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• Geert BOLHUIS, Houwerzijl (Ulrum) Groningen Netherlands († 1975)
• Matheus Augustinus Maria van den Dobbelsteen, Nijmegen († 2008)
• Adele Leona Keliikoa, Honolulu (Oahu) (Hawaii) († 2013)
• Michael O Grimmius, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2009)
• Ferdinand Alexander Christian Christiaan Fruitman, Amsterdam († 2010)
• Perry Joe Sims, Laurel,Jones County,MS († 1980)
• Pieter van Middelkoop, Oud-Alblas († 1957)
• Pieternella Christina Nap, Eefde († 2011)
• Hendrika Johanna Renssen, Terwolde
• Freddy Canniere († 1958)

• Antje Paaijmans (68), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Grandia (78), Zaltbommel
• Antonia Rokx (78), Rucphen
• Antonius Cleiren (70), Woensdrecht, NL
• Aart van den Brandhof (74), Woudenberg
• Anna Pieternella Morijn (98), Hilversum
• Anna Tjerks Pol (72), Leeuwarden
• Agness Affleck Kirkpatrick (57), Dumfires, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Alexander Johannes Copini (66), Bolsward, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Marinus Toebast (83), Altforst,, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1955 » Bill Henson, Australian photographer
• 1955 » Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author
• 1955 » Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator
• 1956 » Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1956 » Mike Shipley, Australian-English sound engineer and producer († 2013)
• 1956 » Steve Bainbridge, English rugby player
• 1957 » Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
• 1957 » Joey Marquez, Filipino basketball player, actor, and politician
• 1957 » Michael W. Smith, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1959 » Dylan Baker, American actor

• 1944 » Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1950 » Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 » Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 » Johnny Kidd, English singer songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1967 » Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 » Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)

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 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
• April 9 » The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
• May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
• June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
• July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
• September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.

The temperature on October 7, 1957 was between 8.6 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.