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• John Dennis Davidson, St.Louis, Missouri († 2004)
• Caroline Eileen CRICHTON-STUART, Mount Stuart House, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland († 1984)
• Anja Denekamp, Apeldoorn († 2018)
• petronella johanna leonarda (nellie) verbugt, helden
• Rhonda Marilyn Schuff († 2020)
• Hendrik Elisabeth Gerard Marie ( Erik) Baggen, Geleen († 2014)
• Robert Michael Stewart II, Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States († 2001)
• Marie-Claire Vanden Eeden, Landen, België († 2013)
• Adrianus Webbe, IJmuiden
• Fransje Verhoosel, Tilburg († 1960)

• Alphonsus Carolus Sterckx (61), Geel, België
• Anna Maria Aretz (78), Spekholzerheide, Kerkrade
• Adrianus Johannes Jacobs (52), Hilversum
• Adriana Joanna Krete (62), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Andries Johannes Friederich (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aberdina Hage (80), Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Berend van Der Zwaag (80), Drouwenermond, Borger
• Baron Otto Philipp of Gross von Trockau
• Alida Elisabeth Cheizoo (82), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Adriana Aletta Siebrecht (63), 's Gravenhage

• 1953 » Christine Ebersole, American actress and singer
• 1954 » Christina Rees, British politician
• 1955 » Kelsey Grammer, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1958 » Alan Trammell, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1958 » Jake Burns, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Kim Coates, Canadian actor
• 1958 » Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » José María Cano, Spanish singer-songwriter and painter
• 1960 » Plamen Oresharski, Bulgarian economist and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1960 » Steve Wynn, American singer-songwriter

• 1944 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
• 1946 » José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)
• 1958 » Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
• 1965 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)
• 1967 » Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)

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.
• April 10 » The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
• June 9 » First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
• June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
• July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
• September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
• November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.

The temperature on February 21, 1957 was between -0.1 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.