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• Sjierk Reitsma, Leiden († 2022)
• Yves Cotonnec, Evreux (Dép. de l'Eure et la région Haute-Normandie, France) († 2006)
• Jannigje Petronella HUISENGA, Ilpendam († 1957)
• Saskia van Hooidonk, Leiden († 1958)
• Jozef Maria Edelbroek, Bunnik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Rosita Klaver, Opmeer († 2018)
• Adrianus Johannes Nicolaas Aad Denneman, Alkmaar († 2014)
• Petrus Wilhelmus Maria APPELBOOM, Amsterdam († 2010)
• Geert Pieters, Beveren-Waas, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgie († 2019)
• Bruce Allen REIDENGA, Harvey Cook County Illinois U.S.A († 1957)

• Allegonda Wilhelmina Kartner (70), Venlo
• Anna v.Lobkowitz (89), Pähl Obb
• Groene (80), Poortugaal
• Anko Balkema (81), Winsum (gem. Het Hogeland)
• Akke Pekelsma (73), dokkum
• Akke Pekelsma (73), Dokkum
• Allan Garfield Smart (63), Redhill, SA, Australia
• Ada Annie WEBB (77)
• Anne de Lobkowitz (89), Pähl, 09190, Allemagne
• Adrianus Pieter Marcelissen (55), Dongen

• 1954 » Tom Abernethy, American basketball player
• 1955 » John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1955 » Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh
• 1955 » Tom Bergeron, American television host
• 1956 » Cindy Lovell, American educator and writer
• 1956 » Lakis Lazopoulos, Greek actor and screenwriter
• 1956 » Roland Wieser, German race walker and coach
• 1958 » Randall Stout, American architect, designed the Taubman Museum of Art († 2014)
• 1959 » Andreas Busse, German runner
• 1959 » Charles Hendry, English politician

• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)
• 1967 » Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)

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 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
• March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
• May 15 » At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
• August 31 » The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
• November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.

The temperature on May 6, 1957 was between 0.7 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.