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• Nn Buijsse, Biervliet
• Werner Adriaan (Wern) Geuijen, Geleen, Limburg, Nederland († 2011)
• John Bernard O'Hare, McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States († 2007)
• Teunis van Rijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• José Creemers († 1979)
• Paulus Fokker, Maarssen (Gem Stichtse Vecht), Utrecht, Nederland Nederland († 1958)
• Brigitte Augusta Hendrika Kessels, Tegelen († 2014)
• Benjamin Ervin Oakley († 1979)
• "Peter" Klemens Stroink, Lingen
• Danny VANHEUSDEN, Genk (Limburg) (B) († 1974)

• Anna Dirks Nijgh (77), Katwijk
• Cornelis Johannes Wittenburg (74), Utrecht
• Alida Gort (89)
• Barend Hopperus Buma (61), Drachten, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus van Spronsen (84), Delft
• Anthonie van Roosmaelen (55), Amsterdam
• ADRIANUS VAN SPRONSEN (84), DELFT
• Aaltje Geerts Jager (88), Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Noback (68), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Catharina Petronella Wilhelmina Wijtenburg (80), Waalre

• 1955 » Don McKinnon, Australian rugby league player
• 1956 » Karen Barad, American physicist and philosopher
• 1957 » Daniel Day-Lewis, British-Irish actor
• 1957 » Mark Kendall, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1958 » Eve Plumb, American actress
• 1958 » Gary Cohen, American baseball play-by-play announcer
• 1958 » Kevin Moore, English footballer († 2013)
• 1958 » Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
• 1960 » Bill Glasson, American golfer
• 1960 » Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian author and academic

• 1951 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1954 » Kathleen Clarice Groom, Australian-English author and screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Harold Bride, English soldier and operator (b. 1890)
• 1956 » Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
• 1959 » Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, India-born English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1891)
• 1964 » Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Paula Strasberg, American actress, acting coach, and member of the Communist Party (b. 1909)
• 1966 » William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1967 » J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (b. 1932)

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.
• March 17 » The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite.
• July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
• July 9 » A 7.8 M_w  strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525m (1,722ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
• October 26 » Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
• October 27 » Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
• November 12 » A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

The temperature on April 29, 1958 was between 2.7 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.