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• Jean Reinier Rudolph van Vloten, Takoma Park, Maryland, V.S († 1977)
• Ron Ton, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Joke Tillmans (Tak Schaesberg)
• Cornelis Johannes van Beijsterveldt, Gilze en Rijen
• Paula Fockaert († 1984)
• Dagmar Stumpfegger, Aachen,, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Cynthia Louise Newport, Brazoria, Texas († 1966)
• Gerrit van Beek († 2010)
• Marten Boekweg, Slochteren († 1958)
• Johannes Alphonsius Jozef Brughuis, Ambt Delden († 2004)

• Anna Hommes (85), Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Annie M. Long (73), Allentown, Lehigh Co.Pennsylvania
• Geersing (63), tynaarlo
• Anna Hendrika van BALLEGOOIJEN (39), Rotterdam
• Anna Griep (76), Krabbendijke
• Anna Fenna de With (5), Groningen
• Catharina Koomen, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van Dijk (56), Scheveningen
• Catharina Bakker (78), Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christianus Petrus Franciscus van VEGGEL (59), 's-Hertogenbosch, 4192, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1956 » Clay Matthews, Jr., American football player and coach
• 1957 » David Silverman, American animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese-American actor
• 1957 » Víctor Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1958 » Anne Davies, English television presenter and newsreader
• 1959 » Ben Okri, Nigerian poet and author
• 1959 » Harold Baines, American baseball player and coach
• 1959 » Lisa Holton, American journalist and author
• 1959 » Renny Harlin, Finnish director and producer
• 1960 » Mike Pagliarulo, American baseball player and coach

• 1951 » John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Ernst Nobs, Swiss politician (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1909)
• 1962 » Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Charles Bartliff, American soccer player (b. 1886)
• 1966 » Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)

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.
• May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
• May 28 » Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
• 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.
• August 29 » United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• November 10 » The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
• December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

The temperature on March 15, 1958 was between -3.0 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.