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• Jaqueline Oosting († 1974)
• Lydia Snieder, Oegstgeest († 2018)
• Jan Schilder, Edam / Volendam († 2005)
• Bouke Jagt, Emmen († 1958)
• Johannes Dirk de Boer († 2022)
• Johannes Maria Hendrikus Courbois, Ubach over Worms, Ned
• Marja Boven, Overschild, Groningen, Nederland
• Maria Petronella Fernanda Buijs, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• Ernest W Banaska **** († 2016)
• Gozewina Fransisca Maria Reijntjes, Poeldijk († 2014)

• Anna Maria Duivenvoorden (67), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Celestina Oosterlinck (78), Wichelen
• Douwe Bakker (72), Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Andreas Antonius van Pel (72), Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Maria Verschuuren (77), Raamsdonk
• Carolina Frederika Veenendaal (90), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus van der Heijden (75), Vught
• Charles Lee McClintock (93), Hamilton, Texas
• Franciscus Cornelis Joannes Woestenborg (51), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Adrianus van den Hooff (57), Tilburg, Netherlands

• 1955 » Mike Huckabee, American minister and politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas
• 1956 » Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter and playwright
• 1956 » Gerry Cooney, American boxer
• 1956 » John Culberson, American lawyer and politician
• 1957 » Jeffrey Daniel, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1957 » Stephen Fry, English actor, journalist, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Chris Offutt, American author and academic
• 1958 » Steve Guttenberg, American actor and producer
• 1959 » Meg Munn, English social worker and politician
• 1960 » Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player and coach

• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894)

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.
• February 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
• March 19 » The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
• 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 2 » Guinea declares its independence from France.
• 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.
• December 1 » The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.

The temperature on August 24, 1958 was between 12.2 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.