About the day » Friday March 22, 1957Calender converter

• Doug van Beek, Volga, Brookings County, South Dakota († 2006)
• Mario Gerard van Staveren, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Diana Gayle van Steenis, Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa (USA) († 2012)
• Douglas Jay Mouw, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, VS († 2023)
• Margaretha Neeltje van der Vlist († 2012)
• Machteld Fentener van Vlissingen, rotterdam, Nederland († 2018)
• Diane Gayle van Steenis, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2012)
• Cor Corrie Meijer († 1961)
• Johan Otto van Brussel, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1994)
• Joyce Ann Gillikin, Carteret County, North Carolina († 2008)

• Albert Houwaard (77), Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Willem de Groot (85), Soest
• António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro (78), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
• Albert Hendrikus Oude Monnink (65), Hengelo, Nederland
• Adriana Schoonakker (61), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Ben Marvin Boone, Harris, Texas
• Albert Houwaard (77), Katwijk
• Cordulia Seraphina Maria Stokc (85), Oostburg
• Aleida Johanna Beekelaar (2), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Boertien (75), Elim

• 1953 » Kenneth Rogoff, American economist and chess grandmaster
• 1955 » Lena Olin, Swedish actress
• 1955 » Pete Sessions, American politician
• 1955 » Valdis Zatlers, Latvian physician and politician, 7th President of Latvia
• 1956 » Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born María Teresa Mestre y Batista)
• 1957 » Jürgen Bucher, German footballer
• 1957 » Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer
• 1959 » Matthew Modine, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Lauri Vahtre, Estonian historian and politician
• 1960 » Tarmo Laht, Estonian architect

• 1942 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 » William Donne, English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1945 » John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (b. 1857)
• 1952 » D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 » José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (b. 1904)
• 1966 » John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot (b. 1935)
• 1971 » Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (b. 1886)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. John
12. Paul
13. Dirk
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. Jacoba
15. Ingrid
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 11 » United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
• June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
• July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
• October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• October 14 » The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.
• December 6 » Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.

The temperature on March 22, 1957 was between 1.1 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.