About the day » Thursday January 31, 1957Calender converter

• Maria Christine Strachwitz van Groot-Zauche en Camminet († 1957)
• Bert Jansen, Oeffelt († 2005)
• Marleen Grooten, Genk († 2011)
• Thomas Pastoor († 1984)
• Coenraad Hans Visser, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Gea Kleine, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Andries Adrianus Blommers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Karel Marinus Westphal, De Lier († 1957)
• Johannes Andreas van Breenen († 2009)
• Cirineu Henckel, Anitápolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1959)

• Anna Helena Becker (78), Rotterdam
• Alexander Dominicus Celis (65), Lubbeek
• Albert Brendeke (0), Deventer
• Albert Nicolaas STOL (76), Wehe-den Hoorn Groningen Netherlands
• Andries Dreyer Steyn e3f2 (67)
• Anna Maria de Ron (88), Steenbergen, N-Br, NL
• Aalbert Leeuw de (80), Wageningen
• * Leonardus Bruurmijn (70), Helvoirt
• Anna Johanna Exterkate (83), Borne
• Adriaan de Bodt (63), Dussen (Noord Brabant)

• 1954 » Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch guitarist and songwriter
• 1954 » Faoud Bacchus, Guyanese cricketer
• 1955 » Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis player and manager
• 1956 » Guido van Rossum, Dutch programmer, creator of the Python programming language
• 1956 » John Lydon, English singer-songwriter
• 1957 » Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer
• 1958 » Armin Reichel, German footballer and manager
• 1959 » Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor and producer
• 1959 » Kelly Lynch, American model and actress
• 1960 » Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and author

• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1956 » A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (b. 1882)
• 1958 » Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Auguste Herbin, French painter (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Krishna Singh, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
• 1966 » Arthur Percival, English general (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (b. 1908)
• 1969 » Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. John
12. Dirk
13. Paul
14. Johan
15. Wilhelmus
16. Michael

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Yvonne
10. Margaretha
11. Hendrika
12. Petronella
13. Marianne
14. Ingrid
15. Jacoba
16. Linda

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
• March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
• April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
• May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
• June 21 » Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
• August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
• September 5 » Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.

The temperature on January 31, 1957 was between 6.6 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 10.0 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.