Famous people and celebrities who died in August 1958

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in August 1958. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• Aug. 1 Albert E. Smith
• Aug. 2 Michele Navarra
• Aug. 3 Peter Collins
• Aug. 3 Vito Cosimo Basile
• Aug. 3 Lorenzo Oleario De Bellagente
• Aug. 4 Ethel Anderson

  Australian poet, author, and painter (b. 1883).

• Aug. 4 Oddo Stocco
• Aug. 4 Bella Starace Sainati
• Aug. 4 Giulio Ronga
• Aug. 7 Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

  American author and educator (b. 1892).

• Aug. 10 Dante Fornasir
• Aug. 13 Francis J. McCormick

  American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903).

• Aug. 14 Frédéric Joliot-Curie

  French physicist and chemist, nobel prize laureate (b. 1900).

• Aug. 14 Osman Abdel Hafeez
• Aug. 16 Jacob M. Lomakin

  Soviet consul general in new york city, journalist and economist (b. 1904).

• Aug. 17 Arthur Fox

  English-american fencer (b. 1878).

• Aug. 21 Kurt Neumann
• Aug. 22 Roger Martin du Gard

  French novelist and paleographer, nobel prize laureate (b. 1881).

• Aug. 23 Ruža Petrović
• Aug. 24 Paul Henry

  Renowned Irish painter and educator who made significant contributions to Irish art in the early 20th century.

• Aug. 26 Ralph Vaughan Williams

  English composer and educator (b. 1872).

• Aug. 27 Ernest Lawrence

  Ernest Lawrence was a pioneering American physicist who revolutionized particle physics by inventing the cyclotron, a groundbreaking...

• Aug. 27 Ernest Orlando Lawrence

  Prize laureate for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial...

• Aug. 28 Kay Bojesen
• Aug. 28 John Burn
• Aug. 29 Marjorie Flack

  American illustrator and author (d. 1958).