1958 in the United Kingdom

none September 2021 January 2013 1958 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1958 British Grand Prix 1958 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1958 in British radio 1958 in British television 1958 in British music Events from the year 1958 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Harold Macmillan (Conservative) Events 6 January – Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft together with junior Treasury Ministers Enoch Powell and Nigel Birch resign over Cabinet opposition to spending cuts, an event dismissed to the Press the following day by the Prime Minister as "little local difficulties".Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 413–414 0-7126-5616-2 14 January – TWW, the ITV franchise for South Wales and the West of England goes on the air. 6 February – The Manchester United F.C. team plane flying back from a European Cup tie in Belgrade crashes on take-off after refuelling at Munich Airport in West Germany. 21 of the 44 people on board are killed. Seven of them are Manchester United players: captain and left-back Roger Byrne (aged 28), centre-half Mark Jones (aged 24), right-half Eddie Colman (aged 21), centre-forward Tommy Taylor (aged 26), full-back Geoff Bent (aged 25), left-winger David Pegg (aged 22), and inside-forward Billy Whelan (aged 22). Eight of the nine sports journalists travelling on the plane are also killed, including the former Manchester City and England national football team goalkeeper Frank Swift. Among the survivors are 10 United players and manager Matt Busby, who is reported to be seriously injured. Outside-right Johnny Berry and left-half Duncan Edwards are also reported to be in a serious condition.World Laments Manchester Loss The Sunday Sun 7 February 1958 2011-06-16 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KZRlAAAAIBAJ&pg=2438,1146064&dq=manchester-united&hl=en 20 February – The government announces plans to close the 300-year-old naval dockyards at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey which would result in more than 2,500 workers losing their jobs.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/20/newsid_2552000/2552135.stm Historic Sheerness docks to close BBC News 2008-01-27 20 February 1958 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140236/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/20/newsid_2552000/2552135.stm 7 March 2008 live 21 February – Duncan Edwards dies of his injuries in a Munich hospital fifteen days after the Munich air crash. Edwards, twenty-one years old and rated by many as the finest player in England, is the eighth Manchester United player to die. 25 February – Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, initiated at a meeting called by Canon John Collins on 15 January.Andrew Andrew Marr Marr A History of Modern Britain London Macmillan 2007 978-1-4050-0538-8 The campaign peace symbol has been launched on 21 February by Gerald Holtom. 27 February – The final death toll of the Munich air disaster reaches 23 with the death of co-pilot Kenneth Rayment in hospital.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Football%3A+Dudley's+jewel+in+the+crown...+Busby+Babe+Duncan+Edwards...-a0175120455 Football: Dudley's jewel in the crown... Busby Babe Duncan Edwards died 50 years ago today, aged just 21. ROGER CLARKE gives his personal account of a sporting legend and the tragedy of Munich. – Free Online Library 28 February – The Victorian Society, the pressure group for Victorian architecture, holds its first meeting. March – Removal of Derbyshire county administrative headquarters from Derby to Matlock begins.Removal of County Headquarters The Times 28 January 1958 4 2 March – The British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Vivian Fuchs completes the first crossing of the Antarctic using Sno-Cat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams in 99 days.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 19 March – The official opening by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh of the London Planetarium, the first of its kind in Britain.Lieut.-Commander R.B. Michell, "The London Planetarium" on p. 323 Record on Cambridge Core website Accessed 13 May 2017. Public presentations commence on 20 March.The Observatory, Vol. 78, p. 91(1958). Accessed 12 May 2017. 24 March – Work on the M1, Britain's first full-length motorway, begins. The first stretch of the motorway, due to open next year, will run from London to the Warwickshire-Northamptonshire border. During the 1960s, the remainder of the motorway will be built to give London an unbroken motorway link with Leeds some 200 miles away.http://www.roadsuk.com/histories/m1.html RoadsUK -- road histories -- berrygrove to crick: The birth of motorway 1 28 July 2011 9 September 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110909043815/http://www.roadsuk.com/histories/m1.html dead 29 March – Mary Elizabeth Wilson of Windy Nook in County Durham is convicted as a serial mariticide.The day I called on Mrs. Wilson Newcastle Chronicle Newcastle upon Tyne 1958-03-31 3 1 April – The BBC Radiophonic Workshop is created. 4–7 April – The first protest march for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from Trafalgar Square to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire, demanding a ban on nuclear weapons.Caroline Moorehead Troublesome People: Enemies of War, 1916–1986 https://books.google.com/books?id=QCyPAAAAMAAJ 1987 Hamilton 978-0-241-12105-4 7 April – The Church of England gives its moral backing to family planning. 27 April – British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)'s first de Havilland Comet 4 makes its maiden flight. 30 April The Life Peerages Act receives Royal Assent, the Act allows the creation of life peers who can sit in the House of Lords. As life peerages could be bestowed on women, this Act allows them to sit in the House of Lords for the first time.http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/parliamentary_archives/archives___1958.cfm A Changing House: the Life Peerages Act 1958 2008-03-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20080615190058/http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/parliamentary_archives/archives___1958.cfm 15 June 2008 dead The musical My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, opens in London's Drury Lane theatre. 3 May – Bolton Wanderers win the FA Cup for the fourth time in their history with a 2–0 win over Manchester United (depleted by the Munich air disaster) at Wembley Stadium. Both goals are scored by centre-forward Nat Lofthouse.http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1958.htm FA Cup Final 1958 4 December 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20080922161159/http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1958.htm 22 September 2008 dead 15 May – Hilda Harding is announced as Britain's first female bank manager, at Barclays, Hanover Street, London (opening December).Hilda Harding: Britain’s first woman bank manager From the archives Barclays 2017-03-02 https://home.barclays/news/2017/03/hilda-harding-britains-first-woman-bank-manager/ 2026-02-08 21 May – United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21/newsid_2510000/2510289.stm Trunk dialling heralds cheaper calls BBC News 2008-01-27 21 May 1958 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307140232/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21/newsid_2510000/2510289.stm 7 March 2008 live 27 May – 19-year-old Shelagh Delaney's "kitchen sink drama" A Taste of Honey is staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. May – Nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor in Scotland achieves criticality. 4 June – The Duke of Edinburgh's Award is presented for the first time at Buckingham Palace. 7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet which describes the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetricshttp://www.ob-ultrasound.net/lancet.html Ian Donald's paper in The Lancet in 1958 2008-01-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20080112010620/http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/lancet.html 12 January 2008 live as pioneered in Glasgow. 9 June – The Queen officially reopens Gatwick Airport which has been expanded at a cost of more than £7,000,000. 18 June – Benjamin Britten's one-act children's opera Noye's Fludde premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival.Britten Benjamin Reed Philip Cooke Mervyn Mitchell Donald 2008 Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume IV, 1952–1957 Woodbridge The Boydell Press 978-1-84383-382-6 555, 562 3 July The US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement, chiefly concerning co-operation over nuclear weapons, is signed in Washington, D.C. The last débutante is formally presented to the Queen, at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.Christopher Slee The Guinness Book of Lasts Enfield Guinness Publishing 1994 0-85112-783-5 10 July – The UK's first parking meters are installed in the City of Westminster. 17 July – British paratroopers arrive in Jordan: King Hussein has asked for help against pressure from Iraq. 18–26 July – The British Empire and Commonwealth Games are held in Cardiff. 26 July The Queen gives her son Charles (the later King Charles III) the heir apparent's customary title of Prince of Wales, announcing this at the Cardiff games. Abolition of the presentation of débutantes to the royal court. 1 August Blind politician Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale, becomes the first life peer to obtain his letters patent. Carry on Sergeant, the first Carry On film, is released. 8 August – Sociologist Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger, becomes the first female peer in her own right to obtain letters patent. 28 August – The first Miss United Kingdom beauty pageant is held on Blackpool beach; Eileen Sheridan of Walton-on-Thames is the winner.The beauty they gave away Daily Herald London 1958-08-29 2 29 August Project Emily: The first United States Thor missile is delivered to the UK, for operation by No. 77 Squadron RAF at RAF Feltwell. Cliff Richard's debut single Move It is released, reaching #2 in the chart. It is credited with being one of the first authentic rock and roll songs produced outside the United States.https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/moveit.shtml Sold on Song Top 100 BBC 2007-11-18http://iansamwell.com/bio.html The Ian "Sammy" Samwell Story iansamwell.com 2007-11-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20071212061408/http://iansamwell.com/bio.html#america 12 December 2007 dead 30 August Notting Hill race riots in London.http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=2005100819205024 "Notting Hill Riot Special", newsfilm online 2008-03-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001717/http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=2005100819205024 18 June 2008 dead Southern Television, the ITV franchise for the South of England goes on the air. 1 September – The first Cod War between the UK and Iceland breaks out. 5 September – A severe storm over the South-East of England seriously disrupts communications.Rex Kennedy Ian Allan's 50 years of railways, 1942-1992 87 16 September – Relaxation of restrictions on hire purchase. 20 September – 1958 Syerston Avro Vulcan crash: During a high-speed flyby in an air show at RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire, prototype Avro Vulcan bomber VX770 suffers total collapse of the starboard wing and crashes, killing all four crew and three people on the ground. 30 September – Britain's last flying boat is withdrawn from commercial service when Aquila Airways terminates its service on the Southampton–Funchal (Madeira) route, on which it has been using Short Solent planes. 1 October – The UK transfers sovereignty of Christmas Island from Singapore to Australia.Kerr Alan 2009 A federation in these seas: An account of the acquisition by Australia of its external territories, with selected documents Attorney General's Dept (Australia) Barton, ACT 1921241721 329 4 October – BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 G-APDB makes the first commercial transatlantic flight by a jet airliner, from London Heathrow Airport to New York International Airport, Anderson Field via Gander. 11 October – First broadcast of the long-running BBC Television sports programme Grandstand. It would run until 2007. 16 October – First broadcast of the long-running BBC Television children's programme Blue Peter. 19 October – By finishing second in the Moroccan Grand Prix, Mike Hawthorn becomes the first British racing driver to win the Formula One World Championship. 21 October – The first life peers, including the first female peers, enter the House of Lords. The Baronesses Swanborough (Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading) and Wootton (Barbara Wootton) are the first women to take their seats as life peers, and Lord Parker of Waddington, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the first man to do so. 25 October – The Short SC.1 experimental VTOL aircraft makes its first free vertical flight. 28 October – The State Opening of Parliament is broadcast on television for the first time. 10 November – Donald Campbell sets the world water speed record at 248.62 mph (400.12 km/h) on Coniston Water. 24 November – An exhibition of computers held at Earl's Court, London, the first of its kind in the world. 25 November – The Austin FX4 London taxi goes on sale, it will remain in production until 1997. 30 November – During the live broadcast of the Armchair Theatre play Underground on the ITV network, actor Gareth Jones has a fatal heart attack between scenes. 5 December The Preston Bypass, the UK's first motorway, is opened by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/chronologymaps/1958.shtml 1958 CBRD 30 July 2010 20 September 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100920165737/http://cbrd.co.uk/histories/chronologymaps/1958.shtml dead Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated by The Queen when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to Lord Provost.http://www.btplc.com/thegroup/BTsHistory/1912to1968/1958.htm Events in Telecommunications History – 1958 2008-01-27 7 October 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131007024036/http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistory/1912to1968/1958.htm dead The first service by a Royal National Lifeboat Institution Oakley self-righting lifeboat, RNLB J.G. Graves of Sheffield (ON 942) at Scarborough.Oakley Class Lifeboats: an Illustrated History of the RNLI's Oakley and Rother Lifeboats Nicholas Leach Stroud Tempus 2003 978-0-7524-2784-3 10 December – English biochemist Frederick Sanger wins his first Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin" (his second comes in 1980).http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1958/ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958 2008-01-27 24 December – 1958 Bristol Britannia 312 crash: a BOAC Bristol Britannia airliner crashes near Winkton in Hampshire on a routine test flight. 25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time.Houston Rab Houston Robert Allan Scotland: a very short introduction Oxford University Press 2008 Very short introductions 197 172 978-0-19-923079-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=PP8ahdq40P4C&q=Christmas+public+holiday+1958+scotland&pg=PT169 2012-02-29 Undated The first boutique, His Clothes, is opened in Carnaby Street, London, by John Stephen.http://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_britain/60s/carnaby_street/carnaby_street.html retrowow.co.uk Carnaby Street 2009-02-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20090301180324/http://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_britain/60s/carnaby_street/carnaby_street.html 1 March 2009 live British Nylon Spinners introduce the name Bri-Nylon. The first Little Chef diner is opened in Reading, Berkshire, by Sam Alper.Timeline History of Reading http://www.visitoruk.com/Reading/8th-century-T4371.html Welcome to Reading VisitorUK.com 2017-01-10 German-born British mathematician Klaus Roth wins the Fields Medal for his work on the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem. The British Rally Championship in motorsport begins its first year. Publications H. E. Bates' novel The Darling Buds of May, first in the Larkin family series. John Betjeman's Collected Poems. Michael Bond's children's story A Bear Called Paddington, introducing the character Paddington Bear (13 October). Agatha Christie's crime novel Ordeal by Innocence. Lawrence Durrell's novels Balthazar and Mountolive from The Alexandria Quartet. Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Dr. No. Graham Greene's black comedy novel Our Man in Havana. Dr D. G. Hessayon's guide Be Your Own Gardening Expert, first in the best selling gardening book series in history.The Bookseller. https://web.archive.org/web/20100712234516/http://www.thebookseller.com/control/?p=1&msgCode=2 12 July 2010 Iris Murdoch's novel The Bell. Alan Sillitoe's first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. T. H. White's Arthurian novel The Once and Future King (combined edition). Raymond Williams' study Culture and Society. Michael Young's satirical essay The Rise of the Meritocracy. Bunty girls' comic first published (18 January). Births 2 January – Helen Goodman, English lawyer and politician 4 January – Julian Sands, English actor (died 2023) 9 January Steve Gibson, English businessman Stephen Neale, English philosopher and academic 10 January – Caroline Langrishe, English actress 12 January – Christiane Amanpour, journalist 24 January – Jools Holland, British musician 27 January – Alan Milburn, British Labour politician and MP for Darlington 29 January – Linda Smith, comedian (died 2006) 1 February – Eleanor Laing, British Conservative politician, MP for Epping Forest, and Shadow Minister for Women 6 February – Tim Dakin, English bishop and missionary 7 February – Matt Ridley, English science writer 10 February – Billy Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 2023) 11 February – Michael Jackson, British broadcast executive 12 February – Steve Grand, English computer scientist 17 February – Steve Fox, footballer and gardener (died 2012) 19 February Helen Fielding, novelist and screenwriter Steve Nieve, musician 20 February – James Wilby, actor 26 February – Paul Ackford, rugby player 28 February – Ian Burnett, Lord Chief Justice 1 March – Nik Kershaw, English pop singer-songwriter 3 March – Miranda Richardson, English actress 5 March – Andy Gibb, English-born pop singer-songwriter (died 1988) 7 March – Rik Mayall, comedian 8 March Andy McDonald, politician Gary Numan, English new wave singer 10 March – Garth Crooks, English football player and punditGarth Anthony Crooks 13 March Caryl Phillips, Saint Kitts-born writer Linda Robson, actress 16 March – Chris Mole, British Labour politician and MP for Ipswich 18 March – Neil Brand, British writer and composer 21 March Richard Murphy, English tax campaigner Gary Oldman, English actor 29 March – Fiona Reynolds, civil servant and academic administrator 6 April Graeme Base, English-born Australian children's illustrator and author Jackie Gallagher, English footballer 9 April – Nadey Hakim, British-Lebanese surgeon and sculptorMcElroy Damien Anatomy of a Renaissance man: sculptor, musician ... pioneering surgeon https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/anatomy-of-a-renaissance-man-sculptor-musician-pioneering-surgeon-1.1105840 2021-04-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20211108123236/https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/anatomy-of-a-renaissance-man-sculptor-musician-pioneering-surgeon-1.1105840 2021-11-08 The National 2020-11-04 11 April – Stuart Adamson, Scottish rock singer and guitarist (Big Country) (d. 2001)Allan Glen Stuart Adamson: In a Big Country https://books.google.com/books?id=FNm8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT25 1 May 2011 Birlinn 978-0-85790-026-5 25 12 April – Will Sergeant, English rock guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen) 14 April – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director 15 April Abu Hamza al-Masri, Egyptian-born Muslim cleric convicted of inciting racial hatred and murder Sir Robert Smith, 3rd Baronet, British Liberal Democrat politician and MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine Benjamin Zephaniah, Black British poet and musician (died 2023) 18 April – Saviour Pirotta, British/Maltese children's author 22 April – Nick Danziger, British photo journalist 24 April – Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick, British police commander 25 April – Fish, Scottish rock singer 3 May – Sandi Toksvig, Danish-born comedian, author and broadcast presenter 4 May Caroline Spelman, British Conservative politician, MP for Meriden, Shadow Secretary of State for Local and Devolved Government Affairs Jane Kennedy, British Labour politician, MP for Liverpool Wavertree 8 May – Brooks Newmark, American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury 18 May – Toyah Willcox, actress and singer 20 May – Paul Whitehouse, Welsh comedian and actor 22 May – Denise Welch, English actress 25 May – Paul Weller, English singer-songwriter (The Jam, The Style Council) 26 May – Howard Goodall, English composer 3 June – Simon Fraser, diplomat 5 June – Graeme Crallan, heavy metal drummer (died 2008) 6 June – Paul Burrell, butler to Princess Diana 7 June – Ivan Henderson, British Labour politician and MP for Harwich 11 June – Barry Adamson, English singer and bass player 14 June – Nick Van Eede, pop rock singer-songwriter, frontman for Cutting Crew 18 June – Gary Martin, voice actor and actor 23 June – John Henry Hayes, British Conservative politician, MP for South Holland and The Deepings, and Chairman of the Cornerstone Group 29 June – Peter Scudamore, National Hunt jockey 30 June – Pam Royle, British television presenter, journalist and voice coach July – Huw Dixon, Welsh economist 1 July – Les Morton, English racewalker 4 July – Carl Valentine, footballer in Canada 5 July – Paul Daniel, English conductor 6 July – Jennifer Saunders, comedy actress 9 July – Robin Kermode, English actor, author and communications coach 11 July – Mark Lester, child actor 15 July - Monica Grady, space scientist 17 July Suzanne Moore, English journalist Nick Newman, English satirical cartoonist and scriptwriter 24 July – Joe McGann, English actor 27 July Christopher Dean, ice dancer, Olympic gold medallist Vincenzo Nicoli, actor 30 July Kate Bush, art pop singer-songwriter Daley Thompson, decathlete, Olympic gold medallist 1 August – Adrian Dunbar, actor, director and singer 3 August – Lindsey Hilsum, journalist 7 August – Bruce Dickinson, English heavy metal singer 10 August – Rosie Winterton, British Labour politician, MP for Doncaster Central and member of the Privy Council 13 August – Feargal Sharkey, Northern Irish punk rock lead singer of The Undertones 14 August – Philip Dunne, Conservative politician and MP for Ludlow 19 August – Gordon Brand Jnr, Scottish professional golfer (died 2019) 20 August – Nicholas Bell, English actor based in Australia 29 August – Lenny Henry, entertainer 30 August – Muriel Gray, Scottish author, broadcaster and journalist 31 August – Stephen Cottrell, English Anglican bishop 13 September – Bobby Davro, actor, comedian and impressionist 18 September – Linda Lusardi, model, actress and television presenter 21 September – Simon Mayo, radio presenter 23 September – Danielle Dax, British experimental musician 27 September – Irvine Welsh, Scottish novelist 4 October – Anneka Rice, Welsh-born television presenter 14 October – Thomas Dolby, English musician 17 October – Craig Murray, UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan 20 October Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler Mark King, English jazz-funk singer and slap-style bass guitarist (Level 42) 25 October – Phil Daniels, English actor 26 October – Shaun Woodward, British Labour politician and MP for St Helens South 27 October – Simon Le Bon, English new wave singer-songwriter (Duran Duran) 29 October – Cherry Vann, archbishop 1 November – Mark Austin, English newsreader (ITN) 2 November – Mark Phillip Hendrick, British Labour Co-operative politician and MP for Preston 6 November – Cath Kidston, English fashion designer and businesswoman 19 November – Isabella Blow, British fashion journalist (died 2007) 22 November – Bruce Payne, English actor and producer 24 November Gregory Doran, theatre director Nick Knight, photographer 25 November – Kim Ashfield, model 1 December – Keith Chapman, English children's television programme creator 2 December – Andrew George, British Liberal Democrat politician and MP for St Ives 5 December – Dynamite Kid, English professional wrestler (died 2018) 6 December – Nick Park, filmmaker and animator 7 December – Tim Butler, musician (The Psychedelic Furs) 14 December Mike Scott, Scottish folk rock singer-songwriter (The Waterboys) Spider Stacy, English Celtic punk tin whistle player and singer-songwriter (The Pogues) 18 December Joseph Comerford, hydraulic engineer (died 2000) Geordie Walker, rock guitarist (Killing Joke) (died 2023) 19 December Steven Isserlis, English cellist Limahl, English pop singer 21 December – Kevin Blackwell, English football manager Unknown date Adrian Bradshaw, army commander Omar Bakri Muhammad, Syrian-born Muslim cleric Deaths 4 January – John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, civil servant and politician (born 1882) 16 January – Aubrey Mather, actor (born 1885) 6 February – Manchester United F.C. players and associates in Munich air disaster: Roger Byrne, team captain (born 1929) Geoff Bent (born 1932) Eddie Colman (born 1936) Mark Jones (born 1933) David Pegg (born 1935) Tommy Taylor (born 1932) Billy Whelan (born 1935) Frank Swift (born 1913), journalist and former Manchester City F.C. and England goalkeeper 7 February – Walter Kingsford, actor (born 1882)Walter Kingsford Dies in Hollywood Appleton Post-Crescent Associated Press 8 February 1958 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2680900/walter_kingsford_obituary/ Newspapers.com 11 February – Ernest Jones, Welsh psychoanalyst (born 1879)Davies Thomas Gruffydd 2001 Jones, Alfred Ernest s2-JONE-ERN-1879 National Library of Wales 25 March 2023 13 February – Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (born 1880) 21 February – Duncan Edwards, Manchester United footballer, died in Munich air disaster (born 1936) 26 March – Phil Mead, English cricketer (born 1887) 16 April – Rosalind Franklin, British crystallographer (born 1920) 19 April – Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (born 1874) 3 May – Frank Foster, English cricketer (born 1889) 19 May – Ronald Colman, English actor (born 1891) 22 May – Sir Richmond Palmer, lawyer and colonial administrator (born 1877) 9 June – Robert Donat, English film and stage actor (born 1905) 13 June – Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (born 1887) 28 June – Alfred Noyes, English poet (born 1880) 15 July – Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (born 1914) 20 July – Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, political campaigner and businesswoman (born 1883) 3 August – Peter Collins, British Formula 1 driver, died in German Grand Prix (born 1931)https://www.goodwood.com/grr/columnists/doug-nye/2016/11/doug-nye-peter-collins/ Doug Nye Inside the world of the incredible Peter Collins goodwood.com 9 November 2016 28 March 2021 26 August – Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer (born 1872) 3 September – Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, British army general (born 1889) 23 September – Alfred Piccaver, British-born American operatic tenor (born 1884) 25 September – Henry Arthur Evans, Welsh Conservative politician (born 1898) 2 October – Marie Stopes, birth control advocate, suffragette and palaeontologist (born 1880) 17 October – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (born 1876) 24 October – G. E. Moore, philosopher, author of Principia Ethica (born 1873) 28 October – Stephen Butterworth, physicist and engineer (born 1885) 30 October – Rose Macaulay, novelist (born 1881) 24 November – Lord Robert Cecil, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1864) 30 November – Gareth Jones, Welsh-born television actor (born 1925) 2 December – Alan McKibbin, Northern Irish politician (born 1892) 5 December – Willie Applegarth, Olympic sprinter, died in United States (born 1890) See also 1958 in British music 1958 in British television List of British films of 1958 References 1958 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1958 by country Category:1950s in the United Kingdom Category:1958 in Europe