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• Ineke Lammerdina (Ineke) de Bruin, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2005)
• Douglas Wayne Rounsaville, Kansas City, Platte, Missouri, VS († 1996)
• Auke Grond, Oudebildtzijl († 2022)
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Lunteren, Culemborg (GL) († 2013)
• Willy Volbeda, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 2010)
• Patricia Lynn Van Gend, Salt Lake City († 2010)
• Desireé Zand Scholten, Deventer († 2002)
• Theodorus Bartholomeus CAPTEIN, Haarlemmerliede († 1958)
• Kevin Craig Walker, California († 1985)
• Darla A Solsma († 1958)

• Anna Schimpl (75), Germany
• Arthur Evan Clymer Mitchell (75)
• Baukje Jacobs Prins (92), Marrum
• Arie Stolp (80), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernardus den Braber (80), Breda
• Alice Small, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Andreas Laurentius Blommaert (63), Hulst, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arie Stolp (80)
• Anthonia van Kleef (87), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Christina Sophia Hemmers (57), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1955 » Donald Pettit, American engineer and astronaut
• 1956 » Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for Justice
• 1956 » Georgie Glen, Scottish actress
• 1956 » Kakha Bendukidze, Georgian economist and politician
• 1956 » Peter Chelsom, English film director, writer, and actor
• 1958 » Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 » Perry Haddock, Australian rugby league player
• 1960 » Debbie Flintoff-King, Australian hurdler and coach
• 1961 » Don Mattingly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1961 » Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor

• 1942 » Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, 6th State Elder of Estonia (b. 1870)
• 1944 » Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (b. 1917)
• 1945 » Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist and politician (b. 1874)
• 1946 » Mae Busch, Australian actress (b. 1891)
• 1947 » Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (b. 1892)
• 1967 » Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1896)
• 1968 » Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1969 » Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (b. 1914)

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.
• January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
• April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
• April 21 » United Airlines Flight 736 collides into a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
• July 25 » The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
• 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 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.

The temperature on April 20, 1958 was between 7.4 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.