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1958 (MCMLVIII) is the 958th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
- Jack Kilby successfully demonstrated the first working integrated circuit
- Three Flags by Jasper Johns
- BBC Radiophonic Workshop founded in the United Kingdom
- Pop Art was coined in the essay "The Arts and the Mass Media" by Lawrence Alloway
- Atomic age and Jet Age
Music
- Poème électronique by Edgard Varèse
- Chez Régine nightclub opens in Paris
- A Journey Into Stereo Sound, a special effects record released on London Records
Singles
- Tequila by The Champs
- Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran
- Eso Es El Amor by Chakachas
- Rumble by Link Wray & His Ray Men
- Willie and the Hand Jive by Johnny Otis
- The Stripper by David Rose
- Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry
- Milestones by Miles Davis
- Chega de Saudade by Antonio Carlos Jobim
Literature
- Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
- Candy by Terry Southern
- The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
- Bunker Archeology: Texts and Photos by Paul Virilio
- What is cinema?, first volume published by André Bazin
- The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
- A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Film
- French Nouvelle Vague film
- Le Beau Serge by Claude Chabrol
- Mon oncle by Jacques Tati
- Touch of Evil by Orson Welles
- Free Radicals by Len Lye, date of beginning of production
Births
- Ron Mueck, artist
- Adrian Sherwood, musician
- Grandmaster Flash, musician
- Michel Houellebecq, writer
- Keith Haring, American artist (d. 1990).
- Luc Tuymans, visual artist
- Michael Jackson, American singer–songwriter and pop icon (d. 2009).
- Thomas Ruff, artist
- Tim Burton, filmmaker
- Prince, musician (d. 2016).
- Mirka Lugosi, artist
Deaths
- Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
- Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
- Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
- Alfred Noyes, English poet (b. 1880)
- Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)
- Paul Outerbridge American photographer (b. 1896)
- G. E. Moore, British philosopher of (Principia Ethica) (b. 1873)
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