About the day » Thursday August 21, 1958Calender converter

• Albert Paone, Bronx, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Liesbet Berghuis, Apeldoorn († 2023)
• Arnal David Wiles, Odessa Ector TX († 1978)
• Henriette Wilhelmina Maria Zegers, Reek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Robert Martin Schwan, Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota (USA) († 2019)
• Elisabeth Maria Elfferich, den Haag († 2001)
• Robert Martin Schwan, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota († 2019)
• Karl Peter Bremmers, New Zealand († 2016)
• Piet Leenders († 2004)
• Johannis Gunst, Goes († 2004)

• Arie Cornelis Vink (89), Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adriana Teuntje Drooger (60), Poortugaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Betje Hasper (58)
• Alida de Vos (91), Bussum, Bussum, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Arie Cornelis Vink (89), Woudrichem
• Arnoldus Andreas Franciscus Maria Leijten (13)
• Adrianus Gerardus Huët (52), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Martha van Barneveld (84), Wassenaar
• Adriaan Bronner (1942), Crow Wing, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Anje Keizer (75), Avereest

• 1954 » Archie Griffin, American football player
• 1956 » Jon Tester, American farmer and politician
• 1956 » Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress
• 1957 » Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host († 2012)
• 1958 » Mark Williams, Australian footballer and coach
• 1959 » Anne Hobbs, English tennis player and coach
• 1959 » Jim McMahon, American football player and coach
• 1961 » Gerardo Barbero, Argentinian chess player and coach († 2001)
• 1961 » Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist, and animator († 2018)
• 1961 » V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer and coach († 2019)

• 1943 » Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1957 » Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
• 1957 » Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1960 » David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
• 1964 » Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893)
• 1971 » George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
• 1974 » Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937)

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. 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.
• February 3 » Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
• February 22 » Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
• 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.
• April 21 » United Airlines Flight 736 collides into a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
• December 1 » The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
• December 28 » "Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

The temperature on August 21, 1958 was between 12.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.