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• Jeanette Renee Chisolm Cashion, Jackson, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Luz Marina Salazar Valdes, Carolina del Príncipe, Antioquia, Colombia († 2022)
• Nicolaas Willem Johannes Titus Bonekamp, Baarn († 2011)
• Aaltje Gruis, Heinitzpolder († 2001)
• Willem Johannes Wever, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1958)
• Gaylene Rose Dekkers († 1978)
• Joke Scholten, Nijmegen († 1998)
• Elizabeth Gerda Sonneveld († 1960)
• Robert Deloss Montoney, St. Dennis, Maryland († 1982)
• Irma Bakker († 1997)

• Anna Overpelt (71), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Engelina Prinsen (89)
• Achillus De Saedeleer (63), Erpe
• ARIE SIJBRAND MOERMAN (78), ROTTERDAM
• Celia Irene Victoria OSBORN (57), Camberwell, England
• Christina Johanna (Christien) de Kok (80), 's-Gravenhage
• Cornelis Blokland (87), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anastasia Nicholovna Romanov (57), Ekaterinburg Russia
• Cornelia Jandr Dekker (91), Hilversum, Noord Holland
• Antje Ligthart (89), Raerd

• 1954 » Ricky Skaggs, American singer-songwriter, mandolin player, and producer
• 1955 » Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
• 1957 » Keith Levene, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1957 » Nick Faldo, English golfer and sportscaster
• 1960 » Simon Heffer, English journalist and author
• 1961 » Alan Pardew, English footballer and manager
• 1961 » Elizabeth McGovern, American actress
• 1961 » Pasi Rautiainen, Finnish footballer, coach, and manager
• 1962 » Shaun Micallef, Australian comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Marc Girardelli, Austrian-Luxembourgian skier

• 1947 » Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• 1948 » Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1949 » Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (b.1905)
• 1949 » Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (b. 1870)
• 1950 » Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (b. 1885)
• 1952 » Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect and historian (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)

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.
• January 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
• June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• 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.
• December 9 » The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
• December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.

The temperature on July 18, 1958 was between 9.9 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.