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• johannes andreas laurentius (jan) thijssen, helden-dorp
• Cornelis Jongkind, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1976)
• Johannes Marinus van den Beuken, Helden (Grashoek) († 2013)
• Reina Everdina (Reiny) Jacobs, de Vecht, Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland († 1994)
• Debora van der Helm († 2000)
• Agnes Maria Weijermars, Hellendoorn
• Sibylle Elisabeth Ankner, Deutschland († 2001)
• Levenloos kind Tweeboom, Schiedam
• Joséphina Maria Bernadette de Wit, Muiden
• Bastiaan van der Plas, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)

• Caroline Mühlenberg (55)
• Aagje Geertruida Mik (65), Zeist
• Aaldert Jan van der Graaf (83), Lutten, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Crombeen (68), Graauw
• Andries Jan Welles (59)
• Bernard, Barney Nieters (83), Rockville MN
• Arnoldus Cornelis Peper (73), Rotterdam
• C. van Leeuwen (73), Oud Ade, ZUI, Nederland
• Adrianus Koekoek (73)
• Adrianus Dirk Monster (77), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland

• 1955 » John E. Sweeney, American lawyer and politician
• 1956 » Gordon Singleton, Canadian Olympic Cyclist
• 1957 » Melanie Griffith, American actress and producer
• 1958 » Amanda Bearse, American actress, comedian and director
• 1958 » Calie Pistorius, South African engineer and academic
• 1958 » James Lileks, American journalist and blogger
• 1959 » Kurtis Blow, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1959 » Michael Kors, American fashion designer
• 1961 » Brad Gilbert, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1961 » John Key, New Zealand businessman and politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand

• 1946 » Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1948 » Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Edward Thorndike, American psychologist and academic (b. 1874)
• 1957 » Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
• 1967 » Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 1969 » C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)

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. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
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 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• 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.
• March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
• May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
• 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.
• July 26 » Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.

The temperature on August 9, 1958 was between 13.3 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.