About the day » Saturday January 5, 1957Calender converter

• Richard de Graaf, Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Duane Arie Roozeboom, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2004)
• Gerrit Arjen Meijer, Achlum († 2018)
• gertruda engelina mathea (truus) zegers, helden-beringe
• Arnold Knobbout, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2017)
• Wojciech Adam Odziemczyk († 2018)
• Antonio Zanoto, Porto Feliz, São Paulo, Brasil († 1957)
• Johan Suurd, Peize († 1978)
• (Stillborn) NIEVEEN, Nebraska U.S.A († 1957)
• Casandra Jo Smailes

• Adriana Windhouwer (79), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christiaan Beugelink (92), Schoonebeek
• Anna M Langferman (93), Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Agatha Klazina Christina Tiethof (59), Gronau
• Bartholomeus Nicolaas de Roos (70), Vreeswijk
• Adriana Magielsen (56), Geertruidenberg, Nederland
• Alexander Eduard van Goor den Oosterlingh (65), 's-Gravenhage
• Catharina Maria Schimmel (85), Leiden
• Arie de Bruin (67), Den Haag, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• (Stillborn) NIEVEEN (0), Lancaster County Nebraska U.S.A

• 1953 » George Tenet, American civil servant and academic, 18th Director of Central Intelligence
• 1953 » Mike Rann, English-Australian journalist and politician, 44th Premier of South Australia
• 1953 » Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
• 1954 » Alex English, American basketball player and coach
• 1954 » László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian author and screenwriter
• 1955 » Mamata Banerjee, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
• 1956 » Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German academic and politician, 14th Vice-Chancellor of Germany
• 1958 » Ron Kittle, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 » Nancy Delahunt, Canadian curler
• 1960 » Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer and sportscaster

• 1943 » George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Andrei Platonov, Russian journalist and author (b. 1899)
• 1951 » Soh Jaipil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (b. 1864)
• 1952 » Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian-Italian physician and activist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish colonel and politician, 46th Governor-General of India (b. 1887)
• 1954 » Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1970 » Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896)

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 11 » The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
• March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
• June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
• July 11 » Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
• September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
• December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The temperature on January 5, 1957 was between 11.4 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.