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• Agada van Duijn, Leiden († 1959)
• Roelofje Jentina ZANDBERGEN, Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Agada van Duijn, Leiden († 1959)
• Walter Delroy Welcome, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands († 1985)
• Germa van Werven, Vorchten (Gem. Heerde) († 2015)
• Leonardus Johannes Maria Leijten, Goirle (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 2009)
• Leendert van den Heuvel, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel († 1963)
• Paul Vrancken († 2013)
• Kathryn Blyth, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, Verenigde Staten († 1959)
• Jan Scholten († 2023)

• Anna Maria Clara Bruinsma (78), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Wees (84), Amsterdam
• Abraham Johannes Feuerstein (68), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia van Zunderd (67), Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
• Aneliza Harvey (95), Norfolk, Virginia
• Cyrla Gitla Cieply (68), Montréal, Montréal (Urban Agglomeration), Quebec, Canada
• Anna Maria Manders (77), Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Berendina Hendrika Geerdink (44)
• Clement Cornelis Swaanenburg (75), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis van Noorloos (77), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1956 » Derek Ringer, Scottish race car driver
• 1956 » Nicanor Duarte, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, President of Paraguay
• 1957 » Dawn French, Welsh-English actress, comedian and screenwriter
• 1957 » Francky Dury, Belgian footballer and manager
• 1959 » Allan Little, Scottish journalist and author
• 1959 » Wayne Gardner, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1960 » Curt Ford, American baseball player and manager
• 1960 » Gábor Pölöskei, Hungarian footballer and manager
• 1960 » Nicola Bryant, English actress
• 1960 » Randy Breuer, American basketball player

• 1941 » Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (b. 1879)
• 1958 » Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)
• 1961 » Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
• 1963 » Jean Cocteau, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1965 » Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Walther Stampfli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Stanley Morison, typographer, known for work on Times New Roman font (b. 1889)
• 1968 » Selim Sarper, Turkish educator and politician, 13th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1899)
• 1971 » Chesty Puller, American general (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)

• 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.
• February 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
• April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
• April 21 » United Airlines Flight 736 collides into a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
• July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
• December 1 » The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
• December 11 » French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.

The temperature on October 11, 1958 was between 6.0 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.