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• Kobus Tuhalauruw
• Alida Jacoba van der Helm, Rijswijk († 2017)
• Susan Irene Todd, North Carolina, United States († 1969)
• Karel Opdam, Naarden († 2018)
• NN Luijpen, Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande († 1958)
• Donatus Gerardus Jozef van Kesteren, Maastricht
• Sylvia Diana Boulogne († 1981)
• Klaus Sander, Olpe, Westphalen
• Hendrik (Henk) Steenstra († 2020)
• Stance Adams († 1998)

• Bastiaan Knook (65), Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Amedé-Desiré weedaeghe (Van Weehaeghe) (61), Nokere
• Allegonda Zeelenberg (80), Delft
• Arend Bijleveld (47)
• auke vlietstra (81), amsterdam
• Catharina Adams (82), Vierlingsbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida de Frankrijker (61), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Robert Roland Wiggill (77), 8 Roux Street, Bethulie, OFS, South Africa
• Antonius Joannes Cornelis van Helvert (45), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Allegonda Zeelenberg (80), Delft, Nederland

• 1955 » Don Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster
• 1955 » Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani politician, 5th Commerce Minister of Pakistan
• 1955 » Terry Nichols, American criminal
• 1957 » David Gower, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1957 » Denise Nickerson, American actress († 2019)
• 1958 » D. Boon, American singer and musician († 1985)
• 1959 » Helmuth Duckadam, Romanian footballer
• 1961 » Mark White, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Sergio Scariolo, Italian professional basketball head coach
• 1961 » Susan Boyle, Scottish singer

• 1946 » Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (b. 1882)
• 1947 » George II, king of Greece (b. 1890)
• 1950 » Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (b. 1904)
• 1950 » Recep Peker, Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1889)
• 1962 » Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain and businessman (b. 1910)
• 1965 » Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Brian O'Nolan, Irish author (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1910)

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. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
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 22 » Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 26 » Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
• November 10 » The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
• November 12 » A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

The temperature on April 1, 1958 was between -1.9 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (91%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.