About the day » Monday March 3, 1958Calender converter

• Pamela Anson († 2003)
• Theodorus Gerardus Wilhelmus Bukkems, Heeze († 1963)
• Berend van der Sluis, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland († 1981)
• Renske (Renee) Jansema († 2012)
• Berend van der Sluis, Delft († 1981)
• Donna Mae van 't Hof, Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• johanna gerarda maria (annie) heesen, helden-grashoek
• Geert Snippe, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2009)
• NN Piebes, Veendam (Groningen) († 1958)
• Geert Frankena, Winsum, Friesland, Nederland († 1970)

• Berend Groot Karsijn (17), Geleen
• Gjult Slottje (84), Dordrecht
• Anna Geertruida Willemse (76), Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alice Maud Marchant (80), Cuckfield, East Sussex. England
• Catharina Leurs (86), Echt
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van VEENENDAAL (79), Utrecht (Utrecht) (NL)
• Albertje ten Wolde (89), Oldemarkt
• Berend Grootkarzijn (18), Elburg, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus Notenboom (57), Rotterdam
• Anne Meints (61), Assen

• 1955 » Darnell Williams, English-American actor and director
• 1956 » John Fulton Reid, New Zealand cricketer
• 1956 » Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer and manager
• 1957 » Stephen Budiansky, American historian, journalist, and author
• 1957 » Thom Hoffman, Dutch actor and photographer
• 1958 » Miranda Richardson, English actress
• 1959 » Duško Vujošević, Montenegrin basketball player and coach
• 1959 » Ira Glass, American radio host and producer
• 1960 » Neal Heaton, American baseball player and coach
• 1961 » Mary Page Keller, American actress and producer

• 1943 » George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
• 1961 » Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist (b. 1887)
• 1966 » Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1966 » Joseph Fields, American playwright, director, and producer (b. 1895)
• 1966 » William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Rebecca Lancefield, American microbiologist and researcher (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian poet and critic (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Georges Perec, French author and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 1983 » Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (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.
• January 4 » Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
• March 26 » The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
• April 14 » The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
• June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• August 23 » Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
• September 15 » A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.

The temperature on March 3, 1958 was between 1.4 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.