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• Diana Seeder, Alkmaar († 2018)
• marcel michael antonius (marcel) ebisch, helden-panningen
• Lena Andriena (Ineke) VERLOOP, Vlaardingen († 1979)
• Infant Porter († 1958)
• Wouter Helminck († 1982)
• Wim Ickenroth, Reuver,, Limburg, Nederland († 1970)
• Keesje Stouthart, Eindhoven († 1959)
• Helmut Kovac, Genk, België († 2022)
• Diego Angel Olvera, Sideny, Montana, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Cornelis Willem Maria (Keesje) Stouthart, Eindhoven († 1959)

• Anna van der Molen (82), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna de Jongh (83), Breda
• Cornelia Baars (78), Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Amanda Maria Elodia Roelandt (62), Mechelen, Antwerpen, België
• Antje Hoogland (90), Westhem, Friesland, Nederland
• Daniel David Vlier (58), Michigan, United States
• Cornelis Johannes Engel (84), Rotterdam
• * Johannes Sluijmers (62), Heerlen
• Catharina KLOOSTERMAN (45), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Jacoba Margaretha van Diepenbrugge (79), Velp, Nederland

• 1956 » Paul Molitor, American baseball player and coach
• 1956 » Peter Taylor, Australian cricketer
• 1957 » Holly Dunn, American country music singer-songwriter († 2016)
• 1957 » Steve Davis, English snooker player, sportscaster, and author
• 1958 » Colm Feore, American-Canadian actor
• 1958 » Stevie Ray, American semi-retired wrestler
• 1958 » Vernon Reid, English-born American guitarist and songwriter
• 1959 » Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1959 » Mark Williams, English actor
• 1959 » Pia Gjellerup, Danish lawyer and politician, Danish Minister of Finance

• 1942 » Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883)
• 1950 » Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (b. 1888)
• 1951 » Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (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. 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.
• January 3 » The West Indies Federation is formed.
• March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
• October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
• October 11 » NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
• November 25 » French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
• December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

The temperature on August 22, 1958 was between 13.8 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.