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• Johannes Geerlinks, Diphoorn († 2020)
• Jan Schilder, Edam / Volendam († 2005)
• Paulus August Valstar, Elburg († 1988)
• Paulus August Valstar, Elburg († 1988)
• Ernest W Banaska **** († 2016)
• Lydia Snieder, Oegstgeest († 2018)
• Johannes Dirk de Boer († 2022)
• Johannes Maria Hendrikus Courbois, Ubach over Worms, Ned
• Maria Petronella Fernanda Buijs, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• van Achterberg, Hedel

• Celestina Oosterlinck (78), Wichelen
• Cornelis Petrus Melisse (80), Oudenbosch
• Aaltje Harkes Bosma (56), Warga, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Dirk Kuper (68), Enschede, Nederland
• Antonie Gerhardus Eikendal (76), Apeldoorn
• Douwe Bakker (72), Muntendam, Menterwolde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arnold Bolks (63), Enschede
• Dirk Bossenbroek (63)
• Douwe Bakker (72), Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Spijker (77), Amsterdam

• 1955 » Mike Huckabee, American minister and politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas
• 1956 » Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter and playwright
• 1956 » Gerry Cooney, American boxer
• 1956 » John Culberson, American lawyer and politician
• 1957 » Jeffrey Daniel, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1957 » Stephen Fry, English actor, journalist, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Chris Offutt, American author and academic
• 1958 » Steve Guttenberg, American actor and producer
• 1959 » Meg Munn, English social worker and politician
• 1960 » Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player and coach

• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894)

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. Hans

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
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 4 » Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
• March 26 » The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
• 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.
• August 3 » The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
• November 10 » The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
• December 1 » The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.

The temperature on August 24, 1958 was between 12.2 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.