List of Famous people who died in 1958

Pauls Stradiņš was a Latvian professor, physician, and surgeon who founded the Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga.

Zack Williams was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films including leading roles as in Son of Ingagi. His career spanned silent films from the early 1920s to talkie (sound) films of the late 1940s. He appeared with other black actors in the 1929 film Hearts in Dixie.

Julian Juliusz Szymański was a Polish oculist and politician.

Ray June, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer during the early and classical Hollywood cinema. His best-known films are Babes in Arms and Funny Face.

Heinrich Otto Abetz was the German ambassador to Vichy France during the Second World War and a convicted war criminal.

Rudolf von Laban, also known as Rudolf Laban, was an Austro-Hungarian dance artist and theorist. He is considered as one of the pioneers of modern dance in Europe as the "Founding Father of the Expressionist Dance" in Germany. His work laid the foundations for Laban Movement Analysis, Labanotation, other more specific developments in dance notation and the evolution of many varieties of Laban movement analysis. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of dance, though his legacy remains tainted by his role in the Nazi movement of the 1930s in Europe.

Hans May was an Austrian-born film composer who went into exile in Britain after the Nazis came to power in his homeland, being of Jewish descent. May composed over a hundred film scores. He wrote a musical Wedding in Paris in 1954.

János Székely was a Hungarian writer and screenwriter. His best-known work is the 1949 autobiographical novel Kísértés (Temptation).

Sir Stephen George Tallents was a British civil servant and public relations expert.

Petrus "Pé" Verhaegen was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.