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Born on Tuesday February 4, 1958
Died on Tuesday February 4, 1958

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from February 4, 1958 at Delpher


Born on February 4

Died on February 4
  • 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
  • 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
  • 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
  • 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
  • 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
  • 1959 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (b. 1880)
  • 1968 » Neal Cassady, American novelist and poet (b. 1926)
  • 1970 » Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (b. 1897)
  • 1974 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1894)
  • 1975 » Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1908)

Names that were popular for boys in 1958
  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
Names that were popular for girls in 1958
  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

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1958
  • 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.
  • June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
  • July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
  • July 9 » A 7.8 Mw  strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525m (1,722ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
  • November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
  • December 5 » The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
  • 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.
Weather February 4, 1958

The temperature on February 4, 1958 was between 1.4 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.

Source: KNMI