – Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence (b. 1876)
• October 24 – G. E. Moore, British philosopher of (Principia Ethica) (b. 1873)
• October 29 – Zoë Akins, American playwright, poet and author (b. 1886)

November

• November 4 – Sam Zimbalist, American film producer (b. 1904)
• November 8 – C. Ganesha Iyer, Ceylon Tamil philologist (b. 1878)
• November 11 – André Bazin, French film critic and theorist (b. 1918)
• November 15 – Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
• November 19 – Vittorio Ambrosio, Italian general (b. 1879)
• November 24
  • Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
• November 27
  • Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
  • Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian Communist political, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly and head of the State (b. 1892)
• November 30 – Sir Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer (b. 1888)

December

• December 4 – José María Caro Rodríguez, Chilean Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence (born 1866)
• December 5 – Patras Bokhari, Pakistani humorist (b. 1898)
• December 8 – Tris Speaker, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1888)
• December 11 – Alberto Meschi, Italian anarchist (b. 1879)
• December 12
  • Slobodan Jovanović, Serbian intellectual and politician (b. 1869)
  • Milutin Milanković, Yugoslav mathematician, astronomer, climatologist and geophysicist, (b. 1879)
  • Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1900)
• December 15 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• December 21
  • Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist and playwright (b. 1884)
  • H. B. Warner, English actor (b. 1876)
• December 27 – Mustafa Merlika-Kruja, 16th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1887)
• December 29 – Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1895)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
• Chemistry – Frederick Sanger
• Physiology or Medicine – George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, and Joshua Lederberg
• Literature – Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
• Peace – Georges Pire