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• Levenloos Raaijmakers, Berlicum († 1958)
• Patty Feragen, Salt Lake City, UT (USA) († 1958)
• Gerrit Cornelis van Niftrik, Dedemsvaart gem. Avereest
• NN Oosterhuis, Ermelo († 1958)
• Ralph A. KLAVERENGA, Lafayette Tippecanoe County Indiana U.S.A († 2006)
• Johanna Elisabeth Rozijn, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Jeanine Maria Cornelia Adriana Habraken, Tilburg († 1958)
• Maria Paulina Van Vlasselaer, Tremelo († 1973)
• Christian Burger († 2017)
• Catherine Marie Crawford († 1959)

• Catharina Alida Dazelaar (79), Bloemendaal
• Antonius Aaldering (72), Gendt
• Adriana Huibregtse (60)
• Aafke Tjoelker (64), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Hollander (79), Nieuwe Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Gerritsen (75), Garderen
• Bernard Antoon Henderik Schlatmann (87), Beesd
• Betty Lou Riley (63), Kentucky
• Anna Dorothea Kooiman (83), Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Oonk (72), Wisch

• 1956 » Andy King, English footballer and manager († 2015)
• 1956 » Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality
• 1956 » Rusty Wallace, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1956 » Sharon Bryant, American R&B singer
• 1957 » Peter Costello, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Treasurer of Australia
• 1958 » Bobby Eaton, American wrestler and trainer
• 1958 » Philip Dunne, English farmer and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
• 1959 » Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
• 1959 » Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 » Marcia Gay Harden, American actress

• 1951 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
• 1956 » Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1958 » Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
• 1963 » Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
• 1965 » Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)

• 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 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
• March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
• November 25 » French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.

The temperature on August 14, 1958 was between 14.9 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.