About the day » Thursday December 25, 1958Calender converter

• Sharon Ann MacKenzie, Fredericton, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada († 1962)
• Harold H M G J P Hendriks, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1993)
• Nora Everaerts, Sint-Truiden, België († 2006)
• Jeannette van Eekelen, Geleen,, Limburg, Nederland († 1975)
• Anna Jozef Boonen († 1997)
• OG Wierenga, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1958)
• Renadus Wilhelmus Hendrikus Maria E. Hoesen, Milsbeek († 1985)
• Willem Spaargaren, Amsterdam († 2012)
• Jacqueline Mooyekind, den helder († 2005)
• Johannes van der Wel, Monster († 1971)

• Ate Wiebe de Jong (87), Denekamp
• Carolus Maximiliaan Jozef Spaan (84), Oudewater
• Arie van Die (89), Rotterdam
• Albertje ten Veen (89), Steenwijk
• * Lambertus Roth (81)
• Antonius Wilhelmus van Wetter (77), Zwolle
• Anthonius Zoons (49), Den Haag
• ANDREW McDonald (81), TRINIDAD, COLORADO, Verenigde Staten
• Betje Burger (81), Enkhuizen, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Pardon (66), Leiden

• 1957 » Chris Kamara, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1957 » Mansoor Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
• 1957 » Shane MacGowan, English-Irish singer-songwriter
• 1958 » Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1958 » Cheryl Chase, American voice actress and singer
• 1958 » Hanford Dixon, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1958 » Konstantin Kinchev, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Rickey Henderson, American baseball player and coach
• 1959 » Michael P. Anderson, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 2003)
• 1959 » Ramdas Athawale, Indian poet and politician

• 1949 » Leon Schlesinger, American animator and producer, founded Warner Bros. Cartoons (b. 1884)
• 1950 » Neil Francis Hawkins, English politician (b. 1903)
• 1952 » Margrethe Mather, American photographer (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1865)
• 1953 » William Haselden, British cartoonist (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Charles Pathé, French record producer, founded Pathé Records (b. 1863)
• 1961 » Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896)

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. Hans

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 31 » In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
• April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
• October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.

The temperature on December 25, 1958 was between 1.0 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.