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• Susan Mae Timmerman († 1998)
• lion oomen, darfield (nieuw-zeeland) († 2018)
• Hugo Marcel Platteeuw, Roeselare († 2013)
• Antoni, Johanna, Josephien van Kempen, Ewijk
• N.N. Senster, Sittard († 1958)
• Jayne Rebecca "Becky" Linton, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Maria (Marja) Nieuwerth, Almelo († 2007)
• Irene DUIJF, Zaandam († 1999)
• Jannes de Ruiter († 2024)

• Anthonius Pieters (76), Vogelwaarde, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antje Mulder (64), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Resina van Ingen (49), Arnhem
• bastiaan van der HOEK (78), goudswaard
• Aaltje Folkerts Kooistra (81), Grootegast, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Andries Eeuwes de Winkel (77), Rotterdam
• Guernnewig (60), Highland, Madison County, Illinois, United States of America
• Adrianus Timmermans (84), Vught
• Andre Marie Backers (67), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Plasmans (74), Amsterdam

• 1956 » Adam Thorpe, French-English author, poet, and playwright
• 1956 » Klaus Allofs, German footballer and manager
• 1956 » Krystian Zimerman, Polish virtuoso pianist
• 1957 » Raquel Argandoña, Chilean model, actress, and politician
• 1959 » Lee Chapman, English footballer
• 1959 » Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, Ukrainian businessman
• 1960 » Frans Adelaar, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1960 » Jack Russell, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1960 » Matthew Taylor, English businessman and politician
• 1960 » Osvaldo Golijov, Argentinian-American composer and educator

• 1951 » Abanindranath Tagore, Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871)
• 1951 » Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1953 » William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer and educator (b. 1905)
• 1964 » V. Veerasingam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1968 » Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
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 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
• April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
• July 1 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
• October 26 » Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
• October 27 » Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
• December 1 » The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.

The temperature on December 5, 1958 was between 2.3 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.