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• Charles Archibald Cameron († 2017)
• Naomi Heerius, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 2005)
• Gerda Lucia Sybesma, Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• Warren Keith Box, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia († 1996)
• Hendrikus Petrus Maria Heemskerk, De Zilk, Noordwijkerhout († 1983)
• Dirk Pieter van Dissel, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Robert Dean Britzman, California, United States († 1960)
• Harry Heemskerk († 1983)
• Janice Stidham, Heidelburg († 1958)
• Wilma Reijnders, Gemeente Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)

• Anna Jacobs Meyer (65)
• Andreas Johannes Koopman (92), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anders Poulsen Andersen (87), Borglum, Nordjylland, DNK, EUR
• Adrianus Cornelis HARMSEN (64), Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,NEDERLAND
• Annigje Sytzes Postma (67), ,, Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adam Samuel Bennion (71), SLC, SL, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina Schoonen (81), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriaan Krijger (86), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Anna Catherina Schoonen (81), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia IJsebrandts (81), Haarlem

• 1953 » Jeb Bush, American banker, politician and Governor of Florida
• 1953 » Philip Anglim, American actor
• 1953 » Tom Veryzer, American baseball player († 2014)
• 1954 » Wesley Strick, American director and screenwriter
• 1956 » Didier Lockwood, French violinist († 2018)
• 1959 » Roberto Moreno, Brazilian race car driver
• 1960 » Richard Mastracchio, American engineer and astronaut
• 1962 » Sheryl Crow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Tammy Baldwin, American lawyer and politician
• 1964 » Sarah Palin, American journalist, politician and Governor of Alaska

• 1942 » Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1947 » Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1884)
• 1948 » Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1949 » Axel Munthe, Swedish doctor (b. 1857)
• 1958 » Ernest Jones, Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1879)
• 1963 » John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1963 » Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1932)
• 1967 » A. J. Muste, Dutch-American minister and activist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Howard Lindsay, American playwright (b. 1889)
• 1973 » J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)

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.
• March 1 » Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
• April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
• July 26 » Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
• 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 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
• December 28 » "Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

The temperature on February 11, 1958 was between 8.1 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.