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• Brenda Ivah 'Wood' Wheeler, Grand Rapids Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Hendrina van Spijk, Hoogezand, Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2008)
• Cornelis Adrianus Gerardus Maria van Arendonk, Breda
• Wilhelmus Antonius Smit, Haarlm († 2015)
• Brendon John LAYTON, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia († 1990)
• theodorus gerardus maria (thijs) craenen, helden-grashoek
• David Duane Stob
• Josephus Hubertus (Karel) van Duuren, Breda, Noord Brabant († 2005)
• Richard Victor Eduard Hamer, gravenhage († 2009)
• Daniel Lloyd Carnes, Colorado Springs, Colorado († 1994)

• Arie van der Zeijden (76), Utrecht
• Caecilia Proost (77), Gierle, Lille, Antwerpen, België
• Afra Petronella Catharina Commandeur (48), Lutjebroek, Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthony van der Wal (69), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Petronella Gertina PRETORIUS (72)
• August Felix Berger (62), Belfeld,Gemeente Venlo,Limburg,Netherlands
• Agnes Antonia Maria van Breen (0), Deventer
• Bertha Rowser (71)
• Abram Siedenburg (83), Koog aan de Zaan
• Antonia Klazina Uiterweerd (33)

• 1954 » Nick Holtam, English bishop
• 1955 » Diddú, Icelandic singer-songwriter
• 1955 » Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1955 » Michael Roe, Irish racing driver
• 1956 » Cecilia Roth, Argentinian actress
• 1956 » Chris Foreman, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » David Grant, English singer
• 1957 » Dennis Drew, American keyboard player
• 1958 » Deborah Norville, American journalist
• 1959 » Caroline Ansink, Dutch flute player, composer, and educator

• 1940 » Johnny Dodds, American clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1892)
• 1944 » Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1944 » Michael Wittmann, German commander (b. 1914)
• 1947 » Anton Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
• 1950 » Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman, founded Qantas (b. 1879)
• 1959 » Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1916)
• 1969 » Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Freddie Spencer Chapman, English lieutenant (b. 1907)
• 1973 » Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (b. 1898)

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.
• January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
• February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
• 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.
• April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
• July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.

The temperature on August 8, 1957 was between 11.8 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.