List: 1958 deaths

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•  Samuel Antek

  Samuel Antek (died 1958) was a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Arturo Toscanini. He joined at the orchestra's inception in 1937 and played with it until its dissolution in 1954. Antek was also a conductor and served as music director for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra from 1947 to 1958. Antek wrote a series of essays about Toscanini describing the famed Italian conductor from the point of view of an orchestral musician.

  

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•  Samuel Stritch

  Samuel Alphonsius Stritch (August 17, 1887—May 27, 1958) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Chicago from 1940 to 1958 and as Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Propagation of the Faith from March 1958 until his death later that year. He was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope Pius XII in 1946.

  

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•  Bliss Knapp

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

  

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•  Frédéric Joliot-Curie

  Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.

  

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•  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (24 December 1881–29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the French concept of "pure poetry."

  

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•  Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

  Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH, PC, QC (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations and a defender of it, whose service to the organisation saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937.

  

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•  Edna Purviance

  Edna Purviance (October 21, 1895 – January 11, 1958) was an American actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with Chaplin.

  

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•  Erhard Hübener

  Dr. Erhard Hübener (August 4, 1881 – June 3, 1958) was an East German politician and member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany. Hübener was born in Tacken (now part of Groß Pankow), Province of Brandenburg. He served as an officer in World War I. After attending the school at Pforta, Hübener studied history and political science at Kiel and Berlin.

  

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•  Giacomo Balla

  Giacomo Balla (July 18, 1871 – March 1, 1958) was an Italian painter.

  

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•  Betty MacDonald

  Betty MacDonald (March 26, 1908 - February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children's books. She is associated with the Pacific Northwest, especially Washington state.

  

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•  Henry Kuttner

  Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 4, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

  

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•  John Randolph Hearst

  John Randolph Hearst was an American business executive and the third son of William Randolph Hearst. He was said by some to have the most executive talent among the sons of William Randolph Hearst, and like his brothers worked for the Hearst Corporation. Any question of his rivaling the non-family executives who constituted a majority of the trustees of his father's will, however, was rendered moot by his untimely death. He left four children, including John Randolph Hearst, Jr.

  

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•  Angelina Weld Grimké

  Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958) was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright and poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance and was one of the first African-American women to have a play performed.

  

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•  Christabel Pankhurst

  Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, DBE (22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914 she became a fervent supporter of the war against Germany. After the war she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement.

  

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•  William Halcrow

  Sir William Halcrow (July 1883 - 1958) was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the 20th century, particularly renowned for his expertise in the design of tunnels and for projects during the Second World War.

  

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•  Kurt Alder

  Kurt Alder (10 July 1902 – 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

  

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•  Alvin M. Strauss

  Alvin M. Strauss (1895 – 1958) was an Indiana architect and designer of many landmark buildings in Indiana and Ohio during the early twentieth century. He was born in Kendallville, Indiana to German immigrants and later apprenticed under prominent architects in Chicago and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Strauss founded his own practice in Fort Wayne in 1918.

  

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•  'Abd al-Ilah

  Crown Prince Abd al-Ilāh of Iraq, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (also written Abdul Ilah, Abdul Illah, or Abdullah), (1913-July 14, 1958), was a cousin and brother-in-law of King Ghazi of the Kingdom of Iraq. Abdul Ilah served as Regent for King Faisal II from April 4, 1939 to May 2, 1953, when Faisal came of age. He also held the title of Crown Prince of Iraq from 1943.

  

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•  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (January 26, 1871 – November 15, 1958) was an American writer, best known for his investigative journalism.

  

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•  Pierre-Étienne Flandin

  Pierre Étienne Flandin was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic, leader of the Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD), and Prime Minister of France from 8 November 1934 to 31 May 1935.

  

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•  Frédéric François-Marsal

  Frédéric François-Marsal was a French Politician of the Third Republic, who served briefly as Prime Minister in 1924. Due to his premiership he also served for two (11 June - 13 June 1924) as the Acting President of the French Republic between resignation of Alexandre Millerand and election of Gaston Doumergue.

  

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•  Josep Irla i Bosch

  Josep Irla i Bosch (October 24, 1874 – September 19, 1958) was a Catalan politician. He was a deputy in the Catalan Parliament and the Spanish Congress in 1932, as an Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya affiliate. He was also the last President of Parliament of Catalonia at the end of Republican Catalan resistance in the Spanish Civil War, before Francisco Franco abolished the Generalitat de Catalunya. He became the President-in-exile of the Generalitat after Lluís Companys was executed.

  

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•  John Held, Jr.

  John Held Jr. (January 10, 1889 – March 2, 1958) was a United States illustrator, one of the most famous magazine illustrators of the 1920s. His cheerful art defined the flapper era so well that many people are familiar with it today. Born in Salt Lake City, he was a son of Annie (Evans) and John Held. His father was born in Geneva, Switzerland and was adopted by Mormon educator John R. Park who brought him to Salt Lake City.

  

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•  Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

  Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (March 1, 1899 – August 10, 1958), known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947, was a British politician who had a quixotic career at political odds to his father, three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Baldwin was educated at Eton College, and grew up in the shadow of his father's political career. He joined the Irish Guards in 1916 and served in France through the remainder of World War I.

  

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•  Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom

  Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom (15 July 1893 - 24 August 1958) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. He was an uncompromising Afrikaner nationalist and was vigorous in extending the apartheid program of racial segregation initiated by his immediate predecessor, Daniel Malan.

  

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