About the day » Sunday January 18, 1959Calender converter

• N.N., Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cathy Anglin, Heard, Georgia, United States († 1959)
• Johannes van den Hof, Heukelum, Gemeente West Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2018)
• Danny Briers, Hasselt, België († 2023)
• Kathy Melissa Anglin, Heard, Georgia, United States († 1959)
• Dini Zonneveld, Castricum († 1998)
• Robert Joseph Elsleger, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Wim Rooding, Gendt (gelderland)
• Marc François, Halle († 1989)
• Gerda Jurjens († 2008)

• Catharina Maria Hubertina Crompvoets (79), Nijmegen (Gl)
• Antonius Hannink (86), Hellendoorn
• Adriana Smulders (91), Heeze
• Anna Honsbeek (25), Leiden, ZH, Nederland
• Adriana Pieternella Klop (72), Brakel
• Christian John "Christ" Schalk (50), Herman, MO
• Adriana Pieternella Johanna Klop (72), Brakel, Nederland
• Beulah Estabula Haggerty (82), Curwensville, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States
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• Adriana Pieternella Johanna Klop (72), Brakel, Nederland

• 1955 » Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 » Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton, English banker and politician
• 1960 » Mark Rylance, English actor, director, and playwright
• 1961 » Bob Hansen, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1961 » Jeff Yagher, American actor and sculptor
• 1961 » Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1961 » Peter Beardsley, English footballer and manager
• 1962 » Alison Arngrim, Canadian-American actress
• 1963 » Ian Crook, English footballer, central midfielder and manager
• 1963 » Maxime Bernier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada

• 1951 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (b. 1867)
• 1952 » Curly Howard, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1954 » Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor (b. 1879)
• 1955 » Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1956 » Konstantin Päts, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Makbule Atadan, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1885)
• 1963 » Hugh Gaitskell, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1906)
• 1966 » Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author (b. 1880)
• 1967 » Goose Tatum, American basketball player and soldier (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1887)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Hendrik
6. Willem
7. Robert
8. Gerrit
9. Pieter
10. Petrus
11. Ronald
12. Paul
13. David
14. Dirk
15. Adrianus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Yvonne
9. Adriana
10. Hendrika
11. Ingrid
12. Margaretha
13. Petronella
14. Linda
15. Karin
16. Anita

• 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
• February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
• June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
• July 27 » The Continental League is announced as baseball's "3rd major league" in the United States.
• August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• October 21 » President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.
• December 13 » Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.

The temperature on January 18, 1959 was between -0.7 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 9.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.