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• Jefferson Davis Lasater Jr., San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas, United States of America († 2006)
• Libertus Johannes IJzerman, Heerde († 2014)
• Elisabeth Marianne Vlam, Middenbeemster († 2016)
• Libertus Johannes (Bert) IJzerman, Heerde, Nederland († 2014)
• Ariena van den Berg († 2016)
• Alida Maria Veronica Jong, Blokker († 1996)
• Nanna Neeltje Poot, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Tony E (Toto) Van Hammond, Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, VS († 2015)
• Michael WALLIS († 1998)
• Martine Provoost († 1958)

• Christiana Johanna Berdina Thuis (81), Steenderen,Gemeente Bronckhorst,Gelderland,Nederland
• Anna Adriana Franke (83), Apeldoorn
• Antje van Weerden (85), Oosterwolde
• Anna Antonia van Amensvoort (4), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Christina Johanna Berndina Thuis (81), Steenderen,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Willem Hazenberg (68), Sebaldeburen, Grootegast,, Groningen, Nederland
• Anne Marie LITZLER (71), Ruederbach (68560, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Cornelia LOON, van (86), Kerkwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Willems Hazenberg (68), Sebaldeburen, Grootegast
• Cornelia Theodora Baas (64), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1956 » Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre, Scottish lawyer and judge
• 1957 » Afrika Bambaataa, American disc jockey
• 1957 » Frank McDonough, British historian
• 1957 » Julia Macur, English lawyer and judge
• 1957 » Nick Hornby, English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Teri Austin, Canadian actress
• 1958 » Laslo Babits, Canadian javelin thrower († 2013)
• 1959 » Jimmy Mann, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1959 » Li Meisu, Chinese shot putter
• 1959 » Sean Bean, English actor

• 1942 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1944 » Dimitrios Psarros, Greek lieutenant, founded the National and Social Liberation (b. 1893)
• 1944 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer and coach (b. 1867)
• 1946 » Juan Bautista Sacasa, Nicaraguan medical doctor, politician and 20th President of Nicaragua (b. 1874)
• 1948 » Suzuki Kantarō, Japanese admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian lawyer and politician, Romanian Minister of Justice (b. 1900)
• 1960 » Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938)
• 1961 » Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (b. 1899)
• 1967 » Red Allen, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (b. 1888)

• 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 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
• March 24 » Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
• May 28 » Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
• July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
• October 27 » Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
• 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.

The temperature on April 17, 1958 was between -0.2 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.