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• Catharina Brouwer, Wormer
• Michael John Aalbers, Des Moines (Polk), Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Nicola Louise de Paula Lopes, 's-Gravenhage Koninkrijk der Nederlanden († 1988)
• Gabriel Peter Johannes Maria Wibier, Papendrecht († 2013)
• Barry Barefoot, Pool's Island, Newfoundland, Canada († 1958)
• Baby Twin Boys Folkringa († 1958)
• Maarten WIJNAND († 2003)
• Paul Kammarmeyer († 2017)
• nn van der mijl, tegelen († 1958)
• Peter Johannes Cornelis Gerardus Bruin, Beek Ubbergen GL NL († 2020)

• Alice Eugénie Theodora Marie Hubertine Regout (82), Rozendaal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Bernardus Meuwese (81), Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Tap (82), Den Haag
• Anna Hendrika Hunze (80)
• Andrew Ganzevoort (86), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Catharina Dorothea Peterson (48), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alcie Jane Toler (77), Grant, Arkansas
• Adrianus Johannes Jacobus Crama (69), Leiden
• Catherine O'Leary (69), Rock County, Wisconsin
• Christiaan Frederik Hartog (72), Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1956 » Michel Houellebecq, French author, poet, screenwriter, and director
• 1957 » David Beasley, American lawyer and politician, 113th Governor of South Carolina
• 1957 » Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1957 » Keena Rothhammer, American swimmer
• 1958 » Greg Germann, American actor and director
• 1958 » Paul Ackford, English rugby player
• 1958 » Susan Helms, American general, engineer, and astronaut
• 1958 » Tim Kaine, American lawyer and politician, 70th Governor of Virginia
• 1959 » Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkish political scientist, academic, and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1959 » Rolando Blackman, American basketball player and coach

• 1945 » Sándor Szurmay, Minister of Defence of the Hungarian portion of Austria-Hungary (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1868)
• 1950 » Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Sabiha Kasimati, Albanian ichthyologist (b. 1912) executed with 20 others
• 1952 » Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
• 1966 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)

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.
• January 1 » European Economic Community is established.
• February 5 » A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
• 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.
• June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
• November 10 » The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

The temperature on February 26, 1958 was between -6.6 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north.