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• Cornelis Sas, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Maria Clazina Molendijk, Drumheller Alberta Canada († 1958)
• Michael Alan Nagel, Council Bluffs, IA (USA) († 1958)
• Yvonne Catharina Victorine Kessen, Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland († 1958)
• Torild Synnøve Ytterstad († 1974)
• N.N. de Rijder, Wissenkerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Jacob Gerard (Jaap) Wassenaar, Maracaibo Zulia Venezuela († 2020)
• Jan Groot († 1958)
• Rijkes, ,, Grootebroek, Nederland († 1958)
• Ricky Lynn Hinson, Orange, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2000)

• anna maria weiler (86), amsterdam
• Anna Maria Theresia Lunenburg (2), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina Govers (68), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Aaltje Langereis (64), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Griemink (37), Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Akke Huisman (66), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Sintnicolaas (38)
• Adrianus Vink (85), Gilze en Rijen
• Albertus Johannes Adrianus van Geelen (49), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Apolônia Nicolau Mannes (41), Antonio Carlos, Santa Catarina, Brasil

• 1954 » Christina Rees, British politician
• 1955 » Kelsey Grammer, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1958 » Alan Trammell, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1958 » Jake Burns, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Kim Coates, Canadian actor
• 1958 » Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » José María Cano, Spanish singer-songwriter and painter
• 1960 » Plamen Oresharski, Bulgarian economist and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1960 » Steve Wynn, American singer-songwriter
• 1961 » Christopher Atkins, American actor and businessman

• 1944 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
• 1946 » José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)
• 1958 » Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
• 1965 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)
• 1967 » Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)

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.
• 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 21 » United Airlines Flight 736 collides into a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
• 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.
• October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
• October 26 » Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
• November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.

The temperature on February 21, 1958 was between 1.0 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.