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• Jan-Peter Mühren († 2015)
• Margriet Zonneveld, Castricum († 2010)
• Witteveen, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1958)
• Janice Carroll Overall [K |||], March AFB, California († 1967)
• nn derks, sevenum († 1958)
• Lorraine Marie Slumpff, Highland Park, Michigan
• Malo des Bois de La Roche († 1961)
• Eleonora Theodora Sepers, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Peter Vink, Den Helder († 2017)
• catharina henriette gerarda (ien) segers, helden-dorp

• Anna Elisabeth Henderika Eerelman (88), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Annette Arrias (82), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernard (Benno) van Coevorden (35), Haarlem, North Holland, The Netherlands
• Bernard Van Coevorden (35), Haarlem, The Netherlands
• Arie BOXUM (76), Dispatch, Smith County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Jans Abma (46), Haarlemmerliede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cathelina Adriana van Holde (90), Oostburg
• Alexander Somerled Angus Bosville MacDonald (40)
• Albert EBELS (73), Westerbroek Netherlands
• Aart van Ooijen (67), Nederhemert-Noord, Nederland

• 1956 » Carrie Fisher, American actress and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1957 » Julian Cope, English singer-songwriter
• 1957 » Steve Lukather, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1957 » Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1958 » Andre Geim, Russian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1959 » Andy Picheta, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 » George Bell, Dominican baseball player
• 1959 » Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor and producer
• 1959 » Kevin Sheedy, Welsh-Irish footballer and manager
• 1959 » Rose McDowall, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1941 » Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, Australian biologist (b. 1852)
• 1944 » Alois Kayser, German-French missionary (b. 1877)
• 1952 » Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (b. 1871)
• 1963 » Józef Franczak, Polish sergeant (b. 1918)
• 1965 » Bill Black, American bass player and bandleader (b. 1926)
• 1969 » Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet (b. 1922)
• 1969 » Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1882)
• 1970 » Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Minnie Evans, Potawatomi leader (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Nasif Estéfano, Argentinian race car driver (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. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
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.
• February 21 » The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
• March 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
• March 24 » Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
• May 13 » May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
• July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
• August 3 » The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.

The temperature on October 21, 1958 was between 10.4 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.