About the day » Tuesday August 12, 1958Calender converter

• David Lynn Nannenga († 1958)
• Willy Heesakkers, Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Jan Russchenberg († 1958)
• Charlotte Luttikhuis, Weerselo († 2014)
• Jacobus Michielsen, Chaam († 1981)
• Karin Anita Hendrika van der Pluijm, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Mark Alan Tellez, Calexico, Imperial County, California, United States of America († 2006)
• Sybrig Antje Rollema, Gilze en Rijen († 1959)
• Henricus Wilhelmus Adriana Michels, Tilburg
• Adriana Johanna van Beek († 2016)

• * Bastiaan Wassen Turk (45), Utrecht
• Aaltje Bootsman Bootsman (78), Volendam, Nederland
• Carroll Ira Bull (65)
• Bernardus Jacobus van Beurden (57), Nijmegen,Nijmegen,Gelderland,Nederland
• Bastiaan Wassen Turk (45), Utrecht, Netherlands
• Carolina Kemme (86), Wassenaar
• Johannes van Rijn (88), 's-Gravenzande
• Christiaan Noordberger (69), Groningen (Groningen)
• Caleb Russell Carr (74), Linton, Greene, Indiana, United States
• Carolina Kemme (86), Wassenaar,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1956 » Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor and producer
• 1956 » Lee Freedman, Australian horse trainer
• 1956 » Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1957 » Amanda Redman, English actress
• 1957 » Friedhelm Schütte, German footballer
• 1958 » Jürgen Dehmel, German bass player and songwriter
• 1959 » Kerry Boustead, Australian rugby league player
• 1960 » Greg Thomas, Welsh-English cricketer
• 1960 » Laurent Fignon, French cyclist and sportscaster († 2010)
• 1961 » Roy Hay, English guitarist, keyboard player, and composer

• 1943 » Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer and mountaineer (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

• 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 » May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
• July 9 » A 7.8 M_w  strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525m (1,722ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
• September 2 » United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
• November 10 » The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
• November 25 » French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
• December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.

The temperature on August 12, 1958 was between 14.2 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.