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• Diane S Snyder, Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois († 2017)
• Carol Ann Solga, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1958)
• Cornelis Marinus Antonius Peeters, Gemert,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)
• Serge Dominique Pierre Marie Ghislain De WASSEIGE, Lubumbashi (Belgisch Congo) († 1996)
• Harald Sylvester Patty, Surabaya, Indonesië
• Antonius Adrianus de Rijk, Leimuiden († 1967)
• Marc LONNOY, Gilly († 2005)
• Marjan Gerie van Laar, Woudenberg, The Netherlands
• Grace Aoko Kinywa, Kisumu / Kenia
• Luc Catteeuw, Izegem,8870,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2007)

• Arie Timmers (71), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Antonie Jan Anthonie van der Sluijs (73), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Buford Larkin Polk (72), Prentiss, Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, United States of America
• Aaltje Goorman (48), Deventer
• Albert Stoffers (78), Vries, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert BROUWER (64), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Nugteren (93), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Jan Anthonie van der Sluijs (73), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Atze Dijkstra (76)
• Arthur Bex (60), Sint-Truiden, België

• 1956 » Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist († 2006)
• 1958 » Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1958 » Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician
• 1958 » Martin Jackson, English drummer
• 1958 » Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author
• 1958 » Peter Tunks, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1959 » Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer, actor, and singer
• 1960 » Ben Bradshaw, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
• 1960 » Gary Gordon, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient († 1993)

• 1947 » Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
• 1949 » Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1951 » Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
• 1954 » Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
• 1961 » Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (b. 1911)
• 1964 » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
• 1967 » Ad Reinhardt, American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1913)
• 1968 » William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Hendrik
6. Robert
7. Pieter
8. Gerrit
9. Willem
10. Petrus
11. Ronald
12. John
13. Johan
14. David
15. Michael
16. Hans

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Petronella
10. Yvonne
11. Margaretha
12. Jacoba
13. Ingrid
14. Linda
15. Elizabeth
16. Hendrika

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.1 million citizens.
• March 19 » The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
• May 13 » May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
• August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
• August 23 » Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
• September 2 » United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
• November 10 » The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

The temperature on August 30, 1958 was between 17.6 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 20.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.