Died in 1958

Wolcott Gibbs American Writer August 16
Michael Todd American Producer March 22
Mel Ott American Athlete November 21
Maurice de Vlaminck French Artist October 11
Mary Roberts Rinehart American Novelist September 22
Mary Ritter Beard American Historian August 14
Marie Stopes Scottish Author October 2
Marie Carmichael Stopes Scottish Author October 2
Lord Halifax British Politician December 23
Lion Feuchtwanger German Novelist December 21
Mike Todd American Producer March 22
Ralph Vaughan Williams English Composer August 26
William Christopher Handy American Musician March 28
Walter Elliot Scottish Politician January 8
Tyrone Power American Actor November 15
Tris Speaker American Athlete December 8
Samuel Hopkins Adams American Writer November 15
Rose Macaulay English Novelist October 30
Ronald Colman English Actor May 19
Robert W. Service Scottish Poet September 11
Robert Service Scottish Poet September 11
Lew Brown American Musician February 5
Leonard Alfred George Strong English Writer
Juan Ramon Jimenez Spanish Poet May 29
Douglas Mawson Australian Explorer
Dorothy Canfield Fisher American Author November 9
Doris Humphrey American Dancer December 29
Charles Morgan British Novelist
Charles Kettering American Inventor November 25
Big Bill Broonzy American Composer August 15
Babe Zaharias American Athlete September 27
Artur Rodzinski Polish Musician November 27
Andre Bazin French Critic November 11
Edward Weston American Photographer January 1
Elliot Paul American Journalist April 7
John Moody American Businessman
James Branch Cabell American Novelist May 5
Herbert Bayard Swope American Editor June 20
Georges Rouault French Artist February 13
George Jean Nathan American Editor April 8
George Edward Moore English Philosopher October 24
Florent Schmitt French Composer August 17
Ernest Lawrence American Scientist August 27
Elmer Davis American Journalist May 18
Alfred Noyes English Poet June 28