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• Geert Denolf, Roeselare († 2020)
• Ademar Wensing, Santa Catarina, Brasilien († 1959)
• Ademir Wensing, Santa Catarina, Brasilien († 1959)
• George Allen Newcomer, Elkhart Co.Indiana († 1958)
• Richard Gerard Cronk, unbekannt († 2013)
• Frank van den Broek († 1987)
• Geertruida Kamies († 1971)
• Ans Janssen († 1980)
• Rafael Arcangel Rasmijn, Arubase-Antillen († 1991)
• Kindje van der Kooij, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1958)

• Cornelis Jacobs (77), Utrecht
• Christina Johanna Vreulink (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Benjamin Hoekstra (66), Wellsburg, Grundy County, Ìowa
• Eduard Van Peer (37), Wijnegem
• Dale Fuit (0), Ogden, Weber Co., Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Jacobs (77), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Centje Pieternella van de Polder (76), Brielle
• Alida Niessink (66), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Antonius Maria van de Ven (66), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bartholomeus Antonius Maria Van de Ven (66), 's-Hertogenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1957 » John Kassir, American actor and voice actor
• 1957 » Ron Gardenhire, German-American baseball player and manager
• 1959 » Chihiro Fujioka, Japanese director and composer
• 1959 » Dave Meltzer, American journalist and historian
• 1959 » Dominique Baert, French lawyer and politician
• 1959 » Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian banker and politician, 65th Mayor of Bergen
• 1959 » Michelle Lujan Grisham, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 » Mike Brewer, American baseball player
• 1959 » Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist and songwriter († 2009)
• 1959 » Shawn Moody, American businessman and politician

• 1948 » Franz Lehár, Austrian-Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
• 1948 » Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877)
• 1949 » Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (b. 1902)
• 1958 » G. E. Moore, English philosopher and academic (b. 1873)
• 1960 » Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (b. 1924)
• 1964 » Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
• 1965 » Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1966 » Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916)

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.
• January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
• February 3 » Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
• February 5 » A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
• March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
• May 22 » The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
• May 27 » First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

The temperature on October 24, 1958 was between 10.0 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.