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• Kors Kanbier, Leiden, ZH Netherlands († 2014)
• Daniel Glenn Andreason, Galveston, Galveston, TX († 1987)
• Bradley Paul Barefoot († 1976)
• jaqueline Vroegop
• Remkes de Graaf, Oudega († 2014)
• Bert Jagt, Assen († 2014)
• Patricia Sue Bessonette, Pike County, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Hendrika Julia Maria Kok, 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• Margaretha Clasien Nonkes, Westernieland,Gemeente De Marne,Groningen,Nederland († 1980)
• Milena Österreicher, Manhattan, New York, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2008)

• Aleida Maria Jansen (77)
• Antonia Jacobse (74), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Adrianus de Jong (78), Noord-Scharwoude
• Adrianus Antonius Petrus Marie Aarts (50), Gilze en Rijen
• Anna Cornelia Wauters (81), Wuustwezel,, Antwerpen, België
• Adrianus Antonius Petrus Marie Aarts (50), Gilze en Rijen, NB Netherlands
• Aleida Maria Jansen (77), Herwen en Aerdt, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Verbraak (88), Halsteren
• Alfred ACKROYD (45), Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• Arnoldus Johannes van Heemskerken (58), Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1953 » Rick Middleton, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1955 » Cassandra Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1955 » Dave Taylor, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
• 1955 » Philip Hammond, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1956 » Bernard King, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1956 » Nia Griffith, Welsh educator and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
• 1957 » Eric S. Raymond, American computer programmer and author
• 1957 » Raul Boesel, Brazilian race car driver and radio host
• 1960 » David Green, Nicaraguan-American baseball player
• 1960 » Glynis Nunn, Australian heptathlete and hurler

• 1942 » Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, 3rd Head of State of Estonia (b. 1885)
• 1944 » Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1945 » Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1948 » Frank Benford, American physicist and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1954 » George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (b. 1881)
• 1955 » József Galamb, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Constance Davey, Australian psychologist (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1969 » Fred Hampton, American Black Panthers activist (b. 1948)
• 1971 » Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator, founded the San Francisco Zen Center (b. 1904)

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.
• January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
• March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
• March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
• September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
• October 1 » First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
• October 29 » Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.

The temperature on December 4, 1957 was between -3.4 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.