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• Elisabeth Petronella Wilhelmina van Son, s-gravenhage
• Kristof Ferdinand Angele Van de Velde, Beveren (B)
• Maria Theresia Bernadette van Stein, Velsen († 2021)
• Nita Gail Holden († 1987)
• Michael Joseph Jackson, Sr.- DNA5 tbc, Gary, Lake County, Indiana, United States († 2009)
• Hanneke Lampe, Maastricht, Lim, Nederland († 1958)
• Michael Joseph Jackson, Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States († 2009)
• Patrick Timothy Warnock († 1958)
• Gerardus Johannes Wilhelmus Broekman, Groesbeek, Gelderland, Nederland
• N.N. Haase, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1958)

• Arnolda Johanna van Keulen (67), Oisterwijk, Netherlands
• Arnold Pieter van Noort (67)
• Ada Lydia ASHBURY (77), Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
• Albertus Heinen (77), Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alte Walings Tiersma (49), Assen, Gem. Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• anthonetta pieternella LABAN (78), den haag
• Anthonette Petronella Laban (78), Den Haag
• Arnolda Johanna van Keulen (67), Oisterwijk
• Antoinetta Petronella Laban (78), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Cornelia Jansen (70), Breda

• 1957 » Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish singer-songwriter, film music composer († 2001)
• 1957 » Jerry D. Bailey, American jockey and sportscaster
• 1958 » Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor († 2009)
• 1959 » Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1959 » Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1959 » Ramón Díaz, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1959 » Ray Elgaard, Canadian football player
• 1959 » Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
• 1959 » Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist

• 1944 » Attik, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
• 1946 » Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (b. 1897)
• 1951 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
• 1971 » Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)

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 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
• April 4 » The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
• May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
• August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
• December 1 » The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
• 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 29, 1958 was between 16.3 °C and 25.9 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.