About the day » Wednesday August 27, 1958Calender converter

• Jan Wouter Spek
• Ronaldus Johannes Stephanus (Arnold) van der Hoek, Alblasserdam († 2015)
• Susan Andra LARSON, Nebraska U.S.A († 1959)
• Dirk Jan Nijboer, Hardenberg († 1958)
• Cornelis Marinus van Iwaarden, Krabbendijke († 1986)
• Wim van Kooten, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2011)
• Hanneke Nieuwint, Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Bea Duchateau, Sint-Truiden, België († 1998)
• Margretha Elisabeth Schut, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1992)
• Yvan Alfons GOOSSENS, Waanrode († 2000)

• Antonie Pallemans (79), Breda
• Adriana van de Kolk (72), Wanroij
• Albert Jan Ellens (79), Almelo
• * Petrus Nicolaas (Piet) van Drift (86), Egmond aan Zee
• Ada Mary Britton, aged 89 years, Taree, NSW, AU
• Barbara Elisabeth Hubertina Maria Hoen (18), Kerkrade,Gemeente Kerkrade,Limburg,Nederland
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• Catharina Wapstra (82), Utrecht
• Camille Désiré CLAREBOUT (85), Proven, 33022, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Albert Jan ELLENS (79), Almelo Overijssel Netherlands

• 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)

• 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.
• February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
• March 17 » The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite.
• June 1 » Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
• 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.
• December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

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.