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• Martha Engelina Maria van den Burg, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• NN Alsemgeest, Delft († 1958)
• John Houston "Scotty" Mooney, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland († 2018)
• Cynthia Louise Moran, Gulfport, Harrison, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• Lucas Vervecken, Turnhout († 1985)
• (Stillborn) BRANDSMA, Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands († 1958)
• Helen Rose WILLIAMS, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 2011)
• Pieter Adrianus van Duijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• Geert van Rossum, Vlaardingen († 2006)
• Jane Ann Verkaik, Onbekend († 2015)

• Cora E McNiss (89), Kirkwood, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Christina Basjes (0), hoorn
• (16i)Theodorus Johannes van Bezouwen (57), Rotterdam
• ANNECHIENA VENHUIS (79), NIEUWE PEKELA
• Adrianus Cornelis Meijdam (91), Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arza Walter Paul (63), Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States of America
• Alberic Theophile Lagaisse (68), Tourcoing,59200,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,France
• Bertha May Shaw (80), San Mateo, California
• Albert ter Meer (62)
• Annechiena Venhuis (79), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1956 » Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer
• 1957 » Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor
• 1957 » Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator
• 1957 » Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer
• 1957 » Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager
• 1958 » Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
• 1958 » Lesley Laird, British politician
• 1958 » Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and director
• 1959 » Tibor Fischer, English author
• 1960 » Dawn Airey, English broadcaster

• 1951 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Emma Richter, German paleontologist (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
• 1959 » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1960 » Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
• 1961 » Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1961 » Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)
• 1963 » Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1888)
• 1966 » Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (b. 1877)

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.
• January 18 » Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
• July 25 » The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
• August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
• October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
• October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
• November 10 » The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

The temperature on November 15, 1958 was between -0.9 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.