About the day » Sunday December 7, 1958Calender converter

• Marijke Magdalena François Berth, Eeklo († 2004)
• Harry Zee, Den Helder († 2008)
• Pieter Hendrik Westerink, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 1981)
• Sabine DELDICQUE, Comines,7780,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique († 2013)
• Viviane Nicole Cornélie DELAUTRE, Wormhout... Hauts de France († 1977)
• Timothy John Kunst, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• Sherri Lin Ferree, Lancaster, Los Angeles Co. California († 1959)
• Janice Elsleger, Canonsburg, Washington, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Monique van der Torren, Schiedam († 2015)
• Eppo Harm op de Dijk († 1959)

• Berendina Geertruida Nijenkamp (40), Hengelo
• Christina Sophia Waterman (52), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adolf ter Veer (69), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Albert Meendering (73), Hull, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Antonie Cornelis Vahl (0), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adolf ter Veer (69), Amsterdam
• Arie Leonardus Staphorst, Haarlem
• Cornelis Trouw (84), Yerseke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Keuter- (88), Emmen, Nederland
• Christinus Opdam (70), Leiden

• 1955 » John Watkins, Australian educator and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
• 1956 » Anna Soubry, British politician
• 1956 » Larry Bird, American basketball player and coach
• 1957 » Geoff Lawson, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
• 1957 » Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigerian career-diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2019)
• 1957 » Tom Winsor, English lawyer and civil servant
• 1958 » Rick Rude, American wrestler and sportscaster († 1999)
• 1958 » Tim Butler, English bass player and songwriter
• 1959 » Saleem Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
• 1960 » Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and songwriter

• 1947 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1960 » Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882)
• 1962 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895)
• 1969 » Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883)

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 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• 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.
• February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
• April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
• December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
• 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 December 7, 1958 was between -3.2 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. 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 southwest.