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• Harry Kruitbosch, Voorst, Terwolde († 1974)
• J.M. Tillmanns (Tak Schaesberg), Schaesberg (Gem. Landgraaf)
• Therease Gail Swarts, Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma
• Martinus Rosina Wilhelmus Maria (Maarten) Zeegers, Asten († 1962)
• Steven Alexander Wonder, Haarlem († 1960)
• Dean Francis Gochenour, Los Angeles, California († 2011)
• Bas Jan Mourik, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel († 1980)
• Craig Alan Hill, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States († 1977)
• Susan Jane (Jean) Yeagley, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Marja Helena Wilhelmine Henkel, Vught ('s-Hertogenbosch), Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Cornelis Josephus de Greeuw (64), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Visarius (78), de Bilt
• Antonette Broeder (81), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Bernard Velraeds (68), Heerlen
• Anje Diekema (70), Uithuizen
• Elizabeth Wiedijk (48), Sint Pancras, Nederland
• Clazina Maria (Sien) Wildeboer-Schut (48), Rotterdam
• Catherine Wallace Quinn May (92), Lawrence County, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Buurman (87), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Gerardusdr. Palmans (44), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1955 » Caleb Carr, American historian and author
• 1955 » Tony Godden, English footballer and manager
• 1956 » Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist, and author
• 1957 » Jacky Rosen, United States senator
• 1959 » Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress
• 1959 » Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer-songwriter and producer († 2015)
• 1959 » Victoria Jackson, American actress and singer
• 1960 » David Yow, American singer-songwriter
• 1960 » Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
• 1960 » Neal Morse, American singer and keyboard player

• 1945 » Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and educator (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1967 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Brian Cole, American bass player (b. 1942)
• 1972 » Helen Hoyt, American poet and author (b. 1887)
• 1972 » Paul Goodman, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1911)
• 1973 » Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)

• 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.
• February 21 » The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
• March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
• May 22 » The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
• June 17 » The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
• September 14 » The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.

The temperature on August 2, 1958 was between 12.8 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.