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• Hermanus van Vuren († 2016)
• Wilhelmina Catharina Maria Vos, Amsterdam († 1978)
• Gerritje Lucia Verhoog, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 2010)
• Herman van Vuren († 2016)
• NN Janssen († 1958)
• Gerrit Pieter (Wimpie) de Graaf, Hilversum († 1958)
• Arne Teunenbroek van, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 2004)
• Johan Kemna, Ambt Delden,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1973)
• Piet Visser († 1958)
• Jaak Thielen, Sint-Truiden, België († 1993)

• Anna Maria Serton (67), Eindhoven
• Adriana van der Leeden (83), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adolph Blussé van Oud-Alblas (80), Amersfoort
• Barend van de Werken (61), Alkmaar
• August Carl Joseph Lücker (76), Roermond, Nederland
• Charles Guillaume Landré (75), Zeist
• Arie LODEWEEGS (90), Nederhorst den Berg
• Alice Brown Harris (67), Upper Township, Richland, South Carolina, United States
• Bernardus Pothuizen (73), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Anna Maria Koeken Kocken Roeken (77), Geleen

• 1956 » Jim Weirich, American computer scientist, developed Rake Software († 2014)
• 1956 » Noel Brotherston, Irish-English footballer and painter († 1995)
• 1956 » Warren Moon, American football player and sportscaster
• 1957 » Tony Bunn, American bassist, composer, producer, and writer
• 1958 » Daniel Brailovsky, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1959 » Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1960 » Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
• 1960 » Ivans Klementjevs, Latvian canoeist
• 1960 » Kim Wilde, English singer-songwriter
• 1960 » Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1940 » Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian and academic (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet and author (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Chris Watson, Chilean-Australian journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1952 » Paul Éluard, French poet and author (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Niels Bohr, Danish footballer, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1965 » Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and bureaucrat, 33rd Vice President of the United States, 11th US Secretary of Agriculture (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Ted Heath, English trombonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Danny Whitten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crazy Horse) (b. 1943)

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.
• April 14 » The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
• May 22 » The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
• June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
• August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
• August 29 » United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The temperature on November 18, 1958 was between 3.5 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.