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• Geertje Jongschaap, Blesdijke († 2017)
• Johannes Feskens, Breda (Strijbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland) († 1958)
• Nn Booij, Benschop, Utrecht, Nederland
• Judith Henny Suyderhoud, Paddington
• Christian Francis Van Dam, Washington DC
• Cornelis Johannes Baas, Pernis,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Adriana Schuttinga, Kuinre, Neth
• Geertje Jongschaap, Kalenberg († 2017)
• Geertje Pieters Jongschaap, Kalenberg, Nederland († 2017)
• Michael James GRACHAN, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1994)

• Antoine Marie Ernest Jerôme Goffin (79), Sint-Pieter, Maastricht
• Albert Iedes Koffeman (62), Utrecht
• Anna Maria Janssens (70), Temse
• Andries Miedema (62), Minnertsga (Barradeel-Fr)
• Anna Maria Rotteveel (72), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Maria de Bruijn (81), Steenbergen, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Philippus VATE (45), Zierikzee,Gemeente Zierikzee,ZEELAND,NETHERLANDS
• Alberdina Cosijnse (74), Amersfoort
• Cornelia de Witte (69), Ada Township, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Carolina Elisabeth Alida Wilhelmina van Asperen (93), 's Gravenhage

• 1956 » Steve Ballmer, American businessman
• 1956 » Bill Wray, American cartoonist and painter
• 1957 » Pat Jarvis, Australian rugby league player
• 1957 » Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier
• 1958 » Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 » Derek Statham, English footballer
• 1959 » Emmit King, American sprinter
• 1959 » Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player
• 1960 » Barry Horowitz, American wrestler
• 1960 » Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist

• 1946 » Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)
• 1948 » Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
• 1950 » James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Mary of Teck (b. 1867)
• 1962 » Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
• 1968 » Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873)
• 1971 » Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902)

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.
• January 18 » Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
• March 24 » Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
• August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
• October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
• October 11 » NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
• December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

The temperature on March 24, 1958 was between -4.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east.