About the day » Friday April 4, 1958Calender converter

• jacqueline joosten, Saint-Léonard-de-Portneu († 1959)
• Richard L. Grooten, Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA) († 2015)
• jeanette van vugt († 2001)
• Adrianus C.M. Buys, Gilze
• Anna Wilhelmina Raafs, Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2008)
• Agenor de Miranda Araujo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil († 1990)
• Jacob Hoek, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Math Huijts, Valkenburg,, Limburg, Nederland († 2012)
• Carnegie († 1958)
• Maria del Carmen Fijo Casado († 2006)

• Alphonsus Marie Louis Hendrickx (93), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• (Stillborn) CARNEGIE (0)
• Arie de Koning (67), Zeist
• Anna Maria Lekkerkerker (81), Polsbroek, Nederland
• Adriaan Foekens (53), Groningen
• Anthony Mario Montano Sr. (61), North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Alphonse Marie Louis Hendrickx (93), Tilburg
• Annemie Angelique van Bronckhorst (55)
• Aagje Johanna van Beugen (79), Utrecht
• Abraham Nottelman (91), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1956 » Evelyn Hart, Canadian ballerina
• 1956 » Tom Herr, American baseball player and manager
• 1957 » Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Graeme Kelling, Scottish guitarist († 2004)
• 1957 » Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese singer and trumpet player
• 1957 » Paul Downton, English cricketer
• 1958 » Cazuza, Brazilian singer-songwriter († 1990)
• 1958 » Peter Baltes, German bass player
• 1958 » Rodney Eade, Australian footballer and coach
• 1959 » Phil Morris, American actor and screenwriter

• 1944 » Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (b. 1878)
• 1951 » George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
• 1953 » Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
• 1957 » E. Herbert Norman, Canadian historian and diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1958 » Johnny Stompanato, American soldier and bodyguard (b. 1925)
• 1961 » Harald Riipalu, Estonian military commander (b. 1912)
• 1961 » Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician and academic (b. 1873)
• 1967 » Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
• 1967 » Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1898)
• 1968 » Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated)(b. 1929)

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. Jacobus

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 4 » Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
• March 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
• March 31 » In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
• 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.
• November 25 » French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
• December 1 » The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.

The temperature on April 4, 1958 was between 5.3 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.