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• Godefridus Josephus(Fred) van der Zalm, Den Haag
• Yvan Morlain († 1992)
• Margretha Elisabeth Schut, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1992)
• Jan Wouter Spek
• Hanneke Nieuwint, Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Susan Andra LARSON, Nebraska U.S.A († 1959)
• Petrus Hendrikus Gerardus Marinus van den Brand, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1964)
• Johannes Jacobus Hoogervorst, Gorinchem († 2006)
• Wim van Kooten, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2011)
• Oswin Struik († 2013)

• Albertha Annechina Dijkstra (62), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antoon Willem Joseph Saive (78), Vaals (Vaals) (Limburg)
• Antonia Koevoets (74), Etten,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Zwiers (53), Alkmaar
• Albert,Philibert,Gislain de Merode (43), Leuven, België
• Barbara Maria Cornelia Houtbraken (61), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Nijbroek (78), Hilversum
• Arie Koorn, Texel
• Albert Jan Ellens (79), Almelo, NL-OV
• Antonie van Wagtendorff van Rijn (56), Noordwijkerhout

• 1957 » Bernhard Langer, German golfer
• 1957 » Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author
• 1958 » Hugh Orde, British police officer
• 1958 » Sergei Krikalev, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 1958 » Tom Lanoye, Belgian author, poet, and playwright
• 1959 » Daniela Romo, Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess
• 1959 » Denice Denton, American engineer and academic († 2006)
• 1959 » Frode Fjellheim, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1959 » Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
• 1959 » Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor

• 1948 » Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (b. 1908)
• 1956 » Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1963 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1964 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager (b. 1934)
• 1968 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)

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. 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 23 » After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
• January 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
• March 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
• July 1 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
• November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.

The temperature on August 27, 1958 was between 13.0 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.