Famous People Who Died in 1958

• Franklin, Rosalind

  The woman whose crystal studies showed the structure of DNA

• Handy, W.C.

  The composer called "The Father of the Blues"

• Lawrence, Ernest O.

  Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the cyclotron

• Mawson, Douglas

  Australian explorer of the Antarctic

• Nagy, Imre

  Martyred hero of Hungary's 1956 revolution

• Service, Robert W.

  The England-born, Scotland-raised poet who wrote "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

• Stopes, Marie

  The UK birth control pioneer who wrote 'Married Love'

• Trundle, Guy

  The secret lover of Wallis Simpson

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