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• Virginia Elizabeth Marriott († 1999)
• Willie Hugh Nelson Jr., Tarrant County, Texas († 1991)
• Cynthia Barbara Sahly, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois († 1959)
• Wilson Martins († 2019)
• N.N. Bijlmakers, Roermond († 1958)
• Ronald William Wells, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Hans de Best († 1994)
• Jannetje Harmina Bol, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Johanna Maria Leemburg, Amsterdam, 1000, Nederland († 2002)
• Barbara Kemeling, Den Haag († 2013)

• Albert van der Veen (83), Winschoten
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Free (23), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Abraham de Kraker (97), Hilversum (Hilversum), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Angelina Van Aelten (76), Tongerlo, 3960, België
• Alberta Johanna Gerarda Vrenegoor (74), Egmond aan Zee
• Anna Maria de Man (57), Rotterdam
• Albert Reitsema (57), Groningen
• Anna Maria DAMOISEAUX (65), Nuth (Limburg, The Netherlands)
• Christine Hannah Rouwenhorst (64), Sioux City, Woodbury Co., Ia
• Christine Rouwenhorst (64), Sheldon, O'Brien County, Iowa

• 1956 » Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1956 » Greg Phillinganes, American keyboardist
• 1956 » Sergio Marchi, Argentinean-Canadian urban planner and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of International Trade
• 1957 » Ziya Onis, Turkish economist and academic
• 1958 » Andreas Petroulakis, Greek cartoonist
• 1958 » Dries van Noten, Belgian fashion designer
• 1958 » Kim Greist, American actress
• 1959 » Dave Christian, American ice hockey player
• 1959 » Ray Gillen, American rock singer-songwriter († 1993)
• 1959 » Ving Rhames, American actor

• 1956 » Louis Calhern, American actor and singer (b. 1895)
• 1957 » Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1957 » Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1885)
• 1963 » Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor (b. 1875)
• 1966 » Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (b. 1896)
• 1967 » John Masefield, English poet and author (b. 1878)
• 1970 » Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (b. 1901)

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. Hans

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.
• January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
• February 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
• 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.
• 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 13 » During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
• November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.

The temperature on May 12, 1958 was between 6.3 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.